Chapter 53
He gulped down one drink after another, his heart heavy with bitterness.
This was something he couldn’t share with Yu Xunge; after all, she had no idea that their family had this batch of goods from the very beginning.
He suspected that it had been swapped by players, and he wanted Yu Xunhuan to go settle the score.
Yu Xunhuan bore 95% of the responsibility for this mess, so he didn’t try to shirk it. However, after using the Su family’s connections to track down the person involved, he lost his resolve. The individual was from the Liang family, and if he wanted to confront them, he would need to leverage the Su family’s influence. But the Su and Liang families were currently in a delicate partnership, making it a tricky situation.
After asking a few questions and getting no answers from Yu Qingshan, Yu Xunge decided to drop the subject.
Yu Qingshan drowned his sorrows in alcohol, while Yu Xunge found some solace in watching him drink.
As for Yi Qiuguo, she was busy taking photos and posting them on her social media, showcasing her happy life.
She was aware that those items worth over a billion had vanished, but honestly, they didn’t concern her much, just like the surname of her future grandchildren. Even if they were liquidated, she would only be able to spend a few hundred million, and her life wouldn’t change much. So, she wasn’t really upset.
She considered herself the most clear-headed and perceptive woman in the family.
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**Chapter 58: The Bad Influence of Zelan**
It turned out to be the right decision to bring Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo along, because during dinner, after snapping a photo and sharing it in the group chat, Yu Xunhuan generously sent over some gold coins, announcing that he was treating for the meal.
Yu Xunge didn’t spend a dime. After dropping off the depressed Qingshan and the happy Qiuguo, she went to bed early. By 2 AM, she was up and ready to stir things up. As usual, she first cast a layer of disguise, followed by a shadow spell, and then shadow-stepped to the Su family’s restaurant.
Using a phasing potion, she slipped through the wall and found the kitchen.
There were eight identical pots, and she had no way of judging their age. They all looked clean enough; any rust had been scrubbed away by diners. She stuffed all eight pots into a storage box and into her game backpack, not bothering to mention buying a few pots to replace them—better to do less and make fewer mistakes.
With eight black pots happily slung over her shoulder, Yu Xunge felt a twinge of regret that she couldn’t make the Su family feel the pain of this loss.
With that thought, she shadow-stepped outside the Su family estate and transformed into a little bird, flying toward Su Yitong’s villa.
After landing by the window, she morphed into a tiny spider and crawled inside. As she expected, the spider, weighing only a few grams, couldn’t trigger the Su family’s pressure-sensitive devices. Climbing was a bit of a struggle; what a person could cover in a single step took her several seconds of sprinting, not to mention the stairs.
Fortunately, Su Yitong had invited her to this new house before, so she didn’t waste time figuring out which room belonged to Su Yitong and Yu Xunhuan. She headed straight for the master bedroom.
Slipping through the door crack, she made a beeline for under the bed. In that moment, a long-lost sense of happiness and security washed over Yu Xunge.
This place felt so good, like coming home.
Yu Xunge wasn’t there to steal from Su Yitong; her target tonight was Yu Xunhuan.
As usual, she cast a spell on Yu Xunhuan, giving him a “You’re happy again” boost that raised his luck to 1, followed by three quick steals.
Zero gains.
But Yu Xunge could afford to wait.
After crawling to the bathroom, she stood on the toilet to revert to her human form, ate a dish that would restore her health over time, and under a triple critical hit, she regained 500 health per minute. Then she transformed back into a spider and crawled back. Once her health was full, she continued stealing; when the healing effect wore off, she returned to the toilet to eat again.
As she munched on a rib while maintaining her shadow spell, she muttered to herself, “Yu Xunge, you can’t be this sleazy next time!”
Throughout the rest of the night, Yu Xunge managed to steal three pieces of equipment, one item, and three attribute points from Yu Xunhuan.
As she transformed back into a bird and flew away from the villa, she glanced at her brother lying on the bed and decided she would come back tomorrow night!
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Yu Xunhuan truly was the little silver coin of the Yu family, with the highest attribute being intelligence. The three points she stole were all intelligence.
Now, Yu Xunge’s attributes were as follows:
**Health Points**: 350/350
**Mana Points**: 800/800
**Strength**: 17
**Constitution**: 15
**Intelligence**: 21 + 3
**Agility**: 25
The equipment she stole wasn’t particularly impressive; they were all low-level green gear, and Yu Xunge planned to sell them.
But that item was intriguing.
**Divine Chef’s Magical Spoon** (B-grade): A spoon used by the Divine Chef to taste the saltiness of dishes. Long-term use has imbued it with the essence of the Divine Chef, allowing the user to discern the shortcomings in a dish.
Though it wasn’t part of a set, it felt like it belonged to the same series as the Divine Chef’s saliva pouch.
Yu Xunge decided to check the auction house for other series from the Divine Chef when she went to Zelan Star tomorrow.
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When Yu Xunge returned home, dawn was just breaking. After downing a cup of her homemade milk tea to boost her spirits, she got busy. First, she prepared several bowls of food for the cats in the backyard, then she started cooking eight dishes in those eight large iron pots that would restore health. She planned to do this every day until the game invasion, ensuring the pots remained in use.
After stealing the female protagonist’s fortune, she took some wine and headed to class on Zelan Star. Today, she only attended for 40 minutes before sneaking off to the auction house to search for the keyword “Divine Chef.”
However, she found nothing.
She tried searching for “Thief God” and came up empty as well.
Not holding out much hope, she tried “Water God.”
To her surprise, an interesting item appeared: a red gemstone button.
**Water God is My Family** (A-grade): A toy of the Fire God. When worn, if someone attempts to drain your life force and fails, you will absorb 1% of their life force in return. If they succeed, they will enter a “Burning” state, losing 1% of their life force every minute for five minutes.
It was expensive, priced at 998 gold. The skill it countered was quite singular; perhaps due to her lack of exploration skills in her previous life, the only life-draining skill she had seen so far was Liang Yuchuan’s “Vampire” from the Water God talent, which had a 20% chance to drain 1% of the opponent’s life force.
But Yu Xunge didn’t hesitate to buy the item.
Why had she worked so hard to earn money? Wasn’t it to deal with those people?
Once she had the red gemstone button, she immediately bound it with a binding stone and attached it to her pocket watch chain.
Considering that her disguise time was always tight, she also searched for other disguise skills, but most had limitations and flaws. Even the most practical Anima’s had its share of restrictions, and she couldn’t find any disguise skills comparable to the Thief God’s “Armor.” Glancing at her dwindling disguise time, she shadow-stepped to the outskirts to begin her leveling for the day.
She also searched for Su Yitong’s talent, “Holy Light,” but found nothing.
In the end, Yu Xunge carefully selected and bought a skill called **Emerald Feast**, one of the few skills that restored health based on a percentage, and it was an S-grade.
S-grade skills were extremely rare even in the Zelan Star auction house, usually numbering no more than ten. Yu Xunge hadn’t bought one before because either she didn’t have the money, or when she did, she couldn’t find a suitable skill.
**Emerald Feast** (S-grade): Upon use, instantly restores 50% of the user’s health, and for the next three minutes, restores 10% health per minute. Cooldown time: 10 minutes. (Can extract life force from plants and store it, with a maximum storage of 500% of the user’s health. When using stored life force to restore health, the user can freely control the amount healed, and the skill will not enter cooldown.)
A masterful single-target healing skill, it rivaled Su Yitong’s strongest healing skill from her previous life in terms of healing amount. But this Emerald Feast could store 500% of health, which meant what? It meant she could steal without taking damage 25 times.
Oh my, the Thief God’s cravings were kicking in.
Priced at 12,999 gold, rounding up to about 10,000 gold, she made the purchase without hesitation.
She noticed that the auction house had recently picked up some bad habits; it used to have a mix of prices, but now it was either 99, 999, or 9999… like a big sale, making her feel like she wasn’t spending money but getting a bargain.
She had reason to suspect that Zhao Shuying was the source of this bad influence.
Without evidence, it was just a feeling.
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**Chapter 35: The Second Brother**
The next night, Yu Xunge returned to the space under Su Yitong and Yu Xunhuan’s bed. Now, sneaking under their bed felt as comfortable as being at home.
This time, she didn’t gain any attribute points, just a few pieces of junk equipment.
Though her success rate wasn’t high, she consistently stole more attribute points than equipment and items. She always felt that her luck of 10 was working in her favor here; in her eyes, attribute points were far more important than material possessions.
Yu Xunge stole until 3 AM but didn’t rush to leave.
She had been busy recently, and it was only in the last two days that she had been frequently interacting with these two. Soros’s exploration was running on energy-saving mode 24/7. Yesterday was fine, but today, Su Yitong seemed to be off doing something. When she entered the room, she noticed that her health wasn’t at 100% but at 99.8%. At first, she didn’t think much of it, but after seeing the opened sanitary napkin in the bathroom, she realized it was that time of the month.
However, several hours passed, and Su Yitong’s health was still at 99.8%. Was she bleeding out in bed?
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