Chapter 10: Siren Town

The keeper said that the hot water room Bai Liu was going to was a bit remote, and that a few lamps were broken, so he should be careful.

He also cautioned that there were a lot of randomly stacked mermaid wax figures over there, so be careful not to bump into them.

The keeper of the pavilion had an impish look on his face as he said these words.

Bai Liu walks among the marble columns, which line the interior of the museum and are as wide as two or three people can hug, in the center of the road, which is lined with wax figures of mermaids at regular intervals.

The wax figures are all different, with fish tails on the ground and little expression on their faces, and Bai Liu realizes that almost all of them are looking out the window.

It looks like these mermaid wax figures are trying to escape and leave from here.

And the hot water pool at the end of this long corridor, also do not know who opened, self-consciously clattering out of hot water to, the whole corridor is the hot water dense out of the water vapor, the mermaid wax statue in the water vapor under the baking as if to melt generally, drop by drop down the wax, the body in the occurrence of a very weak change in the action.

Bai Liu walks along the promenade as if he were walking in a sea of mist, surrounded by mermaids bobbing beneath the surface.

Within a few steps, Bai Liu realizes that the wax figures of mermaids lining the road, their heads going from looking out the window, their necks becoming slowly crooked and deflected, their expressionless faces beginning to look towards him.

And the wax figures of mermaids on both sides, front and back, are melting closer and closer to Bai Liu in the center at a subtle rate that is not easily noticeable.

The darkness of the vast, deep, high European-style building is impervious to light, and the feet of the lone visitor tread unhurriedly on the smooth floor, while the wax figures of mermaids on either side of him seem to change their posture and expression with each blink of Bai Liu's eye and move closer and closer to him.

Faint smiles appeared on the otherwise empty, dead faces of the mermaid wax figures, and the fish tails dragged a trail of greasy candles across the floor.

They were so pale, so flawless, as if they were a group of ghosts frozen in this place that could only move slowly.

Bai Liu silently counted the number of these mermaid wax figures in his mind, and from time to time he glanced back at the things following him behind him, controlling the speed of their movement.

But there are so many wax figures here that he usually stares at the mermaid wax figure behind him, and just as he turns around, the mermaid wax figure with the pitying smile right in front of Bai Liu Zheng can't wait to reach out his hands to him, and is about to grab him by the scruff of the neck.

Bai Liu has calculated the speed at which these things are moving, and he's basically stuck on point moving and turning back, and using the column to intentionally wrap these things around to keep them from circling.

While these things felt threatening, the more troublesome points were the indestructibility and sheer numbers, making it difficult for him to escape once a siege was formed.

As the mermaid wax figures came closer and closer to him, Bai Liu realized that they were slowly transforming from a state of near-deadness to living things.

These mermaid wax figures look originally in Bai Liu eyes are close to the face, assembly line production of European and American wax figures generic face began to appear changes, the closer Bai Liu, these mermaid wax figures of the melted face is more and more like ...... Bai Liu.

Wax figures of mermaids with faces eerily similar to Bai Liu's show a creepy smile with an overly large arc, and they move toward Bai Liu with teeth and claws.

Bai Liu finally walked to the hot tub that the guardian said, the yellowed old washbasin on the faucet surface stained with rust-colored spots, I do not know whether it is blood or some kind of rust.

The rectangular tin can for boiling hot water stands above the faucet and makes the sound of boiling hot water tumbling and boiling.

Amidst the clattering of the water, Bai Liu calmly puts the newspaper in his arms into the sink and turns back.

A group of wax figures of mermaids of various shapes and sizes, with seven or eight facial resemblances to him, stood high and low in several rows behind him, densely clustered around him, blocking even his path of departure.

Their heads were bowed, the dim light of the museum falling a haze over their eyeless eyes, and their mouths were tipped with a strange, cracked-to-the-corner-of-the-jaw grin.

The smile was clearly malicious, projecting a creepy sense of menace on their melted and twisted faces.

These mermaid wax figures look at Bai Liu standing in front of the pool with a deep and greedy gaze, and Bai Liu is also looking straight at these things, with the feeling of being surrounded by dozens of himself.

The things were rounding him up.

Bai Liu thought, just now I said that this group of things do not have a high IQ and do not have the consciousness to surround him, I did not expect that a moment later this group of things would learn to surround him without any teacher.

Amazing ability to learn, huh? It's like being human.

Bai Liu looked calmly straight at the things, the hot water behind him was already overflowing from the washbasin, but he didn't turn around, or couldn't turn around, as soon as he did the things must have rushed up immediately, and he couldn't blink.

He reached behind him and turned off the faucet.

Bai Liu blinks, and the mermaid wax figures move up another inch, their faces becoming more and more hideous, but Bai Liu looks as if he doesn't see them, instead looking at their faces and stroking his chin thoughtfully, muttering to himself.

"Hatching, is that what it means? The closer it gets to me, the more it looks like me ...... so the odds are that the thing that ends up hatching will look the same as me ...... Well, the smell of fish on me was a little heavier when these mermaid wax figures leaned in, so I'll be affected by it when it hatches, and so will those townspeople in the hatching?"

He here is not tight, but in front of his small TV onlookers players are not Bai Liu so calm, are sneering.

"At a time like this, still analyzing and pretending, I'll see what he's going to do with a bunch of useless projectors, is he going to show a movie to the mermaids?"

"Tsk, spirit value of one hundred, I thought it was so awesome."

There was another shout from the side, "That newbie player with the torch broke out! Come over here and look!"

In a small TV screen two frames away from Bai Liu, a male player held a burning torch, gritting his teeth and waving it at the mermaid wax figure that surrounded him, all the while shouting at the top of his lungs, "Go away! Go away if you don't want to be burned to death!"

The mermaid wax figures faded back as a cheer erupted in front of the small television:

"I told you this player could, picked the right prop. One of the weaknesses of mermaid wax figures is fear of light, flaming torches are the best props, can can, charge up!"

"Kudos, his panel force value is also very okay, and he might be able to get on the rising star list with good development in the later stages."

"Eh, I should have known I wouldn't have charged that white whatever next door, waste of points, this is the proper seeded player ......"

The likes on Bai Liu's little TV have dropped to single digits, and there are still a few viewers left, and they're not here to cheer Bai Liu on, they're simply here to watch the newcomer's death-defying exit.

The few remaining viewers couldn't help but scoff at the sight of Bai Liu on TV as he unhurriedly pulled the three 3D projectors he had bought at a discount out of his pocket.

"I can't believe he actually took it out, what's he going to do?"

"It's better to look at the torches next door with vigor, and they all recede at once."

The wax figures of mermaids noiselessly drew closer until their tails were attached to Bai Liu's toes, they stood tall and surrounded Bai Liu in a small, dark space, dozens of pairs of melted wax hands reaching out from all sides, trying to capture Bai Liu's prey.

Bai Liu unhurriedly throws 3D projectors behind, to the left and to the right of the wax figure, one on each side, and then smiles as he flicks the switch.

Out of the three wax figures jumped a living projection of Bai Liu, smiling like him, three projections and a Bai Liu guarding the four sides, still moving forward the mermaid wax figures hesitated for a few seconds and all stopped.

But the audience still had a mocking look on their faces:

"The mermaid wax figures are not intelligent enough to distinguish between real people and projections though, and the projected human eyes can indeed fool them for a while, but they will be exposed after too long, and they will last for ten minutes at most, but ten minutes won't run out of here at all."

A spectator who had just charged the torch player with a lot of power points snorted, "And that powerful flashlight he bought, just one, can force back mermaids, but it's not as effective as a torch in deterring and attacking mermaid wax figures, a flashlight is useless."

As soon as he spoke here, the mermaid wax figure in the screen backed off a bit and stared at the projections without moving.

The player who commented Bai Liu was not panicked: "Ten minutes at most, just wait, soon these wax figures will be able to react to the fact that these projections are fake."

Sure enough, it wasn't long before the mermaid wax figures seemed to have gained insight into the fact that Bai Liu's projections were fake, and were leaping around the flashlight's light, ready to come forward.

This audience member smiled contemptuously again, "See, I told you this would happen."

Before this viewer could finish his sentence, he looked at the small TV screen and, dumbfounded, stopped his high-flown analysis.

The three projections on Bai Liu's side also took out strong flashlights and aimed them at the mermaid wax figure just like Bai Liu did, and the four Bai Lius pulled out flashlights and aimed them at the mermaid wax figure in the center as if they were going to fire some kind of projectile.

Bai Liu laughs, "One really isn't quite enough, but four should be enough."