Chapter 112: Bai Fu’s Perfect Farewell, Unlocking the Advanced Profession Quest! [22]
Many years later, standing in the wilderness, Bai Fu would surely recall that night when the Dark Moon Eye Prayer Card she had attached to one of the Truth Society guards was discovered.
It was getting a bit spooky!
She wasn’t sure if the President of the Truth Society was bluffing her or had genuinely seen her through the Prayer Card. Regardless of the situation, staying here any longer was no longer safe.
Because even if the President was only bluffing, he would definitely send people immediately, or even come out personally to check the situation.
The blazing fire from the helicopter explosion in the dark night was particularly eye-catching; he or his men would soon come knocking.
Even with He Fu and over a hundred players helping, Bai Fu didn’t think she could defeat the President of the Truth Society.
A total difference of 13 levels wasn’t a small number, let alone the fact that the President had unlocked an advanced profession, giving him numerous bonuses. The attributes gained from leveling up were greater, so the gap between them would be even larger than it appeared on the surface.
But Bai Fu was also unwilling to simply retreat like this.
Having come all this way, merely taking down a helicopter and Carl seemed too lackluster. She had to find a way to leave something more memorable for the President who had repeatedly threatened her.
The perfect farewell of the Fate Weaver is four long-range snipes, but Bai Fu envisioned her perfect farewell as a grand stage formed by He Fu, over a hundred players, and the remaining Prayer Cards on her person!
…
After receiving the message from the President, everyone in the laboratory sprang into action.
“President.”
Laboratory Director Pan Yunyi walked solemnly to the President’s side and asked whether they should prepare for evacuation.
This secret laboratory was equipped with many important research devices, which the President had accumulated piece by piece over the years. If they had to make an emergency retreat, most of these devices would have to be destroyed.
Frankly speaking, the cost was too high. Pan Yunyi couldn’t bear it; he had worked with these devices for over a decade. To him, these devices were as precious as his own children.
The President’s expression was very stern: “First, gather all experimental data and specimens. If anything happens, take as much equipment as possible. Whatever remains must be blown up.”
Pan Yunyi reluctantly nodded; this was indeed the wisest decision under the current circumstances.
“May you return victorious, President.”
Under the President’s orders, among the fully armed guards in the laboratory, only a few powerful superhumans remained behind to guard against any sneak attacks.
Ten minutes later, three helicopters flew out from behind the automatically opened gates of the laboratory.
From a distant aerial view, the fire from where Carl’s plane crashed was extremely bright.
“Get closer!”
The helicopters immediately changed direction, leading the ground forces to launch a raid.
They encountered the ground forces Carl had sent out earlier while still en route. After Carl’s helicopter was shot down, these guards were terrified and dared not move.
They wanted to investigate, but feared losing their lives. They wanted to retreat, but feared being ambushed halfway. In their dilemma, the President of the Truth Society arrived.
“What happened?”
The President commanded with natural authority.
A guard trembled as he recounted what had just occurred. Actually, he didn’t know exactly what had happened, but the scene of a hundred arrows shooting down the helicopter was firmly imprinted in his mind, a spectacle he would never forget.
“Carl is probably dead, otherwise he would have returned by now!”
“Greedy and reckless, fool!”
The nearby superhumans listened and were filled with righteous indignation, wishing they could tear Carl apart again.
The President lowered his right hand slightly: “There’s no point talking about this now. Find that intruder first.”
He had no time to be angry about Carl’s foolish behavior and death.
When he first sensed the presence of the Dark Moon Eye Prayer Card, he realized things weren’t looking good. When he really found the Prayer Card on the injured guard, he became even more certain of his suspicions.
This Prayer Card had sensing abilities, but the key issue wasn’t here; it was that this Prayer Card was something he had never seen before.
With his understanding of Spiritual Energy, he had never seen such a thing. Whoever could create such an item must possess wisdom and abilities far beyond the ordinary.
This was not an accident, but a deliberate act!
“I can sense their existence, and I can even feel a sense of familiarity from them, but…”
He couldn’t remember.
Images of many archenemies flashed through the President’s mind, but none of them matched the shadow he had seen through the Prayer Card.
Who could it be?
“Move forward.”
At the command, the helicopters and ground forces continued cautiously advancing.
On the way, they encountered no ambushes and arrived smoothly at the site of the helicopter crash.
The President jumped off the helicopter and looked around. What met his eyes was a ground that looked as though it had been bombed, a broken helicopter, and pools of blood along with over a dozen corpses.
“Report, we haven’t found Carl’s body.”
A superhuman searched the ground and then approached the President.
The President shook his head: “Don’t bother looking, he’s already dead. Otherwise, our guest wouldn’t be hiding in the shadows waiting for us so confidently.”
What?
Everyone present was startled by the President’s words. Their hearts tightened as they began to look around everywhere, but they still couldn’t detect any abnormalities.
The President stepped forward, and suddenly a streak of flowing light emerged from his right hand, scattering a patch of grass ahead, revealing Xiao Xiao Bai Fu hidden inside.
Xiao Xiao Bai Fu was tiny and incredibly cute, which left the members of the Truth Society utterly confused.
“What is this thing?”
Soon they realized that the cuter something was, the more dangerous it might be.
Boom!
He Fu, hiding farther away, parted her lips. Instantly, dazzling white light erupted from Xiao Xiao Bai Fu’s body, releasing surging Spiritual Energy that completely covered a radius of ten meters.
Truth Society members who were close were instantly blown away, while those farther away were left tattered and bleeding.
“Enemy attack, enemy attack!”
However, this was just the opening signal of Bai Fu’s perfectly planned farewell performance for the President of the Truth Society.
In ancient times, there was the sound of a cup breaking signaling an ambush; today, there was the explosion of Fu signaling an assault!
Over a thousand meters away, the players crouching on the ground simultaneously stood up and threw the last batch of Penetrating Spear Prayer Cards Bai Fu had given them.
“Fire!”
Blinding white light soared into the sky, tracing relatively straight arcs, covering everyone standing near the crashed helicopter.
The momentum was grand, akin to dozens of cannons firing simultaneously.
One round of bombardment, and half the people on the Truth Society side fell on the spot. Despite the powerful superhumans and the President remaining unscathed, it was undoubtedly an extreme humiliation.
“Kill them!”
Enraged superhumans darted toward the places where the players were hiding like arrows.
But the players might fear blood, might fear terrifying environments, but they were not afraid of death.
Come on, dance on the stage!
After throwing the Penetrating Spears, the players shouted and charged forward, a charge no less heroic than Qi Yuan’s mechanical dogs exploding together.
As they collided, they all pulled out the long-stored “Summon Ghost!” Prayer Cards from their persons.
For Fu Fu!
For quest rewards!
For love and justice!
Damn it, damn the Truth Society!
The ghosts summoned by dozens of “Summon Ghost!” cards exploded simultaneously, their fiery explosions connecting into a single blaze. In the dark night, on the barren wasteland, an arc of light over ten meters high was blasted out.
The actual destructive power of this round of explosions still needed to be debated, but the visual impact it brought was very real.
Even the President of the Truth Society couldn’t help but be moved by it.
Undead beings have always been notorious for being difficult to control; even after modifications, they wouldn’t listen much, talking as if they had a disease that would kill them if they stopped.
But the undead beings that appeared today demonstrated decisiveness and coordination beyond expectations. How did they achieve this?
While the president was pondering, the people hiding on the other two sides, Sword Aura Sky Piercing and Black Warrior, also began to act.
Black Warrior: [Our goal is to lay bombs on the ground. After laying them, we will launch an attack on the laboratory as soon as possible!]
Sword Aura Sky Piercing: [Everyone, look at me. No matter what happens next, no matter what enemies we encounter, we don’t care. Our target is the President of the Truth Society, others don’t matter. Just rush forward, and under no circumstances can we lose to the people of Zhongyi Hall. Do you understand?]
The two groups began their actions respectively.
Against these high-level NPCs, tactics were useless. All they could do was exchange blows with the determination to take even one point of health from the opponent.
Shouts echoed in the darkness.
At this moment, the members of the Truth Society felt as if they were surrounded on all sides. From all directions, it seemed like there were people charging forward.
“President, should we retreat temporarily?”
“A group of scoundrels, not worth worrying about.”
The president remained calm. He could sense that those rushing undead individuals had rather ordinary strength, only filled with bloodthirsty courage.
In such a confrontation, bloodthirsty courage was the least useful!
A player suddenly rushed out from behind the bushes, followed by two, three… more and more.
The superhumans learned their lesson this time and didn’t engage in close combat with the players. Instead, they unleashed air currents, mental shocks, and bullets together.
“Haha, didn’t expect that, right? I have a shield, your bullets won’t hurt me!”
“Take my visual mist!”
“Watch closely, this is Spatial Distortion!”
The players started throwing Prayer Cards at the president, but all their efforts proved futile. All functional Prayer Cards failed when used against the president.
The president merely raised his right hand, and an invisible shockwave swept out, cutting all the players blocking the front in half at the waist.
“What the hell?”
A few players who were slower to charge were startled. What kind of world-class brute was this?
Now they didn’t have the heart to continue charging. They detonated the ghosts halfway, and the violent explosion made the already battered surroundings even worse.
The president’s face turned cold. He floated forward and grabbed the neck of a player who hadn’t managed to detonate his ghost in time.
“Who ordered you…”
BOOM!
An unexpected explosion startled the president, forcing him to turn his head. He saw a guard who was fine just moments ago explode at the chest, painfully collapsing while groaning.
“I don’t know, he suddenly exploded, I didn’t even understand what happened.”
Of course, this was the explosion caused by Dimensional Erosion!
The Prayer Cards the players were using now were all distributed free of charge by Bai Fu. The players used them to fight monsters, and Bai Fu could also benefit from it.
“Charge!”
When all the opening performances had concluded, naturally, the next act was bound to be a great show.
Taking advantage of the president’s distraction, He Fu led several Xiao Xiao Bai Fu out from the shadows.
Xiao Xiao Bai Fu cleared the way with explosions, Yi Cai accelerated, Flowing Light advanced quickly, allowing He Fu to easily bypass the superhumans trying to block her and flash to the front of the President of the Truth Society.
This is the gift I prepared for you!
He Fu opened her right hand and released a spiritual explosion at a distance of less than two meters.
Everything happened too suddenly. Even the president, whose attention was drawn by the explosion caused by Dimensional Erosion, didn’t react in time. It wasn’t until the surging spiritual energy began to impact his face that he realized he had been hit.
More than 100 points of life were shaved off by the surging spiritual energy, which was neither here nor there, but it was the first time in many years that someone had struck his face!
His stable emotions instantly went out of control. The president roared in anger and sent He Fu flying with an air current.
“No wonder I’ve had a familiar feeling all along, it’s you, Bai Fu!”
This answer was unexpected.
No one expected that Bai Fu, who once took so long to grind through Bagalos Base, would dare to boldly appear before the president today, using her life and strength to strip away the president’s dignity.
Facing the enraged President of the Truth Society, He Fu showed no fear.
“This is just an appetizer. Next time we meet will be your death!”
He Fu launched attacks on the surrounding superhumans, reaping lives like a ghost until she died under the president’s iron fist.
Looking at He Fu disappearing into thin air before him, the president’s expression changed repeatedly: “Retreat, back to the laboratory!”
Sure enough, just as he jumped onto the helicopter, he received a rescue request from the laboratory.
The helicopter howled away, but the ground forces were much slower. As a result, when the helicopter appeared above the laboratory, the ground troops stepped on the bombs buried underground and the Xiao Xiao Bai Fu given by Bai Fu to the players.
The outcome was predictable.
The president stopped at the helicopter door, his face turning pale as he watched his subordinates engulfed by the explosions on the ground.
“Bai! Fu!”
…
Bai Fu’s mood formed a stark contrast with that of the President of the Truth Society.
She had spent all her money and sacrificed a wave of He Fu, but the benefit was that she had given the President of the Truth Society an unforgettable gift in this manner.
Moreover, she gained a large amount of experience.
“Killed thirty-one people, earned 110,000 experience.”
“Destroyed the laboratory special team, completed the hidden task, earned 100,000 experience.”
“Guided the players to use chain explosions to break through the laboratory gate, completed the hidden task, earned 100,000 experience.”
Bai Fu quickly counted the prompts popping up in the game until finally, a prominent prompt caught her eye.
[You have completed the hidden task [Destruction of the Malsk Mutant Laboratory], task contribution 91.7%, rewarded with 366,800 experience points.]
She immediately realized that the Truth Society would run away because of what she had done!
But Bai Fu was powerless to stop it now. Her focus was on the experience she had just obtained.
“It’s enough!”
Bai Fu quickly invested her experience, leveling up her Apprentice Soul Painter to Level 20 in one go.
After adding the points, her stats became—
[Stats]: Strength 25, Agility 31, Constitution 89, Intelligence 30, Spirit 28, Inspiration 120
At the same time, the awaited prompt finally arrived.
[You have unlocked the career advancement task [Proof of Courage]]
PS: Second update.
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