Chapter 524

Lucy was also made a little hairy by Jeff, and she forced a smile: "Jerff, how can you be so sure that it is not your eyes that are dazzled, but the mermaid wax figure moved? This mermaid wax figure has no eyeballs, how do you know?" Is she looking at you?"

It was a milky white mermaid wax figure, made of cold wax, with a strange translucent texture, and some half-melted liquid droplets on the face.

Although the wax figure has carved eyes, it does not have black eyeballs. Its entire eyes are pure white, like some dead soulless creature standing at the entrance of the hotel.

"Didn't you notice?" Jeff's voice was getting lower and lower, and a little trembling, "No matter where our car goes, this wax figure is looking directly at our car, her eyes must be moving... ..."

"This...why do I think..." Lucy was obviously relieved, and finally smiled comfortably, "Is it the same as the portrait of "Mona Lisa's Smile"? No matter what angle you look at They all thought that the people in the portrait were looking at themselves.”

"No, this kind of situation where the people on the portrait are looking at themselves from any angle can only be produced on a two-dimensional plane, and three-dimensional cannot be produced, that is, it is impossible to have such a situation in a wax figure." Bai Liu retorted calmly Lucy, "Jeff is right, the wax figure's eyes are indeed watching us."

It was the same with those townspeople who started staring at them as soon as they came in, as if they were watching prey that entered their hunting grounds.

This thing must be some kind of monster.

As soon as he had this thought, the coin on Bai Liu's chest vibrated abruptly, and a brand new panel popped up. The game panel turned into a thick old medieval book, which was slowly opened in front of Bai Liu.

[Congratulations to the player for discovering the first game monster and unlocking the monster book——"Siren Town" special (1/4)]

A photo appeared on the page of the book. The pale face of the mermaid wax figure was soaked in the deep sea water. She only showed half of her face. Her eyes without carved eyeballs silently watched Bai Liu, as if she was about to crawl out of the photo.

[Monster name: Mermaid wax figure (chrysalis state)]

[Attack value:? ? ? (Unknown not unlocked, unlocked after battle)]

[Attack method:? ? (not explored)]

【weakness:? ? (not explored)]

Those places with question marks are like wet ink stains and stains, the specific handwriting cannot be seen clearly, and there are explanations in fluorescent fonts floating behind.

Below the weakness is a line of explanatory text:

[Note: By exploring and completing the information of the monster book page, you can get corresponding reward points and special rewards. If you collect all the monster book pages in a copy of the game, you can take away the most precious thing of a certain monster in the copy of the game]

The monster book in "Siren Town" has four pages, and Bai Liu can't turn the pages at the back. It shows that it has not been unlocked, and it should be a monster in another copy of the game.

It's a bit like fighting monsters and getting rewards. The higher the danger level of the monsters, the better [things] you can get in the end.

But looking at the exploration conditions, and even the battle, this is to encourage players to fight monsters to the death...

Bai Liu, a scumbag whose combat power was only as much as a female high school student's schoolbag, touched his chin deeply.

Lucy hugged Bai Liu's hand in a panic: "...is she really moving?!"

"How is it possible?!" Andre seemed to be infected by Bai Liu's eloquent words. A look of fear appeared on his face for a moment, but he was quickly suppressed. He mocked Bai Liu, "Bai Liu, you Coward! If you are greedy for life and afraid of death, and make up these reasons to escape, just run! After you go back, you will automatically give up on Lucy, and then kneel down and lick/piss on my leather shoes!"

This should be the content of the bet between Bai Liu and Andre.

The driver moved a bit strangely, but in the end he said with a normal smile: "It's getting late, did you read it wrong? How can there be any moving wax figures? If there were any, our town would have protected them for making them." Sightseeing spots! That can make a lot of money! Our city produces wax, and the mermaid wax figure is just a feature of our town, there are everywhere, nothing special."

"We're here! Get out of the car! Have a good night's rest tonight, and get up and have fun tomorrow morning!" The driver opened the door and sent them off.

Bai Liu glanced back at the wax figure of the mermaid in the fountain. Looking from a distance, the wax figure was still facing them, with its head lowered meekly, staring at the water surface, as if it was not looking at them.

But Bai Liu clearly remembered that when their car just drove in, the front of the mermaid wax figure was not facing the hotel entrance, but the entrance.

There are also two mermaid wax figures on the left and right at the entrance of the hotel, holding a scepter in their hands, with a strange and twisted smile on the corner of their mouths, as if they are pretending to be waiters to welcome them, but their expressions seem to be forced to stand in front of them. here.

After they walked into the hotel, they found that there were large and small wax figures of mermaids everywhere. There was even a full-length mermaid wax figure behind the cash register, holding money in its hand, as if it was cashiering.

As the driver said, the mermaid wax figure seems to be a feature of Siren Town, and it can be seen everywhere, but this is too much, from the mermaid wax figure decoration of the floor lamp to the mermaid carving pen holder at the front desk, it is not only seen everywhere , but are inseparable.

These mermaid wax figures have a common feature - Bai Liu found that no matter where he went in the house, these mermaid wax figures placed in different positions would give him the feeling of looking directly at them.

Moreover, these mermaid wax figures have no eyeballs. Logically speaking, it is difficult for a wax figure without pupils to give people the feeling that it is staring at you, but Bai Liu has this feeling.

Such a large number of densely placed mermaid marble wax figures staring at you is really uncomfortable. Even Andre, who has been yelling and ridiculing Bai Liu as a coward, got goose bumps all over his body after entering, and could not help rubbing his arms. Jeff even shivered and hid behind Andre, as if he was not afraid of Andre hitting him.

Lucy Xiaoniaoyi... Da Niaoyi held Bai Liu's arm in a humane way, with a face as delicate and beautiful as a rose with a pale color, as if she was also frightened by the weird hotel decoration.

And Bai Liu communicated with the front desk calmly: "Hello, my surname is Bai, and I have reserved a room before."

At the front desk was a young man with a complexion as pale as marble. He was wearing a floor-length Scottish skirt. He stuttered as he walked, and seemed to have some mobility issues. When the young man stood still, it was even hard to tell whether he was a wax figure or a real person.

Bai Liu and his party leaned over, and when the man suddenly moved, even Lucy was startled, she thought it was the wax figure moving, covered her face and exclaimed: "Oh, my God! You are as white as It's a wax figure!"

"I'm sorry." The front desk looked at them and said apologetically, "I have albinism, I'm sorry for scaring you! Mr. Bai? You booked four rooms a week ago for a week, and the fee has already been paid. , the room card is here, I wish you the best of luck."

Bai Liu took the room card, and when he heard that he had reserved four rooms, he was actually relieved.

He didn't really want to share a room with Lucy.

Lucy seemed to understand this too. The woman who was frightened just now recovered quickly, and she used a method of [Oh! baby! You are so shy! ] looked at Bai Liu teasingly, but was ignored by Bai Liu without changing his expression.

"I want to ask, why are there so many mermaid wax figures in your hotel?"

The front desk replied in a calm tone: "Sir, the mermaid gave us everything. The town of Siren originally had nothing. Since the body of the mermaid was salvaged, more and more tourists came here. We got money and everything, so We are very grateful to the mermaid. Here, there are many wax figures of mermaids in every household, which are like amulets for us."

Bai Liu pointed to the mermaid wax figure behind the front desk: "Your mermaid wax figures are also very rich, with all kinds. The one behind you looks exactly like you, and its material seems to be different from other wax figures. Too much the same."

In fact, it's no wonder that Lucy can't tell the difference between this person and the wax figure. It's really that the wax figure of the mermaid behind the front desk is exactly the same as the front desk, and even the expression is more vivid than the real person, which can be called a bit hideous.

The eyes of this mermaid wax figure stared straight at the front desk standing in front of it, no matter where the front desk went, it didn’t look away, as if it was about to run out of the wax figure with claws and claws and tear up the front desk that looked exactly like itself. It's so normal, it makes people shudder to see.

The other mermaid wax figures look a little melted, but the material of this mermaid wax figure does look more transparent and new, not as thick and dusty as other mermaid wax figures.

"Yes, sir." The receptionist raised his eyes and looked directly at Bai Liu, "The mermaid wax figure on the back is my amulet. We will make the mermaid wax figure into our shape. When disaster strikes, these mermaid wax figure amulets will be destroyed. The devil mistook us and melted away in our place."

Bai Liu felt a little interesting, this [talisman wax figure] was obviously different from other mermaid wax figures.

[Players gain new knowledge—"Siren Town Monster Book" Mermaid Wax Figure Panel Refresh]

[Monster name: Mermaid wax figure (chrysalis state), amulet wax figure (cocoon state)]

Chrysalis and cocoon? This monster named [Mermaid Wax Figure] also has two different states?

Bai Liu slowly thought about it. The pupa is the state when the adult insect has not yet broken its shell. It breaks out of the cocoon and becomes a butterfly. The cocoon is the state after the adult insect has successfully hatched, or it can be said to be the shell left behind.

Protect your own shell, which is consistent with what the front desk said about the shell against attacks...

It is estimated that this mermaid wax figure has two states of [worm] and [butterfly]. Bai Liu intuitively feels that these two states should be more aggressive than [chrysalis] and [cocoon].

At present, it seems that the mermaid wax figures in [chrysalis] and [cocoon] states have no intention of actively attacking people, but it is also possible that [attack] is in a way that Bai Liu is unaware of, such as mental pollution.

He felt that the wax figures of mermaids all over the hall were staring at the player, which was quite mentally polluted.

Bai Liu distributed the room cards. Lucy lingeringly wanted to sleep in a room with him, but Bai Liu said "I haven't proved my bravery for you, I don't deserve to really have you!" ] The reason was dismissed.

Lucy went back very touched, and before leaving, she was very hotly preparing to kiss Bai Liu goodbye, but was stopped by the angry Andre.

Thanks Andre! Hope nothing happens to Andre tonight!

Bai Liu sincerely hoped that Andre could live a little longer.

This girl is warm and generous and likes him very much, she belongs to the type that Bai Liu is not good at dealing with.

Bai Liu opened his room with his room card, and he stopped walking in as soon as he opened it.

The npc played by Bai Liu is rich, and he booked a better room. The decorations in the room are exquisite and detailed, but the room is full of mermaids, from the shape of the lamp to the wax figure on the bedside table. Under the dim light, there is a kind of oily Moist texture.

As soon as Bai Liu brushed in, the eyeballs of these white mermaid wax figures seemed to move undetectably, and they all looked at Bai Liu.

The panel pops up:

[Activate the main task: Player Bai Liu will safely spend tonight in the house, survive until tomorrow, and not be hatched - task completion reward: 20 points]

[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, just 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 people also showed [Alienation in progress], it 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 chewed big mouthfuls, the wet/slippery/black fish tail slapped his mouth as he chewed, and often used a fork to pick up the next one before he finished eating it. 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.