Chapter 20
I'm not sure if there are cameras in Su Yitong's bedroom, but even if I were caught on tape, it wouldn't matter. She's so cautious; every time she drinks the invisibility potion, she first disguises herself. She even wears a swim cap and a mask before disguising herself. Ever since she needed to transform into a goblin to grind for gold coins, she has been using her goblin form to visit the Su and Liang families every day.
Due to the Su family's situation, when she went to Liang Yuchuan's house, she directly teleported under his bed... only to find herself appearing beside Liang Yuchuan's bed, looking down to see that the bed had been changed and the space beneath it was sealed off.
Fortunately, the Liang family hadn't used the visibility potion spray yet. After stealing from Liang Yuchuan, she took a stroll around his bedroom's cloakroom, mapping it out for her next visit.
Yu Xunge insisted on checking in at the Su and Liang families every day. After a month, she had successfully stolen 1 point of intelligence from Su Yitong and 1 point of strength from Liang Yuchuan.
Now, Yu Xunge's attributes were:
【Strength】: 7+1
【Constitution】: 7
【Intelligence】: 10+1
【Agility】: 85
【Luck】: 10 (maxed out)
【Charm】: 10 (maxed out)
What troubled her the most, however, was her professional skills.
She knew a lot about mutated equipment or items that had been affected by the game invasion, but some things were more urgent than others; those items wouldn’t run away. Right now, her most pressing task was to practice alchemy and engineering.
These days, Yu Xunge had been holed up in the villa, maintaining a very regular schedule. In the mornings, she would grind for alchemy experience, in the afternoons for engineering experience, and for her three meals a day, she would work on her cooking skills. She even made a portion of meat to place by the cat's nest. Ever since she got the cat toys, almost every night, a cat would come to stay in the cat nest at her villa.
In the evenings, she practiced archery on the second floor of the villa, and before bed, she would review her alchemy or engineering notes.
On weekends, she would go to the lake in the villa area to practice fishing. After the game invasion, many fish species in the waters had mutated, and only with a high enough fishing level could she catch higher quality fish.
Unfortunately, her alchemy had hit a wall at the advanced level (77/100000). The herbs needed to advance to a higher level simply couldn’t be found in reality; she could only use those she had bought from the game, and now all her materials were used up.
**Chapter 24: Adorably Foolish (?)**
In the game, once the progress bar for potion-making was complete, the potion was successfully brewed. But in reality, making potions required her to follow the instructional videos in her mind step by step. Sometimes, a single advanced potion would take over an hour to brew, involving careful handling of materials, temperature control, when to stir, and when to add the next herb...
Yet, even if she believed she executed every step perfectly, it still showed that the brewing had failed. Occasionally, even in failure, she would gain 1-2 points of experience.
She had never been this serious before her college entrance exams.
The situation with engineering was similar; the advanced and intermediate levels of these two professions were like two different worlds.
The beginner and intermediate levels were like Western medicine—clear-cut and straightforward. Once you learned the corresponding knowledge and understood the data, as long as you studied diligently, even if it was difficult, the correct answer remained the same. Once a diagnosis was made, even the king himself couldn’t change it.
Advanced professions were like traditional Chinese medicine, where every practitioner might have a different answer. Sometimes, the treatment plans could be completely contradictory, yet they could all work because the relationships between herbs were often unclear. Sometimes, each video would be different; one time, the instructor added 20 grams of demon grass powder, and the next time, she only added 85 grams. In another instance, she switched to a different herb because she accidentally added too much of another herb earlier. But it didn’t matter; changing the herb could yield the same effect.
At first, Yu Xunge wanted to curse at the lack of rigor in the profession; it was ridiculous.
But later, she even forgot about grinding for experience. Sometimes, she could watch the alchemy videos in her mind for an entire day, forgetting to practice engineering. She felt that the female undead instructor in the videos resembled a conductor, orchestrating all the properties of the herbs, unbound by rigid formulas. Sometimes, slight mistakes in her hands could lead to delightful surprises.
As July approached, Yu Xunge completely halted her attempts to brew advanced potions. She decided to relearn and brew all the beginner and intermediate formulas from scratch.
She couldn’t help but recall an interview she had seen years ago, where a player solemnly stated, “The professional skills learned during the closed beta are the true treasures of the closed beta. My ability to sew blue and even purple gear doesn’t come from talent; it comes from the sewing knowledge I learned from an alien teacher. Yes, he will always be my teacher. Even if we meet on the battlefield and fight to the death, even if you call me a traitor, I will say that alien is my teacher.”
However, on July 1st, Su Yitong suddenly announced that she would treat all the Yu family members to a meal. When the young lady invites you, it’s not really an invitation; it’s more of a notification. Yu Xunge tidied herself up and headed to the restaurant.
When she walked into the private room, she wasn’t the last to arrive; Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo were already seated inside.
Before coming, Yu Xunge not only checked her character panel, packing all her equipment and items into her bag, but she also stuffed two 35-slot bags into the magician's false teeth. Now, she only had a 4-slot bag on her.
After waiting for another half hour, the bodyguard opened the door, and Su Yitong, wearing monocle glasses, was the first to walk in.
Yu Xunge, along with Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo, stood up with smiles to greet her.
Su Yitong had changed her hairstyle; her long black hair that used to show her ears was now styled in a wavy parting, with the longer side covering her empty right side. Perhaps due to her recent mood, her expression was no longer the elegant composure of before; instead, it seemed somewhat heavy, echoing the gloom on Yu Xunhuan's face beside her.
It was laughable; the male lead had become a 9cm warrior, and the female lead had become a one-eared creature. Who would dare say they weren’t a perfect match?!
Yu Xunge didn’t bother to look closely at Su Yitong’s new glasses; she could guess they were probably a prop. After all, someone who had lost an ear would psychologically reject glasses that needed to rest on the ears. Every time she took them off and put them back on would be a form of mental torture.
Even if it was a monocle.
Su Yitong’s glasses were indeed a type of detection prop. Although they couldn’t compare to the Soros mask she had obtained earlier, they were still a B-grade item. Detection equipment was rare, and finding a B-grade item was already a significant achievement for the Su family’s third branch, which had gathered a dozen people to participate in the closed beta.
In fact, obtaining an A-grade item during the first closed beta was a true surprise. As for her two brothers... well, let’s not mention the last closed beta; it was better left unsaid, as it only reminded her of her ear.
As soon as she entered, she immediately used the detection on Yu Xunge, but all she saw was what Yu Xunge wanted her to see.
【Character】Yu Xunge (Level 0, 0.001%)
【Divine Gift Talent】(Cannot be detected)
【Race】Human
【Race Talent】Cannot be detected
【Health】: 100/100
【Mana】: 100/100
【Strength】: 5
【Constitution】: 7
【Intelligence】: 7
【Agility】: 7
【Luck】: ?
【Charm】: ?
Yu Xunge had no idea that Su Yitong’s glasses were so useless; her series of smooth and cool operations were like showing off to a blind person.
Seeing the 0.001% experience, Su Yitong believed most of what Yu Xunhuan had said.
Yu Xunge watched as Su Yitong’s expression softened, and Yu Xunhuan beside her winked at her.
Yu Xunge: What a schemer!
Recently, Yu Xunhuan had been trying to probe for information from Su Yitong indirectly, but yesterday he simply came clean, admitting that he knew about the game because Yu Xunge had told him.
He had intended to leave it at that, not planning to explain why Yu Xunge hadn’t told Su Yitong. But unexpectedly, Su Yitong asked Yu Xunge when she had informed him, and Yu Xunhuan replied it was around the 9th or 10th.
Su Yitong’s expression immediately softened, saying that on that day, Yu Xunge had sent her a message asking her to go to the hotel, saying there was something important to tell her and Yu Xunhuan. But she had something going on at the time and couldn’t go—after all, she had lost her ear and half of her family’s gold; how could she be in the mood to meet the sister of a son-in-law?
Yu Xunhuan immediately added, “Yes, she did say she invited you. She only trusts us family members. Yitong, we are family, right?”
Because of this matter, Su Yitong had completely dropped her grievances against Yu Xunhuan. Although she still thought he was a bit foolish for telling someone who hadn’t even married her brother about such things, she realized that she had only confided in her family and trusted confidants. Thinking of it this way, she found Yu Xunge adorably foolish, treating her as family.
Today, she had only come to confirm the truth of what he said. Although she had tested it a few months ago, at that time, she hadn’t used any detection props.
Although the divine gift talent couldn’t be detected, the experience value was only 0.001%. It seemed that what Yu Xunge said was indeed true; she hadn’t played for long.
However, Su Yitong didn’t tell Yu Xunhuan about her participation in the closed beta. Such matters were best left unsaid; if the other party heard it from someone else first, it would inevitably hurt feelings. Although she didn’t think much of Yu Xunhuan, there was no need to create unnecessary conflict.
As for whether Yu Xunhuan would discover her concealment in the future, in the young lady’s eyes, it didn’t matter. She genuinely liked Yu Xunhuan’s face, but that was all.
**Chapter 25: Stocking Up**
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