When You Become an NPC That Might Die Any Moment in the Novice Village

Elon provided a detailed introduction to the current situation.

Bai Fu nodded repeatedly as she listened.

Great, what a plan!

The only problem with this plan is that Shattered Star is dead, and the person who looks like Shattered Star is just that—someone who looks similar.

But so what?

Making money is the goal, who cares if it's real or fake? If the Blessing Sect wants her to investigate, then she'll investigate, and she could also use this opportunity to get closer to Elon and Suixi and see what kind of main tasks those two really have.

If she could get a firm grip on the main tasks from Vic, Elon, and Suixi before players officially enter the starry sky, then even those players who dislike her would have to come to her for work, holding their noses.

Bai Fu was very magnanimous; as long as they could create value for her, she didn't care whether those players were cursing her in their minds.

No matter how much they cursed, it wouldn't make her lose a single hair, right?

Bai Fu formally accepted the commission from the Blessing Sect, and then, in front of her, Elon demonstrated the device that could detect the location of the True Spirit Pillar.

The device was only the size of a wristwatch, and it truly could detect the position of the True Spirit Pillar, but there were many limitations: for example, the range was only a few dozen kilometers, and each activation required two minutes.

Taking the device, Bai Fu asked, "When do you want us to start acting?"

Elon replied, "In the next couple of days, we'll send people to the Sea Corner Arm. Once our people are in place, you can start your operation."

"Alright, I'll wait for your notification."

After officially signing the contract with Elon, Bai Fu received a game prompt.

[You have triggered the task [Blessing Sect's Missing Persons Notice]]

[Task Requirements:…]

[Task Objective: Find out the origin of the pirates mentioned by the Blessing Sect]

[Task Reward: 2 million Experience Value, Blessing Sect Affinity +100]

This was an ordinary task.

2 million experience points were like toothpicks to Bai Fu now, not even enough to pick her teeth.

What she was really interested in was the monetary reward from the Blessing Sect, as well as Elon and Suixi themselves.

After the conversation ended, the people from the Blessing Sect did not head to Ulysses Star, but instead hurriedly boarded a spaceship and left.

On the spaceship, Elon said with a smile to Suixi, "I know you don't like talking to others, but when we're out and about, always keeping a stern face can cause people to have a biased bad impression of us."

Suixi, expressionless, replied, "They're just mortals struggling in the mud, their opinions aren't important, and I don't need to care about their feelings."

Elon shook his head helplessly, "Even if they are mortals, they are mortals under Super Supreme."

"Is Super Supreme more powerful than a Void Realm Envoy?"

Suixi countered, her clear skin shimmering with waves of emotion.

Alright.

Elon knew that persuasion was futile and simply gave up. As long as they could successfully recover the True Spirit Pillar, they really didn't need to care about the likes of Fei Ye or Bai Fu.

...

After the people from the Blessing Sect left, Bai Fu also boarded a spaceship.

Throughout the trip, An Ya was visibly disgruntled, "Wow, that Suixi is so annoying, no matter when you look at her, she's always looking down on people through her nostrils. What's with the arrogance, Boss? Aren't you the hero of the Star Network Community? Humph, sooner or later, I want her to recognize how powerful you are, Boss, and have her humbly bowing at your feet and admitting her mistake!"

Before, she thought Julia was especially annoying, but ever since arriving in the interstellar, she started to find Julia quite charming.

Even though Julia often clung to the Boss, she never stopped her from getting close to the Boss and often spoke well of her in front of the Boss. By comparison, Fei Ye was much more unpleasant, not wearing shoes all day and trying to seduce the Boss, but Fei Ye had been behaving decently lately, at least better than that annoying ghost Suixi they had just seen.

An Ya completely failed to notice that her own tolerance had been continuously breaking new lows.

Bai Fu laughed and ruffled An Ya's hair.

Alright, alright, with your height, who are you not looking at through your nostrils?

While Suixi's attitude was indeed poor, knowing that was enough, it wouldn't be nice to say it out loud.

After arriving at Ulysses Star, Bai Fu took advantage of the gap before the official start of the operation to start searching for information online.

The dissociative potion had significantly increased her and Fei Ye's Spirit Attributes, but it still wasn't enough; she needed other methods to raise her Spirit and Intelligence Attributes. Only by quickly increasing the Prophet gene's adaptation probability to 90% or even 99% could she feel at ease.

One couldn't deny, there truly were many ways, but ordinary NPCs dared not attempt them lightly, for fear of causing themselves problems.

But this wasn't an issue for Bai Fu.

Whether good or bad, she'd use Spiritual Vision to identify them first. If they proved useful, she'd use them; if not, she'd switch them out.

She wasn't afraid of the skills that could enhance Spirit and Intelligence that ordinary NPCs couldn't learn. With a light tap of her finger, she could see what prerequisite knowledge or skills were required to learn them.

"Let's check on the way to Sea Corner Arm; the pirates' lair is a good place to find treasures if you're lucky."

As Bai Fu pondered over this problem, she suddenly discovered that someone had knocked on the back end of her commission platform again.

"Another client at my door?"

She quickly opened the backend to find that the applicant was Stone Crystal Company, and the content of the offer was identical to that of the Blessing Sect, but the reward they offered was significantly higher.

Damn, first the Blessing Sect, now Stone Crystal Company, are they all taking the bait?

She definitely couldn't accept this task; if it came out that she was playing both sides, the reputable image she had so painstakingly built would collapse.

Although many people liked the bad girl persona, a positive image was still more profitable for making money.

Bai Fu could only regretfully reject Stone Crystal Company's commission request.

To her surprise, even after being rejected, Stone Crystal Company still did not give up.

[I am Elza, a business representative from Stone Crystal Company. I am currently en route to Ulysses Star, and I intend to personally demonstrate our determination to you.]

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Bai Fu was utterly bemused. Were they that persistent?

It didn't take long for Julia to notice her odd expression: "What's going on, why do you look so troubled?"

Bai Fu shared the recent events, lamenting how tens of thousands of Credit Points had slipped through her fingers.

"Is that all?" Julia said nonchalantly. "Such a simple matter. When Stone Crystal Company's people arrive, I'll subtly hint to them that if they give me the money, I'll inform them about Shattered Star ahead of time once it's found."

She didn't mind being seen as the bad girl.

She'd experienced this on Ancestral Origin Star—tasting a bit more now was no big deal.

What difference did it make whether her reputation was good or bad, since it wouldn't affect her performance when conducting experiments with Bai Fu, who was well-matched in social standing?

Bai Fu's eyes lit up.

Brilliant, Julia's tactic was indeed workable.

She wasn't worried about Stone Crystal Company confronting the Blessing Sect and exposing Julia, because Shattered Star was already dead, and this investigation was doomed to yield no results. Without results, Julia needn't worry about covertly passing on information; she just had to collect the deposit.

"Let's do that!"

Bai Fu hugged Julia tightly, pressing close, peaks overflowing.

One day later, Stone Crystal Company's representatives arrived at Ulysses Star.

The leader was none other than the business rep Elza, clad in a black, figure-hugging dress, exuding mature charm.

Following the plan, Bai Fu engaged Elza, and when negotiations broke down, Julia stepped forward, successfully extorting a sum of money from Stone Crystal Company.

Everything went smoothly, but there was one thing that took Bai Fu by surprise. After striking a deal with Julia, Elza continued to linger on Ulysses Star. Her claimed reason was to persuade Bai Fu with sincerity to agree to cooperate with Stone Crystal Company.

"What kind of play is this?"

As the Blessing Sect was pressing for progress, Bai Fu didn't probe further but took the players herself to Sea Corner Arm.

Shortly after Bai Fu left, Cecilia, who was disguised as Elza, immediately contacted the subordinates assigned by the Housekeeper.

"Begin the operation."

She planned to have those subordinates stage a feeble attack on Ulysses Star while Bai Fu was away, then emerge as the savior, gaining a wave of Ulyssian and Bai Fu Affinity. With this newfound Affinity and her fabricated identity, she could naturally stay close to Bai Fu.

The strategist had placed herself in the midst of the game, and Bai Fu would never expect her to take such an action.

When Bai Fu was lost in the dream she had woven, it would be the time to teach her a lesson!