Chapter 13: Siren Town

The keeper stood in the doorway and stood silently looking away from them, behind him were countless vague wax outlines slowly peeking out of their marble expressionless faces in the darkness of the night, as if they were fish peeking out of the sea.

[Main Quest: Explore Siren Wax Museum Completed--Points Reward 50]

[Current point balance 81, do you want to buy props?]

81 ah ...... Bai Liu rubbed his chin and inquired, [Is there any high alcohol?]

[Open the store - Yes, there are 218 different categories of special quality alcohols, 18 of which you can purchase in this copy]

[How much is the cheapest?

[9 points 25L, warm tips, the game of alcohol and the reality of alcohol is not the same nature of the substance, after the system transformation, the efficacy or high or low, before buying the player is recommended to read through the instructions.

[System suggestion: detected that players have enough points, it is recommended that players in this copy of the purchase of flaming torch props, the efficacy of better and safer Oh ~]

Bai Liu: [reading the instructions for the alcohol prop]

The system panel instantly popped open a whole bunch of panels with a dozen pages of densely packed instructions, the ant-sized handwriting would make one's eyes hurt if one swept it twice more.

Bai Liu Getting used to the idea of clicking on a page of the manual, Bai Liu reads it slowly and methodically.

The props sold in this game are all like this, the cheaper the price of the props, the longer the page of the manual, on the contrary, the manuals of the popular items placed on the sales bar are simple and straightforward full of temptation, directly stated the efficacy, so that the players who desperately want to ask for a living will be tempted to buy it at a glance.

As a social animal with little money, Bai Liu is all too familiar with the routine of trying to find the most practical and inexpensive goods from the overwhelming marketing of e-commerce companies every shopping festival.

The cheaper and better something is, the more you are hindered from purchasing it.

One of them is setting up cheap items with tons of explanatory text so that people look at it, wonder what it can do, and then jump over and buy something else.

As a result very few of these cheapies have ever been purchased, so sales are extremely low, in some cases in single digits, and presumably not many people have read the instructions for these things carefully.

Bai Liu's eyes narrowed as he looked towards the words behind the [Flaming Torch] and [3D Projector] on the menu bar - [There has been a change in the price of an item].

[Flaming Fire lowers the price within Cylon Town to 17 points]

[3D projector "Siren Town" inside restored to its original price, 6 points a piece]

Both of these props, which he had noticed before, had had their prices changed.

Props like [Strong Flashlight] and [Flaming Torch], which are more commonly and effectively used in horror games at first glance, seem to be more expensive.

But it seems that the price of certain props changed somewhat after Bai Liu used them, and he was aware that he was in a live system...

Bai Liu guessed that the number of players who bought the props changed during the time he was playing, which led to a change in the price of the props.

He read the instructions for all the alcohols without slowing down and finally selected the cheapest one.

Bai Liu is very generous: "I'll take them all.

[9 bottles of highly concentrated alcohol in player Bai Liu's shopping bag, welcome to the next visit].

Wang Shun, who was in front of the small TV, slapped his thigh anxiously when he saw Bai Liu like this, "Eh-ah! What is this newcomer doing?"

"Are you going to burn the wax statues with alcohol? These wax statues are afraid of light but not of fire, so the monsters inside will run out after the wax on the outside is burned! How to spend all the points at once, silly or not!"

There were also players whispering nearby:

"What's wrong with this newcomer, 81 points all bought the cheapest alcohol, is this person an alcoholic? No player has even bought this stuff, right?"

"Taking it for granted, thinking that a mermaid wax figure is afraid of fire if it's afraid of light... There have been newcomers who made that mistake before, taking torches to burn rather than shine them on a mermaid wax figure, and ending up dead as soon as the light from the torches dimmed."

"Scattered, scattered, I thought it was so awesome, but it turned out to be a luck bump..."

"The center screen is getting less and less gold, this kind of newcomers can be on it, before God Mu that batch is really hanging ...."

.....

[0 people have liked Bai Liu's Little TV, 2 people have bookmarked Bai Liu's Little TV, 166 people have stepped on Player Bai Liu's Little TV, and no one has charged Player Bai Liu].

[1,447 new people are watching Bai Liu's mini TV, more than half of them have stepped on Bai Liu's mini TV, player Bai Liu has been awarded the title of Notorious, playing really bad, everyone wants you to die quickly~]

[Player Bai Liu's Center Screen Edge Promotion Spot Expires]

[Stomping totals rising too fast, player Bai Liu enters the (Comedy of Death) partition screen and entertains the crowd with your hilarious death and gamesmanship!

Wang Shun watched as the small screen on the edge of the center section flickered, and Bai Liu's small TV went dark.

He pushed up his glasses, thought of the godly wandering NPC information he hadn't finished collecting, hesitated, but got up and went over to the Death Comedy partition screen amidst a bunch of pity and ridicule for Bai Liu, the newcomer.

......

In-Game.

Nightfall.

The driver drove the van through the darkened streets, streetlights flickered and lit up on either side, and the streets were lined with fishermen dragging their nets and machetes forward, watching the van passing them with an almost stupefied gaze.

These are the fishermen who will be participating in the mermaid fishery tonight.

The obscure street lights of these men were densely interacting with those marbled green and black lines on their faces, and there was some mucus dripping and sliding off them.

The townspeople were even more ghastly to look at than they were during the day, their eyes radiating a dim green light in the darkness of the night.

The driver warned again, "These townspeople are dangerous, they haven't had an income for a long time, just watch the mermaid fishing later on from your designated boat, don't touch them, you look like outsiders at first glance, you could easily be robbed."

The driver said as he took a big bite of the sandwich he was holding.

The man had sandwiches for dinner as well, and as the minced meat of the fillets fell from the sides of his mouth, Bai Liu smelled that putrid fish odor that made him want to vomit, but no one else in the car but him seemed to find the smell unpleasant, and Andre was even looking at the chauffeur's sandwich dinner and swallowing all the way through it, snapping his own behind the ears all the time in agitation.

Lucy couldn't help but chime in, "This sandwich smells so good."

Andre was cranky as hell, "What we had for dinner! I'm starving!" He said and looked at Bai Liu behind him with a very disgusted look.

They ate at the wax museum in the evening, Bai Liu ordered the cheapest vegetarian feast, do not want any fish, not only Andre was angry, even Lucy was shocked for a moment, but Bai Liu to buy the bill he is the biggest, he said he did not want to eat fish then everyone can only accompany him.

Andre cursed, "If you can't afford to spend the money, don't come out and play adult games, go back to eating your mom's whole vegan milk!"

Bai Liu just smiled faintly at the time, "In that case, Andre can order his own meat if he wants."

He pulled Andre's all-vegetarian package, and all the packages at the wax museum were so expensive that Andre couldn't afford them, but Bai Liu said take it or leave it.

Andre didn't dare to trouble Bai Liu, after all, Bai Liu had to pay for his hotel bill for the night and he didn't want to sleep on the streets in a town like this.

But Jeff didn't care, so Jeff was robbed of his all-vegetarian meal and punched in the face by Andre, who stayed cowering in the corner, covering his stomach and not saying a word.

Smelling the sandwich now, Jeff kept sliding the knot in his throat up and down as well, a suppressed longing in his eyes, and then looked at Andre with eyes so red they were dripping blood.

Jeff's Bloody Conspiracy - 30% progress on branch line

Bai Liu parts a glance at Jeff, who has his head down.

Andre was driven to irritation by hunger and the aroma of food, and he couldn't help but clasp hard behind his itching ears.

Bai Liu noticed that the piece of skin behind Andre's ear that he had snapped red suddenly opened and closed for a moment, and several curved folds appeared, like the gills of a fish breathing and opening and closing, but it was only for a moment, and soon the piece of skin fit snugly back together again.

The piece of skin seemed to be alive, bulging in small increments.

It was like a slight bulge like the closed gills of a fish on the shore.

Bai Liu swept Andre with a coin.

[NPC Name: Andre (Highly Alienated)]

Coming out of the wax museum, Andre, alienation increases ....

Bai Liu raised his eyebrows slightly, "Andre, did you touch those mermaid wax figures in the wax museum?"

"So what?" Andre turned around and said in an evil voice, "Bai Liu, tonight we'll see who's the one who should go home and drink milk!"

In this moment, Andre's roared low in anger, his gills spread out on both sides in the dimly lit compartment, and Bai Liu could clearly see the open fin-like thing behind Andre's ear twitching violently.

The driver suddenly yelled in a low voice, "Hey boys, don't duel in our car!"

Andre instantly retracts his gills, but his eyes still fall hard on Bai Liu.

Driver: "I've found you a duel, or a place for you to make a bet, as you requested, a remote beach and two wooden boats tonight, keep yourselves safe, I'm not responsible if you drown."

After an interval, the driver seemed to laugh lowly to himself, "But you guys have been here so long, you shouldn't be drowning .... should all know how to swim."

Bai Liu's face is quiet, he can't swim.

The inhabitants of this town are all these fish-like things, including their party, who have only been here for just one day, are gradually becoming like fish, enjoying eating strange fish and emitting a subtle fishy odor ....

Fish are born swimmers, so of course they won't drown.

Except for Bai Liu.

What made him different from the others was that he neither ate the weird fish meats nor let any of the mermaid wax figures near him at night.

Bai Liu speculates that these two things should have caused the others to be evolved into fish, but Bai Liu is not assimilated into the evolution, and when Bai Liu goes to sea for the bet, his danger will surely be doubled.

Who knows what's in the ocean, and who knows if Andre will turn into a monster and overthrow his ship later?