When You Become an NPC That Might Die Any Moment in the Novice Village
Chapter 700 700: Episode 243: Prophet of the Plot, Bai Fu's Heroic Journey【5.2k】
Bai Fu moved N2's body back onto the spaceship.
Under Cipris's guidance, An Ya used the Punishment Needle to string together the Spirit Fragments on N2's body that had not yet fully dissipated.
Then, everyone enveloped in the purple glow witnessed N2's memories.
As the attribute panel had previously indicated, N2 was indeed a Death Soldier cultivated by the Tem Civilization, and he was the most outstanding performer of his cohort.
It was for this reason that he became entangled in the vortex at the center, being sent to assassinate the Leader.
N2 had no past.
At least that's what his memories showed; from the moment he had memories, he was already at the Death Soldier training base.
He didn't know who his real trainers were, before he was ready for his Task, all he saw were other Death Soldiers and instructors who were training with him.
However, he had heard voices.
It was an extremely accidental occurrence, he had overheard a conversation between an instructor and some bigwig.
Only two sentences, and they were meaningless.
N2 didn't pay much attention to that voice.
He wasn't the type to get to the bottom of things, and his attitude during Tasks was the same—
"Don't talk nonsense, just tell me where to go and who to kill, I can't be expected to manage anything else as a mere Death Soldier."
The only thing N2 cared about was whether he could stay alive.
Though he was dubbed a Death Soldier, he still wanted to live, and with his power, he could have lived quite well, only it was unfortunate that the special mark planted on him meant he could be found no matter where he fled, so he could only continue to obediently follow orders.
The turning point occurred a year and a half ago.
The Honorable Force suddenly found N2, telling him that they were his true trainers, and they had a very important Task for him. If he successfully completed the Task, they would not only remove the mark from his body but would also send him to the Supernova Battle Group, thus allowing him to dominate his own future from then on.
The content of the Task was, of course, to assassinate the Tem Civilization Leader at the "Old Soldiers' Gathering."
It made sense that the Honorable Force wanted to assassinate the Tem Civilization Leader.
It was also reasonable that the Honorable Force was in a hurry to send him to the Supernova Battle Group after the assassination to avoid the exposure of the event.
Hence, N2 did not harbor any doubts about this unfolding.
He was only worried that the Task was difficult, and that he could very well be killed before even reaching the Tem Civilization Leader, or that the Honorable Force, wanting to completely eliminate future troubles, would secretly take him out after the Task ended.
The Honorable Force saw through N2's thoughts and explained they didn't really want him to assassinate the Leader. It was simply too fanciful for a Weak Catastrophe to think of killing the Leader.
This was a warning!
This was to intensify the contradictions between the different factions within the Tem Civilization!
They also reassured N2 not to worry, the subsequent pursuit was just a formality, a mere act, as they had already collaborated with someone inside the military to ensure nothing would go wrong.
After much internal conflict, N2 eventually accepted the Task.
This might be his only opportunity.
Time flew.
Soon, the Old Soldiers' Gathering proposed by the Tem Civilization Leader was officially convened.
N2, following the Honorable Force's arrangement, charged at the Leader.
Everything went as the Honorable Force had said; the assassination attempt seemed thrilling but was actually just going through the motions. The guards and the Superpower Users on his side blustered around for a long time without doing him any real harm.
He rushed close to the Leader, threw a few moves, and then planned to pretend to be overpowered by the Leader and retreat.
But at that moment, something happened that no one expected.
The Leader shouted a phrase that wasn't very loud, aimed at someone next to him.
Perhaps because the situation was urgent, he didn't use his "business voice" that he typically employed when facing the public; instead, he spoke in a very normal, everyday tone.
Yet it was this normality that gave N2 an unusual taste.
Where had he heard this voice before?
During the subsequent escape, N2 finally remembered.
Wasn't that the voice of the bigwig he had once heard talking to his instructor?
The person who truly trained him and stood behind the Honorable Force, was actually the Leader!
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"It seems like quite a significant secret."
Bai Fu narrowed her eyes slightly after viewing N2's memories.
Since she wanted to interfere with the strife within Tem Civilization, naturally she had investigated the current situation of the Tem Civilization Leader.
During the time N2 was still under training, the current Tem Civilization Leader wasn't the Leader yet but was the Prime Minister of a regional State Government.
Two major events occurred when he previously ran for Leader.
One event was that the state he was in and the neighboring Colonial Governor District were attacked by the Honorable Force. The Colonial Governor of that Colonial Governor District hid when attacked, but somehow, he was still found and killed by the Honorable Force; however, when his state was attacked, he rushed to the front lines, bravely fighting against the Honorable Force with the guards. Despite the heavy losses, with the military factory destroyed and countless civilians perishing, his stature rose compared to the Governor that was killed.
The other event was that a highly reputable Leader candidate was suddenly assassinated on the way home after a gathering, dying as he was caught off guard.
The first event greatly increased his approval ratings, and the second removed a threatening rival.
With these two events combined, his election as Leader was a foregone conclusion.