Yu Yao did this not only because she was short on money, but mainly because she didn’t want to be noticed by people in her home country.
After all, she still had to live domestically after the apocalypse. If she was too conspicuous, she might be suppressed before the apocalypse even arrived.
Overseas was different. With much experience from her previous life, she spoke multiple languages, and out of interest had learned about some gray areas, like how to get fake passports.
As long as she had money to buy fake identities, was careful and cautious enough, and bold enough, she could change locations on a whim, grab supplies, and then run.
She wouldn’t be caught tracking her movements anytime soon.
Soon the whole world would be chaotic anyway—who would have the time or energy to chase her?
So early on after her rebirth, she took time to get a passport.
Now that the time was ripe, she disguised herself as a tourist and decisively boarded a plane abroad without hesitation.
In the following twenty days, she traveled all over Europe, America, and Australia, disguised as a blond, blue-eyed white boy.
She stealthily raided more than a dozen large shopping malls, warehouses, wine cellars, and pharmaceutical storages owned by notorious capitalists.
Of course, only those publicly known.
She naturally could not find any secret warehouses.
During her time overseas, she gathered many supplies unique to those countries.
She even visited the arsenals of two arms dealers, acquiring some cold and hot weapons.
Because now she could collect supplies within ten meters remotely, she didn’t need to enter warehouses to grab many things.
She would sneak close to warehouses to collect what she could; if she couldn’t get close enough, she found ways to quietly climb onto rooftops.
For some storefronts, she even managed to collect small amounts of goods from upstairs and downstairs.
She took as much as she could but never was greedy or took risks.
If none of her tactics worked, she moved on without wasting time.
She wasn’t a professional, just doing what she could.
……
Because of her massive raids, a huge commotion erupted worldwide.
A hunt was underway for the “Blond Bandit.”
No one knew how “he” committed the crimes, only that wherever he appeared, things would mysteriously disappear.
Countless imitators and admirers of “him” appeared on the internet.
Some even said he was a flashy magician with unknown powers.
Who cared? The more wild the guesses, the better!
Taking advantage of this, Yu Yao also used different IPs and accounts from various locations to post many theories about the apocalypse.
Whether it drew attention or not was unknown, but at least she did what she could.
Even though she knew most people wouldn’t care.
But… she figured it was just a way to kill time.
……
None of this had anything to do with the real Yu Yao.
The wanted person was a blond, blue-eyed white boy. What did that have to do with Yu Yao?
Since leaving the country, she used fake IDs and disguises in every country she visited.
So no short-term tracking could link back to her based on footprints.
As for the apocalypse theories online, people posted those every day.
It was nearly impossible to pick out her posts among all the noise, especially since she used many fake IPs.
The one time she almost got caught was in Italy, raiding a gang’s hot weapons cache.
She was spotted and immediately surrounded.
Dozens of dark gun barrels pointed at the masked blond boy’s body.
Yu Yao narrowed her eyes, secretly holding the explosive talisman she had swapped in the mall, ready to channel energy and detonate!
The explosion would erase the talisman, cause chaos, and no one would know what triggered it.
Just as she was plotting this, a sudden thunderclap shook everyone.
Everyone staggered briefly in the strong tremor.
Yu Yao took this chance to scatter the explosive talisman around.
Amid the confusion, she escaped the circle, sneaked to the arsenal, and hurriedly collected some weapons.
As she left, she saw several agile figures moving through the chaos, weapons in hand, killing with ease.
Compared to the gang members who resisted in an orderly but losing manner, these figures were on a completely different level.
She also noticed one of them glanced back toward her position and locked eyes with her for a moment.
Their faces were hidden, but Yu Yao caught sight of a pair of deep, shining black eyes, like a starry night stretching endlessly.
So beautiful.
Thanks!
Yu Yao calmly turned and quickly disappeared into the night.
Once safe, she changed her outfit, calmly clapped her hands, left Italy, and headed next door to South Korea and then the island nation.
After another round of raids, she didn’t forget to use gold coins earned from sign-ins to buy several explosive talismans.
At night, she blew up a notorious public toilet!
These two places left a vivid mark from the “Blond Bandit.”
……
After traveling the world, Yu Yao finally returned home satisfied with less than twenty days left before the apocalypse.
Her sign-ins during this time earned her 60 experience points and over a thousand gold coins.
Her level rose to 2.
Each level up improved her body quality, speed, and senses.
Now, she was almost as physically strong as a true psychic in the apocalypse.
When her own level reached 1, she unlocked the first skill of the “Healer and Medical Immortal” class — “Riding the Wind.”
This is a group buff skill that increases all teammates’ movement speed by 50%. It also reduces psychic power consumption by 30%. The duration is unlimited, as long as her “mana” can sustain it.
Although she currently had no teammates and no psychic abilities, so she could only boost her own movement speed, she didn’t mind.
Back home, she immediately opened the in-game shop and spent 576 gold coins without hesitation to buy two Tang horizontal swords.
Although the Tiger Soul was a dual blade, it was essentially two independent Tang horizontal swords.
The official explanation was that it was originally one sword that split into two.
So she practiced with two Tang horizontal swords directly, to get familiar with the Tiger Soul usage in advance.
The moment she held the dual blades, all the attack moves instantly flashed in her mind, as if she had been learning them since birth.
But theory is theory — when she actually used these skill combos, it wasn’t as smooth as in the game.
So she cleared out the living room and started practicing dual blade moves there.
Flourish, chop, slash, stab, block, flourish with style.
Combining swordsmanship with footwork and body movements, she could form various skill combos, even advanced moves like lunges.
However, mastering these was not easy and required both hands to coordinate perfectly — quite difficult.
Thanks to countless fights in her previous life and the martial arts she learned, plus the fact that her original owner’s father had a friend who ran a martial arts school, she was sent there to learn for many years to support his friend’s business.
With these experiences, her progress was relatively fast.
Her moves and combos became increasingly smooth and natural, even carrying an indescribable aura of dominance and beauty.
One day later, Yu Yao finally received the custom water tanks, then hurried to the neighboring Shan City.
It was a tourist city with beautiful scenery.
There was a famous longevity village, said to have residents living long lives because they drank mountain spring water all year round.
Yu Yao didn’t believe in such supernatural claims but was sure the water quality was excellent, more than suitable for drinking.
The village was called Yushan Village, famous for its long-lived elders and had become a well-known tourist spot.
The so-called mountain spring water was located above Yushan.
Yu Yao got off the high-speed train, transferred directly to Yushan Village, found the pre-booked homestay, and checked in.
After putting down her backpack, she immediately went out and started exploring Yushan.
Yushan was open to tourists, but the upper reaches of the spring were protected, and ordinary people couldn’t get close.
Yu Yao’s climb was mainly for scouting and confirming the locations of surveillance cameras.
Whether it was a sign of the impending apocalypse or not, recently the world had been heating up dramatically, reaching highs of 47 degrees Celsius during the hottest parts of the day.
Standing under the sun for a few minutes could cause mild heatstroke or severe heat exhaustion, shock, or suffocation.
Even though it was late summer, temperatures kept rising day by day, and many noticed the abnormal climate.
There were many apocalypse theories online, but they were quickly suppressed and didn’t make much of a splash.
Yu Yao could do nothing but practice desperately every day, stockpile supplies, and not waste a moment.
Although anxious, as a tourist she had to walk slowly on Yushan with a sunshade umbrella.
Looking at the lush surroundings, even though she had mentally prepared herself, she couldn’t help but sigh with a heavy heart.
What a beautiful world — soon to be mercilessly destroyed by viruses.
What a pity.
After climbing Yushan and taking countless photos, confirming all surveillance and spring locations, Yu Yao quickly descended and bought a lot of snacks and local specialties in the town.
She returned to the homestay only in the evening.
The homestay owner was a pretty and generous older sister surnamed Chen, who asked Yu Yao to call her Sister Chen.
Sister Chen smiled and greeted Yu Yao as she returned with a pile of local goods: “Hey girl, you’re back! Have you eaten dinner?”
The homestay included dinner, served together with the host family.
Yu Yao didn’t like interacting or communicating much with unfamiliar people, so she calmly lied: “I already ate.”
She seemed indifferent but wasn’t totally cold — at most, she was just shy and a bit socially anxious.
Once familiar, she could also be a goofy girl.
It was just her past living environment made it hard to open up and laugh freely with others.
When Sister Chen heard Yu Yao had eaten, she disapproved: “You already ate? Don’t eat out tomorrow — it’s so expensive! Just eat here. My old Xu’s cooking is great, I promise you’ll like it.”
Yu Yao smiled lightly and nodded: “Okay, I’ll try. I’m going to rest in my room now.”
With that, she turned and went upstairs.
After locking the door, she casually took out a plain rice ball to fill her stomach.
Then she quickly washed up, set an alarm for midnight, and hurried into bed to sleep.