Chapter 180: The True Female Lead of the Star Ocean Appears? Bai Fu is More Popular! [58k]
Tessia was an extremely unfamiliar name to most people at Shiji Crystal Company.
The name itself wasn’t particularly rare, but there was no one among the company’s main clients with that name.
Thus, when Tessia, dressed in a tight-fitting cocktail dress, adorned with a black lace wide-brimmed hat and black lace gloves, appearing in a style reminiscent of the Rebirth Empire, walked into the reception area of Shiji Crystal Company and declared herself as their most important guest, the receptionist was utterly baffled.
Who?
“Ma’am, we…”
Tessia extended her hand, her fingers lightly tracing over the receptionist’s cheek.
“You need not have any questions. Just inform your company’s board of directors that I’ve arrived.”
A cool sensation from her fingertips quickly spread, causing the receptionist to shiver. In that moment, she felt herself fall into a dazed state, with only one thought remaining in her mind—
Sister Tessia is heaven; we must obey Sister Tessia!
With that, she stepped forward, pressed the front desk call button, and reported Tessia’s arrival.
A few minutes later.
In the boardroom of Shiji Crystal Company, everyone held their breath, nervously looking at the woman sitting cross-legged in the chief position.
This woman had a face unfamiliar to them, but appearance didn’t matter much—Night Mother’s defining characteristic was her ability to freely alter her looks, thanks to her precise control over life and flesh.
After a long while, Chairman Si Moer of Shiji Crystal Company timidly asked,
“What does the Head Butler require this time?”
Shiji Crystal Company grew into one of the most renowned security companies in the Sea Lion Galaxy System largely due to the Tower of Secrets’ behind-the-scenes efforts. Thus, Si Moer dared not oppose the will of the Tower of Secrets.
Tessia tossed the plan given to her by the Head Butler: “I’ve come to the Sea Lion Galaxy System to recover the prototype lost by Singularity Corporation and complete a few small tasks along the way.”
Si Moer took the plan, quickly scanning through it: “Isn’t that the prototype likely in Bai Fu’s possession now?”
Tessia nodded slightly.
Si Moer frowned: “There’s something I haven’t yet reported. A hundred years ago, the piece of the True Essence Pillar that was lost might have returned, and this has some connection to Bai Fu.”
He hurriedly informed Tessia about how Su Xi returned to the Heaven Lake Star System, claiming revenge, and how representatives from the Blessed Sect approached Bai Fu, hoping she’d get her undead underlings to help investigate Su Xi’s movements.
“Hmm?”
Tessia lowered her right leg and sat up straight.
Just then, she suddenly thought of a plan. If successful, she wouldn’t just retrieve the True Essence Pillar and the prototype but would also cruelly retaliate against Bai Fu and Scarlet Leaf.
“Send Bai Fu a commission invitation to help us find Su Xi.”
Si Moer hesitated for a moment: “Given Bai Fu’s upright and incorruptible character, once she collaborates with the Blessed Sect, she probably won’t entertain our requests if they conflict with the Blessed Sect.”
Tessia propped her chin on her right hand: “Who knows if she’ll really refuse? Besides, even if she doesn’t agree, this excuse gives me a reason to approach her with this new face.”
Upright?
She liked that kind of person.
If not for this, she wouldn’t approach Bai Fu in such a manner.
Si Moer nodded vaguely, understanding that Night Mother had spoken clearly enough, and his job was simply to follow orders.
…
At the same time.
Near a barren planet close to Ulysses.
Two starships docked beside molten lava on the fiery red surface. Amidst the central open space between the two ships, Bai Fu met the representative sent by the Blessed Sect.
There were eleven people in total.
The leading man and woman were dressed differently from the others.
They wore white knee-length robes with wide sleeves, embroidered with golden edges, necklaces adorned with golden X-shaped pendants, and three small golden light columns floating behind their heads. The man wore long pants and snug boots, while the woman wore milky-white stockings that disappeared into her robe, with shoes embedded with small golden rivets.
Bai Fu had never met these two before, but she knew their names and identities, having searched extensively online during the days waiting for the Blessed Sect.
The man was Eron, the Holy Son of the Blessed Sect, a vertical-pupil alien. The woman was Su Xi, the Director of the Holy Choir of the Blessed Sect, a Tidal Humanoid with clear skin tinged slightly blue, giving her a water spirit-like quality, making her appear very lively.
Both held extremely high positions within the Blessed Sect, and Bai Fu had never expected they would personally lead the delegation to discuss the commission content. What surprised Bai Fu more was that after using Spiritual Vision on Eron and Su Xi, she discovered both possessed the “Good Luck” talent.
Based on her experiences on Source Star and recent forum insights, she was now over 95% certain that NPCs with this talent were the “main characters” in significant plotlines.
Wow.
It was already unexpected to encounter a protagonist, but encountering two at once was astonishing!
She wasn’t sure if these two were hidden mainline protagonists like Pratt or direct mainline plot participants like Xia Shi.
As Bai Fu silently speculated, players who accompanied her to watch the scene and those watching live streams also began to exclaim.
[“Damn, those little light columns floating behind their heads are so cool. I wish I could have such effects too.”]
[“The official mall only sells decorative items like names and titles. Can they sell something prettier like this?”]
[“Such beautiful alien sisters, this skin tone, this complexion—I love it!”]
[“White robes, white stockings, black leather shoes—wow, it’s delicious ice cream!”]
[“Foot odor attack incoming, everyone run!”]
[“Wait, Advanced Reconnaissance Skill detected something. Although other data are all question marks…”]
Suddenly, the Calamity Dragon dragged the panel data he had detected to the center of the live stream.
Amidst a sea of question marks, the red words “Good Luck” stood out prominently.
For a moment, all the onlookers became even more excited. This was the first time they had seen NPCs with the Good Luck talent in the Star Ocean.
[“So those little light columns above their heads are the protagonist aura, huh.”]
[“No, the 2.0 version hasn’t even started, and you’ve already encountered the protagonist?”]
[“Ah, if Jiujiao finishes the main quest early, will we have to look for hidden mainlines later?”]
[“Stop, stop! You’re not allowed to take their quests. Please, don’t do it!”]
Some players went wild in the chat.
They couldn’t reach the main storyline of the Star Ocean, but Jiujiao and her group seemed to toy with it carelessly… Damn, it was infuriating!
Other players noticed an issue.
Not long ago, Jiujiao released the entire process of the Heaven Lake Star War in the latest episode of “Traveling the Star Ocean with Fufu.” The video interspersed many shocking war scenes and interviews with numerous NPCs during and after the war.
—Who is the brightest star in the Sea Lion Galaxy System?
—Huh? Bai Fu.
—It depends on the situation, but it should be Holy Maiden Bai Fu.
—Probably Miss Bai Fu? If we include the older generation and those no longer in the Sea Lion Galaxy System, the results might differ.
Based on the interview results, Jiujiao boldly speculated that Bai Fu was the main character of the entire Initial Gateway Star Cluster. Initially hesitant to say this upon entering the Star Ocean, she couldn’t deny Bai Fu’s shining performance on Heaven Lake Star.
My sister Bai Fu has the bearing of a protagonist!
[“Whether you believe it or not, I, Jiujiao, believe first. If I’m wrong, I’ll bark live on stream!”]
Many players believed Jiujiao’s words, but now reconsidering, something seemed off.
If Fufu was the protagonist, what about the two who just appeared?
Could it be that the Star Ocean storyline also involves multiple intersecting main plots, or did Jiujiao make a mistake this time, and Fufu isn’t actually the protagonist of the Initial Gateway?
Players fiercely debated this issue, but overall, it benefited Bai Fu because players surprisingly discovered that both Bai Fu, Eron, and Su Xi were all spiritual energy-based superhumans.
If the protagonists followed the spiritual energy path, didn’t that mean the spiritual energy-based career had great potential?
Some new players and others dissatisfied with their current professions bit the bullet and chose the initially weak spiritual energy-based profession after seeing the “Star Ocean Preview Plot”—winning in the future, right?
Whether they would succeed in the future remained unclear, but Bai Fu knew she had gained quite a few more premium cabbages to pluck.
In high spirits, she discussed the details of the commission with the representatives of the Blessed Sect.
The members of the Blessed Sect were very kind, but this was limited to the ten people excluding Su Xi. As a vertical-pupil alien, Eron, who looked rather sinister, was actually a very sunny and talkative person, whereas Su Xi, a Tidal Humanoid, who appeared gentle like flowing water, was colder than ice cream, like an unfrozen block of ice—colder even than Youlia, whose fur was entirely ice-blue.
Having interacted deeply with Youlia numerous times, Bai Fu knew that Youlia was actually a cold exterior but warm interior person, but Su Xi…
Her coldness was more like arrogance, equally disdainful of everyone.
This made Bai Fu quite curious.
It was somewhat normal for Su Xi to look down on her since she was from the Dark Domain, essentially a “country bumpkin,” but Su Xi’s attitude seemed to look down even on Scarlet Leaf.
That was going too far.
Scarlet Leaf was S+ level in strength.
The main career total level is 110, but Su Xi’s main career total level is only 100. In terms of identity, Scarlet Leaf is a member of the Star Treaty, while Su Xi is just a member of the local force in the Sea Lion Galaxy System. No matter how you look at it, Scarlet Leaf should be the prouder one.
Oh, if success were to be judged by breast size, then five Scarlet Leafs stacked together wouldn’t match Su Xi. The gods gave Scarlet Leaf many doors, but forgot to install headlights for her.
“We don’t know the exact hiding place of our target, but after our continuous investigation, we still found some clues.”
As he spoke, Eron sent Bai Fu new information.
Bai Fu opened it and took a look; the message came from an intelligence vendor on the Chaotic Star Route. This intelligence vendor said that when exchanging intelligence with a group of pirates, he noticed someone among the pirates who looked very similar to “Shuixing.”
“We currently do not know the specific situation of that pirate group. There are a large number of pirate groups appearing on the Chaotic Star Route, but it’s not difficult to find out their identities. The dangerous star domain of the Cape Helix Arm is where pirates are most active. Going there to gather intelligence should make it easy to figure out the true identity of those pirates. The only problem is that it’s too dangerous, and it’s easy to go there and never return. Moreover, our identities are too conspicuous, and once the target discovers us, the target may escape again. Therefore, we need the strength of your undead followers.”
Eron explained the current situation in detail.
Bai Fu nodded in agreement.
Good, good plan!
The only issue with this plan is that Shuixing is already dead, and the person who looks very similar to Shuixing is really just that—very similar.
But so what?
Making money, isn’t it? Whether real or fake, the Blessed Sect wants her to investigate, so she will investigate. Besides, she can take advantage of this opportunity to get closer to Eron and Su Xi, and see exactly what their main quests are.
If she could firmly grasp the two main quests related to Wei Ke, Eron, and Su Xi before the players officially enter the Celestial Sea, then even those players who dislike her would have no choice but to work for her later.
Bai Fu is a very generous person. As long as they can create value for her, she doesn’t care whether those players secretly insult her in their hearts.
No matter how much they insult her, it won’t make her lose a single hair, right?
Bai Fu formally accepted the commission from the Blessed Sect. Subsequently, Eron demonstrated the device that could detect the True Essence Pillar right in front of her.
This device is only the size of a watch, and it really can detect the location of the True Essence Pillar, but there are many restrictions. For example, the range is only a few dozen kilometers, and each activation requires two minutes.
After Bai Fu took over the device, she asked, “When do you hope we start?”
Eron replied, “In the next few days, we will send people to the Cape Helix Arm. Once our people are in place, you can start your action.”
“Alright, I’ll wait for your notification.”
After formally signing the contract with Eron, Bai Fu received a game prompt.
[You have triggered the quest [The Lost Person Notice of the Blessed Sect]]
[Quest Requirements: …]
[Quest Objective: Find out the origins of the pirates mentioned by the Blessed Sect]
[Quest Rewards: 2 million experience points, +100 Affinity with the Blessed Sect]
This was an ordinary task.
2 million experience points were like toothpicks to the current Bai Fu—not enough to fill the gaps in her teeth.
What she valued was the monetary reward from the Blessed Sect, as well as Eron and Su Xi themselves.
After the conversation ended, the people from the Blessed Sect did not head to Ulysses but hurriedly boarded a starship and left.
On the ship, Eron smiled and said to Su Xi, “I know you don’t like talking to people, but when traveling abroad, always having a stern face will give others a bad impression of us.”
Su Xi expressionless replied, “They are merely commoners climbing through the mire. Their opinions are unimportant, and I have no need to care about their feelings.”
Eron helplessly shook his head, “Even commoners belong to the ultra-class.”
“Can ultra-class compare with the apostles of the void realm?”
Su Xi retorted, her clear skin shimmering with emotional fluctuations.
That’s it.
Eron knew that persuasion would be fruitless, so he simply gave up. As long as they could successfully recover the True Essence Pillar, they indeed didn’t need to care about people like Scarlet Leaf and Bai Fu.
…
After the Blessed Sect left, Bai Fu also boarded the starship.
On the way, Anya expressed her dissatisfaction: “Ugh, that woman named Su Xi is so annoying. Whenever you see her, she always looks down on everyone through her nose. What’s she so proud of? You’re the hero of the Star Network Commonwealth, boss! Hmmph, sooner or later, I’ll make her realize your greatness and make her kneel at your feet and apologize!”
Previously, she thought Youlia was particularly annoying, but ever since coming to space, she started to think Youlia was cute.
Although Youlia always clung to the boss, she never stopped her from getting close to the boss and often said good things about her in front of the boss. In comparison, Scarlet Leaf was much more annoying, always walking barefoot trying to seduce the boss. But recently, Scarlet Leaf has been behaving fairly decently, at least better than that hateful Su Xi they saw earlier.
Anya didn’t realize that her own tolerance threshold was continuously being lowered.
Bai Fu chuckled and rubbed Anya’s head.
Alright, alright, with your height, aren’t you looking down on everyone through your nose anyway?
Although Su Xi’s attitude was indeed poor, knowing this is enough. It’s not good to say it out loud.
After the starship arrived at Ulysses Star, Bai Fu used the gap before the operation officially began to search online for information.
Dissociative Medication had increased both her and Scarlet Leaf’s mental attributes, but this was far from enough. She needed other ways to increase her mental and intelligence stats. Only by quickly pulling the gene compatibility chance for the prophet to 90% or even 99% could she feel reassured.
Don’t talk, seriously, don’t talk. There are actually quite a few methods, but regular NPCs dare not easily attempt them for fear of causing problems for themselves.
But this wasn’t an issue for Bai Fu.
Regardless of whether it’s good or bad, first use spiritual vision to identify it. If it works, use it; if it’s difficult, switch it.
She wasn’t afraid that regular NPCs couldn’t learn skills that enhance mental and intelligence stats. With a light touch of her finger, she could see what prerequisite knowledge or skills were needed to learn them.
“Take a look along the way to the Cape Helix Arm. Pirate black market places might yield some good finds if we’re lucky.”
Just as Bai Fu was carefully pondering this issue, she suddenly noticed someone knocking on the back end of her commission platform.
“Another customer has come?”
She quickly opened the backend and discovered that the applicant was the Shiji Crystal Company, and the content of the commission was identical to that of the Blessed Sect, but the reward offered was significantly higher.
Wow, first the Blessed Sect, then the Shiji Crystal Company, all these people are taking the bait, huh?
She definitely couldn’t accept this mission. If word got out that she was double-dealing, the positive image she had painstakingly cultivated would collapse.
Although many people like bad women, a positive image is still more useful for making money.
Bai Fu could only regretfully reject the commission application from the Shiji Crystal Company.
To her surprise, even after being rejected, the Shiji Crystal Company did not give up.
[I am Elsa, the business specialist of the Shiji Crystal Company. I am now heading to Ulysses Star, and I will personally demonstrate our determination to you.]
“?”
Bai Fu was somewhat confused by this persistence.
Soon, Youlia noticed her abnormality, “What’s wrong? Why does your face look so troubled?”
Bai Fu recounted what had just happened, lamenting that hundreds of thousands of credit points slipped through her fingers.
“So what?” Youlia dismissed it casually, “It’s so simple. When the people from the Shiji Crystal Company arrive, I’ll subtly hint to them. As long as they give me the money, once we find Shuixing, I’ll tell them the news in advance.”
She didn’t care if others considered her a bad woman.
Such things had already been experienced on Source Star, and experiencing more now made no difference.
What’s the difference between a good or bad reputation anyway? It won’t affect her performance when conducting experiments with Bai Fu.
Bai Fu’s eyes lit up.
Brilliant! Youlia’s strategy really worked.
She wasn’t worried about the Shiji Crystal Company confronting the Blessed Sect and exposing Youlia, because Shuixing was already dead. This investigation was destined to yield no results. Without results, Youlia didn’t need to secretly transmit intelligence; she just needed to collect the deposit.
“That’s settled!”
Bai Fu tightly hugged Youlia, pressing closely together, peaks tilting.
A day later, representatives from the Shiji Crystal Company arrived at Ulysses Star.
Leading them was none other than Elsa, the business specialist dressed in a black body-hugging mini dress, exuding mature charm all over.
According to the plan, Bai Fu interacted with Elsa, and after the negotiation broke down, Youlia stepped forward, successfully obtaining a sum of money from the Shiji Crystal Company.
Everything went smoothly, except for one thing that Bai Fu hadn’t anticipated: After completing the transaction with Youlia, Elsa refused to leave Ulysses Star. Her excuse was that she wanted to win her over with sincerity, making her willing to cooperate with the Shiji Crystal Company.
“What’s going on here?”
Because the Blessed Sect was urging her, Bai Fu temporarily didn’t delve deeper into it and personally led the players to the Cape Helix Arm.
Not long after Bai Fu left, Tessia, disguised as Elsa, immediately contacted the subordinates assigned to her by the Head Butler.
“Let’s begin the operation.”
She planned to let her subordinates pretend to attack Ulysses Star while Bai Fu was away, and then she would step forward to boost her affinity with the people of Ulysses and Bai Fu. At that point, she could naturally stay by Bai Fu’s side using this wave of affection and her fabricated identity.
A strategist putting themselves into the situation, Bai Fu would never expect her to do this.
When Bai Fu falls into the beautiful dream she weaves, it will be time for her to teach Bai Fu a lesson!
PS: Placing a bowl to beg for votes~
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