Bai Liu followed Jeff's line of sight and saw that the mermaid still had her eyebrows lowered and eyes closed, staring into the water, motionless.
Andre was startled by Jeff's shouting. He punched Jeff fiercely and said, "Where did this wax statue move? It didn't move at all! If you get startled like this again, I will pull out your vocal cords, throw you to the ground and step on you!"
Jervois covered his head which had been hit by a punch, looked at Andrei with some fear, curled himself up into a ball, and whispered to himself: "She moved, she really moved..."
Lucy was also a little scared by Jeff. She forced a smile and said, "Jeff, how can you be so sure that it's not your eyes that are blurring the lines, but that the wax mermaid statue moved? The wax mermaid statue doesn't have eyeballs, so how do you know it's looking at you?"
It was a milky white wax statue of a mermaid, made of cold wax, with a strange translucent texture and some half-melted droplets on its face.
Although this wax statue has eyes carved on it, it does not have black pupils. Its entire eyes are pure white, standing at the entrance of the hotel like a soulless dead creature.
"Didn't you notice?" Jeff's voice got lower and lower, and he was trembling a little. "No matter where we drive our car, our car is directly stared at by this wax statue. Her eyes must be moving..."
"Well... I was wondering why..." Lucy was obviously relieved and finally laughed happily, "It's just like the painting of Mona Lisa's Smile, right? No matter from which angle you look at it, you think the person in the painting is looking at you."
"No, this kind of situation where the person in the portrait is looking at himself no matter what angle can only be produced in two dimensions, not three dimensions. In other words, it is impossible for a wax image to have this kind of situation." Bai Liu refuted Lucy very calmly, "Jeff is right, the eyes of this wax image are indeed always staring at us."
Just like the townspeople, they started staring at them as soon as they came in, as if they were looking at prey entering their hunting grounds.
This thing must be some kind of monster.
Just as he had this thought, the coin on Bai Liu's chest suddenly shook, and a brand new panel popped up. The game panel turned into a thick, old medieval book and slowly opened in front of Bai Liu.
[Congratulations to players for discovering their first game monster and unlocking the monster book - "Siren Town" special (1/4)]
A photo appeared on the page of the book. The mermaid's pale face was immersed in the deep sea water. Only half of her face was exposed. Her eyes without carved eyeballs stared at Bai Liu silently, as if she wanted to crawl out of the photo.
[Monster Name: Mermaid Wax Statue (Pupa State)]
[Attack value: ? ? ? (Unknown and unlocked, unlocked after battle)]
[Attack method:? ? (unexplored)]
[Weakness:? ? (Unexplored)]
The question marks looked like wet ink stains and smudges, and the specific words could not be seen clearly. There were explanations in fluorescent fonts floating behind them.
There is a line of text below the weakness:
[Note: You can get corresponding points and special rewards by exploring and completing the information of the monster book page. If you collect all the monster book pages of a game copy, you can take away the most precious thing of a certain monster in the game copy.]
The monster book of "Siren Town" has four pages. Bai Liu cannot turn the pages at the back, showing that they are not unlocked. They should be monsters in other game copies.
It's a bit like killing monsters and getting rewards. The higher the danger level of the monster, the better the [things] you can get in the end.
But looking at the exploration conditions, there are even battles, which is completely encouraging players to provoke monsters...
Bai Liu, a scumbag whose fighting power was only as much as that of a high school girl's schoolbag, touched his chin deeply.
Lucy held Bai Liu's hand in panic: "...Is she really moving?!"
"How is that possible?!" Andre seemed to be infected by Bai Liu's eloquent words. A look of fear appeared on his face for a moment, but it was quickly suppressed. He sneered at Bai Liu, "Bai Liu, you coward! If you are greedy and afraid of death and want to escape by making up these excuses, then run! When you go back, you will voluntarily give up Lucy and then kneel down to lick the urine on my leather shoes!"
This should be the content of the bet between Bai Liu and Andre.
The driver's expression was strange, but he finally said with a smile as if nothing had happened: "It's too late, you must have seen it wrong. How can there be any moving wax statue? If there really is one, our town would have protected it and used it as a tourist attraction! We could make a lot of money from it! Our city produces wax, and the mermaid wax statue is just a feature of our town, it can be found everywhere, there's nothing special about it."
"We're here! Get off the car! Have a good rest tonight and have fun tomorrow morning!" The driver opened the door and saw them off.
Bai Liu turned his head to look at the wax statue of the mermaid in the fountain. From a distance, the wax statue was still facing them, with its head lowered meekly, looking at the water, and it seemed not to be looking at them.
But Bai Liu clearly remembered that when their car just drove in, the front of the mermaid wax statue was not facing the hotel door, but towards the entrance.
There were two wax statues of mermaids placed on the left and right of the hotel entrance, holding scepters in their hands and with strange and twisted smiles on their lips, as if they were pretending to be waiters to welcome them, but their expressions were as if they were forced to stand there.
After they walked into the hotel, they found that wax statues of mermaids of all sizes were placed everywhere. There was even a life-size wax statue of a mermaid behind the cash register, with money in its hand, as if it was collecting cash.
Just like what the driver said, wax statues of mermaids seem to be the characteristic of Siren Town and can be seen everywhere, but there are too many of them. From the wax statues of mermaids on the floor lamps to the mermaid-carved pen holders at the front desk, they are not only everywhere, but also inseparable.
These wax statues of mermaids have one thing in common - Bai Liu found that no matter where he went in the house, these wax statues of mermaids placed in different positions would give him the feeling of looking directly at them.
Moreover, these wax statues of mermaids have no eyeballs. Logically speaking, a wax statue without pupils would hardly give the feeling that it is staring at you, but Bai Liu has that feeling.
Such a large number of densely placed marble wax statues of mermaids staring at you really makes people feel uncomfortable. Even Andre, who had been yelling and mocking Bai Liu as a coward, got goosebumps all over his body after coming in and couldn't help rubbing his arms. Jeff hid behind Andre trembling, as if he was not afraid of Andre hitting him.
Lucy, like a little bird... like a big bird, held Bai Liu's arm, her face, as delicate as a rose, turned pale, and she seemed to be frightened by the weird decoration of the hotel.
Bai Liu calmly communicated with the front desk: "Hello, my last name is Bai, I have booked a room before."
The young man in the foreground had skin as pale as marble. He wore a floor-length Scottish dress and walked with a stutter, seeming to have difficulty moving. When the young man stood still, it was hard to tell whether he was a wax figure or a real person.
When Bai Liu and his group approached, the man suddenly moved, which even scared Lucy. She thought it was a wax statue moving, so she covered her face and screamed, "Oh, my God! You are as white as a wax statue!"
"I'm sorry." The receptionist looked at them and said apologetically, "I have albinism. I'm sorry to scare you! Mr. Bai, right? You booked four rooms a week ago for a week. The fee has been paid. Here is the room card. I wish you a pleasant stay."
Bai Liu took the room card, and when he heard that four rooms were reserved, he was actually relieved.
He didn't really want to sleep in the same room with Lucy.
Lucy seemed to understand this as well. The frightened woman quickly recovered. She looked at Bai Liu teasingly with an expression like "Oh! Baby! You are so shy!", but Bai Liu ignored her expression without changing.
"I want to ask, why are there so many mermaids in your hotel?"
The front desk clerk replied calmly, "Sir, the mermaids gave us everything. Siren Town originally had nothing. Since we salvaged the mermaid's body, more and more tourists have come here. We have earned money and have everything, so we are very grateful to the mermaids. Here, every household has many wax statues of mermaids, which are like amulets to us."
Bai Liu pointed to the wax statue of a mermaid behind the stage and said, "You have a wide variety of wax statues of mermaids. The one behind you looks exactly like you, and its material seems to be different from the other wax statues."
In fact, it’s not Lucy’s fault that she couldn’t tell the difference between the person and the wax statue. The wax statue of the mermaid behind the stage looked exactly like the person in the stage. The expression was even more vivid than the real person, which was a bit creepy.
The eyes of the wax statue of a mermaid are staring straight at the receptionist standing in front of it, and it never moves its eyes away no matter where the receptionist goes. It seems as if it wants to run out of the wax statue with bared fangs and claws and tear the receptionist, who looks exactly like itself, into pieces and eat him. It is chilling to watch.
The other wax mermaid statues all looked a little melted, but the material of this wax mermaid statue does look more transparent and new, not as thick and dusty as the other wax mermaid statues.
"Yes, sir." The receptionist raised his eyes and looked directly at Bai Liu. "The mermaid wax statue behind me is my amulet. We will mold the mermaid wax statue into our own image. When disaster strikes, the devil will mistake the mermaid wax statue amulet for us and bear the disaster on our behalf and melt away."
Bai Liu found it interesting. This [amulet wax statue] was obviously different from other mermaid wax statues.
[Players gain new knowledge——"Siren Town Monster Book" Mermaid wax statue panel refreshed]
[Monster Name: Mermaid Wax Statue (Pupa Form), Amulet Wax Statue (Coil Form)]
Pupa and cocoon? This monster called "Mermaid Wax Statue" has two different states?
Bai Liu thought slowly, the pupa is the state of the adult before breaking out of the shell, the cocoon is the state of the adult after it successfully hatches, or it can be said to be the shell left behind.
Protecting your own shell is consistent with what the front desk said about the shell that resists attacks...
It is estimated that this mermaid wax statue has two states: [Insect] and [Butterfly]. Bai Liu intuitively feels that the offensive power of these two states should be stronger than [Pupa] and [Coil].
At present, it seems that the mermaid wax statues in the [pupa] and [coil] states have no intention of actively attacking people, but it is also possible that the method of [attack] is something that Bai Liu is not aware of, such as mental pollution.
He felt that the wax statues of mermaids filling the hall and staring at the players were quite a mental pollutant.
Bai Liu distributed room cards. Lucy wanted to sleep in the same room with him, but Bai Liu dismissed her with the excuse, "I haven't proven my courage for you yet, so I don't deserve to have you!"
Lucy went back deeply moved. Before leaving, she was about to kiss Bai Liu goodbye passionately, but was stopped by the angry Andre.
Thanks Andre! Hope nothing happens to Andre tonight!
Bai Liu sincerely hoped that Andre could live a little longer.
This girl is enthusiastic, generous and likes him very much, which is the type that Bai Liu is not good at dealing with.
Bai Liu used the room card to open his room, and as soon as he opened it, he stopped in his tracks.
The NPC played by Bai Liu is rich and has booked a better room. The furnishings in the room are exquisite, but everything in the room, from the shape of the table lamps to the wax figures on the bedside table, are actually mermaids, with a greasy texture under the dim light.
As Bai Liu brushed the door open and walked in, the eyeballs of these white wax mermaid statues seemed to move imperceptibly and all looked at Bai Liu.
The panel pops up:
[Activate the main quest: Player Bai Liu safely spends the night in the house, survives until tomorrow, and is not hatched - Mission completion reward: 20 points]