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Tang Er in the game opened his eyes.

Rose petals covered the sky and spread all the way to the horizon. The large field of bright and colorful flowers bloomed vibrantly. The sky was as dark as the polar night. Walking into the rose field, a modern chemical plant suddenly appeared in the background of the country town, which was out of place.

A huge brass distiller is placed as a decoration at the entrance of the factory, and next to it hangs a white painted wooden sign with "Dried Rose Factory" written in both Chinese and English.

Tang Erda's breathing stopped for a moment, and he subconsciously looked towards the top of the factory - there was no one there, only some fresh roses packed in bean pods basking in the moonlight. The rose petals stretched out in the moonlight, and the juice in the rose-colored fleshy petals was brewing a crazy and addictive aroma.

This is the factory where Bai Liu stood at the top and asked him, "Do roses smell good?"

In all the timelines, Tang Erda had never seen this level three game before.

He knew that there must be a solution to the rose leaf gas in a certain game in the system, but no matter how frantically Tang Erda played the game, he never found this game.

It was as if something was blocking his access to the game and teasing him, so Tang Erda had long given up hope that he would be able to play a game related to Rose Leaf Gas.

But this time, after Tang Er was completely desperate, he actually followed Bai Liu and entered this game by accident.

[System prompt: Player Tang Erda saw the factory gate, triggering the main mission of the game]

[System prompt: The player is the lowest-level rose picker in the Wild Rose Factory. You need to work hard in the factory and be promoted to a top perfumer based on your performance. After becoming a perfumer, the player can drive away the previous factory director and become the new factory director.]

[When the perfume factory manager is born, the player who becomes the factory manager completes the game. The game ends when the factory manager is born]

[Players are now invited to enter the factory and start today's work! ]

At the same time, Bai Liu, who was hiding behind the factory, depressedly confirmed his main mission once again. Liu Jiayi, who was drinking the antidote to heal herself, still had blood on her body, but her complexion had improved a lot, and the gunshot wound on her body was no longer bleeding.

After Liu Jiayi confirmed her main mission, she glanced at Bai Liu's unhappy face, turned around awkwardly and muttered: "...I told you not to enter the third-level game casually. I finally rescued you and you came to send me off on your own, and you are still giving me a bad face..."

Bai Liu glanced at Liu Jiayi gloomily and said, "It's not because of you, it's because of this mission."

"What's wrong with this mission? The mortality rate of a level 3 game is determined by the number of players who can pass it. I reminded you of this before I came in..." Liu Jiayi quickly began to think. She put away the bottle of antidote and frowned. "The mortality rate of a level 3 game is between 80% and 90%. There are six players in this game, so it's normal for only one to survive. But level 3 games are not without loopholes."

"However, this game limits players to becoming factory managers. We looked around when we came in and found that there was only one Rose Dry Leaves Gas Factory nearby, so the conditions for passing the game are stuck to some extent. We can only take it one step at a time. I understand that you don't like the main quests of level 3 games. The flexibility is reduced and the difficulty is increased..."

Bai Liu was rarely in a good mood, his eyes wandering: "... Another part-time job, why am I still a social animal after entering the game? I don't like being exploited..."

Liu Jiayi: “…”

You became dead because of this!!!

Liu Jiayi expressionlessly climbed onto the decorative brass distiller and slapped Bai Liu on the back of the head: "Troublemaker, cheer up! First deal with your pursuer, the captain. He must have chased you into the game. He's very strong. You'd better figure out how to help us pass this level 3 game!"

Bai Liu was slapped against the wall by Liu Jiayi and lay motionless.

Liu Jiayi: “…”

Liu Jiayi grabbed Bai Liu's head and pulled it out, shouting, "Don't play dead to avoid work! If you brought me into this game, you must be responsible for getting me out! Be a grown man, Bai Liu!!"

Bai Liu slowly pulled his head out from the wall and looked at Liu Jiayi with a sad look: "Does anyone pay me for working here?"

Liu Jiayi: "...Of course not. What are you thinking about?"

"Oh." Bai Liu slowly lowered his head and said in a muffled voice, "Then I won't fight anymore. I was just half-forced into doing a very unprofitable ten-year deal, and now I am being forced to work for nothing. I need to recover my losses. I can't do it anymore."

Bai Liu had the look of a modern-day Grandet who was forced to leave his inheritance to his son, only to find out that he was still alive and had no desire to live - it was obvious that he had not yet recovered from the ten-year hot pot business at Lu Station.

Liu Jiayi stepped on Bai Liu's shoulders and pulled the office worker who was avoiding work out with all her might, cursing as she pulled him out: "Men can't just say they can't do it!! Hurry up and get to work!"

After realizing that nothing she did could help this office worker, who was immersed in depression due to losing money, recover, Liu Jiayi had no choice but to use her ultimate move: "You work, and I'll pay you, 100 yuan an hour, is that okay?"

Bai Liu, who had buried his head in the wall, turned around without hesitation, stared at Liu Jiayi, and stretched out his hand to her without any shame: "Deal, pay first and then work."

Liu Jiayi: “…”

Damn, this kind of Bai Liu is just waiting for her to pay and calculating her feeling...

Is this man such a stingy person?! He even counts the money of an eight-year-old girl?!

Liu Jiayi cursed in her heart, but on the surface she remained calm as she took out the money and gave it to Bai Liu. Bai Liu took the money leisurely, straightened his clothes, and returned to his normal working appearance: "Let's go, let's go to the factory to check the procedures first."

"Wait!" Liu Jiayi stopped Bai Liu from walking forward, and her tone was a little helpless when she spoke again, "Are you listening to what I said to you? That Captain Tang is also following you into the game. If you go directly to the factory to find the NPC to get the task, you might run into him. His skill weapon gun is very powerful and can be used in real life. If you run into him, he will kill you without saying a word!"

Bai Liu took Liu Jiayi's hand and said calmly: "The moment we entered this game, he would not kill me."

Liu Jiayi was startled: "Why?"

"The Rose Factory is a game stage specially presented to Tang Erda and me by people, or perhaps not people." Bai Liu lowered his eyes, his gaze dim and unclear. "In this game called the Rose Factory, there must be a secret that can save all those contaminated by perfume, just like the reward item in the God Statue Monster Book in the Love Welfare Home can save children poisoned by the blood ganoderma."

"And Tang Erda thought that the game decryption core that contained this secret was in my hands. He thought I knew how to complete the game. Just for this reason, before the game was completed and Tang Erda got what he wanted, he couldn't bear to kill me."

"——The antidote to save the people he wants to save is within reach. I believe that this righteous Captain Tang will no longer have the courage to be crazy and take more than a thousand people to die with me."

Bai Liu commented slowly, with a hint of teasing in his tone: "After all, in the eyes of Captain Tang, my life is probably not as valuable as that of his deputy Captain Su."

He held Liu Jiayi's hand and walked beside the rose fields in this rural town. After passing the distiller in the factory, they could see the double iron gate that had been opened.

There is a wooden plaque hanging on the main entrance, which reads: [Welcome to Rose Factory].

Bai Liu held Liu Jiayi's hand and walked in. There was a huge open-air workshop inside. Fresh roses that had just been picked from the flower fields were scattered all over the ground. Someone was squatting on the ground, separating the rose stems, leaves and petals that were mixed together, and then sorting these things into different categories.

On both sides of the venue were huge copper furnaces that were working and emitting a constant stream of hot air and white steam. Beside the furnaces, people were constantly using steel shovels to stir the rose petals that were mixed together inside. It looked like a very excited working scene, but the people who were working all looked a little strange, and the working hours also seemed a little off, because it was obviously late at night judging by the sky.

The people who were working were wearing black protective suits with their wrists and collars tightened with elastic bandages, white numb gloves, black rubber boots, and black sandal hats. Judging from their attire, they did not look like they were handling roses, but rather like researchers or beekeepers handling viruses in a dangerous laboratory.

The moment Bai Liu led Liu Jiayi in, they were stopped by these people.

The staff handed Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi two sets of identical protective clothing that seemed to be tailor-made for them. They raised their heads and opened their mouths with hoarse and cracked voices, staring at the two uninvited guests with their eyes wide open, even with a certain amount of hatred and vigilance: "You must wear protective clothing when entering this place. You can't let the smell of your bodies contaminate the scent of roses. Do you understand, newcomers!"

At such a close distance, Bai Liu could clearly see that under the black veil, the person who handed him the veil, or the employee who could no longer be considered a human, had some deep and huge cracks on his face, and along the cracks, pieces of black, rotten, and protruding flesh appeared, as if a rose was blooming along the texture under his eyes.

In the eyes of the worker who was staring at Bai Liu, there was a withering deep red rose with black edges - very similar to the one on his face.

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Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi looked at each other, silently took the full set of protective clothing handed to them by the workers and put it on, then walked inside under each other's guidance.

As the worker walked inside, he turned around and introduced Bai Liu to the three different workshops in the factory, but Bai Liu's attention was obviously attracted by something else.

As the man walked, the face in the protective suit made the sound of falling leaves. He then stepped on the fallen objects with a smack. The smell of meat paste and blood was faintly wafting through his movements, but he didn't seem to care. He continued to introduce the structure and rules of the factory:

"...There are three workshops in the perfume factory. They are the petal preparation and distillation workshop you just saw, the essential oil purification workshop where we are now, and the most core perfume workshop. You are not qualified to go to the perfume workshop yet. Only perfumers are qualified to work in this workshop..."

"We are recruiting four types of workers here. The flower pickers are responsible for picking seasonal roses. This is the lowest level of workers. Newcomers all start here. Those with outstanding flower picking performance will be promoted to the petal processing workshop and become processors. Processors with good performance will be promoted to the purification workshop and become formal factory workers. At this level, you are qualified to learn perfumery knowledge..."

"And the factory workers who have the best learning ability, the highest talent for perfume making, and can be the first to make perfumes can become perfumers. That is a great honor. Tsk, but telling these to you newcomers is a bit too far-fetched..."

Bai Liu observed the surrounding environment while listening to the NPC chattering about the factory. Finally, he asked, "How do I become the director of this factory?"

The worker stopped talking about how he was promoted to perfumer.

The worker turned his head suddenly. His cheekbones were vaguely visible under the black veil after the flesh and blood had peeled off. He spoke in a low and terrifying tone, "Factory director? You can't be promoted to the position of factory director. He has the core technology of the factory's perfume and the method of cultivating dried rose leaves, and these things cannot be passed on to others. If you want to become a factory director, wait until you have these things."

Bai Liu changed the question: "How many factory managers have you had?"

"Eight." said the worker.

Bai Liu said calmly, "Then how did they stack up?"

The worker's face turned ugly. He realized what Bai Liu wanted to ask, which made him pause for a moment before answering: "...The previous factory director disappeared, and the next factory director who has the perfume formula and rose cultivation method automatically took office."

Bai Liu stopped asking here with interest - it seems that this is still a rebellious rotation method. The disappearance of the previous factory director may not be simple, and the next factory director will not be too simple either. This [perfume formula] and [rose cultivation] method are equivalent to the imperial seal, whoever gets it will take office.

Going further inside, the low, dark factory gradually becomes wider to the left and right. Various aluminum refrigeration tubes are embedded in the surrounding walls, and water flows rapidly inside.

A long row of distillation and drying devices were placed on the cement floor. The outer shells of these machines had been dyed a light pink color similar to roses, which sparkled in the flickering dim lights - normal roses were not so corrosive that they could color metal.

Even though Bai Liu and the others were wearing protective clothing, they could still smell the strong rose scent in the air. In the various devices that were working, in the pipes of the glass devices, they could see rose-colored oil droplets flowing slowly in the pipes, and then dripping from the spout into a fist-sized beaker.

"We are the only factory in the world that can produce [Dried Rose Gas] perfume. The perfume we produce will be shipped from here to the whole world. Everyone in the world is crazy about this perfume and cannot live without it. But our development to today has not been smooth sailing."

The worker introduced Bai Liu in an inexplicably proud tone, "You can see the development history of our factory on the wall to your left. It has all been published in the local newspapers."

Bai Liu's gaze moved to the left, and he saw a whole wall covered with various old newspapers, which was placed in a glass window. There were also many trophies and some golden certificates such as "Best Perfume of 202X" and "Top Ten Enterprises of the Year".

"…Ten years ago, when dried rose gas was still strictly prohibited, our factory was almost closed down. However, a huge explosion almost completely destroyed our factory, and the fragrance of dried rose gas spread to a nearby big city. Overnight, millions of people began to fall in love with this perfume. A good perfume can have such charm. It brought the factory back to life and redeveloped it to its peak!"

"Now the whole world is using this perfume, the supply can not meet the demand, rose stems gas has become more precious than gold!"

The worker kept on narrating, and Bai Liu, who was walking forward, saw a familiar face on the newspaper wall. He suddenly stopped at a certain position in the window.

His eyes fell directly on the old, yellowed newspaper posted on the edge of the window. This newspaper was quite old, and the headline was prominently printed in bold black letters on the upper left:

[A perfume processing chemical factory in the suburbs of Jingcheng leaked due to improper protective measures, resulting in 139 workers being injured and 17 police officers who came to investigate the scene fell into a coma after smelling the gas]

Bai Liu's gaze moved downward. Below the headline was a large black-and-white news photo with two familiar profiles in the photo - both men were wearing uniforms, lying on stretchers, and seemed to be unconscious as they were about to be carried into an ambulance. It was obvious that they were affected by the gas leak from the perfume factory.

Liu Jiayi also recognized one of the people. She slightly widened her eyes and walked to the window. She tiptoed to take a closer look at the photo of the policeman who was unconscious in the explosion and lying on a stretcher. After staring at it for a while, she opened the system panel without saying a word:

[System prompt: Player Liu Jiayi, use 600 points to open the small TV mute space. The words spoken by you and the players within one meter around you will be muted before being broadcast to the small TV that the audience is watching.]

[System prompt: The transaction has been completed, players can now speak freely! ]

After Liu Jiayi finished the treatment, she turned to look at Bai Liu and said nervously, "Isn't this... the police station?"

Bai Liu hummed indifferently: "The other one is called Su Yang."

He looked at the date on the newspaper - it was the day after they entered the game.

Now the connection between the game "Rose Factory" and reality is very obvious - this is a copy of the game that has not yet had time to log in to the real world, and the way this game landed is this explosion.

This copy officially started more than ten years after the explosion, which is now.

The huge leak that triggered the real opportunity for this game copy to be recorded, which was also the beginning of the popularity of Rose Leaf Gas around the world, occurred on the second day after Bai Liu entered the game.

A game usually takes one day, which means...

Bai Liu looked at the specific time of the explosion reported in the newspaper - around 4:15 in the morning, which was basically the time when Bai Liu had just entered the game, with an error of no more than ten minutes.

This means that no matter whether Tang Erda or Bai Liu are the ones who have completed the game, as soon as they go out, they will see the scene where Lu Yi Station or Su Yang has been affected by the explosion, contaminated by rose stem gas, and is about to wither and die.

Even if the props they received as rewards for completing the game could potentially save the people who were contaminated, the leak that caused massive pollution to the people has already happened.

The rewards for completing the game, or the props for saving the contaminated people, are limited. For example, the [Blood Ganoderma] given to Bai Liu as a reward in the last round of the game can just save six children.

According to the arrangement made by the people behind the scenes, the game "Rose Factory" will be refreshed after they complete the game, and it will be very difficult to refresh it again, which means preventing them from obtaining props repeatedly.

If nothing unexpected happens, even if they get the tools to rescue the contaminated people, they may only be able to save the more than 1,000 people who are currently contaminated.

But if this explosion becomes widespread, there may not be enough tools to save people.

According to Bai Liu's understanding of Lu Yizhang and Su Yang, these two people are typical public servants. If ordinary people have not been completely rescued, they will never use the props that can save themselves.

This should be the situation that the person who arranged everything behind the scenes wanted to see. He wanted to see with a smile - Bai Liu and Tang Er fighting in front of the hospital beds of their most important friends, watching them wither and die, unable to do anything, or even fighting each other, or sacrificing an innocent person to save the lives of their friends, and becoming evil people despised by their friends.

What a wonderful arrangement, it was laid out without us noticing.

Bai Liu remembered what he heard before entering the game: Su Yang was going to inspect a perfume factory the next day.

And so many things happened tonight. In order to prove that this Rose Dry Leaf Gas has nothing to do with him, and also to understand what happened to Bai Liu and to prove Bai Liu's innocence, Lu Yizhang, the fool, will definitely take the initiative to ask to investigate the truth of this matter together with the Third Detachment - this perfectly forms the chess game that the person behind the scenes wants to see.

The chips are placed on the scales of reality, the players are in the game arena, and the spectators are hiding in the abyss and the seabed, watching the drama they have choreographed maliciously.

The good show is about to begin - Bai Liu seemed to hear someone whispering happily and crazily in his ear.