Facing Mu Sicheng's strange eyes, the audience who had been so arrogant just now swallowed their saliva, took two steps back with a chill on their backs, and shook their heads in fear.
Mu Sicheng smiled and pulled out the monkey cartoon hat from behind his back. He pointed at the hat with his other hand and made a gesture of demonstration: "Because I hate those spectators, all those spectators I hate were killed in the game."
He said casually, as if killing people was a common occurrence for him and not worth mentioning: "If Bai Liu comes out, I will support him in killing you talkative guys. Of course, this is just my suggestion as a person who has experienced it."
"Because you guys are really noisy." Mu Sicheng smiled politely, "You disturbed me from watching TV, you idiots."
The monkey on Mu Sicheng's hat suddenly opened its mouth and laughed, with red light flashing in its eyes, as if responding to Mu Sicheng's suggestion to kill people. It looked weird and creepy.
Those spectators who seemed superior before were frightened by Mu Sicheng. They screamed and fled in all directions.
In the process of escaping, several of them ran too fast and bumped into each other, and crawled out of the viewing area of Bailiu's small TV in a panic.
Mu Sicheng put on his hat and put his hands in his pockets and stood in the front row. He returned to his original position as if nothing had happened, his expression returned to normal, and he continued to look up at Bai Liu's small TV.
The spectators all stepped back at the same time, leaving enough space for Mu Sicheng standing in the front row to watch.
The voices of the audience's normal discussions also became much quieter, as if they were afraid of disturbing Mu Sicheng who was watching Bai Liu's small TV.
Wang Shun stood behind Mu Sicheng, his expression and mood were equally complicated.
For the first time, he faced the danger of Mu Sicheng.
This is why there are almost no criticizing audiences in the live broadcast rooms of the top masters, and there is almost unanimous praise.
Because the games here allow people to kill. If some of your remarks offend a certain big shot, it would be as easy for him to kill you as crushing an ant.
There is only a small TV viewing area for newcomers and some players with a mild temper. There are many viewers who like to point fingers.
In a live broadcast room like Mu Sicheng's, those who dare to bully him like this will have their graves overgrown with green grass.
Many of the nitpicking spectators who dare to criticize Bai Liu are guild players with little ability. Their gaming skills are very low-level. Many of the games they have played were helped by senior players in the guild, or they directly looked up guides to complete the games. Their abilities are very limited.
These players who live in fear of losing their jobs every day like to go around complaining and begging for favors. They dare not offend the big players, but they especially dislike those new players who are very explosive and competitive, because these new players will snatch their paying audience and promotional space. Therefore, they will have great malice towards those new players who are obviously trying to stand out.
For example, Bai Liu, and Mu Sicheng back then.
Wang Shun shrank closer to Mu Sicheng. Although he was a little afraid of Mu Sicheng, he still wanted to stand in the front row.
Facing Mu Sicheng, Wang Shun restrained his curiosity to collect information and asked quietly, "Mu Shen, did you really kill those spectators who cursed you?"
"How is that possible?" Mu Sicheng said calmly, "I don't have that much free time. I just said it to scare them. It's annoying to keep nagging."
Wang Shun breathed a sigh of relief: "Oh, it's fake."
"Although I didn't kill anyone, my monkey headphones like to eat people I hate, so I really ate a few of them." Mu Sicheng suddenly turned his head and looked at Bai Liu on the small TV and chuckled.
He put his hands in his pockets and shrugged, defending himself in a half-hearted way, "But it was mainly because they wanted to scold me, so this is what happened. I don't think I should be blamed."
Wang Shun: “…”
————————
Bai Liu came down from the boat again, dragging the cart.
There were still a few mermaid sailors following him, but that was nothing to be afraid of, because Bai Liu still had the Siren King in his hands.
Without the blessing of weather and amulets, these mermaid sailors could only follow Bai Liu from a distance, looking at him with resentful and greedy eyes.
But Bai Liu's mind was no longer on these mermaid sailors.
He found it strange that the system said that most of the monsters on land had been restricted, so it gave up using the weather to continue weakening him, but the monster book of "Siren Town" had four pages, namely the mermaid sailor, the mermaid wax statue, and the Siren King in Bai Liu's hands.
In addition, there is a large number of weakest and lowest-level monsters that have not appeared.
——That is a mermaid, or it could be said to be the larval form of a mermaid.
It didn't make sense that Bai Liu had been chased and blocked on the shore for such a long time without seeing a single mermaid. As for the monsters on the land, if the system had not lied to him and most of them had indeed been restrained by him, then in other words, these weakest mermaid monsters were most likely not on the shore.
Bai Liu's gaze slowly fell on the calm sea in front of him.
It is very likely that all of these huge numbers of mermaids are lurking in the sea.
[System notification: There is still one hour left before the Siren King awakens. Please speed up and clear the level quickly]
After an hour, Bai Liu estimated in his mind the speed at which he could swim over dragging the Siren King. It was almost there, but there was still an uncertain factor, which were the mermaids hiding in the sea.
With the interference of the mermaid monster, this time may not be enough.
However, when enemies come, we have soldiers to fight; when floods come, we have earth to block them. Bai Liu did not think much about it and casually abandoned the cart on the seaside. He squatted down and looked at the Siren King on the cart.
King Sel, who had not responded at all during the chase, now had the fins beside his ears gently flapping, his chest rising and falling slightly, and a kind of vitality revealed under his jade-like skin.
Bai Liu could feel that the Siren King was about to wake up. He lifted one of the Siren King's hands and placed it on his shoulder. He took a deep breath and ran to the beach.
As the sea water submerged his legs, Bai Liu's legs, waist, eyes and nose were covered with tiny silver-green scales. Cracked gills appeared on both sides of his face, and his eyeballs shrank to half their original size.
Bai Liu took a deep breath, took the Siren King's hand and plunged into the boundless blue sea.
Wang Shun, who was sitting in front of the TV, finally breathed a sigh of relief: "I've finally made it to the sea. I should be able to pass the test soon."
"That's not necessarily true." Mu Sicheng crossed his arms over his chest. He seemed to recall some unbearable memories, and the corners of his mouth twitched. "When I dragged the Siren into the sea, I thought I would be through the level soon. I didn't expect that when I swam to the area of [Siren's Gift], the sea was densely packed with mermaids with green eyes. I almost got killed."
"In the end, I had no choice but to buy a high-intensity flashlight to drive away these mermaids, which cost me more than 200 points." Mu Sicheng recalled the few successful encounters in his gaming career with a bit of depression.
Wang Shun was shocked: "No way?! More than 200 points are so expensive?!"
As he spoke, he seemed to have realized something: "Bai Liu's flashlight already had more than 250 points. By that time, the system will definitely increase the price. Wouldn't it be even more expensive?!"
"It should be. The system's pricing for each item is based on two main factors. The first is based on the supply and demand relationship of the entire market. The second is that the system evaluates the player's demand for a certain item at this moment and makes a comprehensive pricing. Simply put, the more urgent the system thinks you need a certain item, the higher the price the system will give it."
Mu Sicheng watched the mermaids swimming towards the deep sea without noticing anything on the small TV, and smiled a rare schadenfreude: "When Bai Liu swims to the sea area of [Siren's Gift], he will be surrounded by mermaids. There will be nothing the player can do. He will be slaughtered by the system. Bai Liu will have to wait for a big loss. His flashlight is guaranteed to have at least 400 points."
While this discussion was going on here, the novice player who had previously replaced Bai Liu's promotion position with the strong recommendation position, Mu Ke, had already swam to the sea area of [Siren's Gift].
Mu Ke held the Siren's bones in one hand and swam towards the bottomless dark sea with his nimble feet like a fish's tail.
He must have realized that he was about to pass the level, and a smile of ecstasy as if he had escaped death was visible to the naked eye.
Wang Shun and other people in Bai Liu's small TV viewing area can also see other people's small TVs, but they are not as clear as Bai Liu's, and have a fuzzy feeling like frosted glass.
But even so, it can be seen clearly that Mu Ke has already swam to the bottom of the sea area of "Siren's Gift".
Wang Shun watched Mu Ke almost reach the bottom of the sea and couldn't help but sigh with regret: "They are almost at the bottom of the sea, but Bai Liu is still swimming... This newbie named Mu Ke should be able to pass the level faster than Bai Liu, and should be the first one to pass the level among this batch of newbies."
"The system will give a special reward to the first player in a group of new players to pass the level. It's a personal skill, which is very valuable to the player. Bai Liu could have gotten it." Wang Shun sighed.
As he was talking, Wang Shun saw Bai Liu swimming slowly and ignorantly on the small TV, and he said with a bit of regret: "Hey! Bai Liu! I told you to waste your time with these tricks! Although it does save some points, it's a loss of the greater for the less. If you move faster, you will be the first in this batch of newcomers!"
Because Bai Liu fell down and then rushed to the highly recommended promotion position on the central screen, based on the system's comprehensive evaluation, Mu Ke ranked one place higher than Bai Liu in the [Highly Recommended Promotion Position in the Single-Player Game Area].
In addition, Mu Ke looked so happy that he was about to pass the level, and Bai Liu was dragging the Siren King forward slowly as if he was sleepwalking in the sea. It seemed that Mu Ke had the upper hand over Bai Liu, and Wang Shun shook his head repeatedly.
It's like seeing your own gifted child just play around and can't even pass the exams as well as the ordinary kid next door. It's so helpless and frustrating.
Mu Sicheng's attitude was completely different. He only glanced at Mu Ke beside him and said nonchalantly, "It's hard to say who is the first among the newcomers."
But most of the players who were watching Mu Ke's small TV had the same opinion as Wang Shun, especially those argumentative players who were driven out of Bai Liu's small TV by Mu Sicheng. Most of them went to the live viewing area of Mu Ke's small TV.
This group of spectators only cared about eating and not fighting. As soon as they changed positions, they immediately started to mock Bai Liu with great arrogance:
"Haha, even if Bai Liu gets promoted to the strong push position, he can't beat other newcomers. What's the point of doing all these fancy moves? Once Mu Ke passes the level and gets the skill reward from the system, he will develop quickly and soon leave idiots like Bai Liu behind."
"I don't know why the Shepherd God wants to protect such a useless newcomer. If he doesn't come in first, he won't get any skill rewards. He will die in the game soon. I don't know why he is still struggling."
Some sane spectators nearby were speechless as they watched these people making such outrageous remarks.
There are a hundred newcomers in a group, and only the first one can get the skill reward given by the system. The probability of being picked out of a hundred makes these people make it seem as if those who don't have skills deserve to die miserably in the game.
Many of the players present had no skills and looked unhappy.
One spectator was really tired of hearing their nagging. He estimated that his own strength was not bad, so he snorted and retorted impatiently: "You said that others would die if they don't have skills. Show your skills, or I will kill you on the spot and fulfill your dream of dying without skills."
It's funny that so many skilled players gather together and point fingers at others. Do they treat skilled players as cabbages?
Sure enough, the audience who had just been laughing so loudly that their voices were as loud as speakers suddenly fell silent. Some of the loudest ones shrank back with red faces, holding their game managers and hiding them behind their backs. It was obvious that they did not want to show off their so-called skills.
The audience who scolded them were so angry that they laughed.
So you just spoke so excitedly, but you don’t even have any skills, yet you still have the nerve to say that others will die if they don’t have skills. How come you, a bunch of unskilled gossipers, are still alive?
The audience who scolded them found it boring.
You can't kill people in the central hall. He just said that to scare these weirdos. There's no point in arguing, so the audience rolled their eyes at them and continued watching Mu Ke's small TV.
As he was talking, in the dark little TV of Mu Ke who was diving downwards, pairs of green eyeballs began to light up from a corner of the seabed, like fireflies. At first there were only one or two pairs, and then it seemed as if they suddenly began to light up densely with green fluorescent light.
It took Mu Ke's vision a while to adjust before he could vaguely see what these things were. He instantly got goosebumps all over his body and his back was frozen with hair on it, standing still.
Thousands of mermaid corpses were lying on the seabed, looking up at Mu Ke.
Most of their bodies had already decayed, their faces were torn and tattered, and the rotten flesh that had been soaked and turned white was being eaten by densely packed black fish. Their entire faces and bodies were covered in flesh that was being eaten by those little finger-sized fishes. Some parts of their bodies had been eaten until only bones were left, with only a pair of dark and eerie eyes that flashed green light exposed.
Everywhere Mu Ke looked, he saw the green eyes of mermaids, lighting up the dark seabed like will-o'-the-wisp fire.
Or it could no longer be called the seabed, as the seabed was filled with those black scavenger fish in such large numbers that it made one's scalp tingle. At first glance, one could not even see the mud and sand on the seabed, but only small fishes as densely packed as fly eggs wriggling on the seabed. The visual effect was very much like black maggots and the sallow green eyeballs of mermaid corpses submerged in the black maggots.
The scene was so shocking that even the audience in front of the small TV in Mu Ke couldn't help but take a few steps back with their arms folded, their scalps tingling.
Mu Ke turned around and ran, opening the prop shop as he ran. Behind him, the mermaids rushed towards him from the bottom of the sea at a rapid speed. The surging black fish school surrounded Mu Ke like a swarm of flying flies.
When you look at these small fish up close, you will find that although they are only the size of a thumb, their teeth are extremely sharp. With just a flip of Mu Ke, half of his arm was bitten off. He screamed and wailed silently on the seabed, and the broken right arm drew a long line of blood in the water, attracting more mermaids and fish.
The audience was also attracted by this exciting scene and shouted anxiously: "Buy props! Hurry up! Buy props to drive back these monsters! Otherwise, we will die!"
Mu Ke used his remaining hand to hold onto the Siren's skeleton to prevent the fish and mermaids from sweeping it away. Then he hurriedly opened the game store interface, preparing to buy an item to restrain these rampant monsters. Deep-sea fish are generally afraid of light, and mermaids are also afraid of light. He made a decision quickly:
【I need a strong flashlight! 】
【417 points, thank you for your patronage】
Mu Ke was completely stunned. He asked in disbelief: [How many points?!]
【417 points, thank you for your patronage】
Mu Ke didn't have that many points. He was completely dumbfounded, but he quickly calmed down. In order to drive away a school of fish, a high-intensity flashlight is not necessarily required. [Underwater Bubbles] can also repel the school of fish.
However, in front of so many mermaids, the [bubble in the water] would most likely be washed away by the fish. But Mu Ke had no other choice but to take a gamble. Mu Ke gritted his teeth and said:
【I need bubbles in the water! 】
【322 points, thank you for your patronage】
Mu Ke was so angry that he almost died under the sea because of the system - he didn't have that many points!!!
Previously, the price of [Water Bubbles] was reduced to 40 points, but now it has increased by more than eight times! This is totally taking advantage of the situation!
But it was useless to talk about system theory. Mu Ke could only check his existing props in panic and despair. The [Flame Torch] could still be used, but this was underwater and the fire could not be lit at all. He had also bought [Underwater Bubbles] twice before.
But Mu Ke had almost used up the prop "Underwater Bubbles" for the mission "Love Boat", and there was only about half an hour left.
But half an hour of [bubbles in water] was definitely not enough for him to pass the level. In half an hour, he couldn't even dive to the bottom of the sea...
What's worse is that his points have been almost consumed by various props...
In despair, Mu Ke suddenly remembered that he could ask the audience to reward him with points. So the audience in front of Mu Ke's small TV saw Mu Ke on TV bowing and begging everyone to charge him. He looked wolfish and pitiful, with a mad desire to survive in his eyes.
He ran with his mouth open and cried, but his tears quickly melted into the sea and were not seen by anyone.
Those spectators who had previously predicted that he had a bright future and used him to drag down Bai Liu were now speechless.
————————
Here, Bai Liu also swam to the sea area of [Siren's Gift]. Wang Shun could vaguely see the situation on Mu Ke's side. Seeing Bai Liu also swimming to this dark sea area, he opened the game manager with some worry and took a look at his remaining points.
He was a little afraid that Bai Liu would encounter the same situation. At least he, Wang Shun, could still help him get some extra points.
Mu Sicheng noticed Wang Shun's move and said, "Don't worry, this guy has more than 3,000 points, which is enough. Even if the flashlight is 400 points each, he can buy ten."
Despite saying this, Mu Sicheng couldn't help but click on his own points balance. After looking at it, he raised his head with a slightly raised corner of his mouth and let out a long sigh of relief.
If you charge all of them, it will definitely be enough for Bai Liu to clear the level.
Not only Wang Shun and Mu Sicheng, because of the commotion on Mu Ke TV, many viewers on Bai Liu TV saw it and opened their points wallets to check their balances, whispering:
"If Bai Liu doesn't have enough points to buy items later, I can top up 10 points."
"Three or four points should be enough for me."
Mu Sicheng looked at the scene with a bit of surprise where many spectators were saying that they should give Bai Liu full points. He turned his head to look at Bai Liu who was still moving in the sea and raised his eyebrows.
This guy is quite popular with the audience. So many people are willing to spend money on him and don't want him to die.
In this respect, he is better than him. Because of his special personal skills, Mu Sicheng's popularity is quite extreme. There are many people who like him, and there are also many players who dislike him or think he is immoral.
Like Bai Liu and Mu Ke, they saw pairs of green eyes on the seabed soon after entering the sea.
Wang Shun immediately held his breath. He looked even more nervous than Bai Liu on the TV. He unconsciously clenched his fists in front of his chest. The charging interface was already open. Wang Shun whispered quickly, "Buy props quickly! Buy props quickly! It will be too late if the monsters below are awakened!"
Mu Sicheng said, "You don't have to be so nervous. He won't die in the short term."
But Mu Sicheng's eyes were fixed on Bai Liu's small TV, and he was holding the game manager in his hand, ready to open the charging interface at any time.
Almost all the audience were waiting with bated breath. Some people already had their hands on the charging button, waiting for Bai Liu to open the prop shop so that they could press it to charge Bai Liu.
But when Bai Liu saw the terrifying schools of fish and mermaids on the seabed, he just raised his eyebrows slightly. He didn't look surprised and continued to swam slowly.
The audience held their breath as they watched Bai Liu slowly and leisurely use the Siren King to tease the mermaids and fish, angering these monsters to chase Bai Liu, and then Bai Liu escaped.
But unfortunately, Bai Liu's underwater movement was not skillful. He swam with a kicking and kicking style of a pure novice, and his movement speed in the sea water was not very fast. He was about to be caught up and torn into pieces by the black school of fish and mermaids behind him.
"Bai Liu, what are you doing, Bai Liu!!!" Wang Shun shouted in despair, "Why are you provoking a monster!"
The other audience members were also going crazy, screaming: "Ahhhhhhh!! Buy the props quickly!! Bai Liu!!!"
"Fuck! Bai Liu, don't play now! When you come out, I'll play with you slowly!!"
"It's almost over! If you die, you'll become my psychological shadow, Bai Liu!"
"I'm so upset! If Bai Liu comes here and dies, I will never watch any new TV shows again!"
Wang Shun stared at the screen without daring to speak, sweat seeping out of his forehead and sliding down from the corners of his eyes, but he didn't even dare to blink, because the mermaid and the school of fish in the small TV had already touched Bai Liu's feet!
Even Mu Sicheng, who was standing by and smiling all the time, didn't smile much at this moment. He put his hands in front of his chest, tapping his left arm with his right index finger, and was unusually irritated: "Bai Liu, what are you doing?!"
Bai Liu glanced back calmly and confirmed that almost all the mermaids and fish were following him. He stretched out his legs and moved half forward in the sea water with difficulty like a sea hare, putting some distance between him and the monsters behind him.
But they were soon caught up again. The mermaid had snow-white eyes, a hideous and rotten face, and floated in the sea with its skin half peeled off. It made a sound of hunting in the dark blue seabed and opened its bloody mouth towards Bai Liu. Small fish with sharp teeth swept out of the mermaid's broken and blackened throat, rushing towards Bai Liu like a black rope.
At this critical moment, Bai Liu still had the leisure to think about the origin of these mermaid corpses. Mermaids obviously have a different form on land.
But when they arrived at the bottom of the sea, the Gift of the Siren, they turned back into the form of corpses, which proved that his guess was correct. The bottom of this sea can indeed turn these things back to their original form. The only thing missing was the Siren King in his hand. As long as the Siren King was in place, these things should turn into real corpses.
Facing the mermaid's attack, Bai Liu awkwardly dodged to the side, but still had half of his palm bitten off, leaving a tangled line of blood in the sea.
[System warning: Due to being attacked by the mermaid corpse monster guarding the level, the player Bai Liu has entered a mutant state, and his spirit value is continuously decreasing, currently 41]
[System warning: There are only 21 minutes left before the Siren King awakens, please complete the level quickly! ]
Bai Liu was spinning around in the sea with a dizzy head. He felt as if his company's boss had forced him to drink half a bottle of fake wine in one gulp at the annual meeting. His limbs began to feel numb and his walking became uncoordinated.
This directly resulted in Bai Liu wanting to move both legs when he was swimming, but due to numbness in his limbs and dizziness in his brain, only one leg was actually moving. The visual effect was very much like a lame rabbit jumping hard to avoid being hunted by its natural enemy.
Wang Shun said woodenly: "... His mental strength is only 41. He will soon have a lot of hallucinations. And the Siren King will wake up in 21 minutes."
Mu Sicheng's expression was complicated and confused, and his tone and mood became more and more anxious: "Yes, but he can obviously pass the level directly..."
The other audience members were even more angry and anxious, and some of them were already stamping their feet on the spot.
Just as Wang Shun said, Bai Liu began to have hallucinations. The monsters in front of him became "multiple and complex". A mermaid looked like it had three heads in Bai Liu's eyes. Anyone else would have been frightened to death, but Bai Liu just shook his head and began to avoid these things stubbornly.
But he did not dive to the bottom of the sea where he could pass through. Instead, he swam around in the sea in a daze, stumbling around like a fish that had lost its direction.
As a result, Bai Liu was attacked twice again, and one of his feet and the broken paw were swept away by the mermaid. The pain made Bai Liu curl up unconsciously and try to cover his wound.
Such a fragile action undoubtedly exposed more weaknesses, and Bai Liu's back was completely facing the monster behind. The mermaid guarding behind Bai Liu smiled a smile that stretched from ear to ear, and slapped Bai Liu's cheek hard with his fish tail.
The tremendous force left traces of waves in the sea water. Even with the buffering of the sea water, judging from the fluctuations of the waves, it did not hinder the powerful attack. Bai Liu's spine would be broken 100% if he was hit by this tail.
Almost all the audience subconsciously closed their eyes, not wanting to see the moment of Bai Liu's death. Suddenly, a huge bubble, like that of plastic, appeared between Bai Liu and the mermaid, and bounced the mermaid away. Bai Liu shrank behind the bubble, breathing slowly with his gills.
Wang Shun cried out, "Water bubbles! Oh, right! Bai Liu bought an underwater bubble before!"
Bai Liu was fine, but to the audience watching Bai Liu's TV, it looked like something was going to happen, with a hollow tone of someone who had just survived a disaster:
"Bai Liu, give yourself and us a chance to survive! Please stop playing and pass the level quickly!"
"Damn it, Bai Liu, I killed pigs in my last life and watched your videos in this life. It's such a sin. I think you've made me sick."
Mu Sicheng didn't know why, but he was relieved to see Bai Liu alive, and asked, "When did Bai Liu buy it? Was he willing to spend his points to buy it?"
As soon as he asked, he realized something was wrong. The underwater bubbles were very expensive in the middle and late stages. He had not seen Bai Liu buy any, but if he had bought them in the very early stages and had not used them until now, it would be a waste and risky for a newcomer like Bai Liu to spend 70 points to stockpile props.
Mu Sicheng frowned: "Did Bai Liu forcefully squeeze out 70 points in the early stages to stock up on items?"
"No." Wang Shun's expression became very complicated. "When he bought this bubble, it was only worth 40 points."
"40 points?" Mu Sicheng was a little surprised. "The normal price of underwater bubbles is 70. How did he buy 40 points?!"
Wang Shun explained the whole cause and effect to Mu Sicheng, and sighed twice. He had originally guessed that Bai Liu was engaging in such a time-difference price war in order to save money, but he didn't expect it to be true.
At such an early time, Bai Liu had already predicted that the prices of these items would increase, and stored up the [Water Bubbles] when they were the cheapest.
You have to know that Mu Ke's [Water Bubble] has risen to nearly 400 points, and Bai Liu used one tenth of the points to buy an Water Bubble. When Mu Ke was almost dying because of the system, Bai Liu had already taken advantage of the system to make a profit from the price difference...
The audience member who said that Bai Liu hoarded props just to save his life and knew absolutely nothing about the system store was still there. Now he was dumbfounded by Bai Liu's series of operations.
It is obvious that Bai Liu not only knows how the entire system store operates, but is also taking advantage of the loopholes in the operation of the system store to make profits for himself.
The audience blushed with shame - how could the gap between people be so big...
Mu Sicheng looked at Bai Liu, who was hiding behind the bubble and catching his breath on the screen, with a probing and thoughtful look.
...What kind of monster is this new guy?
The last time he saw someone who dared to game the system was the player ranked first in the points table - Spade.
"But I'm still very curious." Mu Sicheng put his index finger on his chin and stared at Bai Liu on the small TV, thinking, "How does he know that the [Water Bubble] he bought will definitely work?"
"There are two endings in Siren Town. The first normal ending is to just run out of Siren Town. The rest is all land chases, and there is no need for bubbles in the water. This is also the way most people will choose to finish the game."
Mu Sicheng went on to say, "Only the true end requires going to sea, but the true end is essentially just an additional side quest, which is to return the Siren King, so the points reward is not much higher than the normal end, and the risk is surprisingly high. Normal people will not choose this route to pass the game."
Wang Shun also fell into deep thought: "But Bai Liu is a newcomer, maybe he doesn't know this?"
"I think he can guess it." Mu Sicheng shook his head. "Bai Liu should have discovered that the game gives points according to the task mode. That is, completing a task will earn you a certain amount of points. In essence, if we only talk about the risk-benefit of points, the normal end is much higher than the true end."
Wang Shun couldn't help but look at Mu Sicheng twice: "Then Mu Shen, why did you go to the true end line?"
Mu Sicheng was silent for two seconds, then said, "High risk does come with high returns. There aren't many points rewards on the true end line. In other words, the [return] on the true end line is not as simple as points. There is something you need to get by following the true end line, and the value of this thing is completely worthy of the high risk of the true end line."
"What?" Wang Shun asked in confusion.
Mu Sicheng glanced at him and said, "The reward after collecting all the monster books. You can only get this reward by following the true end line to collect all the monster books. But it is impossible for Bai Liu to collect all the monster books."
"Why not..." Wang Shun subconsciously retorted, but he quickly reacted and looked at Bai Liu in the small TV in astonishment, "Fuck! Yes! The Siren King in Bai Liu's monster book is a wandering god-level NPC!"
"I'm thinking about the worst case scenario..." Mu Sicheng fell into deep thought, "Bai Liu may not know how dangerous the god-level NPC Siren King is, but he should be able to guess that the biggest reward is the reward after collecting all the monster books. I feel that Bai Liu is going to collect all the monster books, which means that he is going to delay until the Siren King wakes up, so he is not in a hurry to pass the level..."
Wang Shun was so shocked that he was a little dazed. He stared blankly at the small TV screen and opened his mouth wide: "...No way..."
In the small TV, Bai Liu hid behind the bubble in the water but did not enter it, playing hide-and-seek with the mermaids and the fish.
The audience started to worry again. Bai Liu always had the ability to play the game by himself and make everyone worry about him:
"The defense of this bubble is very low. If we keep letting these mermaids attack us, it will burst soon and this item will be wasted!"
Bai Liu turned his head to look at a certain spot on the bubble in the water behind him. That spot had cracks due to the continuous attacks from mermaids and fish.
But the water did not penetrate, only the mermaid's hand could reach into the bubbles in the water. Bai Liu finally smiled with relief, but the audience in front of the small TV were wailing and screaming, and they were so anxious that they wanted to go through the screen to play the game for Bai Liu.
Mu Ke also hid in the bubble in the water, was escaping in the sea to delay time.
The high-handed spectators who had left Bai Liu's side to go to Mu Ke's side were bored, but when they found that Bai Liu was on the verge of life and death, they came back excitedly. However, they avoided Mu Sicheng who was standing in the middle, and only dared to gather in the corner to discuss with contempt:
"These people gave so many points to Bai Liu and Mu Ke. It annoys me. They have no vision at all. They might as well give them to me. At least I won't die when playing Siren Town."
"I'm so pissed off. I've been eyeing that marginal promotion position for a long time. I was almost ready to enter the game, but two newcomers snatched it away from me. I'm so annoyed. I hope I can die soon so that I can get the promotion position."
Bai Liu was completely oblivious to the discussions in the outside world about worrying about him or hoping that he would die. His mental value dropped to 40, and he was on the verge of falling at the second dangerous level.
Once he passes this level, he will have a lot of hallucinations. Bai Liu's consciousness has become somewhat dispersed, and he has to focus all his attention on the bubbles in the water behind him.
A mermaid had already entered through the cracks in the bubble. Bai Liu let go of the bubble, turned around and held it in front of him, and exchanged words with the decayed-looking mermaid in the [submerged bubble].