Chapter 195: The Rose Factory

The creature crawled around, spreading its petal-like skinned knuckles, scuttling across the old wall, its bloodied face opening its mouth in a fierce gape, and from its writhing throat a low, muffled roar that seemed to shock Bai Liu.

Liu Jiayi's skill [Telekinesis] is a direct swap of two bodies, meaning that his body is now his own, but Bai Liu's panel speed is not very high, so he quickly loses ground as he is chased by these monsters.

Another member of the King's Guild sees Liu Jiayi about to be glued to the monster behind him, opening his "Pod" to swallow him.

The King's Guild man looked at the situation and had to grit his teeth and reach over and take [Liu Jiayi] by the back of his collar and run with him.

Soon they reached the door of the old bunkhouse and the member twisted the rusty door handle twice, but it didn't open.

"Fuck." The member cursed angrily, quickly turning his head and pressing his back against the door, his eyes grimly looking at the rosy monsters that kept approaching them, a long hammer drawn from his hand, "These monsters are S-rank, me and you won't last long."

Bai Liu abruptly posed the question, "If you're on your own, how long can you last?"

"???? Five or six minutes." This member asked back in confusion, "Wait, why should I hold up alone, little witch aren't you next to me ......"

Bai Liu gave him a gentle smile, his hand propped up with a bottle of the low-grade perfume he had received only this morning, which he sprayed without hesitation at the team member who hadn't yet reacted.

The smothering perfume caused the member to cover his face and choke and cough several times, and as it spread, a light rose scent emanated from his body, and the surly monsters who had been watching the two of them closely now dropped their eyes in unison, looking at the member next to Bai Liu in unison, a salivating grin appearing on the monster's fuzzy, bloody face.

[System Alert: Warning Warning! The perfume on the player is too concentrated! It has attracted the attention of the (rotten staff)! They are about to come over and suck the smell out of you!

The team member who looked up: "......"

The player let out a resentful roar, "Fuck you! You're Bai Liu!!!"

The monsters swarmed towards the team member like spiders in a nest and soon formed an impenetrable circle around the team member, who was cursing Bai Liu's ancestors while helplessly trapped in place, carrying a sledgehammer to draw the attention of the monsters for Bai Liu.

And Bai Liu, quick as a flash, emerged from this enclosure and began a quick search for clues in the large passageway that is the Reeve's World.

The [in-world] setting in games can usually be explained in such a way that two parallel worlds from different time branches, or different points in time, overlap in one location, and the player who enters here is free to travel between the two world lines when certain conditions are met.

And generally this supplemental world line is done to make it easier for the player to go back to a certain past, or future point in time and explore the hidden information behind the game's worldview, so there is generally a lot of key information in the inner world.

All Bai Liu had to do now was to find out the key information he wanted.

The bodies of a dozen workers lay on the twisted bunks, wearing uniforms not unlike the ones Bai Liu and the others wear now, which look much older - this could well be a bygone [inner world].

This was soon confirmed when Bai Liu found newspapers underneath one of the bodies.

This matter a mirror city evening newspaper, the newspaper headlines are - [illegal perfume may contain poisonous addictive substances, has caused several employees addiction, and the whereabouts of several employees Buming, has been banned by the authorities].

Bai Liu scrolled down to read the article and soon his eyebrows rose.

The report reads.

[...... the illegal perfume factory director is an orphan surnamed Zhang, due to congenital cataracts left eye vision is poor, grew up in a private orphanage called love orphanage, aspiring to become a billionaire, Zhang was adopted at the age of thirteen, after the death of his adoptive parents inherited the estate, after the illegal smuggling has three prison experience, but also in the dark He has accumulated a lot of wealth and contacts, but he is still not satisfied ......]

[In September this year, when the orphanage poisoning incident broke out, Zhang saw the news and went back to the orphanage to raise money, but Zhang made a condition for the donation that he liked the sculpture of the orphanage so much that he wanted to buy the orphanage's original sculpture for a donation ......]

[...... The director of the orphanage agreed, and eventually Zhang offered a $10 million donation in exchange for the statue of the deity that was buried in the ground during the orphanage's renovation ......]

Shortly afterwards, the director of the orphanage was imprisoned in connection with the blood lingzhi incident, and the authorities investigated Zhang, who ended up having a pecuniary relationship with the director of the orphanage, claiming that he knew nothing about the director's bad deeds, but only wanted to donate money to help the children and liked the idol.

[Later, when the people concerned asked the director of the orphanage about the origin of the statue, the director went crazy and said that the statue was an unsettling, evil statue that had been bought by investors specifically from a museum in a decaying, seaside town specializing in amulet statues in order to pray that the blood lingzhi farming would go well, and was said to be the most expensive statue in that town].

[She said the reason why these investors felt that this statue would protect the Blood Lingzhi farming from going smoothly was because the statue's face looked exactly like a more evil, hyped-up, long-dead child!!!]

After that, Zhang started to develop new types of roses and perfumes, leasing large fields in the suburbs, hiring a large number of workers and starting to grow roses on a large scale, naming the roses with withered leaves after flowering as "dry leaf roses".

[The crop (in the text, dried leaf roses) has an amazing growth cycle, growing rapidly on land that is completely unsuited to the growth of flowers in the Rosaceae family, filling the countryside overnight].

The perfume, which Zhang made from the altered crop, had similar effects and became a hit on the market through internet sales, but immediately afterwards the regulator stepped in and found the perfume to be a serious safety hazard, banning it in the same month, imposing a substantial fine and strictly prohibiting Zhang from growing and selling it again.

A week later, Zhang disappeared and has not been heard from since.

That's the end of the report.

But in reality, this Zhang, the first director of the Rose Factory, apparently didn't stop there, but secretly ran the Rose Factory again as a bigger factory, eventually attracting the intervention of the Bureau for the Treatment of Dangerous Heresies.

These employees lying here must be the first Rose Factory employees who died here because they were intolerant to rose perfume and were dumped here, the ones whose whereabouts were Buming in the headlines.

Bai Liu browses through the papers and then continues to search, looking under and around each body for anything that might be a message carrier - and that's really all there is in a horror game.

Newspapers, notes, calendars, video tapes or diaries.

Soon Bai Liu found a diary in the abdomen of a face-up body in a large bunk room with a knife in his hand thrust into his neck and a pained expression on his face.

Bai Liu opens the diary and on the first page of the dusty and decaying diary is a regret-filled inscription in the bottom right-hand corner.

[I have never regretted so much that I had opened a thing of unprecedented evil, I thought my unbounded desire had been the most horrible thing in the world, but then I realized it was not, the statue I had bought back was!

[The dried-leaf rose is a flower brewed by the evil gods; it does not wither, it does not fade, it does not decay, it only embodies its blossoming by the human body that it has thoroughly compelled, and it lives on beautifully as the product of divine affection, in the bones and flesh of the human body, in the fragrance of madness].

[Rose dried leaf gas is the most perfect perfume, a poison for which there is no antidote, and I understand the first point as an excavator and prove the latter as a dead person].

Bai Liu looked at the last word of this paragraph and turned to the next page without pausing.

[I grew up in a subsidized private orphanage, and I understand that the investors here have a strange evil magic that is inseparable from a strange child in the orphanage, a very, very strange child whose face I cannot see because he always hangs down his very long hair to cover his eyes]

[But I am sure that whoever has seen this child once will be able to recognize him when they see him afterwards!

[Because he was so frightening, the moment I saw him, I had only one horrible thought in my head that makes me tremble even now when I think of it. I was indeed afraid of him, but after I had inadvertently met his light blue eyes, which looked like a giant beast in the deep sea, through his fine, soft hair, all that remained in my head was an impulse as if I were possessed by a demon --]

[- I'll kill him! I'll break him into pieces!