Chapter 52
However, Yu Xunge was not at ease with Xianggangzai. Although Xianggangzai was clever, the distance to Gangcheng was far, and unlike Qiangwang, he didn’t place much importance on reputation in the underworld. Therefore, Yu Xunge only sold him three samples, telling him to come back once he secured a deal.
With the prospect of huge profits looming, both Qiangwang and Xianggangzai were ruthless in their pricing.
Every day, Yu Xunge used the teleportation array to visit Zelan Star. After her last trip, where she transformed into a goblin to deliver wine to the undead female mentor, the mentor accepted the wine and then asked her to present her latest concoctions, giving her a ten-minute lesson in return.
Since then, Yu Xunge had been bringing wine to the alchemy shop every day, asking the undead female mentor questions. A bottle of fine red or white wine could earn her ten minutes of instruction. She would bring five bottles each time, securing fifty minutes of lessons. After accounting for walking and re-engraving the teleportation array, she made the most of her hour of disguise.
Then she would spend five hours leveling up in the wild, and in the afternoon, she would use her disguise skill to bring more wine to the undead female mentor for another fifty minutes of lessons.
Although her experience points didn’t increase, her understanding of potions grew daily. Watching videos could only teach her techniques, but from the undead female mentor, she learned about potion properties and various pharmacology.
Yu Xunge’s schedule was packed every day.
So when she received a message from Xianggangzai at the beginning of February, asking her to bring the remaining belts for a trade in Gangcheng, she glanced at the date and was surprised at how quickly time had passed.
She immediately took the free flight to Gangcheng, using her disguise skill to arrive at the agreed location.
Xianggangzai was waiting for her in a hotel private room. Yu Xunge had already used her 【Hunting Eye】 to check how many people were around and found that both adjacent rooms were filled. She had no complaints; the number was within a normal range, and there were no ambushes. She didn’t touch the tea on the table. “Is everything settled? Is it the person I introduced?”
Xianggangzai didn’t ask why she wanted him to sell to that person. “Yeah, you can check. He and his wife are right next door.”
Yu Xunge nodded. “What about the gold?”
Xianggangzai opened the box on the table, revealing it filled with gold bars.
As soon as Yu Xunge saw it, she felt a sense of familiarity. What a familiar style! She quickly took out a box of belts, and they pushed their boxes toward each other, starting to inspect the gold and equipment they received.
Checking the gold was straightforward. Her Soros pocket watch’s detection skill could not only reveal character information but also item information. As long as she confirmed the purity of a gold bar, she could store it in her game backpack to see if it could stack. Moreover, she could quickly calculate its weight.
The nine hundred pieces of equipment were a bit more troublesome; each one had to be checked individually. However, Yu Xunge maintained a good attitude, patiently waiting for him to finish, while secretly staying alert for any potential trouble.
Half an hour later, Xianggangzai let out a sigh of relief. He had genuinely feared it was a scam. He stored the equipment carefully. “Pleasure doing business. If we have another big order like this, let’s collaborate again.”
He had no intention of double-crossing; this was the city center, and everyone was a player. It was best to trade peacefully. They made a good profit this time. Although the Su family was unwilling to pay more gold, offering only one jin of gold per belt, they were willing to pay more in cash. This time, they could earn an extra ten thousand for each piece of equipment. With a thousand pieces, that’s ten million. Even if they kept a few for personal use, the remaining nine hundred thousand would be enough for their group to live on for a year.
Yu Xunge stood up decisively to leave; her disguise time was running low.
The potions and belts combined had earned her 1,200 jin of gold from the Su family.
**Chapter 85: The Iron Pot**
The next day, Yu Xunge was preparing to go out to buy wine. The recent consumption had been too high, and she planned to stock up more and get some cocktail recipes to send to that mentor, hoping to score something good.
But before she could drive out of the villa area, she received a message from Yu Xunhuan, asking if she was at the villa because he had something good to give her.
So, she turned back and waited for Yu Xunhuan to deliver the belts.
Ah, it was the same batch she had sold just yesterday.
It was a belt that added four attribute points.
Out of the thousand belts, only a little over fifty had the four-point attribute boost; the rest only added three.
Yu Xunge wasn’t surprised. This was typical of Yu Xunhuan and the Su family—when they were acting human, they were more human than anyone else, but when they weren’t, they were worse than beasts. After putting on a show of sibling affection, she sent Yu Xunhuan off with three bottles of her homemade basic healing potions.
Yu Xunhuan had grown accustomed to Yu Xunge’s behavior. Whatever he gave her, she would always return something. He left satisfied, feeling he had not only gained his sister’s favor but also made a profit.
Since facilitating the trade of a thousand green items, he had gained a bit of influence in the Su family. At least he wasn’t being sidelined anymore. He knew that the Su family had recently bought a lot of those potions, each costing 250g of gold. Doing the math, he realized he had made a profit.
As for the incident after yesterday’s trade, where he was cornered and several Su family members died… that was none of his concern.
After sending him off, Yu Xunge immediately re-set up her spider silk traps and hurried out.
She was busy until the afternoon before returning home. However, Yu Xunge didn’t rush to Zelan Star. She had taken out all the weapons and antiques she had collected over the past six months from her backpack and placed them in the safe house on the top floor. She wasn’t sure what caused the anomalies, but she worried that the game backpack might isolate those substances that could trigger changes in the items.
Even the few quirky instant cameras and durian shells she received in Sawadika were stored here.
Now, she checked the safe house every day. There was a spider silk trap every half step, and all the silk had been soaked in poison.
**Corrosive Potion**: Causes the target to lose 10 health points per second for 3 minutes upon contact.
This was the most potent poison Yu Xunge could concoct, a product of intermediate alchemy, capable of killing a player in five seconds.
After checking the safe house, Yu Xunge immediately used her disguise skill to head to Zelan Star. After attending a fifty-minute class, she returned, preparing for her plans tonight, needing to get ready in advance.
Although the belts she sold to the Su family were useless, they had been exchanged for more valuable gold, and she had also managed to deepen Yu Xunhuan’s conflict with Su Yitong. More importantly, after two game-related orders required gold transactions, she didn’t believe the Su family wouldn’t take action. As long as the Su family exchanged gold, she would have the opportunity to strike.
Overall, it was a case of killing three birds with one stone, but the thought of the Su family acquiring a thousand green items kept her awake at night.
She needed to find a way to bring something back to balance things out.
The Su family was large, with the third branch’s interests spread across various fields, but the main profits came from real estate, pharmaceuticals, catering, and new energy batteries. The stocks in the first two sectors had been in the red, indicating that the Su family’s situation hadn’t been great in recent years.
However, after the game invasion, an old iron pot that had been used since the opening of Su Yitong’s restaurant underwent a transformation. The dishes cooked in it could be elevated by one level. At first, the Su family hadn’t noticed, as their restaurant business was booming, and the dishes were home-style, but the effects were no worse than those learned from players’ cooking skills from other races. Eventually, other players discovered the restaurant’s magical pot, and it ended up in Yu Xunhuan’s hands.
Although she didn’t know the exact level of the item, it was undoubtedly a good thing to have fallen into the hands of the male lead as his cooking tool.
Yu Xunge had refrained from taking it because she worried that retrieving it early would affect the pot. Unlike a cat’s nest, which could attract cats just by being left there, a pot needed to be properly cared for; otherwise, it could easily lose its luster. Her schedule since her rebirth had been busier than that of a top celebrity, leaving her no time to tend to a pot.
But now it was the 10th, and it was time to bring her pot home.
It was only 4 PM, but Yu Xunge needed to scout the area; otherwise, she wouldn’t be able to use her shadow movement at night.
After picking up her tools, Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo, they headed to the Su family restaurant, which required reservations a few days in advance.
After ordering, Yu Xunge strolled through the restaurant’s corridor under the pretense of admiring the oil paintings on the walls, casually observing where the serving staff came from.
She had eaten here in her previous life but had never cared about the kitchen’s location.
After observing for a while, Yu Xunge returned to the private room, only to find that Yu Qingshan’s expression was not good—no, it was worse than that; he seemed completely off. Since picking him up, he hadn’t said much. Although the two men at home had been looking like they were on the verge of collapse lately, she hadn’t done anything recently, so why was he feeling so down?
She casually asked, “What’s wrong?”
Yu Qingshan pressed his lips together and asked the waiter to bring the wine first. He didn’t even know where to start.
Recently, he had found a player who could repair items. Although the other party’s price was steep, he had managed to get a decent amount of money from Yu Xunhuan, and the son who married into the wealthy family occasionally gave him some cash, allowing him to repair those items without touching his savings.
But the problem was, after repairing them, he thought these items were too fragile; anyone in the house could easily destroy them in a fit of rage. Just last week, Yu Xunhuan had been urging him to exchange more gold for storage. Yesterday, he had taken a few items to sell, but the other party assessed them and said they were fake. He nearly collapsed on the spot…
He hadn’t even eaten, clutching all the family’s belongings as he went out, and had sought three different people for appraisal, all of whom said they were fake…
Yu Qingshan felt as if the sky had fallen.
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