59 The Gardener's Flowerbed (6)

This year's audience is too naive.

After covering it up, Qin Fu'an turned his head to look at the "flowers" vying for attention in the flowerbed.

Their faces still bore the marks of their impending death, but Qin Fu'an would not underestimate their attack power.

Just like that morning glory that had been picked, even after losing its vitality and life, it still possessed a certain degree of offensive capability.

He was actually a little curious whether these plants were aggressive from the moment their seeds were buried in the soil, or whether they had to be mature plants to attack autonomously.

Qin Fu'an planned to try it after completing the first step of the main quest.

Leaving the flowerbed in the flower dress, Qin Fu'an discerned directions at the fork in the road and headed in the opposite direction from where he had been before.

Soon, he encountered the second gardener's flower nursery in Hundred Flowers Town.

Unlike the obvious style of the flower dress, the plants in this flower bed are messy and sparse, not very eye-catching, and most of them look like they are still in their growth period.

Meanwhile, the gardener was working in the flowerbed, holding a hoe in one hand and swinging his empty sleeve in the other.

When he noticed Qin Fu'an's gaze, he numbly turned his head to look at him, then lowered his head again and continued digging the hole.

This is completely opposite to the attitude of the woman in the flower dress before.

Qin Fu'an, however, noticed something different about him.

"If I'm not mistaken, that Buddhist amulet he's wearing around his neck is a prop, right?" Qin Fu'an asked the comments section in a low voice, though he was already certain.

The items produced by the system are different from ordinary spiritual objects; at least, they are clearly different in Qin Fu'an's eyes.

Moreover, there are very few things with such spiritual energy in the game's dungeons, so it can be preliminarily identified as an item.

Qin Fu'an stared at the Buddha amulet for a couple of seconds, then looked at the small wooden house behind the gardener.

A wooden sign hangs above: Baihua Town - Li Yi.

The moment Qin Fu'an became certain that he was a player, many surprised voices appeared in the live chat at the same time.

[Li Yi?! Is it really the Li Yi I know? I recognize that Buddha amulet; he got it in his first round as a newbie, and it helped him a lot. Back then, I thought if he could get through the newbie level, he would definitely be a top contender on the rookie leaderboard!!]

[Holy crap, I was following this streamer, but he disappeared from my following list shortly after. Was he trapped in this dungeon?!]

[No, no, if he's really dead, then why... is he here?]

[Yes, player Li Yi's streamer title has disappeared, so he should be completely dead. Why is he still alive and appearing in Hundred Flowers Town?]

[Ahhhh, this dungeon looks so dangerous! Streamer, please be careful! Not just Li Yi, but several promising new streamers I follow have all perished in this dungeon. Almost no one survived. It's even scarier than that Mysterious High School dungeon!!]

He was right, so the chat was unblocked.

Qin Fu'an turned his gaze back to Li Yi, who was diligently hoeing the ground in the flowerbed with his head down. After a moment's hesitation, he stepped forward.

"Hello, I'm the new gardener from Baihua Town. Can I ask you some questions about planting?" He stood by the flowerbed, getting a clearer view of what was inside.

Sparse plants grew there, mostly weeds. Of the three plants, one had a male face, one had a beating, bright red heart, and the other...

Qin Fu'an lowered his gaze, concealing a moment of surprise.

Because on the last plant, Li Yi's missing left arm was growing prominently.

Startled by his voice, Li Yi looked at him blankly. After a moment, he replied in a hoarse and rough voice, "Go ask other gardeners. I am the worst planter in Baihua Town."

"Do you remember what happened before you came to Baihua Town?" Qin Fu'an stopped beating around the bush.

Upon hearing this, Li Yi's hand holding the hoe twitched, his eyes flickered, but his words were exceptionally cold: "I don't remember. I'm busy, don't bother me."

This is a way of telling them to leave.

Qin Fu'an didn't linger in front of the other party's flower garden, but after he turned to leave, he stopped at a corner.

Through the thick, sturdy trees that provided some cover, Qin Fu'an and the viewers in the live stream all looked at Li Yi in the flowerbed.

Despite being very busy, he stood there stunned for a long time after Qin Fu'an left. Finally, he broke down, grabbing his hair and kneeling on the soil, silently screaming and weeping.

He was probably in extreme pain and hatred, but what was even more tragic was that he didn't even dare to make a sound in his desperate cries.

He's lying to me.

Qin Fu'an and the viewers in the live broadcast room came to the same answer.

Li Yi, who used to be a player and is now the gardener of Hundred Flowers Town, has not lost his memories of being a player, but perhaps it is precisely because he remembers them so clearly that he is so desperate and numb.

Having lost his identity as a player and streamer, Li Yi can now only live a lucid and painful life in this Shura-level dungeon as a gardener in Hundred Flowers Town.

"Is he that pitiful?" Qin Fu'an looked at the barrage of sighs and lamentations on the screen and raised an eyebrow indifferently: "He is still alive and can still feel pain, which is a hundred times luckier than the other players who entered this instance."

They are even luckier than some ordinary people in real life.

As soon as he finished speaking, a small number of comments condemning his cold-bloodedness began to appear on the screen.

Qin Fu'an narrowed his eyes slightly, realizing that this year's audience was still too naive.

"Before you condemn me for being cold-blooded, perhaps you could use your brains to think about how the other two plants appeared in his flowerbed?"

The audience: "..."

A single word awakened me from my dream.

Very well, the belated sense of dread has already begun.

[Damn it, I told you long ago, anyone looking for kindness in a game instance is a complete idiot!]

[Hilarious! Some viewers must be new here, right? Otherwise, they must be impersonating someone else. Long-time viewers know that the essence of eerie games is that the monsters eat people, and people eat people. When has the concept of being soft-hearted ever existed?]

[While I don't think the streamer is cold-blooded or heartless, I never imagined the origins of those two plants would be so questionable!]

[I forgot this is a solo instance... I thought those two plants were Li Yi's companions or something, how naive of me.]

[Those who call the streamer cold-blooded, if they really wanted the streamers to choose you as players, you'd die right at the start, one after another. You'd be the kind of player the monsters love most.]

[The streamer is so insightful, I love it!]

[Loved +1.]

Perhaps because he was being ridiculed so much, the comments targeting Qin Fu'an quickly disappeared.

However, Qin Fu'an didn't pay much attention to it. He continued walking along the road and soon encountered the next flower bed and its gardener.

"Young man, you must be the new recruit the mayor was talking about? My name is Baiyi, and I'm a doctor in Baihua Town."

A man dressed in a white coat, looking like a doctor, stood by the flowerbed. He introduced himself with a gentle expression and then invited, "Would you like to come in and see my plants? I can tell you a lot about planting methods that can make your plants better and healthier!"

He looked to be around thirty years old, with a refined and gentle demeanor; it was difficult to discern any characteristics of a supernatural being from him.

At least it doesn't display the deception as thoroughly as the floral dress.

Qin Fu'an stood not far from him and glanced at the flowerbed behind him upon hearing this.

Ah, almost all the plants were in a mature state. If he stepped in, he didn't know if he would be able to come out alive.

"You've taken such good care of these plants," Qin Fu'an said, seemingly genuinely praising them.

Bai Yi's gentle smile became more genuine. Just as he was about to invite the young man in front of him to take a look at his flower garden, Qin Fu'an's stomach suddenly growled.

The next second, the young man in front of him covered his stomach with a bit of embarrassment and explained somewhat awkwardly, "Um... I haven't eaten in a long time. I just arrived in Hundred Flowers Town. May I ask where I can get some food to fill my stomach?"

Some viewers couldn't stand it and criticized Qin Fu'an's poor acting skills.

Unfortunately, all the doctors believed it to be true.

Although he was somewhat disappointed, there was still plenty of time, so he wasn't in a hurry. He maintained his warm demeanor and smiled as he pointed out a path to Qin Fu'an.

“Go to Fujii’s house; you can buy fresh food there.”

According to the doctor, Tengyan's house is the only shop in Baihua Town.

Turn right at the fork in the road at the end of this road where you should turn left.

After thanking the doctor, Qin Fu'an successfully avoided the doctor's invitation and did not let go of his hand covering his abdomen even after walking a distance away.

So for the rest of the journey, he successfully avoided at least five invitations using the same excuse.

In these five encounters, he saw two gardeners whose surnames were related to plants, and he also saw gardeners who were mostly players.

Apart from their names, these gardeners seemed no different from anyone else. They appeared to have truly forgotten their memories as players and had completely integrated into Hundred Flowers Town.

After going around in circles, Qin Fu'an finally arrived at Teng Yan's shop.

The first thing that catches the eye is a flower bed next to the shop that is at least ten times larger than the player's flower bed.

There are winding paths in the flower bed; only by walking along these paths can you enter the store.

However, most of the plants in the flower bed were in full bloom and maturity, which meant that Qin Fu'an was destined to enter someone else's flower garden today.

Upon seeing this, the viewers watching the live stream fell silent, instinctively worried for the streamer.

After all, the flowerbeds in front of us are not only planted with flowers and grass, but also with countless vines that grow close to the ground and climb the fences.

The most terrifying thing was that they were all slithering around in the flower bed like snakes, and when Qin Fu'an approached, they all eagerly pointed their sharp points at him.

The malice was made no attempt to conceal.

Qin Fu'an had no other choice.

[Author's Note]

Anzai: Honey, I'm hungry, time for dinner~

Yunzai: Come find me, I'll feed you all you want.

Another week without charts, exposure, or traffic. Eagerly awaiting next Thursday QAQ~

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