As soon as Bai Liu got on the bus, he could smell a strong fishy smell coming from the front seat. He thought it was from Andre because this man had eaten a lot of rotten fish fillets in the morning, but he didn't expect it to be from the driver.

The fishy smell he smelled in the car yesterday was probably from the driver, but compared to today, the concentration was completely different.

The driver's stench was much stronger today.

Bai Liu looked around at the driver. This driver... seemed like a monster.

[Warning!! Player identification error! This NPC is not a monster! Cannot be entered into the monster book! It is just in a state of mutation! ]

[Player identification error, the NPC's trust in the player has dropped sharply, and may attack the player]

The driver slowly took a bite of the sandwich in his hand. He looked at Bai Liu for a while with his eyes swaying, and suddenly said in a vicious tone: "...Do you think the smell on me is disgusting?"

Bai Liu thought in his heart that it was, but on the surface he hastily denied it: "No."

"You look at me as if I'm a monster. Ha, you damn arrogant rich man." The driver said gloomily, then turned around to eat and no longer responded to Bai Liu's questions.

Tsk, that's a bit tricky.

Bai Liu thought calmly that this would make it much more difficult for him to obtain information.

Moreover, he couldn't force the driver to question him, as the control panel had already indicated that the driver would attack Bai Liu.

Bai Liu looked at Lucy beside her, whispered a few words, and coaxed Lucy to ask the driver.

The driver snorted, but answered Lucy's question anyway.

"Of course the attractions in Siren Town are related to mermaids."

The driver's smile gave you goosebumps, his eyes darted around in his sockets, and you couldn't tell who he was looking at or talking to.

"Our fishing is not just about catching ordinary fish. It is a special mermaid catching activity that is only held at night. And our wax museum is not an ordinary wax museum either. We will make wax statues of the mermaids we catch and display them in the wax museum."

"The first mermaid skeleton we caught is in the wax museum."

"Mermaid hunting?" Bai Liu asked, "Did you really catch any mermaids?"

The driver ignored Bai Liu.

Lucy asked again before the driver answered.

The driver smiled meaningfully. "Yes, although except for the first one which was a very beautiful mermaid, the ones caught later were all low-quality and incomplete mermaids, but they are indeed mermaids."

Andre suddenly snorted in disdain: "It's just a gimmick, no one among you will really believe it, right?"

Jelf opened his mouth to say something, but then closed it again. He probably didn't dare to say anything in reply because he had just been beaten up by Andre this morning.

But Lucy was different. She looked at Andre with a very dissatisfied look and said loudly: "I believe it! Bai Liu, what about you?" As she spoke, she turned around and looked at Bai Liu angrily.

"Seeing is believing." Bai Liu said calmly, "You'll know after watching the fishing activities tonight."

Andre would not argue with Lucy, but he wanted to mock Bai Liu word for word: "I hope some people don't cry and escape at night under the pretext of watching fishing activities."

As he spoke, a wicked smile full of mischief appeared on his face, and his eyes swept across Bai Liu, "If you fall off the boat while screaming, and are caught by these fishermen as a mermaid and made into wax statues, we will definitely not save you."

Andre shrugged hypocritically and smiled maliciously, as if he had already seen Bai Liu falling into the water.

Bai Liu remembered that he and Andre had an unfulfilled bet that night.

He got the details of the bet out of Lucy this morning.

Andre and Bai Liu are going to rent two canoes and drift overnight on the Siren Sea. Whoever can't bear to return first will be a coward and will not deserve Lucy.

Lucy herself didn't want to have this bet, but the character played by Bai Liu was stubborn and insisted on coming.

In a horror game centered around "Mermaids", the sea at night is undoubtedly a very scary place.

Bai Liu would never allow himself to go to such a place with a smart person who obviously had bad intentions towards him when he was still unclear about the specific situation.

There is no doubt that if Andre met his boat on the sea, he would overturn it and let him die in the sea.

White willow cannot water.

To a certain extent, mermaids, sirens and other things are far less terrifying to Bai Liu than the sea water itself.

Bai Liu would not approach the sea unless it was necessary.

Bai Liu's expression betrayed his rejection of this so-called gambling activity.

Andre laughed unbridled and mocked: "Look, look, this is our eldest master. Apart from money, what else do you have that is better than me? You don't even dare to go to the sea."

Bai Liu nodded happily with genuine feeling: "I am good for nothing except money."

But having money is enough to make him feel satisfied, even if it is virtual currency, he is happy.

Andre: “…”

Why does this person look as if he is being praised?

Andre sneered, "Does not going mean you're giving up on Lucy?"

Just as Bai Liu was about to tell Andre that he didn't want to go to this suicidal activity, the coin on his chest vibrated and a task prompt popped up:

[To trigger the side quest [Ship of True Love], please complete the bet before leaving Siren Town. Defeat Andre in the bet and you will receive a bonus of 100 points]

Bai Liu: “…”

There are actually as many as 100 points rewards!

The desire for money instantly overcame the fear of water, and Bai Liu calmly replied: "No, I will go, and I must beat you."

Lucy hugged Bai Liu with emotion: "Oh, baby, when you come back, we must live together and spend a pleasant night together."

Bai Liu silently took Lucy's hand away.

The driver turned around and said, "You guys should go to our wax museum during the day. We will have the mermaid hunting activity at night."

Everyone in the group agreed.

The driver drove the car in a winding way and went around the back of a beach.

Bai Liu saw a lot of sun-dried debris on that beach.

The driver said that this was the place where mermaids were caught, and those remains were the broken pieces of mermaids that were caught. Some were so broken that they were thrown on the beach.

Bai Liu did see a lot of large fish tail bones and some white skulls on the beach. These things were scattered in a mess on the beach, and there were also several nets drying next to them.

A fisherman came out to collect the bones and nets, and looked up to meet Bai Liu's eyes. Bai Liu hadn't noticed the appearance of these townspeople at night, but now that he saw them in the daytime...

These townspeople look very strange, and have a strange resemblance to the driver, but they are even more bizarre than the driver.

The whites of their eyes were very white, abnormally white, but their pupils were only tiny dots the size of soybeans, moving aimlessly in their eye sockets.

The distance between the eyes is very wide, and the eyes are located on both sides of the face as if they are growing next to the ears, which is very similar to the catfish in Bai Liu's impression.

There are gray-black marble patterns around their eyes, which spread from the area around their eyes to their necks. When they walk in the sun, their movements are extremely slow, and the backs of their feet rub against the sand repeatedly as if they are itchy.

If Bai Liu saw correctly, they seemed to have some green scales on the backs of their feet that were about to fall off.

They gave Bai Liu's passing car a frozen and silly smile, like a child smelling food.

Lucy was also frightened by the appearance of these fishermen. She muttered quietly, "They look so strange."

These fishermen look much stranger than the driver. Compared to humans, they are more like... some strange-looking deep-sea fish.

The driver swallowed the last bite of the fishy sandwich and smiled with black teeth covered in fish paste: "Really? We all look like this here. Maybe it's because we eat all kinds of fish. It's not very healthy."

Bai Liu narrowed his eyes. He felt that these townspeople were quite like monsters, but he stopped thinking halfway.

The driver realized the mistake.

Although the townspeople and the driver are obviously quite inhuman, the driver cannot be entered into the [Monster Book]. There is a certain probability that this monster townsperson, who is similar to the driver, does not conform to the monster settings of the game. If the hatred of so many townspeople is aroused, it will be no joke.

But Bai Liu was not so stupid as to really think that these townspeople with strange looks were not monsters.

There are two possibilities for it not being a monster:

The first one: Really not.

The second possibility is that it may not meet certain criteria for being included in the monster book.

This "Siren Town" has a very peculiar setting, which allows [hatching] and [mutation]. The mermaid wax statue can hatch, and Andre was in a state of alienation in the morning. Bai Liu felt that these townspeople seemed to be in some kind of transformation state, so they looked so out of place.

Bai Liu didn't know what the results of these two states were. He guessed that it might be a monster, but he needed to verify it.

Bai Liu slowly moved his gaze to Andre who was sitting in front of him.

It wasn't that he couldn't save Andre last night.

But for him, the death of Andre, an NPC who is somewhat aggressive towards him, is more valuable than his survival.

Andre watched the driver sucking his fingers with relish, which still had a little fish meat left on them. His appetite rose uncontrollably. He swallowed his saliva with a staring look in his eyes, and rubbed his itchy cheeks irritably.

Then, he looked at Bai Liu who was sitting behind him through the rearview mirror of the car with resentment.

Bai Liu is such a rich man, why didn't he even let him have enough fish fillets? He was so hungry that when he saw the food in the driver's hand, he couldn't help but want to grab it and eat it.

But the driver ate very quickly. Before Andre could move, he had already finished and was touching his stomach in an intoxicated manner.

Watching the driver licking the fish meat from the corner of his mouth with a delicious look on his face, Andre once again recalled the moist and smooth taste of the fish fillet, and his saliva kept secreting, and his throat rolled involuntarily. He had never eaten such a delicious fish fillet.

No, not just the fish fillets, all the fish here are cooked in such a delicious way that he can't stop eating them.

The driver sighed with satisfaction: "It's delicious. Only the fish from Siren Town are this delicious."

Lucy also praised: "Yes, I have never eaten such delicious fish, so fresh."

"No, it's not fresh. The secret to the delicious fish in Siren Town has never been freshness. In fact, this kind of fish is not delicious when eaten fresh. It needs to be rotten and then pickled and specially processed to be delicious." The driver's smile turned weird. "You are eating a very special kind of fish, a fish not found anywhere else, a fish unique to Siren Town."

Lucy asked curiously, "What fish?"

Driver: “Mermaid.”