Chapter 2: Siren Town

Bai Liu was sleeping on his side in the last row of a van, the back seat of the van was so cramped and narrow that it was hard for him to even turn over, and as soon as he moved he saw a necklace fall out of his shirt.

The clothes he was wearing now were no different from before he entered the game, white shirt and black pants, the typical daily wear of an office worker social animal, only this necklace was something extra.

The pendant of the necklace was a dollar coin with a hole punched in it. Bai Liu put his hand on it and saw the game panel pop up, the panel was the same as the one Bai Liu had seen before, there was no extra information.

This should be something like a game manager.

Bai Liu put the necklace into his shirt and put it away, he didn't really like the sight of such damaged coins.

Bai Liu poked his head out of the back seat of the car, it was a seven-passenger van, there were four people in front of him except Bai Liu who was lying in the back, as soon as he poked his head out there were people who looked at him with surprise: "Bai Liu, hey my sweetie, you're finally awake!"

Except for Bai Liu, all six of these people clearly had a foreign look to them, and the one who called out to Bai Liu sweetie was a girl with big brown curly hair and big waves, red lips and brown eyes, wearing hot pants and a halter. Bai Liu The moment she saw this person, the coin on her heart popped up a panel with the character's information:

[NPC Name: Lucy]

[Character Profile: Your classmates like you very much, but you're too shy to face Lucy, who's ten centimeters taller than you and still warm and bold].

Bai Liu's line of sight paused subtly on [Too Shy] for two seconds, and quickly retracted it to fall into thought.

This game to trigger the npc panel information seems to need the player to see it themselves, it's the same as playing an online game where you need to put your mouse on it to pop up the information, the player's eyes are now the equivalent of the player's mouse and gamepad.

As he thought about it, it seemed that he couldn't at least lose his eyesight in this game.

Lucy scowled at Bai Liu, "Hey baby, did I wear you out? You slept the whole way to the car."

Bai Liu, who has always been maternally single, is in a slightly mixed mood: "........."

A painless end to the single life.

He promptly digressed, Bai Liu looked out the window at the increasingly remote and cold scenery, and opened his mouth to ask: "What place are we going to? Why does it look so remote?"

"Looks like some coward is trying to run away from the battlefield again." A sarcastic muffled male voice came from the front as a tall man in tight jeans and a sports T clutched his chest and looked at Bai Liu with contempt.The man was so overly built that his top was stretched to the point of bursting and he looked like a rugby player.

He held his chest condescendingly as he surveyed Bai Liu and snorted, "It's too late, Bai Liu, even if you're a coward and want to run away from the battle, we're already on our way to the town of Serenity."

The panel pops up:

[NPC Name: Andre]

Character Profile: Your rival, who loves Lucy but was rejected by her, is hostile to you. Previously, you made a bet with him to guard Lucy in the most dangerous place in the world to prove your love for her, so you and your team drove to the town of Siren. You regretted it and cried before you got in the car, which was forced on you by Andre].

Bai Liu, who had already seen the name "Siren Town" twice in a row, ignored Andre's mockery of him and asked, "Siren Town, what is it?"

Andre let out another cold snort and was about to open his mouth to continue his taunting when a rambling succession of whispered chants interrupted him:

"The town of Siren, the only seaside town in history where the remains of a siren have been found. Historically, a number of people have claimed that they have seen the siren Sirens here, or heard the wonderful songs of the siren mermaids in the waves, or seen these demonic-looking mermaid sirens feasting on human corpses on the darkened reefs ......"

"Jeff! Those are just stories made up by the town of Serenity to trick tourists into going sightseeing!" Andre impatiently interrupted the other man, nevertheless an imperceptible flicker of awe quickly flashed across his face.

A small boy with thick beer-bottle wine-covered glasses clutched the book on his chest and cowered for a moment, seemingly a little afraid of Andre, but still summoned up the courage to retort in a low voice, ''Then how do you explain the mysterious disappearance of those tourists who came to Siren Town! Last month, twelve tourists completely disappeared into thin air in Siren Town! The police searched everywhere with no results, and no one has seen them leave Siren Town ......"

Bai Liu looks to the panel.

[npc name: Jeff]

[Character Summary: A strong fan of mermaids, sea monsters, and other unnatural creatures, after learning that Lucy and her group were going to Siren, she volunteered to go with them, and is very knowledgeable about the legends of Siren.]

Andre disliked: "Most of these people just fell into the water and drowned themselves, how normal it is to drown on the beach."

Jeff but very unconvinced: "The police have already organized salvage for a month, did not salvage any corpse, even if they really fell into the sea, this is not normal ......" said, his tone of voice low and ghostly up, but also with a trace of excitement, "The police have already organized salvage for a month, did not salvage any corpse. "Unless it's that their bodies were eaten by the Sirens, so that the police can't salvage them either ......"

Andre finally got angry and he hit Jeff hard on the head, "Shut up! You fucking four-eyed boy! All day long you're a mermaid! You look like a mermaid to me!"

Andre hit him so hard that Bai Liu could clearly see Jeff's head hit the edge of the seat and then hit Andre in a dizzying manner. Andre was so enraged that he slapped Jeff several times, causing one of his teeth to fly out.

Jeff looks down in silence and picks up his own teeth, then looks at Andre with a very subtle look of dark hatred and mouths a very softly mouthed statement.

No one else heard it, but Bai Liu, who always heard well, heard Jeff say, "The mermaids will surely tear you apart and swallow you, Andre."

Bai Liu raised his eyebrows slightly, but didn't say anything, this npc's character relationship is really a bit complicated.

It seems Andre has been beating up on Jeff at will for more than a day or two, and this Jeff seems to be plotting a plan of revenge with the Mermaid.

The driver of the car was a local from Siren town, hired by Bai Liu at his own expense. From what Lucy said, Bai Liu found out that he is also a rich kid, he paid for the food and accommodation of the group, and the driver was also paid by him, and he also asked the driver to help him to find a local hotel.

The car drove late into the night before arriving at the mysterious town of Siren. In the driver's description, the town of Siren was a town that relied on fishing and helping to salvage shipwrecks to make ends meet, and had always been relatively remote and run-down, until the new mayor found another way to attract tourists with rumors of mermaids, and only then did the town of Siren grow by tourism.

But last month, there have been a lot of tourist accidents, these tourists do not fall into the water as Andre said, some even before they have time to go to the beach, they disappeared unnoticed in different corners of the town of Siren, for example, there is a tourist who stayed in the hotel that night, and then disappeared early the next morning, the door of the room was closed, and no one saw him go out, and the bed in the room was still warm, but the person was just disappeared. The bed was still warm, but the person was just gone.

As a result, because of the disappearance of tourists, the town of Siren, which was at the peak of the tourist season, was incredibly desolate, and many inns and hotels had closed down due to poor business.

The town of Siren is indeed very dilapidated, everywhere there are fly-rolled fences and fishing nets, the ground is full of sun-dried shells and seaweeds, as well as mud and sand, and only a few hotels and inns are still well-decorated. Bai Liu When they arrived it was already late at night, but there were still many pedestrians on the road.

These pedestrians were originally heading to the beach in unison, but as soon as Bai Liu drove their car in, these townspeople, who were originally heading to the beach, stopped unanimously, their heads tilted, and their eyes stared straight at Bai Liu's car.

Being watched by so many people in the middle of the night, Lucy was a bit unnerved, she screamed softly and shrunk into Bai Liu's arms.

But she was so much taller than Bai Liu, and peeked over his shoulder, that it looked as if Bai Liu had shrunk into her arms.

Bai Liu: "......"

Bai Liu turned to the driver and asked, "It's the middle of the night, what are these people doing on the beach?"

The driver shook his head, "Not many people come to visit lately, the economy is in the doldrums, so they have to go back to fishing for a living. You haven't fished before you don't know, a lot of valuable fish are afraid of bright light and only come out at night, that's why they go down to the sea at night."

The townspeople looked at Bai Liu with very strange gazes, their eyes glowing cat-like green in the night, and their faces wore a strange expression as if they were smiling, but the corners of their mouths didn't rise completely, instead, they were stiff and generally twitching~at the corners of their mouths.

They also had nets and hooks in their hands, and some of them had oil lamps with emulsified light in their hands, and they gazed at the car with Bai Liu, their eyes moving along with the car, as if they were ready to come up at any moment and attack the car with the fishing gear in their hands.

"You guys need to be careful with these guys." The driver warned, "They're short on money these days, and you guys are rich."

Due to Bai Liu's wealth, the driver arranged for them to go to the best hotel in the area.

The hotel was a very modern and luxurious five-star hotel, so luxurious that it was a little out of character with the whole picture of the town, and there was actually a fountain pool in front of the entrance.

The fountain pool has a statue of a mermaid with a limestone base and white cold wax.

This mermaid wax statue life-like, glistening skin in the dim moonlight glittering almost human skin luster, long hair hanging down to cover her full breasts, fish tail standing in the pool. She drooped her eyes, expression of compassion, hand holding a kettle, kettle scattered some fake mica pearls, fountain from the kettle poured down, fell in the pool, issued a sound like the waves of the sea.

The driver drove the car all the way around the fountain pool in front of the hotel to the main entrance.

Jeff suddenly shrieked as he pointed at the mermaid wax figure in front of the hotel and shouted, "She was just looking at me! She just moved!"