Chapter 79: The Value of Players, Second Enhancement [4K]
The President of the Truth Society almost fainted from anger.
He had been at odds with the Gene Progenitor for twenty or thirty years. During this time, although he had suffered quite a few minor losses, this was the first time he had been toyed with like this by the Gene Progenitor.
If he hadn’t already released the news, he might have been able to endure it, but prior to this, he had already made a big public announcement that Bai Fu was dead. However, Bai Fu emerged right in the middle of his proclamation, slapping him in the face.
If sticking pins into voodoo dolls worked, the President would have loved nothing more than to turn Bai Fu and the Gene Progenitor into hedgehogs!
This move by Bai Fu and the Gene Progenitor was akin to pulling out a lump of Oliji during a life-and-death brawl and smearing it on their opponent’s face.
To say there was physical damage would be an understatement; it was just infuriating, the kind of irritation that would last a lifetime.
“Born to suffer!”
The President was consumed with rage.
Bernardo standing beside him trembled nervously: “President, should I immediately send someone to pursue Bai Fu?”
The President clenched his right fist tightly: “Increase the bounty on Bai Fu directly to 3 million. This figure is enough to drive S-class assassins to ensure her departure. As for us…”
Now he had thought things through clearly.
At all times, one must distinguish between priorities and secondary issues.
Bai Fu and the Gene Progenitor were both detestable, but the most hateful was still the Gene Progenitor because everything was orchestrated behind the scenes by the Gene Progenitor. Bai Fu was merely the executor. If they focused solely on Bai Fu, the executor, it would play right into the hands of the Gene Progenitor.
“The old ones among the Gene Progenitors truly have good plotting skills. Unable to find us, they deliberately threw out bait to cause us trouble.”
A cruel smile appeared on the President’s face.
Unfortunately, no matter how well those old ones plotted, they couldn’t calculate his true identity.
In the face of absolute power, no amount of scheming matters. Coincidentally, he would soon possess absolute power!
“Call an immediate combat meeting!”
The President decided that he absolutely could not swallow this insult easily; he must teach the Gene Progenitor a lesson.
Under his orders, the Truth Society began operating at high speed, preparing retaliatory actions against the Gene Progenitor.
Meanwhile, the outside world was in an uproar due to the news of Bai Fu’s “resurrection.”
Informed players in the community were sharing the intelligence they had just obtained.
[Hey, wasn’t it said that Fu Fu was dead? How did she resurrect so quickly?]
[From the beginning, the news about Bai Fu’s death was a unilateral release by Rattlesnake. This time, the Truth Society has completely lost face.]
[Damn you, Rattlesnake, you really messed up, making me sad for such a long time.]
[I heard that NPCs are saying this incident was actually a setup by Fu Fu, Rattlesnake, and the Gene Progenitor together, aimed at screwing over the Truth Society.]
[So, was Bai Fu’s falling out with the Gene Progenitor just an act?]
[It seems so. Many NPCs say Fu Fu is actually the ace agent of the Gene Progenitor and has been acting since the Scrapped Cooling Plant.]
[Uh, then is it true or false that Fu Fu and Anya claimed they are aliens?]
[Who knows? I’m totally confused now. Let’s see what the Gene Progenitor says. Why are these NPCs so scheming?]
[It must be true. Fu Fu cannot possibly be a bad woman!]
[I love bad women!]
While the players argued fiercely, many factions also tried to investigate Bai Fu’s true identity from the Gene Progenitor.
“I’ve heard that Bai Fu is the ace agent cultivated by the Gene Progenitor. Is this information accurate?”
The members of the Gene Progenitor questioned were all bewildered.
What? Isn’t Bai Fu the wanted criminal being hunted by the Gene Progenitor? When did she become an ace agent? You guys sure know how to imagine things.
The message passed level by level until it reached the ears of the general who ordered Bai Fu’s elimination.
“General…”
“…”
The general was certain that Bai Fu was definitely not the ace agent of the Gene Progenitor. But outright denial wouldn’t make outsiders believe it, and denying it would also be embarrassing.
How could Bai Fu alone stir up such chaos within the Truth Society while your Gene Progenitor does nothing but drive capable people away?
After some deliberation, the Gene Progenitor decided to simply pretend to be unaware.
Neither confirming nor denying, letting the people outside guess slowly.
Anyway, they wouldn’t lose anything. In this conflict, only the Truth Society was hurt, and they could simply enjoy the fruits of Bai Fu’s efforts.
…
Bai Fu turned off her personal terminal.
On the Darknet, the bounty placed by the Truth Society on her had risen to 3 million, from 800,000 to 3 million. This…
A great leap forward.
But she didn’t care. The Goli Desert was vast, and even if the Truth Society wanted to retaliate against her, they wouldn’t find her anytime soon. For now, she could enjoy the 800,000 credits they had sent her.
She took out a small portion of the money to divide among Sword Aura Sky Piercing and the others, and planned to use most of the remaining funds for constructing the Silent Courtyard base, while reserving a smaller amount for purchasing materials to make Prayer Cards.
To her, only the money spent was useful.
After counting the money, Bai Fu opened the quest log again, and a new prompt popped up.
[You have completed the quest [Little Youlia’s Request (1)], rewarded with 100,000 experience points.]
She had already found Graham’s hiding place. Next, she needed to torture him into revealing where the people the Truth Society used to threaten Youlia were being held.
This was the content of Little Youlia’s Request (2), with a reward of 150,000 experience points, quite substantial.
“Let’s go back first.”
Bai Fu wasn’t in a rush to immediately confront Graham.
With her current strength and the number of players accompanying her, it would be too difficult to breach the base and capture Graham alive.
She planned to return to Shelter No. 11 and develop further before bringing more players over to ensure the successful completion of the mission.
On the way back to Shelter No. 11, Sword Aura Sky Piercing and others looked at her several times as if wanting to say something but holding back.
Even though they didn’t speak, Bai Fu knew what they wanted to ask: rumors outside claimed that she was the ace agent of the Gene Progenitor, and all those alien-related stories were fabricated. Hearing these tales repeatedly, Sword Aura Sky Piercing and others couldn’t help but feel puzzled.
Let them guess.
The more players speculated, the more outrageous their guesses became, the better it was for her.
After the vehicle entered the Goli Desert, Bai Fu suddenly received a new notification: the Destruction Contribution for [Truth Not Known] increased from 1.19% to 1.83%.
“Hmm?”
She remembered that last time this contribution also suddenly rose from 0 to 0.28%. What was going on? Was it that the progress bar automatically increased every so often?
After browsing the Darknet and player communities, Bai Fu finally figured out the situation.
It turned out that during her return to Shelter No. 11, the Truth Society mobilized many people to launch a new round of attacks on the Gene Progenitor.
Since this attack came very suddenly, the Gene Progenitor suffered significant losses, but as one of the five major powers, their counterattack also inflicted some damage on the Truth Society.
“The Truth Society attacked the Gene Progenitor because they were provoked by me, which led to their losses. I see, indirectly caused destruction also counts towards the contribution.”
Bai Fu’s thoughts immediately became lively.
Her grand spy plan seemed feasible. She could use players to uncover the locations of Truth Society bases, then publish these locations, and simply reap the benefits.
Several days later, Bai Fu successfully returned to Shelter No. 11.
Under Gao Yuan’s arrangement, the second wave of players who had come to join her had already been settled in the Red Sand Camp. During this period, the Gao family’s convoy had made several trips to perform a simple repair of the Red Sand Camp.
Their first collaboration went smoothly.
Considering that the number of players in the Silent Courtyard had exceeded one hundred, she didn’t have enough quest rewards to distribute to these players. Therefore, she decisively proposed deepening cooperation with the Gao family.
“What kind of cooperation?”
“I’m not mistaken, you occasionally accept some commissions and then assign these commissions to wanderers in the Goli Desert, right?”
Bai Fu explained her idea to Gao Yuan.
No matter how efficient ordinary wanderers were at doing commission tasks, they couldn’t match the efficiency of players. Therefore, instead of going through the trouble of finding other wanderers to collaborate, the Gao family might as well hand over all this business to the Silent Courtyard.
Once the reputation is established, the Gao family could completely emulate the Makarov family’s operation of the Darknet and create a commission platform, accepting more commissions and assigning these tasks to players.
Undoubtedly, this pie looked very appealing.
The Gao family followed the Makarov family, and Gao Yuan knew very well how profitable a successful platform could be.
He was intrigued. These past few days, he had gotten a glimpse of the players’ strength and deeply realized that Bai Fu’s description of the players’ capabilities wasn’t exaggerated.
The only issue was that he wasn’t sure how many players Bai Fu could recruit. If there were only about a hundred now, talking about setting up a commission platform might be overly ambitious.
“Try it first. Anyway, you won’t lose anything if it doesn’t work out.”
Bai Fu was still optimistic about the prospects of the commission platform.
Alright.
Once she really gets this platform up and running, even if there is no main quest on her side, she can easily gather a large number of players.
The reason is very simple. If players join other factions or act as lone wolves, they have to go through great efforts to find quests to do themselves. However, if players join her Silent Courtyard, it’s different. They don’t have to do anything as quests will come knocking on their own, and they can even choose the quests they want to do.
The game experience is absolutely maximized, isn’t it?
After much deliberation, Gao Yuan reached a preliminary agreement with Bai Fu. Both parties agreed that once Bai Fu takes out a few more wanderer camps, they would further discuss the establishment of a commission platform for cooperation.
After sending Gao Yuan away, Bai Fu went to meet the newly arrived players.
“Wow, it’s really Bai Fu! Bai Fu didn’t die!”
“Crying, folks, you know, I chased all the way from the abandoned cooling plant, and today I finally caught up.”
Bai Fu was warmly welcomed.
Among them, a few players asked her if she was the ace agent of the Gene Progenitor, but she pretended not to hear it and instead diverted these players’ attention with another matter.
[“Trial Quest”]
Upon hearing this, all the players present lit up with excitement. They had already learned from Pai Da Xing and others how exhilarating the previous trial quests were.
“This time, let’s clean up the two wandering camps that caused trouble at Shelter No. 11 before.”
Upon hearing this news, Elder Nissen couldn’t help but be stunned.
He remembered those bygone times.
Back then, he also harbored a passionate desire to consolidate all the wandering camps in the Goli Desert and restore order to this chaotic region for peaceful development.
However, just when his dream was about to be realized, the Truth Society came, Youlia was captured, the Watcher camp was scattered, and he became a nobody who could only live anonymously.
This pain etched deep into his bones was something he would never forget.
“What’s wrong?”
A voice sounded beside him.
Elder Nissen turned his head and saw Bai Fu asking.
He shook his head: “Nothing, just reminiscing about some old memories.”
Bai Fu did not say much.
After letting these new players prepare, she set off with them.
More than seventy players rode in four vehicles, heading deep into the Goli Desert in grand procession.
Since Bai Fu had already found out the locations of these wandering camps from the Gao family beforehand, she didn’t need to capture any prisoners this time.
Just charging ahead was enough!
[You have killed…]
[You have killed…]
[You have completed the hidden quest [Eliminate Juan Camp]…]
At this point, the role of the players became evident again.
Due to the presence of players, Bai Fu’s efficiency in eliminating those two camps significantly increased, and even counting the travel time, it only took one day.
If she had done it alone, it might have taken three to four days without success.
In the end, Bai Fu successfully earned 120,000 experience points.
She calculated that there were more than a dozen well-known wandering camps within the borders of the Goli Desert. If she could eliminate all these camps, she would at least gain another 600,000 to 700,000 experience points. Adding the experience points she had accumulated previously, this would be enough for her to level up three times.
Total level 33, plus 200-300 players, and a large number of prayer cards, this configuration should be sufficient to take down Graham.
“The distance to advanced professions seems not as far as imagined.”
Just as Bai Fu was calculating where to look for two knowledge chains related to spiritual energy, the game community released a new announcement.
The highly anticipated version 1.1 update will soon be available, and after the update, the game will unlock features such as leaderboards and arenas, and more beginner villages will be opened for new players to experience.
Bai Fu wasn’t particularly concerned about these things.
Since it was just a minor functional update, the offline time for players wouldn’t be long, and it wouldn’t affect her plan at all.
However, Bai Fu underestimated the impact of this update on her.
At midnight.
When all players were forcibly logged out, she suddenly received a game prompt.
[Plot Participation Confirmation (0%…20%…100%)]
[Current Plot Exploration Degree of Source Star 0.2%]
[Character Position Correction (0%…6%…)]
[Character Position corrected from [Passerby] to [Important Participant in Hidden Plot]]
[Character Setting Correction (0%…4%…)]
“Wow!”
Bai Fu’s eyes widened.
The next second, her eyes were filled with uncontrollable joy.
After going through so much trouble, she finally waited for the second enhancement!
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