Chapter 24: The small town of Siren

After Bai Liu disembarked, he was required by the sailors [folklore] to stay at the wax museum until the evening to wash away the sins of the mermaid hunt he had watched on his body before he could redeem himself and leave.

Lucy and Jeff went with him to the wax museum.

The wax museum is dark and irrelevant in the early morning. The sailor drops Bai Liu off, warns him not to leave until nightfall, and leaves the keeper to keep an eye on Bai Liu before leaving.

Lucy curled up behind Bai Liu and whispered, "How come this wax museum is still so scary in the daytime?"

There are wax figures everywhere looking down on Bai Liu and the others, and the faces of these mermaids are even more vivid than the ones Bai Liu saw yesterday.

Bai Liu noticed that the fish tails of two of the wax figures had become shorter, with only the lower part of the knee in the shape of a fish tail, and the thighs had taken on the shape of normal human legs.

Bai Liu took a look at the faces of the two degraded fishtail wax figures, which bore a subtle resemblance to Lucy and Jeff.

The wax figure has an eerie smile on its face as it looks straight at Bai Liu and Lucy and Jeff behind him.

As Bai Liu suspected, the Lucy and Jeff who spent the night here were indeed [sacrificed] and turned into [mermaid wax amulets], while the mermaid wax figures who enjoyed the [sacrifices] gradually became "Lucy" and "Jeff". .

The [butterfly] in the mermaid wax figure is not yet fully hatched, and the [cocoon] to be broken - Lucy and Jeff - still have a chance to live.

Bai Liu doesn't want Jeff and Lucy to complete their transformation, not because of some holier-than-thou idea of saving everything, but because once the transformation is successful, he will need to deal with two more of the more powerful [butterfly] type monsters.

With this in mind, Bai Liu took out his torch and prepared to force the mermaid wax figures back.

The moment the lights were switched on, Lucy and Jeff went crazy before the wax figures did, screaming in agony.

Lucy slumped weakly to the ground, her head tilted back to look at Bai Liu with a hint of spite in her eyes, "Your torch is too bright, Bai Liu, are you going to blind us?"

Jeff was even holding on to a wax figure, warning hysterically, "You better never open this thing again!"

Bai Liu spread his hands insincerely, "Sorry, I didn't know you guys were so sensitive to light."

Of course Bai Liu knew that Jeff and Lucy would be photophobic when they were waxed, but he didn't care if they would be harmed, but he didn't expect them to resist so violently and grab his torch.

Unlike the real mermaid amulet wax figures, these two can move and are no slower than Bai Liu, so if these two go crazy and grab the torch as soon as Bai Liu turns on the light, there is no way for Bai Liu to turn on the light.

This restricts Bai Liu's use of props.

It seems that the plot has developed to the point where the game is apparently restricting the use of the torch, a prop for the player to screen back the mermaid wax figure, through Lucy and Jeff, which would suggest that a chase about the mermaid wax figure is likely to follow, and that the game has banned the player's bright light prop in order to give the chase an exciting effect.

Bai Liu often does this when designing games. For example, if a demon mirror is given to force a demon back, Bai Liu will give the mirror a CD (a break after one use) in order to give the demon a scare effect on the player.

The horror of the game increases dramatically when the player is forced to hide and avoid being found and killed by the demons during the CD.

While Bai Liu had a good time devising this mischievous plot, it was not so pleasant when he encountered it himself.

Bai Liu put away his torch in good faith and held up his hands to show that he would not turn on the light easily again. At that moment, Bai Liu's remaining light subconsciously swept the entrance to the wax museum, which was already guarded by wax figures that were still approaching him.

If you turn on the lights, you will be attacked by Lucy and Jeff, and if you don't turn on the lights you won't be able to screen the mermaid wax figure, and Bai Liu will have to wait until nightfall to be released, he will be dead.

Not only because these mermaid wax figures would come over and possess Bai Liu, raising his alienation level and turning him into a talismanic wax figure, but also very importantly -

Bai Liu flipped the coin in his hand and the panel popped up -

[Warning: Siren King will awaken in seven hours, please clear the level before then]

As soon as this warning popped up, the new viewers in front of Bai Liu's small TV let out a gasp in unison.

Even Li Gou stood up dragging his knife and squinting his eyes closer to the small TV to see, and within seconds burst out in a burst of laughter, "It's actually a real god class NPC, this guy is going to be killed by a god class NPC, it's not my turn to mess with him, I told you to steal my position, you deserve it."

Other spectators were choking.

"This place is originally players in the wax museum of this map around the hide and seek to be released at night, and then by the mermaid wax figure night escape, escape from the town of Siren even if the pass, but there are god-level NPC, this person simply can not met the night."

"But just escaping Siren Town hits a NORMAL END and the rating and rewards are not great."

"I heard that God Mu played a true end, supposedly to send the corpse of Siren back to the sea to seal the ghost of the whole town before it is finished, but this fucking, Bai Liu here the banshee directly into Siren King, Siren King woke up directly gg, still play a shit ah! "

"He can't go either way, this new guy is going to DIE."

Wang Shun's heart lifts high.

He didn't expect Bai Liu to actually go to the wax museum honestly!

If Bai Liu had run away in the middle of the chase, he might have had a chance to escape from Siren Town.

Now that I'm in the wax museum, I'm in a dead end.

Wang Shun sighed in regret as he objectively admitted that Bai Liu was a promising player, even as good as Mu Sicheng, but Bai Liu had lost a bit of luck.

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Bai Liu walks towards the central exhibition hall, Lucy and Jeff following Bai Liu.

In the central gallery, the body of Siren King floats in a transparent, less fluid liquid and is housed in a glass display case.

A fine, snowy foam floated between Siren King's long hair and light-coloured eyelashes, as if a light layer of snow had fallen on his body.

Bai Liu walks over to the Siren King display and looks up close at the not-quite-decomposed body of a mermaid.

The face of this mermaid is overwhelmingly beautiful, and there is a sense of the strange and the haunting, as if in the next moment this mermaid will open his eyes, slap the bulletproof glass coffin that imprisons him with its long, powerful tail and return to the waters after a massacre.

Lucy looked around and asked Bai Liu, " Bai Liu, you said Andre was here in the wax museum, where is he?"

Bai Liu didn't look back, his eyes still on Siren King in the display case, and said faintly, "Didn't you already pass him on your way in? Jeff even gave him a hand on the body."

"I held on to him?" Jeff pointed to himself suspiciously, " Bai Liu, there is no one else in this wax museum but the three of us."

"Yeah." Bai Liu casually echoed Jeff, "When did I ever tell you that Andre is now human?"

Lucy took two steps back and shivered in fear as she rubbed her arms around herself, " Bai Liu, don't be ridiculous, where the hell is Andre?!"

Bai Liu seemed to hear the dull shuffling movement of the wax figure and the tip of his ear twitched as he turned his head.

A grim-faced wax figure of Andre the Mermaid stands behind Jeff and Lucy, seemingly ready to attack them.

Bai Liu curled his lips in a good-natured way, " Lucy, Andre is behind you."

Lucy and Jeff turned around subconsciously before an unprecedentedly violent male/female duet screamed out, and Bai Liu had the foresight to plug his ears.

Andre's skeleton was taken by the mermaids last night, and last night Siren Waxworks got two fresh offerings, namely Jeff and Lucy.

It is logical that there should be two mermaid wax figures in the Siren that could leave the wax museum by attaching themselves to the offerings, so it is only natural that Andre's skeleton would be made into a mermaid wax figure to fill the gap in the wax museum, which is why Bai Liu said earlier that Andre had gone to the wax museum.

But while Lucy and Jeff's possessed wax figures have not left, Andre's wax figure of a mermaid has filled in.

Behind Andre there was a large group of wax figures trying to get inside, standing thickly at the entrance to the exhibition hall, all of which began to bear a subtle resemblance to Bai Liu's face, clearly trying to possess him.

Bai Liu raised his eyebrows imperceptibly, dodging Lucy who tried to grab his arm and cry.

These wax figures are not at all dangerous for Lucy and Jeff, as these two are now already wax figures and it is only a matter of time before they become fully wax.

The problem was Bai Liu, as the wax figures were on the opposite side of him from Lucy and Jeff, and he was restricted from using a torch and the alcohol would not burn them.

These wax figures are much more resistant than mermaid larvae, and the only method Bai Liu can currently use to combat them is [Human Eyes Direct].

And [Human Eyes Direct], a method of restricting the movement of wax figures, actually has a big loophole - that is, people do blink.

Jeff and Lucy can no longer be considered human, so their direct eye contact is useless to these wax figures, only Bai Liu's eyes are useful.

Bai Liu could feel the wax figures getting closer and closer to him every time he blinked.

In the dimly lit room, the wax figures of mermaids in various shapes and sizes all began to slowly melt away, their faces becoming strangely disfigured and subtly similar to Bai Liu's, with an odd, insatiable smile on their faces.

The wax figure's long fish lips split into a full row of white, sharp teeth, the scales on the fish's tail began to flake off and disappear like crumbs, and the smell of fish in the air grew stronger.

Lucy and Jeff were close to Bai Liu's left and right, and as soon as Bai Liu took out his torch and hadn't forced the mermaid wax figure back, these two must have been the first to go mad.

Of course, Bai Liu did not want to kill Lucy and Jeff, but after killing the two mermaid amulets, the mermaid wax figure corresponding to these two amulets will instantly go berserk, and two more mermaid sailors will be created in the wax museum.

This thing moves fast, Bai Liu's stamina panel is still in the red, and if he encounters it, he's bound to git if he doesn't have the terrain advantage of the bottom bunker.

At this point, Wang Shun closes his electronic recorder with a sigh of mixed feelings and prepares to leave.

Like Wang Shun, many others were ready to leave, with few viewers interested in a gameplay video with a guaranteed failure ending.

But before leaving, Wang Shun looked up at a small TV.

Wang Shun was stunned as he stopped in his tracks and muttered incredulously, " Bai Liu ...... Why are you laughing?"

Bai Liu lowered his head and slowly sketched out a smile, thinking that the game was quite interesting up to this point.

Not a bad game, he hadn't played a horror game with this kind of gameplay in a long time.

His fingers flipped the coins rapidly, and panel after panel popped out at speed, dazzling the audience in front of his small television.

A curious member of the audience approached the small TV screen to see what he was doing.

"Is this panic? Dying to die?"

"Prop shop, monster book, quest panel ...... Wow, all the panels are clicked out, what's this, spend all your points to get high before you die?"

Without a word, Wang Shun held his breath as he watched Bai Liu on the small TV, and he took out his electronic recorder again.

He could clearly see that Bai Liu was dealing with this situation in front of him at breakneck speed, not at all the panic that the other viewers were saying Bai Liu was having, Bai Liu was just dealing with things at such a high speed that it looked like he was just messing around.

At this point, Wang Shun was also nervous, and he began to wonder if Bai Liu, the amazing rookie, could miraculously turn the tide against the wind.

Bai Liu calmly handles.

I need a pickaxe to smash bulletproof glass]

[17 points, Sold]

[I need a mobile cart almost two meters long to haul a giant animal carcass]

[7 points, Sold]

[System, open monster book mermaid wax figure and mermaid sailor page]

[Okay, opening the Siren Small Town Monster Book for the player - done opening]

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[The Siren Small Town Monster Book - Mermaid Wax Figure (1/4)]

[Monster Name: Mermaid Wax Figure (Chrysalis Status), Amulet Wax Figure (Cocoon Status)]

[Weaknesses: direct human eye contact, strong light exposure (2/3)]

[Mode of attack: Hatching]

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[The Siren Small Town Monster Book - 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)

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[Both your first and third pages are just one weakness away from being set, so please players, keep up the good work!

The players in front of the small TV were numbed by Bai Liu's speedy manoeuvres, and those who had been jeering before were now silent as they watched with rapt attention as Bai Liu's smiling face darted between the different panels with ease.

The light from the different coloured panels reflected on Bai Liu's face, cutting it into pieces. The air of calmness about him was so convincing that anyone could tell Bai Liu wasn't messing around anymore, and several players' voices asked weakly, "What the hell is he up to? ....."