While the refugees were secretly picking roses in the flower fields, Bai Liu, who had transformed into Liu Jiayi in the tent, had his stamina bar depleted. His face turned pale and he returned to his original appearance as Bai Liu. He curled up on the small bed in the tent, breathing slightly, and after a short rest, he closed his eyes and fell asleep due to extreme fatigue.
Moreover, as a player with a relatively low basic panel, Bai Liu no longer uses the physical strength of the high-level skill card Red Peach. He has overdrawn his physical strength bar a bit too much, and has no way to restore his physical strength by drinking physical recovery agents, not to mention that Bai Liu's current mental value is also low.
Under the influence of various factors, Bai Liu realized that he really needed to rest. He didn't have the strength to pick roses tonight.
Fortunately, the scene created by Bai Liu before left him with enough time to rest.
But after sleeping for a few hours in the tent, Bai Liu, in a state of half-sleep and half-wakefulness, felt an extremely cold hand holding his ankle, gently pulling him as if to wake him up.
What I want to say here is that Bai Liu is currently wrapped in the prop [Magic Space].
What happened the day before yesterday happened again - something broke through the barrier of [Magic Space] and touched Bai Liu. At the same time, a dizzying, rich rose scent began to spread in the tent.
Bai Liu had opened his eyes because of the thing grabbing his ankle, but in a moment, his consciousness began to become blurred under the impact of the overly strong fragrance.
It was a very mysterious feeling. Bai Liu's brain could maintain a certain level of thinking function, but the muscles of his limbs became paralyzed under the effect of the perfume and he could not move. His breathing became extremely slow, and a kaleidoscope of red spindle-shaped petals began to appear in front of his eyes, overlapping and rotating.
It feels like being possessed by a ghost.
Bai Liu felt that the hand holding his ankle seemed to realize that he was awake and let go of his ankle. The fingers gently moved down and drilled into the trouser leg of Bai Liu's protective suit, slowly crawling up along Bai Liu's skin. The slender, cold and smooth fingers moved up along Bai Liu's warm thigh like a jade carving.
The light, almost touching, almost human, yet definitely skin-to-skin contact made Bai Liu unable to help but arch her waist and shudder.
Bai Liu's Adam's apple rolled up and down uncomfortably, he half-closed his eyes, and his breathing became heavier.
The right hand was almost reaching his...
Even though Bai Liu was not a person who cared much about this, after realizing that the hand in his trouser leg was most likely Xie Ta's hand, he now felt a little numb at the back of his neck and had difficulty breathing.
The fragrance made the corners of Bai Liu's eyes red and he felt groggy. He shook his legs with all his might, but his right hand didn't react in time and slid out of his trouser leg.
The hand seemed a little confused. It seemed that because it had no eyes and couldn't see, it simply wanted to climb up Bai Liu's body. But now Bai Liu's resistance and the attitude of shaking it off made the hand a little unsure of how to react.
Finally, the five fingers of the right hand were curled up under the palm, making a posture that was a bit like squatting obediently, curled up beside Bai Liu's feet, with the wrist lowered facing outside the bed. Looking from the side, it looked like a small octopus with its tentacles curled up and its head lowered, shutting itself in.
Bai Liu lowered his eyes and looked at the right hand squatting on his bed. He didn't know why he felt a little aggrieved from the movement of this right hand that looked like a cat's hands.
Bai Liu: “…”
Isn't it the other party who is being rude? Why does it feel like he is the one who did something wrong...
The right hand did not remain closed for long. It quickly perked up and began to climb up by grabbing the layers of Bai Liu's protective clothing with difficulty. Finally, it fumbled around Bai Liu's neck and touched a rope with a coin hanging on it.
His pure white fingers twisted down the lanyard, as if he was looking for something on the rope. When he couldn't find it the first time, he paused and began to twist it persistently a second time.
When Bai Liu saw the movement of the right hand, he knew what the other party was looking for.
——Tawil is looking for the reverse cross.
The Reverse Cross is the vehicle for the evil god to communicate with his believers. Although Bai Liu is not clear about what happened to Tavel in the Rose Factory copy, judging from the current situation, Tavel, who only has one hand, obviously cannot communicate with him smoothly, so the existence of the Reverse Cross is particularly important at this time.
Under the guidance of the inverted cross, the incomplete god can issue oracles to its believers.
But before entering the game, the reverse cross was taken away from Bai Liu by Tang Erda.
When his right hand was stroking the rope around Bai Liu's neck for the fourth time, Bai Liu leaned forward slightly and raised his hand to interrupt the movement of his right hand - after being exposed to the rose scent in the factory and flower fields for a whole day and night, he was now a little accustomed to the strong rose scent. Although he still felt dizzy, at least he did not faint and could move a little.
Bai Liu grasped the right hand in front of him, but the right hand did not seem to believe that Bai Liu would lose the inverted cross it gave him. It struggled slightly and tried to come out and continue searching, and its fingers stubbornly drilled into Bai Liu's collar which was slightly opened by it.
Bai Liu's strength is not as great as this hand. Under the effect of the rose scent, his whole body is now soft, with only a little strength. He has to use all his strength to move his hand.
This hand looks like it's acting like a hooligan without realizing it. If it really gets in, something unspeakable will happen below the neck.
But in order to prevent such a thing from happening and to ensure that this chapter can pass the review smoothly, Bai Liu took out the professional ethics of a Jinjiang male worker. He quickly and calmly figured out a way to communicate with one hand when no words could be exchanged.
Bai Liu used his fingertips to write a sentence on the palm of his right hand: [The cross was stolen and I lost it]
The right hand stopped struggling, it slowly took two steps back, and then made the self-locking movement of the little octopus with its legs curled up.
Bai Liu: “…”
Bai Liu felt a rare helplessness of not knowing where to start. He let out a faint sigh, leaned his head over and pressed against the knuckles of "Little Octopus", then gently pushed open Tavel's wrapped fingers with his fingers, lowered his eyes, and wrote on the other's white palm stroke by stroke: "Sorry".
Tavel paused, stretched out his five bony fingers, and wrote on Bai Liu's palm with his fingertips:
[Do you remember what I told you? The key to everything is in the hands of the witch. The antidote and poison are the key to your choice...]
[Before true death comes, the time in you is unique and irreversible...]
After finishing writing, Tavel's palms covered Bai Liu's face. Bai Liu fluttered his eyelashes slightly. The other party's index finger touched his forehead. The touch of the cold and soft fingertips was as gentle as when Tavel kissed Bai Liu's forehead when he gave the oracle.
Then the pure white right hand turned into scattered light pink petals and fell to the ground, and was dragged into the ground by the emerging vines.
The white willow is sleeping in an extremely rosy prophecy.
The next day.
Bai Liu suddenly opened his eyes and sat up. There was nothing around him. Just like before, everything seemed like a dream. But Bai Liu tilted his head and smelled the pillow. He could smell the lingering scent of roses on it.
Moreover, there was a strong scent of roses on his thighs, neck, and even waist, so strong that it was as if he had slept in roses for a night.
A right hand did come uninvited last night.
...Tavel's appearance seems to be very limited. I don't know why it is broken into pieces, and the vines that keep dragging it into the ground are the best proof.
But even so, under numerous restrictions, Tavel still appeared several times, as if to remind Bai Liu to pay attention to something.
Bai Liu narrowed his eyes.
Tawil reminded him of the oracle that had spoken to him once before.
Is it possible that he left something behind and can’t think of where to put it?
The key to everything lies in the witch's hands... The poison and the antidote are the key to your choice...
Before true death comes, the time in you is unique and irreversible.
While Bai Liu was still thinking, the sound of footsteps became clearer and clearer outside the tent. Bai Liu, who had rested for a night, instantly equipped Hong Tao's skill card. The moment the person outside got so close that his shadow was cast on the tent, Bai Liu's body shape changed from an adult to a little girl, and even the protective suit on her body became smaller.
Qi Yifang's voice rang out in surprise outside the tent: "Did you pick so many roses last night?!"
Seeing that she had turned back into a little witch, Bai Liu lowered her head and looked at herself, and suddenly stopped.
In a flash, an idea occurred to him.
[The key to everything is in the hands of the witch, poison and antidote are the key to your choice] The core of this sentence is not Liu Jiayi as he thought before.
Because there are two [witches] in the current Rose Factory copy, and according to the following sentence that antidote and poison are the key to [your] choice, it can be known that the [witch] in Tavel's oracle does not refer to the real little witch at all.
——but the fake witch, that is, himself.
Bai Liu slowly raised his head with an amused smile on his face.
Tavel's oracle had long predicted that he would turn into a little witch to deceive others. Similarly, if the "witch" in this oracle is fake, then the "antidote" and "poison" possessed by this "fake witch" should not be antidote and poison in the conventional sense.
If the "key" in Tavel's oracle refers to the clue to break the game of "Rose Factory", then from the perspective of Bai Liu, the game designer, the "antidote" and "poison" are likely to be two completely different choices for completing the game.
According to this idea, the [poison] in the Rose Factory game is too obvious, it is [Rose Dry Leaf Gas] - choose [poison], that is to get the secret recipe of the Rose Factory, and then do it to the extreme to become the factory director to pass the level.
Tawil said that the witch can choose between poison and antidote, which proves that he has both.
So what is the antidote?