Chapter 18: Siren Town (1/2)

Andre’s eyes looking at Bai Liu were very explicit. They were filled with a desire for food.

Andre laughed. “I haven’t eaten enough. If a fish here tries to overturn my boat in the middle of the night, I will pick it up and eat it.” Andre was clearly talking about killing and eating merfolk but his eyes kept falling on Bai Liu’s neck. It was as if he was talking about eating Bai Liu.

Bai Liu’s thoughts had become a bit slow. It should be the effect of the drop in mental value. He realized at this time that Andre had such a great fragrance coming from his body. For a moment, he even wanted to bite the other person. Then in the eyes of Andre, a merfolk with a significantly higher degree of alienation would be even more delicious food.

Bai Liu wanted to eat himself.

However, Bai Liu’s physical strength, intelligence and even reaction power had all dropped sharply. Now his panel attributes had started to glow and his mental value was already on the edge of 60 points. If Bai Liu was at sea while Andre was completely alienated then he would definitely die if they fought.

There must be some way to fight Andre but all the information in Bai Liu’s mind seemed to be covered by a translucent cloth. He could vaguely see those plans but he couldn’t recall them. He vaguely remembered that he had prepared a way for himself to deal with Andre but he couldn’t remember it.

Bai Liu blinked again, shook a bit and whispered to himself.

The group of people in front of the small TV saw Bai Liu sway and their hearts were in their throats.

Wang Shun had followed Bai Liu all this way and knew that this person was a very talented player. He had seen people playing Siren Town many times but he had never been so nervous before. Wang Shun held his breath without blinking. His hands clenched tightly and the volume of his voice in front of the small TV became much smaller. “Bai Liu has been alienated and his mental value is about to drop below 60. He will start seeing hallucinations.”

A large number of people were gathered around Wang Shun and their volume was also reduced. The player who had been here before with Wang Shun spoke in a complicated tone. “His mental value is 60. He is at the life or death pass.”

A mental value of 60 was the line between reality and illusions. Above the mental value of 60, they were only fighting against monsters. Once below 60 points, they had to fight against their own illusions.

It was harder than fighting against monsters.

This was because the monsters’ weaknesses could be explored and there were traces to follow. Meanwhile, an illusion was generated by yourself and you would never know the weakness of your own illusion or if it was real or an illusion.

This was why players with high mental values had huge advantages in the game and Bai Liu attracted such great attention previously.

Players who were easily frightened or easily contaminated by the spirit of monsters could easily fall below 60 points. After that, most players’ death rate would increase step by step. Many players were scared to death by their own illusions. Therefore, the mental value of 60 was called the ‘life or death pass’ among players.

The audience’s regretful words said it all.

“It was great. He took so long to get under 60.”

“Without an item to clear mental value, it will only get lower and lower. I think his life is hanging by a thread.”

“The survival rate of newcomers in the game Siren Town is only 1%. They haven’t watched the clearance strategy and haven’t purchased the corresponding mental value protection items. This game is basically unsolvable for them.” (TL: Remember, the 51% survival rate is for all players, while newcomers is 1%)

“It isn’t unsolvable right? Didn’t that last batch of newcomers also clear the instance?”

“Haha, the only person who cleared Siren Town out of the last batch of 100 newcomers came out of the game with a mental value of 25. They went crazy after coming out of the game. What is the use of that?”

“The newcomer will probably go crazy in a moment.”

“Let’s go. I don’t want to watch if he is stupid.”

“Um, I still like the feeling when he plays games very calmly. Once it falls below 60, emmmmm, forget it.”

[7 new people liked Bai Liu’s small TV, 17 new people have saved Bai Liu’s small TV, 0 people have charged Bai Liu’s small TV and 0 people have stepped on player Bai Liu’s small TV.]