Chapter 16: The small town of Siren

Bai Liu was buying props and saw a highly popular item called "Water Bubbles" which allows players to breathe and float in a bubble for two full hours, and also repels fish and keeps them away.

It's a good feature, but at over 70 points and can only be used twice, it's also an expendable item.

To Bai Liu's discerning eye, this item has no added value other than the fact that it allows one to breathe underwater, and selling it for over 70 points is pure extortion, and anyone who buys it is paying an IQ tax to the game shop.

Of course, this has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that he doesn't know how to water and doesn't want to jump into it, simply because he, being a gringo, would naturally not do something so wasteful or go down this route of game design that he finds unattractive.

Bai Liu looked up at the warehouse door, which had definitely started to creak, as if someone had returned to prepare to lock it behind them.

A normal player at this time would have been nervous and would have wanted to run out of the way of this ghastly pile of old wax figures.

Bai Liu, however, calmly switched off the light from his torch, walked into the wax figure, found a dark nook, undid his top and wrapped his lower limbs in a grey cloth from the floor, pretended he was a wax figure and didn't move.

The group of cocooned mermaid wax figures, whose eyesight is not exactly superb, searched blankly for Bai Liu and stopped when they couldn't find him.

The door to the warehouse swung open a few times and was eased open, and two sailors came down the stairs carrying a small, dim light, talking in hoarse whispers.

"Count the number of wax figures ......"

"Counted it several times, can't go wrong ......"

"After tonight there will be four more wax figures here, let's send these four over to the wax museum first, the wax figures over there have been guarding Siren King for too long, it's time to get out and about with their talismans ......"

"Keep a good watch over Siren King and don't let him wake up back in the water or we'll all have to ......"

Two sailors stood on the steps above the warehouse, carrying one of those old-fashioned little oil lamps, their eyes straightening as they came down, and in this extreme lack of light Bai Liu could not for a moment tell whether the two men in sailor's costume were wax figures or real people.

They were so white, so white to the point of impervious dead white, that the veins on their faces and hands could not even be seen at such a close distance from the light.

I'm sure they're not human, Bai Liu said as he flicked his eyes at the two sailors.

But it wasn't quite right, these two sailors were still in human form, and the monster book said [Mermaid Sailor], Bai Liu frowned inscrutably, and a feeling of something not quite right grew in his heart.

One of the sailors was the one who had told Bai Liu to stay put on the deck, his eyes were dead, and his eyes didn't move, "Make sure these amulets are okay? If they're okay, lock them up so they don't break when a wave comes over the ship.

The two sailors walked up to the group of wax figures and began securing them with chains straight away.

Bai Liu held his breath as he sighted the open warehouse door and began to slowly move closer to it.

One of the sailors paused as if he heard the wax figure talking, frowned and turned his head to the wax figure and said to himself, "You said you just saw a tourist come here?"

Bai Liu's face sank for a moment.

A blunder, I didn't realise that these sailors could actually talk to their amulet wax figure.

It looked like the chase was going to be a non-chase, but it was already a lot better than on deck, where there were only two sailors after all.

Bai Liu flew his brain to think of the best countermeasure, he was in such poor physical condition, the chase was bound to kill him, that's why he wanted to avoid the chase at first, but he didn't expect this place to be a dead end like a card loop, whether he left or stayed, he had to chase.

You can't run, and you can't go up there, because if you go up there are more sailors, it's not a chase, it's a group station, and you'll have to jump overboard.

Bai Liu didn't want to jump into the sea, he thought calmly, so what should he do?

The sailor approached the wax figure and suddenly, as if he had heard something extremely funny, he gave a low laugh which echoed in the bottom barn: "I didn't expect that an honoured guest had entered here early, and please don't be anxious, you will come to this place sooner or later."

The sailor said as he moved around the corners with his oil lamp, the obscure light of which struck up through the sailor's chin, setting off a grimmer and grimmer smile on his face, ".... And please come out quickly, the evening catch is about to begin, the mermaids are waiting for you in the sea."

Bai Liu Brainstorm, these sailors are clearly worse than the wax figures, these sailors are also a kind of monster, what is the weakness of these sailors?

In a matter of seconds, the sailor is already in front of Bai Liu, who simply preempts him by pointing his torch at the sailor, but unfortunately the sailor just uses his hand to block his eyes for a moment before dropping it as if nothing had happened, the smile on his face becoming more and more secretive: "We're not like those things, we're not afraid of the light."

Weaknesses are not light, and reaction to bright light looks no different from that of a human being. Bai Liu's mind raced, and almost as soon as he put the phone down he lifted the barrel behind himself and smashed it, which smashed into the sailor's body and scattered into a pile of wood chips.

These two sailors have hard, solid carapaces, with none of the weaknesses of the mermaid wax figures, it is almost as if they have broken out of their cocoons.

The sailor looked straight at Bai Liu from the dimly lit warehouse, reached out and took Bai Liu's wrist, turning his head sideways and flashing a wry smile at Bai Liu, the teeth in his mouth thin and sharp: "Come on guest, let's go watch the fishing, below the surface."

Bai Liu looks directly at the sailors.

The sailor appears to have no weaknesses, but not the weaknesses of Siren King. After all, the system does not inform Bai Liu that the sailor is also a weakness-free demon, so the player should be able to use what is at hand to fight back, otherwise there would be no point in playing.

But the sailors are soft and ineffective, both physically and optically, which shouldn't be the case. According to Bai Liu's previous reasoning, both mermaid sailors and mermaids should be photophobic, otherwise they wouldn't come out at night.

Bai Liu doesn't think he's wrong in deducing that, after all the mermaid wax figure awe glare has verified the correctness of this deduction, but these two sailors are unafraid to look straight into the glare .....

..... Something covers up their weaknesses for them ..... Earlier in the day the receptionist said that the amulet would help protect them from damage.

Bai Liu's mind wandered as he searched the wax figures for this sailor and found one with a slight crack on the top of its head, as if it had been hit over the head with a wine cask, and the wax figure's expression changed from affectionate to pained, with its hands blocked in front of its eyes as if some light had been shone directly into them.

Bai Liu's eyes focussed on a diagonal kick, his gaze locked on the sailor's amulet wax figure behind him, and with a hard flip, he kicked the mermaid wax figure in the face.

The wax figure of a mermaid fell with a crash and instantly shattered to the ground, oozing black, putrid blood, while the sailor behind him, who was holding Bai Liu's wrists, let out a shrill cry, a very high frequency cry, like some kind of fish, which hurt Bai Liu's ears.

The sailor, as if his exoskeleton had been smashed, began to crackle and fall down in lime like lobes, revealing his inner body.

Bai Liu also pulled out another sailor's wax figure, grabbed his head and knocked it on his knee, breaking it.

As the sailor is so powerful as the body, and the wax figure as a talisman is as brittle as an eggshell, it is no wonder that it is kept in the bottom compartment for protection.

Both sailors let out a piercing chirp as the pure white complexion of their faces faded to a greenish black, their eyes migrating to the sides and eventually growing into their temples.

"The Sailor, smelling strongly of fish and with his lower body transformed into a wet, curly, eel-like fish tail and jagged teeth in his mouth, crouched on the ground and moved like a gecko towards Bai Liu with his two strong, bulging hands.

Bai Liu darted his torch and shot straight at the other man, and the sailor, who had just been unresponsive, shuddered and let out an even harsher, shrill chirp.

After shattering the amulet protecting them, an attack like the glare is effective.

Bai Liu stood on the stairs and backed up slowly, pointing his torch at the two sailors who were crawling like geckos on the floor, cowering on the ground, cowering out of the light and hissing reluctantly, trying to get to Bai Liu, who turned his back on the door and exited the bunker, then quickly closed the door and unlocked it.

After closing the door, Bai Liu could still hear the pattering of fish tails on the floor from the barn, as if there were a bunch of snakes down there, and the door was banging and shaking.

[Siren Small Town Monster Book Refresh - Mermaid Sailor (3/4)]

[Monster Name: Mermaid Sailor (Butterfly Status)

[Weakness: Fear of light, amulet (2/3)]

[Attack: Biting and scratching (a certain probability of being scratched will trigger the alienation status)

Bai Liu calmly straightened his collar and came down the stairs of the warehouse, Lucy caught Bai Liu instantly and took his arm as if to complain, "Where were you? They said the fishing was about to start."

"We've reached the sea." Lucy said with a smile, her face already showing those fish-scaled lines, her eyes glowing scaly in the darkness, grabbing Bai Liu's hand with an odd coarse slipperiness, Bai Liu removed Lucy's hand without a word and said, "Really?"

"Yes." Lucy laughed low and hoarse, "The mermaids are here."