Chapter 168: The Rose Factory

Out of the writhing rose bushes, shadowy and shadowy, emerge one shifting straggler after another, their bare bones, hollow eyes and rotting lips full of writhing flesh-coloured tentacles like vine stalks, dragging them down into the mud to join the roots of the swaying roses, like a swarm of unidentified swamp squid, their hands dragging the tentacles in the mud towards the shore where Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi.

Lush tentacles like fishing bowls full of worm bait spill over the edge of the ridge, and a ponytail-thin tentacle bursts out of the earth, twisting and wrapping around Bai Liu's ankle to pull him towards the mud.

Bai Liu's quick eye flung out the fishbone and opened the bizarrely twisting tentacle with a whip.

Liu Jiayi's side also relied on poisonous fumes to corrupt a tentacle that was attempting to wrap itself around her waist.

After being attacked by the monster, Liu Jiayi and Bai Liu both activated the monster book.

Bai Liu skimmed through the information given in the monster book about the characteristics of the stragglers, and then he calmly gave the order, " Liu Jiayi, you use the poison mist for a group attack, the largest group attack, and I will sweep up the ones that are missed by the group attack."

"It's an A+, or a cluster of A+ monsters." Liu Jiayi's face grew hard as she looked nimbly from side to side, the poison fumes forming a circle around her and Bai Liu to prevent the tentacles from approaching, "They don't come out individually, they come out fighting together, seemingly one by one, but all linked together by underground tentacles, a bunch of roses in symbiosis. "

With no way to recover their mental energy, fighting such monsters, which cannot be completely killed, is a matter of attrition, and it is obvious that they cannot outmatch these monsters that grow in clusters, so it is only a matter of time before they lose.

However, Liu Jiayi did not question Bai Liu's decision, but simply carried it out.

Liu Jiayi takes a deep breath: "OK, what do I need to look for in my main attack?"

Bai Liu flung a monster that had climbed ashore back into the field with a whip, he looked sideways at Liu Jiayi: "Stall for time, your skill cooldown is an hour, stall for an hour and we'll win, and during that hour of stalling, you need to control the amount of poison you use."

"How much control?" Liu Jiayi asks.

Bai Liu raised his eyes to the overwhelming rose stragglers and spoke in a soft tone, "Control it until you can stall all these stragglers coming in from the scent for an hour or more, your skills will finish their CD and I will try to contain them in a small space and then go into an explosive skill to get the most out of your poison attack."

Liu Jiayi was only stunned for a moment, she quickly understood what Bai Liu was trying to do, her face changed several times before settling on a subtle reserve of relief: "Of course."

"For A+ monsters, my poison is indeed drugless."

As the writhing tentacles toss and turn in the pool of roses, Bai Liu stands on the edge, using the ridge as a last line of defence, pinning the sack of roses to his waist as bait while he fans the climbing stragglers and tentacles back to a fixed place with his whip - luring and slapping as much as he can to drive the stragglers into a fixed space.

Liu Jiayi kept Bai Liu impermeably protected and Bai Liu was barely caught by the stragglers or the tentacles afterwards, apart from the fact that he was draining his stamina very quickly with the whip and the constant drinking of stamina restorers made cold sweat ooze out of his face - but the initial catch still ate up some of Bai Liu's The rose in his eyes grew more delicate, and the black cracks on his face deepened.

Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi are routinely unable to resist a large line of A+ monsters for an hour - skills exist on CD and both Liu Jiayi and Bai Liu are limited in their ability to kill this constant stream of monsters, especially Bai Liu, whose whip can only drive the monsters down and does no damage to them at all.

But Bai Liu is not primarily fighting this group of A-monsters, just driving them down and keeping them from climbing up.

This is a very simple game of 'duck rush', which Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi can play to the limit and last up to an hour without Bai Liu making any mistakes and sweeping up perfectly.

But with it came a cumulative pile of ghastly stragglers below the ridge - not only those Bai Liu had driven down, but also those who had followed.

Dense tentacles tumbled through the velvety red mud like boiling water or the lint of small intestines digesting food, human faces and broken and decaying bones and limbs flowed and howled through the tumbling red waves of mud, in which the roses swayed unscathed and were not damaged in the slightest way - the stragglers seemed to have deliberately protected the roses, which had not yet been picked.

Some distance away from the flower fields, without the rich scent of the roses to mask them, the stench of these piled up stragglers and the tentacles growing out of them was overwhelming, and uncountable tentacles grabbed the mud on the shore and tried to get ashore.

Against this high density of tentacles, Bai Liu's whip almost swung in a white streak.

With a bottle of advanced stamina restorer from the Mu Sicheng panel in his mouth, he swallowed it to replenish his strength while swinging his whip at a massive drain.

This pure, high-precision mechanical movement, Bai Liu, has been going on for almost forty minutes.

Sweat slides down Bai Liu's hair and drips onto his completely drenched work jacket, which now looks like he's been pulled out of the water.

Liu Jiayi's poison is also running out, she has a higher panel than Bai Liu, but a full hour of high precision and intensity calls for skills to protect herself and Bai Liu, and now she's gritting her teeth.

But despite Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi's hard work, the [audience] in front of the screen - or rather the players of the King's Guild who were mobbing Bai Liu in front of the screen - weren't buying it.

The majority of those brought here by Hearts to block Bai Liu's small TV are the grassroots and mid-level players of the guild, a group of people who have risen through the ranks by tearing each other apart.

With the starkly hostile stance Hearts had already taken, and the whole venue being their King's Guild, it certainly didn't go down well with these people commenting, or being sarcastic about Bai Liu's little TV show.

Some of the King's Guild players standing behind the small TV looked at Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi doing this "feeble" and "pointless" resistance that only stalled for time, and scoffed.

"Trying to stall in a third level game? Is it because you're afraid you'll be late for the drop? This guy got on the King's list last time purely because of the heat the witch gave him, I think."

"This game is supposed to be about hunting monsters for roses, looking at the monster setting analysis, the other four have already started hunting monsters, only Bai Liu's group has not made any progress at all." A spectator nudged his mouth and pointed at the small TV next to Bai Liu, "That small TV is some kind of hunter's, I haven't seen it, but I heard it's also the reinforcements our queen got, it looks quite strong and has already started a massive counter-kill."

The small television next to Bai Liu is Tang Erda's small television screen, which shows Tang Erda with blood all over the right side of his face, his ethereal blue eyes lit up like ghosts of underworld fire amidst a sea of bright red mud and flowers, his right hand holding a silver revolver, the engraved rose on the butt of which has been saturated with blood into the lines, turning it into a deep red "Rose of Dried Leaves".

Tang Erda is surrounded by tentacles that are still writhing and twitching, and stragglers that have been killed, silver gun casings scattered all around Tang Erda.

Under the glistening full moon, the dark blue-eyed hunter grips his gun tightly and keeps firing around the field of flowers, killing with brutal precision one monster after another that tries to get close to him and steal the roses he guards, stained by the blood of slaughter and uncontrolled desire, with a sense of madness that is ready to transform into a werewolf.

After another round of shooting, Tang Erda gasped with his head half-lowered, blood dripping down his arms and clothes, as he grimaced and kicked away the tentacles hanging from his feet and quickly bit down on a bandage to treat the oozing wound on his tiger's mouth - he hadn't treated any of the other wounds, but a bleeding wound in this area would make the palm of his hand slippery and affect the feel of the gun he was holding and shooting.

After treating the wounds, Tang Erda continued to fill the pistols one by one with bullets with a cool expression.

Tang Erda The bodies of the dead stragglers around him had piled up in a hill around him that almost overwhelmed him, and the roses these stragglers had stolen fell as they died, the tops of the clumps of corpses falling downwards like curling willows.

The viewers of the small TV on this side of Tang Erda could only watch in awe as the face they were completely unfamiliar with was obscured by the reward screen that kept popping up on the system: the

[System Alert: Congratulations to player Tang Erda for killing a monster drifter who has stolen 1.5kg of dried leaf roses, which now becomes your loot]

[System Alert: Congratulations to player Tang Erda for killing a monster drifter who has stolen 11kg of dried leaf roses ......]

As Tang Erda raised her blood-stained, emotionless, unfocused eyes to the small TV and pulled the trigger, the audience in front of the small TV took a subconscious step back, even though they knew it was Tang Erda attacking the in-game monster.

Tang Erda carried with her a very visceral, intense force value overwhelming and a creepy aggression that made the audience standing in the front row of Tang Erda's small TV swallow uncontrollably, not even daring to discuss loudly, all in whispering mode: the

"...... Who is this guy?! Just from the first shot to the last shot, almost every shot he fired had a bonus screen pop up, every shot was able to kill an A+ level monster, the skill attack value of one flat shot was definitely on 6000, and there was no apparent cooldown time for the skill, how come I've never heard of this player?! It shouldn't be!"

"A man can overpower a swarm of troop lines in a Tier 3 game by strong attacking ...... That's the strength of the top league player ...... It's horrible, is the Kings Guild hiding cards like that this year?! "