Not to mention children like Liu Jiayi, even an adult like Bai Liu's shirt was soaked with sweat. He half squatted down to catch his breath and regain his strength, raised his hand to wipe the sweat dripping from his right cheek, then lowered his head and simply counted the flowers in the sacks of the two people to make an estimate.
"Less than 1,300 flowers." Bai Liu picked up the sack and shook it. "Based on the indicator that one flower weighs 2 grams, the two of us worked together for an hour without rest, and we only picked less than three kilograms."
Liu Jiayi was resting with her hands behind her back, but when she heard Bai Liu's estimate, she sat up and said, "Doesn't that mean we have to work for 15 hours without sleep to get a bottle of cheap perfume?!"
She had played quite a few level three games, but this was the first time she had to do hard labor. Liu Jiayi had always been a rare healer that was praised by the entire group, and she was mostly responsible for intelligence tasks or high-end combat skills. In other words, she was a nanny or an assistant.
I didn't expect that the first time I played with Bai Liuyou, I would encounter such a hardcore and hellish plot.
Liu Jiayi fell back in frustration, staring at the night sky with lifeless eyes: "When will this end? I want to work my way up to become the factory manager! How many years will I have to work like this?"
"When I was working, I asked myself the same question every day," Bai Liu said quietly, "but later I realized that there is only one end to working, and that is death, or worse, being fired."
Liu Jiayi: “…”
Bai Liu, how much of a shadow has the life of a social animal and being demoted left on you...
Liu Jiayi sat up silently and sighed sadly: "What should we do now? We can't get that perfume, which should be a key prop. We will definitely have problems later."
"I don't think there's any need to continue." Bai Liu took off his black veil. In his right eye, a delicate rose bud was slowly unfolding its green branches and leaves. "We have been contaminated in the process of picking roses."
Liu Jiayi was startled, then quickly lowered her head to take off her linen gloves and looked at her hands - her eyes were hazy and she couldn't see clearly whether there were roses blooming inside, so she couldn't use this to determine whether she was contaminated or not.
But there is another way to determine whether she is contaminated.
After taking off her gloves, Liu Jiayi held her breath at the sight before her eyes.
——The back of her hand and fingertips could be clearly seen, with black cracks like broken rocks spreading across her wrists and connecting into the shape of petals in her palms.
"I thought we would not be contaminated until we used the perfume for the first time." Liu Jiayi pursed her lips. "We wore masks throughout the picking process and did not come into direct contact with the roses. Except for the time in the factory, we did not smell any obvious fragrance. And when we came out of the factory, we were not contaminated. So we were indeed contaminated in the flower field, but the fragrance in the flower field is far less strong than that in the factory."
Liu Jiayi put on gloves to cover the cracks that were still growing on her skin. She looked up at Bai Liu and said, "But why? Shouldn't the way this thing spreads contamination be through the smell?"
"Judging from our situations, it may not be transmitted by smell," Bai Liu said.
The rose bud in Bai Liu's right eye was growing quietly, black lines spreading along his eye socket, while his left eye was still a normal black eyeball.
Liu Jiayi frowned and looked intently into Bai Liu's eyes: "And it's so strange, your left eye is intact, but there is a rose in your right eye, what does this mean? Are you half contaminated along the vector line? But both of my hands are already withering."
Bai Liu lowered her eyelids slightly, half covering the rosebud in his right eye, and said softly, "I don't know. Let's wait and see."
——[Don’t use your right eye to hold desires].
Tawil had told him so, and he had also told him to be careful with the roses.
Bai Liu's eyes fell on the large patches of lush roses blooming in the flower field.
These roses were quiet and beautiful, swaying gently in the pure white moonlight, as if to make it easy for people to pick them. Not even the usual thorns grew on the branches, and they were so delicate and elegant that there was not even a hint of aggressiveness.
It seems that apart from being used as a raw material for extracting that alluring perfume, this kind of rose is harmless enough to make people intoxicated, and should be the last thing in this dungeon that will actively harm players.
This was indeed the case. Bai Liu and the others had just gone down and picked so many roses, but these roses did not trigger the monster book, nor did they actively attack them.
Bai Liu put on the black mask stained with sand again and looked sideways at the rose field under the night sky: "According to the rate of pollution, we may not last more than fifteen hours before we start to wither."
"Not only are we withering, we are also being alienated." Liu Jiayi opened his own panel. The spirit value and health value on it were decreasing, and the spirit value was decreasing much faster than the health value.
Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi looked at each other silently, and both took out a bottle of mental bleach and prepared to use it.
[System reminder: In this game, mental bleach is ineffective in restoring mental value]
[In the game "Rose Factory", only the Rose Stem Leaf Gas perfume can restore the player's mental value. If the player fails to complete the task within the specified time and obtain the Rose Stem Leaf Gas perfume, the player will begin to become addicted to the perfume as the mental value decreases, and turn into a monster who is completely unable to think rationally~]
Liu Jiayi looked at Bai Liu with a serious expression: "The spirit value is forcibly stuck."
The rose in Bai Liu's eyes trembled and stretched out its first petal. The cracks around his eye sockets deepened, but his tone remained light: "Perfume is indeed a very key prop."
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On the other side of the flower field.
Tang Erda half-crouched and sat on a pit in the flower field to catch his breath. He had thrown his mask aside. Both of his eyes were like blooming roses, and black lines like cracks in the soil began to appear on his face, spreading one petal at a time on his skin.
At first, Tang Erda thought that the mask could slow down the speed at which he was contaminated, but after discovering that the mask was useless in blocking the scent of the dried-leaf roses, Tang Erda simply threw away the mask in order to increase the speed of picking.
He rested his hands on his knees, raised his head and drank a bottle of energy recovery agent, wiped his mouth, and looked at the bulging sack at his feet.
It seemed like a lot, but it was only eight kilograms of roses, but it already filled up the sack.
If they wanted to load more, they had to go to the small tent to unload the goods, because the workers would not calculate the weight of roses picked by each flower picker until the next day, so the filled sacks could only be unloaded in one place first.
The worker told Tang Erda that the unloading location was the small tent in the middle of the flower field where he was. At the same time, the worker asked Tang Erda to be alert to the refugees who came to steal roses at night.
"The roses in the tent are not always safe," the worker said with disgust. "There are always greedy, mean, mad poor people who come to steal them."
But as a player with rich experience in level three games, Tang Erda already had a strategy to deal with this situation - that is, a considerable inventory of props.
As a player who has traveled through many timelines, Tang Erda's inventory of level 3 game items is of a different quality and quantity than that of the other guilds in the entire game, except for the killer sequence whose inventory is a mystery.
Just relying on this comprehensive library of reward items from all games that Tang Erda has completed in all timelines, Tang Erda has the power to defeat most of the lower-level guilds. That's why so many high-level guilds are willing to spend a lot of money to hire him to join the team. In addition to Tang Erda's own outstanding individual combat ability, it is also inseparable from Tang Erda's top-notch inventory of items.
Tang Er poured the roses into the small tent, then bent down and walked out of the tent. He turned around and threw down a Rubik's Cube. A layer of water wave-like barrier rose from the ground around it and fit together to form a tightly fitted tetrahedron at the top of the tent.
[System prompt: Player Tang Erda uses the prop (magic space). The space is currently under the control of the player. Only those allowed by the player can enter and exit freely.]
After putting the prop away, Tang Erda left without looking back - although this prop did not successfully trap Bai Liu in reality, Tang Erda was very sure that only Bai Liu could find a way to use this prop, and ordinary monsters in the third-level game would definitely not be able to find a way to get in or out.
Tang Er had tried to find Bai Liu after entering the game, but in this game map, among the 16,000 acres of lush flower fields and the countless small tents of similar appearance stationed on the edges of the fields, it was not an easy task to find a player who was good at hiding and using the game mechanics to escape, especially Bai Liu who was always good at toying with his opponents.
After all, he hasn't even found the other three players in the King's Guild yet - after all, this map is too big and the design is similar, it's easy to get lost.
Especially when your spirit value drops rapidly and there is no way to recover quickly, for a normal person walking in this map is like drinking two bottles of 96-proof vodka and walking in a rotating red kaleidoscope. You will feel dizzy, nauseous and want to vomit, and you will have no sense of direction at all. It is an optical pollution-level game scene experience.
Tang Erda had encountered a game with a similar design before. In such a game, wandering around was a very dangerous thing - because once you left the place where you were doing the task and mistakenly entered the monster's territory, it would be very difficult to find the way back, and it was very likely that the player would go crazy because of the endless confusion before returning.
It is obvious that this is a game that focuses on mental attack.
Tang Erda knew very well that he could not beat Bai Liu in finding people, so he decisively chose to give up, choosing to complete the task first and then wait for Bai Liu to complete it and enter the factory.
It is always easier to find people in a factory than in a flower field.
Tang Er never doubted that Bai Liu could complete the game mission beautifully. He might have believed that he could complete the three-level game smoothly even more than Bai Liu himself - especially this game called "Rose Factory" which was related to the rose gas in reality.
Tang Erda looked at his palm which was cracked to the bone but without a drop of blood flowing out. His eyes, as deep blue as the sea, were filled with a light-colored rose that was gradually blooming - the petals stretched out to the second petal, and the tail of the first petal turned deep red.
[System prompt: Player Tang Erda, your spirit value has dropped to 89...]
The author has something to say:
2 (deep): Bai Liu will definitely be able to complete the task. I have to work faster and complete the task before him!
(Grunting and plucking flowers frantically)
6: Liu Jiayi, do you think we can finish it?
+1: I don't think so
The two of them began to drink tea and watch the show on the shore, wearing sunglasses (goggles) and watching the coolie 2 working and losing his sanity.
2: ??? Aren’t you afraid of losing sanity? !
6 (Cut the nail and cut the iron): There is nothing in this world that makes me lose my sanity more than working part-time.
+1: …
Good kids, don't slack off at work.