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

Digging Girl's eyes shimmered with anticipation, a sentiment shared by the majority of players in her livestream.

The completion of the Ghost Night Dominator's ultimate form – ever since the day it was leaked that Bai Fu was the Ghost Night Dominator, many players had been eagerly awaiting this moment.

Bai Fu had never anticipated that her Spiritual Explosion would not only hit the hearts of the ruffians of Lanka Star but also strike a chord with the viewers, causing her popularity within the player community to spike once more after the Heavenly Lake Star war.

Dominator?

Goodness, you guys have quite the imagination. Even if all of you were to lie down and let me drain experience from you, I couldn't possibly ascend to Dominator Level in version 2.0.

From S Level to Catastrophe Level, from Catastrophe Level to Dominator Level, mere experience and Advanced Knowledge are far from sufficient.

At this point, it's best to just complete the current task.

Players must be milked one by one, and the journey must be taken step by step.

Bai Fu raised her hand again, and several NPCs who were closer to her got pulled towards her by an invisible force – the effect of her Advanced Force Field, which had leveled up to Lv10.

After the skill had advanced, the force field-type skill she had copied from Julia might have gotten a less impressive name, but its functionality had increased more than tenfold.

These NPCs, already petrified by Bai Fu's instant kill of the red barrels, were now trembling all over from being inexplicably dragged before Bai Fu, only managing to stammer out broken pleas for mercy.

"Spare me, please, I'm not with them, I was just passing by, truly."

"Me too, I..."

Bai Fu smiled and said, "If you don't want to die, then answer my questions honestly."

"Yes, yes, yes."

Bai Fu continued to inquire, "I've come here to do business. Tell me, where is the market for trading various potions, and which Pirate Groups are active in the Sea Corner Arm, where can I find them?"

Under her pressing, the controlled NPCs didn't dare to conceal anything, spilling everything they knew like beans from a bag.

Having gotten the information, Bai Fu casually tossed them aside and proceeded towards the meeting place agreed upon with the Blessing Sect, her and her players walking even more brazenly than when they had just disembarked from the spaceship. But by now, nobody dared to even glance their way.

Ten minutes later, in a secluded corner.

Elon frowned slightly, "You attracted too much attention when you came over."

Bai Fu removed her optical mask disguise, shaking her now free silvery-white ponytail: "What do you think is better in this kind of place, to act boldly or to sneak around cautiously?"

"That's, of course..."

Elon suddenly paused, understanding Bai Fu's implication.

Being bold draws attention, but only those who are sufficiently bold are treated as peers here. On the flip side, the more cautious you appear here, the more likely others are to notice you, for not fitting in.

Elon and Suixi both glanced at Bai Fu.

"What do you plan to do next?" Elon asked.

Bai Fu shared her plan with Elon. The plan was simple: she intended to have players disguise themselves as Debt Collectors and go to the pirates' haunts to question NPCs one by one.

[There's a pirate who owes us a lot of money. He wears clothes like this (showing), and the insignia of his Pirate Group looks like this (showing).]

"This excuse should be enough to keep them from being suspected."

After a brief consideration, Elon felt there wasn't any major fault with Bai Fu's plan and agreed.

Bai Fu effortlessly issued a Camp Task to the players. While they infiltrated the pirates' haunts for intelligence gathering, she strolled around the potion trading market by herself. No major discoveries, but she managed to obtain some potions that could boost Spirit and Intelligence attributes.

"It's better than nothing."

Bai Fu shook her head and tucked the potions into her Personal Space. Roughly half an hour later, good news came from the players.

[We found them.]

Bai Fu immediately went to meet with the players, Elon, and Suixi.

Digging Girl reported, "The Pirate Group is called the Avalanche Pirate Group, a new group that's fast risen in the past two years. They're not on Lanka Star now, but someone overheard that they've struck some deal with another Pirate Group and will be coming to Lanka Star this afternoon."

Bai Fu and Elon exchanged glances.

What else was there to say?

Time to set an ambush!

Bai Fu ended up waiting two hours.

Though it took a while, her mood was still pretty good because as soon as the players had identified the real identity of the Pirate Group, she received a task completion notification, earning 2 million experience points and 100 Affinity points with the Blessing Sect.

The reward was small, but it was still something.

As Bai Fu was considering where to find methods to enhance her spirit and intelligence, Elon suddenly stood up, his eyes fixated on a person descending from the spaceship.

"It's him!"

Bai Fu followed his gaze and saw someone who looked about eighty to ninety percent similar to Shattered Star.

Even she, who had recently seen Shattered Star, thought he looked similar, not to mention Elon and Suixi, who had only seen photos of Shattered Star, could hardly tell any difference.

"Ha ha, you can't run away this time!"

Members of the Blessing Sect surged forward.

Their power was incomparable to that of the pirates, and within a few minutes, all the pirates were beaten to the ground, kneeling, and the person who looked strikingly like Shattered Star had his face swollen like a pig's head.

"It looks like your revenge plan ends here. Hand over the True Spirit Pillar obediently. That's not something you can possess, Shattered Star!"

Elon laughed and shouted at the person beneath his feet.

Revenge plan? True Spirit Pillar?

The man who looked like Shattered Star was scared stiff; he had no idea what was going on and could only keep shouting that they had the wrong person, but how could Elon and Suixi easily believe his words?

Cunning villains!

"Do you think just because you don't have the True Spirit Pillar on you, you are untouchable? We have ways to make you spill the beans!"

"I'm really not lying!"

The person resembling Shattered Star was almost crying out in despair, and his miserable appearance made Bai Fu's eyelids twitch violently.

What a pitiful pirate.

She looked around and finally set her sights on the wares traded by the Avalanche Pirate Group.

There was a group of slaves, those slaves...

Wait!

Bai Fu's eyes widened as she noticed the slaves looked very much like Ulyssians. She hurriedly cast her Spiritual Vision Skill, and the feedback on the racial category indeed indicated they were Ulyssians.

"Where did you capture these Ulyssians from?"

Bai Fu's eyes suddenly sharpened.

The pirate caught by the collar turned pale: "We, we took them by force, we took them from a slave trader."

Bai Fu looked toward another member of the pirate group: "What about you? Why did you buy Ulyssians?"

The targeted pirate panicked and shouted, "The boss said they were for experiments, I'm not clear about the specifics, I'm just a runner, please spare my life."

Using Ulyssians for experiments?

Bai Fu instinctively thought of the Dissociative Potion.

As expected, as this idea crossed her mind, she received a new task notification.

[You have triggered the hidden main quest 'Giant Beast!']

[Task Introduction:...]

[Task Objective: Find out the true reason the pirate group purchased Ulyssians]

[Reward: 3 million experience points]

[Note: This task is linked with Vic's main quest. Upon completion, the progress of Vic's main quest will also increase.]

A look of excitement appeared on Bai Fu's face.

She was lucky to have taken on a commission from the Blessing Sect; otherwise, she would have missed this task.

A linked task, this was the first time she encountered such a quest. It seemed that the relationships between Vic, the Blessing Sect, and the Secret Tower were much deeper than she had anticipated.

In the original storyline of version 2.0, players would likely have to choose one of the sides to join and then push the storyline forward.

"Find out the true reason the pirate group bought Ulyssians?"

So simple, with her current power, she could just go straight there and take them down!