Chapter 164

"After the collection is finished, we will ask you to get roses from the tent before dawn."

"Remember, the petals you have picked should not be stolen by the refugees around the flower field who covet the dried roses." The workers warned them sternly, "If they are stolen, you will not only lose a drop of perfume, but also be killed. If the factory is fired, you will end up like those refugees! Do you understand?"

After finishing speaking, the worker handed Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi two linen bags for holding flowers, a pair of thick cotton gloves for picking to prevent the smell from hands from contaminating the roses, a pair of long tweezers for picking up fallen buds, and a pair of tweezers. Specific salary form.

The worker handed the salary form to Bai Liu, and said proudly: "You will be expelled and become homeless after a long time. Our factory has a high elimination rate. Those like me who can be promoted to processing workers , are all one-of-a-kind flower pickers who can pick 6 kilograms of roses in an hour."

"You probably won't be able to pick one-sixth of mine. This is probably the last night you stay in this factory. Enjoy the original aroma of dried rose leaves, and you won't suffer——our flower field Tents are the most expensive hotel rooms in the world, and I don’t know how many people hold gold and want to stay for one night and have to wait for a reservation.”

"It means you are lucky..." The worker muttered angrily as he walked back quickly, "Last year, the yield of dried leaf roses was not good, and too many people withered. Ordinary people who steal roses here are hard to find, and the May Rose Festival is coming again, when there is a lack of people in the flower season, it will be your turn to recruit you newcomers..."

"... I think my batch only recruits 985,211 graduate students who have a graduate degree or above, have published more than three papers on dry-leaf rose research, and graduated with a paper with an SCI impact factor of 1.0 or more..."

Playing games all day in school led to poor grades, Bai Liu, who graduated from Yeji University: "..."

Liu Jiayi (studying), a second-year primary school student with disabilities: "..."

Although my intelligence value is not low, but what the hell are you talking about?

Liu Jiayi held up two gloves that were about the size of her face, and looked up at Bai Liu silently: "Can you pick roses?"

——Judging from the worker's words, picking this dried leaf rose is obviously a technical job.

"No, I haven't picked roses before." Bai Liu replied simply, but he quickly tied the sack beside his belt, rolled up the sleeves of his white shirt, tied his trouser legs tightly, and put on the sack with both hands. He changed from an urban white-collar worker to a country boy in an instant, looking like he was ready to go to work in the field at any time.

He looked at Liu Jiayi with a face [Why do you look so skilled? ] with a questioning expression, Bai Liu took the tweezers and explained naturally: "I cut hogweed when I was a child. Although it is two different crops from roses, it should be harvested in a similar way."

Liu Jiayi: "..."

Don't treat roses like pigweed! !

Bai Liu knelt down on one knee and helped Liu Jiayi roll up her sleeves, tightened her trouser legs, then pulled down her gloves, and put them on for Liu Jiayi to barely fit her hands. While doing this, he calmly explained to Liu Jiayi: " Don't worry about accidents for the time being, haven't you noticed that Tang Er is not here?"

Liu Jiayi had actually discovered it, but she didn't understand why.

"If the people behind the scenes want you to fight Tang Er, then they should release Tang Er, a beast that can kill you at the beginning, and quickly kill you who are helpless. "Liu Jiayi supported Bai Liu's shoulders with both hands, and raised her feet to let Bai Liu tidy her shoes and socks. On her immature face, there was a deep expression that did not match her age, "But he deliberately split you and Tang Erda. , this is your protection, why?"

"Because his purpose of designing this game stage is not to let me be killed." Bai Liu stood up and clapped his hands. He lowered his eyes and said in an unclear tone, "It's to make me have the ability to seize the weak point and kill the opponent."

Liu Jiayi was stunned: "It's like in the last round of the game, let you get Liu Huai's soul first, and then deal with me, right? It is very likely that Tang Erda will be sent to other flower fields in this round of the game. -"

"—We won't face each other until he thinks that I have the ability to kill Tang Erda." Bai Liu lightly added Liu Jiayi's words, with a casual smile on his face that seemed to be interesting, " After all, it’s just a simple feeding scene where wild beasts kill people, and it’s far less beautiful than the Colosseum where two wild beasts that are both grown up and still go crazy fight each other.”

"Of course, there is another reason for him to do this, but I think you have already guessed it." Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi

An uncontrollable coolness shot up Liu Jiayi's back, and she slowly said, "Because the audience also likes to watch this kind of development the most. If it is related to the system, it can benefit from the system. Such a small TV is the easiest way to get charging points." and likes, and the various benefits we get from the audience will be part of the system..."

"Even if we die, all our income, including our souls, will be taken away by the system..."

They are all just...animals released by the people behind the scenes at will for people to play with and watch, to please the eyeballs...that's all.

"So don't worry about our life and death for the time being. The people behind the scenes won't let me die easily." Bai Liu pulled out the salary form from his pocket, and showed it to Liu Jiayi while sighing, "It's really a part-time job..."

The weight of the roses and the corresponding wages are listed on the salary table.

Reference data: A dried leaf rose (undried) weighs about 2g.

Picking 40 kg of dried leaf roses (with intact branches) can be exchanged for a bottle of low-grade dried leaf rose gas perfume with a concentration of 30%~40% and 35ml.

(Note: A bottle of low-grade perfume with a concentration of 30% to 40% can last for 4 hours on the human body)

[System prompt: Players unlock side missions]

[Submission: The player collected 40 kilograms of roses tonight]

[If the task is successful, the player can exchange for the first bottle of low-grade perfume of dried rose leaf gas, which can be used to alleviate pollution, and has taken the first step to be promoted to a processing worker! Those who failed in the task were laid off and exiled to the periphery, becoming refugees. 】

Bai Liu silently calculated in her heart, one rose is 2g, then 40kg of roses is...

"... 200,000 roses..." Liu Jiayi looked up at Bai Liu from the salary slip in disbelief, "We picked 200,000 roses and gave us a bottle of low-end perfume that lasted for 4 hours?! They put Are we acting like beasts?"

Bai Liu glanced at Liu Jiayi as usual: "Congratulations, kid, you have already understood the true meaning of part-time job in advance."

"I also talk to my boss like this when I pay my salary every month." Bai Liu paused, "Then I was fired by my boss, but I have no idea about doing such an extremely low cost-effective thing. Very interested, after I just learned the benefits of not working as a freelancer (referring to earning money in horror games), I didn't expect that I would start working in horror games, and the salary was lower than before..."

Bai Liu visibly began to lose weight with the naked eye.

Liu Jiayi: "..."

Well, it seems to be talking about his sadness...

But Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi got back to chatting, and they went down the flower field with the sack in their hands and feet.

The flower field is densely packed with roses, and the rows of rose bushes have vacated a narrow aisle about one person wide. Now the white willow is moving slowly in this aisle, picking up the roses on both sides with tweezers.

Bailiu wants to move quickly, but the bottom of the rose field is a layer of soft and sticky red mud, stepping into it is like stepping into a swamp, and it is difficult to move wearing plastic smooth boots, and the red The mud always has a kind of fishy smell that seems to be absent, not the smell of blood, but the smell of the sea.

And the strange thing is that almost every rose in full bloom here has exactly the same size, color, and number of petals, just like someone pinched a rose and copied and pasted all the roses in the entire rose field. .

Bai Liu held the root of the rose with tweezers and lifted it up, and the rose was picked. He observed the dry leaf rose that had just been picked from a distance—this is a very unique type of rose, at least Bai Liu This variety of roses has not been seen in reality.

Push aside the buds that have not been fully stretched, the petals glow a dark red that is almost black and purple from the root, and gradually turn into a beautiful rose red at the edge of the petals, the outermost one is light-colored pink, which is different from ordinary roses. The dark green oval leaves are different. The heart-shaped leaves and thorns on the stems of dry-leaf roses have become withered and yellow when they are mature, and they will wither and fall the moment they are picked-this is also the name of this rose. origin.

At the moment when the dry-leaf rose matures, all the stems and leaves that provided nutrition for it will dry up, leaving only the full and fragrant flower buds - just like the human beings who are addicted to its condensed aroma, but can't get it all the time Same.

It is a very aggressive rose, grown and perfumed.

Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi walked in the flower field with one foot deep and one foot shallow. After about an hour, they all stopped at the same time and walked towards the edge of the field.

Liu Jiayi raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her forehead, exhaled and handed to Bai Liu the sack filled with the roses she had just picked at her waist, then sat limply on the ground and drank the physical supplements.

Now the weather in the game is almost April and May, and the night is not so cool anymore. If you stay in a place like a flower field where the plants are overgrown and the humidity is heavy, there will be a sultry heat that penetrates the neck and the back, especially when they are still there. Moving and picking flowers in a swamp-like flower field is completely physical work.