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

Digging Girl wondered if she had seen something wrong.

She took several steps back, then rubbed her eyes vigorously. When she opened her eyes again, there still stood a stone stele as tall as a person in front of her, and the words carved on it were still the same as what she had just seen.

She was certain that not long ago, this alley had no stele. This meant the stele had been erected recently, and it was done by Bai Fu, otherwise the inscription wouldn't bear Bai Fu's name.

"Fufu didn't die?"

The thought made Digging Girl's breath catch.

This discovery completely surprised her, yet it perfectly matched her deepest desire.

She stood there in a daze for a while, then pinched her right thigh.

Now was not the time to daydream; she needed to quickly find a passing NPC to ask about the situation to avoid getting her hopes up for nothing.

Digging Girl dashed out of the alley. She was quite lucky, as she ran into a Scavenger just after two blocks.

She quickly stopped the Scavenger, "Hello, I am..."

The Scavenger looked stunned, "Aren't you that foreigner who commanded us to retreat that day? So you didn't die after all. Bai Fu was worried about you yesterday."

Hearing this, Digging Girl took a deep breath, which was followed by a surge of emotion she couldn't suppress.

Hahaha, Fufu really didn't die!

She was trying to control herself, but the smile on her lips was utterly undeniable.

"Can you tell me what happened these past two days, and where Fufu went? I just went to her house to look for her, but she wasn't there."

"It's like this..."

The Scavenger told Digging Girl everything he knew.

Learning about Bai Fu's behavior, believing that the player was dead and would never return, Digging Girl was stunned.

If previously she admired Bai Fu mainly because Bai Fu could bring her immense popularity and help her advance further in her game streaming career, now things were slightly different.

Even though Bai Fu was just an NPC, wasn't she much warmer than many people she had met?

Her heart was touched.

In Digging Girl's view, Bai Fu was no longer just a simple NPC, but a virtual companion to exchange genuine feelings with.

Damn, she was fired up!

Digging Girl was now immensely motivated, having lain low for a day. Now was the perfect moment to fiercely take on those mocking her!

After bidding farewell to the Scavenger, she immediately opened her live stream.

...

At the Star Travel Society, in a post discussing whether Bai Fu had died or not, players were idly chatting.

[Looks like Digging Girl took quite a hit, haven't seen her for hours]

[Well, who wouldn't be upset encountering that kind of thing]

[The game's been on, has anyone confirmed if Bai Fu's dead or alive?]

As they chatted, a new reply popped up.

[Digging Girl is live now, everyone go watch!]

This shout immediately attracted many Fun-Seekers and players who liked Bai Fu. They swarmed over, and just two or three minutes after the stream began, Digging Girl's room was already filled with tens of thousands of viewers.

The players arriving realized something was off. Digging Girl sat on a rock with her face tense, speaking nothing, making no extra movements, just showing videos.

She was playing videos related to Bai Fu in chronological order.

Starting from being saved by Bai Fu in the alley, to partnering with Bai Fu to subdue Big Brother Dabiao, to accepting the perplexing task of assassinating Bai Fu, to Bai Fu reluctantly turning on the players under the coercion of Wenliang, to Bai Fu risking exposure to come to the stronghold to warn the players...

[What is Digging Girl doing?]

[Is this the new era's performance art, a cyber memorial?]

The onlooking players were baffled but kept watching, eager to find out what Digging Girl was up to.

As the images flashed by, the mood in the chat room began to stir.

[Digging Girl, I'm sorry for your loss]

[Too bad, how could Bai Fu die?]

[Ahhh, damn Truth Society, I'll fight you to the end!]

Until the image of Bai Fu smiling as she handed over the Inductive Bait to Patrick and then jumped down from Pika, single-handedly stopping more than thirty Amoebas flashed on the screen, Digging Girl's face was full of emotion.

[I have to be honest, like everyone else not long ago, I thought this was the end of the story. Bai Fu appeared like a beam of light, and in the end, she turned into Flowing Light and left, saving the Abandoned Cooling Factory. Although the story is short, it's complete and has touched us, but...]

She suddenly stopped talking and walked up to an alley.

[You guys definitely have no clue what I found here]

This piqued the players' curiosity.

They followed her footsteps into the alley, and as they walked, they noticed a stele appeared in the middle of the alley.

[Is this what Digging Girl was talking about?]

[It's just a stele, what's so strange about it? Could this be related to a Hidden Task?]

[Could this be Fufu's gravestone?]

[Stop kidding, who would put a gravestone in the middle of the road?]

Watching the virtual screen's barrage of comments float by, Digging Girl knew the timing was right; she stopped.

[I won't go any further, you guys take a look]

She locked the camera onto the stele and then zoomed in, until the text on the stele was clearly displayed in the livestream.