The sailors dropped their fishing nets on both sides of the boat, muttering something strange.

Bai Liu only heard something like the gift from the Sirens. Jeff stood by the boat and looked down, with a strange and crazy expression on his face: "They are praying to the Sirens, praying that the Sirens will give them beautiful mermaids."

Before Jeff finished speaking, the sailors on the side of the boat jumped down one by one, pulling the edge of the net. Lucy was frightened and screamed: "What are they doing?! Aren't they going to catch mermaids? Why are they jumping down by themselves!"

Bai Liu said calmly: "They are just catching mermaids."

After a long, long time, a huge net slowly floated up from the sea surface. In the net were broken limbs and fish tails. Dozens of mermaids were trapped in the net, all in a state of death, with their rotten tails sticking to the net.

These dozen or so mermaids were like dolls in a garbage dump, twisted into certain postures in the net, staring at the people on the boat with their eyes wide open, with ferocious or terrified expressions on their faces, and their bodies were covered with bite marks, as if they had been bitten to death by some ferocious deep-sea fish and thrown into the net.

Bai Liu looked at the faces of these fragmented "mermaids" under the light of the searchlight, and his breathing slowly slowed down.

The faces of these mermaids look exactly like the twelve missing tourists in the newspaper.

The sailors on the ship whispered joyfully:

"They will be made into wax statues and sent to wax museums..."

"But the wax museum will only display four wax statues tonight because there are only four tourists. What will happen to the extra mermaids?"

"Put it in the bottom warehouse first. Let's eat it first..."

The captured mermaids were quickly sent to the rear, and no one knew where they were transported to.

Bai Liu and the other three tourists could eat some fresh common sea fish that were caught along with the mermaids. Soon the sea fish were cooked and served to Bai Liu.

These sea fish seemed to have been tainted with the scent of mermaids, and tasted particularly strange when cooked.

The other three people except Bai Liu were sucking their fingers and enjoying the fish meat crazily.

The fish was made into sashimi fillets and pushed to the center. Lucy held the wet fish head and chewed it. Lucy ate so quickly that even the hair on her cheek was eaten.

Lucy brushed the oily hair out of her mouth and smiled at Bai Liu: "Bai Liu, why don't you come over to eat? The fish tonight is really fresh."

The little white eyes of the fish head in Lucy's hand stared at Bai Liu with its eyes wide open.

Andre was biting a fish tail in his hand, his teeth were snapping sharply. He had become very much like a fish. His eyes were almost invisible from the front and were located on both sides of his face. His nose was completely drooped, and fishy semen was flowing from the corners of his overly wide mouth.

Jeff used a fork to cut open the fish's plump belly. He seemed to be able to maintain his sanity, but his hands moved faster and faster, mechanically stuffing the fish into his mouth.

The sailors stared at Bai Liu. They placed the plate full of fish in front of Bai Liu and smiled strangely: "If you don't eat fresh fish, your trip will be in vain, Mr. Bai."

Bai Liu wanted to refuse, but the panel in front of him once again popped up an instruction:

[Mission Tips: If you do not eat the fish given by the sailor, the catching and watching activity will be considered a failure]

Bai Liu was silent for two seconds and ate a piece.

This marine fish meat has a very strange sour taste when you put it in your mouth, but when the meat passes through your throat, it turns into the freshness and sweetness of normal marine fish meat.

All the fish in front of Bai Liu began to have a strange temptation. Even Bai Liu, who had never had a strong appetite, could not control the urge to eat as much as he could when he saw the table full of fish.

When the sailor saw him eat, he left with satisfaction.

Bai Liu tried his best to keep his mind clear and not look at the fish on the table. He stood up by the sea, feeling the sea breeze and lowered his head to smell the metallic scent of the coin on his chest.

The smell of the coins calmed Bai Liu.

He could probably deduce something.

After the Sirens King was rescued, he fell into a deep sleep and lost some power over this sea area, causing the people who died in this sea area to turn into mermaids, resurrected and returned to the human world. This is actually a legend, but the mermaid corpses of the twelve tourists just now verified the truth of this legend.

People who die here can indeed turn into mermaids.

But the question is why such a remote and small area of ​​sea can produce so many mermaids made from dead people, filling up an entire wax museum and still not enough? Why are there so many dead people in this area of ​​sea?

When Bai Liu saw the twelve mermaids that were caught by tourists, he finally understood why this sea area could produce so many mermaids.

Because this is a corpse dumping ground.

The bodies of the missing tourists were probably dumped into the sea, caught by the sailors and mistaken for some large fish, and then made into wax statues of mermaids.

But I don’t know who killed those tourists….

Bai Liu had a vague suspicion in his mind that this was a town prone to robbery. Most of the tourists who went missing in this town had suffered property losses. Bai Liu could tell from the astonishing number of robbery and disappearance cases reported in the newspapers that Siren Town was not a place with simple folk customs.

It would be more accurate to say that this town became rich not so much from the tourism industry as from the robbery industry that came with it.

Is there any fatter lamb than tourists coming from afar?

Such a poor and vicious place, with so many tourists dead, Bai Liu tends to think that the tourists were robbed and assassinated and then dumped here. Of course, it is not ruled out that mermaids came ashore to hunt and kill.

However, considering the mermaids’ fear of bright light, it is estimated that it is difficult for them to come ashore and kill tourists during the day. At night, during the popular tourist season in Siren Town, all these mermaids will be caught and provided for tourists to watch. The probability of mermaids killing people is not high...

Wait, Bai Liu suddenly connected the dots——

The mermaid catching activity requires that someone dies in this sea area before the mermaids can be caught. If there are no deaths here, there will be no mermaids.

For example, during Bai Liu's fishing activity this time, they caught the tourists who went missing last time...

The residents of this town might have deliberately killed someone, dumped the body, and raised the mermaids. They then made a gimmick of mermaid fishing into a tourist industry to attract more tourists, making it easier for them to rob.

No wonder the museum guard said there would be no mermaid catching activities without tourists. All the mermaids caught were dead tourists.

The mayor here is a guy who loves his people like his own children.

In order to promote economic development and cover up the crimes of the townspeople, to prevent the townspeople's criminal records from being discovered, and to further expand the "mermaid tourism industry", Bai Liu felt that the mayor was completely capable of taking the captured mermaids, or irrigating their corpses into wax statues and placing them in a wax museum, or simply letting the residents dispose of them.

Of course, the police were unable to capture or find any bodies; they were all disposed of and filled with wax statues.

The mermaid wax statues are filled with the corpses of previous visitors, and imprisoned inside are the ghosts of previous visitors. These ghosts have turned into monsters, and for revenge they begin to curse the residents of the town and turn these residents into their amulets.

In the process of alienation, the residents will become like fish, and the mermaid wax statue will become a human, and the two will exchange identities.

So the amulets in the warehouse below are actually the townspeople of Siren Town, and the sailors wandering on the ship are ghosts who died in the deep sea. They are no longer human, but monsters.

According to this inference, there is still one thing missing.

The mermaid wax statue has three forms: pupa, cocoon, and butterfly. But Bai Liu narrowed his eyes. According to the law of growth, the mermaid wax statue is still missing one state, that is, the larvae, which are the most numerous and the most fragile.

The larvae are…

Bai Liu slowly covered his belly. The piece of fish he had just eaten seemed to be wriggling wetly on his stomach wall. Bai Liu looked at his fingers which were beginning to turn bluish white, and the faint fish scale patterns on his skin. He could feel both sides of his jaw starting to itch, and he had the illusion that gills were about to grow.

He turned around slowly. The three people who came with him were still eating frantically and were almost losing their human form, especially Andre.

He was almost lying on the table, stuffing food into his mouth frantically. His hair had turned into spurs standing up like fish fins, and his nose was covered with dark green fish scales.

[Warning: Player Bai Liu has entered a state of mutation, and his mental state is decreasing. Please distinguish between game reality and game illusion.]

Bai Liu thought to himself, this is the last monster in the monster book, and this is the last form of the mermaid wax statue, the larvae state.

Any tourist who enters Siren Town, or any resident who stays in Siren Town, will be transformed into this kind of thing, a form that is the weakest and most vulnerable to being eaten, slaughtered, and robbed.

Bai Liu is now the weakest form of the mermaid wax statue, the larvae form.

["Siren Town Monster Book" Update - Mermaid (4/4)]

[Monster name: Mermaid (larvae)]

[Weakness: ? ? ? (unexplored)]

[Attack method: ? ? ? (unexplored)]

[All monster pages in the "Siren Town Monster Book" have been unlocked. Players are encouraged to explore the missing parts of the monster book.]

Andre wiped the rotten meat from his mouth and pushed the table away. His mouth had become filled with fine and sharp teeth that went all the way through his jaw. It was as big as a little clown, and there was a lot of bloody fish meat falling out as he spoke: "Bai Liu, do you remember our bet?"

Bai Liu was attracted by the unique fishy smell on Andre's body. He blinked slowly and said, "I remember, we stayed overnight on the boat, right?"

Andre smiled a sly smile that went all the way to the back of his head, then he stretched out his long tongue to lick the remaining flesh on his face: "Why don't we spend the night in this sea full of mermaids?"