Chapter 5: Siren Town (1/2)

Bai Liu stood quietly with his back to the door and covered himself with a white cloth.

He could hear the sound of marble colliding with the door and the doorknob also moved twice. The door was locked and the doorknob was vigorously twisted by the merfolk statue outside the door, making the fragile metal crack. It sounded like it was going to be scrapped soon and even the door started to shake.

This thing seemed to really want to come inside. The dead white eyes searched around Bai Liu’s room and didn’t seem to find anyone. Then the room became quiet inside and out. The doorknob didn’t move for a long time and the other party seemed to have left.

Bai Liu still held his breath. He remembered that when this thing moved around, it would make a very dull noise. It was wrong that there wasn’t this sound. The merfolk statue didn’t leave at all and was quietly guarding his door.

This thing was deceiving him and inducing him to come out. Bai Liu’s eyes narrowed and he found that the peephole, which had been restored to the color of the carpet, suddenly turned white again.

That thing was still there! It hadn’t given up after waiting a while. It still wanted to come in. The doorknob abruptly twisted into a protruding, broken shape and was about to slide down from the door. The merfolk statue outside was coming in!

Some of the viewers in front of Bai Liu’s TV couldn’t bear it and closed their eyes.

“It is rare to see a seeded player… what a pity.”

“The main reason is that the Siren Town instance is too disgusting. This isn’t at the difficulty of a novice instance at all. It is completely meant to kill newcomers.”

“What is going on? I am still very optimistic about him. A talent with 100 points in mental value!”

“So what if it is 100? His other attributes are very ordinary. I didn’t know much about the Siren Town instance when I first entered, let alone newcomers. The veterans here are bound to die if we didn’t know the weaknesses of the merfolk statues. How much adversity will the newcomers have to face before they can pass the instance…”

Bai Liu’s brain was spinning quickly as he slowed down his breathing.

The game clearly told him that these monsters had weaknesses and players could use the weaknesses to escape from the hands of the monsters. So the current way to clear the game was to find the weakness that restricted the movement of this thing.

Bai Liu closed his eyes as he recalled everything that happened tonight.

It was a game so it must be solvable. Games that were unsolvable were the worst trash. Bai Liu had been making horror games for many years and he was extremely sure there must be something that suggested the weakness of the merfolk statue.

What exactly was it…?

Bai Liu calmly started to comb through all his encounters with the merfolk statues.

The first time was the fountain outside the hotel. Jeff exclaimed that he saw the mermaid statue moving. The movement was silent and it was when the car turned. The mermaid statue didn’t look directly at them but was watching the water.

The second time was in the hotel lobby. There were a large number of various merfolk statues watching him without moving.

The third time was in the hotel room. Apart from the huge mermaid statue with the mirror, the other statues had looked directly at Bai Liu. Once Bai Liu fell asleep, these statues started to move. The mirror mermaid moved the fastest. Then once Bai Liu woke up, these statues stopped moving.

Obviously, Bai Liu staying away wasn’t a condition to restrict the movement of the merfolk statues since the one outside the door was ready to break in. The game wouldn’t have an unbreakable situation. He must have something that could limit the merfolk statues’ movements.

If it wasn’t something in the room or in the hotel then it must be something he brought with him. It was because the things in the hotel and the rooms couldn’t restrict the movements of the statues. This was proven when the statue freely entered and exited from Jeff’s room

What exactly was it?

Mirror… water… gathering at the bed… looking!

Bai Liu knew what it was!

Bai Liu stood up sharply. He opened the door and looked directly at the merfolk statue.

The statue outside the door was so close that they were almost face to face. From Bai Liu’s point of view, the face of this lifeless merfolk statue seemed to be stuck to the tip of his nose. Its hand was still on the doorknob and its pure white eyes were looking through the peephole to the lower right corner—it was right where Bai Liu had been hiding.

No wonder this thing tried to come in. It must’ve seen Bai Liu hidden in the lower right corner behind the door. All its movements had frozen. The fishtail touched Bai Liu’s toes and it stood still in front of the door at the last moment before entering Bai Liu’s room. Bai Liu sighed with relief. It was true that the secret weapon to stopping this thing was the human eye.

The crowd in front of Bai Liu’s TV was stunned.

“Fuck! How did he think about it?! There was no hesitation as he opened the door!”

“The average newcomer player wouldn’t be able to think of it at all. Even if they do think about it, they won’t dare open the door. They will just look through the peephole. However, if you do this then you will definitely die. It is because the movement of the merfolk statues will only be partially restricted if you look at it from such a close distance through the mirror image of the peephole. This is sufficient for it to break in.”

“Wow, he just confronted the merfolk statue. I have goose bumps!”

“What is his name? This newcomer is so awesome…”

A crowd gradually gathered around Bai Liu’s TV.

[168 people are watching player Bai Liu’s small TV. The player has achieved the 100 viewers novice achievement.]

[102 people liked Bai Liu’s small TV, 143 people have saved Bai Liu’s small TV, 3 people have charged Bai Liu’s small TV and player Bai Liu obtained 3 points.]

Bai Liu’s expression on the small TV was still calm like he didn’t think he did anything extraordinary. It was quite simple to infer that the human eye restricted the movement of the merfolk statues.

It was because after Bai Liu went to bed, the statues started to move. Then they stopped the moment he woke up. The only difference before and after he went to bed was that he opened his eyes. This showed that ‘human eyes’ could restrict the movement of these statues.

However, there was a trap here. Looking at it through a mirror-like object would only weaken part of the merfolk statues’ movement speed. One had to look directly at it to completely stop the movements.