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

"What, you say Bai Fu only became so powerful recently?"

"That's even more exaggerated."

In just over a year, she grew from A-rank and became Catastrophe-level—how could a normal superpower user upgrade so quickly?

Although suspecting that it was fake news released by the Heavenly Eye Alliance to deceive people, the Secret Tower Master still had to treat it seriously.

If Bai Fu really was that formidable and he did nothing, the Secret Tower would then lose a key figure.

The loss of a Catastrophe-level figure to the Secret Tower was akin to losing an arm.

With this in mind, the Secret Tower Master suddenly felt relieved.

Before the operation, the Housekeeper had sent Daken to wait near the Red Ring Star for Secret Tower's operatives; that location was not chosen at random. As early as one and a half months ago, the Secret Tower had secretly placed a large number of parasites on the Red Ring Star. At that time, he had thought the Housekeeper was making a big deal out of nothing but now it seemed that this was not an overreaction; it was far-sightedness.

If Sentry truly was in a desperate situation, then the Red Ring Star would be the only place that could offer him an escape route.

It still had to be the Housekeeper.

The Secret Tower Master sighed to himself.

"I'll go find the Dark Domain Insect Empress, for urgent matters, contact the Housekeeper directly."

With the order from the Secret Tower Master, the Secret Tower sprang into action at high speed to rescue Sentry.

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"This should about do it."

After blowing up the asteroid, Sentry took advantage of the chaos and fled toward the Red Ring Star at high speed.

Blowing up the asteroid was a roundabout way of informing headquarters that he had encountered big trouble, and it was also meant to create chaos to facilitate his escape—this was his entire plan.

Fortunately, he got off to a good start.

But unfortunately, he had underestimated Fei Ye's abilities. Void life, whether it came to fleeing or pursuing, were experts.

Thus, despite the confusion created by the explosion, he was caught up by Fei Ye before he could reach the Red Ring Star.

"You are…"

This was the first time Sentry had seen Fei Ye's face clearly since the battle started.

He wished he hadn't seen it.

Because at the moment of clarity, he was so shocked that it gave Fei Ye another opportunity to close in, and she struck his still intact left arm with her blade.

The good news: his arm wasn't severed; the bad news: the severe laceration meant he could no longer freely control his left arm.

Blood flowed from the wound, as red as his eyeballs.

"The Void Battle Maiden, it's you!"

Sentry never expected that it would be Fei Ye he was contending with, considering she had been stuck at S+ rank for many years, a fact that was almost common knowledge in the Sea Lion Star System.

But now she had advanced to Catastrophe-level, and just entering Catastrophe made him, an old aces, feel immense pressure.

What in the world was going on?

Sentry had been shocked more times today than in the past ten years.

For example, up until now, he couldn't figure out how Bai Fu led him around.

No, now was not the time to be tangled up in these issues!

At this point, he had no desire to continue fighting with Fei Ye.

He was wounded, his Qi Energy had been depleted by the Star Explosion, and the likelihood of winning if he continued to fight was less than 20%.

Run!

Even at the risk of sustaining more severe injuries, he had to run!

While escaping, Sentry kept up his verbal assault.

This time, he initiated a full domain broadcast.

"Do you know why I'm running toward the Red Ring Star?"

"Because the Secret Tower had already placed a large number of parasites on the Red Ring Star!"

"If you dare kill me, Bai Fu, I'll immediately activate these parasites and turn the entire Red Ring Star into hell!"

Upon this declaration, the entire Red Ring Star was shocked.

Parasites?

Recently, there have been outbreaks of massive riots induced by parasites across the Initial Gate Star System Group and even the leading news headline of the Heavenly Eye Alliance was related to parasites.

The inhabitants of the Red Ring Star had heard about the Secret Tower's placing of parasites in their midst.

Learning that a parasitic situation had been triggered by the Secret Tower, and the Catastrophe-level Superpower User, Sentry was rushing to the Red Ring Star, the planet plunged into chaos.

Countless people flooded towards the spaceport.

Those with private spaceships took off immediately, while others desperately clicked on ticketing websites, hoping to purchase a ticket to leave the Red Ring Star right away.

This was exactly the scenario Sentry wanted to see.

He's gambling that his threat would prevent Bai Fu from acting rashly. Even if this move didn't scare Bai Fu, the ships fleeing the Red Ring Star could serve as his cover, buying him more time to escape.

"Let's go, go!"

Bai Fu was furious.

This Catastrophe-level old-timer was so difficult to kill; Fei Ye had struck him so many times, and yet he could still cause trouble.

Bai Fu quickly brought out the Cipris, the Dark Domain Insect Queen.

"You said before that you could command these parasites to self-destruct, right?"

Cipris nodded repeatedly, the two antennae beside her ears quivering, unexpectedly amusing.

"No problem, but my power is still weak right now, so I need to get closer to do it."

"No big deal."

Having received a definite answer, Bai Fu immediately piloted the spaceship toward the Red Ring Star. Halfway there, she received a game prompt that an urgent task related to the Red Ring Star had been triggered.

Such urgent tasks could be triggered anywhere, usually when a crisis erupted in a location that required players to resolve.

Because this urgent task of the Red Ring Star involved the fate of the entire planet, the rewards were much higher than usual.