A sequence of natural numbers is constructed by listing the first $4$ , then skipping one, listing the next $5$ , skipping $2$ , listing $6$ , skipping $3$ , and, on the $n$ th iteration, listing $n+3$ and skipping $n$ . The sequence begins $1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10,13$ . What is the $500,000^{\text{th}}$ number in the sequence?