Chapter 166: Rose Factory

Tang Er took a deep breath, stood up with the sack, and began to pick roses again quickly. He moved quickly and neatly, although he still looked a bit unskilled and clumsy, but the roses in the sack still grew very fast - at least much faster than the speed of Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi who were working together to pick roses. It's much faster than the two men Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi were working together to pick.

After all, he is a strong man who is good at doing physical work, and there is still a gap between Liu Jiayi, a small child, and Bai Liu, a social animal who sits in front of a computer all day and 996.

But when Tang Er had filled half the sack with dried leafy roses, there was a sudden rustling in the surrounding flower fields-as if some animal, creeping on the soil of the fields, had quickly pawed at its limbs, or more than its limbs, and approached him.

The sound of tiny, sticky, densely-packed, knuckle-dragging limbs plunging into the dirt and pulling themselves out made Tang Er strike an instantly wary turn of his head as a silver revolver sprang from his hand and was then clutched and lifted up in the air.

Tang Er hit moved cautiously around the spot that had made the strange noise, his thumb lightly plowing the chamber to cock the gun, holding it up to the quivering rose bush.

The colorful and lush flowers kept shaking and trembling, something hidden in the soil with the trembling flowers little by little closer to Tang Er hit, a strong, as if deposited for a long time the smell of rotting dead leaves came to the surface.

The tremors continued to approach, eventually stopping about half a meter from Tang Er's strike.

Tang Er hit moved carefully, his body poised in a half-crouch, using his other, unarmed hand to partially cover whichever of the creature's floral branches approached him, while the hand holding the gun was steadily aimed at whichever of the trembling had stopped for the last time.

The thing seemed to know that Tang Er had hit it with a weapon, and it remained silent for a long time, but eventually it was defeated by the scent of the petals in Tang Er's sack, and a hissing humanoid monster burst out of the dirt.

It was covered with scarlet slime, still dripping down, and only the outline of a humanoid creature could be vaguely made out, the flesh and skin of the body all blossoming out in flaps, like a branched, wilting leaf glowing black, while their bones resembled the stems of a plant, and the blackened flesh and blood withered away from the bones, and the skin was the same withered yellow color as the dried leaves.

Every time the monster took a step, the hanging "blades" on its body trembled, and as it walked, the dirt on its face finally dripped off, revealing a roughly true face - sunken and blackened eyeballs, and the flesh on the right side of its face had all withered away, with no meat but bones. But strangely enough, some white, dense, flesh-sprouting bone spurs were writhing on its cheekbones, as if they were about to grow out in the next second.

The monster lifted its eyeballs that were about to fall off, which contained a pair of roses that had withered to the point of dying, and it opened its mouth, which had rotted down to the nostrils and bed of its teeth, and let out an eerie hoarse voice with white teeth, "I want perfume! Give me perfume!!!"

Those wriggling flesh buds on its bones instantly elongated, turning into a long, flesh-colored tentacle with air holes stabbing towards Tang Er, and those parts of its body that hadn't fallen off and had no meat, but only bones, were instantly filled with these thumb-thin wriggling tentacles.

Tang Er hit is waiting for the monster to attack him first, and only after the monster attacks him can he trigger the monster book.

[System Alert: Congratulations to player Tang Er for triggering the Monster Book]

[The Rose Factory Monster Book Refresh - Dried Leaf Addicts (1/3)]

[Monster name: Dried Leaf Addict (Drifter)]

[Characteristics: Low-level stragglers gradually wither away after being denied access to low concentrations of perfume, but before withering away completely, these stragglers who are denied access to perfume to alleviate their withering first fall into the madness of perfume addiction, a madness that makes them fantasize about their omnipotence ......]

[In order to get the last pleasure before withering and dying, the bold and lowly addicts come to the flower field that can produce dry leaf roses to steal roses, but unfortunately, these lowly vagabonds have a strong stench and can't touch the roses in the flower field, so they can only steal roses that have already been picked by the flower pickers. Dear flower pickers, beware of these rose thieves]

[Weakness: ???? (to be explored)

[Attack: Stealing Roses (A+), attacking flower pickers with tentacles in order to steal the fruits of their labor]

The creature's tentacles were long, and the sweeps coming from all directions caused Tang Er to take several steps back, but he didn't strike immediately yet.

According to the factory worker who brought him here before, there must be more than one monster like the stragglers here in Hanafuda, Tang Er hit prepared to induce this monster to attack a few more times, so as to feel out the other party's entire attack method.

He had high agility, and maneuvering around a level A+ monster wasn't a difficult task, but that thought only lasted less than a second.

When the monster stretched out its tentacles to attack Tang Er Ta again, Tang Er Ta looked at the tentacle that rolled and brushed past less than two centimeters in front of his eyeballs - this tentacle was a bit like the root of a certain kind of plant, and there were some intermittent scars on the tentacle that looked like the scars of something that had fallen off.

Soon Tang Er realizes what the scars are - they are the marks of the joints left on the bones when the flesh and blood "blades" dry up and fall off, and the tentacles that grow out of the bones have these scars as well.

--This trace is exactly the same as the one left on the rhizome of the dry-leafed rose just after Tang Er hit the ripe, withered and fallen leaves.

Tang Er fight face ugly back a few steps, he realized what, immediately pulled out a gun to one shot to collapse the monster in front of him.

The monster hissed and crouched, but it was too late as more and more of the rose bushes shook.

In the vast rose fields, shadowed stragglers wiggled out of the dirt, their faces and bodies covered with tentacles, committing themselves all the way down to the mud of the ground, and the twisted tentacles of these stragglers were connected to the rooted foliage of the roses in the fields of flowers, which grew more and more beautiful in the moonlight.

These [stragglers], which are parasites of dry leaf roses, parasitize the ground of these roses.

They have been hiding in the earth to languish, looking out of it night after night with two rose-stained eyeballs, salivating and maniacal, just waiting for the full blossoms of the faded leaves to be plucked by the flower-pickers.

So much so that eventually even the bones were parasitized by these rose rhizomes, and they didn't care about the scars that grew on their bodies after the dried leaves fell off.

The field of flowers turned from a crimson field of soft mud to a swamp of rotting flesh and blood - the slippery surface of this red mud was made by the piles of [leaves] that had fallen off these stragglers and trampled on them, but the smell was covered by the rich and strong fragrance of the roses, which could not be smelled at all.

The tentacle-covered stragglers that grew out of the ground with their eyes fixed on roses, like puppets on strings in reverse, approached Tang Er Ta step by step, and Tang Er Ta's ankles were entangled by the tentacles that sprang out of the ground.

A human face emerged from Tang Er Ta's feet, nearly two-thirds of which was rotted and full of tentacles, which also emerged from his gaping mouth, which contracted and wrapped itself around Tang Er Ta's ankles, pulling him toward the ground.

It slurred and gurgled with tentacles in its mouth:

"Give me the perfume!!!"

"Give me roses!"

The iniquitous sound was like a chorus, coming from all directions, the moon shining brightly on the crimson ground, Tang Er hit his teeth and shot towards the tentacles on his ankles, and the moment they snapped, the rose in his eyes blossomed into a second petal.

[System Alert: Player Tang Er fights with spirit value down to 78, please use perfume to recover spirit value as soon as possible to prevent being alienated]

Following the flower field under the pure white moonlight, at the other end of this endless flower field, Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi are lying on the shore with salted fish.

The two men were staring at the sky with motionless eyes, looking like two corpses that had just been carried here, except for their chests, which were still heaving from the intense physical activity.

"I've been resting for five minutes, I should get up and pick flowers." Liu Jiayi said.

"Do you think us taking a five-minute break now versus a ten-minute break now will have any effect on the fact that we won't get the job done?" Bai Liu calmly asked back.

Liu Jiayi was silent for a while, "...... doesn't seem to have one."

After all, they had only collected six kilograms so far, and it looked unlikely that they would be able to complete the task of picking 40kg of roses before dawn.

Bai Liu fades, "Then we can rest a little longer."

Liu Jiayi: "......"

What the hell is up with this touchy-feely mentality?

"Your mindset in playing the game this time is very depressed ah Bai Liu." Liu Jiayi sat up and looked at the motionless Bai Liu, she hugged her chest and condescendingly scrutinized a certain salted fish lying next to her, "You usually operate at the limit in order to pass the game, I don't believe that your mind There's no idea of breaking the game."

Bai Liu squinted his eyes upward at Liu Jiayi : "I don't believe you don't have it in your head either, so both of us should have the same reason for not acting now."

Liu Jiayi was delicately silent for a long time.

Bai Liu turned his head back to the sky and continued, "The first is that it is indeed impossible for you and I to obtain 40kg of roses by regular labor, and without a way to get through using that route, our labor is unrewarding, inefficiently cost-effective and accelerates the rate at which we become contaminated."

"After tallying the fruits of your and my first hour of labor, we can already be sure that this way won't work, so there's no point in continuing this pointless labor."