Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Bai Fu had taken down a total of seven players, racking up 1130 experience points.
When she submitted the "Wildfire Burning" quest just now, she earned 2000 experience points for capturing ten players, plus the leftover experience from her last level-up and the experience gained from taking out Martin, Bai Fu now had a total of 3841 experience points.
This rate of accumulating experience left the players in silence and the NPCs who needed to slowly bolster their power in tears.
Considering Cao Wenliang had put in a fair amount of effort, Bai Fu had to work hard to keep from laughing in his presence.
"You have proved your loyalty to the Wildfire Gang,"
Cao Wenliang said in a perfunctory manner and then ignored Bai Fu.
With his status within the Wildfire Gang, indeed, there was no need for him to explain anything to Bai Fu.
The situation got somewhat awkward until the boss of the Wildfire Gang stepped in to put an end to the farce.
"Clean up the bodies and lock up the three who are still alive for now."
After arranging the "affairs" of the dead players, he even had someone give Bai Fu an extra 500 Credit Coins as a reward for her outstanding performance.
Bai Fu gladly accepted, not caring what the purpose was behind the Wildfire Gang leader's actions—she only knew that it was foolish to turn down money.
While going to collect the money, the person responsible for dispensing it whispered, "You better be careful these days."
"Why is that?"
"You haven't interacted with Minister Cao that much, so you might not know how petty he can be. He was already dissatisfied with you, and today you've embarrassed him in front of everyone; he won't let it go just like that. And since he's in charge of logistics, you... just understand what I mean."
The person shook his head at this point, apparently long disenchanted with Cao Wenliang.
Bai Fu smiled and expressed her gratitude.
Indeed, she did not know Cao Wenliang well, but she had her "hack."
When Cao Wenliang left earlier, she had given him a special dose of Spiritual Vision.
[Name]: Cao Wenliang (Elite)
[Template]: Ordinary
[Main Profession]: Ordinary Boxer Lv9
[Secondary Profession]: None
[Life Value]: 130/130
[Attributes]: Power 14, Agility 7, Constitution 10, Intelligence 3, Spirit 3, Inspiriation 4
[Skills]: ?
[Talent]: ?
[Affinity]: Resentment (-46)
[Danger Level]: Red
Spiritual Vision couldn't see through to Cao Wenliang's true inner thoughts, but the -46 Affinity was already quite telling.
Bai Fu was somewhat looking forward to seeing how Cao Wenliang would try to deal with her—surely he wouldn't just find an excuse to withhold her supplies?
That would seriously downgrade Cao Wenliang from angel investor to something much less in her eyes.
Overall, Bai Fu remained quite composed.
Although it would be difficult for her to defeat Cao Wenliang with her current power, unless he was about to show up at her doorstep, she had nothing to worry about.
...
The next day, Bai Fu got up early on purpose, first to apologize to Patrick and the others she had taken down, before reporting to the Wildfire Gang.
She had only just arrived at the Wildfire Gang when a member from the field operations department, responsible for distributing various tasks, found her.
"After discussing it, considering the current weak state of your team and the fact that you exceeded yesterday's quota, higher-ups have temporarily arranged a light and easy task for you."
There's such a good thing? Why don't I believe it?
"What task?" Bai Fu asked.
"Interrogator."
"Ah?" Bai Fu was startled, "The problem is I've never dealt with this before; if you let me be an Interrogator, I probably won't get any useful information out of anyone."
"No worries; what you have to do is very simple. You'll be specifically responsible for interrogating those from outside the area. Bring them in, apply some random torture, and if they confess, that's great. If they refuse, make it quick and send them on their way."
"Is that even possible?"
"Yeah, why wouldn't it be? Those outsiders are stubborn as hell, even a professional interrogator might not be able to get anything out of them. You don't need to feel any psychological pressure."
Now Bai Fu was certain, the person before her wasn't lying, because this was indeed an easy and good job, she couldn't find any better job at the moment!
According to this person, her task was simple—kill players.
With the current level difference between her and the players, killing one player would earn her 150-200 experience points. Once the average level of the players increased, this number could even go up.
It was a business that made money without any capital.
Bai Fu had never dreamed that she could go from her "years at the Abandoned Cooling Factory" to "days of slaying players in the interrogation room," experiencing the joy of sneaking levels up.
Could it be that she had finally met Lady Luck?
Bai Fu wasn't worried at all that going berserk in the interrogation room, taking out a player with every slash, would cause the players to resent her.
The reason was simple.
Once players were captured by the Wildfire Gang, they couldn't play the game properly. All they could do was log off or browse the community forums and surf the internet.
If she killed these players, it was akin to rescuing them, allowing them to continue playing the game normally.
The players wouldn't have time to thank her, let alone blame her.
Seeing Bai Fu in deep thought, the NPC issuing the task followed up, "What do you say, are you taking the job?"
Bai Fu nodded, "Sure, why not."
"Then great, I'll take you to get familiar with the work environment now."
...
Administrative office of the logistics department.
Cao Wenliang lifted his head, asking the person who entered, "How did it go, did she take the job?"
The newcomer smiled and said, "She did, and she seemed pretty happy about it."
Cao Wenliang tapped the table with his index finger, a trace of cold light flashing in his eyes.
With his power, killing a supervisor should have been unnecessary, but Bai Fu was handpicked by the boss. Unless he was prepared to completely fall out with the boss, no matter how angry he was, he could only act within the limits of what he did yesterday, not daring to make a direct move.
But none of that mattered anymore.
He had already prepared a more exquisite 'last meal' for Bai Fu.
He made sure to instruct his men to extensively publicize Bai Fu's impressive record in the interrogation room in front of those outsiders.
First, she captured ten outsiders in one fell swoop, then killed seven of them, followed by accruing a vast amount of blood-debt in the interrogation room.
Cao Wenliang was somewhat eager to see how these outsiders would crazily seek revenge against Bai Fu once he found an excuse to release her.
Would they tear her apart, finely chop her up for hot pot ingredients, or use even more ruthless and merciless methods?
Truly interesting.
For the next three days, Bai Fu went nowhere else and stayed in the Wildfire Gang's interrogation room.
As she guessed, the players she captured, aside from being initially shocked, were overly delighted for the rest of the time.
As time passed, players even bestowed upon her a new nickname in the community—
[Savior Bai Fu the True Immortal]
[But I don't think Fufu is very happy, suddenly being consigned to an interrogator, she can't do any proper work]
[She must be tormented inside, having to kill every day, even though it's us who can't die]
[Wildfire Gang is just too tyrannical, how dare they treat Fufu this way]
[It's probably that fucker Cao Wenliang's doing, dammit, we have to find a way to kill him and rescue Fufu]
No, please don't "rescue" me—I'm doing great here.
In three days, Bai Fu had taken out 23 players, and as the players' levels had gradually increased during these days, the experience she earned was quite a bit more than expected.
"4350 points, at this rate, in another ten days or so, I should be able to level up the Spiritual Ability Apprentice to level 8 or 9."
Cao Wenliang?
Just wait and see if I don't beat the crap out of you!