Chapter 11: Siren Town

Four intense beams of light shone fiercely at the mermaid wax figure from four directions, and for a moment Bai Liu's small TV screen was much brighter than the one next to it, pure white and blinding, making it impossible for people to look directly at it.

The mermaid wax figure stiffened under the intense beams of light, and with a lurch brought her hand up, ready to shield her eyes.

The eyes of the wax figures were even a little blank from the flashlight's glare. They began to back away, began to hunker down like poor criminals surrounded by police, shrinking into a ball right in the middle of the glare, even as some of the fish wax figures tried to bury their heads in their arms.

And Bai Liu squatted in front of the group of wax figures like a big devil, grinning and saying, "I was right, you guys are really afraid of light."

Onlookers in front of a small TV: "......"

The player who just commented on Bai Liu's review was so irritated by this scene that his face turned red and he yelled out, "Impossible! How could that discounted projector possibly restore 100% of the light from a strong flashlight! This is not scientific!"

"Hey, that's hilarious, you came here looking for science? How many of the props in here are set up for science?"

"......emmm, I just looked at the manual for this projector and it says it's an optical projector, it's cockamamie everywhere else, but it works wonders at reflecting light, at least eighty percent preservation."

"It's a bit of a bummer to step on random newcomers without reading the instructions given by the system itself ......"

"I couldn't resist buying three 3d projectors even as I watched ......"

The player on the small TV next to him, who had just been lavishly praised for choosing the right props, was scrambling to force the mermaids back while wielding a torch and trying to get to the newspaper in the hot tub, looking flustered.

The mermaid wax figure was still leaning over with its grimacing teeth and claws, and this player was constantly being pushed closer and closer, as if he was going to hang up in the next moment, the scene was thrilling and exciting.

Obviously, it's a scene that can lift the hearts of countless people, but one look at Bai Liu's side and it becomes subtle and tasteless.

Bai Liu The man had his three projections surround the mermaid wax figure holding flashlights incense like policemen, while he himself nonchalantly shook open a newspaper and read it by the hot tub, relaxed as if he were on vacation.

And the mermaid wax figure cowered weakly, pathetically and helplessly in the middle of the encirclement, not moving a muscle.

The contrast is simply too great!

[347 people liked Bai Liu's Little TV, 355 people favorite Bai Liu's Little TV, 21 people charged Bai Liu's Little TV, player Bai Liu gained 21 points].

[Player Bai Liu has received over 300 likes in a minute, and his reputation is rising rapidly!

[Congratulations to player Bai Liu for getting the promotional position, entering the center lobby game screen edge area position, the number of views is rising rapidly ......]

Someone looked at Bai Liu's small TV screen in a bit of a trance, "...... I'll go, this is the first time I've ever seen a player from the newcomer zone get a promotional spot to enter the central gaming lobby screen, even though it's only the fringe zone."

"It's like I'm ...... witnessing a big brother rising star ......"

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[The Monster Book of Siren Town Mermaid Wax Figure Panel Refresh]

[Monster Name: Mermaid Wax Figure (Chrysalis state), Amulet Wax Figure (Cocoon state)]

[Weaknesses: direct human eyes, bright light exposure (2/3)]

[Attack: Hatching]

[Player Bai Liu is just one weakness away from collecting the monster book on the page "Mermaid Wax Figure", and the corresponding reward will be unlocked at the end of the game.]

Bai Liu had already guessed that one of the mermaid's weaknesses was the fear of bright light.

That's actually quite a good guess.

Earlier, the driver said that fishing for some big fish only came out at night because of light avoidance, and the mermaid fishing event happened to be held at night, so you can imagine that big fish like mermaids are mostly light avoiding creatures as well.

But Bai Liu doesn't jump to conclusions about whether mermaid wax figures and mermaids have anything in common when it comes to avoiding light.

So Bai Liu took a look around, and he realized that there were hardly any mermaid wax figures placed on the streets of Siren Town during the day.

Whereas both the hotel and the Siren Wax Museum were relatively poorly lit, mermaid wax figures were plentiful, and he had previously deduced that creatures such as mermaid wax figures had no sense of hearing or smell but extraordinarily sensitive vision, and therefore possessed a strong perception of light.

The answer is almost right in front of you, something like a mermaid wax figure is afraid of bright light.

Having deduced this, Bai Liu tries to go for the cost-effective extreme of this weakness that he can exploit - the

- - Just how much strong light can force back how many mermaid wax figures? How much influence does bright light really have on mermaid wax figures? How long can it affect them? If a mermaid wax figure forms an encirclement, can the bright light directly help him break out?

So Bai Liu did an experiment, he deliberately induced these mermaid wax figures into an encirclement, and then tried to break out by using bright light and a 3d projector.

Of course there is the possibility of failure, but Bai Liu doesn't like to shy away from things.

He deduced that this behavior had a ten percent or higher chance of success, so Bai Liu would not hesitate to take a gamble.

Failure is failure, no risk, no reward, it's normal, playing games is a risky process, so is making games.

His current focus, though, was on the newspaper that had been softened in the sink.

Bai Liu grabbed the newspaper and then used both hands to separate it with a gentle tear on the back of the newspaper.

Sure enough, this was no ordinary newspaper.

【Player Bai Liu has completed the task of separating newspapers in a hot tub, bonus points 10】.

[Charging points 21, current point balance 31, whether to buy props]

Bai Liu nodded no and continued to look down at the newspaper.

Bai Liu touched the two newspapers that had been separated, and the thicknesses were clearly different, with one being much thinner.

He frowned slightly, clamped down on the thicker one, and with another tear - it separated again.

Bai Liu raised an eyebrow, he was almost mesmerized by the hint that the quest was complete, there were actually newspapers stuck together underneath, if he hadn't looked twice more, he might have thought that he had found all the information about this place.

This game, it's pretty good at screwing people over.

Bai Liu tore it open seven or eight times, and the washbasin behind him was already full of soaked old newspapers. After making sure there were no layers between the papers, Bai Liu took a quick glance at the contents.

All the headlines of the nine old newspapers in his hand were full of police notifications of missing tourists [missing person notices], and the number of missing people added ...... up to a significant number in any case.

The earliest disappearance of tourists can be traced back to last year, the point in time when the Siren Wax Museum had just landed.

At first, there weren't many missing tourists, and it was clearly accompanied by signs of property looting.

Popular tourist attractions every month missing so one or two tourists is not a big deal, this kind of crowded place has always been prone to breeding crime, and in the sea, whether it is overboard or kidnapped and robbed is very normal, these things are obviously to be reported to the registra...

But from what Jeff told Bai Liu, until last month, the outside world had no idea that so many people had disappeared here, and tourism was still going strong.

It wasn't until both the number of visitors to the area and the number of missing tourists grew and the frequency of bizarre occurrences, with twelve registered disappearances in the town of Serenity alone in the last month, that it was reported in a big way.

Bai Liu If there is no mistake, the previous disappearance of tourists, are that the people-loving Mayor Harris in order to continue to develop the tourism industry, the use of some means to suppress, and then really can not be suppressed before the explosion.

From what I've read in the papers, the townspeople here are really good at committing crimes.

Bai Liu put away the newspaper and the projector, and shone the flashlight backward on the mermaid wax figures. After the mermaid wax figures didn't move, Bai Liu came out from the corridor, and went to the central exhibition hall of Siren Wax Museum where Lucy and the others were.

The central gallery is said to contain only one mermaid skeleton, in a tightly locked bulletproof glass cabinet, the one that the driver said they had caught in perfect condition and that had started it all.

The skeleton was like a gift from the sea to the town of Siren, bringing wealth but also ominousness to the town of Siren, but all of them only saw the wealth it brought, but no one realized that their current misfortune came from it.

Bai Liu paused as soon as he walked in.

The central exhibition hall is a circular exhibition hall, in the very center erected a crystal coffin-like glass cabinet, glass cabinet with led dazzling white light three hundred and sixty degrees without dead angle irradiation inside the mermaid [skeleton], Bai Liu rare with surprised eyes to measure this is called [skeleton] mermaid body.

It can't be called a skeleton, at least not by Bai Liu's standards.

Lucy expression fascinated to look at this mermaid in the glass cabinet, "He can be so beautiful, I have never seen such ...... perfect looks, not even computer synthesized."

Jeff seemed to be greatly shocked, the boy with thick glasses looked up incredulously at the mermaid, and didn't know how long he had been standing there.

Andre, as usual, holds an absolute denial of contempt for the creature: "You've all been duped, it's just a trick to attract attention to something that can be done by getting a fish tail sewn onto a human body and mounted in a glass case ...... "

He looked at the skeleton for a few moments out of his mind after he finished speaking, and then added, "But it does look well done."

The mermaid's body was immersed in a glass container; its right hand to the shoulder was white bone, the rest of it was life-like flesh.

The sinewy lines were elegant and severe, well-proportioned muscles wrapped around thin bones, and bubbles slowly rose from the deep, dark blue liquid, which twisted and floated from the mermaid's long, dark brown hair, and ultimately nestled in its long, light-colored eyelashes like a pearl.

Its eyes were closed and its face was incredibly delicate and fine, some of its long, slightly curly hair flowing in the water over his thick, beautiful cheeks, revealing a pair of ears that were very different from the norm.

Its left ear is a shell-mica textured fin that glows with a mottled sheen in the water's waves, while its right ear is a white bone-like fin that shows through its long, wet, slippery hair.

The sinuous, curling tail of the fish resembles a bright silver-blue ribbon washed in seawater, draped over a glass case, inverted triangular scales glistening in the light, a translucent film of flesh between the fingers of the right hand, and the white-boned left hand wrapped and overlapped on the chest.