Chapter 14

No wonder [The Boat of True Love] has 100 points for this side mission, which is much more dangerous than the other missions.

Andre couldn't control his appetite, so he reached out to grab the sandwich in the driver's hand: "Give me a bite!"

The sandwich in the driver's hand was stuffed into the mouth by Andre wolfishly. He ate it very rudely. He couldn't chew a few times and swallowed while beating his chest. The pity eyes of feeding animals looked at Andre who was hunched over to eat: "Eat, my child, eat, you are so hungry, haven't you eaten much? Enjoy your dinner."

Bai Liu took a look and said, "This is his second dinner tonight." The first meal was taken by Andre from Jeff.

Jeff, who was robbed of his dinner, moved when he heard this, lowered his head and covered his face, and there were also gill-like lines around his ears. Jeff's gills seemed to have opened for a moment because of anger. , the teeth became as sharp and fine as a shark.

But such a creepy scene was only for a moment. When Bai Liu looked over, Jeff lowered his head timidly, covering his face as if nothing had happened, but the corner of his eye still stayed strangely in the rearview mirror Reflected on the face of the white willow.

[Jerph's bloody plot, branch progress 50%]

Bai Liu frowned unobtrusively—why did the progress of this task increase just now, and now it has increased again?

Jeff should have decided to attack Andeva once before, but why did he raise it this time?

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When Bai Liu and the others arrived at the port, when they got off the car, he remembered the fact that the driver's trust in him was extremely low. Thinking that the driver in [Jerf's Bloody Conspiracy] was probably involved, Bai Liu still wanted to take the driver, an important npc The trust level increased, so when he got out of the car, he handed over money to the driver as a tip in the name of thanking the driver, but the driver looked at the money that was not given to him in Bailiu's package with serious eyes, and finally cracked a hideous With a smile, he kissed the tip Bai Liu gave him, waved and said: "I wish you a good time."

[Jerph's Bloody Conspiracy - 80% progress in branch line]

Bai Liu thought to himself that the townspeople here are really robbers, their eyes glow green when they see the money, he doesn't seem to see the driver's greedy eyes on the banknotes in his pocket, he opened them openly for the driver to see, Bai Liu's face With the usual smile: "We will."

The place to watch mermaid fishing activities is on a ship. This giant ship slowly leaves the port at night. The deck is full of sailors who come and go silently. Fishermen like fish, Bai Liu and the others probably boarded the boat after it was completely dark, and the fishermen on the small boat below kept looking straight at Bai Liu and his party on the deck.

There is an essential difference between the sailors on this deck and the fishermen on the ground. The most important thing is that these sailors look like people instead of fish, and there are no weird patterns on their faces, and there is no fishy smell on their bodies, but their skin is white. Point, very similar to the hotel receptionist who said he had albinism.

Bai Liu observed carefully, there were actually not many people on this huge ship, and he didn't know why it was necessary to drive such a large ship when it came out to fish...it was too wasteful.

And there is something wrong with this boat, Bai Liu noticed it when he got on the boat, the draft of this boat is too deep, there must be something very heavy on board.

The sailors walked back and forth on the boat expressionlessly, as if they hadn't seen Bai Liu and his group. Occasionally, Bai Liu would find a few sailors standing in a dark corner looking at Bai Liu and them with strange eyes, and then Whispering with the sailor next to him, he smiled contentedly and weirdly.

The boat sailed.

The sea is calm in the middle of the night, and the light from the searchlight on the bow can only illuminate a small area of ​​the sea. Other than that, there is darkness that seems to swallow this giant ship. The sailors assigned work in an orderly manner, and the fishermen beside the boat laid their fishing nets.

The ship sailed into the bottomless night.

Lucy was standing next to Bai Liu in a cloak, her lipstick-covered lips were blown purple at the moment, and she huddled beside Bai Liu to keep warm: "Why is it so cold, Bai Liu, I just asked them, and they said they wanted to fish The mermaid will sail the boat to the sea area where the first mermaid was caught, and only from that place can the mermaid be caught, and they call that sea area [Siren’s Gift], as if there is a legend.”

Bai Liu: "The Siren's gift?"

"Yes." Lucy pulled the cloak closer, and she said shiveringly, "God, it's so cold, I feel like I'm going to hell full of ghosts, only there can be such a cold wind .”

Bai Liu didn't feel cold, he suddenly thought of something, and swept Lucy with a coin.

[npc name: Lucy (alienating)]

Bai Liu reached out and touched Lucy's hand. Her skin was cold and hard, like a stone covered with human skin. Lucy smiled and looked at Bai Liu. She probably wanted to frown, but the muscles on her face It was also as stiff as a corpse, which made her expression very strange, like an abstract figure painting by Picasso.

Her voice also became hoarse, with inexplicable eagerness: "Are you going to make out with me?"

Bai Liu declined politely: "No." He found an explanation for himself, "There are too many people here."

…. Lucy is not being blown cold, but her own body temperature is dropping.

Jeref, who did not know when he appeared next to the white willow, looked at the sea in front of him with a very fanatical gaze, and he murmured in a low voice: "Yes, a gift from the siren, it is said that the sea here is a gift from the king of the siren." , can bring the dead back to life, when the tourists who accidentally fell into the water and drowned die in this sea area, the Siren King will give them the power of rebirth, and they will turn into mermaids and return to the world... That's why fishermen can catch mermaids here .”

Bai Liuxin said that the Siren King had already been picked up and kept in the museum, why is this sea area still producing mermaids continuously?

And it was when the Siren King was caught ashore that this sea area began to produce mermaids continuously...

And the dead ghost turned into a mermaid and returned to the human world. This doesn't sound like a story of "blessing from the gods" at all. This story is more like a curse/cult myth.

Bai Liu added a creepy follow-up to this story in his heart—the dead people turned into mermaids were fished out and poured into marble to make sculptures for tourists to visit, and some mermaids were directly made into food and eaten by The townspeople in the town used it to eat it, and then these mermaid sculptures finally started to play tricks, and the tourists in the town began to disappear one after another...

This doesn't look like a gift from a siren, but rather like a mermaid's revenge.

The sailor came over suddenly and said: "We are going to the siren's gift sea area, please don't wander around on the boat, otherwise we will not be responsible for what happens." After finishing speaking, Bai Liu found that all the sailors went to the bottom of the boat Went, the deck was suddenly empty.

Bai Liu narrowed her eyes, circled around the boat a few times, pretending to follow one of the sailors casually.

The sailors all went to the lowest cabin, that is, the warehouse. These sailors walked down the wooden ladder one by one to the cabin with no emotion on their faces, and then came out one by one, accompanied by some whispers:

"Mine... no problem."

"...just make sure these things are okay."

"A few were broken before, but it doesn't matter. After the four people who came tonight are eaten, new ones can be put in."

This group of sailors seemed to be checking something important, and then came out one by one after checking.

Bai Liu hid in the corner, squinted his eyes, and thought to himself that there was something very heavy in the bottom bin, which was heavy and very important... Bai Liu vaguely guessed what it was, but he still didn't know why these sailors had to go out to fish. with this thing.

After all the sailors had left, the last sailor seemed to have forgotten to lock the bottom compartment and left.

The lock is just hung on the door of the bottom warehouse, shaking back and forth with the waves, it seems to be saying to the player Bai Liu, come and explore me~ come and explore me~

Bai Liu opened the door and went down. After going down, there was a long, narrow wooden staircase, which creaked when walking, leading to the bottom warehouse that could not be seen clearly. There were no lights on both sides. The whole structure was like a cellar. Bai Liu did not go down. Instead, he turned on the flashlight to see if there was anything in the bottom bin as he expected.

He turned on the flashlight and looked down, even though he had expected it, Bai Liu's breathing was still suffocated.

The warehouse is full of all kinds of mermaid sculptures. These sculptures are densely packed throughout the bottom warehouse. At first glance, there is almost no place to stay. They are all white sculptures, and these mermaid sculptures all stretch their heads up in unison. With his head down, Bai Liu looked straight at Bai Liu with his white eyes. Bai Liu found that there were significantly more sculptures around the stairs he was standing on. The mermaid sculptures were like fish swarming after smelling fishy smell, and two of them had already stepped onto it. The stairs where Bai Liu was, was flickered by the light of the flashlight, and went down again.

But the light of the flashlight can only illuminate one place. In the dark place in the warehouse that cannot be illuminated, the sound of rustling and dull stones rubbing against the ground is constantly heard, and more and more people are gradually gathering on the stairs where Bai Liu is. The mermaid sculpture is like a fish looking up to eat bait, staring at Bai Liu.

But Bai Liu did not return. He also stared at the faces of these sculptures for a while, then suddenly put down the flashlight, walked down, and stretched out his hand to try to touch these sculptures.

Wang Shun who was watching in front of the small TV: "!!!!"