Chapter 164: Rose Factory

"After the gathering, we'll tent for your roses before dawn."

"Remember, the picked petals should not be stolen by the vagabonds around the flower fields who covet the dried leaf roses." The worker warned them sternly, "If they are stolen, not only will you not get a single drop of perfume, but you will also be fired from the factory, and you will end up just like those vagabonds. Do you understand?"

After saying this, the worker handed Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi two burlap pockets for the flowers, a pair of thick cotton gloves for picking roses to prevent odor contamination of one's hands, a pair of long tweezers for removing fallen buds, and a specific wage form.

The worker casually shoved the payroll form to Bai Liu, and also said rather smugly: "You won't be able to work for long, you'll be dismissed and become a displaced person, we have a high elimination rate in the factory, and the ones who can be promoted to processors like me are the one-in-a-hundred flower pickers, who can pick 6 kilograms of roses in an hour."

"You probably won't even be able to pick one-sixth of what I'm picking, and this will probably be your last night in this factory, so enjoy the original scent of dried leaf roses, and you won't lose out - our Flower Fields Tent is the most expensive hotel room in the world, and I don't know how many people are waiting for a reservation to stay in a room that's worth a lot of gold. We're the most expensive hotel room in the world, and I don't know how many people who want to stay one night have to wait for a reservation."

"That's just your luck ......" the worker muttered indignantly as he walked back quickly, "last year's dry leaf rose yield was bad, too many people withered, this year's recruiting laborers do not have a serious tendency of wilting disease, will not steal roses in the flower field are hard to find, May Rose Festival is coming again, it is the time of the flower season shortage, it will be your turn to recruit you newcomers in ......". It's hard to find ordinary people who don't have serious wilting disease tendency and won't steal roses in the flower fields. The May Rose Festival is coming again, it's the time when the flower season is short of people, and it's only when it's your turn that it's your turn to recruit newcomers like you to come in ......."

"...... think my batch but only recruit 985211 graduate degree or above, published more than three dry leaf rose research direction, sci impact factor of 1.0 or more thesis graduates come in to pick flowers ...... "

Bai Liu: "......"

Liu Jiayi (in school), a second grade student at an elementary school for the disabled: "......"

While I'm not low on intelligence, what the hell is this you're talking about?

Liu Jiayi held up two gloves bigger than her face and silently looked up at Bai Liu: "Do you pick roses?"

--From the words of that worker, picking this dried leaf rose is obviously a skilled job.

"No, I haven't picked any roses." Bai Liu replied dryly, but he quickly tied the sack next to his belt, and also pushed up the sleeves of his white shirt, tightened his pants legs, and put on baking-like thick cloth gloves on both hands, instantly transforming from a white-collar urbanite to a country boy, looking ready to work in the field at any time.

He looked at Liu Jiayi with a [Why do you look so skillful? Bai Liu held the tweezers and explained naturally, "I used to cut pigweed when I was a kid, although it's a different crop from roses, it should be harvested in a similar way."

Liu Jiayi: "......"

Don't treat roses like hogweed!

Bai Liu knelt down on one knee and also helped Liu Jiayi to pull up his sleeves and tighten his pants, then he gathered his gloves downward and put them on Liu Jiayi's hands, which barely fit, and as he did so, he explained to Liu Jiayi in a calm manner, "Don't worry about anything happening for the time being, haven't you noticed that Tang Er is not here? "

Liu Jiayi had actually found out, but she hadn't figured out why.

"If the person behind the scenes wanted you to fight Tang Er 打, then he should have released Tang Er 打, a beast that has a powerful killing power over you, in the opening scene, and quickly killed the powerless you." Liu Jiayi held Bai Liu's shoulders with both hands and raised his feet to let Bai Liu arrange his shoes and socks, his young face had a deep expression that did not match his age, "But he intentionally split up you and Tang Er Ta, this is to protect you, why?"

"Because he didn't design this game stage for the purpose of getting me killed." Bai Liu stood up and clapped his hands together, he dropped his eyes in an uncertain tone, "Rather, it was to give me the ability to capitalize on weaknesses and kill my opponents."

Liu Jiayi was stunned, "It's like in the last round of the game, you were allowed to get Liu Huai's soul first and then come after me, right? This round of the game it's very likely that Tang Er fight was sent to the other flower fields, and it's going to take until-"

"--It's going to be until he thinks I'm capable of killing Tang Er Fight that we're going to face each other." Bai Liu faintly added on to Liu Jiayi's words, with a bit of a loose smile on his face that he seemed to find amusing, "After all, just a feeding scene where a simple beast kills a human is nowhere near as good as a coliseum where two beasts that have both finished growing and are still mad at each other are fighting each other."

"Of course, there's another reason why he's doing this, but I think you've already guessed it." Bai Liu looks to Liu Jiayi

Liu Jiayi spine ran up an uncontrollable coolness, she slowly spoke, "Because the audience also most like to see this kind of development, he if related to the system, can the system on the profit, this kind of small TV towards is the most easy to get charging points and likes, and our from the audience on the various gains is going to be extracted by the system part of the ......"

"Even if we die, all of our earnings, including our souls, will be taken by the system ......"

All of them are just ...... the animals that the person behind the scenes most ...... casually releases for people to play with and watch, pleasing the eye ...... only.

"So for the time being, don't worry about our life and death, the people behind the curtain won't let me die easily." Bai Liu pulled out the paycheck form from his pocket and sighed while showing it to Liu Jiayi, "I can't believe it's really a part-time job ......"

The payroll lists the weight of the picked roses and the corresponding wages.

Reference data: One dried leaf rose (undried) weighs about 2g.

Picking 40 kilograms of dried leaf roses (with branches intact) can be exchanged for a bottle of Wa Si Perfume with a concentration of 30% to 40%, 35 ml of low grade dried leaf roses.

(Note: A bottle of low-grade perfume with a concentration of 30 to 40 per cent can remain fragrant on the human body for up to four hours.)

[System alert: Player unlocked the side quest]

[Side quest: Player collects 40 kilograms of roses tonight]

[Success in the mission then the player will be able to exchange the first bottle of dried rose leaves Wa Si's low-grade perfume, which can be used to alleviate being contaminated, and take the first step towards promotion to processor! Failure of the mission will result in being laid off and exiled to the outskirts, becoming a drifter.]

Bai Liu silently converted in his mind, a rose 2g, then 40 kilograms of roses is ......

"...... 20,000 roses ......" Liu Jiayi looked up from his paycheck to Bai Liu in disbelief, "You want us to pick 20,000 dried leaf roses before issuing us a bottle of low-grade perfume that holds its fragrance for 4 hours? Are they treating us like animals?"

Bai Liu swept a glance at Liu Jiayi in a casual manner : "Congratulations, little friend, you have already realized the true meaning of part-time work in advance."

"That's how I spoke to my supervisor when I was getting paid every month." Bai Liu paused, "And then I got fired by my superior, but I wasn't very interested in doing such a cost-effective thing myself, and after I had just realized the benefits of not working part-time as a freelancer (meaning earning money in a horror game), I didn't realize that I was going to have to start working part-time in a horror game as well, with a lower paycheck than I had before ......"

Bai Liu began to mourn to the naked eye.

Liu Jiayi: "......"

OK, seems to speak to his sadness ......

However, Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi chatted, but they still took the sacks and went down to the flower field with their hands and feet.

The field is densely fenced with lush roses, and the rows and rows of rose bushes leave a narrow aisle about a man's width wide, in which Bai Liu now moves slowly, tweezing the roses on either side.

Bai Liu tried to move quickly, but the bottom of the rose field was a layer of rather wet and sticky red mud, stepping into it was like stepping into a swamp, and it was difficult to move in plastic boots with a smooth exterior, and there was always an odor of this red mud, not of blood, but of the sea.

And the weird thing was that almost every fully bloomed rose here was exactly the same size, color, and number of petals, as if someone had pinched a rose and then generated all the roses in the entire rose field with copy and paste.

Bai Liu uses tweezers to hold the root of the rose and lifts it upwards, and the rose is picked, and he observes the freshly picked dry leaf rose from a distance - it is a very unique type of rose, at least Bai Liu has not seen this type of rose in reality.

When the buds are not yet fully extended, the petals glow a dark red, almost blackish purple, from the roots, and the edges of the petals become a kind of rosy red, with the outermost being a light pink, and unlike the dark green, ovoid leaves of ordinary roses, the heart-shaped leaves and thorns on the stems of the dry-leaf roses become yellow when they are ripe, and wither and fall off the moment they are picked - this is the name of this kind of rose. -This is the origin of the name of this rose.

The moment a dry-leaf rose matures, all the stems and leaves that have provided nourishment for it dry up, leaving only the full, fragrant buds behind - like humans who are addicted to its concentrated aroma but don't get to feed it all the time.

It is a rose that is extremely aggressive both in its growth process and in the perfume it is prepared.

Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi walked deeper and deeper into the field of flowers, and after almost an hour, they both stopped and headed for the edge of the field in unison.

Liu Jiayi raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her forehead, exhaled and handed Bai Liu the sack full of roses she had just picked at her waist, then sat down limply on the ground and gulped down her energy supplement.

It was almost April or May in the game now, and the nights weren't very cool anymore, and staying in a place like a flower field where the plants were overgrown and humid would be a sweltering heat that went up their necks and down their spines, especially since they were also moving around deep in a swampy flower field picking flowers, which was completely physical work.