Four strong light beams shone fiercely at the mermaid wax image from four directions. For a moment, Bai Liu's small TV screen was much brighter than the ones next to it. It was so pure white that it was dazzling and impossible to look directly at.

Under the strong beam of light, the mermaid wax statue was stiff and raised her hands stutteringly, ready to cover her eyes.

The eyes of the wax figures were even a little vacant due to the strong light of the flashlight. They began to retreat and curl up, like poor criminals surrounded by the police, shrinking into a ball in the center of the strong light, and some wax figures of mermaids even tried to bury their heads in their arms.

Bai Liu squatted in front of the wax statues like a devil, and said with a smile: "I was right, you are really afraid of the light."

The crowd watching in front of the small TV: "..."

The player who commented on Bai Liu just now was so irritated by this scene that his face turned red and he shouted, "Impossible! How can that discounted projector reproduce the light of a high-intensity flashlight 100%! This is unscientific!"

"Hey, this is hilarious. You're here to find science? How many of the props here have scientific designs?"

"…Emmm, I just read the manual of this projector. It says it's an optical projector. Everything else is useless, but it works wonders in reflecting light. It can preserve at least 80% of the images."

"I am speechless that you don't even read the instructions given by the system and just step on the newbies..."

"I couldn't help but buy three 3D projectors..."

On the small TV next to him, the player who had just been praised for choosing the right props was now frantically waving torches to drive away the mermaids while trying to read the newspaper in the hot spring pool. He looked extremely panicked.

The mermaid wax statue was still approaching with a ferocious face and bared fangs. The player was constantly being pressed closer and closer, and it seemed as if he was going to die at any moment. The scene was extremely thrilling and exciting.

It was clearly a scene that could stir the hearts of countless people, but as soon as one look at Bai Liu, it became subtle and boring.

Bai Liu had his three projections holding flashlights and surrounding the wax statue of the mermaid like police officers, while he himself slowly opened a newspaper and read it by the hot tub, looking as leisurely as if he was on vacation.

The mermaid Wax looked weak, pitiful and helpless, curled up in the middle of the encirclement, motionless.

The contrast is simply too great!

[347 people liked Bai Liu's small TV, 355 people collected Bai Liu's small TV, 21 people charged Bai Liu's small TV, and the player Bai Liu received 21 points]

[Player Bai Liu received over 300 likes in one minute, and his reputation is rising rapidly! ]

[Congratulations to player Bai Liu for obtaining the promotional position, entering the edge area of ​​the game screen in the central hall, and the number of views is increasing rapidly...]

Someone looked at Bai Liu's small TV screen in a daze: "...Oh my god, this is the first time I see a player from the new player area get a promotional spot to enter the central game hall screen, even though it's only in the peripheral area."

"I feel like... I'm witnessing the rise of a big star..."

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["Siren Town Monster Book" Mermaid wax statue panel refresh]

[Monster Name: Mermaid Wax Statue (Pupa Form), Amulet Wax Statue (Coil Form)]

[Weaknesses: Direct viewing by human eyes, strong light exposure (2/3)]

[Attack method: hatch]

[Player Bai Liu is only one weakness away from collecting all the monsters in the "Mermaid Wax Statue" page of the monster book. After collecting all the monsters, the corresponding rewards can be unlocked at the end of the game.]

Bai Liu had long guessed that one of the mermaid wax statue's weaknesses was its fear of strong light.

This is actually quite easy to guess.

The driver said earlier that some big fish have to be caught at night because they avoid light. The mermaid catching activity happened to be held at night, so it is conceivable that big fish like mermaids are mostly light-avoiding creatures.

However, Bai Liu has not easily come to a conclusion as to whether the wax statues of mermaids and mermaids have something in common in terms of avoiding light.

So Bai Liu observed and found that there were almost no mermaid wax statues on the streets of Siren Town during the day.

The light in both the hotel and the Siren Wax Museum is relatively insufficient, but there are many mermaid wax statues. He had previously inferred that mermaid wax statues are creatures without hearing or smell, but have extremely sensitive vision, and therefore have a strong ability to perceive light.

The answer is almost in front of us. Things like mermaid wax are afraid of strong light.

After Bai Liu deduced this, he tried to pursue the cost-effectiveness of this weakness that he could exploit -

——How strong a light is, how many mermaid wax figures can be driven back? How much influence does strong light have on mermaid wax figures? How long can it affect them? If the mermaid wax figures form a circle, can strong light directly help them break out?

So, Bai Liu conducted an experiment. He deliberately lured these mermaid wax statues into a circle, and then tried to break out by using strong light and 3D projectors.

Of course there is a possibility of failure, but Bai Liu doesn't like to do things timidly.

According to his inference, this action has a success rate of more than 10%, so Bai Liu will take the gamble without hesitation.

If you fail, you fail. There is no gain without risk. This is normal. Playing games is a risky process, and so is making games.

However, his current attention is still on the softened newspaper in the sink.

Bai Liu grabbed the newspaper and used both hands to gently tear the back of the newspaper apart.

Sure enough, this is not an ordinary newspaper.

[Player Bai Liu completed the task of separating newspapers in the hot spring, and received 10 points as reward]

[Charging points 21, current points balance 31, do you want to buy the item?]

Bai Liu nodded no and continued to look down at the newspaper.

Bai Liu touched the two separated newspapers and found that their thickness was obviously different, with one being much thinner.

He frowned slightly, pinched the thicker one, and tore it again - and it separated again.

Bai Liu raised his eyebrows. He was almost confused by the prompt that the task was completed. There were actually newspapers stuck together underneath. If he hadn't taken a closer look, he might have thought that he had found all the information about this place.

This game is really deceptive.

Bai Liu tore the newspaper seven or eight times, and the wash basin behind him was already full of wet old newspapers. After making sure there were no layers between the newspapers, Bai Liu quickly glanced at the contents of the newspaper.

All the headlines of the nine old newspapers in his hand were "Missing Person Notices" about missing tourists reported by the police. The total number of missing people...it was quite a large number anyway.

The earliest time that tourists went missing can be traced back to last year, when the Siren Wax Museum was just landed.

At first, there were not many missing tourists, and there were obvious signs of property robbery.

It is not a big deal if one or two tourists go missing from a popular tourist spot every month. Such crowded places are always prone to crime. And it is near the sea, so it is normal for people to fall into the water or be kidnapped and robbed. These things should obviously be reported...

However, from what Jelf told Bai Liu, before last month, the outside world had no idea that so many people had disappeared here, and the tourism industry was still developing vigorously.

It was not until the number of tourists coming here and the number of missing tourists gradually increased, and strange things happened frequently, that last month, there were twelve missing persons registered in Siren Town alone, that the incident was reported in a big way.

If Bai Liu guessed correctly, the previous incidents of missing tourists were all suppressed by Mayor Harris, who loved his people like his own children, in order to continue to develop the tourism industry. He used some means to suppress it, and later it was exposed when he could no longer suppress it.

Judging from the information in the newspapers, the townspeople here are really good at committing crimes.

Bai Liu put away the newspaper and projector, and shone the flashlight back at the wax statues of mermaids. After the wax statues of mermaids did not move, Bai Liu came out of the corridor and went to the central exhibition hall of the Siren Wax Museum where Lucy and the others were.

It is said that there is only one mermaid skeleton on display in the central exhibition hall, and it is placed in a bulletproof glass cabinet that is tightly locked. This is the perfect mermaid skeleton that the driver said they caught, and it is also the beginning of everything.

This skeleton was like a gift from the sea to Siren Town, bringing wealth to Siren Town, but also bringing misfortune. However, everyone only saw the wealth it brought, but no one realized that their current misfortune also came from this.

Bai Liu froze as soon as he walked in.

The central exhibition hall is a circular exhibition hall, with a glass cabinet like a crystal coffin standing in the middle. The glass cabinet has dazzling white LED lights that illuminate the mermaid [skeleton] inside at 360 degrees without blind spots. Bai Liu rarely looks at this mermaid corpse called [skeleton] with surprise.

This cannot be called a skeleton, at least not according to Bai Liu's standards.

Lucy looked at the mermaid in the glass cabinet with a fascinated expression: "He is so beautiful, I have never seen anything like this... perfect appearance, not even computer-generated."

Jeff seemed to be extremely shocked. The boy with thick glasses looked up at the mermaid in disbelief, and it was unknown how long he stood there.

Andre, as always, held an attitude of absolute denial and contempt for this creature: "You have all been fooled. This is nothing more than finding a fish tail and sewing it onto a person's body and putting it in a glass cabinet. It's just a trick to attract people's attention..."

After he finished speaking, he stared at the skeleton in a trance for a while, then said, "But it is indeed beautifully done."

The mermaid's corpse was immersed in a glass container. From its right hand to the shoulder it was all white bones, while the rest of the body was flesh and skin that looked like a real person.

The lines of muscles are elegant and powerful, and the well-proportioned muscles wrap around the thin bones. Bubbles slowly rise in the deep dark blue liquid, lingering and floating through the mermaid's dark brown hair, and finally embedded in its long light-colored eyelashes like a pearl.

Its eyes were closed, and its face was incredibly delicate and exquisite. Its long, slightly curly hair fluttered in the water across its thick and beautiful cheeks, revealing a pair of ears that were very different from those of ordinary people.

Its left ear is a fin made of shell mica, shining brightly in the water, while the right ear is a bone-like fin that stands out from its wet long hair.

The winding and curled fish tail is like a bright silver-blue ribbon washed in sea water, hanging on the glass cabinet. The inverted triangle scales sparkle under the light. There is a translucent flesh membrane between the fingers of the right hand, which is wrapped and overlapped with the bony left hand in front of the chest.