Chapter 110: Historic Moment, First Encounter with the President of the Truth Society
A volley of arrows was released, white light burst forth, and the helicopter spun as it fell from the sky, smashing into the ground and sending shards flying in all directions. Flames ignited the surrounding trees.
Though the scene was deafening, not a single Player shouted.
Time seemed to slow down, sounds grew distant and muffled. If one had to describe the scene in a single phrase, it resembled the slow-motion aftermath of a crucial hit in a war film.
Excavation‑Princess was so excited she didn’t know where to place her hands.
She raised her hands, then lowered them, pointed at the falling helicopter, then at Bai Fu walking toward it, holding back her excitement for a long while before finally squeezing out a sentence:
【I’m sure this moment will be recorded in the history of Beyond the Stars. Even ten or twenty years later, when people make recap videos of Beyond the Stars, this moment will definitely be brought up time and time again!】
The reason was simple. Although Players had already witnessed grand scenes of battlefield exchanges, this was the first time someone had personally shot down a helicopter and witnessed it crash.
The visual impact of the helicopter crashing straight into the Livestream camera was beyond what any film special effects could replicate.
A fall—yet it fell with a surreal beauty. This fall ignited the imaginations of every Player who saw it with their own eyes.
If even a helicopter crash could be so stunning, what kind of magnificence would there be in battles among starships and mechs in space?
【My drill can pierce the heavens!】
【Heck yes, that was awesome! I can’t wait to soar skyward and walk shoulder to shoulder with the sun!】
【Fu‑baby, I like you!】
The Players indulged in fantasies about the blood-pumping journey through the stars.
Would they become interstellar cowboys cracking down on criminals and defending peace across the galaxy? Or perhaps interstellar warriors weaving through swarms and demons? Or join major factions and script an epic tale of space heroes in fleet-to-fleet duels?
But not everyone was fired up.
After struggling to push aside the seat pinning him down, Carlisle felt like his head was about to explode.
He never imagined that those Wanderers—who he had crushed like bugs—would suddenly pull out a bunch of white light guns and shoot down his helicopter. It felt absurd, like “villagers sharing fusion technology with you.”
Yet more than confusion, what now surged in his heart was unease.
The helicopter was gone. Even if he wiped out all these Wanderers, there was no chance of leaving a good impression on the President. He might even be blamed for his recklessness and demoted.
NMSL!
The rage in Carlisle's heart burned hotter than the flames on the helicopter.
“Anyone still breathing, get up now!”
He shouted curses while getting to his feet, kicking away debris that had pinned down others.
Most inside the helicopter were injured. The unluckiest pilot had been directly killed by the Penetrating Spear. But seeing how furious Carlisle was, no one dared stay down. Gritting their teeth through the pain, they scrambled up.
“Follow me and let’s kill those bastards—”
“Commander Carlisle, bad news, behind you!”
Carlisle was cut off. A trembling guard with an injured right leg pointed behind him.
Behind?
Carlisle turned his head—and somehow, a silver-haired girl, like a sprite, had appeared right behind him.
Wasn’t this the woman who had directed the attack on his helicopter?
His current miserable state was entirely her doing!
Fine, fine.
“I wasn’t even coming after you, and yet you deliver yourself to me.”
Carlisle rolled his neck. He was wounded, his left arm bleeding, but this much didn’t hinder him at all.
“Lying on the ground isn’t better? You really had to stand up and seek death?” said Bai Fu.
Carlisle sneered. “Judging by that arrogant tone, you think downing the helicopter means you’ve won? Let me tell you something. The helicopter was merely my power limiter. Kneel and surrender now, or I’ll break your legs one centimeter at a time!”
His killing intent was immense, heavy as a mountain—but to Bai Fu, it was as light as a feather.
“I have a question. From the first time I heard your name—Carlisle—it sounded familiar. Don’t tell me... you’re the former deputy leader of the Watchers Camp?”
Carlisle’s brow furrowed. “Why bring that up?”
Bai Fu nodded. “Very good. You’ve found your path to death!”
She was pleased. When she discovered the President of the Truth Society was inside this laboratory, she thought at most she could only kill a few small fry to vent. But it turned out this small fry had a name and a history.
Whether for the Regional Main Storyline【Elegy of the Watchers】or to raise Favorability with Old Nissen and Yulia, Carlisle had to die today.
The Players who had just arrived gasped when they heard Carlisle’s name. “Damn, isn’t that the traitor from the Goli Desert main quest?”
Carlisle froze, realization dawning. “You know people from the Watchers Camp?”
Bai Fu smirked, giving no answer.
Carlisle burst out laughing, like a certain infamous Uchiha.
“Hahaha! Just now, I thought I had no hope of redeeming myself and would be punished. But who knew things would turn out this way? You came prepared, didn’t you? If I capture you, the President will definitely reward me. First, Yulia helped me join the Truth Society. Now you’re here to help me rise further. The Watchers Camp is my lucky star!”
“？”
His words left Players who knew the Watchers Camp plot absolutely furious.
Damn, what kind of cursed backstory is this?
【We must hit him hard】
【Fu‑Fu, go for it!】
Bai Fu drew a card from her bag. “Your time is up.”
The same trick again?
Carlisle was prepared. He surged with power, instantly entering a hunting stance.
But just as he was about to launch a close-range assault, he was shocked to find himself frozen.
Bai Fu used Flowing Light to flash in front of Carlisle. The moment she landed, she had already played the Prayer Card for Spatial Distortion. Then, she extended her right hand to within one centimeter of Carlisle’s chest.
Explode!
A tide of Psionic Power, far more violent and explosive than anything Hei Fu had unleashed, erupted from her palm, instantly engulfing Carlisle.
Damage values burst forth above Carlisle’s head. He felt as though he was being repeatedly rammed by a dump truck. His internal organs were on the verge of bursting—but he couldn’t move at all.
Fortunately, this situation did not last long. As soon as the two seconds were up, he quickly dodged backwards—unexpectedly, he dodged in the wrong direction, charging straight at Bai Fu as if attempting insurance fraud.
He crashed headlong, and Carlisle was blasted away like a ball.
He was, after all, a Level 36 hidden Boss. Bai Fu’s four seconds of output didn’t deal a fatal blow, only knocking off nearly 400 HP—about a third of his total HP. That amount of damage wasn’t enough to hinder a high-level Martial Artist.
Carlisle rolled a few times on the ground, adjusted his stance, then turned into a stream of light. His fists surged with flames, smashing heavily into Bai Fu’s raised right hand.
Bai Fu took a few steps back, showing no visible wounds, though a white damage value popped up above her head.
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13!
“Penetration damage?”
Bai Fu quickly glanced at the game prompt. Carlisle’s special ability could convert a portion of his damage into penetration damage, ignoring Psionic Shield.
A truly enviable ability—no wonder he was on the Regional Main Storyline kill list.
At this moment, the surrounding Players raised their guns.
“Fu‑Fu.”
They did want to help, but in melee combat, they might not only be useless—they could get in Bai Fu’s way.
Bai Fu remained calm: “Watch the others. Don’t let them escape!”
Carlisle’s ability was special, but his Stats were still lacking in front of her. A single hit dealt 13 true damage—he’d have to hit her 160 times to kill her. She’d long sent him to heaven by then.
Prayer Cards shot from her fingertips. As Carlisle charged again, a Penetrating Spear flew straight toward his chest.
“Same trick again? You think I’d fall for it twice? What a joke!”
Carlisle bent down to dodge—but in the next moment, he heard a sound from behind him.
“Psionic Burst!”
A torrent of Psionic Power burst from Hei Fu’s palm, slamming into Carlisle’s back like a heavy hammer.
Bai Fu hadn’t spoken to Carlisle so long just to confirm his identity. She had been stalling to let Hei Fu flank from behind. That Combat Etiquette control at the start had been released by Hei Fu, allowing her to flash in front of Carlisle with Flowing Light and unleash Psionic Burst.
Carlisle was blasted away once more.
When he climbed up from the ground, covered in dirt, he was shocked to see two Fus—one black, one white—standing amid the flames.
“Heard you wanted to break my legs one centimeter at a time?”
“Twins?”
Everyone from the Truth Society on site was mentally shaken, overcome with fear.
Even one Bai Fu could suppress Carlisle. If there were two...
Boom!
The explosion effect of Extra-dimensional Erosion suddenly triggered. Before Carlisle could grasp what was happening, he was blasted to the ground in agony.
“Ughhhh—”
Agonizing pain ripped through Carlisle’s nerves. Screaming, he squeezed out every ounce of energy in his body. At this point, he had no choice but to use his ultimate Burst technique.
The surging Qi shattered the ground around him with spiderweb-like cracks. Soil and rubble flew into the air.
【Damn, the Boss is entering phase two!】
【Holy crap, this is the power of a leveled-up Martial Artist?】
A flash of light flickered in Bai Fu’s eyes. She saw Carlisle’s Stats soaring. But no matter how high they soared, the gap in strength couldn’t be bridged just by a second phase.
She and Hei Fu charged toward Carlisle at once, launching two Penetrating Spears at his face as they approached.
Carlisle couldn’t dodge in time. He took the hits head-on, using Qi-powered arms to trade blows with Bai Fu and Hei Fu.
Normally, a Martial Artist in melee could crush a Psionic Prayer-user. But as a melee caster with maxed-out durability, Bai Fu only felt like laughing now.
You have your Qi techniques—I have Psionic Burst. You have penetration damage—I have percentage-based damage. If it’s a battle of attrition, why would I be afraid?
The intense battle stunned the nearby Players.
They couldn’t see the forms of Hei Fu, Bai Fu, and Carlisle clearly—only three blurs repeatedly crossing paths. The scattered Qi and Psionic Power blasted the surrounding dirt, stones, and trees into rubble.
After over ten consecutive clashes, Carlisle’s HP had been pushed to a critically low point by continuous Psionic Burst and Extra-dimensional Erosion.
He was sent flying again, crashing into a tree and breaking it. When he looked up in horror, he found he couldn’t get up immediately.
His legs—
Crap!
Bai Fu held a Prayer Card in each hand.
【Penetrating Spear】
Two white streaks of light pierced the night, like siege ballistae, shooting through the fallen Carlisle’s chest. But that wasn’t the end. As the Prayer Cards turned to white light particles, two Tiny Bai Fus dashed from Bai Fu’s feet toward Carlisle.
Saturation Strike!
Bai Fu never held back against kill-worthy enemies—and she never skimped on spending.
In the sweeping Psionic Storm, Carlisle screamed and passed out, only to be jolted awake again by the pain. When the storm finally ended, his limbs were crippled, and the ground beneath him was littered with torn flesh and blood.
One attack—500 damage!
【Carlisle·HP】: 61/1295
Clearly, Carlisle was on the brink of death. His eyes held only fatigue and fear.
Bai Fu walked up to him, her boots stepping on Carlisle’s chest.
“Your strength was decent—but that’s all it was.”
“Spare me,” Carlisle begged weakly, blood at his lips. “I can tell you a secret. If you charge into the laboratory now, you’ll die.”
“You mean the President of the Truth Society is inside the laboratory?”
Bai Fu smiled as she drew a heavy pistol from her thigh.
Carlisle’s pupils dilated. “How do you know that?”
Bai Fu aimed the gun at his head. Ignoring his plea, she pulled the trigger—bang bang bang—rounds tore through his skull, splattering red and white everywhere.
【You have slain Carlisle. Contribution: 98.2%. After level difference correction, you received 122750 XP】
【You completed the Regional Main Storyline Quest [Elegy of the Watchers] Branch 1. Contribution: 96.1%. You received 288300 XP】
One battle earned her 410,000 XP. Bai Fu glanced at her interface—she was now only 640,000 XP away from instantly leveling up【Apprentice Psionic Illustrator】to Lv20.
Once the Railway Guild attacked, she would tag along in the chaos and flatten this laboratory. That should be enough to trigger the Class Transfer Quest.
“Truly stepping toward the peak!”
A gleam of anticipation flashed in Bai Fu’s eyes.
She moved her leather boot from Carlisle’s corpse, turned around, and swept her gaze across the surroundings, coldly asking:
“Anyone else?”
None.
Not a single one.
On the battlefield strewn with wreckage, even the most fearless Players swallowed hard, and the guards from the Truth Society were utterly terrified.
That was Commander Carlisle!
Even if most of them usually looked down on him, seeing him as a social climber with no bottom line, no one could deny he was the top expert in this laboratory. And yet now, he had been utterly obliterated by those two women beneath a tree—there wasn't even a whole corpse left.
What a calamity.
Weren’t Psionic Prayer-users supposed to be weak in melee? What kind of monsters were these two women?
Bai Fu asked, “Is your laboratory researching a peculiar black slate?”
The guards looked completely bewildered.
“Black slate?”
“Is there such a thing?”
“The lab is researching Mutant technology—the kind that turns people into half-human, half-beast Mutants.”
So there’s no Obsidian Shard here?
Bai Fu felt a bit disappointed. What a pity. That meant she had to make another trip to the Gene Primordials.
“Rest in peace.”
Several Tiny Bai Fus rushed out. Before the guards could even scream injustice, they were blown into the sky by the Tiny Bai Fus. When they hit the ground, they were barely alive. Seeing the opening, Players swiftly fired the finishing shots, turning them into sieves in just a few hits.
So satisfying!
The Players were overjoyed. Even though they contributed little to the fight, the finishing damage and the guaranteed rewards from the Main Storyline still gave those of lower level a solid boost.
Bai Fu was just about to speak when her brow suddenly furrowed. The【Eye of the Dark Moon】Card she had left inside the laboratory received new intel.
“What are you doing here?”
“P… President!”
“Reporting, President. It’s like this…”
Several guards had been resting by the corridor. They never expected the President to exit from Laboratory No. 1 early. They immediately stood up and explained everything that had just occurred.
“Carlisle.”
The President muttered that name softly.
At that moment, he suddenly raised his head and stared fixedly at the guard Hei Fu had intentionally let escape.
His gaze was icy, like the stare of death itself.
The guard nearly wet himself from fright. “President, I…”
The President strode over, gripped the guard’s shoulder, turned him 180 degrees, and then reached into his clothes—tearing off the【Eye of the Dark Moon】that had been stuck to his back.
It all happened too fast. The guards hadn’t expected it. Neither had Bai Fu.
Just like that, the President of the Truth Society appeared within her field of vision.
It was her first time seeing the President’s real appearance—and likely the first time many in the outside world would learn what he looked like.
Bai Fu’s first impression was: ordinary.
Yes.
He was a middle-aged man with such plain features that he would be forgotten in a crowd within moments.
But at this particular time, anyone who laid eyes on him would never forget—because of those eyes. Those deep, oppressive eyes.
It was as if he was staring directly at Bai Fu through the【Eye of the Dark Moon】, bridging vast distance with a single gaze.
Bai Fu felt everything around her go silent. She used【Psionic Vision】on the President of the Truth Society, but the skill failed, displaying only his total level.
【56】
A full 13 levels higher than her!
A ghostly voice echoed from the President’s lips.
“I see you.”
He crushed the Prayer Card.