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

"It doesn't have to be advanced knowledge, as long as it's uncommon."

Gathering spiritual ability knowledge, accumulating experience, making prayer cards, customizing combat suits for Black Fu, and crafting appropriately sized weapons for Little Black Fu, Bai Fu began the final sprint for the upcoming operation.

While she was frenziedly busy, the third issue of the Silent Court's news express produced by Digging Girl was finally released.

The video had been brewing for a long time, and the changes in the Silent Court had already spread through several hugely popular live broadcasts before, so the players who came to watch the video right away were all interested in what Digging Girl called "Bai Fu's Exclusive Interview."

At this point, Digging Girl, playing the role of a minor character in the game but a giant in hyping things up, really scored big.

She inserted a one-minute-long blooper reel at the end of the video, showing Bai Fu exclaiming "Oh my god" and covering her mouth upon hearing the news she brought.

Since Bai Fu had instructed not to reveal the news for now, Digging Girl muted her own speech, adding a ton of voiceovers and special effect subtitles.

"Showing you a different side of Fufu."

"Silver Moon? Silent Court Master? Ghost Night Dominator? No, today's star is the girl-next-door·Homely Fu!"

"The tea Fufu personally poured for me!"

"Guessing game with no prize, what could have caused Fufu to show such a surprised expression?"

"The specific reason will be revealed in the next video, it's not that I don't want to say it, but the situation is very special."

Digging Girl managed to lift the popularity of this video to heights it perhaps didn't deserve with just a small clip.

Originally, everyone was guessing whether the content discussed in Bai Fu's interview was related to the upcoming main storyline, and her act brought in a flood of players eager for drama.

[Oh my, can you even cut off a video like that?]

[Oh my, Digging Girl, you wouldn't have attacked Bai Fu, right?]

[Don't touch Fufu, I'll kill you, kill you, kill you...]

[I command you to release the next video right now]

A group of players were going crazy at Digging Girl while another group was going crazy at Bai Fu.

The difference was staggering—seeing the Ghost Night Dominator, who would casually eliminate advanced superpower users during a leisurely walk, cover her mouth embarrassedly due to a reflex action caused by her surprise...

[Awei is dead]

[I like Bai Fu even more now]

[Cute, I want to see more!]

"You know, seriously, Bai Fu is really quite cute."

"Definitely more pleasant to the eye than those researchers who keep sticking needles in me."

"If it were Bai Fu giving me those injections, I wouldn't mind a few extra ones every day."

Meanwhile, at the Truth Society main base, Master Tai'er, who had finally gotten a break, was watching the video released by Digging Girl with a dozen other players.

Master Tai'er remained silent, while other players shared their thoughts in the team channel.

At first, they complimented how good-looking Bai Fu was, quite in line with the national beauty standards, and her character unexpectedly had some cute traits, but as they continued, they collectively started complaining about the Truth Society.

Despite being in a different situation than those players who were forcibly transformed by the Truth Society, they had voluntarily joined believing that the Society, having stood firm against the other four major forces alone for nearly a century, must possess extraordinary qualities. When other players disliked the Truth Society, they thought joining such a remarkable group would be highly profitable.

Although this wasn't a wrong notion, and indeed after joining the Truth Society, they did earn experience much faster than average players,

the more time they spent with the Truth Society, the more they realized that joining was a terrible move.

No way around it, besides leveling up quickly, which was a noticeable advantage, there were far too many downsides to joining the Truth Society.

For example, joining required undergoing modifications, and once modified, it was impossible to leave the Truth Society willingly for a while.

Also, players had an extremely low status within the Society, akin to the mutant NPCs, with almost no chance of getting promoted by increasing their reputation; virtually any NPC with a minor position could order players around, resulting in a terrible experience.

But that wasn't even the worst part; only after accepting new tasks and coming to this base did they realize the experience could get even worse.

"How long have we been here now?"

"Almost a month."

"Damn it, this month we've either been experimented on or been moving bricks like laborers, it's more torturous than working a job. Had I known this, I'd rather go challenge a boss like Bai Fu at level one in my underwear."

"Tell me about it, now even if we want to change factions, we can't; the only option would be to switch accounts."

No one wanted to switch accounts; they were all nearly level twenty by now, switching at this point would be a huge loss.

Actually, without any comparison, these players working at the Truth Society's main base could have tolerated it, after all, they really were leveling up very fast, and they didn't need to struggle with defeating monsters.

But specifically since the end of version 1.1 and especially during the start of version 1.2, everywhere in the community, live streams, and video platforms, players from the Silent Court were showing off.

They thought they were leveling up fast?

Silent Court players weren't slow either; in fact, some from the Silent Court were leveling up even faster.

While leveling up quickly, Silent Court players' gaming experience was exponentially better than theirs.

Rich main tasks, camp tasks, and commission tasks, personally building their own main cities, having streets and buildings named after them appearing on the game map, and performing well to even receive personal rewards from the Camp Master Bai Fu...