No wonder the side quest "Love Ship" has 100 points. The danger level is much higher than the other quests.

Andre couldn't control his appetite and reached out to grab the sandwich from the driver: "Give me a bite!"

Andre wolfed down the sandwich in the driver's hand. He ate it very roughly, and his teeth could only chew it a few times before he swallowed it while beating his chest.

The driver did not try to grab it back. He just looked at Andre, who was bending over to eat, with a sympathetic look as if he was feeding an animal: "Eat, my child, eat. You must be very hungry. You didn't eat much, did you? Enjoy your dinner."

Bai Liu took a look and said, "This is his second dinner tonight." The first one was the one Andre stole from Jeff.

When Jelf, whose dinner was taken away, heard this, he moved a little, lowered his head and covered his face, and gill-like patterns appeared on his ears. It seemed that Jelf's gills grew for a moment because of anger, and his teeth became as sharp and dense as a shark's.

But such a horrifying scene lasted only a moment. When Bai Liu looked over, Jelf lowered his head timidly, covering his face as if nothing had happened. However, the remaining light in his eyes was still strangely lingering on Bai Liu's face reflected in the rearview mirror.

[Jerf's Bloody Conspiracy, side quest progress 50%]

Bai Liu frowned slightly - how come the progress of this task just increased, and now it increased again?

Zelf should have increased his determination to attack Endeavor once before, so why did he increase his determination this time?

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Bai Liu and his friends arrived at the port. When getting off the car, he remembered that the driver had very low trust in him. Thinking that the driver was most likely involved in "Jelph's Bloody Conspiracy", Bai Liu still wanted to increase the trust of the driver, an important NPC.

So when he got off the car, he gave the driver some money as a tip in the name of thanking him, but the driver looked at the money in Bai Liu's package with a heavy look, and finally broke into a sly smile, kissed the tip Bai Liu gave him, and waved, "I wish you guys have a good time."

[Jerv's Bloody Conspiracy - 80% progress on the side quest]

Bai Liu thought that the townspeople here were indeed thieves, their eyes lit up when they saw money.

He seemed not to notice the greedy look the driver gave to the money in his pocket. He opened his pockets openly for the driver to see, and smiled as usual: "We will."

The place to watch the mermaid catching activity is on a giant ship.

The huge ship slowly left the port at night. The deck was filled with silent sailors coming and going, and the small boats moored under the ship were filled with fishermen who looked like fish.

Bai Liu and his companions boarded the boat after it was completely dark. The fishermen on the small boats below kept staring at Bai Liu and his companions on the deck.

There is an essential difference between the sailors on the deck of this ship and the fishermen on the ground. The most important thing is that these sailors look like humans instead of fish, and they don't have those strange patterns on their faces, nor do they smell like fish. Their skin is just a little paler, very similar to the hotel receptionist who is said to have albinism.

Bai Liu observed carefully and found that there were not many people on this huge ship. He didn't know why they had to take such a large ship to go out fishing... What a waste.

And there was something wrong with the ship. Bai Liu noticed it when he got on board. The ship had too deep a draft. There must be something particularly heavy on board.

The sailors walked around the ship expressionlessly, as if they didn't see Bai Liu and his group. Occasionally, Bai Liu would notice a few sailors standing in a dark corner, looking at them with strange eyes, then whispering to the sailors next to them, and then revealing a satisfied and strange smile.

The boat sailed.

The sea was calm in the middle of the night. The light from the searchlight on the bow could only illuminate a small area of ​​the sea. Beyond that, it was darkness that seemed to be able to swallow up the huge ship. From time to time, there was the sound of waves passing by on both sides of the ship. The sailors on the ship distributed their work in an orderly manner, and the fishermen beside the ship laid out their fishing nets.

The ship sailed into the dark and bottomless night.

Lucy stood beside Bai Liu wearing a cape. Her lips, which were covered with lipstick, were blown purple. She huddled beside Bai Liu to keep warm. "Why is it so cold, Bai Liu? I just asked them. They said that if you want to catch mermaids, you have to sail the boat to the sea where the first mermaid was caught. Only from that place can you catch mermaids. They call that sea area "Siren's Gift". It seems there is a legend behind it."

Bai Liu turned his head and said, "Siren's gift?"

"Yes." Lucy pulled her cloak tighter around her. She shivered and said, "Oh my God, it's so cold. I feel like I'm heading to a hell full of ghosts. Only there would there be such a cold wind."

Bai Liu didn't feel cold. He suddenly thought of something and scanned Lucy with a coin.

[NPC name: Lucy (transforming)]

Bai Liu reached out and touched Lucy's hand. Her skin was cold and slippery, and felt like freshly solidified wax.

Lucy looked at Bai Liu and smiled. She should have wanted to frown, but the muscles on her face were as stiff as a corpse, which made her expression very strange, like an abstract figure painting by Picasso.

Her voice also began to become hoarse, with an inexplicable eagerness: "Your hands are so warm, can I kiss you?"

Bai Liu declined: "No." He gave himself an explanation, "There are too many people here."

Lucy wasn't cold from the wind; her own body temperature was dropping.

Jeff, who appeared beside Bai Liu at some point, looked at the sea ahead with a very enthusiastic look. He murmured in a low voice: "Yes, the gift of the Siren. Legend has it that this sea is a gift from the Siren King, and it can bring the dead back to life."

"When tourists accidentally fall into the water and drown in this sea, the Siren King will give them the power of rebirth. They will turn into mermaids and return to the human world. That is why fishermen can catch mermaids here."

Bai Liu thought that the Siren King had been picked up and placed in a wax museum a long time ago, so why was this sea area still able to produce mermaids continuously?

And it was from the time when the Siren King was captured and brought ashore that mermaids began to appear in this sea area...

And the dead ghosts turned into mermaids and returned to the human world. This doesn't sound like a story of "blessing from God" at all. This story is more like a cult myth such as a curse.

Bai Liu added a logical sequel to this story in his mind - the dead people who turned into mermaids were picked up and poured into marble to make wax statues for tourists to visit. Some mermaids were directly made into food and eaten by the townspeople. Later, these mermaid wax statues finally started to cause trouble, and tourists in the town began to disappear one after another...

This doesn't seem like a gift from the sirens, but more like a mermaid's revenge.

The sailor suddenly came over and said, "We are about to reach the Sea of ​​the Siren's Gift. Please do not wander around on the ship, or we will not be responsible for anything that happens."

After saying this, the sailor left. Bai Liu found that all the sailors went to the bottom of the ship, and the deck was suddenly empty.

Bai Liu narrowed his eyes, circled the boat a few times, and pretended to follow one of the sailors casually.

The sailors all went to the lowest cabin, which was the warehouse. These sailors, with no emotion on their faces, walked down the wooden ladder into the cabin one by one, and then came out one by one, accompanied by some whispers:

"My... no problem."

“…make sure these things are okay.”

"A few were broken before, but it doesn't matter. After the four people who came tonight are eaten, new ones can be put in."

This group of sailors seemed to be checking something very important, and then they came out one by one after the inspection.

Bai Liu hid in the corner, squinted his eyes, and thought to himself that there must be something very heavy in the bottom warehouse, something heavy and very important... Bai Liu vaguely guessed what it was, but he still didn't know why these sailors had to bring this thing with them when they went out to fish.

After all the sailors had left, the last sailor seemed to have forgotten to lock the bottom hold and left.

The lock was hanging on the door of the bottom warehouse, swaying back and forth with the waves, as if it was saying to Bai Liu, the player, "Come and explore me~ Come and explore me~"

Bai Liu opened the door and went down. There was a long, narrow wooden staircase that creaked as he walked up it, leading to an unclear basement. There were no lights on either side, and the entire structure looked like a cellar. Bai Liu did not go downstairs, but turned on a flashlight to see if the basement contained what he thought it did.

He turned on the flashlight and looked down. Even though he had expected it, Bai Liu's breath still stopped.

The warehouse was filled with all kinds of wax statues of mermaids. These wax statues were densely packed throughout the entire warehouse. At a glance, there was almost no place to stand, and all they saw were white wax statues.

All of these wax statues of mermaids stretched their heads and tilted their heads back, their white eyes staring directly at Bai Liu. Bai Liu discovered that there were significantly more wax statues around the stairs where he was standing.

The mermaid wax statues were like a school of fish that swarmed over at the smell of fishy smell. Two of them had already walked up the stairs where Bai Liu was, but were dazzled by the light of the flashlight and retreated again.

But the flashlight could only illuminate one place, the dark place in the warehouse that could not be illuminated. There were constant rustling sounds coming from the ground. More and more mermaid wax statues gathered on the stairs where Bai Liu was. They were like fish looking up to eat bait, staring at Bai Liu.

But Bai Liu did not turn back. He stared at the faces of the wax figures for a while, then suddenly put down the flashlight, walked down, and stretched out his hand to try to touch the wax figures.

Wang Shun, who was watching on a small TV, exclaimed: "!!!!"