Who made her an NPC!.

Chapter 354: Harvester Past, Civilized Planting [4k]

"The ultimate hidden mission?"

The moment she saw the adjective "ultimate", Bai Fu was shocked.

Although she had a vague feeling that this relic was unusual when she discovered it, she never expected it to be this unusual!

The ultimate.

If she remembered correctly, this was the first time she saw a mission called the ultimate in the game.

You should know that from the official public beta to now, the total number of tasks released by "Above the Stars" has exceeded 10 digits at least.

If this isn't an April Fool's joke, or a little Easter egg from the game developers, then...

Anyway, let’s listen to the story of the Reaper mentioned in the mission first!
Bai Fu operated the Old Relic 003 according to the instructions in the task description. After a while, an unknown white particle floated out from the opened Old Relic 003.

The particles gradually unfolded in front of her, turning into countless smaller particles. These particles gathered together and created images and sounds through constant movement, telling her a story from an even older day.

A certain year, a certain month, a certain day.

A man who calls himself the Meta-Era Recorder tells what they are experiencing through a special device developed by his civilization.

Just like the endings of the void civilization and virtual world civilization that Bai Fu had seen before, the civilization where the recorder was located was also invaded, and was finally cut off from the main universe, exiled outside the main universe, and became the "Old Days".

Bai Fu had been curious about what this invader was, but she had looked through all the information she could find, and even used her connections to obtain the highest authority of the Reborn Empire's Glorious Host, but still found nothing.

Now, this question finally has an answer.

The recorder of the Yuan era directly revealed the true identity of the invader.

[We have never seen their true appearance, so we gave them a name, the Reapers]

[In fact, it may be a little inappropriate to use "they" to describe "them"]

[Because until the moment of the civilization's demise, we still don't know whether "they" are an individual, a civilization, or many similar civilizations. Our understanding of them is a general impression based on what we have seen with our own eyes and the intelligence collected from one "era" after another.]

[Now, I, the recorder in the Meta-era, will tell you the story of “them” and us]

[“They”, the Reapers, are doing something that is not unfamiliar to many of us——]

【Planting civilization! 】

[The reaper plants civilization like a farmer plants wheat]

[Every universe is a wheat field of "them". In every "era", "they" will plant many civilizations in these "wheat fields". When the civilizations mature, "they" will harvest the civilizations they planted like farmers harvest wheat.]

[For us who are regarded as wheat, this is cruel, but from the perspective of the harvesters, they are just harvesting the ripe wheat, doing the most ordinary things.]

[Seeing this, you may have already guessed when the Reapers will come out to harvest civilization, right? ]

[Unfortunately, even though we have personally experienced a harvest event, we, like the civilizations before us, still do not fully understand the mechanism that triggers the arrival of the harvesters. I can only roughly categorize it into the following three situations]

[1. When the development of civilization exceeds a certain red line]

[2. When the number of individuals in a civilization who know about the existence of the Reapers exceeds a certain red line]

[3. When an individual in a civilization does something that angers the Reaper]

[It is worth mentioning that the third situation only exists in speculation, and there is no example to support this conjecture]

[From my perspective, I think this one is meaningless. I don’t think the reapers will be offended by the “wheat”]

[“They” are the gods who are high above us, thousands of times more real and concrete than the gods we believed in and fought against before.]

The recorder said a lot more afterwards.

Most of them are about what happened when his civilization was harvested, and why he wanted to write these things down.

The former is actually written very briefly, because the reapers' harvest really only takes a moment, and many people don't even realize what is happening before they are destroyed by the disaster.

The reason why he wrote these things down was that he hoped to break this cycle. Maizi also longed for the day when he could break free from the restrictions and grow freely.

At the end of the record, the recorder mentioned another question that puzzled Bai Fu.

Why don't the harvesters clear the "wheat field" completely, but instead have to cut off part of it and throw it outside the field?
The recorder believes there are two possibilities.

1. The Reapers thought it was fun to do so, and they captured fragments of one civilization after another with the goal of creating a civilization museum for viewing.

2. The Reapers deliberately left some traces of previous civilizations, hoping to use the collision between the previous civilization and the newly planted civilization to give birth to a more interesting civilization.

[I can't tell which one is the real answer. It's all up to you as the listener to judge.]

The white particles reunited and fell into Relic 003.

When the vision disappeared, Bai Fu received a notification that the mission was completed, and was awarded 100 attribute points and the title of [Listener].

[Listener]: Maximum spiritual energy +15%.

The title is a good one, but Bai Fu has no time to pay attention to it now.

All she wanted to do now was to shout “Fuck!”

real or fake?

Could this be some big scam targeting her?
If this is true, then there must be many other universes in the game, and the map of this game would be so large that it would be incomprehensible.

As she thought about it, Bai Fu remembered what the leader of the original agreement had said.

When the leader explained why he wanted to kill her, he kept saying that what she did made her a hindrance to the world, and she was unwilling to cut off cooperation with the three major cosmic civilizations, so she had to be eliminated.

At that time, she thought the leader was quite strange, but now she probably understood it.

"The leader's words seem to be proof that the Reapers really exist. He should also know about the existence of the Reapers."

"He wants to kill me because he is worried that my guidance of the three cosmic civilizations will cause their development speed to increase dramatically, and in a short period of time they will touch the red line that will lead to the arrival of the Reapers, right?"

Bai Fu narrowed her eyes slightly.

If this is the truth, then the leader seems to be a target that can be won over.

As long as she agrees to stop instructing the super-powered people from the three cosmic civilizations, the most important thing for the leader to eliminate right now should be the Holy City of Apostles, not her.

If the Apostle Holy City is left alone, the three cosmic civilizations will sooner or later be swallowed up by the Apostle Holy City.

In this way, although the total number of masters and transcendents in the starry sea will decrease, the supreme gods are very likely to continue to improve their strength with this wave of dividends, reaching above level 270, or even completing five divine transformations to become the first person in history.

Will this unprecedented breakthrough trigger the harvesting mechanism?
Bai Fu didn't know.

But she believed that if the leader really wanted to maintain the "balance" and prevent the current generation of the universe from triggering the harvesting mechanism, then he would definitely not sit idly by and watch the Supreme God continue to improve his strength, because the risk was too great.

"Although the original agreement was to kill me, judging from the current situation, it is probably the best choice to stop fighting and make peace with them."

Bai Fu scratched her head. This is difficult.

She had thought she was about to get through this, but who would have thought that there would be another reaper above her.

At first glance, this thing is no less terrifying than the creator god in mythology. A being like Alijie, who is revered as a "god", cannot be compared with "them" at all.

"We must be careful in what we do next. If we accidentally trigger the Reaper mechanism, we're doomed."

Once the harvest comes, the entire game will collapse and she will inevitably die.

Bai Fu didn't dare to conclude whether the game developers would restore everything. If they didn't, then she would really send it.

Thinking of this, Bai Fu's mind popped up another question that she had thought about many times.

"Is this really just a game?"

As she grew stronger and came into contact with more and more things, she became more and more suspicious.

The appearance of the Reaper caused Bai Fu to become more shaken than ever before.

She began to suspect that "Above the Stars" was actually a "game" made by the Reapers, and that the game developers, planners, operators, etc. were all played by the Reapers, and she and the players were thrown into the "game" by the Reapers for some purpose.

"Planning brother? Are you there?"

"Hmm? Not my brother? What about the planning sister? Mud howl? Have you eaten?"

Fine.

After shouting for more than ten times without receiving any response, Bai Fu stopped calling.

Not getting any response didn't mean her guess was wrong. Maybe the Reaper simply didn't want to bother with her.

Bai Fu picked up the old relic 003, trying to see if she could find any other clues, but found nothing.

She could only give up her investigation into the Reapers temporarily.

There is no clue and further investigation is just a waste of time.

It would be better to use this time to think about how to trick Ai Lijie.

Cooperating with the original agreement is the general direction of her next actions, but considering that the leader always wants to kill her, in order to truly promote cooperation, she must show strength that is enough to make the leader feel fearful.

"In Elize's eyes, I am her mother, the true God of the Void Realm. I know everything she knows. Normally, if I ask her about the synthesis method of Void Realm particles, it will definitely arouse her suspicion."

"So, I have to act out a play and become the abnormal me in her eyes, the me who needs her to share what she knows in order to return to normal."

"Amnesia."

"Ordinary amnesia is not easy to act."

"I need some disturbance to make my amnesia more natural."

Bai Fu's eyes darted around and finally landed on the old relic 003.

She thought of a plan to kill two birds with one stone, and to accomplish this plan, she needed the cooperation of a Void Lord.

It's decided to be you, Rufus!

Rufus was too dangerous, so Bai Fu thought it would be better to keep him within sight.

After making up her mind, she did not act in a hurry, but continued to digest the core of the Void Lord.

This state continued for another day and a half.

During this period, she had many contacts with the three major cosmic civilizations and discussed how to deal with the Apostle Holy City next.

She didn't have any good suggestions in this regard for the time being, and she didn't intend to tell anyone about her plan to cooperate with the original agreement.

After a day and a half, Bai Fu finally increased the digestion progress to 100%, and the racial potential also increased from the original 96.1 to 99.8.

The prompt sounded.

[You have completed a special sublimation and entered a new realm of life. Please name your new race]

"After absorbing the core of the Void Lord, I am both an apostle and a Void Lord. Calling my race the [God of the Void] is indeed a bit too one-sided. So I'll call it the [Old God]!"

Ding!
[Your race is changed to [Old God (exclusive race)]]

[Race change completed, you get attribute correction——

力量+1319、敏捷+1902、体质+1021、智力+871、精神+1105、灵感+581】

Compared with the previous sublimation into the [God of the Void], this time the racial sublimation brought much more attribute corrections to Bai Fu.

The only pity is that the inspiration added by the evolution in the void direction is too little, only 581 points, the lowest in the whole field.

In addition to the most basic attribute corrections, Bai Fu also gained a lot of new abilities.

For example, the upgraded version of the talent [Full Adaptation to the Void Dimension] [Void Origin], the ultimate evolved version of the talent [Void Travel] [Void Fusion], the ultimate evolved version of the talent [Turn into Night] [Void] and so on.

In addition to the evolved versions of these original void talents, Bai Fu also gained several new talents.

1. [Lord of the Void]: From now on, Bai Fu can manipulate the void dimension, freely change the form of some areas of the void dimension, and mobilize the power of the void to strengthen herself.

2. [Special Energy Conversion]: From now on, Bai Fu can convert the absorbed void power into psychic energy and dark energy to restore the mana bar. She can also convert psychic energy and dark energy into void power, allowing herself to use some special void abilities.

3. [Perfect Fusion]: The perfect fusion of the Void Gene and the Apostle Gene allowed Bai Fu to break the limitations of a single race and usher in a new evolution. The effect of this evolution is that she has gained new attribute corrections, and the conversion efficiency of physique: health and inspiration: psychic energy has increased by 100 each.

[You gain attribute correction——

力量+1019、敏捷+1202、体质+1421、智力+1071、精神+1605、灵感+1121】

"Oh my god, is this the benefit of a racial potential score of 99.8? There are actually two rounds of attribute corrections!"

Bai Fu was stunned.

The terrifying power surged out from her body, covering the entire supernatural garden. At this moment, even Alice, who was far away at the front line, realized that something was wrong.

It seems that what awakened a few days ago was not an apostle, but something more terrifying?

OK OK.

Bai Fu became excited.

Gui Ji's void core turned her into a big lump of meat, a big lump of meat that made her shake her head when she looked at it.

"Now you can go meet Rufus."

(End of this chapter)