Chapter 203

Chapter 203: Tower of Secrets’ Discovery, Bai Fu’s True Identity Revealed [6k]

The spaceship of the Tower of Secrets sped towards Jin Gu Star not far away.

At this moment, inside the command ship, everyone, including Foster, had a grim expression. A small number of those with poor psychological quality began to tremble uncontrollably.

They were all people who had seen great storms, yet their reactions were so intense this time because events had developed beyond expectations.

That was one hundred million Dark Domain bugs!

After arriving at Jin Gu Star, they didn’t even last a few hours before being scattered and nearly annihilated. What a terrible scene it was.

Such a scene was something not only the members of the Tower of Secrets on the spaceship hadn’t witnessed, but even the widely exposed Head Butler of the Tower of Secrets hadn’t seen.

It could only be blamed on the sheer number of players on Jin Gu Star. These players kept emerging in waves. Every time the members of the Tower of Secrets on the ship thought that was all there were, another batch would appear. After more than ten such occurrences, many members of the Tower of Secrets fell into the depths of shock and panic.

Precisely because of this, when Foster stood up and said that the people on Jin Gu Star were likely all immortals, the other members of the Tower of Secrets on the ship almost believed him without much suspicion.

Since they had accepted the absurd premise that everyone on Jin Gu Star was immortal, accepting the conjecture that everything was deliberately set up by Bai Fu became a natural progression.

One could only say that Foster, with his own strength, had led the entire fleet astray. Without his shouting, others, though fearful, wouldn’t have imagined things to this extent.

From a certain perspective, Foster already possessed seventy to eighty percent of Jiujiao’s prowess. He single-handedly initiated the “brain supplement era”!

In this brain supplement era, all those involved on the spaceship were competing for supremacy.

Initially, people were just cursing Bai Fu for appearing honest but actually being deceitful.

As they cursed, perhaps someone felt it lacked creativity, let out an exclamation, successfully drawing the attention of everyone around.

“You think, is it possible that Bai Fu’s scheming started from her first appearance in the Sea Lion Galaxy System?”

Through his narration, Bai Fu became the top agent jointly cultivated by the Star Network Community, the Tide Civilization, the Heavenly Eye Alliance, and the Castor Civilization. These four civilizations intentionally let Bai Fu operate openly to attract the Tower of Secrets’ attention and deceive them step by step into the trap they had laid.

This statement made Foster’s conspiracy theory even more conspiratorial, chilling many listeners to their spines.

But not everyone agreed with this conjecture, and soon someone raised objections.

Your imagination is vast, but it’s too distorted, not smooth enough!

If Bai Fu were really the so-called top agent, then it would mean that these hundreds of millions of immortals were also created by the forces of the Star Network, etc. With so many immortals, why bother plotting? They could simply push forward directly.

Eh, that makes sense, but then where does Bai Fu come from?

At this point, a new master of imagination stepped forward.

Some said Bai Fu’s identity was clear; she was actually from the Star Treaty. The Star Treaty had its eyes on something from the Tower of Secrets, so they sent Bai Fu to cause trouble. Considering that the Star Treaty was an ultra-class force, it wasn’t surprising that they had a cosmic treasure capable of creating a large number of immortals.

Others said Bai Fu actually came from a higher-dimensional world. Years ago, the predecessor of the Tower of Secrets, the Ghost Civilization, caused the Dimensional Disaster, releasing Bai Fu from the higher-dimensional world. Bai Fu might have been severely injured back then or something, but now she had gradually recovered and wanted to take revenge on the Tower of Secrets, so she brought countless immortal projections from the higher-dimensional world.

And some said…

Shut up!

Foster’s face turned as black as the bottom of a pot.

Regardless of what the truth was, for him, there was no second path. He was different from the others in the Tower of Secrets. Others could surrender to Bai Fu, but he couldn’t. After all, he had sent people to chase and kill Bai Fu in the Star Tomb.

There was only battle!

However, a very serious problem faced him now. His fighting spirit burned like a raging fire, but it was different for the others.

Look at the expressions of the people around him; they might be considering how to escape or how to surrender.

Damn, you bastards!

Foster angrily scolded in his heart, completely forgetting that it was his own wild imagination that had caused the current situation.

He knew that capturing Bai Fu alone was impossible, he needed help, so the morale couldn’t continue to decline.

With this in mind, he stepped forward a few steps: “Do you all think we are definitely going to lose?”

People looked at each other.

Foster said, “We indeed fell into Bai Fu’s trap, but that doesn’t mean we are definitely going to lose! Regardless of Bai Fu’s true identity, at least right now, she is only an S+ tier superhuman. This is an obvious fact. If she had reached the Tian-Zai Tier, Tessia would have been dead long ago, and the moment we appeared, we and the ship would have been obliterated!”

Is that true?!

“So, we still have a chance. We have five S+ here, plus Tessia who is likely hiding somewhere, making six. Can six of us fail to capture Bai Fu? As long as we can capture her before reinforcements arrive and use her as a hostage, we will certainly be able to break out of this encirclement. Remember, we still have dimensional fragments which can buy us a few hours!”

“Everyone, whether driven by hatred or having no other way out, we joined the Tower of Secrets. We are all people who have died once. Now, can we still fear the death brought by Bai Fu?”

No!

Absolutely not!

Foster suddenly raised his right fist high, his voice invigorating.

Those who don’t know the details probably think he’s doing a pre-game pep talk in a sports anime.

What is blood boiling?

This is!

Minasan, let’s make one final charge with me. This time, we must leave—no regrets!

Under Foster’s cries, many members of the Tower of Secrets were deeply moved. They recalled the days when they were chased everywhere, which was their lost youth. They suddenly felt their fighting spirit rise.

Fight! We must fight alongside the Tower of Secrets for another fifty years!

Seeing the emotions stirred up, Foster sighed in relief and walked to the control panel.

“Bai Fu, I want to speak with you!”

His voice swept through the entire Jin Gu Star via the interstellar general broadcast channel, and Bai Fu quickly received the signal.

A conversation?

Is this embarrassment after discovering the bugs were killed by players leading to online verbal abuse?

Bai Fu turned her head and looked at Manu beside her: “How’s your fleet prepared?”

Manu introduced: “The temporary star gate was built two days ago, yesterday the fleet received orders from the joint command center, now they’re on their way to Jin Gu Star. Because the Tower of Secrets wasted a lot of time deploying the flood disaster earlier, we only need to hold out for half a day at most to wait for reinforcements.”

Half a day at most?

This time was much shorter than Bai Fu had expected.

For her, holding out for half a day wasn’t difficult. Her escape skills weren’t to be underestimated.

The only issue was fearing that the Tower of Secrets might notice something wrong and flee, resulting in the failure of the encirclement. In that case, the progress of the plot quest she had accepted to eliminate the Tower of Secrets wouldn’t increase much.

“I need to attract the attention of the Tower of Secrets.”

Bai Fu nodded secretly.

If this operation succeeded, not only would she greatly enhance her reputation among the players, but her relationship with forces like the Star Network and the Tide Civilization would undoubtedly improve as well. Relying on this relationship, she might be able to ask them to see if they could obtain new knowledge for spiritual energy advancement.

Anyway, let’s first hear what the Tower of Secrets has to say!

Bai Fu connected to the interstellar general broadcast channel.

“You guys from the Tower of Secrets are truly persistent. From Heaven Lake Star to the Star Tomb, from the Star Tomb to Ulysses, and now chasing me to Jin Gu Star, if people didn’t know better, they’d think you were my followers.”

Having succeeded in the scheme, she was now delivering a victor’s declaration, wasn’t she?

Foster sneered coldly.

“Bai Fu, don’t think you’ve won just because we fell for your plan! No matter how many immortals you have under your command, we from the Tower of Secrets have walked through mountains of corpses and seas of blood. The current situation won’t drive us to despair, it will only make us more determined. We will surely break through all obstacles, defeat everyone standing in front of you, capture you in front of all your arranged people, and return to the Tower of Secrets as heroes. Don’t underestimate our bravery!”

Foster roared, leaving Bai Fu utterly confused.

Something’s off. Your words don’t match.

You already know about the ambush we set, why aren’t you running away? Instead, you’re talking about capturing me?

Bai Fu took a look. This fleet of the Tower of Secrets couldn’t compare to the one sent by the Star Network and other forces. Could it be that this fleet hides some extremely powerful superhumans, such as Tian-Zai Tier superhumans?

She quickly flipped through the “Defense of Jin Gu Star” quest triggered when the Tower of Secrets attacked.

After the arrival of the Dark Domain bugs, the quest progress had increased to 14.12%, which was unreasonable. If this fleet of the Tower of Secrets hid Tian-Zai Tier superhumans, simply wiping out a group of bugs shouldn’t have increased the quest progress so much.

Remember, those highly destructive Tian-Zai Tier superhumans could easily sweep away this fleet of the Tower of Secrets alone. Spending more time could turn the entire Jin Gu Star into a lifeless zone. Their deterrent power was thousands of times greater than the flood disaster deployed by the Tower of Secrets. Analyzing from the quest progress, there absolutely couldn’t be any Tian-Zai Tier superhumans in the fleet of the Tower of Secrets.

If so, where did Foster’s confidence in his tough talk come from? Was he deliberately acting to make her lower her guard?

Another point that Bai Fu found hard to understand was Foster’s tone.

Not that, buddy, why are you shouting so enthusiastically and righteously? Who’s the real villain here?

Something’s off, very off. Judging from her experienced actor’s perspective, acting isn’t done this way; it ruins the character. When something abnormal happens, there must be a demon lurking!

Just as Bai Fu was pondering, Foster spoke again.

“Bai Fu, I admit you are much stronger than we expected. Since you’ve set such a trap, you must have put a lot of effort into signal shielding…”





They can’t transmit what happened here back to headquarters.”

“Ah, did I do such a thing?”

Bai Fu looked bewildered, only to hear Foster suddenly sneer coldly.

“But, just as we underestimated you, you also underestimated us! Unexpectedly, Bai Fu, we have high-dimensional projection. While talking to you, I’ve already contacted the headquarters through high-dimensional projection and told the Head Butler everything that happened here and your true identity. That’s right, Bai Fu, we have uncovered your true identity. Your plots are about to end, hahaha, are you afraid? Are you panicking? It’s all too late!”

Bai Fu immediately pulled out an [subway, elder, mobile phone] expression.

She had completely lost track of what Foster was saying.

True identity?

Isn’t her true identity just “White Queen Bai Fu from the countryside?” She has never concealed this point. Could it be that the Tower of Secrets knows she is a transmigrant and has a player interface?

What nonsense, why would the Tower of Secrets know that?

Bai Fu couldn’t figure it out no matter how much she thought about it, and the deeper she thought, the more furrowed her brows became.

This was actually a very normal reaction, but in the eyes of Manu and others, it was somewhat intriguing.

Bai Fu’s true identity?

Boom!

Manu’s tiger-like body trembled!

This question had actually been troubling him for a long time. One of the reasons he followed Bai Fu to Jin Gu Star was to take this opportunity to find out Bai Fu’s identity.

In previous investigations, he had already confirmed that Bai Fu was a wounded Overlord seeking recovery, but where exactly Bai Fu came from and where she was going was unclear.

For this reason, after arriving at Jin Gu Star, he interviewed many ordinary residents and undeads on Jin Gu Star.

Disappointingly, those ordinary people all said they didn’t know Bai Fu, while the undeads who recognized Bai Fu could not explain anything clearly.

“Fufu? Fufu is indeed the Night Shadow Overlord.”

“The real strength of the Night Shadow Overlord? I don’t know. Why don’t you ask Jiujiao, she might know.”

“Fufu’s hometown seems to be Indigo Star, but it might not be. The current known intelligence is still too little.”

“Why do you ask this? Aren’t you plotting something against Fufu!”

Manu got no useful information, instead making himself even more confused, feeling that the mist around Bai Fu was getting thicker.

Therefore, when he heard that the Tower of Secrets had figured out Bai Fu’s true identity, he found it hard not to be shocked.

How did they figure it out, and what exactly is Bai Fu’s true identity?

Judging from Bai Fu’s sudden frown, did the Tower of Secrets guess correctly?

Manu was extremely anxious inside, wanting to say something but fearing it would cause Bai Fu’s resentment.

Damn riddles from the Tower of Secrets, if you know, why don’t you just say it!

“I’ve said everything I wanted to say, Bai Fu, wait for me, I’m coming for you. This time, there’s no way you can escape. We have made full preparations to deal with you!”

Foster exited the general broadcast channel.

He glanced down at the high-dimensional projector in his hand; the data displayed on the projector showed it had been successfully sent to headquarters.

Good. In this way, even if he couldn’t escape this trap in the end, the Head Butler, having received the intelligence, wouldn’t fall for Bai Fu’s tricks again, and might even avenge him.

Foster immediately called out a man with a red mohawk and faint scales on his arms from the crowd.

Onandi, a fish-scaled subhuman, whose power rating was merely B-class, which was rather insignificant within the Tower of Secrets, but his ability was very special—he was a psychological profiler!

He had once been arrested for committing a series of murders. During his arrest, his mental abilities unexpectedly mutated, granting him the profiling ability.

The profiling ability, at lower levels, had no offensive capability or physical enhancement, yet in terms of ability rating, it was extremely rare SS-class, rarer than Tessia’s abilities.

There was no other reason—once one possessed the profiling ability, they could use character profiling to locate people and even predict their next move. When advanced, this ability could manipulate and curse targets using profiling skills, and at this stage, the target was no longer limited to humans—animals, plants, AI life forms, and even machinery and buildings could all be controlled, making it incredibly powerful.

Of course, Onandi currently lacked such capabilities. At B-level, he could only do character profiling, but for Foster, this was enough. This ability would help him find Bai Fu in hiding.

“Begin.”

Onandi nodded. Under everyone’s watchful eyes, he placed his hand on a blank sheet of paper.

Gradually, ink stains began to appear on the paper. After about a minute, these ink stains formed a bird’s-eye-view landscape painting.

Foster snatched the painting and slapped it onto the control panel.

“Search for me!”

The starship’s AI appeared immediately, comparing the landscape painting with the three-dimensional map of Jin Gu Star previously scanned in outer space, quickly finding a place with over 99% similarity.

I’ve found you, Bai Fu!

Foster’s eyes gleamed brightly as he immediately issued the order to attack.

The spaceship roared off. Just a few seconds after the ship left, a person familiar to both Bai Fu and Foster emerged from the dense forest below where the spaceship had hovered earlier—

Tessia, who had already returned to her original form!

“Finally found you. Last time, you deceived me with illusions and fake bodies, but this time, I will not be fooled again!”

Tessia recalled being tricked by Bai Fu’s illusions and decoys last time, and then getting kicked several times by Bai Fu’s real body.

Last time Bai Fu ambushed her, this time it was her turn to ambush Bai Fu!

Tessia silently followed behind the fleet of the Tower of Secrets, stealthily moving forward while thinking about what to do with Bai Fu once she captured her.

When she was still at the Tower of Secrets headquarters, she thought that once she caught Bai Fu, she would kill her immediately to avoid any further trouble.

But now her thoughts had changed slightly.

As Bai Fu herself said, their grudges stemmed from jealousy, but subsequently Bai Fu kept manipulating her, filling her with resentment.

If she killed Bai Fu like this, it would be too easy for Bai Fu. Moreover, she had secretly slipped away from the Tower of Secrets this time, and the Head Butler would surely punish her severely upon her return. If she couldn’t extract more benefits from Bai Fu to offset the pain of punishment, this trip would be utterly wasted.

“I cannot kill her, nor can I hand her over to the Tower of Secrets. I must find a place where no one will discover her, imprison her there, disable her abilities, isolate her completely from the outside world, and make her my exclusive toy. Then I can educate her however I want!”

Thinking of this, Tessia touched her belly, which Bai Fu had beaten, and became excited.

Couldn’t resist anymore, so eager to capture Bai Fu and trample her now!

…

Just as Tessia was brimming with excitement, the Head Butler at the Tower of Secrets’ headquarters saw what Foster had sent via high-dimensional projection.

“What?”

After reading it, his pupils contracted sharply.

This news was simply explosive.

Billions of undead, and Bai Fu might very likely be someone or a higher-dimensional being sent by the Star Treaty to cause trouble?

The Head Butler immediately used the projection to inquire another person in the fleet, and the response matched Foster’s.

It seemed to be true.

If it were the former, then what the Star Treaty was interested in should be the dimensional secrets in their possession, but how did the Star Treaty know they had this? And why didn’t the Sworn One come and snatch it personally, instead sending Bai Fu, pretending to be a visitor from the Dark Domain, and accidentally joining the Star Treaty?

Ah, the Sworn One must be afraid that grand actions would attract the attention of other Ultras, thereby inviting competitors!

If it were the latter, things would be more complicated. A higher-dimensional being, meaning Bai Fu might not want something specific from the Tower of Secrets, but rather the entire “life” of the Tower of Secrets.

Regardless of the truth, some countermeasures must be devised.

Should Foster be ordered to kill Bai Fu immediately?

Could they succeed?

The Head Butler lost confidence. He should have gone personally. Now it’s too late to provide support. Missing this chance, he could only think of other ways.

“It’s too difficult for us at the Tower of Secrets alone to deal with such a Bai Fu. We need external assistance.”

As he thought, the Head Butler remembered the satirical essay about the Tower of Secrets and its master that had appeared online not long ago.

That essay vividly described the “tortured love” story between the Tower Master and the Mother Queen of the Dark Domain Bug Clan, causing a huge stir and successfully leading to multiple parties jointly attacking the Tower of Secrets.

The power of the satirical essay was immense.

Got it.

The Head Butler decided to emulate that satirical essay and write two essays.

One would claim that Bai Fu was a pawn of the Sworn One, sent to the Sea Lion Galaxy System to steal the True Essence Pillar from the Blessed Sect. He would weave some triangle romance stories involving Bai Fu, the Sworn One, and Scarlet Leaf into the essay to attract public attention.

The other essay would claim that Bai Fu was a higher-dimensional being, deliberately disguising herself as a good person to make the public let down their guard, actually planning to invade the Edge World. To make this story more appealing, he decided to include a subplot where Bai Fu was moved by Scarlet Leaf’s sincerity, momentarily wavering in her ambitions, but eventually reaffirmed her resolve.

These two essays seem quite fake, right?

No problem.

Didn’t the essay slandering the Tower Master before also seem fake? As long as some truths that most people don’t know now but will soon be exposed are included in the essay, most people will believe the entire content of the essay is true.

The “true content” the Head Butler decided to add to the essays was that Bai Fu secretly hid billions of undead on Jin Gu Star. This was first-hand information. Once this news spreads, the two essays he wrote will definitely create explosive heat.

As long as one Ultra doubts Bai Fu’s identity and gets involved in this matter, he won’t have to worry about Bai Fu posing a threat to the Tower of Secrets anymore.

Write, write, write, the essays must be completed and published before the news of billions of undead hidden on Jin Gu Star spreads.

The Head Butler busied himself.

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