Chapter 165: The Rose Factory

Not to mention children like Liu Jiayi, and adults like Bai Liu, whose shirts were soaked with sweat, half-crouched down to catch their breath and wipe the sweat dripping down their right cheeks, then looked down and made a simple count of the flowers in the sacks of the two men he had opened.

"Less than 1,300." Bai Liu lifted the sack and shook it, "At 2g a piece, two of us working together for an hour with no rest at all would have picked less than three kilos."

Liu Jiayi, who was resting with her hands propped back, sat up as soon as she heard Bai Liu's estimate: "Wouldn't we have to work for fifteen hours without sleep to get a bottle of low grade perfume?

She had played a lot of Tier 3 games, but this was the first time she had ever encountered someone who actually asked her to do hard work - Liu Jiayi had been a rare healer who was hailed by the whole group, and was mostly responsible for intellectual work or high-end force skills, in other words, she was a nurse or a support.

I didn't expect to encounter such a hardcore netherworld worker drama the first time I played with Bai Liu.

Liu Jiayi slumped back, staring blankly at the night sky: "When will this ever end? I have to work until I'm the factory manager! How long will I have to work?"

"When I was working, I asked myself the same thing every day." Bai Liu said quietly, "But then I learned that there is only one end to working, and that is death, or worse, being laid off."

Liu Jiayi: "......"

Bai Liu, how much of a shadow has life as a social animal and being laid off really left on you ......

Liu Jiayi sat up silently, sighing ruefully: "How do we get it now? We can't get the perfume, it's supposed to be a key prop, and we're going to have problems following it."

"I don't think there's any need to follow up." Bai Liu removed his black veil mask and slowly, in his right eye, a delicate rosebud was stretching its green branches, "We've been contaminated in the process of picking the rose."

Liu Jiayi is stunned, quickly looks down and removes her linen gloves and looks at her hands - her eyes are too grey to see if there are roses blooming in them, so she can't use this to determine if she is contaminated or not.

But there is another way to determine if she is contaminated.

After removing his gloves, Liu Jiayi held his breath at the sight before him.

--The backs of her hands and fingertips could be clearly seen, as if the black chaffing of broken rocks was spreading across her wrists, joining in the shape of petals within her palms.

"I thought it wouldn't be contaminated until at least after we used the perfume for the first time." Liu Jiayi purses her lips, "We wore masks the whole time we were picking and we didn't come into direct contact with the roses, we didn't smell a very distinct aroma except during the time we were in the factory, and none of us had been contaminated when we came out of the factory, so we were indeed contaminated in the flower fields, but the fragrance of the fields was nowhere near as strong as inside the factory. "

Liu Jiayi put on gloves to cover the cracks that were still growing on her flesh and looked up at Bai Liu: "But why? Shouldn't the contamination of this thing be spread by smell?"

"From what we've both seen, it seems that it may not be spread by smell." Bai Liu said.

The rosebud in Bai Liu's right eye grows silently, with black lines running along his eye socket, while his left eye remains normal black.

Liu Jiayi frowned and stared at Bai Liu's eyes: "And it's so strange, your left eye is intact, but your right eye has roses, what does that mean? You're half contaminated along the vector line? But I'm the one with both hands already wilting."

Bai Liu drops his eyes slightly, half-obscuring the rosebud in his right eye, and says softly, "I don't know, let's see."

-- [Do not feast your right eye on desire].

That's what Tavel told him, and he also told him to watch out for the roses.

Bai Liu's eyes fall on the large, lushly blooming roses in the field of flowers.

These roses are quietly beautiful, swaying gently in the pure white moonlight, as if to make it easier to pick them, without even the usual thorns growing on their branches, so delicate and elegant that not a hint of aggression is visible.

It seems that apart from the fact that it can be taken as an ingredient to extract that compulsive perfume, this rose is so harmless as to be intoxicating and deserves to be the least likely thing to actively harm the player in this copy.

Indeed they did, Bai Liu. They had just gone down to pick so many roses, and these roses did not trigger the monster book or actively attack them.

Bai Liu re-donned his sand-stained black mask and turned sideways to look out over the fields of roses in the night: "At this rate of contamination, we probably won't last fifteen hours before we start to wilt."

"It's not just withering, we're being alienated." Liu Jiayi opened his panel, on which his spirit and life values were dropping, and the spirit value was dropping much faster than the life value.

Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi looked at each other in silence, both simultaneously taking out a bottle of psycho-bleach and preparing it for use.

[System warmly reminds you that in this game, mental bleach is not effective in restoring mental values]

In the game "Rose Factory", there is and only Rose Dried Leaf Gas perfume can play a role in restoring the player's mental value, if not the player can not complete the task within the specified time, get Rose Dried Leaf Gas perfume, the player will begin to fragrance addiction as the mental value drops, turning into a monster completely unable to think normally with reason Oh ~]

Liu Jiayi looked to Bai Liu with a stony face: "The spirit value is forcibly stuck."

The rose in Bai Liu's eyes faltered and stretched its first petals, the cracking around his eyes deepened, but his tone remained light: "Perfume is indeed a crucial prop."

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The other end of the flower field.

Tang Erda sits half-crouched on a mound in a field of flowers, his mask tossed aside, both his eyes already filled with spreading roses, and his face beginning to take on the black texture of cracked grey earth, petal by petal, snaking across his skin.

At first Tang Erda thought the mask would slow down his contamination, but after realising that it did nothing to block the scent of the dried leaf roses, Tang Erda simply threw it away to increase the speed of his picking.

He propped his hands on his knees, tilted his head back and downed a bottle of stamina restorer, wiped his mouth clean and looked over at the bulging sack at his feet.

It seems like a lot, but it's only eight kilos of roses, but it's already filling up the sack.

If you want to reload, you have to go over to the small tent to unload, because those workers only settle the weight of roses taken overnight by each flower-picker the next day, realising that the stuffed sacks can only be unloaded in one place first.

The worker told Tang Erda that the unloading point was the small tent in the middle of the flower field where he was, and that the worker had told Tang Erda to be on the lookout for stragglers who came at night to steal the roses.

"The rose in the tent is not always safe." The worker said with a disgusted look, "There are always greedy and lowly poor people who are mad about it to steal it."

But Tang Erda, an experienced player of Level 3 games, has long had a strategy for dealing with this situation - and that is a considerable stock of props.

As a player who has travelled through many timelines, the quality and quantity of Tang Erda's Tier 3 game prop inventory, when you look at the entire game, is not even close to Tang Erda's prop inventory, except for the Killer Sequence, which has an obsessive prop inventory.

Tang Erda has the power to beat most of the lower tier guilds based on this arsenal of bonus props from all the games Tang Erda has cleared in the timeline alone. The reason why so many high level guilds are willing to pay for him to join their teams is not only because Tang Erda is a great fighter, but also because Tang Erda has a superb prop inventory.

Tang Erda dumps the roses into the small tent, then bends down and walks out of it, turning back and dropping a Rubik's Cube, a watery barrier rising up from around the ground and anastomosing into a tightly-fitting tetrahedron at the top of the tent.

[System Alert: Player Tang Erda used a prop (Magic Space), the space is now under the player's control and only those who are allowed in and out by the player can enter and exit freely]

After placing the prop, Tang Erda left without a backward glance - although the prop did not succeed in trapping Bai six in reality, Tang Erda was sure that, except for Bai six, who could figure out how to solve it, ordinary monsters in Level 3 games would never be able to find out how to enter or The

It's not that Tang Erda hasn't tried to find Bai six since she entered the game, but on a map with 16,000 acres of lush flower fields and countless small tents of various shapes and sizes stationed at the edge of the fields, it's not easy to find a player who is good at hiding and using game mechanics to escape, especially one who is always good at playing his opponents, Bai six. It was not easy to find a player who was good at hiding and using the game mechanics to escape, especially with Bai six, who was always good at playing his opponents.

After all, he hadn't even found a rendezvous with the other three players from the King's Guild yet - after all, the map was so big and all pretty much designed that it seemed easy to get lost.

Especially if your mental levels are dropping fast and there is no way to recover quickly, a normal person walking around this map is like walking through a spinning red kaleidoscope with two bottles of ninety-six degree vodka, dizzy, nauseous and wanting to vomit, completely unable to find any sense of direction, an optical pollution level game scenario experience.

Tang Erda has encountered games of this similar design before, and wandering around in such games is a dangerous thing to do - because once you leave the place where you're doing the quest and stray into monster territory, it's very difficult to find your way back, and there's a good chance that the player will go crazy from the endless getting lost before they get back.

It's clear that this is a game that focuses on mental value attacks.

Tang Erda knew that he was no match for Bai Six in the matter of finding people, so he decided to give up, choosing to complete the task first and then wait until Bai Six had also finished and entered the factory.

It is always easier to find someone in the factory than in the flower fields.

Tang Erda never had any doubts that Bai Liu would be able to complete the game beautifully, and he was probably more convinced than Bai Liu himself that he would be able to clear the game at level three - especially the game called The Rose Factory, which is related to the real-life Rose Gas.

Tang Erda looks at his palm, cracked to the bone but without a trace of blood, and his sea-blue eyes are swollen with a pale rose that is gradually blooming - the petals spreading for a second time, the end of the first petal turning deep red.

[System Alert: Player Tang Erda, your spirit level has dropped to 89 ......]