Chapter 182: The Rose Factory

Qi Yifang shakily raised his directional indicator, muttering: "...... Extraordinary gale force winds with gusts of 14 or more, clearing to very heavy rainfall with rainfall reaching 100ml or more ...... A hurricane is imminent in the area, Red Weather Warning."

The constantly rotating black weathervane turns bright red and is fixed to point to Tang Erda.

After a brief period of silence, the rain and wind came together in a violent gale that could have lifted everyone out of the sky.

Liu Jiayi, the thinnest of the bunch, and Qi Yifang, the dazed and wobbly, were the first to be swept up into the sky, followed by Bai Liu, who managed to balance himself, and Tang Erda, who entered after him, and finally two members of the King's Guild.

The processing clerk who was weighing the roses next to him was so frightened by the incoming storm that he rolled into the factory with the roses, but to his surprise, the strange weather, which looked like it would extend to the entire rose factory, only stayed at the entrance of the factory, about ten metres in front and behind, and did not spread.

The weather and the landscape are completely different in such a narrow space from the outside.

Outside, the sky is cloudless and clear, while in front of the Northgate factory the sky is covered with dark clouds and thunder and lightning.

The spinning hurricane glues everything it can touch into it, creating a belt of opaque grey cylinders that reach up to the sky, where things and people are tossed around like washing machines in a high-speed spinning cylinder.

The moment Tang Erda entered the circle, he understood why Bai Liu had attacked Qi Yifang instead of him to make him explode with skill.

--Because attacking him is far less cost effective than attacking Qi Yihang.

Bai Liu, with no way to kill him once and for all, any attack on Tang Erda would have been ineffective and futile.

As long as they can find a chance to get Tang Erda, a high damage fast attacker, to touch the weapon, even for a minute, and Tang Erda, a fearless hunter with a gun, fights them directly, the chances of them being wiped out are far greater than if they and Tang Erda both lose.

Bai Liu switched gears at this point, and instead of fighting Tang Erda head-on, he chose to use his Qi Yihang skill to limit Tang Erda's skills -

--Even if Tang Erda was a crack shot, it would be difficult for him to aim at one person in a "washing machine barrel" where everyone is spinning at high speed.

For in a hurricane of this magnitude, he was so wind-blown that he could not open his eyes, let alone aim at a man, and this bad man-made weather seriously interfered with his vision.

Shooting randomly in this high speed wind without being able to see, you might even hit yourself.

But this is not the case for Bai Liu.

Bai Liu opened his arms and legs to brace himself backwards in the wind, the violent swirling wind blowing away the corner of his shirt, which was tucked into his suit trousers, a little blood dripping from his goggles on his upturned and flared white shirt, which he flung away without a care.

He wears a huge black goggle over his eye, the bandage still stained with blood, and it is the same one that was just removed from Liu Jiayi's face.

This is Liu Jiayi's visualization prop - it's called [Blizzard Goggles].

[System Alert: (Blizzard Goggles), keeps your vision clear in extreme weather conditions such as blizzards, and expires when damaged].

[System prompt: Do you use the (extreme weather) infrared mode of this prop to search and locate your teammates?

Bai Liu pushed his goggles upwards: [OK].

In a flash, the confusing chaos of the wind formation became visible in front of Bai Liu, and the four figures spinning in the wind were transformed into highly visible infrared figures, as conspicuous as four strips of red cloth in a grey colour in a washing machine.

This high degree of locating everyone else brings a smile to Bai Liu's face.

The people in the King's Guild were really nice to Liu Jiayi.

This [Blizzard Goggles] was originally assigned to Qi Yihang in a Level 3 game where Liu Jiayi saved his life as a reward for his skills, but Qi Yihang didn't hesitate to give Liu Jiayi the [Blizzard Goggles] as a token of appreciation after learning of Liu Jiayi's vision problems.

Liu Jiayi politely refused at first, but Qi Yihang insisted on giving it to her, so Liu Jiayi said that she had put it in Qi Yifang's place as her bottom prop, and that she would not have gone to Qi Yihang's place to get this prop if not for the fact that Liu Jiayi was trying to save Bai Liu, in order to have her eyesight easier and move faster.

I never thought it would just happen to fit in the game.

Liu Jiayi personally has mixed feelings about this situation, but Bai Liu, being a not-so-famous person, will just make the best of it.

And then there's Hearts, who, among other things, is really generous with Liu Jiayi - there's probably not another person in the entire game, apart from Hearts, who would go to the trouble of storing his skills in a playing card for Liu Jiayi to protect another person. to carry around as a life preserver.

Hearts not only shared her personal skills with Liu Jiayi, but also took a lot of pains and hardships in order to protect her, and used encryption to create this skill card for Liu Jiayi.

Even if anyone else had it in their hands, they would not know what the card could be used for, and even Bai Liu, who could open the Liu Jiayi panel directly, would not know what the card could do, protecting Liu Jiayi tightly in every way, so to speak.

You can't pick a second player in the entire game who can have this kind of treatment.

Liu Jiayi also had mixed feelings about this, but eventually told Bai Liu how to use it and what the Hearts skill was.

Bai Liu clips this brightly coloured Hearts A and locks his goggles on Qi Yihang, who is spinning 360 degrees in the gusty wind as his spirit level drops and he can't stabilise himself, and the conversation he had with Liu Jiayi rings in Bai Liu's mind.

Liu Jiayi handed him the card with a slight sigh, "This card stores the Empress' skill, her skill allows you to turn into the person the other person most desires and worries about in the short term, with a certain compulsion effect, and bounces all detection props, meaning that if you turn into anyone, no one else will be able to tell you apart from the person you become in person at all distinguish between you and the original."

"This skill ......" Bai Liu raised his eyebrows at Liu Jiayi, "is good for begging for mercy, counter-killing or swindling when life or death is at stake ah, this Hearts is good for you. "

Liu Jiayi was silent for a moment: "The Queen has indeed been very kind to me."

Except for the time when she was lured into ......, Hearts could not be faulted for treating Liu Jiayi.

Hearts trains her, nurtures her, teaches her how to behave, teaches Liu Jiayi how to learn fast and protect herself in reality and in the game.

At a stage when Liu Jiayi's abilities had not yet developed to her advantage, and when there was a little bit of criticism and controversy from those below the King's Guild, Hearts tilted almost the entire guild's resources towards her.

The towering woman even took Liu Jiayi out of the game herself, showing her how to do things gently and affectionately, and then later on, she put Liu Jiayi in the position of the team's core tactician, even willing to indulge Liu Jiayi's little habits that might get in the way of winning the league. He was even willing to indulge some of Liu Jiayi's little habits that might have got in the way of winning the league - such as refusing to restore her eyesight straight away.

Liu Jiayi has grown steadily to the point where she is today thanks to the unreserved nurturing and care of Hearts.

If 'good' is a quantifiable thing, Liu Jiayi can say with certainty that Hearts was the best person for her before she met Bai Liu, and Liu Huai was not even close to Hearts.

That's why Liu Jiayi wanted to live in the game before - she felt a sense of belonging here.

Hearts' unconditional goodness has given Liu Jiayi an unconscious sense of belonging to the cold, cruel place of gaming.

More than anyone Liu Jiayi has ever met, the Queen of Hearts is like family to her.

But it was also the man who cost her the only family she had ever known.

Liu Jiayi took a deep breath and handed Bai Liu the card that Hearts had given her: "...... Qi Yifang In the extreme case of seeing me die, it is possible to achieve the kind of situation you want with the addition of your mental value attack --"

She looked up at Bai Liu and said, "I was the one who was most worried about Qi Yifang at that moment, and if you had been close to Qi Yifang at that moment, you could have become a different me, unrecognisable to anyone, thanks to the Hearts skill card. The other me."

Bai Liu drew a bone whip from behind him, the curling wind hunting and blowing his shirt and the hair on his forehead upwards and shaking.

After stabilising himself, Bai Liu looked around the room and quickly located Qi Yifang, who was spinning in the wind, under the guidance of the Blizzard Goggles.

The bone whip in Bai Liu's right hand cuts through the wind and heads towards Qi Yifang's location, the fast-moving pure white whip like a brilliant bolt of lightning in the swirling storm.

"After a crackling sound on the flesh, the end of the whip wrapped around Qi Yifang's ankle.

Bai Liu tugged on the handle of the bone whip with one hand and pulled it forward with the other, and the two men quickly drew closer to the eye of the typhoon in the midst of more than just the wind, the bone whip acting as a white bone bridge between Bai Liu and Qi Yifang.

"Bang Bang-!!!"

Tang Erda stabilised herself in the wind before quickly reloading her magazine and firing a series of brutal shots at the white bone whip that connected Bai Liu and Qi Yifang across the centre of the storm.

A mere man hidden in the murky wind he could not see indeed, but such as had a bone whip connecting the two swaying ends he could still try to strike!

Tang Erda pulled the trigger one after the other.

"Bang Bang Bang Bang-!!!"

The bullet strikes against the bone whip that slides up and down with a crisp knocking sound, like particles stuck to it, and regular intermittent strikes appear.

In the midst of this storm, Tang Erda was able to follow the white whip, which only appeared briefly, with uncanny precision, and fired experimentally along the flow of the bone whip at intervals, seeing the silver bullets imbedded in the body of Bai Liu, the party holding the end of the whip!

Bai Liu heard the sound of gunfire approaching him and, without panic, held the Hearts card in his hand, pulled out a bottle of antidote and then replaced it with the card in his mouth between his ring and tail fingers, tilting his head back to drink the antidote.

The whirlwind flowed and Tang Erda, who had switched gates, was in a place where he could squint to see Bai Liu, and saw that airy smile on the guy's face that he had seen a thousand times before, and the words that were spoken to him in a muzzle.

"Knock yourself out, Captain Tang."

Bai Liu's face flashed past, too late to catch in the wind.

Liu Jiayi, the lightest and uppermost in the wind, opened her limbs and palms, she took a deep breath and folded her hands the moment she heard the gunshot.

[System Alert: Does player Liu Jiayi use the Burst skill (Poison Fountain)?

[Yes.]

The black poisonous mist that rose up into the sky spread out along the wind, turning the swirling mass of wind into a pile of black, sticky clouds that filled the air and obscured everything in front of Tang Erda's eyes and the direction in which he had last seen the shot -

--That's exactly where he was aiming Bai Liu.