【System Detection: Host's ability “Mental Domination (Basic)” has steadily advanced to the Level 1 mid stage. Total mental power +45%, control precision +30%, perception range +25%. Comprehensive physical evaluation has reached the Level 1 Strength/Agility-type Ability User mid stage level.】
Previously, she could rely on the element of surprise and her unique ability to deal with three or four ordinary thugs or those with weak wills.
Now, after this initial strengthening, she could face five well-trained, coordinated strong men head-on.
If she utilized “Mental Shock” or “Consciousness Interference” for a surprise attack, the effects would be even more pronounced.
The increase in strength brought more confidence and a clearer mind.
Su Wan stood up and stretched her limbs, her mood significantly improved.
With C2 operating efficiently, the crowd of vagrants outside the door thinned out at a visible rate.
They all became new tenants.
On Butler-C1’s side, a significant amount of gold had been recycled.
Su Wan walked over and ordered Butler-C1 to perform the final tally.
【Cumulative gold recycled: 312.7 grams.】
【Star Coins to be paid based on agreed unit price (1.5 Star Coins/gram): 469.05 Star Coins (already paid to corresponding tenant accounts).】
【Gold has been deposited into the system's temporary reserve.】
The total amount of gold Su Wan now held easily surpassed the one-kilogram mark!
“System, extract all reserved gold to my storage space.”
【Confirming gold extraction, total: 1018.4 grams.】
【Gold has been deposited into the Host's personal storage space.】
The heavy sensation was transmitted through the spatial connection.
Over a thousand grams of gold!
Based on the current gold price on Blue Star, it was worth over a million!
She glanced at the time on the system panel.
【Time until next automatic travel back to original plane (Blue Star): 00:03:17】
Three minutes left.
Currently, she was still restricted by the fixed travel mechanism: arriving at midnight and returning at 8 AM, staying for eight hours each time.
That coveted 【Autonomous Travel Authority】 still required the completion of the main quest to unlock.
“Butler-C1, C2, maintain the shelter's normal operations. Handle everything according to established rules.” Su Wan gave her instructions to the two robots.
She turned, walked back to Room 102, and closed the door.
Standing in the center of the room, she waited for the familiar pulling sensation.
Three minutes passed in a flash.
【00:00:00】
【Timed Travel initiated...】
The slight vibration and sense of spatial dislocation arrived as expected.
As soon as Su Wan returned to Blue Star, her phone rang.
She looked at the caller ID; it was an unknown number.
Su Wan pressed the answer button.
“Miss Su, are you awake? The three-day deadline is up.” Li Bao's malicious voice came through the receiver over a background of noisy chatter.
“Where are you?” Su Wan's voice was cold, betraying little emotion.
“Where am I? Hehe, visiting your dear sister-in-law and lovely little nephew, of course.” Li Bao's voice carried a cruel laugh.
The memory of the previous night’s events sent Li Bao into a fit of rage.
After he had fled the unfinished building site in a pathetic state, he had taken his men back to their hideout.
Even back home, he was still shaken.
The gap where his front teeth used to be throbbed with pain, but what truly chilled him was the series of unexplainable, eerie occurrences he had witnessed at the construction site.
His subordinates fighting for no reason, him falling and losing his teeth out of nowhere, the “ghost walls” A Biao and Punk Chen described...
In all his years, this was the first time he'd encountered something so beyond reason and bone-chilling.
That unfinished building was too cursed!
He instinctively felt that the place was Su Wan's home turf and definitely had something strange about it. If he tried to force his way in again, he would likely suffer more—maybe even encounter “malevolent spirits” like A Biao said.
But he couldn't just take the loss, and more importantly, he had to get the money!
He gulped down some strong liquor to steady his nerves and began to think calmly.
If that building was cursed, he would simply lure Su Wan out of her “territory”!
Once she left that ghost building and came to his turf or a normal place, what could a weak woman like her possibly do?
With that thought, Li Bao had a plan.
“A Biao!” he barked at his subordinate, whose face was swollen like a pig's head and who hadn't fully recovered from the fright.
“Stop playing dead! Take two men and go to Xingfuli Lane in the old district right now! Keep an eye on Su Wan's sister-in-law, Liu Xin! Go to her place and watch her like a hawk!”
“Don't alert them. Tell me immediately if anything happens!”
A Biao might not dare go back to the unfinished building, but watching a widow and her child in the old district was no problem.
A Biao and two others watched Xingfuli Lane all night.
The next morning, Li Bao took his two best fighters, Er Hu and Ah Qiang, along with a few outer lackeys, and headed straight for Xingfuli Lane.
He chose to do the transaction here for good reasons:
First, it was far from that cursed building—it was his chosen “Safe Zone.”
Second, with Liu Xin and Lele in his hands, Su Wan wouldn't dare pull any tricks.
Third, even if she wanted to try something, in the depths of this urban village, they could close the doors and handle business without anyone interfering!
“Jiangcheng, Old District, Xingfuli Lane. The second floor of the three-story self-built house at the very end. The small room on the left.” Li Bao's voice carried the smugness of someone regaining control.
“The environment... Tsk, tsk. It's really a shame for the eldest daughter-in-law of the Su family. Cockroaches and rats everywhere, a communal toilet... the smell is quite something.”
Su Wan's hand tightened on her phone, her heart aching.
That was one of the most dilapidated and chaotic urban villages in Jiangcheng. The name “Xingfuli” was pure irony.
The alleys were narrow and winding, the houses low and crowded. Wires hung like cobwebs, and the ground was perpetually damp, smelling of trash and sewage.
The tenants there were mostly low-level laborers or those with nowhere else to go, and the area was notorious for its lack of security.
Her sister-in-law, Liu Xin, had taken Lele there out of desperation.
Once this matter was resolved, she would definitely get her sister-in-law and Lele out of that place!
“Li Bao, if you still want the money, be respectful to my sister-in-law!” Su Wan's voice suddenly turned sharp, filled with suppressed rage and authority.
“Respectful? Hahaha!” Li Bao laughed as if he'd heard a joke, his voice rising with hostility.
“Su Wan, do you still think you're some high-and-mighty eldest miss of the Su family?”
“Enough talk! Bring the money—1.2 million, and don't you dare be a cent short! Now! Immediately! Get your ass over to your sister-in-law's place!”
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