The system gave Bai Liu the first task, but Bai Liu's focus was not on the task. He looked at the words "avoid being hatched" and fell into deep thought.
……incubation?
Tsk, can those wax statues hatch them?
Bai Liu took note of it silently. When he turned around, he saw a wax statue of a mermaid as tall as a person standing opposite the bed.
This is the largest mermaid wax statue in the house that Bai Liu saw.
This wax statue of a mermaid is magnificent, holding a clean mirror as tall as a person in its hands. The frame of the mirror is also embedded in the wax, and the graceful hands of the wax statue of the mermaid are the support for the dressing mirror.
This is also the only mermaid wax statue in the room that is not looking at Bai Liu.
It looked at the mirror with a smile on its face. Bai Liu was reflected in the mirror. It hugged the mirror with its arms, as if it was hugging Bai Liu in the mirror, which made Bai Liu feel a little uncomfortable.
The wax mermaid's eyes fell on the mirror, her brows were retracted, her eyes were drooping, and her fish tail was spread out weakly on the ground. Her expression was realistic and cheerful, as if she was welcoming the arrival of the person in the mirror.
Bai Liu looked at the mirror, and the "self" inside gave Bai Liu outside the mirror a sinister smile like a wax statue.
Bai Liu remained unmoved and covered the mirror with a white cloth.
This level of horror has no effect on Bai Liu. In the real world, he makes horror games and often stays up until two or three in the morning to come up with all kinds of horror scenes. Bai Liu has become almost numb to the usual horror scenes where people in the mirror smile at you sinisterly, and he doesn't feel anything at all.
It seems that those tourists that Jeff mentioned before, who disappeared silently in the hotel and whose bodies were never found, were probably "hatched" by these mermaid wax statues.
Although Bai Liu still doesn't understand what "hatching" is, it's definitely not a good thing.
To be cautious, Bai Liu covered all the mermaid wax images with white sheets in the hotel room, including the huge mirror, to block the weird and omnipresent sight. Although it may not be useful, it is better than nothing.
The most important thing is that with so many mermaids looking at Bai Liu, Bai Liu couldn't sleep.
When he blocked the mirror, he touched the tail of the mermaid wax statue. The touch of the tail was not the smooth and shiny white wax, but sticky and slippery like that of a sea fish.
Bai Liu even felt the wax under his hand opening and closing slightly like the scales on a fish's tail.
Bai Liu paused. After touching the wax statue, he smelled his fingers and unexpectedly smelled a strong fishy odor. However, when Bai Liu got closer to the wax statue of the mermaid and sniffed it, he did not smell any fishy odor, only the incense in the hotel room.
Maybe it's the smell from the car...
...It was more likely that Bai Liu herself emitted that fishy smell. Thinking of the mermaid wax statue that could [hatch] tourists, Bai Liu frowned and felt a little uneasy.
What can be hatched from the mermaid wax statue?
Most likely some nasty-looking fish or something like that.
The word "hatching" reminded Bai Liu of a movie called "Mermaid in the Sewer". He had watched it two or three times for the purpose of collecting inspiration, and since then he no longer had any romantic fantasies about mermaids.
Bai Liu was already exhausted after driving for half the night. He simply washed himself and fell asleep on the bed. His stamina had been reduced to zero, and he urgently needed to sleep to replenish it when it was relatively safe.
In the middle of the night, Bai Liu was awakened by a strange, dull and dragging sound.
When he opened his eyes, he saw that the white cloth that had covered the wax statues of mermaids had slipped off at some point, leaving only a small part hanging on the wax statues.
Some of these wax statues were covered with white cloth, with only one eye showing. Their expressions seemed to have changed slightly, from divine sorrow to reluctance and resentment. They stared at Bai Liu motionlessly, as if blaming Bai Liu for covering them with the white cloth.
Bai Liu found that these wax figures seemed closer than before he fell asleep, like a group of people gathering around a dining table to have a meal, slowly gathering around his bed with their hands raised.
Especially the wax statue of a dressing mirror mermaid holding a huge mirror. When Bai Liu woke up in a daze, she saw that her feet were almost touching the mirror.
The huge mirror facing the bed has been moved so that it is close to the bed.
Bai Liu retracted his feet and sat up, and saw his own reflection in the mirror.
The skin of Bai Liu in the mirror was as white as rock, there were no black pupils in his eyes, and the area around his eyes was covered with marble spider web-like patterns. He gave Bai Liu outside the mirror a stiff smile, but in a blink of an eye, it returned to a normal mirror image, as if it was just Bai Liu's illusion.
Bai Liu was silent for a moment, then stood up from the bed, and without changing his expression or heartbeat, he used white cloth to tightly tie up the mermaid wax statues.
In order to prevent the wax mermaid statues from escaping, Bai Liu tied them tightly with two hemp ropes. Then he wrapped the smaller wax mermaid statues with white cloth, threw them into the closet and locked it. He pushed the larger wax statues into the bathroom and locked it. His movements were as quick and decisive as a skilled kidnapper.
These things seemed to be subject to certain restrictions on movement. Before Bai Liu fell asleep, these things could not move, and it seemed that even after Bai Liu fell asleep, they needed to take off the white cloth and see Bai Liu before they could move towards him.
Some of the mermaid wax statues that had not been removed from the white cloth were running around in the cloth. They did not gather around the bed, but fled in all directions.
After figuring out the rule, Bai Liu immediately increased the limit to the maximum.
Just when he finished doing all this and clapped his hands to get ready for sleep, Bai Liu heard the sound of a door opening and closing next door, and a pair of tiptoeing footsteps.
Bai Liu paused as he lay down on the bed. The four rooms he booked were adjacent to each other. Andre and Jervois lived in the rooms next to each other on the left and right.
The sound of the door opening and closing came from the left, which was Jeff's room. Bai Liu climbed up from the bed, pressed against the door, and looked out the cat's eye at the corridor.
I saw Jeff standing in the corridor. He looked around and made sure that there was no one in the corridor, then he walked down the stairs of the hotel stealthily.
Bai Liu frowned. What was Jeff doing staying up late at night?
Just as he was about to open the door and follow, he saw the doorknob of Jelf's room, which had been closed, slowly turning again, as if someone was about to follow Jelf out of his room.
The hotel room is one per person.
Jeff was the only one in his room. It was impossible for Lucy to go to Jeff's room in the middle of the night. Andre had a bad relationship with Jeff and it was impossible for him to go to Jeff in the middle of the night. Bai Liu was in his room.
So who is this person coming out of Jeff's room?
Bai Liu's heart skipped a beat, he suddenly realized something and slightly moved his face away from the cat's eyes.
The person who came out of Jeff's room was not a human!
Jeff turned the doorknob until it clicked and finally opened slowly from the inside. Bai Liu heard again the dull dragging sound that he heard in his half-asleep state, as if something was kneeling on the ground and being dragged by someone.
But this time Bai Liu knew how the sound was made.
A mermaid wax statue as tall as a person came out of Jeff's room. Its face was motionless and expressionless. Its eyes were white and lifeless because it had no eyeballs. Its fish tail was on the ground, dragging along the empty corridor in the middle of the night.
Its snow-white tail dragged on the hotel's solid, old red carpet, leaving a greasy wax mark on the carpet. Its body remained motionless as it moved toward the stairs, reminding Bai Liu of a zombie, a stiff ghost that could only move forward by jumping.
...This thing can actually run out of the room by itself and open the door...
When the mermaid wax statue that was dragged out of Jeff's room reached the stairs, it seemed to have noticed something. The head on its shoulders suddenly twisted 180 degrees stiffly and turned directly to the back.
The candles on its face are slowly melting, revealing a flesh-like sheen.
Then, it changed its direction and walked towards Bai Liu's room with an expressionless face.
After Bai Liu made sure the door was locked, he took two steps back, pressed his back against the door and held his breath. He wanted to know what this thing was trying to do.
Bai Liu quickly noticed out of the corner of his eye that the cat's eyes on the door had turned white and were still moving.
This thing was coming up and looking at the person in the door with its eyes. The thing that kept spinning was the white eyeball of the wax statue.
This thing is searching through cat eyes to find people in the room.
The eyes of this wax mermaid statue can actually see through the one-way cat's eye and see the person inside.
The white pupils in the cat's eyes were still turning. Bai Liu held his breath and slowly moved to the side. He stretched out his foot to hook the white cloth on the ground, preparing to cover himself with the cloth.
This horrifying scene was projected onto the screen of the small TV. Everyone waiting in front of Bai Liu's small TV stared with bated breath, almost biting their hands out of nervousness.
"Fuck, this is scary. If I were in the game, my spirit value would definitely drop..."
"Hold on! Hold on! The death rate of newcomers in this place is extremely high!"
"The monsters in Siren Town are really disgusting. It's hard for a newcomer to stay calm and find the weaknesses of these monsters..."
The new players on the screens around Bai Liu had almost reached the point where the mermaid wax statue was blocking the door. Some players played faster, and the mermaid wax statue outside the door was banging on the door.
One of the players was huddled beside the vibrating door, crying and holding his ears, holding a wooden stick in his trembling hand, as if ready to use it to attack.
Every time the wax statue of a mermaid hit the door, he cried and screamed loudly, but no one came to save him. The door of the player's room shook twice and then stopped. The wax statue of a mermaid outside seemed to have left.
The crying player wiped his tears, breathed a sigh of relief as if he had survived a disaster, and stood up weakly with his hands on the door.
But what he didn't realize was that the cat's eye on the door was still white, and a pure white stone eye was staring quietly at the person in the house through the cat's eye.
The wax mermaid didn't leave at all; it just pretended to leave.
Seeing the player stand up, a strange and stiff smile appeared on the face of the wax statue, and it smiled with satisfaction as if it had found its prey.
The door was slammed twice more and was easily broken open. The player, who had not yet reacted, was crushed under the door with a scream.
The mermaid wax statue dragged its fish tail into the house, with a smile on its face that revealed strange purity and weird viciousness. It opened its hands and slowly reached out to the player who was trapped under the door.
The moment the player was touched by the mermaid wax, he felt as if something was wrapping his entire body around him. His eyeballs rolled up, his limbs slowly curled up, his legs twitched and swayed on the ground, like a fish struggling madly after being splashed with boiling water. His skin instantly turned stiff and pale.
The wax on the mermaid's body melted quickly as if it came into contact with hot water, and wrapped around the stiff player on the ground.
The same gray-black marble pattern that Bai Liu saw in the mirror appeared around the player's eyes. The eyeballs also disappeared, leaving only the whites of the eyes covered with patterns, and the corners of the mouth were stiffly curled up.
He was wrapped in the melted wax and turned into a wax statue of a mermaid.
[The player's spirit value was reset to 0, and he was completely transformed by the monster mermaid wax statue, and failed to complete the game]
[Player Liu Xiaohong's spirit value is reduced to 0, and she is waxed by a mermaid... The game fails to be cleared]
[Player Zou Mingri…failed to complete the game]
The small TVs of the players who failed to pass the level went out with a "sizzle", and the people surrounding these small TVs sighed.
"Oh, I knew it would be hard to clear this time. Siren Town is too difficult..."
It was only the first night, and the monster had just appeared, but almost one-fifth of the small TVs on the entire TV wall of the [Newcomer Area] went dark.
The TV screens above, below, left and right of Bai Liu were all turned off, leaving him alone in front of a black screen, staring calmly outside the door.