Chapter 17: The Second Closed Beta Test

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She had never asked anyone in the Yu family where Yu Xunhuan lived; all that information was gathered through her little sparrow’s surveillance. Before Yu Xunhuan entered the hotel, the sparrow had slipped inside the hood of his sweatshirt and followed him all the way into the room, now hiding inside a potted plant there.

Worried about the spreading stench of decay on the sparrows, Yu Xunge changed to a new one every day.

After drinking the invisibility potion, Yu Xunge smoothly entered Yu Xunhuan’s hotel room.

Even though she was multitasking, she still needed to personally ensure Yu Xunhuan hadn’t logged into the game before she could relax.

Inside the hotel room, Yu Xunhuan lay on the bed frowning, occasionally turning over, making it hard to tell if he was asleep.

In the corner lay a phone. Judging by the dents on the wallpaper, it had probably been thrown against the wall.

Yu Xunge walked over and glanced at it. She couldn’t identify the brand but guessed it was a high-end phone gifted by Su Yitong. Remarkably, the screen wasn’t even cracked.

Once Yu Xunhuan married into the Su family, not only would he have a premium phone, but also enjoy exclusive service lines, no longer receiving junk messages.

She fixed her gaze on Yu Xunhuan. When he turned his back to her again while shifting, Yu Xunge used her toes to nudge the phone into her backpack, then, using the invisibility potion, slipped into the adjacent room — a room booked in advance under the identity of a local from Harbor City.

Yu Xunge took out the phone. Since she was still invisible, she had no worry that such a phone could record her appearance using high technology. She flipped it over and noticed a shallow dent on the upper left corner, likely the spot that hit the wall. Aligning the dent toward the wall, she struck down hard.

The phone cracked with a snap; half the screen shattered, but it automatically lit up to show the date, though half the display was now a chaotic mosaic of green and purple.

Yu Xunge stuffed the damaged phone back into her bag and returned to Yu Xunhuan’s room. He still faced away from the door. She quietly placed the broken phone exactly where it had fallen before, then slipped away silently.

Before coming, she had imagined dozens or even hundreds of scenarios but hadn’t expected the simplest one to unfold. She had even envisioned the worst: if Yu Xunhuan, instead of losing control over his emotions due to the information, grew more excited and began practicing his skills, then suddenly at six o’clock decided to find a game to play?

She was prepared even to knock him unconscious in the worst case.

At exactly six, Yu Xunge returned to Yu Xunhuan’s room. The broken phone still lay on the floor, and Yu Xunhuan, with his head covered, seemed uncertain whether he had fallen asleep. Yu Xunge threw a “Fate Gear” at the man lying on the bed, lowering his luck to one, then went back to the next room to prepare for the second internal test.

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At 6:06, she promptly found “Warcraft: Rift of Terror” and clicked download immediately.

Upon entering the character selection screen, she saw a familiar undead avatar, but next to the ID “Ge Wu En” was a new status—“Wanted.”

Yu Xunge touched the hidden pouch inside her clothes. The two backpacks she had were gone, but the undead character on screen carried two backpacks she recognized at the waist.

She tried using the thief’s disguise skill, “Armor On!” attempting to transform herself into a short goblin.

Soon, Yu Xunge’s real body changed: shrinking, skin turning green, ears enlarging. Simultaneously, the undead figure in the game transformed as well.

She immediately entered the game. No matter where she was after logging in, she only had one hour of disguise time. Within that hour, she had to figure out her situation.

The screen lit up. The little goblin stood in a graveyard; adjusting the view, the Undead City was nearby. She guided the character to run toward the city, speeding past low-level monsters along the way.

Within five minutes, she stood before the city gates. The gate displayed the portrait of her original undead character. Fortunately, because the undead resembled her too closely, she always clicked random when creating characters to avoid discomfort.

Though the thief’s disguise skill lasted briefly, it could not be detected by any item or skill. Yu Xunge effortlessly entered the city and headed straight to the goblin district. At the goblin shop, she asked if they accepted gold.

The goblin replied, “Time is money. If you have gold, why not mint your own coins? Didn’t your mentor teach you that?”

Yu Xunge’s breath quickened for two minutes. She typed in the chat box: “May I humbly request you to teach me related skills? I am willing to pay for your precious time.”

The goblin immediately sent a trade window requesting 100 gold.

Such a rare opportunity left Yu Xunge no room for bargaining. She directly took out 100 gold given by the undead city lord and paid it over.

[The Goblin Robert L teaches you “Goldsmithing” (Beginner)]

She opened to check the skill details.

[Goldsmithing] (Grade A) (Goblin exclusive): Enchants gold to forge a unique coin (Proficiency: 0/10,000)

Trait 1: Each coin minted deducts 20g gold as tax, automatically transmitted to the Goblin Merchants’ Guild via the Void.

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Trait 2: Money can buy everything, but to maintain market stability, each goblin may produce up to 3 coins per day for personal use.

Yu Xunge immediately took out a 500g gold bar from her inventory, clicked on it, and saw “4/4” production. She chose to craft all. Golden light glowed between her character’s hands; the progress bar finished instantly. Soon, three coins appeared in her bag, and the 500g bar reduced to 140g.

Her proficiency rose by 3 points.

This meant Yu Xunge could now craft coins herself. After forging 10,000 coins, provided she obtained the blueprint or found a willing goblin teacher, she could learn intermediate goldsmithing.

Though limited to three coins daily, this was already formidable. After all, here she could easily steal a dozen coins or get 100 gold from the undead city lord. In the real world, even after a year of dungeon runs, where the raids were high-level, fighting from dawn till dusk, her pure coin income didn’t reach one gold.

Yu Xunge didn’t hesitate. Suppressing her swirling thoughts, she took out several large storage boxes from her inventory and asked if the goblin would buy them. The goblin circled the boxes, dismissing the electronics and various toys as junk, offering two silver per box at most. Yet for the boxes of white and red wine, he priced them at 12 gold.

Yu Xunge sold all 55 boxes of wine for 330 gold and the junk for less than one gold.

Then she took out ten pounds of gold, asking how many coins she could exchange.

Now, she only had a few coins obtained from Su Yitong, far from enough to learn the skill.

The goblin offered a ratio of 200g gold per coin.

Yu Xunge haggled for five minutes, lowering it to 180g per coin, knowing there was still room to bargain. But with only half an hour of disguise left, she decisively handed over all the gold she had—3,216 pounds exchanged in Harbor City plus gold from the Yu family, totaling 3,240 pounds. She exchanged it for 6,000 gold.

This was almost the entire coin reserve of a small to mid-sized guild from her previous life.

She then rushed to the goblin engineering master, upgrading engineering to advanced and instantly learning over a hundred new recipes. Afterward, she went straight to the alchemy shop, repeating the process to raise alchemy to advanced, learning all the new recipes.

In school, she was timid about choosing courses; in the game, her thirst for knowledge struck hard and fast!