Chapter 52

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Chapter 52 Unexpectedly, I’m the Spy [Combined]

After learning from the digging maid’s livestream that she and her team had received a new mission from Bai Fu, the players sitting in the car were now as anxious as ants on a hot pot.

They were not only concerned about whether they could get a mission from Bai Fu anymore.

Through the analysis conducted by the digging maid and the incitement from players from guilds competing with the Iron Rain Guild, a strong sense of urgency began to take root in their hearts.

Based on the current intelligence, there was more than a 90% probability that Bai Fu was not a main storyline NPC of the Source Star, but rather an important hidden NPC involved in a larger story. Once she achieved her purpose on the Source Star, she would definitely leave.

If these players did not seize the opportunity to interact with Bai Fu in time, they might permanently miss out on triggering that significant hidden quest.

Oh, no, not necessarily permanent.

[‘We’ll be able to meet Bai Fu again once the Nostalgia server opens!’]

[‘Your sister, you’re already thinking about the Nostalgia server after just over a month of the game’s beta test?’]

[‘Just wait for a big shot to set up a private server, then we can directly boost Bai Fu’s affinity to 100.’]

[‘Young people shouldn’t be so young; given the game’s performance, no private server can run this game smoothly.’]

Some players who couldn’t buy tickets from the abandoned cooling plant to Lin’en resorted to underhanded tactics, such as buying cheats that allowed instant teleportation to Lin’en from the abandoned cooling plant. As a result, they were scammed out of 5000 and were used as examples by the official and posted on the community.

[‘The upper solo player of the Source Star was scammed 5000 yuan by someone claiming to sell teleportation cheats to Lin’en. Beware!’]

After this post, no more players dared to play any tricks.

Public execution, who could handle this?

The only thing they could do was vent in the community and complain to the official.

“Not bad, not bad.”

Bai Fu nodded in satisfaction when she saw this scene while lurking in the community.

Thanks to the analysis posts released by the digging maid at a frequency of one every two or three days, almost all players who knew her now agreed that she was a mysterious alien from the universe.

Her identity was now sufficiently developed, and further deepening it might conflict with the upcoming plot twists.

Her next plan was to make good use of the new “injured” status to make players believe she had certain abilities when she wasn’t injured, prompting the planner to add corresponding abilities to her during the next enhancement.

Bai Fu had a preliminary idea.

Her biggest weakness right now was her inability to engage in pursuit battles and lack of area-of-effect attacks, so she planned to work on that.

The operation was simple: she just needed Anya to keep talking about how “the boss used to do this and that” in front of the players.

In this way, players would be satisfied with extracting information from Anya, Bai Fu would successfully establish herself as a wise figure in front of them, and Anya would receive rewards like wasteland cola and desserts. It was a win-win situation!

Thinking of this, Bai Fu looked at Anya with a contented expression.

Anya’s appearance was truly perfect; she was a little girl who appeared weak, pitiful, and helpless, standing there easily winning players’ trust. Using her to deceive players would be twice as effective.

“Let’s prepare to depart.”

At this moment, Xia Shi walked out of the room carrying a weapon case.

Nearing noon, the operation was about to begin.

Bai Fu nodded and followed Xia Shi down the stairs, with Anya close behind. Their first stop was Sìchù.

Because this operation was outside the Lin’en Settlement, taking a round trip would take about a day, and the players would also follow. Therefore, Bai Fu needed to send Anya to a safe place first.

Without a doubt, the safest place in Lin’en right now was the underground air-raid shelter in Sìchù.

“Boss, you must come back alive! If you die, I won’t live either!” Anya tightly clung to Bai Fu’s clothes.

Bai Fu laughed and gave Anya a punch: “Climb, always saying such unlucky things. My life is hard to kill.”

Even if she were just a Truth Society spy, she would still struggle even if she accidentally entered Mihua City and was targeted by the Death Student Elementary School!

After settling Anya, Bai Fu held a brief meeting with the people from Sìchù. At the meeting, the action group leader introduced the operation target again.

“Musketeer Wanderer Camp, a bandit camp that lives by robbery, with a population between thirty and forty, possessing two heavy machine guns. They migrated to the vicinity of Lin’en a month ago and recently attacked a merchant caravan affiliated with Lin’en, causing seven casualties. The purpose of our operation is to completely eradicate them, leaving no survivors.”

The words of the action group leader were filled with cold killing intent.

Wanderer camps are usually small groups formed by individuals unwilling to be bound by the laws of powerful factions. These people are often more lawless than even Zhang San, who is known for his wildness.

The Gene Progenitor Bureau, in addition to collecting intelligence on other forces, primarily works on regularly clearing these roving wanderer camps.

Bai Fu didn’t pay much attention to what the action group leader said. She took the opportunity to cast a Vision skill on Li Cheng, who was sitting next to Lu Yulin.

[Name]: Li Cheng (Elite)

[Template]: Special

[Primary Profession]: Berserk Brawler Lv6 (+10)

[Secondary Profession]: Bartender Lv2

[Health Points]: 500/500

[Qi]: 145/145

[Attributes]: Strength 29, Agility 16, Constitution 22, Intelligence 7, Spirit 9, Inspiration 6

[Skills]: Qi Gathering Lv3, Brawler’s Might Lv4, Slide Step Lv2, Iron Body Lv1, Triple Punch Lv1, Blood Rage Stance, Endurance, Intermediate Combat Mastery…

[Talent]: Naturally Robust

[Affinity]: Desiring to Remove (-83)

[Danger Level]: Blue

Bai Fu didn’t care much about the attributes; she cared more about Li Cheng’s affinity towards her.

After a night apart, this value had dropped by nearly ten points. Even if Li Cheng didn’t plan to act today, as long as she slightly provoked him, he should obediently fall into her trap.

With this thought, Bai Fu felt completely at ease.

As soon as the meeting ended, she went with Xia Shi to pick up the players in a truck.

Since the higher-ups of Sìchù would participate in today’s operation, she had warned the players early on to disguise themselves to avoid being recognized by Li Cheng.

To her relief, the players listened to her advice and not only covered their faces but also changed into different clothes than the previous night.

“Don’t let their laid-back appearance fool you; their combat effectiveness isn’t inferior to that of regular agents. In critical moments, they can surprise you with unexpected actions.”

Bai Fu introduced the players to the members of Xu Hong’s team with a smile.

“Really?”

The members of Xu Hong’s team were skeptical.

“Don’t worry, you’ll soon see their true strength.”

The agents exchanged glances and shook hands with the players amicably.

“Hello.”

To Bai Fu’s great surprise, before the players demonstrated their strength, they first showed off their outrageous behavior.

“Damn, is that power armor? That’s amazing!”

Reaching out to touch.

“Wow, what’s the name of this gun? It’s even cooler than the HK416.”

Reaching out to touch.

“Can this terminal make calls? It’s a bit heavy, but it should be great for cracking walnuts.”

Reaching out to touch.

At first, these players seemed quite normal, even when they saw the power armor, they didn’t make overly aggressive moves, until the battle-crazed player Black Tiger Afu, who had been acting alongside Pai Da Xing, stepped forward.

“Brother, your muscles look so well-defined, even through your clothes, they exude an overwhelming beauty. How did you train?”

Reaching out to touch.

The Sìchù agent touched by Black Tiger Afu was startled, his face turning pale like a faded color.

Oh damn, there’s a Nantong!

Now he’s just touching the muscles; will he start canning and needing next?

He looked fearfully at Xu Hong, who looked equally terrified at Bai Fu.

You brought them here, you better do something!

Bai Fu’s eyelid twitched slightly. Players always managed to do things that left others speechless, but she dared to rely on them because she was familiar with their nature.

She looked at the agent who was touched.

Bro, there’s a saying: moderate fitness attracts the opposite sex, excessive fitness attracts the same sex.

“I guarantee with my integrity that he has no ill intentions. He’s genuinely interested in your muscles, not you personally.”

Black Tiger Afu quickly nodded.

Since White Death Bai Fu said so, the members of Xu Hong’s team reluctantly accepted this explanation.

“It was a misunderstanding.”

Although the touched agent sat far away from Black Tiger Afu, he still looked innocent. What was wrong with liking muscles and fighting? Isn’t that what real men enjoy?

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An hour later, the convoy arrived near the Musketeer Wanderer Camp.

This was a barren red earth, strewn with broken rocks and scattered debris, occasionally revealing half-exposed bones, indicating that a fierce battle had taken place here.

Lu Yulin jumped out of the car and began arranging the main attack direction.

Xu Hong’s team and Bai Fu, along with the players, were assigned to the west side, while the other two teams were divided between the east and north sides, leaving the south side empty.

Upon receiving orders, Xu Hong’s team and Bai Fu, along with the players, quickly reached the designated location and lay on the ground, awaiting the general attack order.

Soon, Lu Yulin raised a megaphone and began to persuade the wanderers to surrender, but he was met with ruthless gunfire.

“If you don’t eat the feast, you’ll eat the penalty. Open fire!”

At Lu Yulin’s command, the three-direction action teams launched simultaneous attacks.

Bullets rained down, like the scythe of death, constantly cutting through the makeshift temporary shelters around the camp. The attacked wanderer camp was not to be trifled with; amidst angry shouts, they quickly retaliated.

“Kill all those outside!”

“Do they really think we’re easy targets? Today, I’ll break their dio!”

Accompanied by foul language, a dense and unexpected barrage of gunfire flew out. Even with Xu Hong’s power armor providing cover, the west side was struggling to gain the upper hand.

“Damn, the intel was wrong. Didn’t they say they only had two machine guns? Why is the firepower suddenly so intense?”

“We must first find a way to suppress the enemy’s machine guns!”

Xu Hong was extremely anxious. Everyone wanted to suppress the enemy’s firepower, but the question was how. This operation did not bring heavy weapons, so to destroy the machine gun positions, they could only rely on grenades.

“I’ll do it.”

Everyone turned to look, and they discovered that the one shouting was one of the dozen or so people who came with Bai Fu, nicknamed Pai Da Xing.

“This is too dangerous.”

Before Xu Hong could shake his head, Pai Da Xing picked up two grenades from the ground.

In the next second, holding the grenades, Pai Da Xing darted out like a cheetah from behind the cover, quickly spotted by the wanderers hiding in the camp. Gun barrels turned, and bullets rained down on Pai Da Xing.

Pai Da Xing used a forced displacement skill to pull leftward, narrowly avoiding the bullet attack zone, and before the enemy could react, he rolled into a pit ahead.

The entire sequence of movements was fluid and impressive, nearly stunning Xu Hong.

Is this Bai Fu’s true strength?

“Quick, open fire and create an opening for him!”

Xu Hong quickly ordered his agents to open fire.

Under the protection of the agent squad, despite being hit several times, Pai Da Xing managed to reach the machine gun position unscathed, throwing the two grenades inside.

Boom! Boom!

Two explosions silenced the machine gun position.

“Charge!”

Digging Maid shouted, and all the players rushed out.

“Hey…”

Xu Hong was truly bewildered this time.

No, guys, are you guys not afraid of dying? Who does their special agents fight like this? Aren’t they supposed to first gather intelligence on the enemy and then employ appropriate tactics?

But it couldn’t be denied that recklessness was indeed effective. The players’ charge directly disoriented the wanderers in the camp.

“Forget it, we’ll follow them!”

Xu Hong led the way, followed closely by Bai Fu, and everyone quickly charged into the wanderer camp through the gap opened by the players.

Li Cheng’s eyes were twitching wildly throughout the entire scene.

Were these people Bai Fu called so brave?

No wonder the second wave of assassins he sent that night suffered heavy losses, no wonder these people were fearless even as they faced death, and even dared to threaten the Truth Society.

“Is it the Tie Yu Guild?”

After the darknet reopened yesterday, he had transmitted the intelligence he had collected to the Truth Society through it. He believed that with the Truth Society’s formidable intelligence capabilities, they should be able to quickly investigate the origins of this organization and eliminate it.

But now was not the time to dwell on such matters.

While transmitting the intelligence to the Truth Society, he also applied for assistance from them.

Although the current situation was somewhat beyond his expectations, it hadn’t deviated too far. Next, he needed to lure Bai Fu into the trap he had set up beforehand.

If possible, he would capture her alive; otherwise, he would send Bai Fu on her way.

Li Cheng was impatient to see Bai Fu’s reaction when she realized he was the spy.

Surprised?

PS: Combined, thanks to Ge Shui Li Yue,

And also thanks to Dan Yang Xue Feng, Xiao Hao who is not at all cute, and Meng Sui Qing Feng for their support.

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