Rose Factory

Bai Liu, without a change of color, fooled the curious factory worker, "I have special processing skills."

The factory worker looked at "her" skeptically, the processing of dried leaf roses was originally a manual labor, and children had no advantage in this labor, not to mention such a high output rate.

Bai Liu looked at the two King's Guild members below with feigned urgency.

Now the factory worker understood - it should be the two below who had helped the little girl by sharing their roses with her.

Though no open robbery is allowed between processors, they can secretly smuggle, with one party "voluntarily" giving the fruits of their labor to the other, and in every sense, the review of the promotion of processors to factory workers is not entirely fair.

These unspoken rules were well understood by the factory workers who had been promoted from processors and were not prepared to pursue them too much.

Although it was not clear what methods the little girl had used or what relatives the other two processors were to give her the dried leaf roses of their own accord, things had come to such a pass that these regular factory workers who already had stable positions and would not be laid off easily were not prepared to make things difficult for these processors who were trying to move up the ladder.

After all, they're not that competitive with each other.

"Processor number 71063 submitted 302.7kg of dried leaf rose semi-finished products."

The factory worker next to him wrote down Bai Liu's number, waved his hand and let him go down, turning a blind eye and letting him go.

Most of the other processors had dry leaf rose values under 250kg and very few over 280kg.

Bai Liu, Liu Ji and Tang Er are the only three processors in the field who have provided dried leaf roses weighing more than 300kg so far.

Soon the weighing was complete, and as the factory workers looked down to check their figures, Liu Ji took Bai Liu and stood out silently, away from the processors who watched them with hatred.

Tang Er Ta's surroundings formed a vacuum circle, the processors around him were all itching to look at Tang Er Ta, who was more than a head taller than them, but they did not dare to go forward to this new processor who was full of murderous aura, and looked bad to be messed with to start a fight, but instead, they took two steps back and dared to stare fiercely at Tang Er Ta.

These three newcomers actually grabbed the promotion to factory worker straight away!

The plant workers looked up after checking the data, "Will the following three numbered processors please come with us."

"Processors with the three numbers 71063...... will later be led into the next workshop by each of our three factory workers to learn about the daily work of a factory worker, but please note that this does not mean you have the qualifications to become a factory worker."

The factory worker at the head of the group said in a serious tone, "This is just to give you a chance; you are still a long way from being full-fledged factory workers."

After that he turned to Bai Liu and waved, "You come with me."

Bai Liu went up, Liu Ji gave him a worried look and left with a factory worker.

Tang Er hit and another factory worker left, before leaving, turned back and gazed deeply at [Liu Jiayi]'s back.

He sensed a very familiar, unpleasant feeling in this [Liu Jiayi] today.

Bai Liu was led by the factory worker through deep, vaulted, extremely high, narrow corridors, on either side of which were the rooms of the big bunkhouse in which they had slept last night, the doors of which were closed, which prevented a single ray of light from penetrating into this corridor.

Oddly enough, this hallway with only two people walking in it was constantly filled with the eerie, many, many sounds of hurried footsteps, and the doors on either side creaked and cracked as if something was staring at their feet.

The face of the factory worker who was walking in front of him turned a little white, and he seemed to have heard the voice as well, and involuntarily quickened his pace.

Bai Liu wasn't panicking, knowing that now if he closed his right eye, he could see a very different real world.

However, there was no need to do so now, although he already possessed the "key" to freely travel through the [In-world], he had entered the [In-world] in order to obtain more information, and at the moment, there was obviously more important information that he urgently needed to obtain.

Bai Liu looked to the plant worker with the hurried footsteps and politely asked, "Excuse me, if I want to become a full-fledged plant worker, what should I do?"

The factory worker who seemed to be frightened by the voices came back to his senses because of Bai Liu's chitchat, and eased his face to answer him, "We will offer some processors with more outstanding achievements the opportunity to be promoted to factory workers, but this opportunity is not something that anyone can seize-only people who possess some natural traits to be selected as a factory worker."

Bai Liu inclined his head, "Like what qualities?"

"Perfumer's trait." This factory worker replied softly, "The reason why the factory workers selected by the Rose Factory are regular employees who can be laid off without having to be laid off is because we are all reservists for the perfumers, perfumers are professions with a very short lifespan, so if we don't select the backup candidates in advance, there will easily be a break in the workforce so that the factory won't have a way to continue operating."

"That's why the alias of a factory worker is also called a perfumer's apprentice." This factory worker continued, his face complex, "Before becoming a formal perfumer we are responsible for basic operations such as distillation and extraction, purification and concentration, and after becoming a perfumer, we can truly produce the perfume Rose Dried Leaf Wa Si for the factory."

"Most perfumers, throughout their lives, are only able to produce low-grade perfumes, medium-grade perfumes are already very complex, produced in small quantities, and can be purchased for thousands of dollars a drop outside the house, high grade perfumes are not for sale now, but are only available to certain special clients, and the special grade perfumes-- "

The factory worker turned to Bai Liu: "Only auctioned at the annual May Rose Festival, to the highest bidder."

"So how do you screen a person for the qualities of a perfumer?" Bai Liu asked, mulling over the real-world requirements for a career as a perfumer, "Is it olfactory sensitivity?"

With that said he was already switching panels in his hand.

[System prompt: Is player Bai Liu using player Mu Sicheng's soul bills to cut into his opponent's system panel?

[OK.]

Mu Sicheng, this guy, Bai Liu, if I'm not mistaken, has an excellent sense of smell.

But even with an excellent sense of smell, Bai Liu can't tell too many specific types of spices from one another, but this level of the game should simply screen for certain qualities - otherwise no ordinary player other than a professional perfumer would be able to get through.

Then the game has lost its playability.

Although there is no basis for it, Bai Liu feels that the game designer behind the system would not like this kind of game without playability.

"We don't screen processors based on a simple sensory trait like smell." The factory worker shook his head as he said, "We screen them based on a very important perfuming instrument."

Instruments?

This is the first time Bai Liu has heard of an instrument that can detect the qualities of a perfumer.

Most of the perfuming instruments he remembered were for stirring and mixing, such as pipettes, paddles, and test papers, many of which were rather quaint and simple, with little technical skill and not many instruments of a modern nature.

In a game world where the level of technology is backward to the naked eye in every aspect, such an instrument actually exists?

However, when Bai Liu pressed further, the factory worker was reluctant to answer questions about the instrument.

Whenever Bai Liu tries to beat around the bush about something related to this instrument, a look of fear and awe appears on the factory worker's face.

He finally said in a cryptic voice, "No, that's not just any instrument you can imagine, that's an instrument from a dead man, but it is indeed a living instrument, it even has a heartbeat!"

"It's this living-dead-like instrument that's picking out people who can use it."

After this statement, the factory worker never spoke again.

Silently, pale-faced, he led Bai Liu to a room that was the pure white color of an operating room, used for cleaning.

The factory worker told Bai Liu to change into a clean, sterilized suit and clean his hands before entering the next room for screening.

Bai Liu was led through a purple disinfection room, and then through several other rooms filled with unknown, unpleasant gases, which the factory worker explained were disinfecting them as they entered the core perfumery, and that the thick suit Bai Liu had changed into earlier would serve as a simple protection.

All these rooms were using the method of sterilizing objects to roughly and directly disinfect those of them who were still alive, not caring at all whether they would die because they could not withstand the intensity of the disinfection; it was evident that the builders of the Rose Factory felt that the instrument that could test the traits of the perfumers was much more important than the lives of those of them.

After walking through three or four rooms, Bai Liu is finally led to a four-sided, tightly sealed, metal-fired room.

By this time, Bai Liu's eyes had changed for the first time since entering this dangerous factory, and he looked up and swept the door of the room from top to bottom.

-Folding doors that were completely airtight and incredibly tall were constructed exactly like the one in the Dangerous Heresy Handling Bureau with the number [0001], even down to the small, forcibly welded window above the center of the door.

The factory worker knocked twice on that little window and twice back inside.

The factory worker bowed his head respectfully and whispered to the man in the door, "I'm taking the newcomer to be screened by [it]."

There was silence inside for a moment, and then the heavy, heavy door, full of scars from being welded and cast, slowly opened inward.

Bai Liu's pupils contracted slightly the moment he looked at the scene inside.