Chapter 27: Siren Smallville has audience reviews, don't buy it!

Faced with the strange eyes of Mu Sicheng, the audience, who had just been so proud, swallowed hard, took two steps back with a slight chill down their spines and shook their heads in fear.

Mu Sicheng smiles and pulls out the monkey cartoon hat from behind his back, pointing his other hand at it in a gesture of display: "Because I hate the audience, so all those annoying audience members are killed in the game."

He said casually, as if killing was a common occurrence for him, not worth mentioning: "If Bai Liu comes out, I'll support him in killing all you talkative people too, just as a suggestion from me, of course."

"Because you guys are really loud." Mu Sicheng smiled politely, "Disturbing me from watching his TV, cunts. "

The monkey on Mu Sicheng's hat suddenly opens its mouth and laughs, its eyes glowing red, seemingly echoing Mu Sicheng's suggestion to kill, and it looks eerie and odd.

The previously superior audience was so frightened by Mu Sicheng that they screamed and fled.

In the process of escaping a few runners hit each other on the ground and crawl out in disarray on the floor of Bai Liu's small TV viewing area.

Mu Sicheng stood in the front row with his hat in his pocket and returned to his original position as if nothing had happened, resuming his flat face and tilting his head back to watch Bai Liu's little TV.

The audience took a few steps back to give Mu Sicheng, who was standing in the front row, plenty of room to watch.

The audience's normal discussion was much less loud, as if they were afraid of disturbing Mu Sicheng's little TV set with Bai Liu.

Wang Shun stands behind Mu Sicheng with a look as complex as his emotions.

For the first time, he confronted the dangers of Mu Sicheng head-on.

That's why there are hardly any finger-pointing viewers in the top gods' live streams, almost all of them are full of praise.

If something you say offends one of the gods, it's as easy as crushing an ant to kill you.

Only the small TV viewing area for newcomers and some of the more mild-mannered players has a lot of this kind of audience who like to point fingers.

Like Mu Sicheng's live stream, the grass has already grown green in his grave if he dares to push him like this.

Many of Bai Liu's barbarian audience are guild players with little ability, with rather low-level and low-level gaming skills, and have played many games with high level players in the guild, or have directly looked up cheats to get through the game, with very limited ability.

These players, who are on a daily basis, are instead very fond of pushing their way around, not daring to offend the big players, but particularly disliking the very explosively competitive newcomers who would steal their paying audience and promotional spots, and therefore harbouring great ill will towards the kind of new players who are clearly trying to make a name for themselves.

Bai Liu, for example, and Mu Sicheng at the time.

Wang Shun dawdled and hunkered down next to Mu Sicheng, although he too was a little afraid of the current Mu Sicheng, but he still wanted to be in the front row.

To Mu Sicheng, Wang Shun restrained his curiosity from gathering information and asked in a very small voice, "God Mu, did you really kill the audience that cursed you?"

"How can that be." Mu Sicheng faded, "I don't have that much time to spare, I just said it to scare them, it's annoying to keep pushing."

Wang Shun breathed a sigh of relief: "Oh oh, it's not true."

"I didn't kill anyone, but my monkey headphones love to eat people I hate, so I did eat a few of them." Mu Sicheng suddenly turned his head again to look at Bai Liu on the small TV and gave a soft laugh.

He shrugged his shoulders a little as he stuck his pockets in, defending himself not so sincerely, "But it was mostly their own willingness to call me names that led to this downfall, and I don't think I should be blamed for it."

Wang Shun: "......"

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Bai Liu is back on the boat with his cart.

He was followed by a scattering of mermaid sailors, but that was no longer enough to be feared - Bai Liu had a Siren King on his hands.

The mermaid sailors, without the aid of weather and amulets, could only stay far behind Bai Liu, looking at him with resentful and greedy eyes.

But Bai Liu's mind is no longer on these mermaid sailors.

One of the things he found rather odd was that the system said that most monsters on land were already limited, which is why they gave up using weather to continue weakening him, but the monster book for Siren Town has four pages, for mermaid sailors, mermaid wax figures, and Siren King in Bai Liu's hands.

In addition to this there is a rather large number of the weakest and bottom tier monsters that do not appear -

-- that is the mermaid, or one could say the larval form of the mermaid.

Bai Liu had been chased on the shore for so long without a single mermaid in sight, which was unconscionable, and the monsters on land, if the system hadn't lied to deceive him, were indeed as it was then mostly already restrained by him, in other words, then the weakest of these mermaid monsters were most likely not on the shore.

Bai Liu's eyes slowly fell on the calm, unruffled sea in front of him.

There is a good chance that all these huge numbers of mermaids are lurking in the sea.

[System Notification: One hour until Siren King awakens, please speed up your pace and clear the level]

For an hour, Bai Liu mentally estimated the speed at which he would be able to drag Siren King across, which was about right, but there was still the uncertainty of the mermaids hiding in the sea.

Add to this the interference of the mermaid monsters and this is not always enough time.

Bai Liu didn't think much of it and left the cart on the beach as he knelt down to take a look at Siren King on the cart.

The cel king, who had just been unresponsive all the way through the chase, had fins flapping gently in his ears at the moment, a slight rise and fall of his chest, and a vitality under his glistening jade-like complexion.

Bai Liu could sense that Siren King was about to wake up. He picked up one of his hands and put it on his shoulder, took a deep breath and ran towards the sea.

As the water floods over his legs, Bai Liu's legs, the sides of his waist, the corners of his eyes and the bridge of his nose are covered in tiny silvery-green scales, cracked gills appear on the sides of his face and his eyes are reduced to half their original size.

Bai Liu took a deep breath and took Siren King's hand and plunged into the endless blue waters.

Wang Shun in front of the small TV finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Finally, we're down to the sea, we should be through soon."

"That's not necessarily true." Mu Sicheng crossed his arms over his chest, as if he was remembering something unpleasant, the corners of his mouth twitched, "When I was dragging the Siren demoness down to the sea, I also thought I was about to pass the level, but when I was about to swim to the sea [Siren's Gift], the sea was full of mermaids with green eyes, and I almost got I almost got killed."

"I ended up having to buy another strong torch to banish these mermaids, which cost me over two hundred points. " Mu Sicheng recalls, somewhat glumly, one of the few Waterloo's of his gaming career.

Wang Shun was shocked: "No way! Over two hundred points is so expensive? "

He said, seemingly reacting, " Bai Liu The torch was already over two hundred and fifty points before, when that time comes the system will surely have to increase the price, won't it be even more expensive?!"

"It should be, the system's pricing for each prop is based on two main points, the first is based on the overall market supply and demand, and the second is the system's assessment of the player's demand for a certain prop at this moment in time to synthesize the pricing, simply put, the more eager the system feels you are for a certain prop, the higher the system will price that prop."

Mu Sicheng looked at the small TV and gave a rare gloating smile as he paddled towards the deep sea unaware: "When Bai Liu swims to the sea [Siren's Gift], there is nothing much the player can do in that emergency situation of being surrounded by mermaids, he can only be slaughtered by the system, Bai Liu will be waiting for a big hemorrhage, his The torch is guaranteed from 400 points."

While the discussion was going on, Muke, the rookie player who had squeezed out of Bai Liu's promotion spot to take a strong push position, had already swum to the waters of Siren's Gift.

With the white bones of the Siren in one hand, Muke swims on his fishtail-like legs into the deeper, darker depths of the sea.

He should also have realised that he was about to pass, and a smile of ecstasy, visible to the naked eye, came back from the dead.

Wang Shun, who was in the viewing area of Bai Liu's small TV, could also see other people's TVs, but not as clearly as Bai Liu's, with a frosted glass blur.

But even so, it was clear that Muke had swum to the bottom of the sea [Siren's Gift].

Wang Shun sighed regretfully as he watched Muke approach the bottom of the sea, "It's almost the bottom of the sea, and Bai Liu is still swimming .... This Muke rookie should still be able to clear the level faster than Bai Liu and should be the first of the newcomers to do so."

"The first player of a batch of newcomers to pass the system will give a special reward, a personal skill that is precious to the player, which Bai Liu could have gotten." Wang Shun sighs.

As he spoke, Wang Shun looked at Bai Liu, who was still wandering unconsciously in the small TV, and said with a sigh of dismay, "Eh! Bai Liu! I told you to waste your time with these tricks! If you had moved faster, you would have been the first newcomer in this batch!"

Because Bai Liu fell down and then rose to the top of this central screen, Muke was ranked one place higher than Bai Liu in the [Single Player Zone Highly Recommended Promotion] by the system.

With Muke looking so happy to be on his way out, and Bai Liu dragging Siren King along as if he was sleepwalking in the sea, it looked like Muke had a firm grip on Bai Liu, and Wang Shun shook his head repeatedly as he watched.

It's like seeing a child who is so gifted but so playful that he can't even beat the average child next door.

Mu Sicheng's attitude was very different, as he simply glanced at Muke next to him and said indifferently, "It's not clear who is the first newcomer."

But most of the players who were watching Muke's mini-TV were of the same opinion as Wang Shun, especially the barrage of players who were driven out of Bai Liu's mini-TV by Mu Sicheng, most of whom went to Muke's mini-TV live viewing area.

The crowd remembered what they had eaten, and as soon as they changed sides, they immediately and proudly mocked Bai Liu.

"Oh, this Bai Liu can't beat the other newcomers even if he's in the pushing position, so what's the point of doing all these fancy moves? When Muke passes the level and gets the skill bonus from the system, he will quickly develop and will soon leave a fool like Bai Liu behind."

"And I don't know why God Mu is protecting such a useless newcomer, not first place is not going to get a skill bonus, will soon be dead in the game, and I don't know what's the point of still struggling."

Some of the normal-minded spectators next to me looked at the loudly vocal audience with speechless faces.

There are a hundred newcomers in a batch, and only the first place gets the skill reward given by the system. The probability of picking one out of a hundred is made by these people as if they deserve to die a miserable death in the game without skills.

Many of the players present were unskilled and their faces did not look too good.

One spectator, who was tired of hearing them chattering, guessed that his own strength was not bad, grinned and retorted impatiently, "If you say that people will die without skills, show your skills, or I will kill you on the spot to fulfill your dream of dying without skills."

So many skill players gathered together to point fingers at others, funny how, when skill players cabbage?

Sure enough, the group of spectators who had just been laughing loudly and giggling as loud as a trumpet suddenly shut up, and a few of the loudest ones shrank back with red faces and hands holding their game managers hidden back a little, clearly not wanting to show off their so-called skills.

This cursed their audience with exasperation.

You've just been talking so hard, and not a single one of you has any skills, and you have the nerve to say that others will die if they don't have any skills, so how come you long-winded viewers with no skills are still alive?

The audience who scolded them found it pointless.

There was no killing in the central hall, and he had just said that to scare some of the pussies, so there was no point in fighting, so the viewer gave them a blank look and went back to watching Muke's little TV.

As we were talking, a small, dark TV in Muke's dive downwards was lit up with pairs of green eyes, like fireflies, from a corner of the sea floor, at first just one or two pairs, then seemingly suddenly starting to glow in a dense green luminescence.

It took a moment for Muke's vision to adjust before he could blur out what they were, and he was frozen in place with goosebumps and hair on his spine.

Thousands of mermaid corpses stare up at Muke from the bottom of the sea.

Their bodies were mostly rotten, their faces torn and tattered, their blistered, white rotting flesh being uttered by dense black minnows, their entire faces, their entire bodies being eaten by those tiny thumb-sized minnows eating their flesh, some parts already eaten down to their bones, with only a pair of glowing green, dark, eerie eyes showing.

As far as Muke can see, the green eyes of mermaids light up the darkness of the sea like ghostly fire.

The bottom of the sea is full of scavenging black fish that are so numerous that you can't even see the sediment on the bottom, only the eggs of flies wriggling around the bottom, visually resembling black maggots and the fluorescent green eyes of a pair of mermaid corpses submerged in them.

The image was so shocking that even the audience in front of Muke's small TV couldn't help but take a few steps back with their arms wrapped around their heads.

Muke turned and ran, opening the prop shop as he did so, and behind him the mermaids swarmed towards him from the bottom of the sea, swarming black fish like a swarm of flies surrounding Muke.

The small fish, when seen up close, realised that although only the size of a thumb, their teeth were extremely sharp, and with just one tumble Muke had half of his arm bitten off, and he wailed in a silent scream on the bottom of the sea, the broken side of his right arm drawing a long line of blood through the water, attracting more mermaids and fish.

The audience was also captivated by the excitement of the spectacle and shouted anxiously, "Buy the props! Hurry up!!! Buy props to force these monsters back! Or you're going to die!"

Muke used his one remaining hand to pull Siren's skeleton away from the fish and mermaids, then scrambled to open the game shop to buy a prop to restrain the rampaging monsters; deep sea fish are generally photophobic, and mermaids have a photophobic weakness too, and he made a quick decision.

[I need a strong torch!

[417 points, thanks for your patronage]

Muke, utterly dumbfounded, asked back incredulously: [How many points?

[417 points, thanks for your patronage]

Muke didn't have that many points at all, he was completely dumbfounded, but he quickly calmed down again, it didn't have to be a torch to force the fish back, the [Water Bubbles] also had the function of holding back the fish.

It's just that with so many fish in the water, there's a good chance that [Bubbles in Water] will be pounded in by the fish, but Muke has no choice but to take a gamble, and Muke bites his tongue.

[I need bubbles in the water!

[322 points, thanks for your patronage]

Muke was so out of breath that he almost died under the sea alive from the system - he didn't have that many points!!!

The price of this [Water Bubbles] had been reduced to 40 points before, but now it's doubled by eight times! This is a complete robbery while it lasts!

But it was useless to argue with the system, and Muke had to check his existing props in a panic and desperation - the Flaming Torch was working, but it was underwater and the fire wouldn't start, and he had bought the Water Bubble twice before.

But the [Bubbles in the Water] prop, Muke, was pretty much used up for the [True Love's Boat] quest, and only had almost half an hour left.

But half an hour of [water bubbles] is definitely not enough to get him through, half an hour he can't even dive to the bottom ......

To add insult to injury, his points were pretty much consumed by all sorts of props ....

In his desperation, Muke suddenly remembered that he could still beg the audience to reward him with points, so the audience in front of Muke's little TV saw Muke begging for a charge, looking miserable and pitiful, with a mad desire to live in his eyes.

As he ran he was still crying with his mouth open, but his tears quickly melted into the sea without being seen by anyone.

Those who had predicted a bright future for him and used him as a way to stomp on Bai Liu were left speechless.

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Wang Shun could vaguely see the situation on Muke's side, and when he saw that Bai Liu had also swum into the dark waters here, he opened his game manager and looked at his point balance with some concern.

He was a bit afraid that the same would happen to Bai Liu, at least he, Wang Shun, would be able to help fill in a few more points.

Mu Sicheng swept up Wang Shun's action and said with his mouth, "Don't worry, this guy has over 3,000 points, he'll have enough again, even if the torches are 400 points each, he can still buy ten."

Despite this, Mu Sicheng couldn't help but click on his points balance as well, and after looking at it, he lifted his head and let out a long sigh of relief with a slight hook in the corner of his mouth.

Bai Liu will definitely have enough to get through the game if it's all charged up.

Not only Wang Shun and Mu Sicheng, but also many viewers of Bai Liu's mini-TV saw the commotion on Muke's mini-TV and clicked on their own score wallets to check their balances and whispered.

"Wait if Bai Liu doesn't have enough points to buy props, I can charge ten points."

"Three or four points on my side should be enough."

Mu Sicheng watched with a bit of wonder as many spectators talked about charging Bai Liu with a few points and he cocked an eyebrow at Bai Liu, who was still paddling in the sea.

This guy is quite an audience, so many people are willing to spend money on him and don't want him to die.

This is better than him. Mu Sicheng has a more extreme audience because of his special personal skills, and there are many players who like him a lot and those who hate him and think he is immoral.

Like Muke, Bai Liu saw the green eyes on the sea floor soon after entering the area.

Wang Shun held his breath, looking more nervous than Bai Liu on the small TV, his fists clenched in front of his chest as the charging screen opened and Wang Shun whispered quickly, "Buy props, buy props! We'll be too late if the monsters down there are woken up!"

Mu Sicheng said, "You don't have to be so nervous, he's not going to die anytime soon."

But Mu Sicheng's eyes were glued to Bai Liu's little TV, and he held the game manager in his hand, as if he could easily open the charging screen at any time.

Almost everyone in the audience was waiting with baited breath, some with their hands on the charging button just waiting for Bai Liu to open the prop shop and press it to charge Bai Liu.

But Bai Liu raised his eyebrows slightly at the sight of the horrifying schools of fish and mermaids at the bottom of the sea, not surprised, and continued to swim unhurriedly downstream.

The audience's breath stopped as they watched Bai Liu slowly and leisurely tease the mermaids and fish with the Siren King, provoking the monsters to chase Bai Liu before Bai Liu fled.

Unfortunately for Bai Liu, his underwater movement was very unskilled, he was a purely novice swimmer with a stomp, not moving very fast in the water and was about to be chased to pieces by the black mass of fish and mermaids behind him.

"Bai Liu, what are you doing, Bai Liu! " Wang Shun shouted in a broken voice, "What are you doing messing with monsters! "

The rest of the audience is going crazy, screaming in dismay, "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Get the props! Bai Liu!!!"

"Holy shit!!! Bai Liu stop playing at this time! Come out and I'll play with you slowly!!!"

"It's almost over! You're going to be a shadow on my mind if you die, Bai Liu!"

"I'm having a nervous breakdown! If Bai Liu makes it this far and still dies, I'll never watch any newbie mini-TV again! "

Wang Shun was staring at the screen with his breath coming out of his mouth, sweat seeping from his forehead and sliding down the ends of his eyes, but he didn't even dare to blink as the mermaids and fish on the small TV were already touching Bai Liu's feet!

Even the ever-smiling Mu Sicheng, who was standing on the sidelines, didn't have much of a smile on his face at the moment, wrapping his arms around his chest and tapping his right index finger against his left arm in a rare moment of annoyance: " Bai Liu, what the hell are you doing?

Bai Liu glanced back unhurriedly to make sure that almost all the mermaids and fish were following him before his legs glared and he moved halfway through the water with the difficulty of a sea bunny to put some distance between him and the monsters behind him.

But this distance was soon caught up with them again, their eyes white and their faces hideously decayed, their skin floating in a half-peeled state in the sea, their prey whistles in the dark blue of the sea, their mouths open wide at Bai Liu, and small fish with sharp teeth sweep out of their ragged, blackened throats, rushing towards him like a black rope.

Bai Liu has the luxury of thinking about the origins of these mermaid corpses in the nick of time, which are clearly a different form on land.

But at the bottom of the sea, where Siren's gift was, they turned back into corpses, which meant that he was right in his assumption that the bottom of the sea could indeed turn these things back into their original form, and that the only thing missing was the Siren King, which should turn into real corpses as soon as Siren King arrived.

In response to the mermaid's attack, Bai Liu scraped awkwardly to the side, but was still bitten off half his palm, the broken surface of which drew a dizzying line of blood through the sea.

[System Warning: Player Bai Liu has been attacked by the mermaid corpse, and his spirit value is dropping, currently 41]

[System Warning: Only 21 minutes until Siren King awakens, please pass quickly!

Bai Liu's head was spinning at the bottom of the ocean, and he felt like he had been poured half a bottle of fake wine at the annual meeting by his company's boss, and was beginning to feel a sense of numbness in his limbs and uncoordinated walking.

As a direct result of this, Bai Liu swam around with both legs staring at each other, but because of the numbness in his limbs and his brain fog, he was actually staring at only one leg, visually resembling a lame rabbit hopping hard to escape its predators.

Wang Shun spoke up woodenly: "....... With only 41 mental, he's about to have a lot of hallucinations and there's 21 minutes before Siren King wakes up."

Mu Sicheng looked complicated and confused, his tone and mood getting more and more agitated: "Yes, but he can obviously pass straight through ..... "

Other spectators were even more furious and anxious, some of them already stamping their feet in place.

As Wang Shun puts it, Bai Liu began to hallucinate, and the monsters in front of him became "so numerous" that a single mermaid could make three heads appear in Bai Liu's eyes, which would have scared anyone else, but Bai Liu just shook his head and began to obsessively avoid them again.

But instead of diving towards the bottom of the sea, where he could pass, he swam around like a fish that couldn't find its way, muddling and stumbling.

Bai Liu was thus attacked twice more, one of his feet and the broken palm swept off by the mermaid, and the pain caused Bai Liu to involuntarily curl up and try to cover the broken surface of his wound.

Such a vulnerable move undoubtedly exposes more weaknesses and turns Bai Liu's back completely on the creature behind him. The mermaid guarding Bai Liu's back gives a sardonic grin that cracks behind his ears and a fishtail slaps Bai Liu hard on the side of his face.

The tremendous force of the blow cut a trail of water waves in the sea water. Even with the cushioning of the sea water, judging from the ripples of the waves, it did not prevent the attack from being powerful, and this tail would have snapped Bai Liu's spine 100%.

Almost everyone in the audience subconsciously closed their eyes to the moment of Bai Liu's death, when suddenly a large, plastic-like bubble appeared between Bai Liu and the mermaid, bouncing the mermaid away as Bai Liu cowered behind the bubble, slowly gasping for breath through his gills.

Wang Shun exclaims out of breath: "Bubbles in the water! That's right! Bai Liu bought a water bubble earlier!"

Bai Liu didn't have an accident, but watching Bai Liu the small TV audience looked like something was going to happen, to a hijacked and deflated tone.

"Bai Liu, give yourself and us a chance to live! Please stop playing and get through it!"

"Shit, Bai Liu I killed a pig in my last life and watched your videos in this one, it's so sinful, I think I'm having a heart attack from you."

Mu Sicheng, somehow relieved to see Bai Liu alive, asked, " When did Bai Liu buy it? Did he spend the points on it?"

The water bubbles were very expensive in the mid to late stages and he hadn't seen Bai Liu buy them, but if he had bought them in the very early stages and bought them and kept them unused until now, spending 70 points to do this kind of hoarding was a bit wasteful and risky for a newcomer like Bai Liu.

Mu Sicheng frowned: " Did Bai Liu force out seventy points upfront to stockpile props?"

"No." Wang Shun's expression became very complicated, "When he bought this bubble, this bubble only had 40 points."

"40 points?" Mu Sicheng was a bit surprised, "The normal price for water bubbles is 70, how did he get this 40?!"

Wang Shun gave Mu Sicheng an account of the circumstances and sighed a little bit about his initial guess that Bai Liu was playing a time difference price war to save money, but to his surprise, it was really true.

So early on, Bai Liu had predicted that all these props would go up in price and had stocked up on [Bubbles in Water] when it was cheapest.

You know that Muke's [Water Bubbles] have now gone up to almost 400 points a piece, and Bai Liu bought a Water Bubble for a tenth of a point, so while Muke is being screwed over by the system, Bai Liu will already be taking advantage of the system to win the difference ......

The same viewer who said Bai Liu was hoarding props to save his life and knew absolutely nothing about the system shop was there, and now he was watching Bai Liu's series of actions and was dumbfounded.

It is clear that Bai Liu not only knows how the whole system shop works, but is also using it to his advantage.

This audience is red with shame - how can people be so different from each other ......

Mu Sicheng's eyes look inquisitively and thoughtfully at Bai Liu, who is hiding behind a bubble on the screen to catch his breath and calm down.

...... What a monster this newcomer really is.

The last time he saw someone who dared to play with the system was Spades, the number one player in the standings.

"I'm still curious though." Mu Sicheng curled his index finger against his chin, his eyes focused on Bai Liu on the small TV, pondering, "How does he know that this [water bubble] he bought will work for sure?"

"There are two endings to this part of Siren Town, the first NORMAL end just requires running out of Siren Town to clear the level, the subsequent ones are all land chases with no use of water bubbles at all, which is the way most people will choose to clear the level."

Mu Sicheng goes on to say, "Only the true end requires going to sea, but the true end is essentially just an additional side quest to return Siren King, so the point reward is not much higher than the normal end, and the risk is surprisingly high, so no one in their right mind would choose this route. "

Wang Shun was also deep in thought: "But Bai Liu is new and may not know this?"

"I think he could have guessed that." Mu Sicheng shook his head, " Bai Liu should have figured out that the game gives points according to the mission mode board, that is, completing a mission for a specified number of points, essentially speaking, if we are talking purely about the risk-reward of points, normal end is much higher than true end."

Wang Shun looked at Mu Sicheng twice, "So God Mu, why are you playing the true end line?"

Mu Sicheng was silent for two seconds and said, "High risk does come with high reward, there are not many point rewards here in the true end line, or rather the [reward] of the true end line is not something as simple as points, there is something that you need to walk the true end line to get, and the value of that something is fully worthy of the high risk of the true end line's high stakes."

"What's that?" Wang Shun wondered.

Mu Sicheng swept him a glance: "The reward after the monster book is set, the only way to get this reward is to take the TRUE END line to set the monster book, but the matter of setting the monster book Bai Liu is impossible to do."

"Why not ......" Wang Shun retorted subconsciously, he quickly reacted and looked a little stunned at Bai Liu on the small TV, "Fuck! Right! Siren King from the Bai Liu monster book is a wandering god class npc!"

"I'm thinking of the worst case scenario ......" Mu Sicheng was deep in thought, "Bai Liu most likely doesn't know how dangerous Siren King is as a god class npc, but he should be able to I have a feeling that Bai Liu is prepared to collect the Monster Book, which means he is prepared to stall for time until Siren King wakes up, that's why he is not in a hurry to pass out ......"

Wang Shun was so shocked that his mind went into a bit of a trance, he looked dumbfounded at the small TV screen and his mouth grew, "...... No way ......"

Bai Liu from the mini TV hides behind the water bubble and does not enter it, playing hide and seek with the mermaids and fish.

The crowd is getting anxious again, Bai Liu always has the ability to play his own game and make everyone anxious for him.

"This bubble has very low defence, if we keep letting these mermaids attack, it won't take long before it breaks and the prop will be wasted!"

Bai Liu looked sideways at a spot on the water bubble behind him that had cracked from the constant attacks of the mermaids and fish.

But the water doesn't penetrate, only the mermaid's hand can probe into the water bubbles. Bai Liu finally gives a relieved smile, but the audience in front of the small TV is wailing and screaming, so anxious that they want to play the game for Bai Liu across the screen.

Muke has also taken refuge in the water bubbles and is running all over the sea to stall for time.

Those who had left Bai Liu's side and gone to Muke's side were bored, and when they found Bai Liu's side was on the brink of death, they came back with gusto, but they avoided Mu Sicheng in the centre and only dared to gather in the corner to discuss with contempt.

"These people also gave Bai Liu and Muke so many points, it's so annoying to watch, no vision at all, might as well give it to me, at least I won't hang playing Siren town."

"I'm pissed off, I've had my eye on that edge promotion spot for a long time, I was all set to get into the game, but then two new people came and stole it for me, I'm so annoyed, hurry up and die, after that I'll be able to get on the promotion spot."

Bai Liu, oblivious to all this talk of the outside world being anxious for him or wishing him dead, is down to 40 and teetering on the second mental danger mark.

Crossing this hurdle, he hallucinates a great deal and Bai Liu's consciousness is already somewhat lapsed and he has to focus all his attention on the bubbles in the water behind him.

Already a mermaid had gotten in through the crack in the bubble. Bai Liu let go of the bubble, turned and held it in front of himself, and locked eyes with the decaying-faced mermaid inside the [water bubble], slowly sinking in the sea.

Bai Liu is the bait that is attached to the bubble to lure the mermaids into the net, and the viewers in front of the small TV seem to have noticed that Bai Liu is up to something big, but at the same time are wondering.

"What else can he do? The air bubble is broken too, there's no outer outer barrier only the inner barrier function left, which equates to just a bunch of air not leaking out, he doesn't have any props left to use does he?"

The air-only bubble is like an embryo, encasing the mermaid monsters that twist and turn to fill it. Bai Liu closes his eyes and leans back to let out a long breath, a string of bubbles rising from his gills, and he releases his hand, which has grown a fleshy membrane, and the bubbles float before him.

Bai Liu says to the system: [Take out a bottle of alcohol]

A bottle of alcohol appeared in the bubble and Bai Liu kicked it away.

The clear alcohol slowly filled from the bottom. Bai Liu reached into the bubble, lit the lighter and tossed it in with a faint look, withdrawing it before the creature could reach out and touch his hand, and a burning ball of fire lit up suddenly in the deepest part of the sea.

The hissing of the mermaids and the dancing flames of the fire are reflected in the light and shade of Bai Liu's face.

It was only at this point that the audience realised that Bai Liu was actually laughing.

His lightly curved smile mingled with the firelight and the bright green fish scales reflecting off the bridge of Bai Liu's nose and under his eyes, giving him a subtle inhuman look, more like a monster subdued in the deep than even the mermaids burning in the bubbles.

The flame-devoured mermaid's palms in the transparent bubble flapped desperately against the bubble, bleeding blue-green blood and dirty handprints on the bubble's walls, and smoke rose up in a dizzying haze inside the sphere, soon obliterating the mermaids' faces, which grew uglier and more hideous as they struggled.

Bai Liu floats silently in the water, watching the mermaids that attacked him being easily destroyed by the flames, with an impassive and seemingly absent smile on his face, a smile that reveals a cruelty that is more creepy than monsters, and powerful.

After the burning bubble was used by Bai Liu to clear a wave of mermaid monsters, he dragged it around and used it as a [Flaming Torch in Water], not only for defence, but also because the bubble in the water broke the small opening, which could be used to swallow the mermaid attack to destroy the monsters, both offensively and defensively.

The rich oil that spills out of the burning mermaids is even more powerful than the fire from the alcohol, and the 'fireball' grows as it consumes the mermaids at the bottom of the sea.

The fire grew brighter and the roasting aroma that spilled from the burning mermaids made it an almost bizarre sight to see these instinct-driven monsters burrowing into Bai Liu's bubble one after the other to feed.

-- Bai Liu stood guard, his face calm as he watched the mermaid monsters line up to kill themselves in the water bubbles in front of him, while he lounged at ease.

The viewers in front of the screen were completely dumbfounded, and many of them grew up, not knowing what to say about this bug-like solution to break the game.

Even Mu Sicheng, who was used to seeing a lot of things, couldn't help but let out a long breath and pulled his hat down to cover his face in some frustration, " Bai Liu, that's too much, it makes me look so stupid when I pass the level, getting slaughtered and running all over the place."

"I'm convinced, I'm totally convinced." Wang Shun was in awe.

"Flame-based props are powerful against mermaids, but they can't be used at the bottom of the sea because there are no burning conditions, just like Muke's fiery torches couldn't be used at the bottom of the sea earlier, but paired with water bubbles, these props will work."

"But only if the person cannot stay in the [water bubble], and if the [water bubble] is allowed to break a hole so that the [barrier function] of the bubble against the outside fish monsters is gone."

"This is the equivalent of scrapping a prop, retaining only the [barrier] function to the fish inside the bubble, the mermaids can't get out easily once they're inside, turning a defensive prop into an offensive prop for trapping mermaids to incinerate monsters, a very bold prop modification."

Mu Sicheng nodded: " Bai Liu's earlier actions were supposed to lure the mermaids into attacking his bubble, and he needed a gap for them to burrow through. "

"How did you come up with that? " sighs Wang Shun, "I feel like I haven't played the game with my head compared to Bai Liu."

"I don't think it's about using your head, it's actually an easy way to think." Mu Sicheng shakes his head, " Bai Liu's strength is in his psychological quality."

" Bai Liu has this [water bubble] prop on his hand that is brand new and he can totally hide in it to get through, and while it is true that [water bubble] could be breached by a mermaid, it is much less risky and gives a sense of psychological safety."

"But to completely give up a relatively safe environment, break the [bubble barrier] that protects you, and also calmly use yourself as bait to trap mermaids, kill all the mermaids back through this broken [barrier gap], and burn all the monsters that are a threat to you, this kind of unconcern about whether you can survive and drive the monsters to extinction is really ......"

"Extreme and crazy." Mu Sicheng reviews.

The general audience, who had just gotten so excited that they told Bai Liu to get into the bubble, were even more embarrassed.

"Gee, Bai Liu bought alcohol so early to prepare for the subsequent pass ...... Before there were people who mocked Bai Liu for buying too much alcohol is stupid, now I see this is the one who is stupid, yes, that's right, talking about myself."

"I counted nine bottles just about right and Bai Liu still bought the alcohol at the cheapest possible time and didn't spend any extra points, I'm convinced, what kind of brain is it to get all the plans stuck together so seamlessly ......"

"...Bai Liu cleared all the monsters in the map "Siren Town", right? It's the first time I've seen someone clear a map ......"

The group of players who had ridiculed Bai Liu in the corner earlier were even darker and darker, many of them had ridiculed Bai Liu for buying too much alcohol for no use.

Now Bai Liu's use of alcohol [to buy more] is so brilliant that it reflects the shallowness of those who have ridiculed him before.

The group was now honest, and they all cowered in the corner, not daring to utter a single word.

In the small TV Bai Liu is dragging a whole burning "mermaid ball" in his left hand and is indeed close to clearing the sea floor of mermaid monsters except for a few scattered mermaids that don't come close.

But at that moment, the eyelids of Siren King, whom Bai Liu had been holding in his right hand, suddenly fluttered and the tail of the fish stirred gently, and the brain of Bai Liu, who was holding Siren King, suddenly shook.

[System Warning: Player Bai Liu has been affected by Siren King's awakening and is currently at Mental Value 21, falling below the second Mental Value safety line of 40, the player is about to see a lot of hallucinations]

Bai Liu only felt his brain buzzing, if the 41 spirit value just now made him feel like he had been drinking fake wine, now with a fierce 21 spirit value, Bai Liu felt similar to the feeling after eating poisonous mushrooms on the Internet, with colored, kaleidoscopic shards of glass in front of his eyes.

He felt like he was in an underground disco in the 70s or 80s, with a splitting headache and a loss of control over his limbs.

His retina diffracts a thousand different coloured halos of light, in which human faces crawl out, including these mermaid monsters and all sorts of people and things Bai Liu has encountered in the real world, and Bai Liu even sees his company's boss, and Jeff and Andre's faces growing on these mermaid bodies.

They grin wryly and lunge at Bai Liu.

Bai Liu saw Siren King, who was holding his hand, slowly open his eyes and look at him. Lucy's hand thrusts into Bai Liu's chest.

Blood drips slowly from Bai Liu's chest, dripping open in the water as Lucy scoops out Bai Liu's heart and swallows it in great gulps, blood and flesh froth slipping from the corners of her happy mouth as she comes up to kiss Bai Liu's cheek, the moment it is to be kissed.

The sharp stinging pain from his shoulder blade cleared Bai Liu's overly dazed mind a little.

This seems to be true, Bai Liu thought absently.

When Wang Shun saw Bai Liu floating in the sea with his pupils out of focus and his arms and legs weak, he said, "No! Bai Liu has entered a massive hallucination phase!"

Soon, someone bit Bai Liu's shoulder, and the way Bai Liu did not react, only twitching his shoulder slightly, confirmed what Wang Shun had said.

Wang Shun was in a hurry and couldn't care less that Bai Liu couldn't hear him, so he shouted at the small TV: "Buy props for the spirit value! Bai Liu! Drift the spirit value back!"

"No." Mu Sicheng shook his head and interrupted Wang Shun, "You can't drift, if you get drifted up to sixty spirit value, Bai Liu will simply be released from his mermaid alienation status."

"He is still in the deep sea, and if he is released from his mermaid alienation state, Bai Liu will become [normal] and he will be drowned straight away, and in these deep waters, Bai Liu is more likely to be burst into pieces due to the difference in internal and external pressure."

Wang Shun looked at Bai Liu, who was floating in the sea without moving, and was really anxious: "What should we do? If he keeps getting attacked by mermaids, his spirit level will keep dropping, and if it drops to 0, he will become a monster!"

Mu Sicheng took a deep breath: "It's up to ...... Bai Liu himself, he needs to stay awake in these intense hallucinations."

Bai Liu is unable to distinguish between hallucinations and reality, but he is not immobile and unresponsive, as Wang Shun thinks he is, Bai Liu just can't tell where he is going, but he knows he is going to the bottom of the sea, so he takes the stupidest and easiest way out, which is to relax his body and let himself sink.

He is now a fish, not a man, and with a Siren King in his other hand, he could reasonably sink without moving, and as for being attacked by these mermaids during the sinking process -

Bai Liu closes his eyes and fully stretches his body, the coin in his white shirt floating strangely off his collarbone, revealing that it is not a real coin and that mermaids are swimming back and forth around the sinking Bai Liu to devour him.