Chapter 5: The small town of Siren

Bai Liu could hear the crisp clang of marble against the door, and the door handle moved twice this time.

Although the door had been unlocked, the door handle sounded like it was soon to be scrapped with the fragile metallic fracture of a gragra under the vigorous twisting of the wax figure of a mermaid outside the door.

The thing seemed to be trying to get in, its dead white eyes searched around Bai Liu's room, seemingly noticing that there was no one in the room, it seemed to leave Bai Liu's door, the door handle did not move, the room became silent and silent outside, the other side seemed to leave.

But Bai Liu still held his breath, he remembered that the thing made that dull sliding sound when it moved, and it wasn't right without it.

The mermaid wax figure had not left at all, but was still more or less silently guarding his door.

This thing is tricking him, luring him out, Bai Liu thought as he squinted and noticed that the cat's eyes, which had reverted to the colour of carpet, had suddenly turned back to the white of bulging eyeballs.

That thing is really still there.

The thing waited for a moment seemingly undeterred, still trying to get in, and the door handle was violently twisted into a protruding broken shape, rattling to slide off the door.

The mermaid wax figure outside the door is coming in.

Bai Liu Some of the kind-hearted viewers in front of the TV screen have already closed their eyes in disgust.

"It's rare to see a seeded player...eh, shame."

"The main thing is that this copy of Siren town is so disgusting, it's not even a novice copy of the difficulty, it's totally killing it for newbies."

Bai Liu's mind raced and his breathing slowed.

The game tells him quite clearly that these ghostly monsters have weaknesses that the player can use to escape from these monsters, so the way to break the game at the moment is to find the weaknesses that limit the movement of this thing.

Bai Liu closes his eyes to reflect on the whole process of moving in tonight.

As long as it's a game, it's got a solution, and games without solutions are the worst. Bai Liu has been making horror games for years, and he's beyond sure that there must be something that hints at the weakness of other people's fish wax figures.

What exactly is it .....

Bai Liu calmly begins to sort out all the scenes in which he meets the mermaid wax figure.

The first time was at the fountain outside the hotel, Jeff exclaimed that he saw the mermaid wax figure moving, the movement was silent, just spinning behind the car, the mermaid wax figure wasn't looking directly at them, it was looking into the water.

The second time was in the hotel lobby, where a huge number of various wax figures of mermaids, looking straight at them, did not move.

The third time was in the hotel room, except for the huge mermaid wax figure looking into the mirror, the rest of the mermaid wax figures looked straight at Bai Liu and started moving after Bai Liu fell asleep, the mirror mermaid was the fastest moving, but after Bai Liu woke up these wax figures did not move.

But apparently Bai Liu staying awake is not some condition that restricts the movement of the mermaid wax figure, because the one outside the door is ready to break in.

There will be no situation where the game cannot be broken, he must have something on him, something that can limit the movement of the mermaid wax figure.

It is not something in the room, it is not something in the hotel, it must be something brought by Bai Liu, because the hotel and the room do not restrict the movement of the wax figure of the mermaid, as evidenced by the fact that this wax figure was able to move freely in and out of Jeff's room before.

What exactly is it?

Mirror...water...sleep .... Look straight ahead!

Bai Liu knows what it is.

Bai Liu jerked to his feet as he pulled the door open and stared directly at the wax figure of a mermaid.

The wax figure outside the door is close enough to be seen from Bai Liu's point of view, the lifeless mermaid's face seemingly pressed against the tip of Bai Liu's nose, its palm still resting on Bai Liu's doorknob, its pure white beadless eyes peering through the cat's eye into the lower right corner - that's where Bai Liu is hiding.

No wonder this thing had to come in, it must have seen Bai Liu hiding in the bottom right corner behind the door.

Its movement stopped, its fish tail having touched Bai Liu's toe, and at the last moment of stepping into Bai Liu's room, it came to a standstill in front of Bai Liu's door.

Bai Liu was relieved to be right, the weakness that kept this thing immobile was the direct view of the human eye.

Bai Liu The crowd in front of the small TV was stunned.

"Holy shit!!! How did he think of that!!! Just pulled the door open without hesitation!"

"The average new player would not even think of it, and even if they did, they would not dare to pull the door open, only to look directly through the cat's eye, and that would still be certain death, because that close to look through a mirror image like the cat's eye, the movement of the mermaid wax figure would only be partially restricted, enough to break through the door."

"Woj, I got goosebumps when he just locked eyes with the mermaid wax figure!"

"What's his name, so awesome this new guy ...."

The crowd gradually gathers around Bai Liu's small TV.

[168 people watched player Bai Liu's mini-TV, player Bai Liu achieved the Novice 100 achievement]

[102 people liked Bai Liu's TV, 143 people favorited Bai Liu's TV, 3 people charged Bai Liu's TV, 3 points were awarded to Bai Liu].

Bai Liu's expression on the small TV remains calm and collected, as if he doesn't think he's done anything remarkable.

Deducing the weakness that [Human Eyes] restricts the movement of mermaid wax figures when they see it is actually quite simple.

Because the wax figures started moving after Bai Liu went to sleep, and they stopped instantly after he woke up, the only difference before and after he went to sleep was that he opened his eyes, and that means that [human sight] is able to limit the movement of the wax figures of mermaids.

But there is a catch here - and that is that looking at such a thing across a mirror-like object only weakens some of the movement of the mermaid wax figure, and one must look directly at it to stop it completely.

Because there are two other kinds of wax figures that can also move under the direct view of the human eye, the wax figure of the fountain in front of the hotel and the wax figure of the mirror mermaid in the room.

The mermaid wax figure in the fountain pool outside the hotel door looks into the water, then one is looking [directly] at the mermaid wax figure through the water. Although the mermaid wax figure is restricted and cannot move fast, it can still move slowly or even turn, which is why it turns slowly at the door.

And of the mermaid wax figures in the room, the mirror mermaid is the fastest moving, also because the mirror mermaid looks inside the mirror and the limiting force given by the person looking [directly] at the wax figure through the mirror is limited, which is why the mirror mermaid runs the fastest.

The mermaid just now was looking at Bai Liu through the cat's eye, so it can move, while Bai Liu should be able to move if he is just looking directly at the mermaid wax figure through the cat's eye alone, although there will be some limitations.

This close, through the cat's eye is definitely not enough to limit the mermaid's movement to break in, if it is allowed in, the player is pinned under the door and loses the condition of [Human Eye Direct], the player will soon be cold.

But it has to be said that in this case, there are very few new players indeed who can have pulled the door open to look squarely at the mermaid wax figure.

Most of the players panicked, even if they deduced the condition of [Human Eyes Seeing Straight], they did not have the courage to verify it. Only Bai Liu, the one who wanted money and not life, had this kind of calmness even if he was not 100% sure his deduction was right, but still justified.

[Siren Small Town Monster Book] Mermaid Wax Panel Refresh

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

[Vulnerability: Human eye direct vision (1/3)]

[Mode of attack: Hatching]

The wax figure of a mermaid with downcast eyes and a head tilted slightly to the right, the corners of her mouth slightly raised with a hint of a smile, a graceful fish tail, a flawless white body and a posture of indescribable hidden beauty and divinity.

Once this wax figure is fixed still, the spine-tingling invasiveness of its body disappears, transforming it into a wax figure of great aesthetic value, standing silently in front of the door of the house of a stranger in the midnight of the seaside.

[Player Bai Liu gets 3 points for watching player charge and unlocking the game merchandise shop]

[Points are too low to purchase any items, so please keep up the good work!

That player charged three points, Bai Liu kind of got it, someone who was watching should have rewarded him, and this unlocked merchandise shop, where all the items were black and white, showed a status of [Unavailable for purchase].

After a few brief glances, he found that this merchandise shop had everything from daily necessities to weapons, and a lot of messy things, what with [intact heart], [magic potion at first sight], such unbelievable-sounding items were also on sale, but accordingly, the prices of such items were very high.

Bai Liu understood the phrase when he entered the game - [Points can buy everything you want].

Bai Liu closes the shop and stares at the wax figure of a mermaid that remains motionless in front of him.

It's true that the thing isn't moving now, but Bai Liu can't stay up all night confronting this thing, and after this incident, Bai Liu has a new appreciation for the destructive power of this thing.

He looked to the stainless steel handle that was just about to come off his own door.

Judging from the behaviour of those wax figures in his room earlier, it seems that although this thing has enormous destructive power, it can only rely on the eyes to locate it, or rather, it is only sensitive to visual things, and once it is covered by the white cloth there is no way to locate Bai Liu, even if it is difficult to find him in the same room.

In other words, the mermaid wax figure appears to have no senses such as hearing and smell.

If Bai Liu was in the same size room as the wax figure of many fish, it would have been easy to locate Bai Liu by listening to his breathing and unscrewing his head like a doorknob, so there would be no need to rip off the white cloth to find him.

.... What a pain in the arse, and such a large quantity, what a burden to keep.

Bai Liu narrowed his eyes slightly and had an evil thought in his mind - now he had a wax figure in front of him that was motionless and at his mercy, could he experiment with it and see what its weaknesses were, like roasting it over a fire and knocking it to pieces with a stick ....

[Tip: If the player attacks the monster directly, if the monster does not die, it will cause the monster's hate value to stay on the player for a long time and will keep attacking the player, reducing the player's survival rate]

Bai Liu strokes his chin thoughtfully and he smiles, a small, harmless pear swirl appearing on the right side of his face.

"Attacking it directly will cause it to hold a grudge against me and take revenge on me, right..." Bai Liu said to himself, "Then I can't be blamed if something happens to it on its own."

Bai Liu did the same trick again, wrapping the mermaid wax figure in a sheet and then tying the openings underneath with string, before he unkindly placed the mermaid wax figure at the entrance to the hotel staircase.

The wax figure of a mermaid walks around headlessly when it cannot be seen. Bai Liu put the wax figure of a mermaid in this place so that the wax figure would actively fall down the stairs.

Bai Liu is not going to break these wax figures if there is hate value, which is fine if he can, but if he can't, he's obviously going to get himself into trouble.

Bai Liu has only one pair of eyes, and if he is surrounded by wax figures in a 360-degree view, the horizontal view of the human eye is only 188 degrees at most, and Bai Liu has no way to see all of them with eyes in the back of his head, then he will surely die.

Bai Liu likes to do things that are more cost effective and although the game says that using weaknesses to escape from monsters is all that is needed, he wanted to know if he could just destroy the wax figures in some way.

Or whether there are other fatal weaknesses in these wax figures.

He doesn't do it by actively cracking or striking the wax figure of a mermaid, the risk is too great for him to take - who knows what will crawl out of this chrysalis or cocoon when it breaks.

But the mermaid wax figure has nothing to do with him if he stepped off the stairs and fell because of his own poor eyesight.

Bai Liu just wanted to do a little test to verify that the thing could be smashed and he retreated back into the room.

The wax figure of the mermaid did move shortly afterwards, and Bai Liu was puzzled. He was still looking at the wax figure, but it was covered by a white cloth and did not know that Bai Liu was looking at him, so it moved on its own.

This proves that [the human eye looking directly at it] is only an objective condition, and that the mermaid wax figure has to feel subjectively that it is being looked at directly in order to stop moving.

With so many wax figures in Bai Liu's room, there was no way for him to look at them all at once, and before Bai Liu had a chance to look around once he woke up, they had voluntarily stopped moving.

So as soon as the mermaid wax figure [feels] like it's being looked at directly, it will stop moving.

To be self-aware to this level, these things are indeed living creatures, or living creatures with some degree of intelligence, although it does not appear to be a high degree of intelligence.

The wax figure of a mermaid at the stairway struggled a few times, and with a stroke from the side of the stairway steps, it crackled down covered in white cloth, puffing out with a loud dusty thud.

Bai Liu stood on the stairs and looked down, patting the dust from his hands and tsking with some regret as he looked down at the wax figure of a mermaid, unscathed and only slightly curled up, with not even a crack in the marble.

...... really can't be broken ah ...... physical attacks are ineffective ah ....

Bai Liu was unaware that his villain-like appearance was on small TV, causing a crowd of players to gawk.

"Is this guy really a newcomer? Covered head in bed sheet drops mermaid wax figure down stairs .... .... Was this new guy a kidnapper before he came in? Or a terrorist?"

"I was just nervous and scared for him, now I'm starting to feel sorry for the mermaid wax figure knocking on the door, it's fallen on its tail, it's so bad..."

"...... Does this guy really think of himself as a player?!"

"All the other players are trying to survive the monsters, but he's good, he just doesn't want the monsters to live..."