Bai Tang: Rich Lady, Hungry, Hug Your Thigh!

Bai Tang opened the file Silver Wolf had sent. It was short, listing the time, place, and what needed to be done.

Oh, she just had to help fend off the company's attack.

Silver Wolf could definitely handle it.

The company didn't actually want to capture her. Otherwise, why had they only put a bounty on her instead of sending people after her? The director of the Strategic Investment Department had even privately indicated a willingness to form an alliance.

Still, this was a script Elio had provided. He had probably seen something happen in the future, which was why he was making such a risky move.

After all, even Kafka had only had a fifty percent chance of joining the Stellaron Hunters, yet Elio had still gone to recruit her. Just as Bai Tang might not necessarily agree, yet Elio had still written her into the script.

Bai Tang knew Elio's identity and knew it had been working all along to delay the birth of Finality, so naturally she would agree. But what if she hadn't known?

It wouldn't have been a question of whether she agreed. Given her real personality, she might even have gone after them to claim the bounties. Silver Wolf had the lowest bounty, and even hers was 5.1 billion, right? That was a huge reward.

With Silver Wolf busy, the Doomsday Beast not yet here, and some time on her hands, she decided to study the characters and team formation that had come packaged with it.

She opened the character screen.

There was a long row of character portraits below. The first one she saw was Jingliu. She had only glanced at it when she first received it, and had somehow failed to notice how different the panel was from the one in the game.

There was only a details tab. Light Cones, traces, and the like were nowhere to be seen. In their place were check-in (locked), skills (locked), bonds (locked), communications (locked), and summon (locked).

The attack, defense, crit stats, and the like that should have been listed on the details page had all disappeared. In their place were number, identity, faction, main Path, affection, and contact rate.

Only the Light Cone image below remained the same as before.

Let's take another look.

There were thirty-four characters, including Jingliu, Jing Yuan, Feixiao, Aventurine, Phainon, Yanqing, Jing Yuan, Aglaea, Mydei, Yingxing, Sunday, Dan Heng, Cyrene, Himeko, Baiheng, Moze, and Robin.

Looking more closely, she saw that Jingliu was different from her game version too. She wore no blindfold and leaned against a wall with the Shard Sword in hand, her eyes closed as though resting.

Oh-ho, it was the hidden version of Jingliu without the blindfold!

Her number was 1, her identity was the sword champion of the Xianzhou Luofu, her faction was The Hunt, her main Path was The Hunt, her affection was 100, and her contact rate was 72%.

Next was Jing Yuan. This Jing Yuan was very young. Like Jingliu, he was sleeping with his eyes closed, but he had a bed to lie on, curled up on his side with his glaive in his arms.

Because Jingliu was first and was standing up, she hadn't recognized something so obviously wrong, right?

Who could blame her when it looked so much like the character panel in the game?

As for team formation, there wasn't a single character she could put in the team.

Bai Tang tried several times without success before finally giving up.

"Bai Tang, so this is where you are."

Your little cutie March 7th suddenly appeared.

"March."

"The Doomsday Beast has broken in. Himeko told us to leave."

March 7th had come specifically to find Bai Tang, who had disappeared off to who knew where. Dan Heng was with her, and with him here too, Xing stood beside them looking completely bewildered.

Xing: I don't know. I saw those two coming, so I followed them.

Bai Tang nodded to them and ran along behind them. This time she didn't speed ahead, obediently following along. Soon, the group reached the platform.

The train was nowhere to be seen.

Dan Heng had a bad feeling.

"...The train isn't here yet."

March 7th said cheerfully, "Maybe it's nearby! Bai Tang has good eyesight. Let's go take a look together."

"Wait, March, Bai Tang!"

Hearing Dan Heng's voice, March 7th stopped and turned around curiously. Bai Tang, meanwhile, kept watching the Doomsday Beast that Xing had drawn over.

So that's the Doomsday Beast?

Hmm, it looks who knows how much better than the monsters Evernight made. Pretty cool!

Everyone came over to March 7th's side. March 7th nocked an arrow and drew her bow, aiming at the Doomsday Beast in the sky. "Come down here!"

Bai Tang had seen this scene in the game before, but seeing it now, she still wanted to say something.

Little March, you really are brave!

Still, it was fine for Little March to be a little reckless. She had her companions looking out for her, didn't she?

Even if that wasn't enough, the March superfan behind her would come out and teach the enemy a lesson.

But the problem was, the Doomsday Beast really did come down!

Himeko's orbital cannon was ready, and she released drones to assist. March 7th fired the first arrow at the Doomsday Beast, as though giving the signal to start the battle. Dan Heng charged out with Cloud-Piercer in hand, dodged the Doomsday Beast's attack, and drove it hard through the outer shell.

Not to be outdone, Xing swung the bat that even Herta had called super hard and smashed one of the cores with a clang. The Doomsday Beast immediately struck at Xing.

In short, its defenses had been broken.

When Dan Heng saw this, Cloud-Piercer vanished from his hand, and he appeared beside Xing, knocking away the hand that was about to strike her.

Bai Tang.

Bai Tang was the healer now.

Whenever a teammate was injured, she formed a tiny gray-blue hyacinth with a hint of purple and sent it flying over to them. It not only healed their wounds, but also dispelled fatigue and replenished their energy.

So she stayed at the back, frantically conjuring healing hyacinths that floated in the air, ready to heal anyone the moment danger arose.

"Boom!"

Himeko picked her moment and fired the orbital cannon, leaving the Doomsday Beast weakened and sprawled where it was.

Himeko and Dan Heng: "March!"

Dan Heng realized the Doomsday Beast was making a final counterattack, but there was no way he could reach March 7th before the attack hit.

Xing, who was right beside her, stepped in front of March 7th without a second thought and took the laser blast with her own body. At that moment, "Destruction" fixed its gaze on Xing.

The Stellaron was growing unstable and about to explode. Next came Uncle Yang's moment to show off!

One tap of his cane interrupted Xing's self-destruct countdown. What a great show-off moment, Mr. Yang Chaoyue.

Bai Tang understood that it was her turn to step in. After briefly examining Xing, she made a slightly sarcastic remark.

"Stellaron, stable. No, other problems. Took, an ultimate, to the face, and still, came out unscathed. Really can take a hit."

Seeing that Xing, who had just protected her, was all right, March 7th breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thanks to her, she's the biggest hero of this battle. When she wakes up, we have to thank her properly.

"Bai Tang, your healing is amazing. My wounds were healed right after I got hit. We have to bring you along from now on. Oh, right, as usual, it's time to assign tasks. Come listen with us."

To put it plainly, the tasks were commissions from Asta, and the commission fees listed were genuinely high.

Himeko called Dan Heng over and said there were other tasks for him. March 7th also took one and ran off to get busy.

Bai Tang chose to restore the damaged files. Just as Asta was about to tell the others to bring out the ordinary files, Bai Tang had already produced a file about the firewall.