Chapter 516

Jeff has been dozing off all morning, and now he has dark circles under his eyes, his skin is blue-gray, and his eye sockets are sunken.

And he didn't know if it was Bai Liu's illusion, he felt that Andre's pupils had shrunk a little compared to yesterday, and his whole body had a nervous and restless aura that made people uncomfortable, and there was a faint fishy smell on his body taste.

Bai Liu took out the coin and swept it at Andre.

[npc name: Andre (decreased mental value, alienating)]

Andre seemed to have a big appetite at this time, and he ate a large plate of the hotel's buffet breakfast, as if pouring it directly into his throat.

Because this hotel is close to the sea, most of the breakfast is boiled and fried fish.

But Bai Liu smelled a pungent fishy smell like rotten fish tails, like the smell of dead fish surrounded by flies that he smelled in the garbage dump where the fishmongers threw fish in the vegetable market. The bright fish dishes start to gag, let alone swallow.

But both Jeff and Lucy showed expressions that these things are very fragrant.

Bai Liu took out the coin and scanned it, and sure enough, the two also showed [Alienation in progress], which should be related to the mermaid statue in the room.

Not to mention Andre, the way he ate made Bai Liu feel a little uncomfortable. Andre was chewing big mouthfuls, the wet/slippery dark/black fish tail slapping his mouth as he chewed, often he used a fork to pick up the next one before he finished eating. mouth to send.

Lucy cut the fish steak with a knife and fork, and looked at Bai Liu with a little surprise: "Don't you eat it? Baby! The fish steak here is really delicious, even if I want to go on a diet, I can't help but eat two!"

"You really found a pretty nice seaside hotel!" As she said, Lucy was about to lean over and kiss him.

But Bai Liu was choked by the strong fishy smell in Lucy's mouth, and subconsciously pushed her away. After thinking about it, she still pulled away the plate in front of Lucy, pretending to be serious and said: "Baby, you are in good shape now, I won't allow you Lose your beauty for a fish, let's have a vegetarian dish, the fish steak here is just like that."

Lucy was coaxed into elation. Although she was still reluctant to part with the fish steak, she obediently ate a lot of vegetable salad.

Bai Liu pretended to pack a lot of salads for Jeff and Andre by the way, letting them eat.

Jeff ate a little out of his mind.

On the other hand, Andre saw that Bai Liu's nose was not nose and eyes, and he mocked: "It's not because our rich man is short of money, right? Before coming here, he said big things and we come here with full board and lodging. Now he can't bear to let us even a piece of fish steak." eat."

"Look, Lucy, this is your mean boyfriend!"

Lucy immediately cursed angrily: "Andre! If it wasn't for Bailiu, do you think you can come to this kind of hotel to eat this kind of high-end fish steak? You can't even live in it! Look at how much you eat, if If Bai Liu doesn't pay you, you won't be able to get out of this hotel at all!"

"Lucy!" Andre roared, but Lucy stared at Andre with her head up.

Andre had no choice but to take the woman he liked, so he turned his head and was ready to take all his anger on Bai Liu.

Amidst Lucy's screams, seeing Andre's wide palm opening to lift Bai Liu's back collar, Bai Liu still wiped his mouth unhurriedly, looked at Andre, and said with a smile : "If you still want me to pay for you, you'd better not touch me."

Andre's hand suddenly stopped in mid-air, his nostrils expanded and contracted like a cow, and let out a furious breath.

He looked at Bai Liu with red eyes, and threatened fiercely: "If you can't do what we bet on at night, I will make you, a short-handed trash who can't even get women, look good!"

Andre's eyes were bloodshot, and he seemed to have been dizzy with the anger that rushed straight to his forehead, but he couldn't do anything to Bai Liu, after all, he still expected Bai Liu to pay for him.

Just at this time, a broccoli accidentally rolled out of Jeff's plate, which was eating with his head down, and rolled onto Andre's shoe.

Andre is like a balloon that has been inflated to the limit and then punctured. Before the apology from Jeff's mouth can be said, he slaps Jeff on the back of the head with his backhand, directly hitting Jeff. Ralph banged his head on the plate and spat out what he had eaten in the morning.

"You dirty my shoes! You disgusting guy!" Andre seemed to find it funny when he saw Jeff vomiting, and he snorted out a laugh from his nasal cavity as he found some psychological balance, and gave another Jeff kicked.

After wiping off the negligible oil stain on his shoes on Jeff's pants, Andre said again: "I don't care about the useless trash, wipe it off, get out of here .”

Lucy helped up the dizzy Jeff, and she yelled hysterically at Andre: "You are too much, Andre! You are too much for Jeff!"

Bai Liu didn't care about the two quarreling, his eyes were focused on Jeref's vomit, the fish fillet with a golden shell, after being chewed and spit out by Jeref, the section turned out to be blue-black like a dead fish, with stains on it. It looks like a wriggling saprophyte.

People can't eat this rotten dead fish at all, and fishmongers in the vegetable market will use this dead fish to feed large fish.

Bai Liu still remembered that a fishmonger told him that the bigger the saprophytic fish, the more they like to eat dead fish.

The driver came to pick up Bai Liu and the others after Bai Liu's breakfast.

[Main task: Visit the Siren Wax Museum, reward points 50]

[Main task: Participate in the Mermaid Fishing Conference, reward points 50]

The Siren Museum and the Mermaid Fishing Convention, which sounds like two attractions.

Bai Liu pondered for a while, and was just about to ask the driver what these two were, when Jeref suddenly rushed up and stood between Bai Liu and the driver, with his head down and not speaking, his pale and thin cheeks were sunken, and the corner of his mouth was still There were blood stains from Andre's beating, his teeth were clenched, and he was trembling slightly.

Bai Liu raised his eyebrows. From yesterday until now, Jeff seems to have been trying his best to avoid contact with the driver.

This is not normal.

Bai Liu's fingers unconsciously turned the coin in his heart.

The coin flipped back and forth on the backs of his fingers, which was a common posture for Bai Liu to think about things. The feeling that money was in his hands, even a dollar, would make him feel calm and happy.

Without any other information, Bai Liu guessed that Jeff's target should be Andre. It's normal for Andre to have contact with the driver. It is necessary to isolate so deliberately.

There must be a reason for Jeff to isolate himself from the driver, and Bai Liu thought about it for a while, and it should be money.

Looking at the daily life of dressing up and being bullied by Andre on campus, Jeff obviously doesn't look like a rich character.

Andre is also very bullying. Although he is not forgiving to the rich Bailiu, he does not take any practical actions. However, he beats and scolds Jeff when he moves. From this point of view, the situation of Jeff's family is very difficult. It should be inferior to myself, not even Andre.

And last night, Jeff gave the driver what seemed to be a large sum of money. Bai Liu had reason to suspect that Jeff took the money he asked him to hire drivers and tourists to hire drivers to take revenge on Andre, so It was only because of a guilty conscience that he kept the driver from contacting him.

But Jeff paid the driver a sum of money last night. It stands to reason that the transaction has been almost completed, and the work of the driver and tourists is also performed well on the surface. He did not express any Suspect.

Generally speaking, Jeff should breathe a sigh of relief, and there is no need to isolate him and this driver so deliberately, which will instead arouse his own suspicion.

This kind of guilty conscience doesn't seem like things haven't been implemented yet.

But it's also possible that Jeref is just cautious and timid, and doesn't let his guard down if he doesn't succeed in doing things. After all, Jeref's side plot is called "Bloody Conspiracy", and it's completely understandable for Bai Liu to be careful about this kind of plot that will kill people as soon as he hears it.

I just don't know when Jeff will choose to attack Andre, but for now, Bai Liu still wants to focus on the main task.

Bai Liu talked to the driver: "Driver, are there any attractions in Siren Town?"

"Attractions?" The driver thought for a while and said, "For our tourists, the must-sees are night fishing and museums."

After hearing this answer, Bai Liu said in his heart that it was true, and he raised his eyebrows: "Is there any special feature in fishing and wax museum?"

"Of course, we are Siren Town." The driver turned around. It was the first time that Bai Liu saw the driver's appearance in the car at close range, even if his resistance to the horror scenes was as high as Bai Liu's, he couldn't help but pause.

Not out of fear, but out of wonder.

The driver looks so strange.

There are so many white parts of this person's eyes that the eyeballs are only the size of a fly. Following the words in the whites of his eyes, the eyeballs were shaking uneasily, as if he couldn't control the eyeballs that were about to disappear and escape from his eyes.

The chauffeur's skin was so pale that it was opaque, like a piece of poor-quality wax.

As he spoke, he was still biting into a fish sandwich while driving.

The cross-section of the fish fillet that was bitten off was a rotten green-black color, as if it was made of moldy fish, but the driver ate it with great relish, his teeth were stained with green-black color, and he exposed his teeth to the white willow. A smile that was so large that it was not normal.

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 is brushed up.

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 heavy eyes, and finally cracked a ferocious smile and kissed him. After receiving the tip Bai Liu gave him, he waved it and said, "I wish you all a good time."

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

Bai Liu thought to himself that the townspeople here are indeed robbers, their eyes glow green when they see money.

He didn't seem to see the driver's greedy eyes on the banknotes in his pocket, and he opened it openly for the driver to see, with a smile as usual on Bailiu's face: "We will."

The place to watch mermaid fishing activities is on a huge ship.

The giant ship slowly left the port at night, the deck was full of sailors coming and going silently, and some of the small boats under the ship were full of fishermen who looked 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 turned her head: "A gift from the Sirens?"

"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 to touch Lucy's hand, her skin was cold and smooth, like newly solidified wax.

Lucy smiled and looked at Bai Liu. She probably wanted to frown, but the muscles on her face were as stiff as corpses, which made her expression very strange, like an abstract figure painting by Picasso.

Her voice also became hoarse, with inexplicable eagerness: "Your hand is so warm, can I kiss you?"

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

Lucy wasn't blown cold, but her body temperature was 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 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, so fishermen can catch mermaids here."

Bai Liuxin said that the Siren King had already been picked up and placed in the wax museum, why does this sea area continue to produce mermaids?

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 made up a logical follow-up to this story in his mind—the dead people turned into mermaids were picked up and poured into marble to make wax figures for tourists to visit, and some mermaids were directly made into food and were taken by the town. The townspeople in the town used it to eat it, and then these mermaid wax figures finally started to make trouble, 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 suddenly came over and said: "We are going to the Siren's gift sea, please don't walk around on the boat, otherwise we will not be responsible for what happened."

After speaking, the sailor left, and Bai Liu found that all the sailors had gone to the bottom of the ship, and 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, which is the place where the warehouse is. These sailors walked along the wooden platform one by one to the cabin one by one 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 wax figures. These wax figures are packed densely throughout the bottom warehouse. At a glance, there is almost no place to stay, and they are all white wax figures.

And these mermaid wax figures all stretched their heads and raised their heads, their white eyes looked directly at Bai Liu, and Bai Liu found that there were obviously more wax figures around the stairs where he was standing.

The mermaid wax figure is like a school of fish swarming after smelling the fishy smell. Two of them have already walked up the stairs where Bailiu is, and retreated again after being dazzled by the light of the flashlight.

But the light of the flashlight can only illuminate one place. In the dark place in the warehouse that cannot be illuminated, there are constantly rustling and rubbing sounds against the ground. More and more people are gradually gathering on the stairs where Bai Liu is. Wax figures of mermaids, they are like fish looking up to eat bait, staring at Bai Liu.

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

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

"The wax figure will be alienated when you touch it, and your spiritual value will decrease if you are alienated. Once your mental value drops, you will soon lose your mind! At that time, you will not be able to tell whether what you see is real or fake Yes, you will be killed soon!"

Wang Shun's emotional voice attracted several players and spectators.

The players on the small TV in the [Death Comedy] division are either those who like to play very excitingly to attract attention, or those who don’t want to play to death, but they don’t know how to play garbage and play to death all the way .

Therefore, the audience wandering here in this partition screen also likes to watch these players play tricks to death, but these few audiences who were attracted by Wang Shun looked up at the screen and reached out to touch the wax figure of the mermaid Bai Liu, and they were still a little surprised "Wow Oh" uttered.

An audience opened their eyes and said: "I have learned a lot. This is the first time I have seen this kind of death method. I went to touch the monster by myself. What is he going to do?"

Wang Shun also turned his head speechlessly to talk to these audiences. He pointed at the white willow on the screen that was touching the wax figure of the mermaid, and said with a bit of resentment:

"I followed him all the way from the central screen. This player gets points very quickly, almost hundreds of points in one go. Do you know what he used to buy?"

"Hundreds of points?" The audience was also surprised. He glanced at the time record on the small TV, "It's only the second day of the game, and the points are hundreds? This is an excellent performance, so it will fall to (death) Comedy) division?"

Before the audience finished speaking, Bai Liu in the small TV was already sticking his face to the wax figure of the mermaid, and even traced the lines on the wax figure of the mermaid with his fingers, which made the expression on the audience's face crack.

The audience couldn't laugh or cry: "But it's not surprising that this person plays this way here,... What did he buy? If there are useful props in Siren Town, one hundred points can buy quite a lot, such as flame torches and water The bubbles add up to about 100 points, this is the best prop for customs clearance."

"No, he didn't buy either of these." Wang Shun said quietly, "He bought nine barrels of high-concentration alcohol."

"Isn't it?!" The audience looked at the small TV in disbelief, a little dumbfounded: "...Nine barrels of alcohol?! No one has ever bought that thing, right?"

Wang Shun nodded: "According to common sense, the flame and light intensity of alcohol burning are too low, it should be useless to mermaid wax figures and mermaid sailors..."

While talking, Wang Shun looked at the small TV strangely: "What's the matter, he has touched it for so long, why hasn't he started to be alienated by these wax figures?"

Other viewers also frowned and leaned over: "It's been five minutes... He should have been completely alienated by the mermaid wax figure, and his mental value has dropped to 0..."

Bai Liu lightly touched the wax figures of mermaids looking up at him with his fingertips. His expression was casual, like a sculptor playing with a piece of art at random, rather than a player touching a monster.

There was no trace of fear on his face, and he was still talking to himself, as if he was talking to the wax figure:

"Sure enough, your face hasn't changed into my appearance. When those mermaid wax figures tried to attack and hatch me before, their faces would become like mine, but your face hasn't changed at all. It's still in the cocoon form of mermaid wax figures. Alienate me by touching, because you've-"

Bai Liu smiled: "——I have someone else's face, you are the amulet of those sailors, you are the cocoon of those sailors, it is impossible to hatch me again."

The mermaid wax figure under Bai Liu's hand had exactly the same appearance as a sailor he had just seen on deck.

Looking closely, Bai Liu found that the paint on the surface of these wax figures had peeled off, and the material looked very brittle, which was different from the wax figures he had seen in other places. Looking closely with a flashlight, these wax figures were as fragile as a layer The shell can transmit light, and it seems that it can be broken with a poke, just like the cocoon of a butterfly after shedding its shell with a chrysalis.

These wax figures are exactly the same as the mermaid wax figure called [Amulet] at the front desk of the hotel, and the mermaid wax figure of the amulet is also called [Cocoon Form] in the monster book.

If Bai Liu's guess is correct, the mermaid wax figures in this warehouse are the amulets of the sailors on the ship, and they are all their [cocoons], and cocoons do not have the ability to attack, because the mermaid wax figures have changed from [chrysalis] to [cocoon] ], which means that the bugs inside have turned into butterflies and gone out, leaving only an empty shell.