Chapter 172: Rose Factory

Bai Liu looked at the hand, and he leaned into the darkness of the bed, trying to reach the snow-white statue's hand mold, but the moment he was about to touch it, a rose-like vine came out from under the bed, making the same pattering and crawling sound that Bai Liu had just heard.

The cane wrapped around the hand model in front of Bai Liu's eyes, seemingly dragging the hand model into the ground, Bai Liu stretched his body forward and threw out the whip in order to open the cane, but the cane had already shrunk and wrapped tightly around the hand model, and in the second before the hand model was dragged into the ground, Bai Liu grabbed it.

The broken statue of the cold right hand curls gently in Bai Liu's palm, seems to shake him back for a while, and then turns into scattered rose petals in Bai Liu's hand, and the vines also slowly dive into the ground and disappear.

The snow-white severed hand turned into scattered flower petals lit up with phosphorescent light blue flames, turning into ashes and smoke before Bai Liu's eyes and completely dissipating.

There is nothing under the dimly lit bed, and this hazy reflection of everything in Bai Liu's empty, dark reflection of the rose's eyes is a hallucination that I don't know if it ever happened.

Bai Liu didn't feel the actual touch of the object, and thought that the severed hand he was gripping was just a shadow.

Bai Liu felt nothing except a seemingly absent coldness lingering on his closed fingers.

Liu Jiayi was still woken up by Bai Liu's movement, she sleepily rubbed her eyes and sat up, and in a daze she felt the goggles she put on the side of her pillow and put them on, and after regaining her vision, Liu Jiayi looked down and saw Bai Liu burrowing into the bottom of her bed.

Liu Jiayi was instantly startled awake, and his voice changed a bit when he opened his mouth, "What are you doing Bai Liu!"

Bai Liu slowly retreated from under the bed, and after he supported himself on the edge of the bed and shakily raised his head to meet Liu Jiayi's eyes, Liu Jiayi was stunned.

...... Bai Liu looked a rare kind of lost, like being compelled by something to take away the soul of the floating trance, and the rose in his eyes swayed and bloomed the fourth petal, the black cracks under the right eye socket deepened, and the piece of flesh under the right eye peeled off, with a kind of shaky "withering" texture. The skin under his right eye peeled away, with a shaky, "withering" quality.

"...... Bai Liu." Liu Jiayi's voice was inexplicably dry, "Pull up your panel and show me what your current spirit value is?"

Bai Liu was quiet for a moment, seemingly reacting to what Liu Jiayi was telling him, and he obediently lowered his head and rummaged through the coins on his chest, half-smiling as he pulled up the system panel and leaned over to show Liu Jiayi, a very tantalizing, burnt-rose scent spreading over his shoulders.

The scent had Liu Jiayi in a trance for a few moments before she quickly opened the panel and purchased two breathing masks, putting them on Bai Liu and herself before her mind began to spin.

But it's still a little late.

[System Alert: Player Liu Jiayi has smelled a high concentration of primal rose scent, due to the player's current intolerance to that concentration of rose scent, he enters a (stun) debuff effect, his mental value drops to 63, and he is about to see a hallucination].

[SYSTEM WARNING: Player Bai Liu has smelled a high concentration of primal rose scent, due to the player's current intolerance to that concentration of rose scent, he has entered a (stun) debuff effect, and his Spirit Level has dropped to 46! Please recover your Spirit Level quickly!

Liu Jiayi eyes sky spinning, she fell back to the cot covering her mask breathing hard, Bai Liu also fell back to the ground, his weak breath in the mask painted a layer of water mist.

A strong, ingestive, so that people can not move only let it torment the smoky aroma in their brain flow, let a person want to nausea, Liu Jiayi choked and coughed several times. Liu Jiayi coughed violently several times, and Bai Liu eyes everything became distorted and rotating.

He was plunged into some kind of rose-colored, underwater, suffocating darkness-as if an unseen, severed right hand had calmly taken hold of his throat.

Bai Liu's eyelids slowly drooped.

"Get up! Get up!" An irritating, impatient voice accompanied by the sound of clapping rang out, "How fucking late are you still sleeping! Do you know how much it costs to stay in this tent for one night before and after the Rose Festival in May!"

"If there wasn't a shortage of people, I wouldn't let you lowlifes in as flower pickers!"

Along with the scolding, Bai Liu felt himself being grabbed by the arm and ripped up directly from the ground in his half-asleep state, his brain dizzy and swollen, feeling like the state of staying up all night and working overtime for a week, being forcefully dragged by his coworkers to a social gathering after having been doused with ten bottles of vodka, and then being dragged up to continue working overtime after having slept for only an hour.

--Bai Liu may need to blow on him just a little bit, and he'll die suddenly and sleep for a long time.

Bai Liu shook one side of his numb and tingling head, braced himself against the backrest of a chair beside his hand to stabilize his uncoordinated body, and took several deep breaths before overlapping the shaking and spinning scene in front of his eyes.

It was still the same old, dilapidated little tent, but much more translucent; after all, it was getting light outside.

Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi, who had climbed down from the bed in a heap. After the processor had lifted Liu Jiayi down, he turned and cursed at them: "Where are the roses! Let you pick roses all night long! You're not doing your job and you're still high! Two useless bitches!"

With that, the factory worker angrily lifted his foot and kicked Liu Jiayi in the back, who was still staggering.

This kick did not go down, Bai Liu pale face on his knees, this kick firmly against Bai Liu's knee, he looked calm and collected, not at all like ten seconds before the war can not stand the appearance of stability.

Bai Liu gave the processor a respectful nod, pointing behind him to the bulging sacks and the blanket-covered roses.

"All the roses picked last night are here." Bai Liu raised his eyes, "A total of 83.7kg."

The processor's expression changed several times, and finally retracted his feet and walked behind Bai Liu to check the roses. After confirming that Bai Liu's weight was correct, the processor turned his head with a look of fear and resentment in his eyes and stared at Bai Liu for a while, before he spoke, "Barely counting as your mission accomplished. have accomplished your mission."

"Don't be complacent! Even if all of you newcomers complete your tasks, it's still too early for you to be promoted to become processors and eliminate us old employees who have labored so hard!"

He had gone as far as the tent, and without warning he turned back and kicked Bai Liu viciously again, curving his mouth with malice:

"Tonight your task is doubled, you have to pick 80kg of roses each, if you can't do it, then wait to be laid off and exiled!"

This kick on Bai Liu's shoulder, was still in the stun debuff Bai Liu "weak", not much resistance, by this full force of the kick backward the whole person backward pan for a distance, crashed into the chair he just used for the armrests.

The processor grunted and carried Bai Liu's roses they had picked away, tossing them two bottles of pale pink perfume in small glass bottles, which Liu Jiayi caught quickly so they didn't hit the ground.

[System Alert: Congratulations to player Bai Liu for completing the (Picking 40kg) Roses side quest, and obtaining a bottle of reward (Low-grade Dried Rose Leaves Wa Si Perfume)].

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu triggered a new quest, asking the player to pick 80kg of roses tonight, and upon success, he will receive a reward (two bottles of Wa Si Perfume, a low-grade dried rose leaf) as well as the progress of the main quest (the qualification of the processor's promotion)]]

Liu Jiayi walks crookedly towards Bai Liu, who is sitting on the ground, and pulls out a perfume and sprays it right on Bai Liu's face.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu's (Stun) debuff is lifted and his Spirit Level has risen to 81]

The cracked opening on Bai Liu's face heals with the naked eye, returning to a shallow depression, but the rose in his eyes looks as if it has received some kind of nourishment, twitching its branches and spreading its petals outward, a change that is not good enough to make Liu Jiayi stop spraying perfume on his hands.

She hesitated for a moment before gritting her teeth and spraying a few times on her face as well, removing her [Stun] status.

Liu Jiayi leaned back in his chair, his hand danced around in front of Bai Liu's face to attract his attention, his tone wan, "Hey, are you awake yet? You encountered something under the bed last night that almost didn't kill us both."

The smell of the low-grade perfume made the sober Bai Liu choke and cough a bit uncomfortably, he put his heavy head back on the chair and looked up at Liu Jiayi, his eyes were still a bit sleepy, Bai Liu methodically told what he had seen and what had happened last night one by one.

"Something got into our tent, or was it while [Magic Space] was in effect?" Liu Jiayi's eyebrows tightened the more he listened, "That's unlikely."

Bai Liu gave her a consulting look.

Liu Jiayi turned over and lowered his head to look squarely at Bai Liu as he continued to explain, "I know what you mean, it's true that monsters that can break through the boundaries of the [Magic Space] may exist in a new tertiary game, but think about it Bai Liu, if it really was this kind of monster last night, we were sort of attacked, right? Do you have a trigger monster book?"

"As well as if this monster that is so strong that it can easily break through the [Magic Space] really drilled into our tent--" Liu Jiayi clasped his hands in front of his chest and raised his eyebrows in a good-natured manner, " --Why didn't it kill both of us players, combined with the fact that it drilled into your tent in the middle of the night, the bottom of my bed just to shake your hand a little bit and show you the roses that it turned into?"

"What you said also has a few points." Bai Liu spoke nonchalantly, "But what about the fact that if its intent was not to attack and harm, that's why its entity didn't appear last night, and that's why I wasn't attacked and triggered the Monster Book, and that what I saw was just a figment that it wanted to present to me?"

Liu Jiayi subconsciously tries to retort, "No monster's ultimate intent towards the player is not to attack and harm, there is no such thing ......"

Bai Liu looked at her quietly.

Liu Jiayi The words stopped abruptly, she remembered something, then her complexion turned condensed, "...... What's your relationship with the godly wandering npc ...... of The Love Welfare Institute? "

It was true that she had never seen a monster that wasn't aiming to harm the player before, but the last copy of the godly NPC had saved Bai Liu by volunteering to donate blood when it could have killed him entirely.

This is the first and only time Liu Jiayi has seen a monster save a player after playing the game so many times.

"Does ...... anything matter?" Bai Liu's eyes lurched and began to drift subtly erratically across the top of the tent.

He tries to find a precise and straightforward definition of his relationship with Sheta, but it's kind of hard for Bai Liu to say, weird and difficult.

If, before entering the game, Bai Liu could have told Liu Jiayi with a clear conscience that Sheta and he were innocent friends, he would have been able to say, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry".

...... But now that the word "friend" has come to his lips, Bai Liu inexplicably thinks of Taville's unadulterated, slightly confused eyes, and the cold, reverent kisses that landed on his lips and forehead again and again.

As well as the reunion of the two in "Siren Town", Bai Liu's oily opening line to Sheta after a long goodbye - [What do I want ...... Maybe you can give me a kiss?

Bai Liu: "......"

Liu Jiayi asked this question, thinking she would get some kind of answer like [This monster is a player that was alienated after the soul I acquired], but Bai Liu's strange reaction caused a bunch of question marks to pop up on her head.

Bai Liu spoke in a very calm tone, "We were friends before and then when we reunited, I wasn't quite in my right mind (too low in spirit) so I did something to him that crossed the line and we had something happen that shouldn't happen between friends (meaning boinking)."

"But then after my personal sobriety, I wanted to be friends with him again, although I don't know how he felt about it, and in my case we're still friends - that's probably where he and I are at the moment."

Bai Liu highly summarizes what happened between him and Sheta.

Liu Jiayi slow: "Huh?"

What kind of scumbag speech is this? Have you ever done this to an npc again Bai Liu!!!?