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Chapter 173 Rose Factory
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During the day, the rose in the Flower field closed and turned into a bud that did not bloom. The moist soil became dry. The flower field looked harmless and calm, but White Willow and the others found out after a while. Their mental value will drop faster around the flower field than 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 until night, so White Willow promptly chose to stay away from the flower field-to be more precise. Speaking, White Willow hopes to stay away from this entire perfume factory with unknown pollution sources.
Two bottles of perfume that lasted for four hours, they have to persist until the next morning. It is obviously not a good plan to stay in a more polluted place.
White Willow decided to walk outside the factory to see what happened in the area where the factory was located.
"What you can think of, others can think of." Liu Jiayi, who held White Willow'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 of each of us at night. Do you think of a way for the Rose task? Last night’s approach has already maximized my abilities, and I can barely collect 80kg, and it is impossible to double it to 160kg." :https://www.999xs.com/
White Willow is not in a hurry: "Did you not listen to the processing worker 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, it means that the other four players besides us are also Have the ability to pick 40kg roses in one night."
White Willow smiled: "Four people can pick 40kg a night, isn't it just the 160kg we need?"
"..." Liu Jiayi rubbed his arm that had gotten goosebumps with White Willow's smile and asked, "What do you want to do?"
"Let’s investigate the situation near this factory first." White Willow’s eyes turned deep, "Every monster in the game has a origin and cause. The refugees are transformed from people. Since I can make deals with people, I think ..."
"Do you want to make a deal with these refugees?" Liu Jiayi asked with a frown. "Many monsters in the game are polluted humans with zero mental value. They are already crazy. How do you deal with crazy creatures? They don't even have any. Understand the sane of your words."
White Willow 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 humans.
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 [Vagrants], which means that if perfume can be used on [Vagrants] and take effect, these monsters will restore their minds and become normal people. [Refugees], that might be able to temporarily stop attacking them-it's 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 White Willow, "When did you think of this? It's the [perfume] of this game that can be used to make monsters [mental bleach]."
"Before entering the game." White Willow said.
"Before entering the game?!" Liu Jiayi was full of question marks.
White Willow threw 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 were raised: "Before entering the game, someone told me that even if you use this perfume on crazy employees, you can restore them. No matter how crazy he 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."
White Willow looked down, playing with the two bottles of perfume casually in his hand: "You 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 [Mental Bleach] will be tainted by monsters in the game and go crazy."
"For players, [Mental Bleacher] 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 stage."
White Willow looked at Liu Jiayi: "Don't you think these mechanisms are familiar?"
Liu Jiayi was a little creepy. She understood what White Willow meant: "...The game is just a large [rose factory]."
——If the game is a large factory that exploits players, then in this game, who is the [manager] who exploits everyone and gets the most benefits?
White Willow's eyes darkened-they walked to the edge of the flower field.
Outside the magnificent flower field, it 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.
White Willow 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 recruit people later-the factory's tin rolling shutter door was written with a big "demolition" in yellow paint. The paint at the bottom of the demolition word peeled off, which is a very old texture.
Liu Jiayi squatted down to look at the newspaper fragments scattered on the ground:
[Rose perfume comes out? ! New 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 has made hundreds of thousands of yuan from rose perfume this year)]
[The factory exploded, the perfume spread, the protest was triumphed, and the dried rose Yevas sold worldwide! 】
[Rose perfume gas invigorates people, students’ learning efficiency is improved, and staff’s work efficiency is improved... ushering in a 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... Human 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 Yevas for unlimited price increases of dried rose, and demanded that the factory stop this behavior, or it would force the closure of the factory...]
[... The heads of the three governments withered on the tour due to the loss of perfume supply... The perfume factory promised to give priority to supplying premium perfumes to countries willing to make friendly agreements with the factory... The joint sanctions association collapsed...]
[...The global rich list was 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 at street intersections...]
[...The rose manufacturing industry may become the only way out for the employment of contemporary young people...]
[...Last year rose production declined, and the number of people withered in the world rose further than previous years...]
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White Willow also squatted down with 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 still feels numb.
The messy crowds, the bloody roads, the dying people everywhere hanging on the bridge to get rid of the hole, and the numb eyes looking at the camera, the black and white photos reveal a chill that makes your back chill. gloomy.
"This kind of thing, as expected, can only destroy the ecology." White Willow picked up a photo from the ground clearly, with the title "Desperate and withered refugees hanged on the bridge. The rose factory is still indifferent and will not lower the price." Sell perfume].
[Early free promotion, the rose perfume promised to be sold to the public at low prices, has now 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 method of exploitation, but if this method 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."
White Willow let go of his fingers calmly, and the blast of cold wind took away the old newspaper fragments in his hand.
Does Second Tang see this kind of future where there is no solution except 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 die, or enter the next timeline to escape...
This kind of thing happens several times, no wonder this person will go crazy.
White Willow narrowed his gaze. Several black shadows flashed past the empty abandoned factory behind him, and dense tentacles spread across the ground. Liu Jiayi approached White Willow vigilantly and stood in front of him-these [vagrants] hidden in the factory ] Trying to attack them.
"Perfume! He smells of perfume!"
There was a frantic scream, and the shaking shadows screamed, and all the shadows rushed towards White Willow.
"There are so many refugees here." Liu Jiayi tensed her back holding the poison, "Are you sure our perfume is enough?"
"Not sure." White Willow answered honestly. "But isn't it you?"
Liu Jiayi: "..."
Liu Jiayi was angry: "Damn!!!"
The black vagrants carried their tentacles, like snakes sneaking from the ground, the newspapers on the ground were swept into the air by the tumbling tentacles, and they 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 I work overtime day and night without rest, I am not a regular employee. I can barely get a bottle of low-grade perfume by picking 40kg dry Leaf rose, but I 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! 】
——A wilting flower picker said weakly.
(When the report was issued, the flower picker who was willing to be interviewed had been fired and laid off because he violated the Rose Factory Regulations to disclose work details.)