In the night, a huge motorcycle with yellow-brown stripes flashed by and threw up countless dust.
They were getting closer and closer to the factory that was about to explode.
The factory that was found to be secretly making the rose perfu was in the suburbs. This was precisely the ti when Su Yang’s team went to investigate.
Su Yang held a special gun made by the Dangerous Heretics Bureau by his side and cautiously looked inward with his back against the factory door.
After looking around the sides, Su Yang ca out. He raised his collar and spoke into the small microphone attached to it.
“There is nobody. It is safe.”
At the sa ti, there was a response from his headset.
“Vice-captain Su, there is no one here either. It is safe.”
“District two is also safe.”
“The third district is also safe. Vice-captain Su, it is strange…” The voice in his earpiece paused hesitantly. “It doesn’t look like people are working here at all. The ground is full of dust and the latest footprints belong to us.”
“The last ti we ca to inspect the factory, it wasn’t like this. This ti, it seems to have been abandoned for years.”
Su Yang’s eyes were clear and his expression was calm. “Don’t panic. It is likely that there is a new heretic associated with the dry leaf roses or this new heretic is derived from the dry leaf roses.”
“This should be the ability of this heretic.”
Su Yang continued to look down. He stepped through the open-air square full of dead leaves and ca to the processing worker’s dormitory. He stared at the old and abnormal door of the dormitory before stretching out his feet. He didn’t hesitate to kick at the gap at the bottom of that door that was raised due to dampness.
The corpses lying on the dormitory beds opened their eyes and stood up with twisted limbs. Their decaying eyes turned to look at the crumbling, about to be kicked open the door. They moved toward the door with their bare bones.
anwhile, the first underground floor of the factory.
The team mbers pinched their noses and walked through the foul-slling prison. They scanned the neatly arranged iron cages with complicated eyes. Behind them, the team mbers held up night caras to carefully photograph the structure of the factory.
The green screen of the night cara cast an ominous light in the dim underground area.
“I don’t know what these cages were built to hold…” One of the team mbers took a few steps inside with a furrowed brow. “This place wasn’t here at all when we ca here a month ago to seal this factory.”
“Yes.” Another team mber agreed. “In addition, we have always had people closely monitoring the situation here. There is no way to operate this factory. I don’t know how they are still producing and transporting perfu.”
They walked deeper as they spoke.
Inside the cage at the end of this floor, there was a huge, cylindrical glass container that was three ters tall and a thickness equivalent to four people hugging each other. This vessel was filled with the brightly colored Dry Leaf Rose Gas perfu liquid.
There was a ti bomb on the glass cabinet with less than 10 minutes remaining on it.
If Bai Liu were there, he would’ve estimated that this much perfu liquid was enough to pay the entire staff of the in-ga Rose Factory for a year.
The dry leaf rose gas was a flammable and explosive liquid. The mont this amount of liquid exploded, it would spread to the entire nearby Jing City area.
Even if Bai Liu knew how to deal with the dry leaf roses using the blood ganoderma lucidum, in the early stages of the disaster, before order was established, there would be quite a few people with poor tolerance to the dry leaf rose who would wither as a result.
For example, a breastfeeding mother and newborn who was just one month old.
The team mbers walked to the cage at the end and soone sniffed with a frown. “…I sll a very strong rose fragrance.”
This sentence instantly made the team mbers vigilant. They raised their flashlights to carefully search the dungeon, walking countless tis in front of the glass vessel containing the huge amount of rose liquid.
The strange thing was that they acted like they couldn’t see the glass container. They even went right through the glass container.
It was as if they were in a completely different dinsion from the glass container that was about to explode.
“It is strange. I did sll it but why can’t I see anything?” The team mber looked at the empty last cage and frowned in confusion. Finally, he chose to turn away.
The team mbers walked toward the exit of the first underground floor. They turned on the communicator and reported to Su Yang. “Vice-captain Su, the scent of roses can be slled from the underground floor but there is nothing on this floor.”
Behind them, the countdown of the ti bomb decreased by one second and dropped from 9:00 to 8:59.
On the first floor of the factory, outside the dormitory of the processing workers, Su Yang kicked open the door.
Su Yang walked into the dusty dormitory, raised his gun and looked around warily. Finally, he pinned the gun to his waist.
His brow was furrowed as he looked around the empty dormitory. He lifted his collar and announced, “I haven’t found anything in the first floor dormitory but I sll the very strong scent of decomposing corpses…”
“I thought the dozen or so missing employees who have been missing for a month could be found here…” Su Yang sighed before cheering up again. “No news can be considered good news. Perhaps they are still alive.”
“In addition to searching for the equipnt that secretly makes the rose perfu in the factory, we must pay attention to searching for people. A month ago, we ca to search this factory and found that there were more than a dozen employees from the employees list who went missing…”
“Most of these employees are high-risk migrants who have co to work here from other places. No one will notice if they go missing. They might still be alive so be ready to rescue them at any ti…”
Su Yang walked outside as he spoke.
In another space behind Su Yang, more than a dozen pairs of decaying eyes stared at him without moving.
There were 8 minutes and 47 seconds left before the explosion.
“There are only 8 minutes and 47 seconds left.” Bai Liu looked at the ti on the motorcycle’s dashboard and calmly announced.
“This is already the fastest speed!” Mu Sicheng gritted his teeth. His motorcycle tires almost wiped out on the cold and hard ground due to the high-speed rotation. He couldn’t help cursing. “F*k! Shouldn’t an explosion of the scale in the ga require a large container for the perfu? Why didn’t anyone who went to investigate see anything?”
“It is impossible not to see it.” Bai Liu answered indifferently. “In order to minimize the harm of the rose perfu, the investigation of the Dangerous Heretics Bureau crossed the line and arrested to prevent it.”’
“Normally speaking, forget a bottle of rose perfu. They couldn’t even miss a rose seed.”
Mu Sicheng was stunned. “Then why…?”
“It is because the existence of the Rose Factory has a higher world authority in order to log it into reality. It is just like how ordinary people in this world can’t hear anything about the ga.” The night wind blew the hair on Bai Liu’s forehead up and backwards as he looked at the factory not far away. “These ordinary people who want to protect others can’t see or touch the world related to the ga.”
“In order to protect the factory and keep it functioning properly in reality, the ga designer gave the factory manager an ‘inner world’ that hid the real Rose Factory.”
Mu Sicheng let out a breath. “It is the sa as the Rose Factory ga, right?”
“Yes.” Bai Liu squinted against the fierce night wind. “According to my understanding, Tang Erda has been monitoring these factories that might produce perfu 24 hours a day but this factory has still continued to produce the rose perfu for export under his surveillance. This is illogical in itself.”
“The only possibility is that they made the perfus in the inner world and then sent them back to reality to sell. That way, it is completely impossible to find, right?” Mu Sicheng asked back.
“That’s right.”
Bai Liu continued. “It isn’t only that. The newspaper in the ga said that before the explosion, the mbers of the Dangerous Heretics Bureau repeatedly searched the factory but they didn’t issue any warnings to the city. The citizens weren’t notified of an ergency evacuation. Instead, the team mbers stayed directly in place to search until the bomb exploded.”
“It proves that they didn’t see anything dangerous.”
“It is quite possible—” Bai Liu looked up at the factory that was getting closer. “All they saw was an empty factory in disguise.”
“There is nothing in it.”
“Vice-captain Su, this is an empty factory.” The team mbers searched the entire building and reported to Su Yang. “There is nothing inside.”
Su Yang frowned. He looked up at the old factory, which withered away in the night, and there was a deep sense of foreboding that was getting heavier.
He turned around and went back to the car to get so special night vision equipnt to search again. Yet the mont he opened the door, a pair of hands seed to have expected Su Yang to co back to get the night vision equipnt. They reached out and handed the equipnt to him.
Su Yang looked at the person sitting in the car. “Why did you co with ? Didn’t I tell you to stay in the bureau and get a good rest?”
Lu Yizhan, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, scratched his head and smiled bitterly. “Vice-captain Su, I have thought about it. If this matter is related to Bai Liu and he really did it then I have the responsibility of not supervising him well. I can’t escape the bla. So after thinking about it, I still followed you.”
Lu Yizhan raised his eyes, let out a deep breath and looked at Su Yang. “Vice-captain Su, I am asking you to let search with you!”
Su Yang was silent for a mont. Finally, he was helplessly defeated by Lu Yizhan’s gaze and he nodded. “It is an empty factory and there is no danger. Co if you want.”
Lu Yizhan sighed with relief and got out of the car. He entered the factory with Su Yang for a second search.
There were still 6 minutes and 31 seconds left before the explosion.
The motorcycle buzzed and stopped steadily in front of the factory.
Bai Liu glanced over and saw several cars parked in front of the factory with the sign of the Dangerous Heretics Handling Bureau.
Bai Liu had ridden this type of car on the way to the bureau and had an impression of the strange octopus logo.
Bai Liu and Mu Sicheng got off the motorcycle and looked for a place to hide. The people of the bureau were patrolling outside. One of them was a heretic who escaped from prison while the other was a criminal who robbed the prison. Both of them were people to be arrested by the bureau and would only be arrested on the spot if they appeared directly.
However, being arrested was a secondary matter. Tang Erda could help them deal with it. It was just that dealing with being arrested would waste ti.
“How do we get in? Break in?” Mu Sicheng looked at Bai Liu. Then he glanced at his watch and his expression darkened. “There are only six minutes left!”
Bai Liu’s eyes fixed on the factory. “Go in brightly.”
He touched the reverse cross and system coin around his neck that Tang Erda had returned to him.
[System warning: It is forbidden to use items that have nothing to do with the core desire in reality—zi zi zi—forbidden—stop—]
The sound of resistance gradually weakened.
[System notification: Does player Bai Liu want to use the extraordinary item, Reverse Right Eyeball?]
[This item can glimpse the hidden evil truth.]
[I will.]
Bai Liu took out a glass marble-shaped eyeball that had a rose floating in the center of the eyeball. He held it up between Mu Sicheng and himself.
“Close your left eye and look at this eyeball. Then we can enter the inner world of the factory.”
Before Mu Sicheng could think about Bai Liu’s intention behind letting him do this, he instinctively closed his left eye in accordance with the instructions.
The rose in the eyeball slowly blossod and made people dazzled. The original scenery around them accelerated and withered. There were the howls of rotten corpses and the skulls of unknown people at their feet.
Mu Sicheng took a deep breath. He covered his head, pushed away the eyeball and took two steps back.
Mu Sicheng had been racing for so long without any discomfort. Now he just looked into this eyeball for a second and felt a bit nauseous. It was the feeling of being ntally polluted.
They entered the dark and real inner world.
Bai Liu didn’t seem affected at all. He opened his closed eye and turned to look at the factory behind him. The originally empty factory was now brightly lit. There were the shadows of people coming and going with dust pans full of roses in their hands and it wasn’t known if they were ghosts or not.
It was exactly the sa as the scene in Rose Factory.
Bai Liu grabbed Mu Sicheng’s wrist and ran inside. “Go.”
“Wait! Do you know where the perfu bomb is placed?” Mu Sicheng tried to grab Bai Liu. “We must first determine the location before we rush in. Otherwise, isn’t it just giving them a gift?”
“My guess is that it is the innermost cage in the dungeon on the underground floor.” Bai Liu turned back to Mu Sicheng for a mont while running. “Soone told .”
Mu Sicheng was stunned. “Who told you that?”
Bai Liu had no expression on his face. “Lu Yizhan, that fool.”
“Hey! F*k! How co I don’t know when he told you? Was it during the ti when I was blocked by Hearts? Bai Liu, tell !”
Bai Liu didn’t say a word. He ignored the screaming Mu Sicheng and pulled this person into the factory.
In the ga Rose Factory, the place where the test paper Lu Yizhan was staying was the last cage in the prison.
This fool Lu Yizhan was arrested with a group of people after the explosion. Then in order to protect others, he must’ve applied to be imprisoned in the place where the perfu pollution was the most serious. It was to suffer the most severe torture in place of others.
In the entire Rose Factory, was there a place where the pollution was worse than where it exploded 10 years ago?
Bai Liu felt that there was none. It was estimated that this guy Lu Yizhan also felt there was none.
So he was held in the place where the explosion happened for 10 years.
Bai Liu bypassed the factory’s defenses and entered through the back door. As they passed through the corridor, Mu Sicheng put down a few shaky, rotting corpses. Then they walked to the entrance of the underground area.
Mu Sicheng turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone and walked down with Bai Liu. They headed all the way inside to the last cage.
There was a huge glass container constantly emitting pink smoke and the entire cage was filled with the scent of roses.
The countdown on the glass container had reached four minutes.
“What should we do?” Mu Sicheng covered his mouth and nose and asked Bai Liu angrily, “Move it out? Or just smash it directly?”
Bai Liu stared at the container for less than a second before calmly saying, “It is too late.”
“What is too late?” Mu Sicheng’s mind was confused and he instinctively looked at the countdown on the bomb. “Aren’t there still four minutes left?”
Bai Liu’s eyes moved down to the bomb at the bottom of the container. “It is useless to smash it. The real bomb isn’t this tid bomb. The bomb is just a lighter and the real bomb is the perfu liquid and gas that is bubbling out.”
“The dry leaf rose gas ans this perfu should be so type of liquid gas. Even if we smash this glass container or take away the bomb, the liquid just needs to be present and any spark will cause the explosion to go off smoothly.”
“If the ga designer plans to let this factory explode tonight, he can use anyone in this factory who has made a lot of perfu to do it. We can’t guard against this.”
Bai Liu wasn’t panicked even when saying this. “Unless all the perfu solution stored in this factory is used up, they can create an explosion in the inner world and flip it back to the real world at the mont of explosion.”
Mu Sicheng let go of the hand covering his mouth and nose, his expression tense. “Then what should we do?”
“Evacuate the people.” Bai Liu raised his eyes. “Then blow up this factory first.”
***
Tang Erda requisitioned a high-end private car passing by and Mu Ke was driving at full speed to the factory.
Tang Erda and Liu Jiayi were sitting in the back seat of the car. The owner of the car that had been requisitioned wasn’t willing to let them borrow it but Mu Ke directly threw a credit card with more than three million yuan to him and bought the car directly. Then Tang Erda rushed them to the factory.
“The call still can’t get through?” Mu Ke looked anxiously in the rearview mirror.
Tang Erda said in a deep voice, “It should be impossible to get through. They all turn off their phones when performing tasks. If I want to contact them, I need to go back to the headquarters of the bureau to use their wireless FM.”
“It is too late.” Liu Jiayi refuted the suggestion without hesitation. “Bai Liu should’ve arrived by now. Call him and ask about the situation over there.”
The mont Liu Jiayi finished speaking, there was a call from Bai Liu.
He called Tang Erda. “Captain Tang, is there any way to disperse the citizens within the explosion range within a short period of ti?”
“The citywide air defense siren.” Tang Erda replied quickly but he soon clenched his fist. “However, that requires a lot of evidence to prove that a high-risk situation will happen before it can be activated. My privilege is only for dealing with the heretics and I can’t activate this level of alarm.”
“We can’t prove it. We can’t even prove to the people who haven’t entered the ga that the factory is about to explode. It is because it is in-ga content and we will be silenced when we say it, right?” Bai Liu asked.
Tang Erda leaned weakly against the seat of the car. “…Yes, they won’t be able to hear it at all.”
“The explosion… will still happen, right?” Tang Erda raised his hand to cover his eyes and asked hoarsely.
Bai Liu answered him honestly. “Yes.”
“However, maybe it is just an explosion.” His voice was still calm, without any fluctuations at all. “Just now, you said that if soone can prove there will be an extrely dangerous thing like the rose gas perfu, this alarm can be activated, right?”
Tang Erda sat up straight as he realized that Bai Liu seed to have found a thod. He just couldn’t think of what it was.
“Yes.” Tang Erda’s breathing beca heavy. “No matter what thod you use, they simply can’t accept the ssage you want to convey. They will even think you are crazy for asking people to run away quickly.”
“How are you going to prove that this terrible thing you’ve witnessed with your own eyes will really happen?”
Bai Liu’s voice was filled with a lazy laugh as he said, “Captain Tang, who has privileges, please rember to bring out.”
Then he hung up the phone, leaving a confused Tang Erda.
***
Dawn was approaching and the wind was blowing.
Bai Liu left the inner world and tidied up the black trench coat that didn’t fit very well.
After smashing the glass cabinet and throwing the tir bomb away, the two outsiders were discovered by the Rose Factory people in the inner world.
Bai Liu and Mu Sicheng were discovered stopping the explosion that was done in order to spread the rose perfu and were chased by the employees. At the sa ti, the employees were still working intensively to create a second explosion using the reserve rose essence solution. It was exactly as Bai Liu expected.
In order to delay the ti, Bai Liu left the fast moving Mu Sicheng in the inner world to make trouble for the employees who were preparing for a second explosion. anwhile, he left the inner world by himself and was responsible for moving the people out of the area affected by the explosion.
Before Bai Liu left the inner world, Mu Sicheng had asked Bai Liu the sa question as Tang Erda. How would he convince these people that such a thing would happen?
How could he let the ordinary people who weren’t in the ga believe that their world was a cruel ga full of monsters?
It was especially difficult when such words were banned.
The temperature in the real world was sowhat cold so Bai Liu wore a black trench coat he had taken from the inner world. He didn’t know who it belonged to but he used it to keep out the cold.
From the hidden stairwell at the back of the factory, Bai Liu walked to the top floor of the factory step by step. There was a big red and white plastic loudspeaker hanging from his wrist that seed to be used for employee training and shouting. This was also taken out of the inner world by Bai Liu.
The mont he reached the top floor, he was discovered by the team mbers below who were closely inspecting the factory.
“There is a figure on the roof!”
“Is it the missing factory manager? Turn on the high beams to see who it is!”
“Level one alert!”
Two dazzling high beams swayed and were positioned on the figure on the top floor. Bai Liu squinted at the strong light aid directly at his face but he didn’t move. He still stood smoothly in the highest location.
The cold night wind blew Bai Liu’s hair hanging down the side of his face and the ill-fitting long trench coat on his body. Morning dew seed to linger around him and there was the residual sll of roses at the soles of his feet.
The people below recognized who he was.
“—Bai Liu!”
“How can he be here? Hurry and notify the bureau! The escaped heretic No. 0006 has appeared at the factory!”
“Captain Tang said he is very dangerous! He possesses the ability to control all heretics! Why is he here?”
Su Yang and Lu Yizhan looked up in disbelief at the Bai Liu who seed to have fallen from the sky.
There was the sa smile as always on Bai Liu’s face as he raised the loudspeaker to his lips. “Good morning, everyone.”
“Before I escaped, I decided to do sothing that is in line with my identity—” Bai Liu’s eyes widened and he smiled in the increasingly fierce wind. “How can I, a laid-off worker who has been identified as anti-social, take revenge on society?”
“I lost my job, my friends, everything I had for no reason—I couldn’t find anyone responsible for it. Then I was branded a monster by you and imprisoned.”
“How can I not take revenge?” Bai Liu’s lips curved up and he said softly, “I decided to let you all taste what it is like to beco a monster as well.”
“I decided to blow up this whole factory and let the roses spread all over the world. All of you will beco my slaves.”
After a few seconds of stagnation, soone shouted hoarsely, “Contact the city and sound the air defense siren! Let all the residents retreat out of the explosion range!”
“Soone is maliciously spreading the perfu addiction!”
Su Yang looked up in horror at Bai Liu, who was standing on the top floor with one hand in the pocket of his trench coat.
In the morning wind and fading night, the man smiled at him with interest and asked him lazily, “Does the rose scent on you sll good, Vice-captain Su?”
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