Chapter 26: Siren Small Town

In the rain, far away, another beam of light comes from across the street and joins this one in the alleyway, merging into an intense beam of light in the avenue of the town of Siren.

The light-fearing mermaid wax figure was almost immediately stopped from moving forward by this light.

But this blinding light ran almost the entire length of the town of Siren, so that the photophobic mermaid wax figures were completely locked behind the light, and could no longer advance beyond the beam to catch up with Bai Liu.

Even the mermaid sailors, protected by amulets and not so afraid of the light, did not cross the light easily, but hovered around it warily, testing it out.

At the other end, Bai Liu is leaning against the wall catching his breath, a 3d projector is placed at his feet next to him, the impact of Bai Liu in the projector is taking out a torch and shining it in conjunction with the torch beam of the Bai Liu in the alleyway, forming this strong blocking light.

He wiped the rain dripping from his forehead, Bai Liu let out a long breath, "Luckily this 3d projector is waterproof."

Bai Liu's small TV is still showing the bright beam of light that can blind people.

The audience in front of the small TV was silent for a few seconds, the one who questioned before that Bai Liu would still be caught up was dumbfounded and froze for a long time before he stumbled and said, "Well, that's great ......"

"I doubted God Mu's vision before, I was wrong, it's me who has eyes for gold, the dish is not this player, it's my vision, I'm going back to get my eyes down."

"This new guy is a Dead Comedy Zone kind of player, right? I feel like he's really playing this horror game like a game, it doesn't matter if he wins points or not, it's the experience that counts."

"Interesting." Mu Sicheng's eyes narrowed with a smile, his tiger teeth biting into the candy, "The rainy day is obviously a condition given by the system to restrict Bai Liu, but he's actually using it in reverse."

Bai Liu dragged his cart all the way to the beach, and after a moment's hesitation the mermaid sailors behind him eventually crossed the beam and gave chase to him - mermaid sailors are not afraid of the light.

But the light-fearing mermaid wax figures are indeed all stuck behind the beam, and the danger here is already a great deal less.

At such times, the player simply needs to immediately go down into the sea and send Siren King to the bottom to clear the level, as most players playing here are highly alienated, a form more akin to a mermaid, so they can just go down and send Siren King back into the deep.

Only here did Wang Shun understand why Mu Sicheng had said it was best not to float spirit values.

Because the spirit value is linked to the alienation status, if it drifts the player's spirit value back up, it will change from the [Mermaid] status back to the [Human] status.

There is no way to get into the deep and send Siren King back.

The final repatriation of Siren King in "Siren Town" can only be done by [mermaids], but Bai Liu's level of alienation is just right.

Wang Shun was relieved to think that Bai Liu hadn't drifted, and a little ashamed of himself for pointing the finger.

The game sense of a god like Mu Sicheng is really not comparable to that of a small shrimp like him, but Bai Liu, a newcomer, has managed to stay afloat ......

People are so angry with each other, Wang Shun shakes his head.

Bai Liu should have just dragged Siren King down to the sea and tried to avoid the mermaid sailors behind him, but when Bai Liu reached the beach, he made a U-turn and instead of going down to the sea, he went to the big boat where Bai Liu had boarded the mermaid fishery before!

The big boat is docked on the beach and Bai Liu pulls a cart and whizzes off to the boat!

It's the home base of the mermaid sailors!

Wang Shun was about to have a heart attack from Bai Liu's twists and turns, and he covered his cramped heart: "We're almost through! What's he doing on a ship? What's he doing on a ship?

Mu Sicheng was also surprised by Bai Liu's passionate death-defying manoeuvre, which caused him to bite his lollipop and cough several times.

Mu Sicheng hammered his chest a few times with red eyes, and after barely swallowing the few pieces of crushed sugar stuck in his throat, coughed, "It is true that Bai Liu could easily be caught up by the mermaid sailors behind him at this time, as they move faster in the sea."

"The regular way to get through is to use some props to limit the movement speed of the mermaid sailors, such as floating on the surface with a fiery torch to limit them like the novice before, or just tough it out, as long as you don't run out of spirit before completing the quest."

"Bai Liu would have wanted to get on the boat to get rid of the mermaid sailors behind him." Mu Sicheng analysed it clearly, "but getting on board would not have worked, firstly, there were still some mermaid sailors on board who had not disembarked, and with such a small space on board, Bai Liu would have easily been caught by the mermaid sailors still on board."

"Secondly, mermaid sailors in the sea can also climb aboard, and with these monsters moving faster than the boat, the act of Bai Liu getting aboard makes no sense."

As soon as Mu Sicheng's words left his mouth, Bai Liu on the small TV had a problem.

Bai Liu pushes his cart along the plank that connects the boat to the land and races towards the boat. The mermaid sailors on the boat are on the lookout for Bai Liu and in a moment they are in front of him, their sharp flippers outstretched, scratching Bai Liu's cheeks.

This wave of back-and-forth Wang Shun watched with trepidation, but the man in question, Bai Liu, didn't even let his eyes drift, unmoved as he pulled a 3D projector out of his pocket and flung it over the side of the boat.

The projector lands and bounces twice, reflecting the projection of an equally provocative Bai Liu. The mermaid sailor hesitates for a moment between the two and heads for the other Bai Liu.

Wang Shun saw a cold sweat and took out a towel to wipe his forehead: " Is Bai Liu trying his old trick again, using the light from the projector to restrain the mermaid sailors, or is he simply confusing the other side to stall for time?"

But soon he was confused again, "But mermaid sailors are not afraid of light. Even if Bai Liu, the projection, took out a strong torch, it would not stop these mermaid sailors who are not afraid of light." The beam of light on land had not stopped the mermaid sailors before, and it certainly would not stop them here."

"You're wrong to say that you recorded the pages of the Mermaid Sailor's monster book, right? Take another hard look for yourself at what the weaknesses of that page really are."

Mu Sicheng's eyes glowed slightly as he watched a calm looking Bai Liu on the small TV, he couldn't help but exclaim, "I can see why he came on board, that's really something this guy, no wonder the system is crippling him like this."

Wang Shun hastily clicked on his electronic recorder and he did record a transcription of the page [The Siren Small Town Monster Book - The Mermaid Sailor], which he clicked on for closer inspection.

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

[Monster Name: Mermaid Sailor (Butterfly Status)

[Weaknesses: Fear of light, amulet, Siren King]

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

"Eh, it's strange." Wang Shun pointed to the [Weakness] item on the electronic recorder and muttered to himself, "The Mermaid Sailor's weakness clearly has a fear of glare, so why did the Mermaid Sailor seem completely unrestricted by light when he was on land before?"

"The amulet." Mu Sicheng nudges Wang Shun, "With the protection of the amulet, the glare does not work on mermaid sailors."

Wang Shun reacted with a jolt and he looked up at the small TV: "Yes! That's it! So Bai Liu, this is going to-"

Mu Sicheng looked up at the small TV and smiled too, "That's right, Bai Liu this is going to the bottom compartment of the ship, the bottom compartment is where these monsters put their amulets, he's going to smash the amulets of these mermaid sailors, then these mermaid sailors will be unprotected and the strong light prop in his hand can work to restrict the movement of his opponent. "

Bai Liu, on the small TV, had already shaken off the monsters behind him and made his way to the bottom compartment, where he raised his pickaxe, which had smashed the bulletproof glass, and calmly began to smash the wax figures of the mermaid amulets below one by one.

The amulet wax figure shattered into stone chips under his feet, and as the Bai Liu in the bottom compartment cracked most of the amulets, the [Bai Liu Projection] on deck duly pulled out a torch, making it look as if a pair of Bai Liu were fighting a matching battle on the bottom of the ship.

A straight, bright beam of light passed through all the mermaid sailors surrounding [Bai Liu Projection] with a smile and a flat hand on the switch, still in the same trigger-like position.

Even Wang Shun and Mu Sicheng and some of the audience in the front row raised their hands to block the light from the small TV.

"This new guy does things too ..... It's too ruthless." Wang Shun had mixed feelings, "I even feel a bit sorry for these monsters."

But the mermaid monsters soon began to swim away on either side of the light, and some jumped into the sea, ready to climb up from the other end and sneak up on Bai Liu.

This caused Wang Shun to frown, "Even with the addition of the torch, Bai Liu only has one beam here, and his 3d projector has run out, and while such a single light can restrict the movement of mermaid sailors, it can't trap them outright like it did on shore earlier."

Mu Sicheng hugged his chest and calmly stated the facts: "Because two light sources, even if they were linked together, could not be completely restrained against these mermaid sailors, because the location here is on a boat, unlike before in the town."

" Bai Liu could just use the light to block off the town's path to the sea, but on a boat if there is only one light, the mermaid sailors are able to escape into the sea from both sides of the light to no avail."

"Yes." Wang Shun dragged his chin in thought, "It's too late to buy another projector to record at this point, so we'll have to buy another torch so that the three rays of light can be connected in a triangle, which will make a piece and trap the mermaid sailor inside the triangle of light connected to the ship."

"I was thinking the same thing." Mu Sicheng nods, "But at this point in time, if players want to buy a torch, they're probably going to be bleeding money, because the closer we get to the end, the more expensive the relevant clearance props in the game shop will be, for example, at this point in time in Siren Town, critical props like torches start at a hundred points."

"One hundred points?!" Wang Shun staggered, "That's too expensive, isn't that a clear rip-off?"

Mu Sicheng looked at Wang Shun with a sidelong glance: "So, do you want to buy a torch for 100 points at this critical moment?"

Wang Shun held his silence for a moment before popping out one word: "Buy."

Bai Liu came out of the basement with a pickaxe in his hand and a torch in his hand, he seemed to have the same idea as Wang Shun and the others, this man came out and opened the system shop to buy props.

As he swiped through the interface, Wang Shun caught sight of the price of the torch in Bai Liu's system shop and couldn't help but sputter: "Two hundred and fifty points for a torch? That's a point grab? That's a fucking ridiculous price!"

But after Bai Liu slid through the torch's sales screen without changing his expression, Wang Shun started to worry again: "Eh, Bai Liu, it's more expensive, it's more expensive to save your life, you'll get 100% clearance after this! Don't worry about the points!"

The rest of the audience was also very anxious, as we were only a little way away from passing the level, but Bai Liu was still slow to choose his props and had a torch in front of him, looking like he couldn't afford to buy it, making everyone scratch their heads.

"Bai Liu Ah! You don't care about this small amount of money! I'll charge it for you you buy it now!"

"Go, go, go! Give us a torch from Bai Liu Waterdrop! The child is saving his life!"

"Fuck! You're paddling around picking and choosing! Listen to me! Just 100 points for the prettiest torch would be great! You'll be happy together! I'll charge you for your share of the money!"

Even Mu Sicheng tapped his [Points Wallet] panel, ready to recharge Bai Liu.

At this point Bai Liu's movements suddenly stopped, as if he had finally seen the prop he wanted, and a little smile appeared on his face as Bai Liu firmly ordered a prop and purchased it.

[Does the player buy high definition reflectors?

Bai Liu: [Yes] without hesitation

[System Alert: 3 points, thanks for your patronage]

Bai Liu placed the reflector in a corner of the boat and then tied the torch to the bow with a flick of the torch's switch.

The bright white beam of light from the torch shines through the fog on the sea into the reflector, which is reflected back out, and eventually this light merges with the light from the [torch projection] in [Bai Liu's projection] hand.

The three bright, numbing lights were like three high wattage LED tubes, forming a brilliant triangular area of high brightness around the ship, encircling the mermaid sailors inside. The mermaid sailors rolled on the ground covering their eyes and wailing, but they could not get out of the area.

Bai Liu sat with one knee bent at the bow of the boat, the sea wind and heavy rain blowing his hair about, his eyes hidden in the flying dark hair, but his mouth smiling: "Stay on board, sailors."

[System Notice: As most of the monsters have been restricted by player Bai Liu, the heavy rain has lost its ability to weaken player Bai Liu, now the weather is changing, please prepare for it]

[Weather Conversion: Heavy Rain → Sunny]

The light rises slowly from behind Bai Liu, one foot on the trolley, the other swinging out of the boat as the overlapping clouds drop golden daylight, the rain dispersing, the sun pouring over Bai Liu's dishevelled face with a strangely regal look that matches his scattered, smiling expression.

[Player Bai Liu enters the final chapter of Siren Small Town - Returning the Siren King]

After a short silence in front of Bai Liu's small TV, there was a frenzy of screaming and charging, as well as players hugging and high-fiving each other, with the number of likes climbing by orders of magnitude almost every second.

Mu Sicheng withdrew his hand from the reward, and after a couple of seconds of stunned silence, he started to clap with a smile, "You're really something, Bai Liu."

Wang Shun also started clapping along, his hands were red with excitement and sweat was pouring down his face.

The rest of the audience were no better than Wang Shun, so excited that they looked like they were about to play a song called "A Night to Remember" on the spot.

"When it rains, it rains, and when it says it's sunny, it's sunny again! Are you a son of the weather, Bai Liu!"

"Give me red! Give me a blast! If you've got my charge money, you'll be at the forefront! Bai Liu, go for it! Go to the top of the new star list!"

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[12,011 people liked Bai Liu's TV, 12,000 people favorited Bai Liu's TV, 2,077 people charged Bai Liu's TV, player Bai Liu got 3,011 points, more than 300 people charged you more than one point].

[Player Bai Liu has gained over 10,000 likes and over 3,000 points in under a minute, and his reputation is on a roll! Player Bai Liu has earned the Frontrunner achievement!

[Congratulations to Bai Liu who has moved up to the highly recommended single player split screen position on the central lobby screen].

[Welcome back to your original position, player Bai Liu]

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As soon as Bai Liu moved up to the power push screen this time, almost all of the previously marginalized crowd ran after Bai Liu.

This not insignificant number of excited little red-faced spectators traversed the entire gaming hall, attracting the attention of a number of passer-by players who came over to ask what little TV they were watching.

"What are you guys looking at? It's such a lively argument."

"Son of the Weather!" "Reflector God Fuck!" " God Mu's freshly adopted son of a bull!"

Players who asked: "??????"

What the hell is on that little TV you're watching?

A surprising number of players joined at the back of the run out of curiosity.

The fastest runners were Wang Shun and Mu Sicheng. As Wang Shun followed, he realised that Li Gou had been there, too, and that he had seen Mu Sicheng coming and had hidden behind him.

Now he is running after the troops with his knife in tow, his face dark and sullen, probably having seen Mu Sicheng backing Bai Liu and realising that Bai Liu is not a tough guy he can just take advantage of.

Wang Shun couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief for Bai Liu.

For players like Li Gou, Bai Liu would be better off staying as far away as possible.

By the time Wang Shun and his team reached the pushing position, the viewing area in front of Bai Liu's small TV was already full of spectators, from those who had followed the previous section but left in the middle, to those who watched in amazement as Bai Liu rose again.

And then there was the Central District Guild barbarian audience who had previously sneered at Bai Liu, calling him a low-life aesthete.

I don't know what these viewers were thinking, they clearly didn't like Bai Liu, but once Bai Liu was promoted, the viewers were pointing fingers and complaining loudly at Bai Liu's small TV.

"Eh, why is it rising up again, it's so annoying to watch."

"How can so many people give him credit? What's the point? It's like pulling down the average of the strong push position, no I'm going to give him a stomp, stomp him down quickly."

"I'm buming white, what's so great about pretending to be a pussy? I can't believe he got tens of thousands of likes and 4-5,000 people charged him, are they all idiots? Spending points on people like that? There's nothing else to waste in life is there?"

"So annoying, so annoying, so annoying, can he get off the powerplay position and get a couple of players up who are about the same level as God Mu."

This crowd was already interfering with the normal viewers watching the mini-TV, but the normal viewers generally didn't want to get into a confrontation with this group of psychos backed by the big guilds, so they all put up with it.

Mu Sicheng looked at the audience, the corners of his mouth and the ends of his eyes turned down a little and his expression sank very slightly downwards, seemingly a little offended, but he still had a smile on his face.

He casually removed his monkey hat and walked to the front row, turning to the high-flying crowd and smiling, in a very different and courteous manner from before, with one hand on his chest and one hand holding his hat behind him as he gave a salute to this audience.

Because Mu Sicheng was holding a stuffed monkey hat, the gentleman's salute was a bit comical, but that didn't stop these spectators from covering their mouths and exclaiming.

" God Mu!!! You're God Mu, aren't you! You're actually watching his little TV!"

And then there's this direct question to the face: "God Mu, can I ask why you're recommending this player, it's really annoying and low to keep occupying a strong position in the single player game when you have no game level."

Mu Sicheng smiled, "Hello guys, I just heard your conversation too and felt a bit nostalgic."

The audience was instantly enthralled by the scene and began to comment on Bai Liu: "I'm so happy to see you.

" God Mu, you find this one annoying too right, just this kind of pretentious monster, should have died a long time ago, occupying a position so many capable ones can't get on."

"I'm having a lot of trouble scanning the live stream because I can't see any quality live gaming because of people like this taking over the screen! I just hope he dies soon and drops out of the Power Push list!"

" God Mu, why don't you just go into the game and start a live stream to squeeze him out!"

These people are so vocal and excited, as if seeing Bai Liu, a newcomer, being pushed out is a great thing - but suppressing newcomers has always been a favourite thing of these guild players, especially those who are not very good at it themselves, and they want all the newcomers to die and not take up their Promotional bits.

"No, what I mean by nostalgic is-" Mu Sicheng's smile becomes matter-of-fact, his lollipop on the side of his mouth, his expression taking on a bit of a scattered look, "because back in the day when I first got on the Power Push promotion spot, there were a lot of Central Screen viewers stepped on me so much and cursed me so much."

The previously chattering audience seemed to have their throats strangled, and all of a sudden, their tongues were awkwardly withdrawn, and they looked at each other and communicated with their eyes.

Mu Sicheng laughed out loud at the audience who were speaking out in front of Bai Liu and banned in front of him.

He smiled innocently and leaned forward slightly to ask these viewers, "Do you know what happened to all these viewers who have cursed me?"

These spectators looked straight into Mu Sicheng's streaming, dark red eyes, and were creeped out and shuddered.

Mu Sicheng's pupils reflect a laughing cartoon monkey with very bright red eyes.

It took these front row viewers a moment to realise that the dark red colour of Mu Sicheng's eyes was not the colour of his eyes, but the light emitted by the monkeys in his eyes.