Chapter 13: Perhaps It’s Better to Just Kill Him

Although it was only vaguely described as a “recent favorite collectible,” the fact that it was rated S-level made it clear that this collection was far from ordinary trash like old mouse stones.

In her previous life, this pet hospital had quickly risen to prominence thanks to this cat bed. However, with so many people and gossip in the hospital, the cat bed was no secret after all these years. It was soon discovered, and overnight, everyone in the pet hospital—people and animals alike—was wiped out, even the hamsters.

That’s why she came early to retrieve the cat bed.

She truly had a conscience.

Yu Xunge patted herself and thought: Even though you steal and rob and like hiding under beds, you really are a good girl.

Alright, she admitted it. Even if the pet hospital hadn’t been wiped out because of this cat bed, she would still claim it.

If she wanted it, she would have it.

She wasn’t reborn to be a moral paragon.

The cat bed was placed right outside the pet hospital. Except for windy or rainy days, even when the hospital was closed at night, that shabby gray cat bed remained outside.

After nightfall, using a disguise skill, Yu Xunge carried two luxurious cat tents and placed one on each side of the hospital’s entrance. Then she tucked the cat bed under her arm and returned to her rented car, casually tossing it into the front passenger seat. She then moved ten boxes of premium cat canned food to the hospital entrance, attaching an A4 note that read: “For all nearby stray animals, please enjoy a meal.”

She even opened ten cans on the spot, lining them up in front of the hospital.

The next day, disguised as someone else, she entered the hospital and donated two million.

Her approach was straightforward: buy and forcefully take.

As she left the hospital, she could hear the staff lamenting that there had been many good people around lately, but unfortunately, the cat bed was missing—they had all grown attached to it.

Yu Xunge feared this very thing. Although she could wait for the game invasion to come before retrieving the cat bed, once something had emotional value and then transformed into an item or equipment, it was very likely to become bound.

Once bound, only that person could use it. Even if you killed the other party, you couldn’t unbind it.

After securing the cat bed, she purchased materials needed for homemade bandages and ingredients required for cooking recipes, then returned to her thirty-million-yuan villa. She planned to spend the next week maxing out her skills in Basic First Aid and Basic Cooking so that by the second closed beta test, she could directly learn the intermediate levels.

That morning, returning from H City to S City, Su Yitong came to Yu’s house again. She had been visiting almost every day lately. When Yu was in H City, Yi Qiuguo had urged her to come back, saying Su Yitong had asked for her.

Yu Xunge felt busier than when she was fleeing for her life in her previous life.

Back then, she could still manage six hours of sleep a day!

Early in the morning, Yi Qiuguo called her, telling her to come home today. Yu Xunge turned the steering wheel and went straight to Yu’s house without even stopping by her own. Upon entering, her appearance clearly showed she hadn’t been home beforehand.

Su Yitong’s expression was unreadable, and Yu Xunge, a seasoned actress, naturally showed no emotion.

At dinner, Su Yitong sat beside her and accidentally knocked over a glass of red wine, spilling it all over Yu Xunge. Yu appeared to react swiftly and stepped back, but it was too late.

Su Yitong hurriedly apologized, and Yu waved it off with a smile, then went upstairs to quickly wash and change clothes.

With an agility score of 18, Yu naturally couldn’t have dodged it. Su Yitong was deliberately testing her reflexes, and Yu deliberately responded as an ordinary person would.

It was a small incident, but it stirred many unpleasant memories for Yu Xunge.

Yu Xunhuan and Su Yitong’s engagement was on June 1st, Children’s Day. No matter what, Yu Xunge was determined to neuter Yu Xunhuan before June, so little Yu Xunhuan could have a peaceful Children’s Day away from his father.

After handling Su Yitong, Yu Xunge went to the agency and plainly said she was planning to quit the entertainment industry. Several executives didn’t believe her, so she, following the principle of “less trouble is better,” offered to release a withdrawal statement immediately.

Those familiar with murderers know that the psychology between those who have killed and those who haven’t is quite different.

Ordinary people’s way of handling disputes is: maybe just let it go.

Killers’ way is: maybe just kill them.

She was truly busy lately. The second closed beta was on June 6th. Not only did she want to max out her proficiency in Intermediate Alchemy and Engineering before then, but she also aimed to raise Cooking, Fishing, and First Aid to intermediate levels. Although most materials contained magic power, which didn’t yet exist in the real world, some recipes that granted experience could use substitute materials. For example, the materials for making gunpowder in engineering were available in reality.

After grinding all the experience she could, she still had to deal with little Yu Xunhuan.

She was genuinely busy and had no time for killing.

Killing was a one-cut deal, but the aftermath was troublesome. Liu Zhengliu had just been released yesterday and couldn’t leave S City anytime soon. In her busy schedule, she even found time to slap Liu Zhengliu because since Liu knew about the schemes between Liu Hongsheng and herself, she couldn’t act as if nothing had happened. Liu Zhengliu’s life was still not hers to take; she needed to keep the focus on Liu Hongsheng.

Seeing how determined Yu Xunge was, the negotiators sent by the company gave up. If the person didn’t even want to work anymore, how could they control her? A bare foot fears no shoe, and after all these years in the industry, Yu knew plenty of company gossip.

The reason Yu Xunge had endured in her previous life was that she hadn’t planned to quit the industry. She feared that if she withdrew, no one in her family would earn money. So she kept trying to turn things around and often used her connections to introduce friends to Yu Xunhuan.

Desirelessness breeds strength; it means having no worldly desires and being able to stand firm against anyone. After clashing with several executives, Yu Xunge left the agency. From then on, she had no work, and six months later, she would just sign a contract with a lawyer and go through the formalities.

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Throughout March, Yu Xunge never left her villa. She told Yu Qingshan, Yi Qiuguo, and Yu Xunhuan that she had been abandoned by the company and was going through a hard time. She asked them not to disturb her and that she needed peace.

But in reality, she was setting up her safe house.

If she could use invisibility potions, so could others.

She hired a renovation team from the neighboring city to turn the top floor of her villa into a two-hundred-square-meter glass room filled with plants and flowers. Above, there were sprinklers. At the innermost part of the glass room was a heavy wooden cabinet adorned with potted plants.

She then devised a plan and drew blueprints to create a secret door in the cabinet, leading to a rectangular chamber seven meters long and four meters wide.

Inside the chamber was a bed for rest, two hidden humidifiers, and a specially designed floor with highly sensitive gravity sensors. Any object weighing more than two kilograms would trigger a light.

Since there were invisibility potions, there were also corresponding revelation potions. She filled the humidifiers with the best intermediate-level revelation potion she could craft. When activated, the humidifiers would diffuse a fine mist throughout the chamber. Although the effect was weakened and couldn’t make a person fully visible, it was enough to reveal their outline.

Otherwise, using garden sprinklers would be too extravagant; a small bottle would be used up in minutes... she couldn’t afford that.

But with the humidifiers, one small bottle of revelation potion could last eight hours.

At the same time, she installed humidifiers filled with revelation potions in every corner of her home.

As long as she was home, the humidifiers would remain active.