Chapter 180: The Rose Factory

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Beside a field of roses.

Liu Jiayi, tired and panting from the pile of dried leaf roses he had collected, sat on the ground drinking a refresher.

There's no way to stow this rubbish rose in a space prop! It can only be carried artificially!

It took her three hours alone to collect enough for seven hundred and twenty kilograms of dried leaf roses - after their two-day task of 480kg of dried leaf roses to dispose of, there was still 240kg left over to exchange for four bottles of medium-grade perfume.

Liu Jiayi has just checked the payroll, Intermediate Rose is a 50-80% fragrance that lasts for 12 hours, tripling the duration of the fragrance!

If they could get that much mid-level perfume in exchange, it would allow more stragglers to come to their senses and join them.

But only if they can get through so many dried leaf roses.

Liu Jiayi wiped her mouth after drinking the restorative and stood up, turning back to the stragglers standing behind her.

Bai Liu stands in front of the stragglers, who are cowering behind him, bowing up slightly, and nodding to Liu Jiayi.

There is a natural awe of Liu Jiayi, who works in the Rose Factory, even if she looks like a child.

"These are the stragglers I found who know more about the work of the processors." Bai Liu turned around to make way for the stragglers behind him, "Some of them were processors who had worked at the Rose Factory and had been sidelined and laid off."

At Bai Liu's gaze, the cowering stragglers behind him mustered up the courage to step forward, crouch down and begin to handle the roses on the ground.

These people are quick and fast, and once they get into the swing of things, they are God Quan and focused, avoiding Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi at first, but gradually becoming more comfortable.

The piles of roses are quickly sorted and flattened out into patches suitable for drying.

These highly trained and polished laid-off workers were no match for novices like Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi, who were not promoted by hunting stragglers for roses, but purely by their efficiency, so their manual work was fast, with some very skilled processors sifting as fast as the machinery.

Liu Jiayi was at first prepared to join the screening team of stragglers, but then she realised that she would only make the stragglers wince, fearing that her dirty hands would touch her and interrupt their own work Liu Jiayi had to quit.

Bai Liu, on the other hand, has been sitting lazily away from the roses since leading back the stragglers, and has made no attempt to join in.

When Liu Jiayi saw Bai Liu like this, he did not speak up to taunt him for being lazy, but had mixed feelings and wanted to sigh a little.

Bai Liu, having shared most of his perfume between the civilians and her, did need to stay away from the contamination of the dried leaf rose to keep his spirit level from dropping as fast, but accordingly, in a copy where you can only use perfume to restore your spirit level, the lowest spirit level Bai Liu had to take the biggest risk.

Although he himself doesn't seem to think it has anything to do with it.

After the roses had been sorted, the stragglers took Bai Liu to a hidden spot where they used to dry the roses and where the light was still good, spread them out neatly, nodded to Bai Liu that they would come back the next day if they were needed, and left.

After all, spending a long time with roses will also make their perfume wear off faster.

"It takes twelve hours of day drying and twelve hours of monthly drying." Liu Jiayi glanced at the time, "We'll have to wait until noon the next day to finish drying on our side, which should be a divergence from the weighing of the others."

"But I reckon they'll wait for you."

She looked up at Bai Liu and said, "So what are you going to do then?"

"Let them catch me." Bai Liu smiled, "but couldn't be bothered to kill me."

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At noon the next day, the north entrance to the rose fields was claimed as the main point.

Qi Yifang, who had already been weighed, was standing by the weighing point with his arms folded, while Tang Erda leaned casually against the entrance with his sack, seemingly having been up all night and with some buming under his eyes, but looking in good spirits.

Tang Erda's dried leaf roses are still being weighed, but the face of the processor who gave them to him heavily is already vaguely rigid.

To control errors, the roses are weighed 5kg at a time, with a pile of dried leaf roses already piled up at the feet of the weigher.

"715kg, 720kg, 735kg ......" The processor took a deep breath and looked to Tang Erda, "Are you sure you want to weigh that much at once?! If you can't do the subsequent drying and drying and waste too many mouldy roses, you are going to be fined!"

Tang Erda hands the last sack she has in her hand to the processor weighing it, her tone nonchalant: "It won't go to waste, weigh it."

Qi Yihang looked complicated and a little bit sad - the three of them, with the skills they used, only got 100kg more roses than Tang Erda ......

What exactly does this man do in real life? Is he a professional rose breeder? Why is he so familiar with these things?

When Tang Erda had finished weighing the roses, the processor who weighed them also weighed the roses collected by several other processors, who then weighed the dried roses and went into the factory to quickly move on to the next step in the drying and drying process.

And Qi Yifang and Tang Erda, as Liu Jiayi said, stayed on the sidelines, even though they had finished weighing early.

They were staring intently at the rose field, obviously waiting for Bai Liu who had not yet arrived to be weighed.

The sun has moved west and it is now 1pm, the brightest and hottest moment of the May sun, and most of the processors have been weighed and gone to work.

And the processor in charge of the weighing was ready to pack up and leave, when at this time a small and large group of people came along the edge of the sight dragging a sack placed on a trolley.

The heat of the direct sunlight distorted their figures a little on the ground, appearing and disappearing, but this still attracted everyone's attention.

Qi Yifang lowered his arms that were clasped to his chest and took the directional sign into his hands with a straight face.

Tang Erda stood up straight, snapping out of his closed-eyed faux-sleep, his gaze going from slightly lax to condensed and pointed hands moving down against his trousers, a revolver appearing silently in his right hand, gripped and loaded.

Before the two men could reach them, Tang Erda raised her pistol in advance, and Qi Yihang's weathervane began to turn.

But soon, they both stopped moving in dismay.

Although there were two people who came to the point, one of them was Liu Jiayi and the other was not Bai Liu, but just an ordinary drifter.

The straggler, who appears to have been hired by Liu Jiayi to carry the roses with perfume, nods to Liu Jiayi and accepts with gratitude that Liu Jiayi has sprayed his face with perfume before quickly departing.

" Where's Bai Liu?" Tang Erda raised her gun to Liu Jiayi's face, her voice cold, "Why didn't he come to the weigh-in?"

Liu Jiayi looked as if she hadn't seen Tang Erda's gun raised in her face, and after handing the trolley with the dried roses to the processor who was weighing them, she turned to Tang Erda and looked up at her with an innocent expression and a confused tone: "What Bai Liu, I didn't enter the game with him, and I haven't seen him now. These are roses I picked and dried myself, they're all going to be in my name, what's he got to do with it?"

Tang Erda's brow furrowed, but he did not lower the gun he had aimed at Liu Jiayi.

...... things are not right, if Bai Liu had not acted with Liu Jiayi but on his own, then Bai Liu would not have come to weigh the registration himself, then he would not have had the registered sun-dried leaf roses in his name and Bai Liu would not have been able to enter the workflow that followed.

And as a processor, failing to register ingredients is fatal. Bai Liu will soon be demoted to flower-picker if he doesn't come and register today and, in two days at the most, he can't turn in his processed dried leaf roses.

Qi Yifang, who had been prepared to join him in the fight, did not react to the sight of Tang Erda's gun, and when he came back to his senses, he almost slipped out of the wind vane.

--That's not what we agreed at the beginning, hunter! I thought we were not allowed to rough up the little witch!

That's my former goddess ...... now daughter! The one who saved my life!

Qi Yifang held up the directional sign with a tingling head and a pounding heart as he stepped in front of Tang Erda and Liu Jiayi.

He raised his hands in an upward gesture that would not initiate an attack, but his eyes looked straight at the gun poised in Tang Erda's hand: "...... Mr. Hunter, our enemy now is Bai Liu, first united, united The little witch is only eight years old, and now it seems likely that she was also tricked by Bai Liu."

Qi Yifang, cold sweat oozing from his forehead, carefully held Tang Erda's gun with two fingers and moved it away, but Tang Erda only gave him a sullen glance, and with a dazzling flip of the gun in his hand, it passed Qi Yifang, who was in front of Liu Jiayi, and aimed straight at Liu Jiayi behind him again. The gun flipped in his hand and flicked through Qi Yifang, who was in front of Liu Jiayi.

Tang Erda's right hand passed beneath Qi Yifang's arm at a speed invisible to the naked eye, aiming unshakably at Liu Jiayi's brow.

"I didn't promise not to hurt Liu Jiayi outside of the game either." Tang Erda lifted his deep blue, almost black eyes, the rose that was gradually blooming like a pool of congealed blood spreading under his eyes, "I only promised to join you in sniping Bai Liu ."