Chapter 14: The small town of Siren

No wonder the side quest [Ship of True Love] has a hundred points, the danger level is much higher than several other quests.

Andre couldn't control his appetite and reached for the sandwich in the driver's hand, "Give me a bite!"

The driver's sandwich is wolfed into his mouth by Andre, and he eats it so rudely that he can't chew it more than a few times before pounding his chest and swallowing.

The driver, however, did not try to snatch it back, but simply looked at Andre, who was bowed over and eating, with a look of pity as if he were feeding an animal: "Eat, my boy, eat, you're starving, you haven't eaten much, have you? Enjoy your dinner."

Bai Liu took one look at it and said, "This is his second dinner tonight." The first meal was Andre's to rob Jeff.

Jeff, who had been robbed of his dinner, stirred at these words and lowered his head to cover his face, the same gill-like pattern appearing in his ears, Jeff's gills seeming to grow open for a moment in anger and his teeth becoming as sharp and thin as a shark's.

But the creepy scene is only fleeting, and when Bai Liu looks over, Jeff cowardly ducks his head, covering his face as if nothing had happened, while the light at the end of his eyes rests eerily on Bai Liu's face as reflected in the rear-view mirror.

[Jeff's Bloody Plot, 50% progress on branch]

Bai Liu frowned imperceptibly - how did this task just go up in progress and now it's going up again?

Jeff, I think it was confirmed that it was going to go up once before against Andeva, what was this latter one up for?

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When Bai Liu arrived at the port, he remembered that the driver's trust level was very low and thought that he was probably involved in Jeff's bloody plot.

So when he got out of the car, he handed the driver another penny as a tip in the name of answering Driver Xie, but the driver looked sullenly at the money in Bai Liu's parcel that hadn't been given to him and finally cracked a grim smile, kissed the tip Bai Liu had given him and waved it away, "Have a good time. "

[Jeff's Bloody Plot - 80% Progress on Branch]

Bai Liu thought to himself that the townspeople here were really bandits, their eyes glowing green at the sight of money.

As if he didn't see the driver's greedy gaze at the money in his pocket, he opened it wide for the driver to see, and Bai Liu put on his usual smile: "We will."

The place to gather around the mermaid fishing is on a giant ship.

The huge ship sailed slowly out of the harbour at night, the decks all silent with sailors coming and going, while some of the smaller boats leaning under the ship were filled with fish-like looking fishermen.

The fishermen in the boats below had been watching Bai Liu's group on the deck with a straight face since they got on board, probably after it had become completely dark.

The sailors on this deck are fundamentally different from the fishermen on the ground, most importantly that these sailors look like people rather than fish and do not have those odd patterns on their faces or the smell of fish on their bodies, except that they are a bit paler in complexion, much like the hotel receptionist who supposedly has albinism herself.

Bai Liu noticed that there weren't many people on board the huge ship and wondered why they were out fishing on such a large ship... it was a waste.

And there was something else wrong with the boat, Bai Liu noticed when he got on board, it was too deep in the draft and definitely had something particularly heavy on board.

Occasionally Bai Liu would find a few sailors standing in a dark corner looking at Bai Liu with strange eyes, then whispering to the sailor next to them and giving them a contented and strange smile.

The boat sails.

The sea is calm at night and the light from the bow searchlight illuminates only a small area of the sea, otherwise it is darkness that could swallow the ship up, with the occasional sound of waves passing on either side of the ship, while the sailors on board methodically distribute their work and the fishermen on the side of the ship lay their nets.

The boat sails deeper into the night.

Lucy stood next to Bai Liu in her cloak, her lipstick-covered lips now purple from the blowing, and huddled next to him for warmth: "How come it's so cold, Bai Liu, I just asked them, they said that to catch mermaids you have to take the boat to the sea where the first mermaid was caught, and that the only way to catch mermaids is from that place, they shouted That sea is called [Siren's Gift], it seems to have a legendary story."

Bai Liu tilted his head: "Siren's gift?"

"Right." Lucy gathered her cloak a little tighter as she shivered, "God, it's so cold, I feel like I'm heading to a hell full of ghosts, the only place where it's this cold and windy."

Bai Liu didn't feel cold, but he suddenly thought of something and swept Lucy with a coin.

[NPC Name: Lucy (in alienation)

Bai Liu reached out and touched Lucy's hand, her skin was cold and oily, like freshly solidified wax to the touch.

Lucy smiles and looks over at Bai Liu, who is supposed to be trying to squeeze her eyebrows, but the muscles in her face are also as stiff as corpses, which makes her expression do something very strange, like a Picasso abstract figure painting.

Her voice also began to grow dry with an inexplicable eagerness, "Your hands are so warm, can I kiss you?"

Bai Liu politely declined, "I can't." He found an explanation for himself, "There are too many people here."

Lucy wasn't being blown cold, she was dropping her own body temperature.

Jeff, who had appeared next to Bai Liu at some point, looked ahead at the sea with a rapturous gaze as he murmured, "Yes, Siren's gift, legend has it that this sea is a gift from Siren King that can bring back the dead."

"When swimmers from boats accidentally fall into the water and drown in these waters, Siren King grants them the power to be reborn and they return to earth as mermaids, which is why fishermen are able to catch them here."

Bai Liu wondered why the waters continued to produce mermaids when Siren King had already been fished out and placed in a wax museum.

And it was from the time Siren King was landed that the waters began to produce a steady stream of mermaids...

And the return of the dead ghosts as mermaids is not a story of [divine blessing], it's more like a cult myth of a curse.

Bai Liu mentally added a logical follow-up to the story - dead people turned into mermaids were fished up and poured into marble and made into wax figures for visitors to see, and some of the mermaids were made into food and eaten by the townspeople, and then the mermaid wax figures finally started acting up and the town's The wax figures of the mermaids finally started to act up and one after another the tourists started to disappear...

It was not so much a gift from Siren as it was a mermaid's revenge.

The sailor suddenly came over and said, "We're coming into the gift waters of Siren, so please don't wander off the ship or we won't be responsible for anything that happens."

With that the sailor left and Bai Liu found all the sailors heading for the bottom of the ship, and the deck was suddenly empty.

Bai Liu narrowed his eyes and circled the boat a few times, pretending to follow one of the sailors unobtrusively.

The sailors all headed for the lowest cabin, where the storehouse was, and one by one, without any emotion on their faces, these sailors went down the wooden ladder to the cabin and then came out again, one by one, accompanied by some whispering of

"My...no problem."

"...make sure these things are okay."

"A few broke before, but that's okay, after these four that came tonight are eaten, there will be new ones to put in."

The group of sailors seemed to be checking something very important, and then came out one by one afterwards.

Bai Liu hid in the corner and squinted, thinking that the bottom compartment was really loaded with something heavy, heavy and important... Bai Liu had a vague guess as to what it was, but he didn't yet know why these sailors were out fishing with it.

When all the sailors had gone, the last sailor seemed to have forgotten to lock the bilge and left.

The lock just hangs on the door of the bottom compartment, swaying back and forth with the waves, almost as if it were saying to Bai Liu, the player, come and explore me ~ come and explore me ~

Bai Liu opened the door and went down a long, narrow wooden staircase that creaked and rattled, leading down to the bottom compartment, which was not clearly visible, with no lights on either side and the whole structure resembling a cellar.

He turned on the torch and looked down, and even though he had expected it, Bai Liu's breath caught.

The warehouse is full of all sorts of wax figures of mermaids, which fill the entire bottom compartment so densely that there is hardly any place to land at a glance, all in white and eerie wax.

The wax figures of mermaids are all unanimously stretched out with their heads tilted back and their white eyes looking straight at Bai Liu, who finds himself standing around the staircase with a significantly larger number of wax figures.

The wax figures of the mermaids flocked together like a school of fish smelling something fishy, and two of them had already walked up the ladder where Bai Liu was, when they were shaken by the light of the torch and retreated again.

But the light from the torch can only illuminate one place, and the darkness of the warehouse, which cannot be illuminated, is constantly rustling and scraping against the floor.

But Bai Liu did not return. He also stared at the faces of the wax figures for a while, then suddenly put down his torch and walked down, reaching out to try to touch them.

Wang Shun watching in front of a small TV: "!!!!"