Chapter Summaries

Bai Fu returned to the Wildfire Gang with ten captured Outsiders, earning praise and recognition as a promising newcomer. Cao Wenliang forced her to kill one of them to prove her loyalty, but Bai Fu gained experience from the kill and saw another opportunity to level up.

• Cao Wenliang learned that Bai Fu had brought ten Outsiders back to the Wildfire Gang and hurried to see for himself.
• The Wildfire Gang Boss praised Bai Fu’s clever capture and recognized her as a rising star, while Cao Wenliang was forced to share in the praise.
• Cao Wenliang accused the Outsiders of possibly working with Bai Fu and ordered her to kill one of them, with the Boss agreeing that most should be interrogated or killed.
• Digging Princess and the other players reacted angrily, while Cao Wenliang pressured Bai Fu to prove herself in front of the crowd.
• Bai Fu killed Patrick Star with her dagger and received 200 experience, realizing that killing players could help her level up.

Bai Fu earned experience and money after killing players, then accepted an interrogation-room assignment that let her kill more players and level up. Cao Wenliang secretly arranged the job to provoke the players against her, but they instead saw her as their savior, while Bai Fu planned to settle things with him herself.

• Bai Fu received 500 Credit Coins as a reward, and a Wildfire Gang member warned her that Cao Wenliang might retaliate after she embarrassed him.
• Bai Fu used Spiritual Vision on Cao Wenliang and saw that his favorability toward her was -46 and his threat level was Red.
• The Wildfire Gang assigned Bai Fu to interrogate outsiders, and she accepted because the job let her kill captured players for experience.
• Cao Wenliang learned that Bai Fu had accepted the assignment and plotted to spread word of her killings so the players would seek revenge on her.
• Over three days in the interrogation room, Bai Fu killed 23 players, who came to regard her as their savior, and she gained 4,350 experience points.

Bai Fu gained the Wildfire Gang Boss’s trust, learned two psychic skills, and accepted a mission to raid the players’ stronghold. When she realized Cao Wenliang’s men were trying to use the players to kill her, she rushed ahead to warn them, but the players refused to abandon her.

• Players’ crafting and underhanded tactics made Wildfire Gang members increasingly reluctant to fight them, so Bai Fu volunteered for the assignment and raised the Boss’s Favorability to 33.
• The Wildfire Gang Boss gave Bai Fu access to the library, where she learned Power Surge and Rate Amplification from Freya Egmond’s research notes and figured out how to use them against enemies.
• Bai Fu accepted the External Affairs Department’s Turn the Tables quest to raid the players’ western stronghold, then suspected Cao Wenliang had arranged for her teammates to betray her.
• During the raid, Bai Fu realized her group was deliberately falling behind so the players would kill her, and she used the chance to rush to the stronghold and warn them.
• Bai Fu urged Patrick Star, Digging Princess, Calamity Dragon, and the others to flee, but they insisted they would not leave her behind.

Bai Fu warned the players that the Wildfire Gang’s strike team was targeting their base and urged them to retreat, but the players chose to stay and fight. As they prepared an ambush, they disguised Bai Fu as a hostage so her cover would remain intact.

• Bai Fu revealed that the Wildfire Gang’s strike team was outside and explained that the gang intended to drive the players into the contamination zone.
• Despite Bai Fu’s warnings, Pai Da and the other players decided to stay and protect her, and Calamity Dragon confirmed Bai Fu’s Favorability had risen to 83.
• Pai Da organized the players to set traps and lure the Wildfire Gang into an ambush, while Calamity Dragon offered to recruit help through the forum.
• Bai Fu asked the players to tie her up and injure her so she could appear to have been captured, but they agreed only to let down her hair and apply red paint.
• Digging Princess and Calamity Dragon escorted the disguised Bai Fu toward the exit, determined not to let her sacrifice go to waste.

Bai Fu helped the players repel the Wildfire Gang’s attack while secretly increasing both sides’ trust in her. As the gang retreated, she rescued an injured member and returned to help the External Affairs Department Minister escape.

• The External Affairs Department Minister launched the Wildfire Gang’s assault, but Digging Princess brought out bound Bai Fu and threatened to kill her if the gang advanced.
• Bai Fu urged the gang to attack, and Digging Princess knocked her unconscious and dragged her back inside, prompting the Minister to use her supposed sacrifice to rally his fighters.
• Patrick Star led the players’ defense with boiling water, traps, and hit-and-run attacks while Bai Fu secretly used Frenzy buffs on the Wildfire Gang’s strongest members.
• Player reinforcements arrived and weakened the gang’s resolve, and Bai Fu killed a fleeing Wildfire Gang Supervisor before escorting an injured gang member to safety as a witness.
• Bai Fu returned to the outpost and offered to cover the Minister’s retreat, and he trusted her as the players and Wildfire Gang members each saw her as an ally.

After the failed attack on the players, Bai Fu gained a faction reward and further earned the Wildfire Gang Boss’s esteem, while Cao Wenliang was blamed and dismissed. Enraged, Cao Wenliang went to kill Bai Fu, who waited for him on a rooftop platform.

• The External Affairs Department Minister blamed Cao Wenliang for the costly attack and led Bai Fu back to the Wildfire Gang, where she earned 3,000 experience points and the Wildfire title for ranking first in faction contribution.
• Bai Fu learned that the players had profited from the battle and planned to use Profession Knowledge Books to strengthen them while keeping their loyalty.
• The Wildfire Gang Boss praised Bai Fu for taking responsibility and protecting morale, then kicked Cao Wenliang when he tried to defend himself.
• Cao Wenliang, furious over the Boss’s treatment, armed himself and went out to kill Bai Fu.
• Bai Fu stood on a two-story platform and acknowledged Cao Wenliang as he approached.

Bai Fu lured Cao Wenliang into a fight, weakened him, and killed him after taking his gun. The next day, the Wildfire Gang suspected Outsiders were responsible, but a mysterious blue-haired woman questioned that theory, and the Boss summoned Bai Fu for a new mission.

• Bai Fu used her skills and Cao Wenliang’s exhaustion to gain the advantage, dodged his attack, and kicked him down.
• Bai Fu survived Cao Wenliang’s gunfire, took his pistol, and killed him after stunning him with another kick.
• Bai Fu hid Cao Wenliang’s body, and the Wildfire Gang discovered it the next day.
• A blue-haired woman argued that the Outsiders probably had not killed Cao Wenliang because the scene lacked signs of their usual dirty tricks.
• The Wildfire Gang’s Boss ordered an attendant to fetch Bai Fu for a new mission.

Bai Fu arranged for players to collect Type II Deformed Insect Poison Sacs, rewarding them with experience, favorability, and payment from the Wildfire Gang. After the players gathered all 50 sacs, Bai Fu learned that Outsiders had repeatedly returned after being killed, bringing their ability to revive closer to discovery.

• Bai Fu accepted the Wildfire Gang Boss's quest to collect 50 Type II Deformed Insect Poison Sacs and received access to 50,000 Credit Coins.
• An Ya recruited Digging Princess to help find Poison Sacs, and Digging Princess triggered a commission quest that brought other players into the effort.
• Bai Fu let the players collect the sacs and promised to pay them 200 Credit Coins each, winning their gratitude and agreeing to seek a Profession Knowledge Book for them.
• The players gathered all 50 Poison Sacs, but Bai Fu heard that Outsiders had appeared again after being killed, suggesting their ability to revive might be exposed.

The Wildfire Gang Boss concluded that the Outsiders could revive after death and sought help from Yulia and the Truth Society, prompting Number Seven to investigate them. Bai Fu turned in the Poison Sacs, leveled up, and gave the players a copied boxing manual before encountering Number Seven threatening a player.

• The Wildfire Gang Boss inferred that the Outsiders were undying and told Yulia about them in the Truth Society's hidden laboratory.
• Yulia ordered Number Seven to investigate whether the Outsiders were connected to the Gene Primordial, and he left to do so.
• Bai Fu turned in the Poison Sacs, received experience and reputation, raised her Spiritual Apprentice to Lv. 8, and asked the Wildfire Gang Boss for more quests.
• Bai Fu copied Basic Boxing Tutorial and gave the copy to Digging Princess, delighting the players and viewers.
• Bai Fu spotted Number Seven choking a stall owner and used Spiritual Vision on him.

Bai Fu investigated Number Seven, a powerful Truth Hunter who attacked the players’ base, and waited until his device and the players’ improvised tactics left him vulnerable. She killed him, collected his equipment and badge, and reassured the surviving players.

• Bai Fu examined Number Seven’s status and followed him to the players’ new base.
• Number Seven attacked the players, killing several and defeating Digging Princess when she challenged him.
• The players overwhelmed Number Seven with traps and coordinated attacks, forcing him to use a device that paralyzed everyone nearby.
• Bai Fu shot Number Seven, pretended to be paralyzed by his device, then struck and killed him when he lowered his guard.
• Bai Fu collected the Spiritual Energy Restraint and a Truth Society badge, then comforted the surviving players.

Bai Fu helped the players gain experience by guiding them toward Number Nine, while Number Nine released lure bait to delay an expected attack on the Wildfire Gang. The bait threatened to draw mutant creatures across the Abandoned Cooling Plant, leaving Bai Fu racing to contain the danger.

• After Number Seven's death, Bai Fu gained popularity and decided to use the players to help her level up.
• The Wildfire Gang Boss tasked Bai Fu with informing the players about Number Nine, and she accepted the hidden mission.
• Bai Fu spotted Yago Kaufman and Xia Shi, then saw Number Nine watching Xia Shi and alerted the players to his whereabouts.
• The players ambushed Number Nine, but he activated a Spiritual Energy Restraint, smashed the lure bait, and escaped toward the Wildfire Gang.
• Bai Fu used Spiritual Vision to learn the damaged lure bait could attract mutant creatures within five kilometers for a month, then hid An Ya in the basement and rushed back to the Wildfire Gang.

Bai Fu returned as Yulia used her [Envoys] ability to control players and protect Number Nine, while Yago and Xia Shi tried to stop the Truth Society agents. Bai Fu wounded Number Nine, but he mutated before he could die; after realizing she could exploit Yulia’s control to kill players and gain experience, Bai Fu prepared to use that crooked leveling method.

• Yulia emerged from the hidden door and controlled players whose Inspiration was below 15, allowing Number Nine to escape their attack.
• Yago and Xia Shi confronted Yulia, but she used controlled players as shields while the players casually discussed the threat of an incoming Insect Tide.
• Bai Fu identified Yulia’s control range and secretly used Frenzy on Number Nine before shooting him twice, with the second bullet striking his heart.
• Number Nine injected a drug, mutated into a monster, and lost his bleeding status as Yulia took control of him.
• Bai Fu realized she could let Yulia control her, then kill players for experience without losing their Favorability, and resolved to use the tactic to level up.

Yulia controlled Bai Fu and forced her to attack the players, but Bai Fu secretly held back while accumulating experience and waiting for a chance to break free. As the players rallied around her, Yulia ordered a retreat underground, and Bai Fu reached 11,945 experience before fixing her gaze on mutated Number Nine as the final piece of her plan.

• Yulia used [Envoys] to control Bai Fu, prompting the players to split between distracting Bai Fu and helping Yago and Xia Shi fight Yulia.
• Bai Fu attacked the players with conspicuously weak blows, and Digging Princess concluded that she was resisting Yulia’s control to protect them.
• The players encouraged Bai Fu, while Yulia grew furious and ordered her controlled minions to kill them and cover her retreat underground.
• Bai Fu continued attacking while secretly leveling up Spiritual Apprentice to Lv9 and saving her free attribute points for a chance to escape control.
• As Yulia tried to retreat, Bai Fu’s experience reached 11,945, and she focused on mutated Number Nine as the last piece of her plan.

Bai Fu broke free of Yulia’s control and defeated her with a series of powerful punches, though Yulia’s body turned out to be a false one. Bai Fu entered the laboratory after receiving a quest to stop the approaching Insect Tide at the Abandoned Cooling Plant.

• Yago’s shot struck Mutated No. 9 instead of Yulia, and Bai Fu reached Yulia while still under her control.
• Digging Princess charged at Yulia, distracting her long enough for Bai Fu to break free, kill Mutated No. 9, and prepare her skills for a stronger attack.
• Bai Fu punched Yulia repeatedly as Yago, Xia Shi, and the players joined the fight; Yulia’s attempt to flee failed.
• Yulia told Bai Fu that laboratory bait might redirect the Insect Tide, then Bai Fu killed Yulia’s False Body and received the Insect Tide Invasion quest.
• Bai Fu entered the hidden laboratory, while the players celebrated and Digging Princess rallied her livestream chat to the Fu Sect.

After Bai Fu defeated Yulia, she found lure bait and enhancement medicine in the laboratory, then joined the effort to defend the Abandoned Cooling Plant from the Insect Tide. With the fence collapsing and no safe way to deploy the bait, Bai Fu took Yago’s car and drove toward the wilderness to draw the insects away, leaving the players watching her head toward danger after sunset.

• Digging Princess replayed Bai Fu’s furious attack on Yulia, and her livestream reached the game’s highest popularity as players celebrated Bai Fu.
• Bai Fu found the lure bait, a stronger pistol, medical supplies, and two bottles of unfinished enhancement medicine, then diverted Yago and Xia Shi’s attention from the laboratory.
• Yago, Xia Shi, and the players saw the Insect Tide overrunning the outskirts of the Abandoned Cooling Plant as residents fled and the fence began to collapse.
• Bai Fu volunteered to carry the lure bait away from the plant, and five players joined her in Yago’s car despite her attempt to go alone.
• After the players created an opening in the Insect Tide, Bai Fu waved goodbye and drove toward the wilderness to lure the insects away.

Bai Fu drew the Deformed Insects away from the Abandoned Cooling Plant, and the players helped her break through the swarm and redirect it. After Bai Fu jumped from the pickup to hold back the insects, Patrick Star returned to find her missing, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Bai Fu used a Spiritual Energy Restraint to freeze nearby Deformed Insects and help the pickup break through the swarm.
• Digging Princess organized the evacuees while Xia Shi forced them to follow her instructions and head for the Temporary Shelter.
• Convert to My Fu and the other players jumped from the pickup to lure Deformed Insects away as Bai Fu and Pai Da drove on.
• Bai Fu judged that they needed to go farther from the Abandoned Cooling Plant, then gave Pai Da the lure and Spiritual Energy Restraint before jumping out to hold off the insects.
• Pai Da drove away with the lure, drawing the Deformed Insects after him, while Bai Fu escaped toward the Abandoned Cooling Plant.
• Patrick Star returned in a pickup and searched the wilderness for Bai Fu, but found no trace of her.

Bai Fu returned from the Wildfire Gang with valuable supplies and an enhancement serum, then completed the Insect Tide Invasion quest and learned that the players had been forced offline for maintenance. She reunited with Yago and Xia Shi and planned a monument for the fallen players, hoping it would intensify their emotions when they returned.

• Bai Fu searched the Wildfire Gang’s library, vault, and supply depot, finding three class knowledge books, more than 170,000 Credit Coins, weapons, and other supplies, then took one bottle of Yulia’s enhancement serum.
• Bai Fu completed [Insect Tide Invasion], earned 40,000 experience, three attribute points, and [Spiritual Energy Knowledge Chain (4)], and put her attribute points into Constitution.
• Bai Fu brought An Ya the loot and saw an announcement that Above the Stars would shut down for four hours of maintenance, forcing the players offline before she could make her planned return.
• Xia Shi and Yago saw Bai Fu return alive to the Abandoned Cooling Plant, where she told them she had survived by drawing the mutated insects away.
• Bai Fu pretended to grieve for the fallen players and proposed building a monument for them, hoping the players would see it when the game came back online.

The Chairman ordered Yulia to receive a stronger proxy body and sent assassins after Bai Fu, Yago, and Xia Shi. Bai Fu gained the Luck talent, evolved into Evolution Blood, and left for Lynn with Gene Primordial’s reinforcements; after the game reopened, Digging Princess found a monument bearing Bai Fu’s name and realized she had misunderstood Bai Fu’s departure.

• The Chairman questioned Yulia about the failed operation, promised her a stronger proxy body for completing his tasks, and ordered an attack on Bai Fu, Yago, and Xia Shi.
• Bai Fu built a monument for the players, then received the Wildfire Gang’s leadership and the Boss’s savings before renaming the faction Silent Court.
• Bai Fu gained the Luck talent, used it to absorb Yulia’s enhancement potion, and unlocked the Evolution Blood template with greatly increased stats.
• Gene Primordial’s reinforcements arrested the Wildfire Gang’s Boss, questioned Bai Fu and her companions, and invited Bai Fu to Lynn, where she agreed to go.
• After the game reopened, Digging Princess heard that Bai Fu had left and feared she was dead until she found the memorial monument bearing Bai Fu’s name.

Digging Princess discovered that Bai Fu had survived and used her livestream to reveal Bai Fu’s memorial for the players, sending her popularity soaring and drawing players toward Zu Yuan Star. Bai Fu arrived in Lynn while the Iron Rain Guild chose to join The Truth Society and pursue missions against her.

• Digging Princess learned from a scavenger that Bai Fu had returned to the Abandoned Cooling Plant and traveled to Lynn, then opened a livestream to reveal the memorial Bai Fu had built for the players.
• Players learned that Bai Fu had survived, remembered their first meeting with her, and rallied to find her in Lynn, causing Zu Yuan Star’s player limit to fill.
• Bai Fu watched Digging Princess’s stream and planned to use her as an example to attract players, while considering Xia Shi’s Strong Luck talent and learning that The Truth Society had placed assassination bounties on them.
• Bai Fu arrived in Lynn with Xia Shi and An Ya, carrying a suitcase and welcoming the new settlement.
• Sword Aura Piercing Sky led the Iron Rain Guild toward Lynn to join The Truth Society, intending to gain faction missions and contribution by helping it deal with Bai Fu.

Bai Fu stayed with Xia Shi in Lynn and entered the Fourth Division’s archive to study advanced Spiritual Energy knowledge. She unlocked the Spiritual Energy Priest class, gained new skills, and began considering how to use Combat Etiquette against future opponents.

• Xia Shi invited Bai Fu and An Ya to stay at her apartment near the Fourth Division, and Bai Fu agreed.
• Xia Shi took Bai Fu to the Fourth Division’s archive, where Bai Fu began reading Advanced Applications of Psychic Power.
• Chief Lu Yuelin reviewed Bai Fu’s file, paused the investigation, and ordered Xia Shi to keep her nearby because The Truth Society had placed an assassination bounty on her.
• Bai Fu finished reading, spent 20,000 EXP to unlock Spiritual Energy Priest, and learned four new skills.
• Bai Fu raised Spiritual Energy Priest to Level 2, invested her free attribute points in Constitution, and considered ways to exploit Chain Reaction and Combat Etiquette.