Chapter 15: Siren Town (1/2)

“Fuck!” Wang Shun couldn’t help exploding. “I haven’t collected any information about the god-level NPC. Don’t kill yourself! The statue will alienate you if you encounter it and your mental value will be reduced. Once your mental value drops, you will be confused! At that time, you won’t be able to tell whether what you see is true or not. How are you fucking playing?!”

Wang Shun’s excited curses attracted another player.

Players in this section of the screens (death comedy) either liked people who played in a hard and stimulating manner to attract eyeballs or they liked death. However, they didn’t like garbage play on the way to death. Therefore, the spectators wandering here liked to watch players die in a fancy way. These spectators saw Bai Liu reaching out to touch the merfolk statue and still gave a slightly surprised ‘wow’.

The audience member’s eyes widened. “Fuck, this is the first time I’m seeing someone looking for death. He is going and touching a monster by himself. What is he doing?”

“What type of instance is this? Let me see… Siren Town. I remember that the monsters are merfolk statues. If you meet them, you will start to be alienated. When I played this instance, I didn’t have time to hide. Yet he is going there himself? There hasn’t been a player like this even in the death comedy section…”

“He is really going to die. A newcomer actually came down from the central screens area. What did he do to go directly from the central screens to the death comedy…”

Wang Shun turned his head and talked to this audience member. He tapped on Bai Liu touching the merfolk statue on the screen and said, “I followed him all the way from the central screens. He got points very quickly and they were almost 100. Do you know what he bought with them?”

“100 points?” The audience member was surprised. He glanced at the time record on the small TV. “This is only the second day in the game and he almost got 100 points? The speed at which God Mu accumulated points is around the same as this. If his performance is excellent then how did he fall into the death comedy section?”

The audience member hadn’t finished speaking when on the small TV, Bai Liu had put his face close to the merfolk statue and traced the lines of the statue with his fingers. The audience member’s expression changed and he added in a somewhat complicated manner, “Still, it isn’t surprising with this person’s type of gameplay. He is probably going to be cold… what did he buy? He can buy quite a lot of useful items for Siren Town using 100 points. The fire torch and water bubble add up to almost 100 points. These are the best instance clearance items.”

“No, he didn’t buy either.” Wang Shun spoke blankly. “He bought nine barrels of high concentration alcohol totaling 54L.”

“Is it?” The audience member looked at the small TV in a strange and dumbfounded manner. “…Nine barrels of alcohol? Is he going to burn Siren Town? This is almost 100 points. It is really wasteful. Fire and light created by burning alcohol are invalid against the merfolk statues and sailors. Did he take it for granted when he bought the alcohol? However, if he touches the statue like this then the points would be wasted with his death. It isn’t a loss.”

Wang Shun found something strange and approached the small TV. “What’s the matter? He has been touching it for so long. Why hasn’t he started to be alienated by these statues?”

The other viewer frowned and leaned over, “No, it’s been five minutes… he should’ve been completely alienated by the merfolk statue, his mental value dropped to 0 and then the game failed.”

Bai Liu gently touched the merfolk statue with his fingers. He looked casual like he was playing with a work of art rather than touching a monster. He didn’t have any fear on his face. He seemed to be talking to the statue, “Sure enough, your face hasn’t changed to my appearance. Previously when those statues attacked and tried to incubate me, their faces would become closer to mine. However, your face hasn’t changed at all. Those merfolk statues were still in the pupa state. You can’t alienate me by touching because you have already—”

He opened his mouth and laughed as he observed the face of the merfolk statue in a condescending manner. He exhaled softly, “You have someone else’s face. You are the amulet of those sailors. You are the cocoon of those sailors.”

The merfolk statue under Bai Liu’s hands had the face of a sailor he had just seen on deck. It looked exactly the same. Bai Liu touched the statue’s fingers. They were cold, thin and felt different from the statues he observed in the museum. The material was very fragile and thin, different from the marble statues he saw in other places. Looking at them with the flashlight from close range, these statues were as fragile and thin as a shell, allowing light to pass through. It was as if it could be broken with one poke.

These statues were exactly the same as the front desk employee of the hotel. It was more similar to the merfolk statues called ‘amulet’ and the merfolk amulet statues were also called ‘cocoon form’ in the monster book. If Bai Liu wasn’t guessing wrong, all the statues in this warehouse were amulets of the sailors on the ship. They were all their ‘cocoons’ and cocoons weren’t capable of attacking. Since the merfolk statues changed from pupa to cocoon, it meant the insects inside had turned into butterflies, leaving only an empty shell.

The sailors walking around the ship were the monsters trapped in the statue.

[Siren Town Monster Book has refreshed – Merfolk Sailor (3/4)]

[Monster Name: Merfolk Sailor (Butterfly State)]

[Weaknesses: ??? (Unexplored)]

[Attack Method: ??? (Unexplored)]