Chapter 77
Seventy thousand jin of red ginseng, 350,000 bottles... Even if I work five hours a day, it’ll take a whole month to finish everything... Yu Xunge stubbornly wrote down the number of gold coins she could earn on a piece of cardboard and placed it in front of her. Only by doing this did she feel she could keep going.
On the very night the contract was signed, Zhao Shuying brought people to the rooftop of the Yu family to open a passage. Looking at the self-service vending machines already set up, filled with dishes, potions, and miscellaneous items, Zhao Shuying couldn’t help but twitch her lips.
The prices were fair, and there was no need to give a cut to the auction house.
What a waste of money...
While her colleagues were busy opening the passage, Zhao Shuying pulled Yu Xunge into a corner. “If I want to set up a vending machine here to sell things, what’s the fee?”
Yu Xunge shot her a glance. “As long as you pay for the vending machine, you can sell here.”
Zhao Shuying asked, “How much?”
Yu Xunge replied, “Friendship price: 49 gold and 99 silver coins.”
Zhao Shuying sighed, “...Fine.” The boomerang had finally come back to hit her.
...
While Yu Xunge was busy making money, the Liang family also got wind of the news that “there’s an undiscovered dungeon beneath your family’s property.” The person selling the information had approached them directly.
Upon hearing this, the Liang family members noticed that the informant had the talent called [Bai Xiao Shu], which was indeed related to gathering information, and they quickly spent 3 gold coins to buy the news.
Although Baozi liked to sell a piece of information multiple times, she was also dedicated to her work. After spending 1 gold coin to verify that there was a dungeon on the rooftop of the Liang family’s office building, she not only confirmed it but also checked who was currently farming that dungeon. She packaged the information she found and sold it to the Liang family for 3 gold coins.
The Liang family, being wealthy and generous, not only paid promptly but also added her as a friend, inviting her to come to them whenever she had news related to the Liang family.
After the informant left, Liang Yuchuan asked his uncle why they didn’t recruit her directly.
Liang Jing replied, “No need. People like her can easily offend others. Keeping her around will only bring us trouble. If we need something, we can just pay her for it.”
Liang Yuchuan inquired, “What about the Su family...”
Liang Jing said, “Let’s send someone to verify. If we can block them, that would be even better.”
Then the Liang family caught the Su family red-handed, directly blocking them at the entrance of the dungeon.
Alright, let’s sit down and discuss compensation.
If the Liang family did nothing, it would be like letting the Su family walk all over them.
Before the game invasion, the Su family might have been stronger than the Liang family, but hasn’t the tide turned? The Su family’s progress wasn’t any faster than the Liang family’s.
At the moment the Liang family had the Su family cornered outside the dungeon, Yu Xunge, who received the news through her little spider, felt a surge of excitement. She had been waiting for this day for a long time.
This kind of small scene didn’t require the heads of the Su and Liang families to intervene; it was all about the younger generation. The Su family sent Su Yitong to handle the matter, as she and Liang Yuchuan held similar positions within their families. Besides, it was just a level 1 dungeon; there was no need to make a big fuss.
As Su Yitong was on her way, Liang Yuchuan waited at the dungeon entrance.
Yu Xunge arrived just then. She didn’t dare use a skill that could be detected, so she shadow-stepped to the vicinity of the office building. Fully armed, she used the Thief God’s disguise skill, then teleported to a blind spot on the 25th floor, transforming into a gecko and climbing up the outer wall to the rooftop.
After spending some time finding a safe spot to hide, Su Yitong arrived.
Su Yitong didn’t act as shamelessly as Yu Xunge had imagined, blaming her for everything. After all, Yu Xunge was still Yu Xunhuan’s sister, who not only had connections with the Special Affairs Bureau but also had access to valuable resources. There was no need to offend her so early on.
The Su family acknowledged the situation and didn’t plan to tear their relationship with the Liang family apart, but compensating the Su family with 200 gold coins was out of the question...
**Chapter 100: It’s Time to Collect Interest from the Enemy Again**
In just half a month, with a level 1 dungeon, even if the Su family members worked day and night in shifts, after deducting the costs of potions and dishes, their earnings wouldn’t even reach 10 gold... Of course, that didn’t include equipment and experience.
The two young ladies sat face to face, the area around them cleared out. They had checked for revealing potions and probing skills, and Yu Xunge had chosen her position cleverly, exploiting the only probing skill’s weakness.
This probing skill wasn’t very professional; its talent allowed it to sense air currents, and the Liang family used it as a scouting skill, detecting the flow of air to find living beings.
Ah, how much impact could a little gecko like Yu Xunge have on the air currents? It was probably less than the air currents caused by the players’ farts.
As the conversation between Su Yitong and Liang Yuchuan reached a stalemate and emotions ran high, Yu Xunge crawled down to hide behind the electrical room. After seeing the player controlling the air currents lose some mana, she returned to her human form and drank an invisibility potion.
At that moment, both probing skills were on cooldown; the revealing potion had just dissipated, and the air current probing skill had just been used. Yu Xunge crept up to the back of Su Yitong’s team and, in a disguised male voice, whispered softly, “A cripple dares to be so arrogant...”
Everyone present were players; the level 0 players were fine, but Liang Yuchuan was already level 1 and had even increased her constitution! The word “cripple” was heard loud and clear!
As for Su Yitong, she was close enough to hear the comment as well.
This... this statement ignited the tempers of both women!
Especially Liang Yuchuan, who had a fiery temper and couldn’t stand the word “cripple.” She immediately raised her hand and unleashed a Water Cannon skill in the direction of the voice, which exploded right in the Su family’s ranks.
Su Yitong was also sensitive to the term “cripple,” but she understood that her subordinate was just standing up for her, so even though she felt both pleased and displeased, she was about to reprimand her subordinate to maintain a facade of peace. However, before she could speak, Liang Yuchuan’s Water Cannon came crashing in.
The Su family members had recently developed a reflex to dodge when facing skills, and their first instinct was to evade, followed by a counterattack.
And just like that, the two sides began to fight.
Yu Xunge had already hidden at the back of both groups, patiently waiting. When she saw a gun-wielding ranged player from the Liang family fall, she approached. The player still had a breath left in him, so Yu Xunge crouched behind him, pressed against his head, leaned forward, and took hold of his hand to raise the gun he was holding. In the terrified gaze of the player, she lifted his chin, sealing his mouth shut, and aimed the gun at Su Yitong’s right eye. One second—two seconds—three seconds, and she pulled the trigger.
As the gun was aimed at her, Su Yitong felt a chill run down her spine. She quickly saw the player on the ground aiming the gun at her, his head slightly raised, a fierce expression on his face as he glared at her. Without hesitation, she fired a shot at him, but at the same moment, the player’s gun went off too.
Su Yitong’s shot hit the player, who had only a sliver of health left. The moment the bullet struck his head, his hand and head drooped lifelessly, and at that moment, the bullet he fired flew toward Su Yitong.
Su Yitong instinctively turned her head to dodge, but no one expected that the bullet aimed at her eye would curve and continue toward her... By the time she sensed something was wrong, it was too late. She let out a piercing scream as the high-speed spinning bullet shattered her remaining ear.
Even Liang Yuchuan was stunned into silence.
In her heart, she could only think: It’s over, the Su family and the Liang family are completely at odds now.
No matter how good the healing potions were, they could only stop the bleeding and heal the wound; they couldn’t regenerate lost body parts. After downing a healing potion and using a healing skill on herself, the blood hole on Su Yitong’s ear healed, but her ear, reduced to a mangled mess, was gone.
After firing that sure shot, Yu Xunge didn’t rush to leave. Instead, amidst the chaos, she pulled out a gadget called the [Mini Guidance Device] with gloved hands. First, she pressed it against the dead player’s other hand to get a fingerprint, then installed it on the gun that the deceased player was still gripping tightly.
[Mini Guidance Device]: After use, it can guide bullets to accurately hit the target until they make contact (uses left: 2/3).
Having completed all this, Yu Xunge immediately shadow-stepped away. She could watch the remaining chaos through her little spider and didn’t need to stay on-site any longer.
Meanwhile, the rooftop of the office building was in complete disarray. Although the Liang family members had stopped their attacks in time and sent those with healing skills to treat Su Yitong, even apologizing to her, it was too late.
Su Yitong looked at Liang Yuchuan with an unprecedented coldness in her eyes. She could no longer hear anything! And now she had become a person without ears!!
She said, “I’ll remember this grudge.” After saying that, she raised her gun. Just when the Liang family thought she was about to attack again, she aimed at a corpse behind the Liang family and fired several shots until her magazine was empty, before allowing her people to escort her away.
Liang Yuchuan didn’t pursue her. Such a grudge couldn’t be resolved with a few sweet words. She sat on a bench, holding her forehead, “Did anyone see who made the move?” In truth, anyone present could guess from Su Yitong’s reaction.
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