In the darkness of the night, a huge motorcycle with a yellow-brown stripe passed by, raising a huge cloud of dust.

They were getting closer and closer to the factory which was about to explode.

The factory that was discovered to be secretly producing rose perfume was built in the suburbs. Now is the perfect time for Su Yang and his team to go and investigate.

Su Yang held the Bureau of Heresy's special gun against his side. He leaned against the factory door and cautiously looked inside.

After looking around, Su Yang came out. He lifted his collar and spoke into the small microphone above:

"No one, safe."

At the same time, a voice came from his earphone:

"Soviet troops, we don't have any here either, it's safe."

"Zone 2 is also safe."

"… Zone 3 is also safe. Captain Su is so weird…" The voice in the headset paused hesitantly, "It doesn't look like anyone is working here. The ground is all dusty. The latest footprints are ours."

"It wasn't like this the last time we came to inspect this factory. This time it looks like it has been abandoned for several years..."

Su Yang's eyes were clear and his expression was calm. "Don't panic. It is very likely that a new heresy has appeared along with the dry leaf rose, or that this new heresy gave rise to the dry leaf rose."

"This should be the ability of this heretic."

Su Yang continued to search downwards. He walked across the open-air square covered with withered branches and leaves and came to the dormitory where the processors lived. He stared intently at the old and abnormal door of the dormitory, stretched out his foot and kicked without hesitation at the gap at the bottom of the door that was bulging due to moisture.

The corpses lying on the beds in the dormitory opened their eyes, twisted their limbs to stand up, and turned their rotten eyeballs to look at the door that was about to fall and be kicked open. They moved their limbs to climb off the bed and moved towards the door with their bones left.

At the same time, the factory has a basement level.

The team members held their noses and moved forward in this extremely smelly prison replica. They scanned the neatly arranged iron cages with complicated eyes. Behind them, a team member held a night camera and carefully photographed the structure inside the factory.

The green screen of the night camera cast an unknown light in this dim underground.

"... I don't know what these cages are used for..." A team member frowned and took a few steps inside, "And when we came here to seal off this factory a month ago, it was completely different here."

"Yes." Another team member agreed, "Not only that, we have had people closely monitoring the situation here. This factory is not functioning at all. I don't know how they are still producing and transporting perfume."

They walked inside while talking.

In the cage at the end of the underground level, there is a huge cylindrical glass cabinet container that is three meters high and as thick as four people can hug together. The opening of the container is open and emitting rose-red smoke. Looking inside, the container is filled with brightly colored dried rose leaf gas perfume liquid.

There is a time bomb counting down on the glass cabinet, with less than ten minutes left.

If Bai Liu were here, he would probably estimate that this amount of perfume liquid is enough to pay the annual salary of all the employees of the Rose Factory in the game.

Dried rose gas is a flammable and explosive liquid. When this amount of liquid explodes, it will spread the scent of roses to the entire sleeping mirror city nearby.

Even though Bai Liu already knew how to use the blood ganoderma branches to deal with the dry-leaf roses, in the early stages of a disaster, before all order was established and operating, many dry-leaf roses that were not tolerant enough would wither.

——For example, breastfeeding mothers and newborn babies who are just one month old.

The team members walked carefully to the end of the cage. Someone moved his nose and frowned, saying, "...I smell a strong scent of roses."

This sentence instantly alerted all the team members. They picked up flashlights and searched the dungeon carefully, walking back and forth in front of the glass container containing the huge rose liquid countless times.

But something strange happened. It was as if they couldn’t see the glass cabinet and could even pass through it directly.

——It was as if they and the glass cabinet that was about to explode were in two different dimensional worlds.

"...Strange, I did smell it, but why can't I see anything?" The team members looked at the empty last cage, frowning in confusion, but finally chose to turn around and leave.

The team members walked towards the exit of the underground level. They turned on the communicator and reported to Su Yang: "Captain Su, we can smell the scent of roses on the underground level, but there is nothing on this level."

Behind the scenes, the timer on the time bomb jumped one second, from 9:00 to 8:59.

On the first floor of the factory, outside the workers' dormitory, Su Yang kicked the door open.

Su Yang walked into the dusty dormitory floor, raised his gun and looked around vigilantly, and finally put the gun behind his waist.

He frowned and looked at the empty dormitory, then lifted his collar and reported: "First floor dormitory building. I didn't find anything here either, but I just smelled a strong odor of rotting corpses..."

"I thought I could find the dozen missing employees here. It's been a month and I still haven't found them..." Su Yang sighed, then cheered up, "No news can be considered good news. Maybe they are still alive."

"Everyone, cheer up. In addition to searching for the equipment used to secretly make rose perfume in this factory, we must also pay attention to searching for the dozen or so employees who disappeared when we searched this factory a month ago..."

"Most of these employees are migrant workers from other places who are at high risk of disappearance. No one will notice if they are missing. They may still be alive. Let the team members be prepared to rescue them at any time..."

As he spoke, Su Yang walked out.

In another space behind Su Yang, a dozen pairs of rotten, maggoty eyes stared at him motionlessly.

There are still eight minutes and forty-seven seconds until explosion.

"Eight minutes and forty-seven seconds left." Bai Liu reported calmly, looking at the time on the dial.

"This is already the fastest speed!" Mu Sicheng gritted his teeth. The tires of his motorcycle were almost sparking on the cold and hard ground due to the high-speed rotation. He was so anxious that he cursed, "Damn! If it was an explosion of that scale in the game, it should have required a very large container for the perfume. Why can't the people who went to investigate see anything!"

"It's impossible not to see it." Bai Liu said calmly, "In order to minimize the harm of rose perfume, the Bureau of Heresy's investigation has gone beyond the line to prevent it from happening and arrest me."

"Normally, they wouldn't miss even a rose seed, let alone a bottle of rose perfume."

Mu Sicheng was startled: "Then why..."

"Because the existence that planned the game "Rose Factory" to land in [reality] has higher authority than their world, just like ordinary people in this world can't hear anything about the game." The night wind blew Bai Liu's hair back and he looked up at the factory not far away, "These ordinary people who want to protect others can't see or touch the world related to the game."

"In order to ensure that the factory can operate normally in reality, the game designer created a hidden "inside world" for the factory manager that hides the real Rose Factory."

Mu Sicheng exhaled a breath of cold air, "It's just like the design of the game "Rose Factory", right?"

"Yes." Bai Liu squinted in the fierce night wind. "According to my understanding, Tang Erda and his team monitor these factories that may produce perfume 24 hours a day, but this factory can still continue to produce rose perfume for export under such surveillance. This itself is illogical."

"Unless they made the perfume in the inner world and then brought it to reality to sell it, then it would be impossible to find it at all, right?" Mu Sicheng asked back.

Bai Liu: “That’s right.”

Bai Liu continued, "Not only that, the newspaper in the game said that before the explosion, the Heresy Bureau team repeatedly searched the factory, but did not issue any notice for the citizens of the city to evacuate urgently. Instead, they stayed there and searched until the bomb exploded."

"It proves they didn't see anything dangerous."

"It's very likely." Bai Liu looked up at the factory that was getting closer and closer, "--what they saw was just an empty factory that was turned over and used as a cover."

"There's nothing in there,"

"Captain Su, this is an empty factory." After searching the entire factory, the team members reported their findings to Su Yang, "There is nothing inside."

Su Yang frowned as he looked up at the dilapidated factory standing in the night, feeling a growing sense of foreboding.

He turned around and went back to the car, ready to get some special night vision equipment to search again, but the moment he opened the car door, a pair of hands reached out and handed them to him, as if they had already expected Su Yang to come back for the night vision equipment.

Su Yang looked at the person sitting in the car and was startled: "Why did you follow me? Didn't I tell you to stay in the Bureau of Heresy and have a good rest?"

Lu Yizhan, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, scratched his head and said with a wry smile: "Captain Su, I thought about it and realized that this matter was related to Bai Liu. If he really did it, then as a public official around him, I failed to fulfill my supervisory responsibility and I cannot shirk my responsibility. So after thinking it over, I decided to follow him."

Lu Yizhan raised his eyes, exhaled deeply, and looked at Su Yang: "Captain Su, please let me search with you!"

Su Yang was silent for a while. Finally, he helplessly succumbed to Lu Yizhan's gaze that seemed to penetrate him, and nodded: "It's an empty factory, there's no danger, come if you want."

Lu Yizhan breathed a sigh of relief, got off the car and followed Su Yang and his team into the factory who were preparing for a second search.

There are still 6 minutes and 31 seconds left before explosion.

The motorcycle hummed, turned sideways steadily and stopped at the factory gate.

Bai Liu glanced over and saw several cars with the Bureau of Dangerous Heresy logo parked in front of the factory.

On the way to the Bureau of Heresy, Bai Liu had ridden in this kind of car and was deeply impressed by the strange octopus logo.

Bai Liu and Mu Sicheng found a place to hide as soon as they got off the car - people from the Bureau of Heresy were patrolling outside, and they were now a heretic who had escaped from prison, and a criminal who had robbed the prison. They were both wanted by the Bureau of Heresy, and if they showed up directly, they would be arrested on the spot.

Being arrested now is secondary. Tang Erda can help deal with it, but dealing with being arrested will waste their time.

"How do we get in? Break in?" Mu Sicheng looked at Bai Liu. He glanced at his watch and his face darkened. "Only six minutes left!"

Bai Liu's eyes fell on the factory without moving: "Walk in openly."

He touched the inverted cross and system coin on his collar that were returned by Tang Er.

[System warning: It is forbidden to use props that are not related to core desires in reality——sizzle sizzle——ban——】

The crackling sound of the resisting electric current gradually weakened.

[System prompt: Did the player Bai Liu use the extraordinary item (reverse eyeball)? ]

[This item can reveal the hidden evil truth]

【Sure.】

Bai Liu took out a glass marble-shaped eyeball, with a rose blooming in the center. He raised it between Mu Sicheng and himself:

"Close your left eye and look into this eyeball, and we can enter the inner world of the factory."

Before Mu Sicheng had time to think about Bai Liu's intention in asking him to do this, he subconsciously followed his words and closed his left eye.

Roses slowly bloomed in their eyeballs, making people dizzy. The originally lush scenery around them withered rapidly. The howling of rotting corpses and skulls of unknown people appeared at their feet.

Mu Sicheng took a deep breath, covered his head, pushed away the eyeball, and took two steps back.

Mu Sicheng, who had just been racing for so long without feeling any discomfort, now felt like vomiting after just looking at this eyeball for just one second - he had a disgusting feeling of being mentally polluted.

They entered a dark but real "inside world".

Bai Liusi didn't feel affected at all. He retracted his eyes and turned to look at the factory behind him - the originally empty factory was now brightly lit, and shadows of people, not sure if they were humans or ghosts, were coming and going in the dim light, holding winnowing baskets for transporting roses in their hands.

——It’s exactly the same scene as in “The Rose Factory”.

Bai Liu grabbed Mu Sicheng's wrist and ran inside: "Let's go."

"Wait! Do you know where the bombs and perfume are?!" Mu Sicheng tried to hold Bai Liu back, "At least we need to determine the location before we can rush in, otherwise, wouldn't that be giving ourselves away?"

"I guess it's the innermost cage in the underground dungeon." Bai Liu turned around and looked at Mu Sicheng while running. "Someone told me."

Mu Sicheng was stunned: "Who told you?"

Bai Liu's face was expressionless: "Lu Yizhan, a fool."

"Hey! Hey! How come I don't know when he told you! Was it during the time when he was blocked by Red Heart? Tell me about it, Bai Liu!"

Bai Liu said nothing and ignored Mu Sicheng who was yelling. He just dragged him into the factory.

In the game "Rose Factory", the place where Lu Yizhan, who was a perfume paper, was imprisoned was the last cage in the prison on the underground level.

As for the fool Lu Yizhang, if he was caught with a group of people after the explosion, then in order to protect others, this guy would definitely apply to be detained in the place with the most serious perfume pollution and fragrance damage, and suffer the most severe torture instead of others.

——And in the entire Rose Factory, is there any place more polluted than the place where the explosion occurred ten years ago?

Bai Liu felt that it was gone, and he probably thought that the guy at Lu Yizhan also felt that it was gone.

——So he was imprisoned where the explosion happened for a full ten years.

Bai Liu bypassed the factory defenses and entered the factory from the back door. While passing through the corridor, Mu Sicheng swiftly knocked down several staggering corpses, then turned and walked to the entrance to the underground floor.

Mu Sicheng turned on the flashlight on his cell phone and walked down following Bai Liu. They went all the way inside until they reached the last cage.

A huge glass vessel had an opening from which pink smoke continued to escape, and the entire cage was filled with the intoxicating scent of roses.

The countdown on the glass has reached four minutes.

"What should we do?" Mu Sicheng covered his mouth and nose and asked Bai Liu in a low voice, "Move it out? Or just smash it?"

Bai Liu stared at the vessel for less than a second before speaking calmly, "It's too late."

"What do you mean it's too late?!" Mu Sicheng was confused. He subconsciously looked at the countdown on the bomb, "Isn't there still more than four minutes?"

Bai Liu looked down at the bomb at the bottom of the glass container: "It's no use smashing it. The real bomb is not this timer. This bomb is just a [lighter]. The real bomb is this perfume liquid and the gas that is coming out."

"Dried rose gas. These perfumes should be some kind of liquid gas. Even if we smash the glass jar or take away the bomb, as long as these liquids are still there and someone brings any spark, the explosion can still go smoothly."

"If the game designer wanted this factory to explode tonight, he could have used anyone in the factory to do it using the large amount of perfume in the factory. We can't guard against this."

At this point, Bai Liu remained calm: "-- Unless all the perfume liquid stored in this factory is used up at once, they can always create an explosion in the inner world and then flip back to the real world at the moment of the explosion."

Mu Sicheng released his hands that were covering his mouth and nose. His face was tense: "What should I do?"

"Evacuate the people." Bai Liu raised his eyes, "Then blow up this factory first."

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Tang Erda requisitioned a passing high-end private car, and now Mu Ke was driving at full speed towards the factory.

Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi were sitting in the back seat of the car. Originally, the owner of the requisitioned car was unwilling to lend it, but Mu Ke simply handed him a credit card with more than three million yuan in it and bought the car outright. Only with Tang Er's help could they quickly rush to the factory.

"Still can't get through the call?" Mu Ke looked at the rearview mirror anxiously.

Tang Er said in a deep voice: "It's impossible to get through. They always turn off their phones when they are on a mission. If you want to contact them, you have to go back to the headquarters and interfere with their radio frequency."

"We don't have enough time." Liu Jiayi rejected the suggestion without hesitation, "Bai Liu and the others should be here by now. Give them a call and ask what's going on over there."

As soon as Liu Jiayi finished speaking, Bai Liu called.

He called Tang Erda: "Captain Tang, is there any way to disperse the citizens within the explosion range in a short time?"

"Citywide air raid alert." Tang Erda answered quickly, but soon he clenched his fists. "But that requires a lot of evidence to prove that a high-risk situation is about to occur before it can be activated. My privilege is only for dealing with heretics in the bureau. I cannot activate this level of alert."

"But we can't prove it. We can't even prove to those who haven't entered the game that the factory is about to explode, because this is part of the game content. If we say it out loud, we will be silenced, right?" Bai Liu asked back.

Tang Er leaned weakly on the back seat of the car: "...Yes, they can't hear it at all."

"The explosion... will still happen, right?" Tang Er raised his hands to cover his eyes and asked hoarsely.

Bai Liu answered him honestly: "Yes."

"But maybe it was just an explosion." His voice was still calm and peaceful, without a trace of ripples. "Just now, Captain Tang, you said that if someone can prove that something extremely dangerous like a rose gas explosion will happen, then this alarm can be activated, right?"

Tang Erda slowly sat up straight. He realized that Bai Liu seemed to have found a solution, but he couldn't think of what it was.

"Yes." Tang Erda's breathing became heavy. "No matter what method you use, they simply cannot receive the message you want to convey. They may even think that telling people to run away is crazy."

"How can you prove that something as horrible as what you witnessed could actually happen?"

Bai Liu's voice was filled with a lazy smile, and he said something without any context: "Captain Tang, who has special powers, remember to get me out."

Then he hung up the phone decisively, leaving Tang Erda in a daze.

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In the night when dawn is approaching, the wind is hunting.

Log out of the inner world. Bai Liu is adjusting the ill-fitting black windbreaker on himself.

After he smashed the glass jar and threw the time bomb far away to explode it, the two outsiders were indeed discovered by the people from the rose factory in the inner world.

After preventing the factory staff from making this explosion to popularize rose perfume, Bai Liu and Mu Sicheng were discovered and chased by these employees. At the same time, these employees were busy using the stored rose essence to make a second explosion - exactly the same as Bai Liu expected.

In order to delay time, Bai Liu left Mu Sicheng, who moved very quickly, in the inner world to disrupt the employees who were preparing for the second explosion. At the same time, he logged out of the inner world and was responsible for evacuating all the people in the city out of the area affected by the explosion.

Before Bai Liu logged out of the inner world, Mu Sicheng asked Bai Liu the same question as Tang Erda - how do you make these people believe that such a thing would happen?

Make these ordinary people who are not in the game believe that their world is a cruel game full of monsters?

Especially since you were banned.

The temperature in the real world was a bit low, so Bai Liu wore a windbreaker that she had taken from the other world, someone's windbreaker, to keep warm.

Bai Liu walked up to the top floor of the Rose Factory step by step from the hidden stairwell at the back of the factory. On his right wrist was a large red and white plastic loudspeaker that seemed to be used for employee training and speaking - this was also something Bai Liu took out from his inner world.

The moment he reached the top floor, he was discovered by the team members who were patrolling the factory closely below.

"There's a figure on the roof!"

"Is it the escaped factory manager? Turn on the high beam and go see who it is!"

"Level 1 alert!"

Two extremely dazzling high beams swayed and were directed at the figure on the rooftop. Bai Liu squinted due to the strong light shining directly on his face, but he did not move and still stood steadily on the highest platform.

The chilly night wind blew the loose strands of hair hanging down the sides of White Willow's face and the ill-fitting long trench coat he was wearing. The morning dew lingered around him vaguely, and the lingering scent of roses fell at his feet.

The people below have already recognized who he is.

"——It's Bai Liu!!"

"Why is he here?! Quickly notify the Bureau! The escaped Heretic No. 0006 has appeared in the factory!"

"Captain Tang said he is very dangerous! He has the ability to control all heretics! What is he doing here?!"

Su Yang and Lu Yizhang looked up in disbelief at the white willow that seemed to have fallen from the sky.

Bai Liu wore the same smile as always, raised the big speaker to his lips and said, "Good morning, everyone."

"It's like this. Before I ran away, I decided to do something that fits my identity—" Bai Liu opened his eyelids, and his smile deepened in the increasingly fierce wind. "—As an underemployed worker who has been diagnosed with antisocial personality, how can I not take revenge on society?"

"I lost my job, my friends, everything I had for no reason - and I can't find anyone to blame, and you guys branded me a monster and locked me up in a cage."

"How could I not take revenge?" Bai Liu raised the corner of his mouth and said softly, "I decided to let you also have a taste of what it feels like to become a monster."

"I decided to blow up this entire factory, so that dried roses would spread all over the world and all of you would become my slaves."

After a few seconds of silence, someone shouted at the top of his lungs: "——Contact the city, sound the air raid alarm, and have all residents evacuate the explosion area!!"

"Someone is maliciously spreading gas-addictive substances!!"

Su Yang looked with horror at Bai Liu who was standing on the top floor with one hand in the pocket of his windbreaker.

Across the morning breeze and the fading night, that person was smiling at him with interest, and mouthed to him lazily and idly:

"Do you smell like roses, Captain Su?"

The author has something to say:

Everything here, including the Mirror City air defense alarm, is fake. It doesn’t exist in reality. I hope everyone will not substitute reality for reality. Mirror City is a fictional city created by me. These are also operations created by me in this fantasy city and have nothing to do with reality!

I hope everyone will not bring reality into it, thank you thank you!