The guard said that the hot water room Bai Liu was going to was a bit remote and some of the light bulbs were broken, so he told him to be careful.

He also reminded us that there were a lot of wax statues of mermaids piled up randomly there, so we should be careful not to bump into them.

The guard had a malicious expression on his face when he said these words.

White willows weave between the marble columns. These marble columns, which are located inside the museum, are as wide as two or three people can hug together. They are located in the center of the road, and wax statues of mermaids are placed at intervals on both sides of the road.

These wax figures had different shapes, with their tails hanging down and no expression on their faces. Bai Liu discovered that most of these wax figures were looking out the window.

It looks like these mermaids are trying to escape and leave.

The hot water pool was at the end of the corridor. No one knew who had opened it, but hot water was gushing out of it. The whole corridor was filled with steam from the hot water. The mermaid wax seemed to be melting under the baking steam, wax dripping down drop by drop, and her body was undergoing very slight movements.

Bai Liu walked in the corridor as if walking in the mist above the sea, surrounded by mermaids swaying under the water.

After walking a few steps, Bai Liu noticed the wax statues of mermaids on both sides of the road. Their heads started to look out the window, their necks slowly twisted, and their expressionless faces began to look at him.

Moreover, the wax statues of mermaids on both sides were moving towards the white willow in the middle at a subtle speed that was hardly noticeable, and their melting areas were getting larger and larger.

The spacious and tall European-style building was dark inside. The lone tourist stepped slowly on the smooth floor. The wax statues of mermaids on both sides seemed to change their postures and expressions every time Bai Liu blinked, and they were getting closer and closer to him.

A faint smile appeared on the originally empty and dead faces of the mermaid wax statues, and their fish tails left greasy candle marks on the ground.

They are so pale and flawless, like a group of ghosts frozen in this place and moving only slowly.

Bai Liu silently calculated the number of these mermaid wax statues in his mind, and from time to time he looked back at the things following him to control their movement speed.

But there were too many wax statues here. Usually, he would stare at the wax statue of the mermaid behind him. When he turned around, the wax statue of the mermaid in front of Bai Liuzheng with a sympathetic smile would have stretched out its hands to him impatiently and could strangle his neck immediately.

Bai Liu had calculated the movement speed of these things. He basically moved and turned around at the right time, and used cylinders to deliberately move these things around to prevent them from forming a circle.

Although these things seem very threatening, the trouble is that they are indestructible and there are so many of them. Once they form an encirclement, it will be difficult for him to escape.

These wax statues of mermaids were getting closer and closer to him, and Bai Liu discovered that these wax statues had gradually transformed from a state close to death into living things.

In Bai Liu's eyes, these mermaid wax statues all looked similar. The universal faces of European and American wax statues produced on the assembly line began to change. The closer they got to Bai Liu, the more the melted faces of these mermaid wax statues looked like... Bai Liu.

The mermaid wax statues showed a weird smile with a face that was weirdly similar to Bai Liu, and they moved towards Bai Liu with their fangs and claws bared.

Bai Liu finally walked to the hot water pool that the guard had mentioned. The faucet on the yellow and old washbasin was covered with rusty spots, and it was unclear whether it was blood or something else.

The rectangular iron pot of hot water stands above the faucet, making the sound of boiling water.

Amid the sound of the rushing water, Bai Liu calmly put the newspaper in her arms into the pool and turned around.

A group of mermaids of various shapes and faces that were 70% similar to his stood in several rows of high and low behind him, surrounding him densely and blocking his way out.

They lowered their heads, the dim light in the museum cast a layer of haze over their eyeless eyes, and they had strange smiles on their mouths that stretched all the way to the corners of their jaws.

The smile was clearly malicious, projecting a creepy sense of threat on their melted and distorted faces.

These mermaids looked at Bai Liu who was standing in front of the pool with heavy and greedy eyes. Bai Liu was also looking directly at these things, feeling as if he was surrounded by dozens of himself.

These things were hunting him.

Bai Liu thought, he had just said that these guys were not very smart and had no intention of hunting him, but he didn't expect that these guys had learned how to surround him without any instruction in a moment.

The learning ability is amazing, just like humans.

Bai Liu looked calmly at the group of things. The hot water behind him had already overflowed from the sink, but he did not turn around, or rather, he could not turn around. If he turned around, the group of things would surely rush up at him immediately, and he could not blink.

He reached behind him and turned off the faucet.

Bai Liu blinked, and the wax statues of mermaids moved forward an inch, their faces becoming more ferocious, but Bai Liu seemed not to see it. Instead, he looked at their faces, touched his chin thoughtfully, and talked to himself.

"Hatching, is that what you mean? The closer it gets to me, the more it looks like me... so the thing that hatches out in the end will most likely look like me... Hmm, the fishy smell on me gets stronger when these mermaid wax statues get close to me, so I'll also be affected when they hatch. Are those townspeople also hatching?"

He was neither too fast nor too slow here, but the players watching in front of his small TV were not as calm as Bai Liu and were all making sarcastic remarks.

"At this time, he is still analyzing and pretending to be cool. I wonder what he is going to do with a bunch of useless projectors. Is he going to show a movie to the mermaids?"

"Tsk tsk, the spirit value is 100, I thought it was so awesome."

There was another round of exclamation from the side: "That novice player holding the torch has broken through! Come and see!"

On a small TV screen two screens away from Bai Liu, a male player was holding a blazing torch and waving it at the mermaids who were surrounding him, gritting his teeth and shouting, "Go away! Go away if you don't want to be burned to death!"

The wax statues of mermaids gradually retreated, and cheers broke out in front of the small TV:

"I told you this player is good. He picked the right item. One of the Mermaid Wax Statue's weaknesses is its fear of light. The Flame Torch is the best item. OK, OK, I'm done!"

"Like it, his panel strength is pretty good too. If he develops well in the later stages, he might be able to make it to the Rising Stars list."

"Hey, if I had known I wouldn't have charged that useless guy next door. It's a waste of points. This is a serious seed player..."

The number of likes on Bai Liu's TV has dropped to single digits, and there are only a few viewers still watching. They are not there to cheer for Bai Liu, they are just there to watch the death of this newcomer.

On TV, Bai Liu calmly took out the three discounted 3D projectors from his pocket. The few remaining viewers couldn't help but laugh.

"He actually took it out. What is he going to do?"

"It was the torches next door that looked so powerful that they all went out in an instant."

These mermaid wax statues silently approached Bai Liu's toes with their tails. They stood tall, surrounding Bai Liu in a small dark space. Dozens of melted wax hands stretched out from all directions, trying to capture Bai Liu as their prey.

Bai Liu calmly threw the 3D projector behind, to the left and to the right of the wax figure, one at a time, then pressed the switch with a smile.

A vivid projection of Bai Liu jumped out from the three wax statues, smiling just like him. The three projections and Bai Liu were guarding the four directions and were still moving forward. The mermaid wax statues hesitated for a few seconds and then all stopped.

But the audience still had a mocking look on their faces:

"Although the mermaid wax statue has a low IQ and cannot distinguish between a real person and a projection, the projected human eyes can indeed fool them for a while, but if it lasts too long, it will be exposed. It can only last for ten minutes at most, but it will not be able to escape from here in ten minutes."

An audience member who had just topped up a lot of points for the torch player sneered: "And the high-intensity flashlight he bought is just one. Although it can drive away the mermaids, its intimidation and attack power against the mermaid wax statues are not as strong as a torch. The flashlight is useless."

As soon as he finished speaking, the mermaid wax image on the screen retreated a little and stared at the projections motionlessly.

The player who commented on Bai Liu was calm and said, "It will take at most ten minutes. Wait, these wax images will soon realize that these projections are fake."

Sure enough, not long after, these mermaid wax images seemed to have realized that Bai Liu's projection was fake, and they were eager to move around the flashlight and prepare to come forward.

The audience smiled contemptuously again: "See, I told you it would be like this."

Before the audience member could finish his words, he looked at the small TV screen in amazement and stopped his own analysis.

The three projections on Bai Liu's side also took out high-intensity flashlights and aimed them at the wax image of the mermaid, just like Bai Liu. The four Bai Lius took out flashlights and aimed them at the wax image of the mermaid in the middle, as if they were about to fire some kind of cannonball.

Bai Liu smiled: "One is indeed not enough, but four should be enough."