Chapter 221: The Rose Factory

"In the middle, on the edge of the central hall!" The man pointed up and down the far side, "The bottom row!"

Before the man could finish his sentence, Mu Sicheng was already running away.

Muke took a deep breath, threw the plastic case he was clutching out of shape, and ran after Mu Sicheng.

Wang Shun, who was resting on the sidelines, saw the two men running out of smoke and reluctantly got up to take over the mess thrown at him by the two main men.

"Gentlemen, your work has paid off." Wang Shun with a smile on his face, "Now go and see the president we've dug up."

The crowd, still climbing up the TV hill, after a brief moment of dumbfounded silence, threw their hands in the air and erupted in a huge cheer.

The members, so excited that they were in tears, scrambled down from the TV hill, flocked to the member who had come to report the news and, after repeatedly confirming it, let out a huge breath and shouted.

"The President is out!!!"

"He's back!!!"

Central hall fringe area.

Mu Sicheng, the first to arrive, brakes sharply and stops in front of the small TV, takes two steps back and starts searching the screen with one eye for the person he knows.

His gaze finally settled on the position in the bottom corner, where Mu Sicheng stared for a moment, unable to stop himself from exhaling and smiling.

The smile may only be understood by Wang Shun, who will come later - this is the same promotion where Bai Liu was when he and Mu Sicheng first met him in the Central Hall.

"That's a hell of a life." Mu Sicheng hugged his chest and scanned Bai Liu's condition from head to toe, grunting, "Looks like he's in pretty good spirits."

Muke, following closely behind, looks on in awe for a moment at Bai Liu, who is unharmed on the small TV.

Muke had been terrified after learning that Bai Liu had entered a Level 3 game, but kept his fears to himself - he had a job to do, to fulfil Bai Liu's promise to him.

But the moment he saw Bai Liu for sure, the emotions he had been suppressing came out, and Muke blinked his red eyes and sniffled in resignation, tears welling up in his eyes.

If Bai Liu were in front of him at this point, Muke would probably have burst into tears.

Wang Shun, who was leading the pack, was stunned to see where Bai Liu's small TV was located, then smiled broadly in relief.

"It's good that people are okay."

Other members, or players who were rescued from No Man's Land because of Bai Liu, looked curiously, admiringly, and with a thousand complex and clueless emotions, at the man in the narrow outer convex screen.

This man has a face so unforgettable that anyone could easily pick him out of the crowd by his appearance.

He was dressed in the plainest of white shirts and suit trousers, standing on a platform holding up a pile of speeches and reading something unhurriedly, occasionally looking sideways at the stage and smiling.

It doesn't look at all like a new player stuck in a level 3 game.

--This is Bai Liu.

What the hell is he doing?

With this in mind, the crowd couldn't help but move closer to Bai Liu's little TV, closer still, until they stepped into the viewing area of Bai Liu's little TV and finally heard what Bai Liu was saying clearly.

Bai Liu looks down at the speech and speaks in a hushed tone.

"...... We've all been through the darkest of times, trapped in a crevice where we can't see the light to survive, exploited by others, made fun of and thrown into a dark prison after squeezing every last drop of value out of us... ..."

The alias of [No Man's Land] is the game's prison.

When Bai Liu said this, the people below could not help but look puzzled, and they spoke to each other in very low voices.

"...... President Bai know what's happening to us outside?"

"Isn't he in the game? Why does it feel like he's talking to us?"

Bai Liu on the small TV suddenly raised his eyes, he glanced at the screen and suddenly smiled.

"Lift your heads and look straight at me, you are the ones who have fought with me, I am not the one who leads or saves you, but one of you, do not face me with your heads down."

The audience outside the TV was genuinely horrified as they looked left and right and finally had to stare up at Bai Liu as he was instructed to do on the small TV.

Mu Sicheng also had a creepy look on his face.

Bai Liu's words made him feel fuzzy and Mu Sicheng leaned over to Wang Shun and rubbed his arm, cursing, "Shit! What the hell! Bai Liu feels like he knows everything that's going on outside!"

Wang Shun smiles helplessly, "How should I know, do you think I can figure out what Bai Liu is thinking?"

"It's the first time I've seen a player who can match the action outside the game." Charles, on the contrary, approached the small TV with great interest as he tilted his head to look at Bai Liu inside, "He's more to my taste than I thought."

Charles exclaimed from the bottom of his heart, "So beautiful in both looks and actions."

Bai Liu on the small TV restrained his eyes, withdrew his gaze and looked at the speech on the table and continued reading.

"...... It's an unfair world, there are always people who presume to treat us like mere ants and build kingdoms on our lives that allow them to enjoy themselves with abandon, they are powerful and have the best resources to dump on us, bind us and demand that we survive according to their rules. "

"No matter how much we fight it, there will come a time when they will succeed."

Here Bai Liu looked up at the tearful exiles below.

"We paid a heavy price."

The bottom players and No Man's Land players outside the TV also stop being surprised and they look at Bai Liu in silence, they realise that Bai Liu is speaking to them -

-- that's exactly where they are.

"There is no shame in losing, there is no shame in losing to anyone who bullies you, there is shame in stopping to fight, there is shame in not fighting because of the result of having to lose."

"Anyone can lose, the good guys can and the bad guys can." Bai Liu looked around at the stragglers below. "I will too."

The stragglers below could not resist retorting to this statement, " Mr. Bai, you will not lose!"

"I thank you for your good wishes." Bai Liu laughed softly, "But now in a place I have no way of getting to for the moment, I must have lost it all."

"I fell into a place, where only corpses can be buried, a place that Fang Ke can be darker than your prisons, full of wreckage, and no one has ever been able to walk out of that place."

Bai Liu said calmly, "I can't either."

The stragglers sank into silence.

The audience outside the TV screen looked in a trance at Bai Liu's face on the small TV.

They knew what Bai Liu was talking about, Bai Liu was talking about being surrounded by the full force of the Grand Council and falling into no man's land.

He really knows!

"We as individuals are powerless to resist in the face of something that is beyond our capacity, even if it would take our property, our lives, our souls, even if it is not in accordance with morality, law, procedure, or even the laws of nature."

Bai Liu says: "But as a group we are OK."

"I couldn't escape that terrible place alone, but I knew there would be a group of people who would find a way to get me out, a group that would slowly grow larger and stronger, that would form a brand new, new group that would change the old order of things - you would change the world, save yourselves, and save others."

"You guys are amazing." Bai Liu said, "You did."

Bai Liu's eyes were unruffled: "The order we believe is right doesn't always win, and the logic of the bad guys is more destructive than the good guys most of the time."

"So good will not always triumph over evil, and I'm sure that each and every one of you who has experienced evil understands this well enough."

"But as long as one good man does not die, justice lives on for you as a community."

"You may lose, but as long as one of you is still fighting, then you will never be wiped out."

Bai Liu unfolds the long file in front of him.

"So I've made this decision, I've decided to give each of you a share in these six newly opened Thorn factories, and each of you will take on a portion of the duties of the factory manager."

"And how the world can become next-" Bai Liu straightened his papers, bowed and bent, and stepped back from the podium, "-is your own choice."

A long silence fell over the game and beyond.

Those players who had emerged from the no-man's land, and the others who had been drawn in behind them, as well as the guild members, lowered their heads in silence and wordlessly clicked on their system panels.

It was crammed with all sorts of little TVs of players they had just collected to fish for Bai Liu, and the channels they liked were so varied that the points allotted to them had been spent to the hilt.

They looked as if they had done nothing and as if they had done a lot - and it was only at this point, with the reminder of Bai Liu's speech, that these people realised what an incredible thing they had just done.

-- With the King's Guild under strong siege, they fished out a new player!

If they could help each other and unite like this every time, wouldn't the big guilds be able to stop besieging and oppressing them with impunity?

--does such a collective exist?

In this cruel game, do guilds exist that distribute power to every member in this way?

Some have started to whisper about Bai Liu's guild, and more have started to ask Xiang Muke how to get into Bai Liu's guild, and their collection of small TVs has coincidentally grown to include Bai Liu.

Charles eyed the baffled Wang Shun with a smirk: "It seems our dark horse, or white horse, can handle things well in his own way without me having to go to the trouble of controlling anyone's emotions with points."

"Yes." Wang Shun couldn't resist waving his hand and shouting as he laughed more than ever, "Yes!"

More and more people are gathering around Bai Liu's small TV.

There were so many enquiries that Muke's memory even started to burn out, but Wang Shun stepped in just in time to help him take care of some of them.

Bai Liu's small TV figures are climbing at a terrifying rate.

After exiting [No Man's Land], his little TV looked like it had been plugged into the wings of a helicopter, making a dizzying jump of several promotions in a row, straight to the central lobby core promotion.

After less than ten dimensional seconds in the Central Hall, the audience watched in fascination as Bai Liu's little TV flew back to the Nightmare Nova Room and then within three dimensional seconds was firmly in the number one spot with insane numbers.

Mu Sicheng looked on in amazement: "I know this guy can't be reasoned with, but does it really make sense?"

"Not very reasonable." Wang Shun replied honestly, "In all my years of logging players, I've never seen a small TV reach that stat on its fourth game."

"Not even Spades could have managed to get so many people to follow him wholeheartedly for the duration of a game."

Wang Shun looked over at the huge number of players who were constantly consulting with Muke on how to get into the Bai Liu guild and exclaimed, "...... He's almost like he was made for this game."

And the moment the system communicated that the game was cleared, the little TV went off and the settlement began, Bai Liu's combined stats reached an unbelievable eight figures - a ten million dollar figure.

Even Wang Shun, who had been taking notes, began to wonder if he had just misremembered.

--That's an order of magnitude that only Spades can achieve, and can Bai Liu, even though he's a great guy, be a newcomer with no foundation and really achieve that?

But with the system briefing, Wang Shun was able to put his doubts to rest.

[8064673 people liked Bai Liu's TV, 307700 people favorited Bai Liu's TV, 1256171 people charged Bai Liu's TV, player Bai Liu gained 2789651 points].

[Player Bai Liu has received over 5 million likes in one minute and gained over 2.5 million points for charging! You are loved by the audience!

[Congratulations to player Bai Liu for winning the final promotion spot -]

A huge virtual salute appeared around the small TV, a large crown logo appeared in the centre and the system broadcast in a jubilant tone that

[Unbelievable - Player Bai Liu ranked first in the whole region in overall stats for small TV and won the first place in the central screen king promotion, you are the king today!!!]

[Player Bai Liu's small TV views are skyrocketing .......]

[Congratulations to Bai Liu for unlocking all the main quests to clear The Rose Factory]

[System: Player reaches true end ending - "The Factory Where Roses Fall Forever"]

[If there is a world that forbids the cultivation of roses and the production of perfume, and produces thorns covered with spikes that people are forced to swallow - it is this world].

[It sounds as if the people who live here are poor and unfortunate, having lost the right to have roses, but they find their world more beautiful than ever - it's their choice].

[A heart weighs 250g and a rose weighs 2g, would you rather have a heart for a hundred roses or a hundred roses for a heart?

[The Rose Factory is waiting for your choice].

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Rose Factory" true end line pass - 300000 bonus points]

[The Rose Factory trueend line pass - Attribute points: 500 (can be upgraded according to the player's own needs for panel attributes)]

[The Rose Factory Monster Book - Dried Leaf Addict Page Collection Reward - Prop: Tentacle Cage (can be used to catch moving objects, one-time prop)]

[The Rose Factory Monster Book - Rose Staff Page Set Reward - Prop: Reversed Right Eye (player wears it with reduced mental value and evil personality, can glimpse the hidden real scenes of the copy, limited to once per copy, Transcendent level prop)]

[The Rose Factory Monster Book - Idol Pages: Set Reward - A Rose Without Bloom (Quality Buming, has status attribute, status specific attribute Buming)]

[System: Player Bai Liu's overall rating for this small TV]

[With a combined statistic of over 20 million credits, we have rated Bai Liu's video "The Rose Factory" - a deserving video for the Diamond and Crown badge, and have given it a 214:13 ratio of likes for any downgrade -]

[Final rating of Gold Crown badge level video, this level video will be eligible for the VIP library - Player Bai Liu's gameplay video is in the VIP library this time]

[After entering the VIP library, if a player wants to watch the video of player Bai Liu's game "Rose Factory", he needs to become a VIP member of the system and then pay 10,000 points to the system, and the points paid by the audience to watch Bai Liu and the system will be split 50/50]

[Bai Liu won the following achievements for this small TV -]

[King's List #1].

[Seventeenth player to receive a small TV with 10 million figures]

......

Game exit.

As a result of Charles's previous move to spill money into No Man's Land, many players are now logging out, and what was once a relatively evenly populated exit looks a little crowded in a system space where everyone is dimensionally divided.

The King's promotion bit screen in the central hall is faintly visible from the boarding exit.

The King's promotion seat is in the very middle of the central lobby, an immense screen and one that informs newcomers throughout all the game's divisions as they ascend - the best publicity channel for a newcomer.

So these players have just come out of the boarding gate to see Bai Liu's little TV making a speech on the King's List and to hear the system's loud speaker blasting a cheerful sound effect.

[Unbelievable - Player Bai Liu Small TV ranked first in the whole region in terms of overall stats and won the first place in the central screen king promotion position and is the king of the day!!!]

Then, whether it was to see what was going on or to be attracted by Bai Liu, most of these players who poured out of the loggia basically streamed towards the Central Hall as soon as they came out.

Of course, there are also those who do not head for the Central Hall, and these are usually players who have an urgent matter - such as a senior guild member being recalled by their home guild to discuss Bai Liu-related matters on an urgent basis.

Charles' intervention and Bai Liu's reputation means that this support season won't be as easy as usual - even if Bai Liu doesn't enter until next year, their support season this year is bound to be split between this guy!

The way this guy comes out every time is so absorbing! And this time especially!

The league is such a big deal that this guy has stirred up the crowd and most of the attention is on him!

This is the part of the game where players leave the boarding exit and rush to their guilds, not giving Bai Liu's boarded-up King screen more than a glance - and that's where their trouble comes from.

However, the other part of the players who cannot stay in the hall are more miserable.

They were so badly injured in the game that as soon as they logged out of the game they were lying on the ground, unable to move at all.

Normally, in-game injuries are not carried outside the game, but after the game has completely destroyed the person's sanity and blurred the line between reality and the game, the injuries the person received in the game will all stay on the person's body and be carried out of the game.

Because he was so sure that the game was reality, the wounds he had left in "reality" would naturally be carried over to reality.

The group lay all over the boarding exit, immobile, being trampled on by people coming and going, although these people would not step on them, but as a result, most of them did not give these injured players more than a glance to help them move aside.

Nor do such people crawl to one side after they have recovered a little on their own; most of them are mad, lying on their backs with empty eyes, to be trampled on, no different from corpses.

But in the midst of all this, one 'corpse' crawls to one side and stands out.

The man literally looked like he had been fished out of a sea of blood, dripping down all over his body, unable to tell if it was his own or someone else's.

He was not deeply defined, he looked like a half-breed, soaked in blood his features still looked very graceful with the youthfulness of adolescence - a shiny blonde half-curly hair stained orange by the blood, he was half leaning against the wall of the boarding exit, hidden under the dirty curls were fresh apple green eyes.

And now he was gazing at the big screen with these apple-green eyes from afar, not blinking for several long minutes, not even blinking when blood ran into his eyes.

Then the blood flowed into his eyes, staining his apple-green eyes an unsettling dark red.

He cocked his head and surveyed the man on the screen for a long time before slowly attaching himself, climbing up on the ground with his broken limbs and fingers and moving closer to the large screen where Bai Liu was.

Bai Liu's voice comes out on the small TV as he gives a talk to the displaced people in the factory.

"...... I did my best to save each and every one of you as promised ......"

"Each and every one of you is worthy of being saved ......"

The man's climbing hands stalled, and he moved his limbs stiffly like a puppet that had been cut and barely put back together, wrapping his arms around himself and bending over his face in a self-protective gesture, but the corners of his mouth split weirdly from the sides of his hands.

-- if he moved his hand away, it must have been an exaggerated to the point of horror laugh.

He couldn't contain himself and laughed.

A hoarse, dry laugh, like that of a demon crawling out from the bottom of the abyss.

"Bugiardo (liar)." He whispered, "Padre, mi hai mentito (Father, you lied to me)."