Chapter 7 Siren Town



Lucy sat at the dining table, looking like she hadn't slept well either. She leaned against Bai Liu, yawning listlessly.

Jeff had been dozing off all morning, and he had dark circles under his eyes, his skin was bluish-gray, and his eye sockets were sunken.

And he didn't know if it was Bai Liu's illusion, but he felt that Andre's pupils were a little smaller than yesterday. He had a very uncomfortable, neurotic and anxious aura, and there was a faint fishy smell coming from his body.

Bai Liu took out a coin and scanned it at Andre.

[NPC name: Andre (Spirit value decreased, in the process of transformation)]

Andre seemed to have a big appetite at this time. He ate big plates of the hotel's buffet breakfast as if he was pouring it directly into his throat.

Because this hotel is close to the sea, most of the breakfast consists of various fried, boiled and deep-fried fish. The fish soup is oily and the fish fillets are fried golden and crispy, which looks very appetizing.

Bai Liu smelled a pungent fishy smell like rotten fish tails, just like the smell of dead fish surrounded by flies that he smelled in the garbage dump where fishmongers in the vegetable market threw fish. As soon as he approached these bright and beautiful fish dishes, he began to vomit, let alone swallow them.

But both Jeff and Lucy looked as if these things smelled delicious.

Bai Liu took out the coins and scanned them. As expected, these two people also showed [Mutation]. It should be related to the mermaid statue in the room.

Andrei was even worse. The way he ate made Bai Liu feel uncomfortable. Andrei chewed with big mouthfuls, and the slippery black fish tail slapped against his mouth as he chewed. He often used a fork to pick up the next fish before he finished the one in his mouth.

Lucy cut the fish fillet with a knife and fork, looking at Bai Liu in surprise: "You don't want to eat it? Baby! The fish fillets here are really delicious. Even if I want to diet, I can't help but eat two!"

"You really found a pretty nice seaside hotel!" Lucy said, and was about to lean over to kiss him.

But Bai Liu was choked by the strong fishy smell in Lucy's mouth and pushed her away subconsciously. After thinking about it, he pulled away the plate in front of Lucy and said in a serious tone: "Baby, you are in perfect shape now. I won't allow you to lose your beauty for a fish. Let's eat some vegetarian dishes. The fish fillet here is just so-so."

Lucy was so happy that she was overjoyed. Although she was still reluctant to give up the fish fillet, she also ate a lot of vegetable salad obediently.

Bai Liu pretended to pack a lot of salad for Jeff and Andre to eat.

Jeff was a little distracted while eating.

Andre, however, saw that Bai Liu's nose was not a nose and his eyes were not eyes, and mocked him, "Could it be that our rich man is short of money? Before we came here, he boasted that our food and accommodation were all included, but now he is reluctant to let us eat even a fish fillet."

"Lucy, look, this is your mean boyfriend!"

Lucy immediately cursed angrily: "Andre! If it weren't for Bai Liu, do you think you could come to this hotel to eat such high-end fish fillet? You can't even stay here! Look at how much you ate. If Bai Liu didn't pay for you, you wouldn't be able to leave this hotel at all!"

"Lucy!" Andre roared, but Lucy raised her head and stared at Andre without giving in.

Andre couldn't do anything with the woman he loved, so he turned around and prepared to vent all his anger on Bai Liu.

Amid Lucy's screams, watching Andre's large hand about to lift up Bai Liu's collar, Bai Liu still wiped her mouth slowly, looked at Andre, and smiled, "If you still want me to pay for you, you'd better not touch me."

Andre's hand suddenly stopped in mid-air, and his nostrils expanded and contracted like a bull, breathing out angry air.

He looked at Bai Liu with red eyes, and threatened fiercely: "If you can't do what we bet on tonight, I will make you, a short-handed wretch who can't even get on with a woman, pay the price!"

Andre's eyes were full of bloodshot, and he seemed to have been dizzy from the anger that rushed to his head, but he couldn't do anything to Bai Liu. After all, he was still counting on Bai Liu to pay for him.

Just at this moment, a broccoli accidentally rolled out of Jeff's plate as he was eating, and rolled onto Andre's shoes.

Andre was like a balloon that was blown up to the limit and then punctured. Before Jelf could even say sorry, he slapped Jelf on the back of the head with his backhand, causing Jelf's head to hit the plate and vomit out everything he had eaten in the morning.

"You dirty my shoes! You disgusting guy!" Andre saw Jeff vomiting and seemed to find it funny. He hummed a laugh from his nose as if he had found some kind of psychological balance, and kicked Jeff again.

After wiping the negligible oil stain on his shoes on Jeff's pants, Andre said, "I won't bother with a useless piece of trash. Wipe it off and get out of here."

Lucy helped the dizzy Jeff up, and she yelled hysterically at Andre: "Stop it, Andre! You are too much to Jeff!"

Bai Liu ignored the two people who were arguing. His eyes were fixed on Jeff's vomit. The golden-yellow fish fillet, after being chewed and spat out by Jeff, turned out to have a blue-black cross-section like a dead fish, with something that looked like crawling saprophytes on it.

This kind of rotten dead fish is not edible by humans. Fish sellers in the vegetable market will use this kind of dead fish to feed large fish.

Bai Liu still remembered that a fishmonger had told him that the larger the saprophytic fish, the more they liked to eat dead fish.

The driver came to pick up Bai Liu and his friends after Bai Liu had breakfast.

[Main Quest: Visit the Siren Wax Museum, reward points 50]

[Main Mission: Participate in the Mermaid Catching Contest, Reward Points 50]

The Siren Museum and the Mermaid Catching Contest, these sound like two attractions.

Bai Liu pondered for a while and was about to ask the driver what these two were when Jelf suddenly appeared and stood between Bai Liu and the driver. He lowered his head and said nothing. His pale and thin face was sunken, and there were blood stains on his mouth from being hit by Andre. His teeth were clenched and trembling slightly.

Bai Liu raised his eyebrows. From yesterday till now, Jeff seemed to have been trying his best to avoid contact between him and the driver.

This is not normal.

Bai Liu's fingers unconsciously turned the coin on his chest.

The coin flipped back and forth on the back of his fingers. This was a common posture for Bai Liu to think about things. The feeling of controlling the money in his hands, even if it was only one dollar, made him feel calm and happy.

In the absence of other information, Bai Liu guessed that Jelf's target should be Andre. It was normal for Andre to have contact with the driver. After all, the driver was looking for an opportunity to take action, and Lucy was a character that was easy to fool, so there was no need to isolate her so deliberately.

There must be a reason why Jelf separated himself and the driver, and after thinking about it, Bai Liu thought that the reason must be money.

Judging from the way Jeff is dressed and the daily violence he suffers at the hands of Andre on campus, he clearly doesn't look like a wealthy character.

Andre is also a bully who only bullies the weak and fears the strong. Although he is harsh with words towards the rich Bai Liu, he does not take any actual action. As for Jelf, he beats and scolds him at every turn. From this point of view, Jelf's family situation should be worse than his, or even worse than Andre's.

And last night, Jelf gave the driver what seemed to be a large sum of money. Bai Liu had reason to suspect that Jelf used the money that she asked him to hire drivers and tourists to hire a driver to take revenge on Andre, so he had been feeling guilty and had not allowed the driver to contact her.

But Jelf had already paid the driver last night, so the deal was almost complete. Besides, the driver and the tourist appeared to have done their jobs very well, and he did not express any doubts.

Normally, Jeff should have breathed a sigh of relief instead of going to such lengths to isolate himself from the driver, which would only make him more suspicious.

This guilty and cautious performance doesn't seem like something that has not yet been finalized.

But it is also possible that Jelf is just cautious and timid, and he will not let down his guard until he succeeds. After all, Jelf's side story is called "Bloody Conspiracy", and it is completely understandable that Bai Liu would be cautious about such a conspiracy that kills people as soon as he hears it.

I just don't know when Jelf will choose to take action against Andre, but for now Bai Liu still wants to focus his main energy on the main mission.

Bai Liu talked to the driver: "Driver, are there any attractions in Siren Town?"

"Are these attractions?" The driver thought for a moment and said, "For tourists here, the must-sees are night fishing and the museum."

After hearing this answer, Bai Liu thought to himself, "As expected," and raised his eyebrows: "What are the special features of fishing and wax museums?"

"Of course, we are Siren Town." The driver turned around. It was the first time that Bai Liu saw the driver's face up close in the car. Even someone as resistant to horror images as Bai Liu could not help but be shocked.

It wasn't out of fear, but out of surprise.

This driver looks so strange.

The man had a lot of white in his eyes, so much that his eyeballs were only the size of a fly. As he spoke, his eyeballs moved restlessly around in the white of his eyes, as if he couldn't control the eyeballs that were about to disappear and escape from his eyes.

The driver's skin was so pale that it was opaque, like a piece of cheap wax.

He said this while driving and biting into a fish sandwich in his hand.

The cross-section of the fish fillet was a rotten green-black color, as if it were made of moldy fish, but the driver ate it with relish. His teeth were stained with the green-black color, and he gave Bai Liu a smile that was so large that it was somewhat abnormal.


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