Chapter 173

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During the day, the roses in the flower field are closed and turned into a flower bud that does not bloom, and the wet soil becomes dry. The flower field looks harmless and peaceful, but Bailiu and the others found out after a while that they stayed in the flower field Their sanity will drop faster around them than in other places.

They only have two bottles of low-grade perfume. In order to maintain a normal mental value, if they stay around the flower field, the perfume may be used up before night, so Bai Liu decisively chose to stay away from the flower field—to be more precise, Bai Liu Hope to stay away from this whole perfume factory with unknown pollution source.

Two bottles of perfume that last for four hours, they have to last until the next morning, staying in a place that is more likely to be polluted is obviously not a good plan.

Bai Liu decided to walk out along the factory, to see what was going on in the area where the factory was located.

"What you can think of, others can think of too." Liu Jiayi wrinkled her face while holding Bai Liu's hand, "It's easy to run into other players when we go out like this, and you don't care about the 80kg roses for each of us at night Do you want to find a way for the task? The way I did it last night has already stretched my ability to the maximum effect, and I can barely make up 80kg, and it is impossible to double it to 160kg."

Bai Liu was not in a hurry: "Didn't you listen to the processor this morning? All the new flower pickers completed their tasks last night."

"There are a total of six players in this game. The player's identity in this game at the beginning is the new flower picker. If all the flower pickers have completed the task, then it means that the other four players besides us are also newcomers. It has the working ability to pick 40kg of roses in one night."

Bai Liu smiled: "Four people can pick 40kg in one night, isn't it just the 160kg we need?"

"..." Liu Jiayi rubbed her arm that was covered in goosebumps from Bai Liu's enthralling smile, and asked, "What do you want to do?"

"Investigate the situation near this factory first." Bai Liu's eyes darkened, "Every monster in the game has its origin and cause, and the refugees are transformed from humans. Since I can make deals with humans, then I think... ..."

"Do you want to make a deal with these refugees?" Liu Jiayi frowned and asked back, "Many monsters in the game are humans who are polluted and have zero spiritual value. They are already crazy. How do you deal with crazy creatures? They don't even have I understand your sanity."

Bai Liu lowered her eyes and looked at Liu Jiayi: "What if they can regain their sanity for a short time?"

Liu Jiayi was startled, and subconsciously retorted: "Impossible."

The alienation of monsters in the game is irreversible. This is the [rule] of the game, that is, after the spiritual value is 0, the spiritual value will freeze and turn gray, and cannot be recovered with [spiritual bleach].

A monster has always been a monster, and it is impossible to turn back into a human.

But soon Liu Jiayi also found something wrong - the [spiritual bleach] in this game was originally frozen!

Not only for monsters, but also for them, and the perfume has no restrictions on [Refugees], that is to say, if the perfume can be used on [Refugees] and takes effect, these monsters regain their consciousness and become normal people. [Refugees], that might be able to temporarily stop the attack on them - just like the [Mermaid Statue] being looked at directly stopped moving forward.

"Perfume is probably the weakness of these refugees." Liu Jiayi looked up at Bai Liu, "When did you think of this? The [perfume] of this game can be used as a [spiritual bleach] for monsters."

"Before entering the game." Bai Liu said.

"Before entering the game?!" Liu Jiayi was full of question marks.

Bai Liu threw the perfume bottle in his hand, his eyes moved up and down following the thrown perfume, and the corners of his mouth curled up: "Before entering the game, someone told me that even if you use this perfume on crazy employees, it can restore their health. Sanity and state, no matter how crazy you were before, once you spray the perfume, it will return to normal as if nothing happened."

"I was just thinking - this is a double version of Mental Bleach."

Bai Liu lowered her eyes, and played with the two bottles of perfume casually in her hands: "It can restore the state of promoting people, pull people back from the crazy state, and add game settings-for players, if you don't use it all the time [ Mental Bleach] will be polluted by the spirit value of the monsters in the game and go crazy."

"For players, [Spiritual Bleach] is [Rose Perfume]. We ordinary players are also "addicted" to it. In order to buy it and survive, we work part-time for the game to earn [Flower Picker], but we can't earn points. [Refugees] will be [laid off] and sent to the [Unknown Area], and the senior players who earn will be promoted to the front of the stage."

Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi: "Don't you think these mechanisms look familiar?"

Liu Jiayi was a little creepy, she understood Bai Liu's meaning: "...the game is a large [Rose Factory]."

——If the game is a large-scale factory that exploits players, then in this game, who is the [factory manager] who exploits everyone and gains the most benefits?

Bai Liu's eyes darkened - they walked to the edge of the flower field.

Outside the magnificent flower fields is not a small town with pleasant fragrance, but a desolate and dilapidated suburb, curled up abandoned newspapers and some factories that have been abandoned for a long time, no human eyes can be seen tens of meters away at a glance, and behind them The colorful and beautiful flower fields and perfume factories are like a picture of two worlds.

Bai Liu walked to the door of one of the empty factories. There was a job advertisement posted on it, but it was ten years ago.

But it seems that the factory doesn’t need to recruit people any more—there is a large Chinese character [货] written in yellow paint on the tin shutter door of the factory.

Liu Jiayi squatted down to look at the newspaper fragments scattered on the ground:

【The advent of rose perfume? ! New addictive substances banned nationwide, triggering public protests!

——This kind of thing should be banned, so why can't coffee and cigarettes be banned? ! This seriously violates the freedom of consumption of our people!

(Mr. Wang, the owner of the convenience store who took the lead in the protest, said that he allegedly stocked a lot of rose perfume in his store, and has already made hundreds of thousands of yuan in profit from rose perfume this year)]

【Factory Explosion, Perfume Spread, Protest Victory, Rose Dried Leaf Gas Bestsellers Worldwide! 】

【Rose perfume and gas invigorate people, improve students' learning efficiency, improve employees' work efficiency... usher in a golden period of rapid development, factories and enterprises will expand their enrollment by 7.2% this year...】

【...Rose gas ushered in the third major price increase this year, causing large-scale protests around the world. As a necessity, the perfume has become a burden for most people with an average annual income of less than 100,000...Rose perfume is a multi-billion Human necessities... There is a faint trend towards luxury goods]

【...The three consecutive price increases of the perfume are a signal that has sounded the death knell for countless poor ordinary people...】

[Governments around the world jointly protest against the sky-high price of perfume, sanction the unlimited multiple price increases of dried rose leaf gas, and ask the factory to stop this behavior, otherwise the factory will be forced to close...]

[…The heads of governments of the three countries withered at the lecture tour due to the loss of perfume supply...The perfume factory promised to give priority to supplying special-grade perfume to countries willing to make friendly agreements with the factory...The Joint Sanctions Association collapsed...]

【...The global rich list is slaughtered by the rose perfume manufacturing and sales industry...】

[……During the Great Depression…A large number of factories closed down…Schools closed…The unemployment rate continued to rise…Riots broke out frequently…Withered and dying refugees can be seen everywhere on the streets and intersections…]

【...The rose manufacturing industry may become the only way out for the employment of contemporary young people...】

【…The production of roses decreased last year, and the number of withered roses in the world has further increased compared with previous years...】

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Bai Liu also knelt down next to Liu Jiayi to read the newspapers on the ground.

Even if Liu Jiayi is not a particularly kind little girl in nature, seeing these newspapers and the shocking black and white pictures on them, she still feels a numb feeling in her heart.

The messy crowd, the bloody road, the hole where dying people hanged on the bridge in order to escape, and the numb eyes looking at the camera, in the black and white photos, there is a chill down the spine. gloomy.

"This kind of thing really can only destroy the ecology." Bai Liu picked up a photo from the ground clearly, and the title on it was [Desperate and withered refugees collectively hanged on the bridge hole, the rose factory is still indifferent and will not sell at a reduced price perfume】.

[In the early days, it was promoted free of charge and promised to sell rose perfume to the public at a low price, but now it has already risen to a sky-high price...]

"It will be given to you for free and at a low price during the promotion. After you get used to it, it has already monopolized the market and you can't find any substitutes. Then raise the price, but you can no longer escape from this The thing survives, only to pay a higher price to buy it, and become a slave to the rose."

"It's the usual exploitative formula, but when applied to a deadly addictive substance, it leads to a criminal demise that kills all of humanity -- in these apocalyptic times. , even money has lost its luster.”

"So I don't like this thing, it takes away the meaning of what I'm after."

Bai Liu let go of his fingers calmly, and the howling cold wind took away the fragments of old newspapers in his hands.

Is what Tang Erda sees this kind of future where there is no solution other than Ming Mie?

Watching Su Chao and his team members become these people who are obsessed with roses and deformed, there is no way to save them, they can only watch them wither, or enter the next timeline to escape...

This kind of thing happens several times, no wonder this person goes crazy.

Bai Liu restrained his gaze, several black shadows flashed across the empty abandoned factory behind him, dense tentacles spread over the ground, Liu Jiayi approached Bai Liu vigilantly, and stood in front of him—these [refugees] hiding in the factory were trying to attack them.

"Perfume! He smells of perfume!"

There was a frantic scream, and the swaying black shadows uttered piercing screams, and all the black shadows rushed towards Bai Liu.

"There are so many refugees here." Liu Jiayi tensed her back while holding the poison, "Are you sure we have enough perfume?"

"Not sure." Bai Liu replied honestly, "But isn't there you?"

Liu Jiayi: "..."

Liu Jiayi was angry: "Damn it!!!"

The black refugees with their tentacles, like a group of snakes, sneaked from the ground. The newspapers on the ground were swept into the air by the tumbling tentacles, and were carried far away by the wind in the dark sky with dust.

One of the photos shows a flower picker smiling happily with a torn face—[Even if you work overtime day and night, without rest, and you are not a regular employee, you can barely get a bottle of low-grade perfume by picking 40kg of dried roses, but you can Working in a rose factory is the happiest thing in the world. 】

【We are doing the work of changing the world and saving others. 】

[As long as we work hard, maybe we can lower the price of perfume and let more people survive! 】

— said a flower picker who was about to wither weakly.

(When the report was published, the flower picker who was willing to be interviewed had been fired for disclosing details of his work in violation of rose factory regulations.)