Chapter 20: Siren Town

Seeing that Bai Liu is about to be bitten, the viewers are so anxious that they have transformed into grumpy old men and rushed to the small TV to shout furiously:

"Wake up! Get up and fight the monsters!"

"Can't you sleep when you get out? You're so short of an hour's sleep! Didn't your mom teach you not to hang up when you play games?"

"I've watched so many gameplay videos for so long, I've never really seen such a giveaway, it's so obvious that you can win, it's really just a hard giveaway."

Under the clamor of a group of people, Bai Liu in the small TV seems to be woken up, seemingly sleepy, seemingly awake to open his eyes.

He looked toward the fisherman who had cut through the surface water and half a fish's head surfaced with its mouth open toward his boat.

Bai Liu could see their legs turn into eel-like tails below the surface, slithering and flipping underwater like snakes, closing in on Bai Liu on the surface at a rapid pace.

Andre's boat, not far from Bai Liu, had a white skeleton stained with blood and some broken flesh.

The lower body of Andre's skeleton had begun to fuse and become somewhat fish-like, while the cloth of his clothing was torn and draped over the side of the boat, floating alone on the surface of the sea, showing what a ferocious bunch of animals these mermaids were.

In the nick of time, Bai Liu just slowly dipped the quilt in the seawater twice, pulled it back on to cover the entire boat, and shivered underneath it as if escaping from himself, an act that triggered another impotent rage from the onlookers.

But Bai Liu was still doing this with great slowness and difficulty, as if his body was freezing.

Bai Liu's original white fingers began to spread on the marble lines.

He was now in that condition Lucy had been in before - his whole body temperature was dropping terribly, and it felt like the man was slowly turning into a stone, and neither his brain nor his movements were quite so sharp anymore, which was why he was shivering uncontrollably.

Bai Liu looked at the props in his panel the barrels of alcohol and ordered: [Take out a barrel of alcohol]

[System alert: Removed]

A bucket of alcohol appeared on the boat, weighing it down and sinking it down a notch, and the spectators became more and more frightened as they watched.

The monster has almost touched Bai Liu's boat!

Bai Liu pulled a box of matches out of his pocket and huddled under the wet blanket, shivering and shaking his hands several times before he could light them.

His demeanor remained calm, and after wiping the match, Bai Liu lifted the corner of the covers, stood up, stepped over the alcohol bucket, and painstakingly poured the alcohol onto the surface of the sea.

This operation was seen by a crowd of viewers who could not bear to cover their eyes:

"Pouring alcohol into the sea ...... Did he come up with this trick because he was mentally down?"

"It's not that it can't be burned, highly concentrated alcohol can still float on the surface for a few minutes, but it's a drop in the bucket, and it won't work on these mermaid monsters, they're not afraid of fire."

Throwing this match onto the surface of the sea where the alcohol had been dumped, a blazing fire burst into flame, while Bai Liu, clad in a wet blanket, looked down at the approaching mermaids in the warmth of the blaze with a look of unquestionable serenity, as if he had been waiting for them to come closer for a very long time.

A burning bonfire blazed in the deep black cold sea, and the mermaids came close to clustering around the boat, swimming around it with their tails wagging greedily, and Bai Liu sat in the boat in the center of the bonfire, his eyes reflecting the tongues of the fire and the surface of the sea.

Bai Liu's pupils were reflected in the colors of fire and alcohol, looking more like a Siren siren snorkeling from the deep sea to the shore than those strange monsters under the ship, his alienated face had a kind of magical attraction.

The moment the much-needed mermaids poked their heads out of the surface, they were swept away by the flames, making the beeping, beeping sound of fish being grilled, and the mermaids let out piercing screams as they flopped open their bellies and drifted to the surface struggling for their lives.

The fish meat after being burned emitted a strange aroma, and those mermaids that had been approaching the boat went to eat those that had been burned, and ear-piercing sounds of bones and skin cracking resounded around the boat.

The strong smell of blood and fish was dense within Bai Liu's nostrils, turning into a strange, delicious flavor, which made Bai Liu lick his lips, but his face was still devoid of emotion.

He was surrounded by mermaids nipping at each other, while Bai Liu still sat quietly, his face, which had looked pale and somber due to his alienation, was baked with a healthy rosy color by the alcohol and the fire, and he somehow smiled as he looked at Andre's empty boat.

It was a contented, gifted and rewarded smile, the same expression on the faces of the mermaids who were munching insatiably on their fish, but a few shades creepier.

Bai Liu whispered softly and hoarsely, "Good night, Andre."

[Side quest - Ship of True Love, ask player Bai Liu to win over Andre in a bet, complete it, get points reward 100]

"Side Quest - Jeff's Bloody Conspiracy, 90% progress.

[Main Quest - Participate in the Mermaid Fishing Convention, completed, reward points 50]

[The Monster Book of Siren Town Refresh - Mermaids (4/4)]

[Monster name: mermaid (larval state)]

[Weaknesses: fire, light, fragile, close to human]

[Attacks: Biting and scratching, won't trigger alienation status, low intelligence, can't use tools]

The monster book on this page has been collected, and we hope that players will continue their efforts.

A long panel of rewards and achievements popped up, almost dumbfounding the viewers guarding the small TV.

After waiting a long, long time, the same audience member who said Bai Liu laying delivery earlier incredulously spat out a tone of voice: "Fuck!"

This fuck was like a ringing finger that brought back all the viewers who had been immersed in the scene they had just witnessed, and all of them questioned frantically in unison:

"What's going on?!"

"Lay send ah! This dude actually won lying down, this operation is bull."

"Shit, I looked stupid and flew on the forums to ask God Mu what happened!"

"Why didn't that alcohol he used dissolve in water?!"

"I searched for him to buy that alcohol, shit, guess what I found in the dozen or so pages of instructions for this alcohol - it's actually a permanently oily semi-solid alcohol that's been modified to be insoluble in water, I'm convinced, how did this new guy find this alcohol?"

"Did he read all the instructions?"

"God Mu got back to me! He said that mermaid sculptures aren't afraid of fire, and mermaid sailors aren't afraid of fire, but mermaid larvae are afraid of fire, which means that mermaids without amulets are afraid of fire."

"And Bai Liu is very smart, he should have realized that cooked mermaid meat has a strong attraction to these mermaid monsters, so he roasted some of the mermaid larvae with fire, and the mermaids wouldn't attack the players and would go for the cooked meat instead ......"

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Bai Liu's TV has been liked by 2300 people, 2670 people have favorited Bai Liu's TV, 499 people have charged Bai Liu's TV, and Bai Liu has earned 499 points.

[Player Bai Liu has gained over 2000 likes in a minute and his reputation is rising rapidly!

Congratulations to player Bai Liu for getting the promotion position and entering the recommended position in the single player game zoning system, the number of views is rising rapidly .....]

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Bai Liu sat boredly with his cheeks resting on the boat watching the mermaids tear each other apart, with a soggy quilt over his body to keep himself from getting burned.

Once the mermaids were done tearing each other apart, he dumped more alcohol down to light it.

Grilled fish is much more attractive to mermaids than Bai Liu, so the mermaids didn't come to attack Bai Liu, who was like a self-service barbecue chef, sitting steadily on the boat and burning mermaids for the monsters to eat.

Bai Liu grilled while making a rough estimate in his mind - it would probably last until dawn with four or five barrels of alcohol, which is only 45 points, or a fraction of the 140 points of the two water bubbles.

And he still has 5 vats of alcohol left.

The reason why Bai Liu wanted to buy alcohol was that he heard the keeper of the Siren Wax Museum tell him that mermaids can be cooked, including grilled, and that people love to eat these mermaids.

Surprisingly then, it can be grilled, the high temperature fire attack just works, and being cooked should be no less attractive to its mermaids.

Just look at Andre's craving for fish and chips, he didn't eat as much raw fish tonight as he did this morning with fish and chips.