Chapter 18: Siren Town
Andre looks at Bai Liu with a look of blatant salivation for the food.
Andre let out a mute laugh, "I'm not full yet, and if a man-fish comes here in the middle of the night and overturns my boat, I'll pull it up and bite it to death and eat it."
The man clearly said more about biting the mermaid to death, but his eyes kept falling on Bai Liu's neck, as if it wasn't the mermaid's neck that he was going to bite off, but Bai Liu's.
Bai Liu's thinking began to become a bit sluggish, which was obviously the effect of that spiritual value dropping.
It was only at this point that he realized that Andre had such a great aroma in himself, and for a moment just now he even wanted to bite the other man, so he was bound to be an even more aromatic delicacy in the eyes of Andre, a mermaid with a significantly higher degree of alienation.
Andre wants to eat himself.
However, Bai Liu's physical strength, intelligence, and even reflexes were all dropping terribly now, and all of his panel attributes were starting to turn red across the board, and his spirit value was already on the verge of sixty, so if Bai Liu was allowed to spend the night on the sea dueling with a monster like Andre, who had already been completely alienated and finished, he would surely die.
There has to be some way, some way to fight Andre.
But all the information in Bai Liu's head seemed to be covered in a translucent cloth, he could vaguely see the programs but couldn't call them up, he vaguely remembered as if he had prepared a way for himself to deal with Andre, but he couldn't recall.
Bai Liu blinks again, shakes a little, and whispers yes.
In front of the small TV a line of people, see Bai Liu shaking this, the heart is instantly lifted.
Wang Shun followed Bai Liu along the way, knowing that this man was a very talented player, he had seen many times players playing Siren Town, but never so mentally strained.
Wang Shun held his breath without blinking, "He's being alienated, his mental value is about to drop to sixty, he's about to see hallucinations."
Wang Shun had piled up a large number of players who had gathered around him.
The player who had been guarding this place with Wang Shun before also had a complicated tone, "Spirit value of sixty, life and death."
Mental sixty is the dividing line between the real and the unreal; before mental sixty you're just fighting off monsters, while below mental sixty you have to fight off your own illusions.
It's harder than fighting monsters.
Because a monster's weaknesses can be explored and traced, whereas an illusion is something you generate yourself, and you never know where the weaknesses of your own illusions are, and again, you don't know what's illusory or real.
The advantages that players with high mental values have in the game are immense, which is why Bai Liu attracted so much attention before.
And easy to be frightened, or easy to be monster spirit pollution of the player, the spirit value is very easy to fall below sixty, to this point, most of the players mortality rate will be stepped up, there are a lot of players alive by their own hallucinations scared to death, so the spirit value of sixty level, in the mouth of the players and called [life and death pass].
The audience sighed with regret:
"It's been pretty good, holding up for so long before being contaminated below sixty."
"Without the props to rinse the spirit value, the spirit value will only get lower and lower, I think his life is hanging by a thread."
"The game "Siren Town" gives a fifty percent pass rate, but for newcomers who don't know the strategy, the survival rate is less than one percent."
"Wasn't there a pass in the last batch of newcomers?"
"Oh, what's the point of the only newcomer in that last batch of Siren Town that passed out of the game with a mental value of only 25 when he finally came out of the game, and went crazy when he passed out?"
"This newcomer is probably going to be crazy for a while."
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The sailors on board were in a state of watching the show as they prepared two small boats for both Andre and Bai Liu to put into this deep sea.
Bai Liu seemed to be confused a moment at the edge of the fence stood dumbfounded, he even asked the sailor for an extra quilt, saying that he might be cold at night on the ship.
The sailor looked mockingly at Bai Liu, and, having placed two or three thick quilts on his boat, said meaningly, Have a good night, and good night, Mr. Bai, if you ever wake up.
Bai Liu laughed and said, "I will.
There were many small boats attached to the sides of the ship, and those boats were filled with fishermen who looked like deep-sea fish.
The fishermen looked eerily similar to Andre, and in the darkness of the night, with only a small light on the boat, the eyes of these fishermen glowed an eerie green in the obscure light.
Standing on the boat with the waves rocking, these fishermen are strangely immobile, looking straight at Bai Liu standing on the boat holding the quilt, the gills of the fish in his ears slightly open and shaking, emitting as if he saw the prey as a subtle trembling sound.
Andre, who was standing in another boat not far from Bai Liu, with saliva around his mouth and a ghostly green glow in his eyes that mirrored those of the fishermen, looked at Bai Liu and whispered hoarsely, "Bai Liu, take your stupid quilt and go to the bottom of the sea to sleep in peace."
The big ship slowly sailed away, and a sailor told them that a boat would come by the next morning to pick them up.
Bai Liu looked around and saw that besides Andre, there were many fishermen on small boats who did not leave with the big boat, but gradually drew closer to Bai Liu with the sound of paddling.
Even if Bai Liu's mind is so dizzy at this moment, he knows clearly that as the weakest "larva" here, if he spends a night with these obviously still hungry fishermen, he is afraid that in less than half an hour, he will be torn apart by this group of things and swallowed into pieces of meat.
Not to mention the fact that there's also an eyeing Andre next to him, Bai Liu is completely alone in the middle of the night on the sea.
Bai Liu is still alienated, but jumping into the sea to escape is still not a good option.
Bai Liu is only being alienated at the early stage, Bai Liu can feel his mouth and nose can breathe, the gills next to the ear do not have any breathing function, jump into the water or not can rely on the gills to breathe underwater is still an unknown.
And even if he could, Bai Liu would certainly not be able to swim with these highly alienated fishermen and Andre, and jumping into the sea would only be the difference between dying under the sea and dying at sea.
Bai Liu also has a mission on the Ship of True Love, where he has to stay up all night and win over Andre with his mental values on the line, in a situation where he seems to be having an incredibly hard time surviving.
It's almost impossible to do.
Wang Shun slowly put down the pen that was taking notes over and over, and he sighed rather genuinely, "It's a shame that the best prop to use to win this bet is a bubble in the water."
"This prop can drive away the fish, buy two to use three times and then you can last until dawn, although expensive is a little expensive, to one hundred and forty points, but it is useful, if previously Bai Liu does not spend their own points, he passed here would have been very easy."
The player next to him who had been watching all along nodded his head in agreement, holding his chest and shaking his head helplessly, "After all, is he a newbie? it's normal that he can't play, this Bai Liu, although he has occasional outstanding performances, most of the time he's just messing around, a common problem for newbies."
"Eh, that's as far as it goes."
The few scattered spectators still left are also dispersing to go.
At this time on the screen Andre's boat suddenly shook violently, and above it rolled over and landed a man, nay, or a mermaid, who opened his sharp fangs and bit at Andre with a fierce grin.
The spectators who were about to leave stopped dead in their tracks.
Wang Shun pushed up his glasses and jerked forward to look, "What's going on here? Shouldn't the fishermen and Andre get into the water and start attacking the players? Why are these fishermen attacking Andre?!"
The mermaid on Andre's boat was so ferocious that it rolled over from under the surface of the sea onto the unsuspecting Andre's boat and took a vicious bite out of Andre's neck.
Andre immediately let out a miserable and incomparable scream, and the gills on both sides of the fish seemed to be trembling unceasingly because of the pain.
Fishy black blood sprayed all over the ship at once, and splashed some into the sea water, blending in with the dark night and sea water.
The fetid odor of blood instantly wafted over this sea, and an odd gurgle escaped the throats of all the fishermen as if they were swallowing, their eyes slowly panning to Andre's boat.
The smell of food from Andre's place was so attractive to them that the boats that had been closing in on Bai Liu shifted their trajectory and gathered around Andre's boat.
The ear-splitting sound of munching rises as Andre's boat is stripped of hungry mermaids, and his panicked attempt to jump into the sea is quickly followed by a tug on the ankles as the mermaids pile up all over his little boat.
Andre raises his hands and lets out a slurred whimper of pain, completely overwhelmed by the small hill of mermaids that devour him.
Published at: 01/20/2024 03:00