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

After explaining the method, Bai Fu started to talk about the current situation.

Actually, the situation wasn't too bad. Although Fei Ye and her group had been chasing the pirate gang carrying the Dissociative Potion base material for several days and hadn't been able to catch them, the pirate gang also hadn't managed to shake them off.

Now the situation had become somewhat deadlocked, and as for when the deadlock would be broken or in which direction the situation would develop after that, it all depended on which side's reinforcements would arrive faster.

Bai Fu's original plan was to meet up with Fei Ye and then launch an immediate attack on the pirate gang, snatch the base material, and then beat it without a second thought.

To ensure the success of her plan, she had specifically asked Players to use the Fufu Prayer Card to create the illusion that she was still on Bikong Star.

But now she had changed her plan.

If the Oath Lord was willing to lend a hand, hide?

"I hide my ball," she might as well just teleport in and start taunting, right!

You little Secret Tower Master, I'm your daddy, I'm out in the open to snatch your Dissociative Potion base material now, come and try to hit me if you can!

Bai Fu planned to wade into the situation herself, draw a huge amount of aggro, and attract more people from the Secret Tower to come and beat her up, then unleash the Oath Lord for some satisfying kills.

"Is it possible that the Secret Tower's reinforcements could arrive at any time?"

The Oath Lord looked troubled.

She wanted to help out; after all, getting the base material would allow Fei Ye to advance to Catastrophe level, and she could also take the opportunity to ask Bai Fu how she trained the Players.

But because Lupus had come looking for a fight, she wasn't at the Star Contract Headquarters at all.

Even if she traveled to Bai Fu at top speed, it would take a lot of time. Who told her to practice Martial Arts, to be utterly clueless about teleportation, constructing directional spatial channels, and the like?

Ah, this was just too inconvenient. Why had Lupus chosen this time to challenge her to a spar, when the big fool didn't usually come looking for a fight?

After pondering for a long while, the Oath Lord finally thought of a compromise.

"I can't get there right now, but I have something here that should be able to help you."

Hearing that the Oath Lord couldn't make it, Bai Fu had to admit she was disappointed, but after reading the Item Description sent by the Oath Lord over the network, she couldn't help but laugh.

[Virtual Heart]

[Quality]: Red

[Item Description]: A control core crafted by a Dominator Level virtual Mechanic that can be reused.

The effect of the Virtual Heart was incredibly straightforward and brutal; once used, it could forcibly seize the controls of all nearby machinery not protected by special defenses.

With this, even if the Oath Lord couldn't come, her plan to screw over the Secret Tower seemed to be able to continue.

After some careful thought, Bai Fu realized that the Virtual Heart might even be more useful than the Oath Lord herself.

Because if the Oath Lord personally arrived and took action even once, the Secret Tower certainly wouldn't dare to provoke her again in the future. Regrettably, even the brash Secret Tower wouldn't dare to clash head-on with the superlative might of the Oath Lord.

But using the Virtual Heart would be different; even if they got tricked by the Virtual Heart once, the Secret Tower would most likely not be afraid but would hate her even more, just like after she beat them up on Golden Valley Star.

[Despicable wretch, if you have the guts, don't always resort to sneaky tricks; fight us fair and square!]

Hey, that's more like it. Bai Fu would love for the Secret Tower to hate her.

How troublesome it would be to actively locate the Secret Tower's hideout; enticing the Secret Tower to keep sending victims her way would make completing her Task that much easier.

To make sure the Secret Tower sent victims more decisively, Bai Fu decided to feign weakness in the upcoming battle—

That is, to deliberately expose Black Fu's presence during the combat, leading the Secret Tower to believe that her ability to block spaceship cannons with her body was all thanks to Black Fu.

As a result, after being tricked by the Virtual Heart, the Secret Tower would be even more convinced that her own power wasn't all that, depending entirely on various fancy items, and would thus continue to send people to attack her.

After that, all she had to do was, when the Secret Tower's Assassins arrived, intentionally display just a bit more power than the Assassins and struggle to defeat them, making the Secret Tower feel that they were very close to a successful assassination; just a tiny bit of bad luck was in the way, and then continue to dispatch Assassins.

Bai Fu called this tactic the "Scumbag Strategy."

By the time the Secret Tower came to its senses, her Contribution points for eliminating the Secret Tower might have already increased by a third.

Bai Fu thanked the Oath Lord and after ending the conversation, she immediately informed Fei Ye and Cecilia of her plan.

Half a day later, the Spaceship reached its destination.

As soon as she disembarked, Bai Fu rented a small ship from a nearby leasing company to meet up with Fei Ye and the others.

"The Black Flute Pirate Group's ship isn't very fast, but its maneuverability is just too good; despite chasing for several days, we haven't been able to catch up to it."

Fei Ye was so frustrated that she brought up her grievances the moment she saw Bai Fu.

Bai Fu waved her hand: "Don't worry, their good days are over now that I'm here."

She activated her communicator, selected the Virtual Heart sent by the Oath Lord, and without the Black Flute Pirate Group noticing, the Virtual Heart had already secretly taken over the highest control authority of their spaceship.

The next second, a shrill alarm sounded in the cockpit.

"Unknown spaceship detected ahead, unknown spaceship detected ahead!"

"What?"

The leader of the Black Flute Pirate Group, Daken, paled.

He had contacted the Secret Tower four days ago, hoping they would send someone to rescue him. He hadn't expected that the reinforcements for his pursuers would arrive first.

Still, something even more unexpected happened soon after.

The unidentified spaceship closed in rapidly, attempting to board, and he managed, through sheer effort and a bit of luck with the ship's excellent steering capabilities, to evade. But as the two ships passed by each other, Daken saw a familiar figure standing behind the clear observation glass of the opposite ship—