Chapter 22

Posted by Kuze, ? Views, Released on February 16, 2025

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Chapter 22: White Lotus True Monarch Saves from Suffering

Under everyone’s watchful eyes, Bai Fu eliminated seven players, earning her 1,130 experience points.

When she submitted the 【Wildfire Burning】 quest earlier, she gained 2,000 experience points for capturing ten players. Adding that to the leftover experience from previous levels and the experience she got after defeating Ma Ding, she now had a total of 3,841 experience points.

This rate of gaining experience left the players silent and made other NPCs who needed to gradually improve their strength shed tears.

Considering Cao Wenliang’s significant contribution, Bai Fu managed to hold back her laughter when facing him, despite the effort it took not to do so.

“You have proven your loyalty to the Wildfire Gang.”

Cao Wenliang said this dismissively and then ignored Bai Fu.

Given his position in the Wildfire Gang, he indeed didn’t need to give any explanation to Bai Fu.

The scene was somewhat awkward, but finally, the leader of the Wildfire Gang came out to end the commotion.

“Clean up the bodies, and lock up those three who are still alive for now.”

After arranging the players’ “aftermath,” he even gave Bai Fu an additional 500 credit coins as a reward for her excellent performance.

Bai Fu happily accepted it; she didn’t care about the Wildfire Gang leader’s intentions, only knowing that money was good money.

When she went to collect the money, the person responsible for distributing it whispered, “You should be careful lately.”

“How so?”

“You haven’t interacted with Minister Cao much, and you don’t know how petty he can be. He was already dissatisfied with you, and today you humiliated him in front of everyone. He definitely won’t let this go, and since he’s in charge of logistics, you… well, you get my point.”

The man shook his head, clearly indicating his long-standing dissatisfaction with Cao Wenliang.

Bai Fu smiled and thanked him.

She didn’t actually know Cao Wenliang, but she had her ways.

Just before Cao Wenliang left, she had used her Spiritual Vision on him.

[Name]: Cao Wenliang (Elite)

[Template]: Ordinary

[Primary Profession]: Ordinary Fist Fighter Lv9

[Secondary Profession]: None

[Health Points]: 130/130

[Stats]: Strength 14, Agility 7, Constitution 10, Intelligence 3, Spirit 3, Inspiration 4

[Skills]: ?

[Talents]: ?

[Affinity]: Hatred (-46)

[Danger Level]: Red

The Spiritual Vision couldn’t penetrate Cao Wenliang’s true thoughts, but the -46 affinity score was enough to say many things.

Bai Fu was a bit excited about how Cao Wenliang would deal with her next, wondering if it was just an excuse to withhold her supplies.

If that were the case, Cao Wenliang’s status in her heart would drop from being an angel investor.

In general, Bai Fu remained calm.

Although it was difficult for her to defeat Cao Wenliang with her current strength, unless he showed up at her doorstep immediately, there wasn’t much to worry about.

…

The next day, Bai Fu woke up early and first went to apologize to the players she had eliminated, including Paise Xing, before reporting to the Wildfire Gang.

Not long after arriving at the Wildfire Gang, a member from the Field Operations Department found her.

“After some discussion, considering your group’s current weakness and your overachievement yesterday, they’ve temporarily assigned you an easy task.”

Is there really such a good thing? I don’t believe it.

Bai Fu asked, “What kind of task?”

“Torturer.”

“Ah?” Bai Fu was taken aback, “The problem is I’ve never dealt with this before. If you want me to be a torturer, I’m afraid I won’t be able to extract any useful information.”

“No worries. Your job is simple. You just need to torture the outsiders. Once they’re brought in, start applying some basic torture to them. If they confess, great. If not, send them on their way.”

“That works?”

“Sure, why not? Outsiders are stubborn, and even professional torturers might not get anything out of them. Don’t worry about it.”

Bai Fu confirmed that this person wasn’t lying to her because this was indeed an easy task. She couldn’t find a better one for a while!

According to this person, her job was straightforward: kill players.

With her current level difference from players, killing one could earn her 150-200 experience points. As the players’ average level increased, this number could rise.

This was practically a risk-free profit-making scheme.

Bai Fu never dreamed she could instantly jump from “those years in the abandoned cooling plant” to “slaughtering players in the interrogation room for days,” experiencing the joy of grinding levels.

Could she have finally met Lady Luck?

Bai Fu wasn’t worried about her one-player massacres in the interrogation room causing player resentment.

The reason was simple.

Once captured by the Wildfire Gang, players couldn’t play normally. They could only log off or browse communities online.

If she killed these players, it was equivalent to rescuing them, allowing them to continue playing normally.

These players would be grateful to her, so they wouldn’t resent her.

Seeing Bai Fu deep in thought, the NPC distributing tasks pressed on, “So, will you take this job?”

Bai Fu nodded, “Of course, why not?”

“Good, now I’ll take you to familiarize yourself with the work environment.”

…

In the Logistics Department office, Cao Wenliang looked up and asked the person who had entered, “Did she take the job?”

The visitor smiled, “Yes, she seemed quite happy about it.”

Cao Wenliang lightly tapped his fingers on the desk, a cold glint in his eyes.

With his strength, killing a supervisor wasn’t necessary to be so complicated, but Bai Fu was personally appointed by the leader. Unless he was prepared to completely break ties with the leader, he dared only to go as far as he did yesterday and not directly confront her.

But none of this mattered anymore.

He had prepared a more delicious feast for Bai Fu.

He specifically instructed his subordinates to promote Bai Fu’s impressive achievements in the interrogation room whenever they encountered outsiders.

First, they caught ten outsiders, killed seven of them, and then added more blood debt in the interrogation room.

Cao Wenliang was looking forward to finding an excuse to release Bai Fu later and seeing how the outsiders would retaliate against her, whether it would be dismemberment, finely cut into mincemeat, or something even more cruel.

It was truly interesting.

Over the next three days, Bai Fu stayed in the Wildfire Gang’s interrogation room.

As she had guessed, the players she captured were initially shocked but became very happy afterwards.

Over time, players in the community gave her a new nickname:

[Rescuing White Lotus True Monarch Bai Fu]

[But I don’t think Fu Fu is too happy. Being suddenly reassigned as a torturer, she can’t do what she wants.]

[She must be suffering inside, having to kill people every day, even though they’re us, who don’t die easily.]

[The Wildfire Gang is really ruthless, daring to treat Fu Fu like this.]

[Probably Cao Wenliang is behind it. Damn it, we need to figure out a way to kill him and save Fu Fu.]

No, please don’t “save” me. I’m doing fine here.

Over three days, Bai Fu killed 23 players. Since the players’ levels slowly increased, she gained more experience than expected.

“4,350 points. At this rate, in another ten days, I should be able to upgrade my Spiritual Apprentice to level 8 or 9.”