Chapter 51
"Mission completed, Babel Tower Legendary Point +80."
"Successfully captured the new monster 'Shadow Fiend' (Chaotic influence has been removed after capture). Resource investment is available to develop new mutation technology."
"Sudden mission reward: Energy Points +100."
"Successfully captured six members of the 'Black Star Faction'."
Bai Yan stood up, stretched his neck and realized he had been completely absorbed just now.
He went to the window, looked at the dark sky, knowing what was going to happen in a few hours.
Although he didn't receive any Mystical Power or Relic, the reward of 100 Energy Points was quite satisfactory.
"In this way, I got 180 Energy Points, it won't be long until I can do a new 10 summons again. Listen, vampire, come to my place."
He took out his phone again, and saw a notification.
[Inform: The world line has changed. Level three of the 'Black Star Faction' is blocked, and levels 4, 5, and 6 have undergone changes.]
'OMG, thus I have skipped one level directly. Perhaps because I defeated Number Three.'
Bai Yan wasn’t familiar with this situation at all.
The completion level of the crucial emergency mission "Moment of truth" and the main mission "Doomsday Crisis" will cause worldline change, affecting the follow-up progress of the entire game.
The main mission "Doomsday Crisis" was the most critical and difficult part of the game of Babel Tower.
It was the only task without saving and loading.
Direct failure leads to the end of the game, and even if one continues with difficulties, there will be no way to return to the previous checkpoint. Once something is lost, it cannot be regained. It is extremely difficult to pass the level perfectly in one go.
Bai Yan pondered for a moment and decided to send the Shadow Demon to the Alienation Technology Institute. He then proceeded to throw the six captured cultists into it, labeling them as "logistics personnel".
[Inform: Logistics personnel are being deployed.]
[The logistical personnel have been deployed. Time to select new technologies to research.]
Bai Yan looked into the current status of the research.
[Study of Spawn--Gravity of Darkness in progress. The current progress is 44%. No acceleration. Blood of Darkness has been produced.]
[Shadow Fiend, available.]
It would be waste to let the materials idle. So he dragged the Shadow Fiend in the second bottom grid to the institute.
[The Shadow Fiend has been deployed. Research start. The current progress is 0. No acceleration. No output.]
After completing all this, Bai Yan finally clicked on the operator files for Nightsaber and Psychic Dancer and discovered that they had significant changes.
Core Operator
Name：Nightsaber
Gender: Female
Plane: Material
Level: Evolved
Race: Human
Main skill: Kill, lurk, destroy
Rank: Crime-hunter, Hunting dog of Babel Tower
Primary Attributes：
STR: 59+50 self-healing specialization (Frightening strength like a whale)
INT: 40 (Able to see many unusual things)
DEX: 71 (Able to play ping pong with her tongue)
Secondary Attributes:
Charm: 10 (No one can ignore her beauty unless they are blind)
Loyalty: 8 (Willing to die on your command, no reason needed)
Mood: 8 (I have already conquered the past)
Trait：
As graceful as a cat (DEX increased; Speed increased a lot)
Embrace fear (While fighting with strong enemies. DEX and INT increase by a lot)
Oh, my dear people (When the innocent are present, DEX increases significantly)
Ability：
Deep Blue World (Proficiency: 85%, Cooldown: 3.5 seconds)
Crime Hunting—Dark (Bloodline)
Self-healing Specialization
More information:
Height: 169cm
BWH: 92cm, 56cm, 87cm
Like: Honor, Victory, Kitten omurice, Practicing swordsmanship, Babel Tower
Hate: Cultist, Criminal, Salty cuisine
Item: Night Blade x 1; Nyx's cover x 1; Anathemas Star Chains x 1
Description: The disgraced successor of the legendary knight clan. She was born with a huge responsibility. Revenge and reviving the family is her long-cherished wish.
The future Queen of the Night, invincible in the darkness.
Nightsaber's loyalty has reached 8. Bai Yan was well aware of her personality, as long as he didn't commit any unforgivable deeds, such as burning, murdering or raping someone in front her, her loyalty should not decline.
He knew that 9 was basically the limit of normal operator. A loyalty of 10 was for fanatics, it was not easy to accomplish.
In many cases, excessive loyalty is not a good thing. The operator will be intolerant of any speech or action that may harm the Babel Tower, and they will kill people without hesitation.
For such cases, there is a saying that goes, "Operators act, and the Babel Tower pays the bills."
In the same way, normal people cannot maintain a mood of 10, as it is a pleasure comparable to the physiological peak, and that will drive one mad and depraved. Because the threshold is set too high, even the most resolute knight will feel uncomfortable if he can no longer taste this top-level pleasure in the future, and will do anything to taste this pleasure again.
Core Operator：
Name：Psychic Dancer
Gender: Female
Plane: Material
Level: Evolved
Race: Elf
Main skills: Control, Assist, Lurk
Rank: High Elf
Primary Attributes:
STR: 5+50 self healing specialization (She can battle with a goose)
INT: 70 (Intuition is sometimes more precise than logic)
DEX: 68 (Perceive all animals within 30 meters)
Secondary attributes:
Charm: 9 (Some would deny her beauty due to jealousy)
Loyalty: 7 (She is willing to be loyal to you)
Mood: 3 (Haha, I am the secret weapon!)
Trait：
Egoism (Mood rises when she gets extra rewards. Loyalty drops when others get too high a reward)
Extreme and Crazy (Mood fluctuates. During auto-playing, she was easy to trigger problems.)
Goodbye, my cowardice (DEX increased during fight)
Ability：
Mind Reading (Proficiency: 100%, evolving)
Mind Control (Proficiency: 95%)
Self-healing specialization
Sacred Rune Athena (Proficiency: 18%)
More information:
Height: 145cm
BWH: 74cm, 54cm, 80cm
Like: People that are nice to her, Attracting attention
Hate: Herself, Family
Item: Ring of Protection x 1; Invisible Cloak of Hermes x 1
Description: A noble descendant of the ancient elf family. She was born with extremely powerful psychic talents. The thoughts of ordinary people have nothing to hide in front of her, and the uncontrollable power also makes her aware of the filth of the real world. The future queen of minds, a monstrous being capable of controlling all living creatures.
Bai Yan glanced at her loyalty, and recalled her muttering and cursing him in her mind, "OMG, hard to believe."
Psychic Dancer must have encountered something recently, otherwise her Mood wouldn't suddenly drop so much. Judging from the addition of "Family" to the list of Hate, she should have encountered serious family conflicts.
"I’ll ask her at the next meeting if she needs any help."
Bai Yan glanced at the information once again and discovered that her Mind Reading had reached the evolution threshold. He doesn't know what new derivative abilities will be generated; it’s worth looking forward to.
A few hours later.
"Bang bang!"
Suddenly someone knocked on the door outside, Bai Yan put away his phone. Alan pushed open the door and walked in with a smile on his face.
“The members of Babel Tower clashed with those of the Black Star Faction. The prophecy successfully tracked the movements of the special target ‘Mr. Mystery’. In light of this development, our chief decided to hold an emergency meeting.”
Bai Yan nodded gently, showing no signs of surprise.
"Okay."
"Why aren't you surprised?"
"Lot of that going on these days, right? These Superoperators are fighting every day."
'Well, he was right.' Alan nodded and didn't worry about the details.
They departed from Bai Yan's office and proceeded together to the hall on the first floor of the DHA Bureau.
The upcoming meeting differs from the previous important one as it is intended for almost all of the night watchmen, thus they are required to gather in the lobby of the Bureau.
On the road, Alan experienced a rather strange feeling. He was actually able to fight side by side with Bai Yan again... The last time was already thirteen years ago.
If it weren't for Bai Yan, he would have died a long time ago. Because of 'that incident', he had the opportunity to join the Demon Hunt Agency.
Alan suddenly slapped Bai Yan's shoulder and asked with a smile, "Bai Yan, I was bullied by some high school students from the neighboring school thirteen years ago, do you remember that?"
"Yeah, what's wrong?" Bai Yan still remembered. He had just come to this world not long ago, lost his relatives and friends, and he was somewhat insane.
"When I was crying, I met you picking up trash. You took one of my coins and asked me to guess heads or tails. You said that if I guessed wrong, you would take the coin, but if I got the right coin, you would help me drive away the bullies... and you got the coin."
Alan hesitated for a moment and suddenly furrowed his brows, saying, "Wait, you bastard, did you want to take my money no matter what back then?"
"Ha, I was really poor at that time, sorry."
Bai Yan awkwardly rubbed his nose, but he didn't feel sorry at all. Well, those were all the capricious things of the past.
Alan nodded gently and calmly looked ahead as he spoke, "Actually, I've been wanting to ask you all along, if I really guessed wrong and lost the toss... would you still have helped me then?"
'I wouldn't...' Bai Yan almost blurted out the words.
'Losers accept the punishment, and winner receive a reward.' his thought instantly came up in his mind.
However, he felt that he may not truly think this way... at least, not now.
"I don't know." Bai Yan shook his head, realizing that he had changed a lot.
He continued to speak honestly. "But at that time, I definitely wouldn't have helped you."
Yes, at that time, Bai Yan would do anything based on "games" and "winning".
"That's it." Alan nodded gently, remaining silent for a long time.
"I knew. You have already become a ordinary person. Well, this may not be a bad thing."
