Chapter 171: The Rose Factory

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In-game.

Liu Jiayi's skills have finally been reset.

Liu Jiayi's skills are unique in that they do not dictate their use in the next round according to how much of her stamina is emptied.

However, for most players, the use of personal skills is severely limited when the stamina slot is empty. For example, if Mu Sicheng's skill "Thief's Monkey Claw" is empty, Mu Sicheng can only continue to use the skill with his natural stamina if he cannot restore his stamina slot with potions.

Liu Jiayi's skills are not subject to this restriction, except for the explosive skill [Poison Fountain], which is considered a [Mage class] skill and can be used again once the skill has finished its cooldown.

So after the skill had finished, Liu Jiayi created eight more bottles of poison, which she could not move herself, and handed them to Bai Liu, who fell to resting on the ground to regain his strength.

And Bai Liu, with the poison in hand, goes around the circle to check if there are any stragglers still alive in the [Magic Space], and if there are, he pours a little bit of the poison on them to make up for it.

After checking all the stragglers, Bai Liu opened the [Magic Space] and quickly collected the roses - because not far away, stragglers and tentacles started to appear again.

After briefly calculating that the rewards he and Liu Jiayi had earned on the system panel added up to more than eighty kilograms, Bai Liu simply put Liu Jiayi on his back and started running in the direction of the tent.

Liu Jiayi slumped onto Bai Liu's back, her hands rolling upside down on Bai Liu's back, her tone hoarse and calm: "...... I just remembered something, you took the [Magic Space] prop from me, and I thought you'd lost it, If you brought it into this game and had it all along-"

"Then why didn't you just use it on us in the first place and cover ourselves for an hour until my skill cooldown was over so you didn't have to fight it off so hard ......"

Liu Jiayi moved upwards twice with difficulty, her face expressionless as she jammed both trembling hands around Bai Liu's neck, her tone ghostly as she asked rhetorically, "The prop [Magic Space] has to be used with maximum spatial breadth, and there is a time limit on its use within a day."

"...... Bai Liu, you're not going to let me hold out for an hour against monsters in order to use the maximum breadth of [Magic Space] and then clear the most monsters at once to get the most roses, are you ...... "

Bai Liu: "."

Liu Jiayi was so resentful that he was about to vomit blood: " Bai Liu, you **used me again! You **, you **, give me **! You could **be** a little more stingy!"

[System warmly reminds: children say too dirty swear words, small TV will do blocking treatment Oh ~]

The stragglers chased after Bai Liu, and the moment the tentacles wrapped around Bai Liu's ankles, Bai Liu rolled into the tent in the middle of the flower field and zipped up the tent with a flourish.

The twisting tentacles thumped against the fabric of the tent and the zip moved slowly upwards, feeling as if the stragglers could burrow in with their tentacles and drag the two exhausted players out at any moment.

Bai Liu took out the spinning Rubik's Cube with a calm face.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu uses a prop (Magic Space), uses a space (the tent the player is in, the space is small and the time limit is long), and the use is restricted (no creatures other than the player and Liu Jiayi are allowed to enter)].

[System Tip: Because the player has previously overspent the maximum breadth of the prop (Magic Space), the time limit for using Magic Space has been reduced and can be used in the tent space for about 3 hours]

The spinning cube in Bai Liu's hand becomes considerably narrower after a few revolutions, and the cube spins in all directions into a square, quadrilateral, tent-like shape.

Liu Jiayi, who had just been scolding Bai Liu, was subtly embarrassed at this point.

Her eyes fell on the tetrahedral cube in Bai Liu's hand, which had become much smaller - she thought Bai Liu had chosen to confront him head-on to maximise one-off benefits, but she had not expected it to be so that the two of them could stay safely in the [Magic Space] until dawn.

Bai Liu had obviously calculated the time ...... for the prop to be used shouldn't she have speculated on Bai Liu with such foul intentions - she just seemed to have gone a bit too far in her scolding.

Liu Jiayi was not a particularly squirming little girl either, she looked over at Bai Liu and apologised straight away, "I'm sorry, I just scolded you a bit too much, I didn't know you chose to save the prop to make sure you and I were safe."

Bai Liu looked strangely at Liu Jiayi: "No, I saved the props so that you could resist the most monsters at once. "

Liu Jiayi: "......"

Bai Liu explained in a serious manner, "I set aside a time limit for the use of this prop, so that if I don't collect enough roses at once, I can still use the prop to lift the negative status of your stamina tank emptying, so that you can continue to expend your body by exploding your skills, trap more monsters with this prop, and help me earn more roses, although there are already eighty kilograms, but this kind of prop fits the positioning of the whole game props that fit the positioning of the entire game are definitely more than enough ......"

Liu Jiayi: "......"

Bai Liu was lost in his own thoughts, and he looked at the exhausted Liu Jiayi with what seemed like great regret and let out a long sigh: "But you still don't look very good, probably as a child, and you are in such a poor state after your strength is exhausted that you are indeed not very ...... "

Liu Jiayi suddenly smiled, a sweet smile that even showed two dimples, she held up two bottles of magic potion to Bai Liu and looked at him with her head tilted in a cute way: " Brother Bai Liu, if you say another word I will really get angry."

Looking at the black mist [of poison] that had wrapped around his neck, Bai Liu changed the subject, "Liu Jiayi, you've had a hard night! Would you like to sleep now?"

Liu Jiayi: "......"

Damn, it's so tempting to swear.

Bai Liu came to the tent to give Liu Jiayi a break for a reason.

After 3 hours, if it is still light out and this group of tentacle monsters are still out there, they will have to go out again for a tug-of-war. 2~3 hours Liu Jiayi's side of the skill CD can produce more poison and Liu Jiayi can still recover some of her strength by resting, then they can barely last until dawn on this part of the poison.

Inside the tent there is only a dirty and greasy cot, half a person wide and about the length of an adult, with a dirty and stained woolen blanket pitched along the edge.

Bai Liu placed Liu Jiayi on this cot and curled up on top of the modest blanket, which he had casually padded with a woolen blanket, and fell asleep.

The right side of his face still bears the blood from the tentacle's eruption, and before he can wipe it off he closes his eyes in exhaustion and falls asleep.

Unable to recover his spirit level, Bai Liu took on the job of sweeping up and protecting Liu Jiayi, the main attacker, which caused him to lose a lot of his spirit level to the ubiquitous tentacles and stragglers, while the constant low spirit level exacerbated Bai Liu's physical exertion, as if he was working overtime in an intense state of staying up all night and not allowing any mistakes to be made, which made Bai Liu's fatigue also doubled.

[System Warning: Player Bai Liu's Spirit Level has dropped to 61, please restore your Spirit Level quickly!

The black cracks in his face are partially sunken downwards and the skin separates from Bai Liu's face, feeling like it is about to fall off.

He glanced at Liu Jiayi, who was curled up in a ball on his cot, and looked down to confirm that the time limit for Magic Space had not yet expired - almost an hour remained.

Then he slept for almost two hours.

The stragglers outside the tent seemed to have disappeared as the daylight dawned, and the sounds that woke Bai Liu did not come from outside the tent, but from inside it.

Bai Liu's eyes slowly fall to the bottom of the bed where Liu Jiayi is sleeping - a pattering sound, like something slowly crawling, clearly penetrates from the bottom of the bed and grows louder.

Liu Jiayi, who was still asleep, seemed to be woken by the sound and rolled over with a frown.

Bai Liu is half-crouched in front of Liu Jiayi's bed, holding the whip and looking down at it.

When he used [Magic Space], he explicitly designated the tent as a space for any creature other than himself and Liu Jiayi to enter, and anything that could still appear in a space with him and Liu Jiayi at this time, without being repelled and still making sounds, was either not a living creature.

Either that or the creature has the ability to break through the barrier set by [Magic Space], a [Transcendental] level prop.

The [Transcendent] category props were originally props that were exploded out of monster books in Tier 3 games, so reasoning the other way around, it wasn't uncommon for high-level monsters to exist in Tier 3 games that could crack the [Transcendent] category props.

Bai Liu precautiously held the whip to his chest as he swept his gaze straight to the bottom of the bed - a mess of everything at the bottom of this filthy cot, a broken half pencil, a few used toilet paper balls, a torn sack, and a Buming, beautifully moulded right hand die.

There was no sign of anything living under the bed, it was dark and smelly, and it just looked like the bottom of a normal bed that had been boarded by many workers and hadn't been cleaned much.

It was as if the voice Bai Liu had just heard was his hallucination; after all, his mental values were indeed low enough to be close to the threshold of hallucination.

But Bai Liu still did not withdraw his gaze, but stared motionlessly at the bottom of the bed, or to be precise, at the hand model that looked like a toy of some kind.

Bai Liu recognises this perfect model of the right hand as if it had been sculpted from a gold model.

It was a right hand that he had once held tightly in a death grip and had voluntarily let go of.

This is the right hand of Xie Ta.