Chapter 14: Siren Town

No wonder the side quest [Ship of True Love] had a hundred points, this was much more dangerous than a few other quests.

Andre, unable to control his appetite, reached for the sandwich in the driver's hand, "Give me a bite!"

The sandwich in the driver's hand was wolfed down into his mouth by Andre, who ate it extraordinarily rudely, unable to chew it with his teeth for more than a few moments before pounding his chest and swallowing it down.

The driver, however, did not bother to snatch it back, but just had a look of pity as if he were feeding an animal at Andre, who was bowled over and eating : "Eat, my boy, eat, you're starving, you haven't eaten much, have you? Enjoy your dinner."

Bai Liu took one look and said, "That's his second dinner tonight." The first meal was Andre robbing Jeff.

Jeff, who had been robbed of his dinner, moved to cover his face with his head bowed, and the gill-like lines appeared around his ears; Jeff's gills seemed to have grown open for a moment in anger, and his teeth had become as sharp and fine as those of a shark.

But this creepy scene was only a momentary one. When Bai Liu looked over, Jeff cowardly lowered his head and covered his face as if nothing had happened, while the light at the end of his eyes still lingered eerily on Bai Liu's face reflected in the rearview mirror.

Jeff's Bloody Conspiracy, 50% of the way through.

Bai Liu frowned unnoticeably - how come this quest just went up in progress and now it's up again?

Jeff should have gone up once before when he was sure he was going to go after Andewa, and why did he go up this time after that?

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Bai Liu arrived at the harbor, when he got off the bus, he remembered that the driver's trust in himself was extremely low, and thought that in [Jeff's Bloody Conspiracy] the driver was most likely involved, Bai Liu still wanted to brush up the trust of the driver, an important NPC.

So when he got out of the car, he handed the driver more money as a tip under the guise of thanking him, but the driver looked sullenly at the money in Bai Liu's package that he hadn't given him, and eventually cracked a grim smile, kissed the tip Bai Liu had given him, and waved it off with a "Have a good time."

Jeff's Bloody Conspiracy - 80% progress on branch line

Bai Liu thought to himself that the townspeople here were really robbers, their eyes glowing green at the sight of money.

As if he didn't see the driver's greedy look at the bills in his pocket, he opened them up for the driver to see, and Bai Liu put a smile on his face as he always did, "We will."

The place to gather around the mermaid fishing event was on a giant ship.

The huge ship sailed slowly away from the harbor at night, the decks all silent with sailors coming and going, while some of the small boats leaning under the ship were filled with fishermen who looked like fish.

Bai Liu and his group boarded the boat after dark, and the fishermen on the boat below kept looking straight at Bai Liu and his group on the deck.

There is a fundamental difference between the sailors on the deck of this ship and those fishermen on the ground, the most important thing is that these sailors look like human beings instead of fish, and there are no those strange patterns on their faces, and there is no fishy smell on their bodies, just a little bit of white skin color, much like that hotel receptionist who supposedly got albino herself.

Bai Liu noticed that there weren't many people on board the ship, and wondered why it was necessary to fly such a large ship with such a large capacity for fishing...it was too wasteful.

And there's something else wrong with this ship, Bai Liu noticed when he boarded the ship, the ship's draft is too deep, definitely loaded with something particularly heavy on board.

The sailors walked around the ship expressionlessly, as if they didn't see Bai Liu and his group. Occasionally, Bai Liu would find a few sailors standing in the dark corners looking at Bai Liu and his group with strange eyes, and then whispering with the sailors next to him, and then revealing a contented and strange smile.

The ship sailed.

Late at night the sea was calm, the light from the searchlight on the bow of the ship could only illuminate a small area of the sea, other than that it was a darkness that seemed to swallow up the ship, there was the sound of the water passing by on both sides of the ship from time to time, while the sailors on board the ship were methodically distributing their work, and the fishermen on the side of the ship were laying down their fishing nets.

The ship sailed off into the deeper, bottomless night.

Lucy stood beside Bai Liu with her cloak on, her lips covered in lipstick were now blown purple, shrinking beside Bai Liu for warmth: "How can it be so cold, Bai Liu, I just went to ask them, and they said that in order to fish for mermaids, they have to sail the boat to the sea where the first mermaids were fished in the first time, and that mermaids can only be fished from that place, and they shouted, "That piece of sea is called [Siren's Gift]. That piece of sea is called [Siren's Gift], there seems to be a legendary story."

Bai Liu inclined his head, "Siren's gift?"

"Right." Lucy gathered her cloak a little tighter as she shivered, "God, this is so cold, I feel like I'm traveling to a hell full of ghosts, the only place where the wind is this cold."

Bai Liu didn't feel cold, he suddenly thought of something and swept Lucy with a coin.

[npc name: Lucy (in alienation)]

Bai Liu reached out and touched Lucy's hand. Her skin was cold and oily, like freshly solidified wax to the touch.

Lucy smiled and looked over at Bai Liu, who should have been trying to squeeze her eyebrows, but the muscles in her face were also as stiff as a corpse's, which made for a strangely done expression that looked like a Picasso abstract figure painting.

Her voice was also starting to get dry with an inexplicable eagerness, "Your hands are so warm, can I kiss you?"

Bai Liu politely declined, "I can't." He found himself an explanation, "There are too many people here."

Lucy's not being blown cold, she's losing her own body temperature.

Jeff, who had appeared next to Bai Liu at an unknown time, looked at the sea in front of him with a fervent gaze, and murmured in a low voice, "Yes, Siren's Gift. Legend has it that this side of the sea is a gift from King Seiren, and that it can bring the dead back to life."

"When swimmers from ships who accidentally fall in the water and drown die in these waters, the King Seiren grants them the power of rebirth, and they return to earth as mermaids, which is why fishermen are able to catch mermaids here."

Bai Liu said that King Seiren had already been fished out and put in a wax museum, so how could this sea still produce mermaids?

And it was from the time King Seiren was landed that the waters began to produce a steady stream of mermaids...

And the dead ghost turned into a mermaid to return to earth, how this does not sound like a story of [God's blessing], this story is more like a curse of a kind of cult myth.

Bai Liu mentally added a logical follow-up to this story - dead people turned into mermaids were fished out and poured into marble to make wax figures for tourists to visit, and some mermaids were made into food and eaten by the townspeople, and then these mermaid wax figures finally started to act up. The mermaid wax figures finally started to act up, and the town's tourists started to disappear one after another...

It wasn't so much a Siren's gift as it was a mermaid's revenge.

The sailor suddenly came over and said, "We're coming to the sea of Siren's Gift, so please don't wander around the ship or we won't be responsible for what happens."

With that the sailor left, and Bai Liu realized that all the sailors had gone to the bottom of the ship, and the deck was suddenly empty.

Bai Liu narrowed his eyes and circled the ship a few times, pretending to follow behind one of the sailors unobtrusively.

The sailors were all heading for the lowest cabin, which was where the stores were, and one by one, without a trace of emotion on their faces, these sailors went down the wooden ladder into the hold, and then came out again, one by one, accompanied by some murmurs:

"My...no problem."

"...make sure these are okay."

"Broke a few earlier, but that's okay, after these four that came tonight get eaten, there'll be new ones to put in."

The group of sailors seemed to be checking something very important, and then one by one they came out after checking it.

Bai Liu hid in the corner and squinted, thinking to himself that sure enough the bottom compartment was loaded with something very heavy, and heavy and important... Bai Liu vaguely guessed what it was, but he still didn't know why all these sailors came out to fish with this thing.

When all the sailors had gone, the last sailor seemed to have forgotten to lock up the bilge and left.

The lock just hangs on the door of the bottom warehouse, swaying back and forth with the waves, almost as if saying to Bai Liu, the player, come and explore me ~ come and explore me ~.

Bai Liu opened the door to go down, after going down is a long, narrow wooden stairs, walk up the creaking, all the way to the bottom of the warehouse can not see clearly, there is no light on both sides, the whole structure is very much like a cellar, Bai Liu did not go down, but turned on the flashlight to see the bottom of the warehouse is not placed as he thought is that kind of thing.

After he turned on the flashlight and looked down, even if he had expected it, Bai Liu's breath still caught.

The warehouse was full of all sorts of wax figures of mermaids, which were densely packed throughout the entire bottom warehouse, and at a glance there was hardly a place to land, it was all white wax figures.

While the mermaid wax figures all tilted their heads back in unison, their white eyes staring directly at Bai Liu, who realized that the number of wax figures around the staircase he was standing on was significantly higher.

The mermaid wax figures were like schools of fish swarming at the smell of fish, and two of them had already walked up the ladder where Bai Liu was, and then retreated again when they were shaken by the flashlight's light.

But the light from the flashlight can only illuminate one place, the dark place in the warehouse that can't be illuminated, there is a constant rustling, and the sound of the ground rubbing together, the staircase where Bai Liu is gradually gathered more and more mermaids wax figures, they look like fish tilting their heads to eat the bait, staring at Bai Liu not to let go.

But Bai Liu didn't return. He stared at the faces of the wax figures for a while, then suddenly put down his flashlight and walked on, reaching out his hand to try to touch the wax figures.

Wang Shun in front of a small TV: "！！！！"