The guard stood quietly at the door, watching them go away. Behind him were countless vague outlines of wax statues, slowly emerging from the darkness with expressionless marble faces, like fish emerging from the sea.
[Main Mission: Complete the exploration of the Siren Wax Museum - Points Reward 50]
[Current points balance is 81, do you want to purchase items? ]
81 Ah... Bai Liu touched his chin and asked: [Do you have high-concentration alcohol? ]
[Open the shop——Yes, there are 218 different types of special quality alcohol, 18 of which you can buy in this instance]
[What is the cheapest price? ]
[9 points for 25L, kindly note that the alcohol in the game is not the same substance as the alcohol in real life. After system modification, the efficacy may be higher or lower. It is recommended that players read the instructions before purchasing. ]
[System suggestion: It is detected that the player has sufficient points. It is recommended that the player purchase the Flame Torch item in this instance. It is more effective and safer~]
Bai Liu thought thoughtfully: [Reading the alcohol props manual]
A large number of panels suddenly popped up on the system panel, with dozens of pages of instructions densely packed on them. The handwriting was so small the size of an ant that it would hurt your eyes if you scanned it a few times.
Bai Liu opened a page of the instruction manual without any surprise and read it slowly.
The props in this game are sold in this way. The cheaper the prop, the longer the instruction manual. On the contrary, the instructions for popular products on the sales column are simple, straightforward and tempting. They directly state the effects, making players who are eager to survive want to buy them at first sight.
As a corporate slave with little money, Bai Liu tries his best to find the most practical and cheapest products among the overwhelming marketing of e-commerce during every shopping festival. He is very familiar with this routine.
The cheaper and more useful something is, the more obstacles you will face in buying it.
One of them is to add a lot of description text to cheap items, so that people don’t know what the item is used for at first glance, and then jump to buy something else.
Therefore, few people have purchased these cheap things, so the sales volume is extremely low, some are even in single digits, and it is estimated that few people have carefully read the instruction manuals for these things.
Bai Liu narrowed his eyes and looked at the words behind [Flame Torch] and [3D Projector] on the menu bar - [The prices of some products have changed].
[The price of Flame Torch in Siren Town has been reduced to 17 points]
[3D projector "Siren Town" has returned to its original price, 6 points each]
The prices of these two items that he had noticed before have changed.
[High-intensity flashlight] and [flame torch] are props that are commonly used and effective in horror games, and they seem to be more expensive.
But it seems that after Bai Liu used certain props, the prices of these props changed to a certain extent, and he knew that he was in a live broadcast system...
Bai Liu guessed that the number of players who purchased these items changed during the time he played the game, which led to a change in the price of the items.
He slowly read the instructions of all the alcohols and finally chose the cheapest one.
Bai Liu was very generous: [I want all]
[9 bottles of high-concentration alcohol are put into the shopping bag of player Bai Liu. Welcome to visit us next time]
Wang Shun, who was watching the TV, slapped his thigh anxiously when he saw Bai Liu: "Oh my! What is this new guy doing?"
"Are you going to use alcohol to burn the wax figures? These wax figures are afraid of light but not fire. When the wax outside melts, the monster inside will come out! Why did you spend all your points at once? Are you stupid?"
There were also players whispering nearby:
"What's wrong with this new player? He spent all his 81 points on the cheapest alcohol. Is he an alcoholic? No player has ever bought this."
"You take it for granted, thinking that the wax mermaid is afraid of light or fire. A newbie made this mistake before, using a torch to burn the wax mermaid instead of lighting it. As a result, the wax mermaid was destroyed as soon as the torch went dark."
"Let's go, let's go. I thought you were so awesome, but it turns out you just got here by luck..."
"The quality of the central screen is getting lower and lower. Even newcomers like this can use it. The previous batch of Mu Shen was really awesome..."
…
[0 new people liked Bai Liu's TV, 2 new people collected Bai Liu's TV, 166 new people disliked Bai Liu's TV, and no one charged Bai Liu]
[1447 new people are watching Bai Liu's TV, more than half of them stepped on Bai Liu's TV. Player Bai Liu has earned an undeserved reputation. He is really bad at playing. Everyone hopes you die soon~]
[Player Bai Liu's promotional position at the edge of the center screen expires]
[The total number of steps is increasing too fast, and the player Bai Liu enters the (Death Comedy) partition screen. Please everyone with your funny death and game skills! ]
Wang Shun watched intently as the small screen at the edge of the central area flashed, and then Bai Liu's small TV went dark.
He pushed his glasses, thinking of the information on the god-level wandering NPCs that he had not yet collected, hesitated for a moment, and finally stood up and went to the death comedy zone screen amid a bunch of regrets and ridicules for the newcomer Bai Liu.
…
In-game.
Night falls.
The driver drove the van on the darkened street. The street lights on both sides were flashing. Fishermen were walking on the street with fishing nets and machetes, looking at the van passing by them with almost dull eyes.
These are the fishermen who will be participating in the mermaid catching activity tonight.
Under the dim light of the street lamps, the marble-like dark blue lines on these people's faces were densely intertwined, and some mucus was dripping down their bodies.
These townspeople looked even more terrifying than they did during the day, their eyes emitting a dark green light in the darkness.
The driver warned again: "These townspeople are very dangerous. They haven't had any income for a long time. When you watch the mermaids being caught, just watch from the designated boats. Don't approach them. You look like outsiders and are easily robbed."
As the driver spoke, he chewed the sandwich in his hand with big mouthfuls.
This man also had a sandwich for dinner, with minced fish falling from his mouth. Bai Liu smelled the rotten fish smell that made him want to vomit, but other than him, no one else in the car seemed to think the smell was bad. Andre even kept swallowing his saliva while looking at the driver's sandwich for dinner, and kept fingering the back of his ears anxiously.
Lucy couldn't help but say, "This sandwich smells delicious."
Andre was extremely irritable: "What the hell did we have for dinner! I'm starving!" He said this while looking at Bai Liu behind him with a look of disgust.
They all had dinner at the wax museum that night. Bai Liu ordered the cheapest all-vegetarian meal, without any fish. Not only did Andre get angry, but even Lucy was shocked. However, Bai Liu paid the most for the bill, and since he said he didn't want to eat fish, everyone had to accompany him.
Andre cursed: "If you can't afford it, don't come out to play adult games. Go back and eat your mother's vegan milk!"
Bai Liu just smiled and said, "In that case, if Andre wants to eat meat, just order it yourself."
He removed Andre's vegan meal, but all the meals in the wax museum were very expensive and Andre couldn't afford it at all, but Bai Liu said he wouldn't give it to him.
Andre didn't dare to cause trouble for Bai Liu. After all, Bai Liu still had to pay his hotel bill for the night and he didn't want to sleep on the streets in a town like this.
But Jeff didn't care, so Andre snatched away Jeff's vegan meal and punched him a few times. Jeff huddled in a corner, holding his stomach and not saying a word.
Now smelling the sandwich, Jeff's Adam's apple kept sliding up and down, his eyes revealing suppressed desire, and then he looked at Andre with eyes so red that they were about to bleed.
[Jerf's Bloody Conspiracy - 30% progress on the side quest]
Bai Liu paid attention to Jelf who was lowering his head.
Andre was so irritated by hunger and the smell of food that he couldn't help scratching his itchy ears.
Bai Liu noticed that the skin behind Andre's ear that he had pinched red suddenly opened and closed, and several arc-shaped wrinkles appeared, just like the opening and closing of fish gills to breathe, but it only lasted for a moment, and soon the skin stuck back together again.
The skin seemed to have life and was vibrating slightly.
It was like the closed gills of a fish on the shore fluttering slightly.
Bai Liu scanned Andre with the coin.
[NPC name: Andre (highly transformed)]
After leaving the wax museum, Andre's alienation became more serious...
Bai Liu raised his eyebrows slightly: "Andre, did you touch those mermaid wax statues in the wax museum?"
"So what if I touched her?" Andre turned around and said in a vicious voice, "Bai Liu, let's see who should go home and drink milk tonight!"
At this moment, Andre growled angrily, his gills opened in the dim carriage. Bai Liu could clearly see the fin-like things behind Andre's ears shaking violently.
The driver suddenly shouted in a low voice: "Hey, guys, don't fight in our car!"
Andre retracted his gills instantly, but his eyes were still fixed on Bai Liu with viciousness.
Driver: "According to your request, I have found a duel for you, or a place for you to bet, tonight on a remote beach and two wooden boats. Please be careful. If you drown, I will not be responsible."
After a while, the driver chuckled to himself, "But you've been here for so long, you won't drown... You should all know how to swim."
Bai Liu's face turned silent. He couldn't swim.
The residents of this town are all like fish, including them who have only been here for a day. They are gradually becoming like fish, liking to eat strange fish meat and exuding a subtle fishy smell...
Fish are born to swim, so of course they won't drown.
Except for Bai Liu.
What made him different from the others was that he neither ate those strange fish meats nor let any mermaid wax statues get close to him at night.
Bai Liu speculated that these two factors were the reason why the others were transformed into fish, but Bai Liu was not assimilated and evolved. After Bai Liu went to Shanghai to fulfill the bet, his danger level would definitely double.
Who knows what's in the sea? Who knows if Andre will turn into a monster and overturn his boat?