Chapter 183: The Rose Factory

The twisting grey whirlwind is tinted black, and the poisonous mist that swirls around it obscures the view of everyone in it.

Silver bullets grazed Bai Liu's ears as he flew on his feet in a black whirlwind with the Hearts A deck in his mouth, grabbing the whip and approaching Qi Yifang at the other end.

Qi Yifang, dazed and disoriented by the little witch's poisonous fog, opened his limbs and struggled like a corpse in the huge wind he had created.

But Qi Yifang would not die, and Liu Jiayi had no intention of killing her teammates in the wind, who were all around S-rank and protected enough not to be easily killed by her poisonous mist attack.

But stiffness is inevitable under the effect of poison.

Bai Liu follows the whip and grabs Qi Yifang's ankle. The red heart in the card he is holding begins to spin strangely and Bai Liu slowly repositions himself so that Qi Yifang, lying flat in the wind, is upright and facing him.

Qi Yifang gazes in a trance at Bai Liu with unfocused eyes, the red heart in the centre of the Hearts playing card, which Bai Liu holds to his lips, spinning faster.

Bai Liu fed the antidote into Qi Yifang's mouth.

Qi Yifang swallowed the antidote with a few choking coughs and the wind, but his low spirit level and chaotic state of intoxication made him lose track of his current situation.

Qi Yifang's eyes were red and she whispered in a feeble and sad voice.

"...... Sorry, Little Witch ......"

--didn't protect you, and let you come to my rescue.

...... I came to take you back to the guild, but it doesn't seem to have worked out and you seem to have found a better home ......

As the heart of a peach in the centre of the card spins, a human figure emerges, while Bai Liu's limbs shrink and slim down.

His hair, which had reached just below his ears, lengthened down to the nape of his neck, and his clothes became a dark black gauze hooded shirt, his originally calm black eyes fading to an opaque grey hue, like a piece of poorly made woolen glass.

Bai Liu becomes Liu Jiayi in the wind.

The grey-black haze from the poison on Qi Yifang's face cleared as he drank the antidote in time, and he slowly closed his eyes.

The bizarrely appearing spinning hurricane stopped as Qi Yifang's eyes closed and everyone caught up in it fell to the ground as the wind gradually stopped.

Tang Erda, who had been attacked by the poison, shook her body a little and managed to stand still, raising her gun to search for Bai Liu's shadow.

Qi Yifang even threw up on the ground after landing.

Although he was relieved of his poisoned state, it is logical that the state loss should not be as severe as the others.

But Qi Yifang is "windy".

Yes, that's right, although Qi Yifang is an observant user of the wind, he is wind-sick.

Qi Yifang could spit out his bile when he comes down after just a few revolutions in this high-speed wind.

This is why Qi Yifang has always had good skills and high panel stats, but is still in the King's Guild reserve team rather than a full team member - because Qi Yifang doesn't make good use of his skills.

Not far from them sat two men in black robes, Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi, and Tang Erda stepped forward, alertly picking apart the broad robes of the two men who sat motionless on the ground.

Two identical, thin little girls' faces peeked out of their outer robes and looked at him cluelessly.

Qi Yifang stared blankly at the two Liu Jiayi in front of him.

Tang Erda's grip on her gun tightened and her face darkened to the core.

Trapped!

Had he known that when he was in the middle of the whirlwind, he should not have hesitated because of the ten-minute gun cooldown after the burst skill, he should have just used the burst skill [Suicide Bullet] to take Bai Liu away.

Tang Erda understands Bai Liu's plans.

This Bai Liu guy knows that Tang Erda won't actually kill him in the game, given that he's already in the Rose Factory, because Tang Erda needs Bai Liu to tell him the solution to the dried leaf rose.

Tang Erda is convinced that Bai Liu must know how to get through this game in order to get the key prop to solve the dried leaf rose.

The solution is at hand, Tang Erda's main objective is to limit control over Bai Liu, not to kill him directly in the game, let alone to kill Liu Jiayi.

In other words, Tang Erda had no intention of making a move against Liu Jiayi, and he had just pointed the gun at him in order to obtain Bai Liu's whereabouts.

However, Liu Jiayi's active banging put Tang Erda in a position to take the blame for the [unprovoked stabbing of the little witch], which, coupled with Bai Liu's subsequent series of actions, put Tang Erda in a completely passive position.

Now this guy Bai Liu is Liu Jiayi.

Without knowing who is real and who is not, and with Tang Erda as a Hunter player who could potentially kill the real Liu Jiayi, the other three King's Guild members would have fought to stop Tang Erda from harming or controlling one of the two Liu Jiayi.

Everyone's position was shattered and rearranged by Bai Liu through this sudden hurricane - the other three were forcibly moved by Bai Liu to join his own team.

It was no longer a case of Bai Liu being alone against the four of them.

Instead, it's Tang Erda, one against five.

Tang Erda, who was blue from the poisoned state of decline, gripped the gun in her hand so tightly that she was practically gritting her teeth.

...... The situation now has no room for return. One-on-five is not impossible to fight, and he can kill all these people even if he fights to the death.

But he did not want to kill indiscriminately, he was after Bai Liu to save the others, but in turn killing the three innocent common players of the King's Guild who had been set up by Bai Liu for the sake of the others was not something he wanted to do either.

He did not want to work with these three men from the King's Guild, and the intention was that he did not want to involve these three ordinary people, who had nothing to do with the matter, in this dangerous affair with Bai six, preferring to deal with everything on his own.

But this pushed the three players he had been working with, who had been helped by Tang Erda last night and who still had some goodwill towards him, to Bai Liu's side.

He did not want to see this situation, but it has to be said that Tang Erda is used to it.

After realising that he was a hunter teased by the gods and would gradually turn into a monster bringing bad luck to others, he began to ruthlessly cut himself off from all contact with people and only allowed himself to wander into the community of monsters.

Tang Erda looks up, his brow bones are low and his eyes are inwardly focused on a person with a fierce, wolf-like stare that wants to hunt you down.

He was indeed originally the alpha wolf who led the pack into battle, would not be questioned by the pack members for betrayal, and was always the best general and pawn, biting off the most enemies and prey.

Bai six forced Tang Erda to abandon her identity, turn her back on her team and even abandon her right to exist as a human being in order to defeat Bai six.

But now Tang Erda is just a dying wolf, trying to do one last thing for the pack before she dies.

Qi Yifang and two other members of the King's Guild stood alertly between the two Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda.

Although they are now also confused about the two Liu Jiayi, the real Liu Jiayi must be in this and they have to protect the little witch from being shot by this hunter again.

Liu Jiayi's near-kill by the psychotic hunter's sudden shooting still haunts the three King's Guild players who were ordered to enter the game to bring the little witch back.

They stood closely in front of the two Liu Jiayi, eyeing the grim-faced, silent Tang Erda warily.

Tang Erda gazed at " Liu Jiayi" with bright, ghostly blue eyes, the gun in his hand ultimately not raised at the three King's Guild players who were in his way - it was probably the last line of defence between him and the complete monster.

Protected behind them, the two " Liu Jiayi " look at each other with a somewhat subtly similar smile.

It seems that this Mr. Hunter, although he doesn't seem to have a very good head on his shoulders, is indeed a good man who doesn't take it easy on unrelated people.

A good man is the kind of person in the world that all normal people, good and bad, like the most, and it is the room for profit that Tang Erda gives up out of her moral principle of being a "good man" that gives Bai Liu, a shameless man, room to manoeuvre.

After Tang Erda had somehow turned away and put a safe distance between them, Qi Yifang was perfumed by her companion to restore her spirit level, then panted and rested on the ground with the other two men.

Qi Yifang gulped down his stamina restorer - he thought Tang Erda was really going to shoot all five of them with her gun.

The shivering weighing processors, who had been gathered around for some time, dared to come out with their pockets containing roses only after the storm had ceased.

He looked at the two identical Liu Jiayi in front of him with some confusion and said with difficulty and caution, "There are only 360kg of roses, just enough for one person to stay on as a processor, which one of you is ...... the rose?"

The weigher's words attracted the attention of the rest of the group, who then turned their attention to the two Liu Jiayi, and even Tang Erda, who was some distance away, raised her eyes to look.

Liu Jiayi came with only 360kg of dried leaf roses, and Bai Liu showed up with a flash, he came empty-handed with nothing, and there were only enough roses for one person to continue working as a processor, so if Bai Liu didn't produce enough roses to keep him going, one of the two Liu Jiayi would have to be demoted to If Bai Liu did not produce enough roses to keep him going, one of the two Liu Jiayi would have to be demoted to flower picker.

Qi Yifang and the three men of the King's Guild certainly did not want Liu Jiayi to be demoted, and they looked carefully at the two Liu Jiayi in an attempt to find the false one.

They first used detection props, but they soon discovered that Bai Liu had used them to disguise Liu Jiayi's appearance and that there were few detection props that could tell the difference.

Qi Yihang frowned - apart from the Queen's skill, he had never heard of such an advanced disguise technique that could evade all props.

Little did these preppies know that the Queen was partial to the witch to the point of giving her her own skill base.

Not many people in the guild knew that Liu Jiayi possessed the Empress of Hearts' skill playing cards.

But soon the three men calmed down; they had, after all, worked with the little witch quite a few times in the game.

Qi Yihang played a practice match with Liu Jiayi as a reserve at one point, and even though Bai Liu looked exactly like Liu Jiayi, they were confident that they could tell who was really the same through small gestures, behaviours and habits.

It is not so easy for Bai Liu to pretend to be Liu Jiayi in front of people who know her well.

Tang Erda thought the same thing, staring at the two shells that looked like copy and paste Liu Jiayi, whom he was not very familiar with, but he was very familiar with Bai Liu.

As soon as one of the "Liu Jiayi" reveals Bai Liu's habitual movements and diction, Tang Erda is able to distinguish it quickly.

But soon their expressions froze.

The speed at which the two Liu Jiayi stand up, the small angular deflections of the head, even the turning of the head to pat the dust on the trousers, and the straightening of the collar and wrist cuffs are all perfectly consistent.

These movements look nothing like what Liu Jiayi was used to doing before, they look more like something a grown man in his twenties, who takes care of his appearance and often wears a suit, would do than something an eight year old girl would do.

The three King's Guild members were right in guessing that Bai Liu was not very good at imitating a little girl, especially as he had not known Liu Jiayi for very long and it was difficult for Bai Liu to know all of Liu Jiayi's movements and to imitate them vividly.

But for Liu Jiayi, who was groomed by the Queen of Hearts to take over as her core skill, and who was already extremely good at pretending and interpreting and in her prime learning years, it was easy for her to mimic Bai Liu's actions.

And this clever little girl can imitate it seamlessly.

In other words, the two sides are in the trickiest of situations - it's two Bai Liu's in Liu Jiayi's shell.

They couldn't tell who was who.