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In-game.

Liu Jiayi's skills have finally been reset.

There is something special about her skills. Liu Jiayi's skills are not used according to the degree of emptied stamina bar to determine the next round of use.

But for most players, the use of personal skills will be severely restricted after the stamina bar is empty. For example, Mu Sicheng's skill [Thief Monkey Claw], if the stamina bar is emptied, and there is no way to restore the stamina bar with potions, Mu Sicheng can only continue to use the skill by relying on the naturally recovered stamina.

Liu Jiayi's skills, except for the burst skill [Poison Fountain], are not subject to this restriction. Her [Poison] is considered a [Mage-type] skill, and can be used again as soon as the skill cooldown ends.

So after the skill CD was over, Liu Jiayi generated eight more bottles of poison. She herself could not move, so she gave the poison to Bai Liu and lay paralyzed on the ground to rest and recover her strength.

Bai Liu took the poison and walked around to check if there were any refugees who were still alive in the [Magic Space]. If there were, he would lightly sprinkle some poison on them as a finishing touch.

After thoroughly checking all the refugees, Bai Liu took away the [Magic Space] and quickly picked up the roses - because not far away, a surge of refugees and tentacles began to appear again.

After simply calculating the total weight of the rewards obtained by himself and Liu Jiayi on the system panel, which was more than 80 kilograms, Bai Liu simply carried Liu Jiayi on his back and started running towards the tent.

Liu Jiayi lay on Bai Liu's back with no desire for life. Her hands were shaken by Bai Liu's back. Her tone was hoarse and calm: "...I just remembered something. You took the prop [Magic Space] from me. I thought you had lost it. If you brought this prop into this game and have always had it--"

"Then why don't you use it on us right from the start, covering us for an hour and waiting for my skill to cool down, so that we don't have to fight so hard..."

Liu Jiayi struggled to move up twice. She held Bai Liu's neck with her shaking hands expressionlessly and asked in a gloomy voice, "The item [Magic Space] requires the maximum width of space, and it can only be used within one day."

"...Bai Liu, you didn't make me hold out for an hour just to use the maximum extent of [Magic Space] and kill as many monsters as possible at once to get the most roses, did you?"

Bai Liu: “.”

Liu Jiayi was so angry that she almost vomited blood: "Bai Liu, you bastard are using me again! You bastard, kill me! You can bastard a little more!"

[System reminder: If children use dirty words, the TV will block them~]

The refugees behind him kept chasing Bai Liu. The moment their tentacles entangled Bai Liu's ankles, Bai Liu rolled into the tent in the middle of the flower field and zipped up the tent quickly and efficiently.

The twisting tentacles slammed against the tent fabric with a "bang", and the zipper was slowly moving upwards. It felt like these refugees could use their tentacles to drill in at any time and drag out the two exhausted players.

Bai Liu took out the rotating Rubik's Cube with a calm expression.

[System prompt: Player Bai Liu uses props (magic space), uses space (the player's tent, which is smaller and has a longer usage time limit), and has usage restrictions (no creatures other than the player and Liu Jiayi are allowed to enter)]

[System prompt: Because the player has overdrawn the maximum width of the prop (magic space) before, the usage time of the magic space is shortened, and it can be used in the tent space for about 3 hours]

The Rubik's Cube in Bai Liu's hand turned a few circles and became much smaller. The Rubik's Cube spun around and turned into a regular cube, the shape of a tent.

Liu Jiayi, who had just been scolding Bai Liu, now felt a little subtly embarrassed.

Her eyes fell on the much smaller tetrahedron Rubik's Cube in Bai Liu's hand - she thought Bai Liu chose to confront him head-on in order to maximize his one-time benefits, but she didn't expect it was so that the two of them could stay safely in the [Magic Space] until dawn.

Bai Liu had obviously calculated the time the props would take to be used... Shouldn't she have speculated about Bai Liu with such dirty intentions - it seemed that she had gone a bit too far in scolding him just now.

Liu Jiayi was not a shy little girl. She looked at Bai Liu and apologized directly: "I'm sorry, I scolded you too much just now. I didn't know that you chose to save props to ensure your and my safety."

Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi strangely: "No, I saved the props so that you can fight the most monsters at one time."

Liu Jiayi: "..."

Bai Liu explained seriously, "I reserved a time limit for this item so that if you can't collect enough roses at once, I can use it to remove the negative state of your emptied stamina bar, allowing you to continue to overdraw your body with explosive skills, and use this item to trap more monsters and help me get more roses. Although it already weighs 80 kilograms, this kind of item that fits the positioning of the entire game is definitely better..."

Liu Jiayi: “…”

Bai Liu was lost in his own thoughts. He looked at the exhausted Liu Jiayi with regret and sighed, "But you still look a little bit bad. It may be because you are a child. You are in a very bad state after exhausting your energy. It's really not that good..."

Liu Jiayi suddenly smiled, and her smile was very sweet, even revealing two dimples. She raised two bottles of magic potion to Bai Liu, and tilted her head to look at him cutely: "Brother Bai Liu, if you say that again, I will really get angry."

Looking at the [poison] black mist that had already wrapped around his neck, Bai Liu sensibly changed the subject: "Little Liu Jiayi, you've worked really hard tonight! Do you want to go to bed now?"

Liu Jiayi: “…”

Damn, I really want to curse.

There was a reason why Bai Liu came to the tent to let Liu Jiayi rest.

After 3 hours, if it is still dark and the tentacle monsters are still outside, they will have to go out again for a saw fight. In 2 to 3 hours, Liu Jiayi's skill CD can produce more poison, and Liu Jiayi can also recover some of her physical strength by resting, so they can barely rely on this part of the poison to hold on until dawn.

There was only a dirty and greasy small bed in the tent, half the width of a person and about the length of an adult, with a dirty and stained woolen blanket draped over the edge of the bed.

Bai Liu put Liu Jiayi on the small bed, casually covered herself with a woolen blanket, and then curled up on the small blanket and fell asleep.

There was still blood splattered on the right side of his cheek from the touch, but he didn't even wipe it off before he closed his eyes tiredly and fell asleep.

Unable to recover his mental strength, Bai Liu took on the job of cleaning up the mess and protecting the main attacker Liu Jiayi, which caused him to be contaminated by the ubiquitous tentacles and refugees, causing his mental strength to drop significantly. At the same time, the continued low mental strength exacerbated Bai Liu's physical exhaustion, as if he was working overtime at a high intensity and without allowing any mistakes while staying up late, which doubled Bai Liu's fatigue.

[System warning: Player Bai Liu's spirit value has dropped to 61. Please restore your spirit value quickly! ]

The black cracks on his face sank downwards, and his skin was separated from Bai Liu's face, as if it was about to fall off.

In his sleep, a rustling sound woke Bai Liu up. He glanced at Liu Jiayi who was curled up on the small bed and sleeping soundly, then lowered his head to confirm that the time limit of the [Magic Space] had not expired - there was about an hour left.

Then he slept for about two hours.

As the sky brightened, the refugees outside the tent seemed to have disappeared. The sound that woke Bai Liu up did not come from outside the tent, but from inside the tent.

Bai Liu's gaze slowly fell on the bottom of the bed where Liu Jiayi slept - a rustling sound, like something slowly crawling, clearly came out from under the bed, and it was getting louder and louder.

Liu Jiayi, who was still sleeping soundly, seemed to be awakened by the sound. She frowned and turned over. Bai Liu took off his coat and covered her ears, so she relaxed her brows and fell asleep again.

Bai Liu half-knelt in front of Liu Jiayi's bed. He held the whip and tilted his head to look under the bed.

When he used the [Magic Space], he clearly designated the tent as a space that was off limits to any creature other than himself and Liu Jiayi. At this time, anything that could appear in the same space with him and Liu Jiayi without being rejected and could make sounds was either a living creature or not.

Either this creature has the ability to break through the barrier set up by the [Magic Space], a [Super] level item.

[Super] items were originally items dropped from monster books in level three games. So, conversely, it is not uncommon for high-level monsters in level three games to be able to crack [Super] items.

Bai Liu defensively blocked his chest with the whip, and his eyes swept directly to the bottom of the bed - there were all kinds of messy things at the bottom of this dirty little bed, including half a broken pencil, a few used toilet paper balls, a torn sack, and a graceful right hand model of unknown purpose.

There were no signs of any living creatures under the bed. It was black and smelled bad. It looked like a normal bed that had been used as a boarding house for many workers and had never been cleaned.

It was as if the sound Bai Liu had just heard was his hallucination. After all, his mental value had indeed been so low that it was almost at the point of hallucination.

But Bai Liu still did not look away, but stared motionlessly at the bottom of the bed, or to be more precise, at the hand model under the bed that looked like some kind of toy.

Bai Liu recognized the perfect right hand model that looked like it was carved from a golden model.

This was the right hand that he had once clenched tightly but then loosened on his own initiative.

This is Sheta's right hand.