Under everyone's watchful eyes, Bai Fu killed seven players in total, earning 1,130 experience points.
When she turned in the [Wildfire Incineration] quest earlier, she'd earned 2,000 experience points for capturing ten players. Add that to the experience she'd had left over from her last level-up and what she'd earned from killing Martin, and she now had 3,841 experience points.
The rate at which she was racking up experience left players speechless and other NPCs, who had to slowly build up their strength, in tears.
Considering how much Cao Wenliang had helped her, Bai Fu had to work hard to keep from laughing in his face.
"You've proven your loyalty to the Wildfire Gang."
Cao Wenliang said it perfunctorily, then stopped paying attention to Bai Fu.
Given his status in the Wildfire Gang, he really had no reason to explain himself to her.
The scene was awkward. In the end, the Wildfire Gang's Boss stepped in to put an end to the farce.
"Clean up the bodies. Lock up the three survivors for now."
After taking care of the players' "aftermath," he also had someone give Bai Fu an extra 500 Credit Coins as a reward for her outstanding performance.
Bai Fu accepted gladly. She didn't care why the Wildfire Gang's Boss had done it; she only knew that passing up a chance to make money would be foolish.
As she went to collect the money, the person in charge of handing it out said quietly, "You'd better watch your back for a while."
"What do you mean?"
"You haven't dealt with Department Chief Cao much, so you don't know how petty he is. He was already unhappy with you, and today you embarrassed him in front of everyone. He definitely won't let this go. You know he's in charge of logistics, so... Anyway, you get what I mean."
The person shook his head, clearly having disliked Cao Wenliang for a long time.
Bai Fu smiled and thanked him.
She really didn't know much about Cao Wenliang, but she had a cheat.
When Cao Wenliang left earlier, she'd made a point of using Spiritual Vision on him.
[Name]: Cao Wenliang (Elite) [Template]: Ordinary [Main Class]: Ordinary Boxer Lv. 9 [Subclass]: None [Health]: 130/130 [Attributes]: Strength 14, Agility 7, Constitution 10, Intelligence 3, Spirit 3, Inspiration 4 [Skills]: ? [Talents]: ? [Favorability]: Resentment (-46) [Threat Level]: Red
Spiritual Vision couldn't see through Cao Wenliang's true thoughts, but a favorability score of -46 said plenty.
Bai Fu was a little curious about how Cao Wenliang would try to deal with her. Would he really just use his position to cut off her supplies?
If so, he'd be demoted in her eyes from angel investor to something much less impressive.
All things considered, Bai Fu remained calm.
With her current strength, beating Cao Wenliang would be difficult. But unless he showed up at her door right away, she didn't have much to worry about.
The next day, Bai Fu got up especially early. She first went to apologize to Patrick Star and the others she'd killed, then headed to the Wildfire Gang to report for duty.
She hadn't been there long when a Wildfire Gang member from the External Affairs Department, responsible for assigning various tasks, came to find her.
"The higher-ups discussed it. Since your group is still pretty weak and you exceeded your target yesterday, they've decided to give you an easy, cushy assignment for now."
That sounds too good to be true.
Bai Fu asked, "What kind of assignment?"
"Interrogator."
"Huh?" Bai Fu blinked. "But I've never done anything like that. If you make me an interrogator, I probably won't get any useful information out of anyone."
"It's fine. Your job is simple: you'll only interrogate outsiders. When they come in, give them a little torture. If they're willing to talk, great. If not, just send them on their way."
"That's allowed?"
"Why wouldn't it be? Those outsiders are stubborn as hell. Even professional interrogators might not get anything out of them. You don't need to feel bad about it."
Now Bai Fu was sure the person wasn't lying. It really was an easy, cushy assignment. She couldn't think of anything better, even if she tried!
According to him, her job was simple: kill players.
With the level gap between her and the players, she could earn 150–200 experience points for each one she killed. Once the players' average level went up a bit more, that number would increase too.
It was practically a license to print money.
Bai Fu had never dreamed she'd go from My Years at the Abandoned Cooling Plant to XX Days of Slaying Players in the Interrogation Room in a heartbeat, getting to enjoy the thrill of leveling up while keeping a low profile.
Had she finally run into the Goddess of Luck?
Bai Fu wasn't worried at all that going on a rampage in the interrogation room and killing players one after another would make them hate her.
The reason was simple.
Once players were captured by the Wildfire Gang, they couldn't play the game normally. All they could do was log off, browse the community, or surf the web.
If she killed them, she'd be rescuing them and letting them get back to playing the game normally.
They'd be too busy thanking her to blame her.
Seeing Bai Fu lost in thought, the NPC assigning the task asked, "Well? Are you taking the job?"
Bai Fu nodded. "Of course I am."
"Great. I'll take you to see your new workplace now."
Logistics Department office.
Cao Wenliang looked up at the person who had just entered and asked, "Well? Did she take the assignment?"
The newcomer grinned. "She did. She seemed pretty happy about it, too."
Cao Wenliang tapped the desk with his index finger, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.
With his strength, he wouldn't normally have needed to go to such lengths to kill a supervisor. But Bai Fu had been personally chosen by the Boss. Unless he was ready to fall out with the Boss completely, no matter how angry he was, the most he'd dared to do was what he'd done yesterday. He wouldn't dare attack her directly.
But none of that mattered now.
He'd already prepared a much more delicious last meal for Bai Fu.
He'd specifically instructed his subordinates to make sure they spread the word about Bai Fu's impressive record in the interrogation room whenever they went out.
First, she'd captured ten outsiders in one go and killed seven of them. Then she'd piled up even more bloodshed in the interrogation room.
Cao Wenliang was looking forward to seeing how the outsiders would take revenge on Bai Fu after he found an excuse to let her out in a while.
Would they tear her limb from limb, chop her up finely, or use methods even more cruel and merciless?
How amusing.
For the next three days, Bai Fu didn't go anywhere. She stayed in the Wildfire Gang's interrogation room.
Just as she'd guessed, when the captured players saw her, they were a little startled at first, but the rest of the time, they couldn't have been happier.
As time passed, players on the community gave her a new nickname—
[Savior Bai Fu True Lord]
[But Fu Fu doesn't look very happy to me. She got assigned to be an interrogator out of nowhere, and now she can't even do what she really wants to do.]
[She must be suffering inside. After all, she has to kill people every day, even if we're the kind that can't die.]
[The Wildfire Gang is such a bunch of assholes. How dare they treat Fu Fu like this?]
[Maybe Cao Wenliang was behind it. Damn it, we've got to figure out how to kill him and rescue Fu Fu.]
Please don't "rescue" me. I'm doing just fine here.
Over the three days, Bai Fu killed 23 players. Since their levels had gradually risen during that time, she earned quite a bit more experience than she'd expected.
"4,350 points. At this rate, in another ten days or so, I should be able to get Spiritual Apprentice to level eight or nine."
Cao Wenliang?
Just wait and see if I don't beat you up!
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