Chapter 42: The Theatrical Costume

Liang Yuquan and Su Yitong both wore grim expressions, their moods plummeted to the absolute bottom, and they shared a synchronized sense of humiliation!

It was not merely because their bodies were now incomplete, but far more because the murderer was clearly playing with them like monkeys, employing the crudest framing tactics to force the two victims to face each other and compel both families to recount their respective torments. The mastermind was likely feeling quite smug.

The Liang family had recently been entirely dedicated to the development of the game, with all family members having entered it. After the closed beta ended, they had been scouring everywhere for player information, attempting to track down those associated with divine-gifted and divination-related abilities. The physical evidence had already vanished, leaving them no choice but to seek out mystical forces. They had finally managed to locate one such individual not long ago, only to discover that the person was completely incapable of performing any divination.

Now, with the two families sitting down together for a discussion, they arrived at a single conclusion: the perpetrator must be someone who held a simultaneous grudge against both the Su and Liang families. As for the Liang family's deceased driver, he was most likely a small-time pawn who had cooperated with the murderer and was subsequently silenced.

Consequently, the elders set out to investigate anyone who had ever borne a grudge against both major families, while the younger generation collaborated by utilizing the power of divine-gifted talents to hunt for clues.

This led to Su Yitong approaching Yu Xunge, asking her to cast a luck-boosting buff on the player whose divine gift was divination, simply to test if it might provide any assistance.

The outcome, however, was blatantly obvious: it still yielded nothing.

Although the crop-haired young man had failed to divine a single thing, his ordinarily mediocre luck had skyrocketed to an astonishing degree that very day. On his way home, he casually bought a lottery ticket at a shop he passed and actually won. This incident was immediately reported to Liang Yuquan, who naturally mentioned it to Su Yitong during a chat, as she was eager to gather information about Yu Xunge. Since that divine gift was fairly useful, there would always come a time when it was needed.

In truth, Liang Yuquan had long been familiar with this particular talent. Back when she possessed the Eye of Soros, she had scrutinized every single member of the Liang family right after the first closed beta concluded, naturally discovering the driver Liang Hui's divine gift. She simply hadn't made a fuss about it at the time, choosing instead to inform the head of the family about the game while quietly observing whether Liang Hui would harbor improper ambitions upon receiving such a miraculous encounter. Before any testing could yield results, however, the man had ended up dead.

Yet even upon hearing the name and capabilities of this identical divine gift from Yu Xunge, Liang Yuquan harbored no suspicions whatsoever.

After all, it was merely a B-grade talent, and Yu Xunge was just someone who had become a player by participating in the second closed beta. In Liang Yuquan's eyes, much like certain game mechanics, once the owner of a divine gift perished, the [Wheel of Destiny] would simply return to the card pool for others to draw anew, or perhaps such low-tier talents possessed no exclusivity at all.

Not everyone could be a favored child of heaven like herself, capable of drawing an S-grade divine gift. Among the nearly one thousand players in the entire Liang family, she remained the sole S-grade.

Most importantly, the Liang family had long since verified one undeniable fact: divine gifts could not be seized by killing their possessors.

Therefore, she never once connected a minor figure she had never met, like Yu Xunge, to her family's affairs.

That evening, Yu Xunge received a message from Su Yitong: "Let's cooperate more often in the future~"

Yu Xunge was entirely unsurprised by Su Yitong's reaction. One million for six hours of luck was genuinely a bargain.

The very next day, she packed the money and headed out, renting a small yacht to take to the open sea. The vast ocean was a superb location for teleporting and escaping—safe and concealed to a degree rivaling a safehouse. Not only did she not have to worry about being seen, but in the future, if she ever committed murder, she could directly teleport here to wash away the traces before heading back.

As time went on, Su Yitong periodically sought her out to use her ability on various individuals. When casting her skills on these people, Yu Xunge made no effort to conceal it; she practically wanted to hold a megaphone and shout: *Your luck value has just been modified to 10 by me!!!*

Over time, her reputation spread among the circle of the wealthy, but alongside it, Yu Xunge's strict rule circulated as well: she only bestowed good fortune and would never bring misfortune to anyone.

In truth, she could easily have claimed that her skill could only adjust a person's luck upward. Yet that would have appeared far too "flawless" and "harmless," easily breeding suspicion. Furthermore, she would need this very skill to alter the luck of monsters when raiding dungeons in the future, so she never intended to keep it a secret from the start.

Yu Xunge's rule effectively extinguished the malice of many. Coupled with the fact that even when private clients approached her offering astronomical sums of up to twenty million, she refused to break her precedent, people eventually came to believe it. They simply concluded that she was remarkably clever, tactful, and cautious.

More importantly, she was considered nearly a half-member of the Su family by association, making her someone best left untouched.

Yu Xunge never imagined that the very skill which had caused her death in her past life could become her means of making a fortune in this one.

Following the conclusion of the third closed beta, Yu Xunge no longer worried about others discovering her identity as a player. The Su family and those who relied on her divine gift would naturally shield her.

Her divine gift possessed no threatening power yet remained sufficiently unique. Much like divination, there might come a day when it would prove useful, and since she made no secret of it and conducted her business openly, anyone could seek her out whenever the need arose. Even if cannon fodder were required, her turn to be pushed to the forefront would never arrive.

More significantly, there were countless players without any background; there was simply no reason to waste effort capturing someone who maintained transactional ties with various major families.

Yu Xunge's speed in accumulating wealth vastly surpassed her earnings back when she was an actress. Whenever she traded with clients, she demanded only cash. Even though any one of those individuals could acquire weapons far more easily than she could, she preferred the hassle of taking the money and purchasing items herself.

What if those items mutated later on? It was much like buying a lottery ticket: someone owed her two yuan, and she had them casually buy a lottery ticket to repay her, only for that ticket to win the grand prize!

People wouldn't attribute it to Yu Xunge's foresight; they would simply feel that Yu Xunge had stolen their fortune. If they genuinely discovered that a weapon traded to her had mutated following the game invasion—leaving aside ordinary outcomes—if it happened to possess exceptional attributes, they might even demand its return.

Yu Xunge figured that if she were in their shoes, she would likely choke with frustration.

Nowadays, she carved out two to three hours daily to use her skill to earn extra cash, hoarding all the funds with plans to make a trip to Thailand at the end of November. That region harbored plenty of bizarre oddities, and she intended to acquire some and hoard them in hopes of gambling on mutations.

Before that, however, she planned to buy back a set of her old costume from her acting days.

When she first entered the industry, she had played a supporting female assassin hopelessly devoted to the male lead in a thirty-six-episode drama. Out of the thirty-six episodes, thirty-five featured her clad in black robes and black boots. It had been a low-budget historical series, but it unexpectedly achieved minor viral success, propelling her from a newcomer step by step into a third-tier celebrity.

Hit dramas frequently practiced selling the lead actors' costumes to recoup costs. That particular outfit had been purchased by one of her fans back then. In her past life, when she was targeted by various scandals and smear campaigns, that fan grew heartbroken, unfollowed her, and sold the garment. Following the game invasion, that very garment, bought by another, would mutate into a top-tier minor blue-grade piece of equipment.