Chapter 135

Chapter 135: The Time of Abundance, Bai Fu’s Era Has Come!

Bai Fu didn’t rush to kill the President of the Truth Society. She had several quests to complete and was also considering whether she could obtain more coins from the President of the Truth Society.

She crossed her arms and looked coldly at the increasingly weakened President of the Truth Society.

“How do you feel now?”

The President of the Truth Society remained expressionless: “Why don’t you kill me immediately? Is it to mock me as a loser with the posture of a victor?”

Bai Fu smiled: “I’m not that idle. To be honest, although you’ve posted multiple assassination bounties on the Darknet against me and sent many people to assassinate me, I don’t hate you much. If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have grown so quickly. You and the leader of the Wildfire Gang are my mentors on Source Star.”

This statement made the President of the Truth Society stunned for a long time. He never expected Bai Fu’s words to be like this.

Surprisingly unexpected and baffling.

Mentor?

What kind of evaluation is this?

It seemed to be an evaluation similar to stepping stones but lacked the aggressiveness of stepping stones.

He closed his eyes, and his tense face relaxed slightly: “Since you want to talk, then I’ll chat with you. I’ve always had a question—how did you find the Marsk Laboratory? If the location of that laboratory hadn’t been exposed, my mutant plan might have progressed further.”

“Really want to know?” Bai Fu countered.

The President of the Truth Society didn’t respond, but his eyes said a lot.

Bai Fu explained: “I met someone, someone who, like you, should have been the protagonist of this era. He tried to trace the whereabouts of the lost black basalt fragments from the second branch of the Spiritual Energy Research Institute. Through news and intelligence obtained from the Former Republic, he analyzed that the Marsk region and a certain area related to the Gene Progenitor might house the black basalt fragments. He’s a genius, right? We were supposed to have some good collaborations, but unfortunately, he wanted to kill me, so I had to send him off first.”

This answer caused the President of the Truth Society’s pupils to contract sharply.

“The protagonist of the era? Him and me? In my view, you are more like the protagonist of this era.”

“Not originally, but after taking care of you guys, it’s almost there.” Bai Fu said another confusing sentence. The next moment, she changed the subject: “Didn’t you have any thoughts when you heard about the Spiritual Energy Research Institute and Black Basalt?”

The President of the Truth Society’s expression changed slightly: “What do you mean by that?”

Bai Fu said: “I investigated your past and found some useful intelligence. It was a newspaper from over a hundred years ago, which published an interview content with you when you were a hero.”

The President of the Truth Society fell silent.

Since Bai Fu had come this far, denying it would be useless.

“In the interview, the journalist asked why you became a selfless hero, and your response was that you lost your parents in childhood, lived in poverty, and were secretly sponsored by a kind person. With that person’s help, you were able to eat and attend school. You were very grateful to that person, so after graduation, you wanted to find them and thank them personally.

“But you searched for them for a long time, getting close several times but never meeting. You felt they were avoiding you. Until a few years later, you found out the reason; you saw them on TV—they were a gangster. They feared that you would be disappointed upon seeing them, so they kept hiding. But no matter how they hid, they eventually appeared before you in an undignified manner.

“They had a past similar to yours, but back then, no one saved them, so they ended up joining the gang by chance. After meeting you, they suddenly thought of themselves. They didn’t want you to follow their old path, so they secretly sponsored you.

“After knowing all this, you decided to become the same kind of person. Of course, the ‘same’ you mentioned refers to helping others like they helped you. Because someone once held an umbrella for you, you also wanted to hold an umbrella for others. I’m curious, what exactly happened to you in the first branch of the Spiritual Energy Research Institute that turned you into someone who can resort to any means for revenge, even kidnapping innocent Youlia?”

Bai Fu squatted down in front of the President of the Truth Society.

This answer was crucial, involving not only the exploration degree of the plot on Source Star but also likely new hidden quests.

The President of the Truth Society stared at Bai Fu: “How did you find all this out? I even changed my face.”

Bai Fu said: “I have some special abilities you can’t understand.”

The President of the Truth Society sighed: “Special abilities, huh? You’re indeed unique. Listening to you recount my past, it feels like you’re telling the story of someone unrelated to me. When I was in the base earlier, I was wondering if I am really me. I might be the person you mentioned, or perhaps just a clone of that person. Since you want to know, let me tell you ‘his’ story.”

It was actually a very simple story.

An alien starship crashed within the territory of the White Tower Republic. The major powers found a critically injured extraterrestrial visitor, a special black stone, and a lot of data they couldn’t comprehend inside the ship.

Subsequently, the major powers reached an agreement with the dying alien visitor, establishing the Spiritual Energy Diffusion Committee to fully research the contents of the ship.

The Spiritual Energy Diffusion Committee set up multiple research institutes, among which the first branch responsible for researching mutant technology initially recruited many prisoners from jails for experimentation. Eventually, due to the difficulty in finding suitable targets among the prisoners, they turned their attention to civilians, secretly abducting many who fit their criteria.

During this process, the President of the Truth Society received a commission from a group of people, whose request was to help them recover their missing family members.

The gears of history began to turn from this moment.

“So, you investigated the first branch of the Spiritual Energy Research Institute to save those people, not expecting its deep background, and ended up becoming their experimental subject?”

The President of the Truth Society nodded painfully and continued recounting the past.

In the lab, he endured countless tortures and brainwashings, but he managed to survive. He never forgot why he came to the lab.

He found the people the commissioner wanted him to rescue, relayed their families’ expectations, and made an agreement with them.

“We must survive and leave this hellish place alive!”

The President of the Truth Society waited, waiting for a whole year. During this time, he watched many of the people who had agreed with him die.

He was filled with anger and pain but could do nothing. He had to suppress all emotions to avoid being discovered.

After a year, the opportunity finally arrived.

One day, a member country of the Spiritual Energy Diffusion Committee, out of selfishness, sent people to assassinate the alien visitor, causing intense conflicts between the major powers. Many people in the institute were called away, leaving it unprecedentedly empty.

He seized this chance.





Yes, he wanted to escape from the research institute with all the innocent test subjects.

But he still underestimated the security level of the research institute. At that time, unlike Bai Fu who had help while running missions, he was all alone.

“No one can save me, I can only save myself. That’s what I told myself, but…”

The President of the Truth Society was wrong.

When surrounded, it was the people he intended to rescue who sacrificed themselves to secure his freedom.

When he finally breathed the air outside the research institute after a year, he felt an excruciating pain.

He went there to save people!

But, what exactly did he save?

He remembered those faces as ordinary as his own; he recalled how those ordinary people thanked him and used their bodies to block the security personnel of the institute so he could escape. He didn’t know how to face those who entrusted him.

“I brought back nothing, only hatred.”

The President of the Truth Society became increasingly breathless.

After that day, he mustered the courage to meet those who had entrusted him. He went to apologize, but no one blamed him. Those who had entrusted him were grateful and followed him. From then on, they established the雏形of the Truth Society.

What the Truth Society pursued was never truth, but justice.

They struggled fiercely, believing they would never see the light again. However, one day, the great powers suddenly fought each other, and then the Great Cataclysm came, the whole world exploded. On the wasteland, the Truth Society saw the possibility of reclaiming justice for the first time.

“I investigated everywhere. Everyone says that the alien visitor is dead, but I can feel that he is hiding within the Gene Progenitor. We initial mutants were all transformed from his cells.

“I never expected to rely on the strength of other countries to take revenge on those who sent us to hell; they have always been in league. I also have no evidence other than my intuition to prove that the alien visitor is not dead.

“I gradually developed the Truth Society, absorbing many people persecuted by those countries. I attacked the Gene Progenitor multiple times, aiming to find definitive evidence that the alien visitor is still alive.

“You must be curious why Li Cheng of the Gene Progenitor joined the Truth Society? He saw my memories, and his faith collapsed. I took advantage of this opportunity.”

Bai Fu nodded, and many puzzles were resolved. She received the new game prompt as she wished.

[Plot exploration of the Source Star +1.3%]

On the road to becoming the sole protagonist of the Source Star, the President of the Truth Society made a new contribution.

“It’s a touching story, but the only problem is that you’ve involved too many innocent people in your revenge.”

At this moment, Youlia limped over.

“So now I lie here, this is the retribution for my madness.”

The President of the Truth Society closed his eyes. After saying so much, his consciousness began to blur. He was truly exhausted. Confessing couldn’t alleviate the emptiness in his heart; perhaps only death could fill that void.

Bai Fu looked at the two options that appeared before her. These were the follow-ups to the quest [The Origin of the Truth Society].

The first option was to directly kill the President of the Truth Society; the second option was to help the President complete his last wish, eliminating the alien visitor.

Of course, she chose the second option. The quest rewards for the second option were clearly higher, and she had long wanted to deal with the Gene Progenitor.

“I’ll send the people of the Gene Progenitor down to meet you.”

The President of the Truth Society suddenly opened his eyes. He stared at Bai Fu for a long time, seemingly wanting to deeply engrave Bai Fu’s appearance into his soul.

“You… It seems I was mistaken. You’re not my nemesis, but… a savior…”

Although late, you are still a savior.

The void in his heart was suddenly filled. He no longer obsessed over whether he was a man-made being who accepted someone else’s memories or “he” himself.

As his consciousness drifted away, he couldn’t help but wonder: if Bai Fu had suddenly appeared in the institute on the day he planned to escape with others, what would have happened?

He closed his eyes again, as if returning to his childhood.

Truly, until now, he hadn’t tasted food as delicious as that first meal bought with the funds provided to him, nor seen stars as brilliant as those on that night.

At this moment, a sincere smile appeared on his face.

…

The President of the Truth Society died.

He lay alone on the ground. His posthumous appearance was very ordinary, just like every person who has left no name in history.

But he wasn’t really lonely. Bernardo and other superhumans who had always followed him arrived.

They didn’t fight Bai Fu, nor did they blame Bai Fu.

They wiped the blood off the president’s face, then the first person pulled out a potion from their clothes, drank it in one gulp. It was a strong poison, and under its effect, he soon died beside the president.

After him, all the superhumans except Bernardo took similar actions.

Thud thud—

One by one, these superhumans feared by various factions fell like harvested wheat.

They died resolutely, without leaving any room for sentimentality, and their deaths moved everyone who witnessed it.

“They and I are the descendants of those who initially entrusted and followed the president. We’ve come this far entirely supported by the president. The president bore too much that he shouldn’t have borne.”

“They chose death because they’d rather die than be captured again by the successors of their former enemies.”

“I must live on. I need to collect their remains, and I must live to personally witness the collapse of the Gene Progenitor, even if I endure immense humiliation. I must live until that moment.”

Bernardo closed the eyes of each companion.

When Coleman and others arrived, he calmly extended his hands, allowing Coleman and others to handcuff him.

“You won, but not by your own strength.”

Bernardo laughed, causing Coleman and others’ foreheads to bulge with veins. They angrily hit him twice, but he continued to laugh.

In his laughter, the news of the President of the Truth Society’s death and the dissolution of the Truth Society swept across the entire Source Star like a tornado.

Bai Fu didn’t care about the cheers of others.

She didn’t know if this meant the end of an era as some people said in the terminal, she only knew that her era on the Source Star had begun.

She opened the game prompt panel, and the settlement information flowed out like water.

[You defeated the President of the Truth Society]

[You completed the regional main quest [Guardian’s Lament] Branch 2 [Guardian Angel]]

[You completed the faction quest [Extinction of the Truth Society] objectives 5, 6, 11]

[You completed the plot quest [The Unknown Truth]]

PS: 10,000 target achieved, burned out, please vote for next month, thank you.

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