Chapter 21: The small town of Siren

Although Bai Liu knew that his plan had a chance of success, he had to say that the end result was much better than what he had expected.

The game's props seem to have a plus effect, as these barrels of highly concentrated alcohol burn in a much more exaggerated state than Bai Liu has seen in real life, as does the bright torch that was so bright earlier that it blinded people.

As the sun rises over the sea and the day dawns, these photophobic, diurnal mermaids gradually dive beneath the surface and out of sight.

Bai Liu made sure there weren't any mermaids around before he separated his mind to tap on the panel.

He hadn't had time to look at it before because he was too busy grilling, ah no, fighting off mermaids, but now Bai Liu looked at the information on the panel and couldn't resist narrowing his eyes.

[Side Mission: Jeff's Bloody Plot, 90% Completion]

Andre has been killed, the driver has been burned by Bai Liu, and there is still 10% of this side quest to be completed ..... How can I push this 10% [Bloody Conspiracy]?

[Points balance: 684, do you buy props?

Bai Liu stared at the suddenly high number of points for a moment, he crossed the panel and clicked to check the points breakdown, and found that over five hundred points had come from [Recharge].

That is, he tossed and turned all night last night, and over eighty percent of his points were earned not from completing quests in the game system, but from relying on those [viewers] to reward him.

Bai Liu was thoughtful - in other words, [audience] points are better earned than game points, and a lot more of them.

This doesn't quite make sense, as the game itself is less rewarding than the rewards outside the game, which will make players play negatively and will make them make trade-offs to please something outside the game, or just stop playing and just use some gimmicky means to attract viewers and get them to reward?

Especially with the ability to buy props directly from points, if there were enough points from bounties, Bai Liu could buy a lot of props and violently pass the game without any experience at all.

Bai Liu wouldn't have designed this game, and he doesn't think this system will either.

There must be some sort of reward within this game that balances the reward system inside and outside the game, making players want to get their rewards from inside the game more than outside it.

Bai Liu's fingers repeatedly flipped the coin over and over again. All the quest rewards in this game were instant, meaning that you were rewarded with points immediately for completing the quest, but there was one thing that was the exception -

--That's the monster book.

This kind of reward, which is only available when all the pages are collected, has to be given out only after passing the level. Normally, this kind of reward, which is given out only after passing the level, should be of great weight.

But Bai Liu now looks at this reward point and thinks he still underestimated the weight of the monster book.

Bai Liu now feels that the rewards given at the end of the monster book may not only be big, but also very valuable and of the kind that points cannot easily buy, so as to balance the reward mechanics inside and outside the game.

Bai Liu opened the monster book and looked at each page for a moment before his eyes finally stopped at the completely unlocked page of [Siren King] and paused.

[The Siren Small Town Monster Book - 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)]

[Note: For wandering god-level NPCs, the danger level is extremely high, please explore with caution]

This one has to explore the attack method ah ...... From the previous few monsters, the attacks are all in the form of them launching an attack, and the player is done exploring here.

But with a monster of Siren King's calibre, Bai Liu felt sure he was going to be gigged when he attacked.

But it's not in this miser's style to leave Bai Liu in the lurch when he knows there's such a big, fat prize on offer.

If Bai Liu knew how vicious this NPC was and had heard all the things about this bug-like rumoured NPC, he probably would have given up.

After all, when you make a game, the thing you fear most is bugs. Bugs are not logical because they are not part of the game itself, and the player cannot fight them.

But Bai Liu doesn't know that now.

Not only did he not know, Bai Liu also treated this NPC as a boss, thinking that if he defeated the other side, the reward must be great, and the game must have a solution, no matter what boss, there must be a way to fight it.

Bai Liu stared at it for a moment, tsked softly, closed the monster book and opened the game shop: [I want to buy props]

[May I ask players what props they need? There is a recent sale on water bubbles, do you need any?

When Bai Liu looked at it, he saw that the "Water Bubbles" item in "Siren Town" had been reduced from 70 points to 40 points per item.

Next to [Bubbles in Water], there is now [Highly Concentrated Alcohol], an item Bai Liu had bought before, and [Highly Concentrated Alcohol] has gone from 9 points a barrel to almost 13 points a barrel.

Bai Liu smiles a little at this price change.

He guessed correctly that the process of his side of the game would feed back to the viewers, causing a change in their buying preference, much like live bandwagoning.

As long as Bai Liu can hit the same effect with other cheaper props, players will flock to buy them, causing a shift in the prop price curve.

And this Siren is supposed to be a copy of a game that doesn't have a large user pool, which is why the price fluctuates so quickly.

For example, Bai Liu used a 3d projector and a torch to cross the map [Siren Wax Museum]. The normal solution to that map would have been to use a flaming torch, but Bai Liu easily crossed it with a few persistent props, and played the effect of the flaming torch as a consumable prop.

For about the same price, players definitely prefer to buy long-lasting props, so the price of the blazing torch is lowered while the price of the 3d projector climbs.

This time Bai Liu is doing the same trick again, for the lower price of [Bubbles in Water] at this moment, so that he can save a fortune on the middle price difference.

Bai Liu smiles: [I want to buy a water bubble]

[Good, 40 points, thanks for your patronage]

Wang Shun, who had rushed all the way from the Deadly Comedy section to the single player section, was puzzled as he saw Bai Liu preparing to buy water bubbles and approached the small TV.

After confirming that Bai Liu had actually bought a water bubble, Wang Shun was left in even greater confusion: "...... Why did he start buying water bubbles again? "

"The back of 'Siren Town' is pretty much all land chases as I recall, nothing to use the water bubbles for ah ......"

Next to him was also a player who came along and reasonably analyzed: "Now Bai Liu has more points, and he doesn't know that the back is basically a land chase station, so he probably bought one just in case, anyway it's not expensive, only forty."

"He now has over six hundred points to spend forty on a water bubble for himself, the equivalent of buying an insurance policy, alcohol is still a bit too risky after all."

But having followed Bai Liu along the way, Wang Shun has come to understand Bai Liu's style of spending his points on the edge of a knife.

Previously Bai Liu preferred to risk a relatively high-risk, low-commitment option by buying a wine selection rather than spend more points on bubbles in water and pick a low-risk, high-commitment option.

But now to hedge against the risk, instead spend an extra 50 points on a water bubble just in case this practice ......

Wang Shun somehow feels that Bai Liu is incapable of doing such a thing.

Even Wang Shun had the extremely absurd idea that Bai Liu was only buying the water bubbles now because he had manipulated the price through a series of his own manipulations, waiting for the moment when the price of the water bubbles dropped so that he could buy them and save money.

Wang Shun muttered to himself as he thought.

Because he was lost in his own thoughts, Wang Shun's volume was not low, after his mutterings to himself were overheard by the spectator player next to him.

The player couldn't resist retorting: "You haven't become a fan of this Bai Liu or whatever, have you? And price manipulation? ...... He's a newbie and hasn't played the game yet, I admit he's got something to play the game, but manipulating the price of props is a bit too much."

This player's attitude is somewhat perfunctory casual: "I think he just experienced such an exciting night, also be scared unclear, as soon as you see the money to immediately buy a few props that can save your life, he used alcohol before I think it is still a big component of gambling ......"

The player ended up muttering a little deflated, "It's just a bet on the operation, it's no big deal, I can't believe I'm relying on this to rush up to the single player division. "

There was a certain amount of jealousy in the player's expression, as if he felt that Bai Liu had used some brains to get to the [Single Player Division], but had mostly just gambled his way to victory.

The forums were also buzzing with discussion about Bai Liu's alcoholic fish killings, and after an initial wave of praise, the number of people mocking Bai Liu for his opportunistic ways grew.

Much like this player who is judging Bai Liu, most of them have a dismissive and sour, [I'm on I can do it] attitude.

[What's in this operation, I thought of it in the first place, but there were safer options in front of me, so why would I take the higher risk option?]

It's not the first time I've seen a poseur, is there any more of them over at Dead Comedy?

The actual fact is that you'll be able to get a lot more than just a couple of bottles of alcohol, four of which are used, and five of which are put away to keep the fish, right? Those who blow this set of operation to save money, I'll buy you calculate the account roar, here eighty-one points, than the original water bubbles are more expensive eleven points oh!

[Blow, some people just close their eyes and blow, right? His approach to the pass is really useless except for the visuals.]

The first thing you need to do is to buy the water bubbles immediately after you get the bonus points, but you're not a fucking coward, you think alcohol is not good or water bubbles are better, you can continue to use alcohol to burn ah, I see how you can burn the wax figure of the mermaid on land afterwards!