Chapter 167: Rose Factory

Liu Jiayi didn't say anything, but she did think so, otherwise she wouldn't have gone ashore and counted flowers with Bai Liu as soon as the hour was up.

"And the game has given us a hint." Bai Liu spoke evenly, "You don't have to work honestly to get a productive promotion, or rather, working honestly is the stupidest way to get promoted."

"In the real world, the most direct way to get promoted, is usually to plunder the fruits of someone else's labor."

"So when we can't labor directly for the corresponding reward, there's only one thing left before us, and that's to rob the petals picked by other flower pickers."

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"But the problem is that these flower pickers seem to be NPCs at the moment, offending most of the NPCs in the opening of a game is not a very wise thing to do, it's like blatantly stealing the fruits of other people's labor in the workplace is something that only a stupid person would do, because offending your colleagues who are working with you is a hidden danger for your future workplace. "

Bai Liu sat up and patted the dirt on his body, he looked sideways at Liu Jiayi: "From this point of view, then we need to choose a more reasonable looting channel."

"The stragglers." Liu Jiayi looked straight at Bai Liu with both eyes, and she answered Bai Liu's words quickly.

Bai Liu stood up, and he pulled Liu Jiayi to her feet as well, patting her down and explaining, "Yes, there's no better way to plunder than by stragglers."

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"The stragglers could be monsters or npcs in this game, from what the processor who brought us here said, this group of stragglers steal rose petals, there's no need for us to directly confront the other flower pickers, we just need to grab the roses that the stragglers steal."

"But all this presupposes-" Bai Liu patted Liu Jiayi on the shoulder with a smile at the corner of his mouth, the kind of smile that was particularly businesslike and hypocritical at first glance, Stick read, "that our little witch can perfectly strangle these stragglers and snatch the rose."

Liu Jiayi silently looked at Bai Liu, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but twitch a little, "...... You planned this from the beginning, right?"

But immediately afterward she frowned, "But this plan is not safe, you are in danger."

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In fact, Liu Jiayi had also thought of this method, but she just wasn't sure what the level of the monsters in this level 3 game was, and whether she could successfully fight them, so she never opened her mouth to bring it up-- Liu Jiayi certainly didn't expect Bai Liu, a player whose level was originally only F, and has now barely risen to C, to fight against a monster in a level 3 game. Liu Jiayi certainly didn't expect Bai Liu, a player whose grade was originally only F and now has only barely risen to C, to fight against a monster in a Level 3 game.

Or maybe it has something to do with her personality, Liu Jiayi is too used to fighting everything by herself.

She subconsciously envisioned herself standing in front of Bai Liu to protect her other companion-attacking and guarding, poison and antidote, this is the duty of a witch, and this is why Liu Jiayi would become a witch.

But Liu Jiayi hesitates when she's not quite sure she can perfectly protect her companion - with her coming in as the main attacker, Bai Liu is in an unprotected vacuum, which is risky in a tertiary game with a 90 percent mortality rate.

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But Bai Liu neutralized her hesitation.

Bai Liu smiles slightly, "Of course I'm dangerous, but obviously you're more so, but it's the most cost-effective path, and there's no reason for us to hesitate."

He lowered his hand and casually wiped the mud stuck under Liu Jiayi's right eye with his thumb, interrupting her motion of wanting to speak, "You just need to do what you need to do, don't think about me, I'll be on the sidelines to cooperate with you in your attack, if you don't succeed we'll most likely die together, and if you do succeed we'll pass through together, and in this game, it's not cost-effective for both of us to two survive only one are not cost-effective - because we have a bigger victory to win together."

Bai Liu looked straight at Liu Jiayi with those rose-blooming eyes : "See what I mean? I'll stand with you on the attack line to cover you, we're a partnership."

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Liu Jiayi was just slightly stunned, opening Bai Liu's hand that was wiping the stain from her before looking away and taking a deep breath, "Got it, so now what are we going to do?"

"Wait." Bai Liu looks off into the distance, "Wait for these rose-stealing stragglers to 'ripen,' and then instead of picking roses, we'll pick these stragglers."

Liu Jiayi asks, "At what point do you think these displaced people will be considered 'mature'?"

"By the time they come to attack us, the two flower pickers with the lowest harvest, I think these stragglers will be almost ripe." Bai Liu swept a sidelong glance at the sacks containing rose petals, which he had casually placed on the ground, "Normally, this kind of robbing of the fruits of war should be done from high to low, and when these stragglers came to attack us, it means that they have already attacked all the other flower pickers who have a higher harvest than us- -Even if there were unsuccessful attacks, I think at least 80kg of rose weight is there."

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"So until then, we'd better be prepared for the stragglers to attack." Liu Jiayi said this, but she didn't even get off the ground, and stood a little further away from the rose field.

Their original resting place was some distance away from the field, but the moment Liu Jiayi stepped back, Bai Liu also stepped back and stood a little farther away from the field.

-- Liu Jiayi's senses are sharper than his, she must have heard something.

Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi are two people who don't have to say things explicitly to each other, and they act in unison - for example, picking for an hour to disembark and count the number, and then simply stopping their labor when they find too few, such as now, away from the flower fields.

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At this point in time the stragglers should have already started attacking the flower pickers in the flower fields according to common sense, but looking around, the flower fields were calm and quiet, and apart from the floating firefly dots and the laboring workers, no strange people or monsters appeared at all.

This counterintuitive sight can only mean two things--

The first is that the stragglers have not yet begun to attack the flower pickers in the flower fields around them.

The second scenario is that the stragglers didn't attack from above the flower fields, they came down from the ground.

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So Liu Jiayi and Bai Liu don't go down to the ground, and there's also this layer of consideration - they observe that the scene on the ground is calm and overdone, and it's time to think about what's going to happen underneath the ground.

The field of flowers before them began to undulate slowly, rocking into red waves in the moonlight, and a seemingly absent, pattering sound of moving vines began to spread through the air.

Liu Jiayi alertly put her hands behind her back, and the black poison in the glass bottle slowly materialized in her palms.

[System alert: Is player Liu Jiayi using skill (Poison)?]

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[System alert: Yes...... poison is being generated in bulk, skill cooldown time is 1 hour, player Liu Jiayi's stamina is dropping drastically in the middle......]

Liu Jiayi took out eight bottles of poison from behind herself, and the neck of each bottle was held firmly between her fingers.

Each vial of poison was full, and a deep black smoke filled out of the vials, enveloping her in an instant, the original orange worker's suit she was wearing swept away by the smoke and transformed into a set of black robes that covered her body from head to toe.

"Bai Liu, my Poison skill is on cooldown, the next time I use it will be an hour later." Liu Jiayi approached Bai Liu, she and Bai Liu faced the flower field back to back, her tone was serious, "I also have a Potential S overdraft skill called Poison Fountain."

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Liu Jiayi opened his system panel and turned sideways to show Bai Liu the explanation of the skills on the panel.

[System Description: Personal Skill (Poison Fountain) - Inflicts indiscriminate slow-release damage to all players within range, after using this skill, player Liu Jiayi's stamina tank will be depleted, due to player Liu Jiayi's low physical age, the aftereffects of the stamina tank depletion will be very serious, resulting in inability to move and so on. The effects of running out of stamina will be very serious, leading to serious stiffness effects such as not being able to move the body, etc.]

"These are the only two skills I can do as a main attack." Liu Jiayi looked at the waves of roses that were slowly swaying over from the sky, his face and tone of voice became grave, "The level of the monsters in a tier 3 copy is usually above A+, a small amount of monsters of this level is something that I can take on as a main attacker, but if it's a swarm of this magnitude, there's no way that my Burst Speed Attack will be able to sweep through all of them in one go! "

"It will fall into a wheel station, I can only rely on blood return to hold on, but my skills are already on cooldown and the mental bleach is ineffective, it's not realistic to go and find these monsters' weaknesses to restrain them now that the soldiers are in the city." Liu Jiayi looked up at Bai Liu, "The win rate is too low, are we still fighting?"

Liu Jiayi, as a backline healer, is the primary judge of her quests - to her, as long as she can stay alive, she still has a chance of survival.

But Bai Liu's judgment standard is not like this, he is very decisive: "fight, there is a winning rate we can try, you are responsible for the main attack on the line, I have a way."

Liu Jiayi didn't have time to ask Bai Liu what he could do, the situation in the game is ever-changing, especially in a new game without any relevant information, you can only base on the real-time situation, and synthesize the team's skills and reserves to formulate a confrontation policy - this is also called tactics in the league.

In this situation where the monster had already attacked in front of her, Liu Jiayi had no other way but to trust Bai Liu's clinical command and tactical skills.

Although Heart intends to train Liu Jiayi to become the next generation of tactical masters, but so far Liu Jiayi practiced tactics in the game at least to get the hands of the cards are five S-level reserves, and Bai Liu such a c-level players, plus her own A-level auxiliary tertiary game, Liu Jiayi is really not played.

Or there's no way Liu Jiayi would even try to go head-to-head in this kind of game - the win rate is too low, it's easy to roll over, and it doesn't fit her tactical aesthetics.

But she's not the one controlling the scene now, it's Bai Liu.

Bai Liu's tactical aesthetic is one word - gambling.

No matter how low the win rate is, as long as it's a non-zero win rate and accompanied by a high return, he's going to take a gamble and give it a try.

Bai Liu drew a snow-white bone whip from his back without delay, the roses in his eyes lovingly stretching as he looked out over the field of roses that had begun to well up.

Original Translations: Crafted with Care, No Unauthorized Reposting Allowed.

Published at: 06/17/2024 11:00

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