Chapter 12: The small town of Siren

Bai Liu understood why the driver had described the first salvaged mermaid as beautiful and high.

The wax figure of a mermaid is like a cheap tourist souvenir of a shoddy production compared to the otherwise elaborate mermaid skeleton.

And Bai Liu, who has a soft spot for expensive-looking items, went up to look at the profile next to this mermaid.

[Siren, Siren Town xx on the night of xx, a collective fishing activity caught in the evening of xx, after the relevant institutions to verify that no synthetic factors, is determined to be purely natural conditions under the natural growth of rare organisms.

[...... was caught in a carcass state and then sealed in a curing solution and kept in the central gallery of the Siren Wax Museum for visitors to see].

This thing, I think, is a very powerful monster, Bai Liu thought.

As Bai Liu looked down at the presentation of this mermaid skeleton, the fingers of the mermaid's right hand in the cabinet flicked imperceptibly.

The sudden coin on Bai Liu's chest vibrated like a madman, violently popping up numerous bright red panels, one after another, stacked in front of Bai Liu's face like a system malfunction.

[Siren Small Town Monster Book Refresh - Siren King (2/4)]

[Monster Name: Siren King].

[Weaknesses: None at this time (players are not required to explore the monster's weaknesses)]

[Mode of attack: ????? (Unknown, to be explored)]

[You have triggered the wandering god npc Siren King!

[The survival rate for copies of the game "Siren Small Town" is dropping extremely fast, recalculation in progress ...... The original game pass rate was 51%, currently down to ?? %!!!]

[Warning! Warning! This npc is extremely dangerous and currently has no clear weaknesses, once the npc wants to kill, the player cannot use the weaknesses to escape and will only die, please speed up the game cracking progress and escape Siren Town before the npc wakes up!

[It is estimated that this NPC has one more day to awaken, so please accelerate your quest!

Bai Liu raised his eyebrows, he's ...... come across something extraordinary?

Bai Liu looked at the red warning text on the panel, still pondering his response, unaware that the warning was on the verge of scaring a senior Cloud player who happened to pass in front of the big screen in the central gaming lobby silly.

Wang Shun, a veteran cloud player who has been squatting in front of the big screen in the central gaming lobby for years, is now crouched in front of the central screen, staring blankly at Bai Liu's small TV.

The term "cloud player" means that you spend less time on the field and more time watching others play. Wang Shun is more often than not responsible for collecting information about players' games and passing it on to the players' guild organisation to which you belong.

But after watching gameplay videos for so long, this was the first time he had seen a godly wandering NPC on the central gaming screen.

Wang Shun looked at the screen and confirmed it twice before speaking in a daze.

"Am I reading this right?! This... is the god-ranked wandering npc, right?! Who was so unlucky to enter a copy with a god-ranked wandering npc..."

Throughout the system there are thousands of uncountable horror games that are individual copies of the game.

Each game has a different and fixed set of npc's and monsters, as if they were different games displayed on a game shop, without interfering or affecting each other.

Players enter each game copy independently and do not scurry around and merge with each other.

But at some point, a bizarre wandering type of NPC appeared.

This NPC will randomly appear in every copy of the horror game, weaving in and out of the game brutally, and will even possess one of the monsters inside, transforming that monster from an ordinary type of monster into a god-tier monster of immense killing power, causing a host of players to scream and tremble every time they enter the game, afraid of triggering this god-tier wandering NPC.

The probability of this NPC triggering is actually very low though, Wang Shun has never seen anyone trigger this godly wandering NPC in all his years of watching [Little TV].

But also because the killing power of this godly wandering NPC is quite huge, usually the moment it appears the whole team is instantly wiped out, the audience simply can't see it before the players are all dead, so there are many rumors about the godly wandering NPC but very little information, once it appears, for a cloud player like Wang Shun, it's top of the line information!

If you collect all the information, you might even be able to sell the points!

Wang Shun was instantly focused, and he's squatting in front of Bai Liu's little TV today!

But it's amazing that such a powerful gameplay video featuring a godlike NPC is actually at the very edge of the central screen. If Wang Shun hadn't been in the habit of scanning the entire screen carefully, he might have missed it when he saw the red warning all over this small screen here.

"Is the system's algorithm wrong?" Wang Shun guarded Bai Liu's screen and muttered, "How should this kind of video not be in such a marginal position ah, this player is doing very well ah, the first page of the monster book is going to be set, and saw the wandering god class npc are so calm, also not negative game, this mental quality is good enough... ..."

As he did so, he clicked on his game manager, looked up the player information behind Bai Liu, the small TV, and then slowly widened his eyes: the

"...... This is actually a newbie playing the game for the first time?! Seriously?!"

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[Game Forum - Anyone see the new player on the centre screen who just moved up from the newbie section?

1L: Moved up in the first game, that's OK! Is he going to be the new star of the year in this year's standings?

2L: No way, this guy will be cool, I'm watching his little TV, he's so unlucky to swipe a godly wandering npc, this is probably the last game of his life.

3l: He was great in the newcomer section before, how so non- ah ... but he is really great, it is not necessarily a sure death, right?

4l: Does anyone else not understand that wandering npc writing npc reads as a bug?

This NPC has no weaknesses, whenever it appears, the player side is basically wiped out because they can't run away, I feel it has destroyed the balance of the game, I feel like the system has given a name to a wandering NPC to fool the players for a bug that can't be solved...

5L: Harm, I was quite high on him before and thought he had hopes of hitting the record for most points in Siren's Town because his thinking was really good.

6l: The highest points record in Siren Village is God Mu's, right? God Mu is now fourth on the Nightmare Rising Stars list, and this newcomer can't even survive this game, so he's crossing the line.

7L: Unfortunately, the newcomer's face can also be good, if not dead, look like this and still have a chance to impact the top ten high value players...

8l: fart, he this Little Bai face look into the hammer, the top ten high value players first look at the operation then look at the face, okay? He will be cool in this game ......

.........

[1 new person liked Bai Liu's TV, 416 new people liked Bai Liu's TV, no one recharged the player].

[512 new people are watching Bai Liu's mini-TV, but no one is liking it, how strange is that, because the player is not doing well? Watcher give a like!

[The number of new likes is too low and player Bai Liu's centre screen edge promotion is about to expire].

.........

Bai Liu, oblivious to these discussions, simply stared in silence as he examined the mermaid in the glass cabinet - undoubtedly the highest level boss in the entire game, and one that the play had clearly told him about. There is no way for the player to escape from this boss by exploiting his weaknesses.

Upon awakening, death is certain.

Although Bai Liu didn't like the feeling of being absolutely held back, there was nothing he could do about it, even though the game had said so.

But until it wakes up, this mermaid may not be able to give Bai Liu a chance to live.

Bai Liu strokes his chin as he boldly tries to use Siren King for his own benefit, an idea that would probably have left the crowd outside speechless and saying that he was not afraid of the newborn.

But alas, he knows nothing, and Bai Liu quite ordinarily treats Siren King as a monster npc he can deal with at will, just a little more advanced and difficult.

There is no such thing as a boss in the game that the player is completely helpless against, even if it is a monster with a scary looking panel.

As long as there are no bugs in the game, then even if the game tells the player how impossible the monster is, it is most likely one of the designer's tricks to whet the player's appetite.

But what Bai Liu didn't know was that he had encountered the [God Class Wandering NPC], which is known as a bug in this game.

......

They stayed at the wax museum into the evening and when the driver drove up to pick them up, the keeper bade them farewell with joy in an old, decaying voice: "...... It's been a long time since we've had such a big mermaid catch and the Siren Wax Museum will finally be able to welcome new mermaids again after this evening! wax figures."

There was an odd pleasure in his smile as he rolled his eyeless eyes and stared at Bai Liu: "Have a nice evening."