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During the day, the rose in the flower field closed and turned into a bud that did not bloom, and the moist soil became dry. The flower field looked harmless and calm, but Bai Liu and the others found out after experimenting for a while, staying in the flower field. Their mental value will drop faster than staying in other places.
They only have two bottles of low-level perfume. In order to maintain a normal mental value, if they stay around the flower field, the perfume may not be used up at night, so Bai Liu decisively chose to stay away from the flower field—to be precise, Bai Liu hopes Stay away from this entire perfume factory with unknown sources of pollution.
Two bottles of perfume lasted for four hours. They have to persist until the next morning. It is obviously not a good plan to stay in a place that is more likely to be contaminated.
Bai Liu decided to walk outside the factory to see what was going on in the area where the factory was located.
"What you can think of, others can also think of." Liu Jiayi, who was holding Bai Liu's hand, wrinkled her face. "We walk out like this, it is easy to run into other players, and you are not for the 80kg roses for each of us at night. Do you want to find a way for the task? The approach last night has already maximized my abilities, and I can barely collect 80kg, and it is impossible to double it to 160kg."
Bai Liu was not in a hurry: "Did you not 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 from 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 Have the 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 asked, "What do you want to do?"
"Let’s investigate the situation near this factory first." Bai Liu’s eyes turned deep, "Every monster in the game has a origin and cause. The refugees are transformed from people. Since I can trade with people, then I think... "
"Do you want to make a deal with these refugees?" Liu Jiayi frowned and asked, "Many monsters in the game are polluted humans with zero spiritual value. They are already crazy. How do you deal with crazy creatures? They don't even have any. Understand the sane of your words."
Bai Liu lowered his eyes and looked at Liu Jiayi: "What if they can temporarily recover their sanity?"
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 become gray, and it cannot be recovered with [mental bleach].
Monsters have always been monsters, it is impossible to change back into human beings.
But soon Liu Jiayi also discovered something wrong—the [mental bleach] in this game was originally frozen!
It is not only for monsters, but also for them. Perfume is not limited to [Vagrant], which means that if perfume can be used on [Vagrant] and take effect, this group of monsters will restore their minds and become normal people. [Refugees], that might be able to temporarily stop attacking them—just like the [mermaid statue] being looked at directly and stopped moving forward.
"Perfume is likely to be the weakness of this group of refugees." Liu Jiayi looked up at Bai Liu, "When did you think of this? It is the [perfume] of this game that can be used to make monsters [mental bleach]."
"Before entering the game." Bai Liu said.
"Before entering the game?!" Liu Jiayi was full of question marks.
Bai Liu tossed the perfume bottle in his hand, his eyes moved up and down with the perfume that was thrown up, and the corners of his mouth curled up: "Someone told me before entering the game that even if they use this perfume on crazy employees, they can restore theirs. Sanity and state, no matter how crazy it was before, once the perfume is sprayed, it will return to normal as if nothing happened."
"I was thinking at the time-this is just a copy of the mental bleach."
Bai Liu looked down and played with the two bottles of perfume casually: "It can restore the state of ascending people, pull people back from the crazy state, and add the game settings-for the player, if you don’t use the [spiritual] Bleach] will be contaminated by monsters in the game and go crazy."
"For players, [mental bleaching agent] is [rose perfume], and ordinary players like us are also "addicted" to it. In order to buy it and survive, we work for the game to earn [flower pickers], but we don’t earn points. [Vagrant] will be [laid off] and assigned to [Unnamed District], and the high-level players earned will be promoted to the front of the stage."
Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi: "Don't you think these mechanisms are familiar?"
Liu Jiayi was a little creepy. She understood what Bai Liu meant: "... The game is just a large [Rose Factory]."
—If the game is a large factory that exploits players, who is the [Factory Manager] who exploits everyone and gets the most benefits in this game
Bai Liu's eyes darkened-they walked to the edge of the flower field.
Outside the magnificent flower field is not a small town with pleasant aromas, but a desolate and run-down suburb, with curled discarded newspapers and some abandoned factories for a long time. You can't see people from dozens of meters away, and behind them. The colorful flower fields and perfume factories are like two worlds.
Bai Liu walked to the door of one of the empty factories and posted a job advertisement on it, but it was ten years ago.
However, it seems that the factory didn't need to hire people anymore. The tin rolling door of the factory was written with a big word "demolition" in yellow paint.
Liu Jiayi squatted down to look at the newspaper fragments scattered on the ground:
[Rose perfume comes out? ! New types of addictive substances are banned nationwide, triggering public protests!
-This kind of thing must be banned, so why can't you help coffee and cigarettes? ! This seriously violates the freedom of consumption of our people!
(Mr. Wang, the convenience store owner who took the lead in the protest, said that his store is said to have stocked a lot of rose perfume, and this year he has made hundreds of thousands of yuan from rose perfume)]
[The factory exploded, perfume spread, protest victory, rose dry leaf gas sold worldwide! 】
[Rose perfume gas invigorates people, students’ learning efficiency has improved, and staff’s work efficiency has increased... Ushering in the golden period of rapid development, factories and enterprises have expanded their enrollment by 7.2% this year...]
[... Rose gas has ushered in the third substantial price increase this year, which has caused 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 source of billions of people. Necessities... There is a faint trend towards luxury goods]
【... The three consecutive price increases of the perfume as a signal, sounded the death knell for countless poor ordinary people...】
[Governments around the world have jointly protested the sky-high price of perfume, sanctioned the unrestricted price increase of dried rose leaf gas, and required the factory to stop this behavior, or it would force the closure of the factory...]
[… The heads of the three countries withered on the tour due to the loss of perfume supply… The perfume factory promised to give priority to the supply of premium perfumes 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... Schools closed... Unemployment rate rose steadily... Frequent riots... Withered and dying refugees can be seen everywhere in the street and intersections...】
[… The rose manufacturing industry may become the only way out for contemporary young people’s employment…]
[… Last year rose production declined, and the number of people withered in the world rose further compared to previous years…]
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Bai Liu also squatted down next to Liu Jiayi to read these newspapers on the ground.
Even if Liu Jiayi is not a particularly kind little girl by nature, seeing these newspapers and the shocking black and white pictures on them, she feels numb in her heart.
The messy crowds, the bloody roads, the dying people everywhere hanging on the bridge to get rid of the hole, and the numb look at the camera, the black and white photos reveal a chill that makes your back feel chilly. gloomy.
"Sure enough, this kind of thing can only destroy the ecology." Bai Liu clearly picked up a photo from the ground with the title "Desperate and withered refugees hanged on the bridge. The rose factory remained indifferent and would not sell it at a reduced price." perfume】.
[Early free promotion, the rose perfume promised to be sold to the public at low prices, has already risen to a sky-high price...]
"It is free for you during promotion and low price for you. 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't get away from this. Things survive, they can only pay a higher price to buy them and become slaves to roses."
"This is a very conventional exploitation routine, but when this routine is implemented on an addictive substance that will cause death, it will lead to a criminal death that kills all mankind-in this apocalyptic era, Even money has lost its luster."
"So I don't like this thing, it erases the meaning of what I am after."
Bai Liu calmly released his fingers, and the cold wind whizzing by took away the old newspaper fragments in his hand.
Did Tang Erda see this kind of future where there is no solution except for extinction
Watching Su Chao and his team members become these people who are obsessed with roses, but there is no way to save them. They can only watch them wither, or enter the next timeline to escape...
This kind of thing happened several times, no wonder this person would go crazy.
Bai Liu narrowed his gaze, several black shadows flashed across the empty abandoned factory behind him, and dense tentacles spread across the ground. Liu Jiayi approached Bai Liu vigilantly and stood in front of him—these [vagrants] hiding in the factory were trying to attack them.
"Perfume! He smells of perfume!"
There was a frantic scream, the shaking black shadow screamed, and all the black shadows rushed towards Bai Liu.
"There are so many refugees here." Liu Jiayi tensed her back with the poison, "Are you sure our perfume is enough?"
"Not sure." Bai Liu answered honestly, "but isn't there you?"
Liu Jiayi: "..."
Liu Jiayi was angry: "Damn!!!"
The black vagrant with tentacles, like snakes sneaking from the ground, the newspapers on the ground were swept into the air by the tumbling tentacles, floating in the dusty dark sky and being carried far away by the wind.
One of the photos shows a flower picker smiling happily with a torn face. [Even if you work overtime day and night without rest, you are not a full-time employee, you can barely get a bottle of low-grade perfume by picking 40kg of dried rose leaves. Working in a rose factory is really 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! 】
—A flower picker who is about to wither weakly said.
(When the report was issued, the flower picker who was willing to be interviewed had been dismissed and laid off because he violated the Rose Factory Regulations and disclosed work details to the outside world.)