Chapter 536

Although Bai Liu knew that his plan had the possibility of success, he had to say that the final result was much better than what he expected before.

The props in the game seem to have a bonus effect. The burning state of these barrels of high-concentration alcohol is much more exaggerated than the degree of alcohol burning that Bai Liu has seen in real life. The same is true for the strong flashlight before. It is so bright that people are blinded up.

With the sunrise at the seaside and the bright sky, these nocturnal mermaids who are afraid of light gradually sneaked under the sea surface and disappeared without a trace.

After Bai Liu confirmed that there wasn't any mermaid around, he distracted himself and clicked on the panel.

He hadn't had time to read it before, because he was busy with barbecue, ah no, it was fighting against the mermaid, but now Bai Liu couldn't help squinting his eyes while looking at the information on the panel.

[Sub-task: Jeref's Bloody Conspiracy, 90% complete]

Andre has been killed, the driver has been burned to death by Bai Liu, and there is still 10% of progress in this side mission... How to push this 10% [Bloody Conspiracy]?

[Point balance: 684, do you want to buy props? 】

Bai Liu stared at the suddenly rising number of points for a while, then opened the panel, clicked to view the details of the points, and found that more than 500 points were from [Charging].

That is to say, he spent a whole night last night, and more than 80% of the points were not earned from completing tasks in the game system, but from rewards from those [spectators].

Bai Liu thought about it—in other words, [spectator] points are easier to earn than game points, and they are much more.

This is unreasonable, because the rewards of the game itself are lower than the rewards outside the game. The gimmick means to attract the audience, wouldn't it be good to let the audience give a reward?

Especially when the points can be used to buy items directly, if the points obtained by tipping are sufficient, for Bai Liu, he can buy a large number of items and then violently clear the level, so that the game will have no experience at all.

Bai Liu would not be able to design this kind of game, and he felt that this system would not be able to either.

There must be some kind of reward in this game, which can balance the reward system inside and outside the game, so that players want to get rewards from inside the game, rather than outside the game.

Bai Liu flipped the coin over and over again on his fingers. All the task rewards in this game are instant, that is, you can get points rewards immediately after completing the task, but there is one exception——

——That is the monster book.

This kind of reward that can only be obtained by collecting all the pages of the book can only be issued after clearing the customs. Generally speaking, this kind of reward that is issued after the end of the customs clearance should be very important.

But now Bai Liu looked at the reward points and felt that he still underestimated the weight of the monster book.

Bai Liu now feels that the rewards given at the end of the monster book may not only be big, but also very precious, and they are the kind that cannot be easily purchased with points, so as to balance the reward mechanism inside and outside the game.

Bai Liu opened the monster book, looked at each page for a while, and finally his eyes stopped on the page [Siren King] which was not unlocked at all, and paused.

【"Siren Town Monster Book" - Siren King (2/4)】

[Monster Name: Siren King]

[Weakness: None (players are not required to explore the monster's weakness)]

[Attack method:? ? ? (unknown, to be explored)]

[Note: It is a wandering god-level npc with a very high level of danger, players are requested to explore carefully]

This is to explore the attack method... Judging from the previous monsters, the attack method is that they launch an attack, and the player will complete the exploration here.

But for a monster of the Siren King's level, Bai Liu felt that he would definitely be gg when he launched an attack.

But to let Bai Liuming know that there is such a big and luscious reward here, and let it go, it is not the style of this miser.

If Bai Liu knew how cruel this npc was, and had heard all kinds of deeds of this bug-like rumored npc, he might have given up.

After all, when making games, the most feared thing is bugs. Because bugs are not part of the game itself and have no logic, players cannot fight against bugs.

But Bai Liu doesn't know now.

Not only did he not know, but Bai Liu also regarded this npc as a gatekeeper boss, and felt that if he defeated the opponent, the rewards must be huge, and the game must have a solution, no matter what the boss is, there must be a way to solve it against,

Bai Liu stared at it for a while, clicked his tongue softly, closed the monster book, and opened the game store: [I want to buy items]

[May I ask what props the player needs? Recently, there is a price reduction promotion for bubbles in water. Do players need it? 】

Bai Liu took a look, sure enough, the item [Bubbles in Water] in "Siren Town" has been reduced from 70 points each to 40 points each.

And [High Concentration Alcohol] was added to the popular item bar next to [Water Bubbles], an item that Bai Liu had bought before, and [High Concentration Alcohol] increased from 9 points per barrel to almost 13 points per barrel.

Seeing the price change, Bai Liu smiled.

He guessed right, the process of his game will be fed back to the audience, causing the audience's purchase orientation to change, just like live streaming.

As long as Bailiu can use other cheaper items to achieve the same effect, players will flock to buy them, which will cause changes in the item price curve.

And this "Siren Town" should be a copy of the game with a small user pool, so the price fluctuates so quickly.

For example, before Bai Liu used a 3D projector and a flashlight to pass the map of [Siren Wax Museum]. Hit the effect of the consumable item Flame Torch.

At a similar price, players are definitely more willing to buy persistent items, so the price of the flame torch is reduced, while the price of the 3D projector is increased.

This time, Bai Liu repeated his old tricks, in order to reduce the price at the moment of [bubbles in the water], so that he could save a sum of money from the price difference between them.

Bai Liu smiled: [I want to buy a water bubble]

[OK, 40 points, thanks for your patronage]

Seeing that Bai Liu was about to buy bubbles in water, Wang Shun, who had rushed all the way from the death comedy section to the single-player game section, approached the small TV in bewilderment.

After confirming that Bai Liu really bought a bubble in water, Wang Shun fell into even greater confusion: "...Why did he start buying bubbles in water again?"

"I remember that after "Siren Town", it was almost all land chases, and there was no place where bubbles in the water were used..."

Next to him was a player who followed and analyzed with reason: "Now Bailiu has a lot of points, and he doesn't know that there are basically land chase stations behind him. Maybe he bought one just in case. It's not expensive anyway. forty."

"He now has more than 600 points and spent 40 to buy himself a bubble in water, which is equivalent to buying insurance. Alcohol is still too risky after all."

But Wang Shun followed Bai Liu all the way, and he already understood Bai Liu's style of spending all his points on blades.

Before, Bai Liu would rather take the risk to buy alcohol and choose a relatively high-risk and low-investment plan, rather than spend more points to buy bubbles in water and choose a low-risk and high-investment plan.

But now, in order to avoid risks, instead of spending an extra 50 points to buy a bubble in the water, just in case this kind of practice...

Wang Shun felt inexplicably that Bai Liu could not do such a thing.

Even Wang Shun had an extremely absurd idea, that is, Bai Liu only bought the bubbles in water now, because he manipulated the price through a series of operations of his own, in order to wait for the moment when the price of the bubbles in the water dropped, so that he could save money by buying them.

Wang Shun murmured to himself while thinking.

Because he was immersed in his own thoughts, Wang Shun's volume was not low, and his soliloquy was heard by the audience player next to him.

The player couldn't help but retort: ​​"You're not a fan of Bailiu, are you? Manipulating the price?... He's a novice, and he hasn't released a game yet. Things, but manipulating the price of items is really a bit too much."

The player's attitude is a little perfunctory: "I think he was so scared after such an exciting night, he immediately bought a few props that can save his life when he saw the money, I think he used alcohol before. The ingredients are big..."

At the end of the game, the player murmured softly, "It's just a gambling operation, it's nothing special, and it actually made it to the single-player division with this."

When the player talked about this, there was a bit of jealousy that couldn't be suppressed. He seemed to think that Bai Liu could be promoted to the [Single-player game division].

The forum was also full of discussions about Bai Liu's use of alcohol to kill fish to pass the level. After the initial frenzy of praise, more and more people ridiculed Bai Liu's opportunism.

Similar to this player who is judging Bailiu, most of them have a disdainful and sour attitude of [I can do it]:

[What is this operation, I thought about it at the beginning, but there is a more secure plan in front of me, why should I choose a higher risk plan? 】

[Ham, it's just pretending to be weird, it's not the first time I've seen you, isn't there a lot of pretending to be in the comedy of death? 】

[Laughing to death, I also bought nine bottles of alcohol, used four bottles, and kept the other five bottles for raising mermaids, right? For those who boast that this operation saves money, I will buy it for you. Here are 81 points, which is 11 points more expensive than the original bubbles in the water! 】

[Blow, some people just close their eyes and blow, right? His way of clearing the level is really useless except for the visual effect. 】

[And this product got reward points after clearing the customs, and immediately bought the bubbles in the water without saying anything How to burn it after landing on land, the mermaid wax figure can't be burned at all! 】

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?

———————

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: "!!!!"

Bai Liu looked at the driver left and right. This driver... seems to be a monster too.

【warn! ! Player identification error! This npc is not a monster! Cannot enter monster book! Just in a state of alienation! 】

[Player identification error, the npc's trust in the player has dropped sharply, and may attack the player]

The driver slowly took a bite of the sandwich in his hand. He looked at Bai Liu with his shaking eyes for a while, and suddenly said in a nasty tone: "...Do you think the smell on my body is disgusting?"

Bai Liuxin said yes, but on the surface she hastily denied it: "No."

"The way you look at me is like looking at a monster, heh, damn arrogant rich man." The driver said gloomily, then turned his head to eat, and stopped answering Bai Liu's questions.

Tsk, it's a bit tricky.

Bai Liu thought calmly, the difficulty for him to obtain information has suddenly increased a lot.

And it was impossible for him to insist on asking the driver, the panel had already indicated that the driver would be aggressive towards Bai Liu.

Bai Liu looked at Lucy beside her, whispered a few words, and coaxed Lucy to ask the driver.

The driver snorted, but answered Lucy's question anyway.

"The attractions in Siren Town are of course related to mermaids."

The driver smiled so goosebumps, his eyeballs were twitching in their sockets, you didn't know who he was looking at and talking to whom.

"Our fishing is not ordinary fish. We have special fishing activities for mermaids, which are only held at night. And our wax museum is not an ordinary wax museum. We will make wax figures of mermaids that we catch. Put it on display in the wax museum."

"The first mermaid skeleton we caught was placed in the wax museum."

"Mermaid fishing?" Bai Liu asked, "Have you really caught mermaids?"

The driver ignored Bai Liu.

After Lucy asked again, the driver answered.

The driver smiled meaningfully: "Yes, although except for the first mermaid which was very beautiful, all the mermaids caught later were of low quality and incomplete shape, but they are indeed mermaids."

Andre suddenly snorted contemptuously: "It's just a gimmick, don't you really believe it?"

Jeff opened his mouth to say something, but closed his mouth again, probably because he was beaten by Andre just this morning, so he didn't dare to refute.

But Lucy was different. She looked at Andre with a very dissatisfied look, and said loudly, "I believe it! How about Bai Liu?" She turned her head and looked at Bai Liu angrily.

"Seeing is believing." Bai Liu said lightly, "You will know it after watching the fishing activities at night."

Andre doesn't know how to hate Lucy, but he can't wait to laugh at Bai Liu every word: "I hope that some people don't want to cry and run away by watching the fishing activities at night."

As he spoke, there was an evil smile full of mischief on his face, and his eyes flicked past Bai Liu, "If you fall off the board of the boat yelling and be caught by these fishermen as a mermaid Wax figure, we will never save you."

Andre shrugged hypocritically and smiled maliciously, as if he had seen the white willow falling into the water.

Bai Liu remembered that he had an unfulfilled bet with Andre that night.

He got the specific content of this bet from Lucy this morning.

Andre and Bai Liu want to rent two canoes to drift overnight on the Siren Sea at night. Whoever can't stand the return voyage first is a coward, and whoever doesn't deserve to have Lucy.

Lucy herself didn't want to have this bet, but the role played by Bai Liu was so strong that she had to come.

In a horror game with [Mermaid] as the core, the sea surface at night is undoubtedly a very scary place.

Bai Liu would never allow himself to go to such a place with someone who had a strong mind and obviously had bad intentions for him when he was not clear about the specific situation. he

There is no doubt that Andre would capsize his ship if he encountered it on the sea, and let him die in the sea.

White willow does not know water.

To a certain extent, the mermaid, siren, and siren are far less terrifying to Bai Liu than the sea itself.

Bai Liu will not approach the sea unless necessary.

Bai Liu's expression betrayed his rejection of this so-called betting activity.

Andre mocked and laughed presumptuously: "Look, look, this is our young master, what else do you have better than me besides money? You don't even dare to go to sea."

Bai Liu nodded with genuine joy: "I have nothing but money."

But having money is enough to make him feel satisfied, even if it is a virtual set of coins, he is also very happy.

Andre: "..."

Why does this person have a praised expression?

Andre sneered: "Then you don't go because you want to give up Lucy?"

Just as Bai Liu was about to show off with Andre that he didn't want to go to this death-defying activity, the coin on his chest vibrated, and a task prompt popped up:

[Trigger side quest [Ship of True Love], please player Bai Liu complete the bet before leaving Siren Town, beat Andre in the bet, reward 100 points]

Bai Liu: "..."

There are so many points rewards of one hundred!

The desire for money instantly defeated the fear of water, Bai Liu replied calmly: "No, I will go, I must beat you."

Lucy hugged Bai Liu emotionally: "Oh, baby, we must live together after you come back and have a pleasant night."

Bai Liu silently took Lucy's hand away.

The driver turned his head: "Go and see our wax museum first during the day, and there will be mermaid fishing activities at night."

The whole group said yes.

The driver drove the car round and round a beach.

White Willow saw a lot of sun-dried wreckage on that beach.

The driver said that this is where the mermaids are caught, and the wrecks are all fragmented mermaid wrecks that were caught, some of which were too broken and were discarded on the beach.

Bai Liu did see a lot of huge fishtail bones and some white skulls on the beach. These things were scattered messily on the beach, and there were a few nets drying beside them.

A fisherman came out to collect the bones and nets, and looked up at Bai Liu and the others. Before that, Bai Liu didn't notice the faces of these townspeople at night, but now he saw them during the day...

The appearance of these townspeople is very strange, and they have a strange resemblance to the driver, but they are even more curious and inhuman than the driver.

The whites of their eyes are abnormally white, but the pupils are only the size of soybeans, swaying aimlessly in the eye sockets.

The distance between the eyes is very wide, and the eyes seem to grow next to the ears, which are located on both sides of the face, very similar to the catfish in Bai Liu's impression.

There are also gray-black marble patterns around their eyes, which spread from around their eyes to their necks, and their movements when walking in the sun are extremely slow, and the insteps of their feet rub against the sand repeatedly as if itching/itching.