Bai Liu's small TV in the small dark room area went out, and the next second, it appeared in the multiplayer game area.

Hong Tao calmly returned to her original state and turned away without looking back.

There is no point in getting into a fight with this group of people in the small dark room area. If the other side has enough points, they will definitely be able to "redeem" Bai Liu - the mechanism of the small dark room set up by the system is to make people throw money into it.

But what if it is redeemed?

Hong Tao waved to her men calmly, "Go back to the multiplayer area and surround Bai Liu again."

The subordinates who were still secretly regretting being messed up by Mu Ke and Mu Sicheng now raised their heads and looked at Hong Tao in astonishment: "Empress, Queen, are you going to surround them again?!"

It's embarrassing enough that such a large guild surrounded a new player who was only playing the game for the fourth time, and they failed to stop him. But they actually wanted to do it again?!

"Why don't you surround us? Don't you want me to?" Hong Tao's eyebrows were faint, her waist was bent to the side, she looked back and scanned you with her remaining eyes. Although she was questioning you, her eyes were still wandering lazily, with an indescribable charm.

The man who was being questioned by her couldn't help but tense up from his scalp to his Adam's apple, like a military trainee being called out by the instructor. He stood straight with his legs pressed against his thighs and replied to Hong Tao's question, but his tone was very weak: "...What if we are intercepted by the other side again during this siege?"

The ransom for the small black room changes according to the balance of the points of the person who can pay the ransom. If Bai Liu is surrounded here next time, the ransom set by the system for him will become lower according to the situation.

It’s like Bai Liu, who was kidnapped by the system before, was a child from a wealthy family, and the ransom can be set at 100,000 points because Mu Ke and the others can afford it.

But now Bai Liu is just the child of a group of poor people, so the ransom offered by the system cannot be that high.

As for a lower and more suitable ransom, judging from the attitude of Mu Ke and his gang, they are willing to sell everything they have to borrow money from everywhere in order to get Bai Liu out.

That means it may not be possible to stop it the second time.

Hong Tao said, "Then let's block it for the third time."

The man looked increasingly surprised and confused, blurting out: "The third time...? There's no need for this, right?!"

"Why do you think you can stop him the first time?" Hong Tao asked calmly, "He is a guild leader. This is a game between guilds. Not to mention that Bai Liu has a good way of thinking and using people and winning people's hearts. His gaming ability is even better. The last person who could jump to the third level game in three games was called Hei Tao. It took him less than two dimensional minutes to kill our entire team in the league last year."

The man was speechless and stared at Hongtao blankly.

Hong Tao raised her eyelids and glanced at the man: "We are fighting against a player who may cause us a lot of trouble when he enters the league in the future. Do you expect to solve him in one go without losing a single soldier?"

"You are not looking down on Bai Liu, but you think there is no need for me to spend so much effort to get involved with him. You are questioning my judgment, right?" Hong Tao looked at the man indifferently and asked back.

The man lowered his head in a hurry and said, "I didn't mean that! Queen!"

Hong Tao brushed past him and gave an order in an unclear tone: "Try to surround and kill Bai Liu before he leaves the game. Besiege him until the Scavenger Guild can't pay the ransom and he falls into a no-man's land."

Mu Ke, who was standing at the back, watched Hong Tao leave, then turned around and said to the others with a serious expression:

"Red Hearts should be carrying out the second round of blockade. We should try to like and collect Bai Liu's TV in the lobby to delay Bai Liu's arrival at the small dark room area, because our points may be completely gone after another round of redemption. In the third round, we can only watch Bai Liu fall into the nameless area."

Mu Ke took a deep breath and looked at Bai Liu's small TV.

Hong Tao walked to the edge of the small dark room area and turned to look at Bai Liu's small TV.

One of them looked gloomy, while the other spoke with a half-smile:

"The rest depends on Bai Liu. Let's see if he can clear the game before the third round of ransom payment."

"If he doesn't get out before then, he'll fall into No Man's Land forever."

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In-game.

Tang Erda and two other members of the King's Guild followed Liu Jiayi to the processing plant. The other two members of the King's Guild stood behind Liu Jiayi and looked at Tang Erda, who was walking at the end, vigilantly to prevent a sudden attack from the other side.

Liu Jiayi, who was walking in the front, didn't care what was happening behind her at all. She quickly moved on to the next step of processing the dried rose leaves after drying - processing and drying.

Pour the dried petals into a huge iron pot and stir-fry them continuously until the moisture in the petals evaporates further and the color turns into dark reddish brown, emitting a strange and smoky aroma. The preparation and drying steps are completed.

It sounds simple, but this high-intensity stir-frying has to be continued for more than eight hours without interruption. If you stop, the pot may get burnt and the petals will stick to the bottom of the pot and turn black.

Not to mention that new workers can only use woks with burnt marks all over the bottom, which makes it easier for them to stick to the old wok and burn it. In order to prevent their own woks from being taken away by old workers, new workers usually have to stir-fry more than 360kg of roses at a time. Overall, it is a real physical job.

Liu Jiayi poured the dried rose leaves into the pot on the stove. The roses piled up in the iron pot were taller than her, and the spatula used for stir-frying was even taller than her head when it stood up.

As soon as the fire was lit, Liu Jiayi put the shovel in, jumped up and pressed on the shovel, swinging the shovel down with her body weight as if she was sitting on a seesaw, and began to stir and fry with great effort.

You can tell she really wants to do this, but it looks so unbearable!

The strong sense of employing child labor made a bunch of people nearby, including some NPC processors, couldn't help but look at Liu Jiayi dancing wildly on the shovel with a grunt.

This is a strenuous job, but Tang Er is much more adept at it. His eyes are sharp, his shovel is powerful, and he flips the food quickly. Soon, a thin wisp of white smoke emerges from the big iron pot, emitting a dazzling aroma.

The smell made Tang Er stagger a bit, and he used a shovel to steady himself on the ground. He shook his head, and a piece of skin at the corner of his mouth fell off like rotten puppet paint.

[System prompt: Player Tang Erda's spirit value has dropped to 51, please restore it in time! ]

Tang Er pulled out the bottle of perfume from his pocket, frowned and sprayed it on himself. His mental state returned to above the safe level, and the cracks on his face gradually healed under the effect of the perfume, but the rose in his eyes bloomed more and more arrogantly.

It had already opened to its tenth petal, while a fully bloomed dry-leaf rose has 20 petals, and there were still ten petals. In Tang Er's eyes, the rose was fully bloomed.

The two members of the King's Guild watched for a while, and had no choice but to step forward and pick up Liu Jiayi, who was sweating all over her head and her hands and feet were shaking, but she still refused to stop. They sighed and said, "Little witch, leave this to us adult men."

Although they don't know whether this little witch is real or fake, they feel that this Liu Jiayi seems to be subtly different from the one in their memory...

The little witch never forces herself to do hard work. She knows she is not good at it, and usually looks for more appropriate ways to handle such tasks - such as using props.

Just now, Liu Jiayi gave them the feeling that he was deliberately showing off in front of them and letting them do it for him - this feeling was more like the method that the shameless newcomer, Bai Liu, liked to use - taking advantage of others.

【We all owe her.】

[This is the first time she wants to protect someone like this, so she should help as much as she can.]

Thinking of what Qi Yihang had said to them before, the two people from the King's Guild looked at each other, sighed again, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Even if this Liu Jiayi was fake, they saw how hard the little witch tried to use herself as a shield to protect Bai Liu. Even if they were filled with hatred, bitterness, and pain, and their teeth were itching, they couldn't bear to stop helping.

——What if this is a real little witch?

Liu Jiayi had truly saved their lives! Do they really want to see her fail in her mission and get into trouble?

They resigned themselves to their fate, one of them picked up the shovel and started stir-frying, while the other picked up the sack and poured the dried rose leaves into it, and they started working enthusiastically. Sweat dripped down their foreheads into their protective suits, and they were shaken off.

After the two men drank the energy-restoring potion exhausted, they forced themselves to continue.

Liu Jiayi, who was standing aside, lowered her head and drank a drink of energy recovery agent. She seemed exhausted, her breathing was still panting, and she looked listless.

But Tang Erda, who would occasionally glance at the situation here with his side eyes, frowned - he looked at the 360kg of dried rose leaves in the iron pot that Liu Jiayi brought over, and he always felt that something was wrong.

He really didn't believe that Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi, two guys with quick brains, could only produce 360kg of dried roses. This was just right. 360kg was the weight of roses that was just enough for one person to continue working as a processor.

But if these two people got more than 360kg of dried rose leaves and did not use them for further promotion, where did the rest of the roses go?

Tang Erda was not wrong in his guess, they did collect far more than 360kg of roses - the two of them together collected a full 900kg from the flower pickers, reaching the maximum weight of roses that the two of them could collect in a single day.

Liu Jiayi casually glanced at the juice left by the rose in her hand - this was left when she helped to secretly transport the roses out of the factory this morning.