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

Bai Fu was numb.

Those players searching for her were also numb after seeing the update announcement.

"Damn, I just want to know if Bai Fu is dead or not, and you hit me with this update?"

"Bastards, don't come out at a time like this acting like a cliffhanger dog. Even if you're updating, at least tell me the ending for Fufu."

"Is the official team asking for a beating?"

"Is it possible, I mean, is there any chance that the reason for the sudden maintenance isn't actually to expand the server, but to fix this 'BUG' of Bai Fu being dead?"

"It does seem like a possibility."

No matter how anxious the players were, how much they cursed, or how unwilling they were to leave, when the scheduled time came, they were still forced offline.

"They're all dead, all of them, for Bai Fu, for the Abandoned Cooling Factory, they..."

At daybreak, next to the ruins piled with Amoeba corpses, Xia Shi let out a long, pained sigh.

Even if Bai Fu managed to lure the Insect Tide away with the Inductive Bait, a Great Battle to eliminate the Amoebas that made it to the Abandoned Cooling Factory was still inevitable.

Although all the Amoebas had been wiped out, those outsiders had also fallen one by one. In the end, out of a hundred, at most, only four or five could still stand.

What a bitterly fierce fight it had been!

Xia Shi, who was used to blood and fire, nearly threw up after seeing such a scene.

She wanted to go up and comfort the surviving outsiders, but she couldn't think of anything to say. In the end, she could only watch helplessly as they staggered away until they completely disappeared from her sight.

"Look on the bright side, don't make yourself depressed," Yago advised.

Xia Shi nodded, "I understand, I'll get over it in a few days, but wait, Yago, look over there!"

Over there?

Yago looked in the direction of her gaze.

He saw a lone figure emerge from the morning mist.

One step, two steps, three steps... Finally, the figure came closer through the mist.

This time, Yago saw clearly.

"Bai Fu!"

Bai Fu was alive and had returned!

Yago's eyes widened, and for a moment, his heart was filled with immense joy. On this chilly morning, at last, there was some good news.

The outsiders who died in battle, if they knew Bai Fu was still alive, would they feel a bit more at ease, even in the underworld?

...

After reuniting with Yago and Xia Shi, Bai Fu shared a story she had just made up.

It was a simple one, about how she was attacked by a large number of Amoebas after getting off the vehicle. To better hold them off, she led them a great distance. She had thought she was done for, but then, unexpectedly, the Amoebas turned back and left. In that moment, she realized the operation was a success. She wanted to go back and find Patrick, but she got lost in the night. She wandered around all night long and finally made it back to the Abandoned Cooling Factory with neither harm nor danger.

"So the situation now is that I survived, but they died?" Bai Fu said with a wooden expression.

"That's right," Yago and Xia Shi consoled.

"Sigh."

Bai Fu let out a sigh, sitting quietly beside the ruins, as if waiting for someone. She sat there for a long time, right until the afternoon before she resignedly stood up, walked over to a player's corpse that hadn't disappeared yet, and gently kicked it with her shoe.

"Aren't you the ones who said you wouldn't die? So what's this? Resurrect, show me your resurrection!"

Xia Shi suspected that Bai Fu's mind had been affected by the shock, "Bai Fu, people can't come back to life, you..."

Bai Fu opened her mouth, wanting to say something but ultimately swallowing the words back down.

"They saved the Abandoned Cooling Factory, I want to make a Monument for them."

Yago and Xia Shi were moved, "I'll help you."

"Thank you."

Looking at the eager pair, Bai Fu couldn't help but smirk.

Building a Monument for the players, that was her idea for handling the sudden player logoff!

After all, as long as the players knew she was still alive, the emotions they had suppressed would definitely explode. Since that was the case, why would she fret about having to appear in front of the players?

Actually, Bai Fu was quite grateful for the official team's maneuver, because it pressed down the players' emotions yet another notch. Moreover, their handling turned the "is Bai Fu alive or dead" question into a sensation, attracting even the Fun-Seekers, who previously didn't care about her fate, to start making predictions in the Community without any prizes.

What will the players think when the game is back online and they see the Monument?

Bai Fu was looking forward to it.

Hurry it up, she was getting impatient!