Chapter 176: Rose Factory

Another player frowned as he approached Qi Yifang interrupting his unrestrained thoughts.

He is the player who just couldn't carry the attack and was saved by Tang Er, and now opens his mouth with a fearful gasp in his tone, "Brother Qi, I feel as if something is not quite right ......"

Qi Yifang was the strongest player in the King's trio, and most likely to enter the King's Guild's core team. The other two players were more inclined to talk to Qi Yifang when they encountered anything compared to Tang Er, who was not familiar with them, and who was so quiet and strong that it made people's scalp numb.

Qi Yifang withdrew his eyes from Tang Er's side and turned to the player's side, asking, "What's the matter? What's wrong?"

"Brother Qi, do you have the feeling that ......" this player's face was grave, "the roses around us are getting less and less ...... "

Qi Yifang froze as he listened to this, and behind him, Tang Er's back as he struck the attack also lurched, and his gesture of collecting his gun stalled for half a second.

The two men looked around in unison - the roses showed no obvious signs of diminishing.

But this is not normal at all!

Because they've been attacking the stragglers for three hours, Rose should have increased!

Qi Yifang's face also changed: "Did someone come to steal the roses? Bai Liu came here?!"

They are patiently killing these crazy monsters in this space, in order to wait for Bai Liu to come over and steal the roses that were popped out!

"Impossible, I haven't seen any creatures come near here except for the monster stragglers attracted by the smell of the perfume. "Tang Er beat a mouthful of rebuttal.

However, after saying that, Tang Er's face became hard to see, he had been paying attention to his surroundings, if Bai Liu really appeared to steal the roses, there was no way he would not have seen it.

And who the hell stole the rose?

In the distance Bai Liu held up his binoculars and hooked his mouth as a mountain of dried leaf roses had piled up, at a considerable height, around him, and was still growing, for there was a constant flow of people transporting, or stealing, roses this way.

Those who came and went to help transport the dried leaf roses were a ragged but lucid group of stragglers!

This group of stragglers, looking at their faces, were the same group of stragglers that attacked Bai Liu at the abandoned factory during the day.

These stragglers silently lurked in the line of crazy straggler monsters attacking Tang Er hit them, moving very quietly to pick at the roses at the edge of the 【Magic Space】, trying their best not to draw Tang Er hit them's attention or get into the range of their attacks.

Restored to sanity, the stragglers can maintain a relative sobriety to the scent of the perfume, and thus will not be confused enough to attack Tang Er to fight them.

While these four people were attracting attention by the monster stragglers, this group of restored stragglers had transferred a huge number of dried leaf roses to Bai Liu's side without realizing it.

Previously, Bai Liu had also considered to use the stragglers in the flower field to help him steal from other flower pickers, but after talking to the stragglers in the factory, and after Bai Liu himself had experimented with them, Bai Liu realized that the group of stragglers who stayed at the bottom of the flower field all day long were completely incorrigible.

Even a higher concentration of perfume wouldn't be able to keep them awake anymore, perfume could briefly stop their attacks, their weakness, but there was no way to bring them back to their senses.

The stragglers that were out at night had turned into complete dry-leafed rose symbiotes, losing their souls as human beings - already full-bodied monsters, which is why they were in the Monster Book of The Rose Factory.

But it's a good thing that Bai Liu found it at the factory, and that stragglers who aren't deeply addicted to perfume can still regain their sanity - Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi guessed this as well, or else the [perfume = mental bleach] setting would be useless in the game.

The game is not going to do useless rule sets.

"Mr. Bai Liu, there are already 160kg of dried leaf roses here, may we continue carrying them?" One of the stragglers at the head bent down respectfully, his face was still dramatically withered lines, but his eyes were much clearer.

Bai Liu nodded, next to him Liu Jiayi was healing some of the stragglers who had been injured in the carry - these stragglers who had stolen the roses generally did not enter the center of the battle, so their injuries were relatively minor, and were basically solved by a single drop of antidote from Liu Jiayi.

It was the displaced people who were being treated who were honestly terrified and overwhelmed by the fact that they could be healed - it had been a long time since they had been treated as human beings, and the people in the factory had called them pariahs.

The drifter who reported the situation of Rose of Dried Leaves to Bai Liu hesitated for a moment, and with a weak and hopeful face, he raised his head and looked at Bai Liu :

"I am grateful for your kindness in being willing to distribute precious perfume for free to pariahs like us, who were going mad from lack of it, during the daytime at the abandoned factory, so that we could briefly converse with you in a human mind."

He pursed his lips and took a step forward, inquiring softly, apprehensively and nervously, "If you will please turn out to be abrupt and long-winded, I would like to sincerely inquire once again, is it true what you said about being able to make perfume available to all of our exiled stragglers?"

"Of course it's true." Bai Liu put down the binoculars and turned around without a hitch.

Bai Liu wore the kind of smile that would give Liu Jiayi goosebumps, and sincerely promised, "As long as you are willing to work with me all the way, and support me to become the factory manager, I promise to make sure that all the stragglers will no longer fall, and live a normal life."

"I will also continue to distribute the perfume I earned to you tomorrow, so just wait for me at my usual spot." Bai Liu said.

This dreamy promise made the rogues who were carrying the roses stir for a while, but they soon quieted down under Bai Liu's eyes and looked at him with disbelieving eyes.

"Of course there is one more thing to trouble you guys with." Bai Liu said, "Please try to gather the stragglers around tomorrow and draw them in."

Bai Liu smiles and extends his hand, "I will also do my best to help them regain their sanity as well, and then we will all work together."

The leader of the stragglers looked at Bai Liu's outstretched hand, and the roses in his eyes nearly wilted, the tears of the aftermath wrapped around his skinned eye sockets.

He repeatedly wiped his hands on his tattered clothes several times before carefully reaching out his dry hand to grasp Bai Liu's hand.

"We believe in you!" He choked back tears and said, somewhat incoherently, "I... We'd do anything we could to give our lives for a good man like you who selflessly rescued us!"

Bai Liu smiled with a holy light, "No need to thank me, we are partners, this is what I should do."

This drifter held Bai Liu's hand, tears could not stop flowing down his face, "No, you, you only have so much perfume, or you worked hard to earn it yourself, and you used it all to help us, it's really, you're really a great man!"

Liu Jiayi silently looked at the 160kg of roses in front of him that had been carried by the stragglers at the risk of their lives, and then glanced far away at the four players who were still fighting in the distance, trapped in place by the [Magic Space].

Eventually her numb eyes landed on Bai Liu, who was smiling a springy smile but hadn't done anything tonight.

"It's not very hard." Bai Liu waved his hand and sighed as if in sympathy with the stragglers, "Working for the capitalists, being sucked by the capitalists, it's like that everywhere, and there's no time for enjoyment, so you might as well use the perfume you earn for good."

Moved beyond words, the stragglers, "Wooooooooo! Mr. Bai Liu, a great man!"

Liu Jiayi: "......"

Bai Liu, it's really scary.

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As the sky was about to brighten, the roses in the flower fields gathered their petals, the waves of stragglers that kept attacking finally stopped their constant flow, and the invisible transparent wall disappeared at some point.

Qi Yihang fell to his knees in a fit of weakness as the last of the stragglers was disintegrated by a shot from Tang Er.

His arms and legs were spasming, and he couldn't do anything to stand upright - after hours of uninterrupted, fast-paced offense, intense muscular and mental exhaustion could not be relieved by the best stamina restorers.

Even though Qi Yihang had already been specially trained by the Heart Devil in the [Game Pool] for some time, it was still very hard for him to resist this kind of intense nightly combat.

The other two players were also slumped in the mud with vegetable faces.

Only Tang Er was able to stand firmly on the ground after retrieving his shot, seemingly accustomed to such intense wheel-to-wheel combat.

Tang Er Beat lowered his head and collected some roses, after loading them in several sacks and putting them on his shoulder with one hand, he said in a cold voice: "I'll take these away, and you can all share the rest equally, and the factory worker who counted my roses will wait for me over there in the flower field."

Then he walked away without looking back.

Qi Yifang watched Tang Er hit the back of the departure, he reached out his hand to retain the other party, but opened his mouth and did not know what to say.

He felt as if he should say thank you to the great Mr. Hunter who had protected them all night, but the fact that Tang Er had left coldly had made it clear that he didn't need "Qi Yihang's thanks".

This mysterious Mr. Hunter's all-night protection of them seemed to be just out of a habit, of protecting his teammates who fought together around them.

The player next to him saw Tang Er hit and take away some of the roses and quickly got up and counted them.

As a result, halfway through the count, the man turned his head to Qi Yihang in a bit of a daze, "Brother Qi, the number of roses we played last night didn't reach eighty kilograms each, did it?"

"...... No, halfway through I counted, it's not even close." Qi Yifang sat up straight with the ground in his hand, rubbing his temples and asking tiredly in return, "What's wrong? Did that hunter take a lot of roses?"

"But it's true that last night it was also the person who fought the most, more than eighty percent of the troop line was resisted by him, and it's only right that they take the weight of the roses that could have done the job ......"

Qi Yifang was thinking that the three of them probably didn't hit enough roses to make 80kg last night, plus the roses were still inexplicably missing, so in the end it worked out that the three of them on the King's Guild side hit 80kg of dried leaf roses combined over the course of the night.

Therefore, Qi Yihang thought that the one who might be able to accomplish the mission should be the hunter alone.

"Brother Qi." This player held up a rose and interrupted Qi Yihang dully, "...... That hunter, it seems that he left enough eighty kilograms of dried leaf roses for each of us, so we can all finish today's mission."

Qi Yifang: "?!"

Now Qi Yifang was really shocked, he sat up straight and looked stunned, "With the constant disappearance of roses, this hunter still left enough for each of us to have 80kg of roses?!"

The player answered Qi Yifang in a bit of a trance : "Yes, yes."

"This hunter, just how many monsters has he fought alone ...... " Qi Yifang muttered incredulously.

Only after the three men had left Bai Liu's flower field and returned to their own flower settlement did Bai Liu belatedly come out of the shadows with Liu Jiayi.

Although the two of them staying away from the flower fields last night lowered the rate at which their Spirit Levels were polluted, because they both handed out perfume, Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi didn't spray perfume to return their Spirit Levels last night either, which made their Spirit Levels both on the low side now.

But that problem will soon be a non-issue.

The processor who came to Bai Liu's flower field to settle the bill was stunned by the roses Bai Liu rolled out.

He weighed himself three times around the pile of roses, and then repeatedly looked at Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi, who were standing upright with innocent expressions, with a suspicious gaze.

"200kg of dried leaf roses?!" The processor looked disbelieving as he raised one eyebrow questioningly, "You picked them in one night?"