Chapter 4: Siren Town

The system sent Bai Liu his first task, but Bai Liu's focus was not on the task instead, he looked at the words [Avoid being hatched] and fell into deep thought.

...... hatching?

Gee, can those wax figures hatch them?

Bai Liu made a silent note that as soon as he turned around he saw a wax figure of a mermaid of equal height standing on the opposite side of the bed.

This is the biggest mermaid wax figure Bai Liu has seen in the house.

This mermaid wax figure is beautiful, holding a man-high glossy mirror in her hands, the mirror's border is also embedded in wax, and the mermaid wax figure's graceful hands are the supports that hold up this dressing mirror.

This is also the only mermaid wax figure in the room that doesn't look at Bai Liu.

It looked at the mirror with a smile on its face, Bai Liu was reflected in the mirror, and it wrapped its arms around the mirror, as if it was hugging Bai Liu in the mirror, which made Bai Liu slightly uncomfortable.

The mermaid's wax figure's eyes fell on the mirror, her brow inward, the corners of her eyes lowered, the fish's tail spreading feebly flat on the ground, her expression realistic and cheerful, as if she were welcoming the man in the mirror.

Bai Liu looks into the mirror, and [himself] inside gives a waxen, eerie smile to Bai Liu outside the mirror.

Bai Liu covered the mirror with a white cloth without being moved.

This level of horror images on Bai Liu is not effective, he is in the real world of horror games, often a person to stay up until two or three o'clock to conceptualize a variety of horror images, this mirror in the person smiling at you in the regular horror scenes Bai Liu has done fast numb, will not have any feeling.

It seems that the tourists who Jeff said earlier disappeared silently directly from the hotel and whose bodies were never found were probably [hatched] by these mermaid wax figures.

Although Bai Liu still didn't understand exactly what [Hatching] was all about, it wouldn't be a good thing in any case.

As a matter of conservative prudence, Bai Liu covered all the mermaid wax figures with white cloths from the sheets in the hotel room, including the huge mirror, to shield them from the eerie and ubiquitous view. It doesn't always work, but it's better than nothing.

Most importantly, Bai Liu can't sleep with so many people looking at him.

As he covered the mirror, he touched the mermaid wax figure's fish tail, and the touch on the tail was not the smooth, silky touch of white wax, but as slimy and slippery as a sea fish.

Bai Liu even felt the scales on the tail of the wax statue under his hand gently open and close.

Bai Liu paused, he touched the wax figure and then sniffed his fingers, surprisingly smelled a strong fishy smell, but Bai Liu close to the mermaid wax figure to sniff the body, but did not smell any fishy smell, but only smelled the smoky aroma of the room in the hotel.

It could be the smell brought down from the car ......

...... It is more likely that Bai Liu himself gave off that fishy odor, and associating it with that mermaid wax figure that can [hatch] tourists, Bai Liu frowned, feeling a little less than good.

What can a mermaid wax figure hatch?

Mostly just some nasty looking fish or something.

The word "hatching" reminds Bai Liu of a movie called "The Sewer Mermaid," which he once watched two or three times for the material, and since then he has had no more charming fantasies about mermaids as creatures.

After catching the bus for a small portion of the night in a row, Bai Liu had long since gotten tired, and after he simply cleaned himself up, he laid down on the bed and fell into a deep sleep. His stamina value had already been zeroed out, and he desperately needed to sleep to replenish his stamina value in relative safety.

In the middle of the night, Bai Liu was awakened by a very dull dragging and strange sound.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw that the white cloth that covered those mermaid wax figures before had slipped partially at some point, leaving only a part of it hanging on those wax figures.

Some of these wax figures are covered by white cloths so that only one eye is exposed, and their expressions seem to have changed slightly, from divine compassion to resignation and resentment; they look at Bai Liu motionlessly, as if blaming him for covering them with white cloths.

Bai Liu realizes that the wax figures seem to be closer than they were before he went to bed, like a group of people gathering at a dinner table with their hands up, slowly gathering around his bed.

Especially the wax figure of a dressing-mirror mermaid holding a huge mirror. Bai Liu woke up in a daze and saw that his feet were already close to the mirror.

This huge mirror that was facing the bed had moved to stick to the bed.

As soon as Bai Liu shrank his feet and sat up, he saw himself reflected in the mirror.

In the mirror, [Bai Liu]'s skin is as pale as rock, his eyes are devoid of black eyeballs, and his eyes are surrounded by the cobwebby, flowery patterns of marble. [He] shows a stiff-lipped smile to Bai Liu outside the mirror, but in a blink of an eye, he turns back into his normal mirror image, as if it was only Bai Liu's illusion just a moment ago.

Bai Liu stilled, stood up from the bed, and without changing his face, forcefully tied up these mermaid wax figures with white cloth handles.

In order to prevent these mermaid wax figures from breaking free, Bai Liu also used twine and tied it twice, then wrapped the smaller mermaid wax figures in white cloth and threw them into the closet and locked them up, while the larger ones were pushed into the restroom and locked it up, acting as neatly as a skilled kidnapper.

The objects appear to be somewhat restricted in their movement; they do not move until Bai Liu falls asleep, and it appears that even after Bai Liu falls asleep, they need to break free of the white cloth and see Bai Liu in order to move towards him.

Some of the wax figures of little mermaids whose covered white cloths didn't get off were scurrying all over the place in the white cloths, and instead of gathering toward the bed, they were scattering and fleeing in all directions.

After figuring out this rule, Bai Liu made the decision to increase this limit to the maximum.

Just as he had done this, and was clapping his hands and getting ready for bed, Bai Liu heard a door open and close, and a creeping footstep from next door to him.

Bai Liu's movement just laying down on the bed could not help but give a start. The four rooms he had booked were all adjacent to each other, with Andre and Jeff living in the next room on the left and right.

The sound of the door opening and closing came from the left, which was Jeff's room. Bai Liu got up from the bed and pressed himself against the door to look through the cat's eye into the hallway.

Jeff was seen standing in the hallway, he looked around to make sure the hallway was clear before sneaking down the hotel stairs.

Bai Liu frowned, Jeff stayed up in the middle of the night, what were you doing there?

He was just about to open the door and follow when he saw the doorknob to Jeff's otherwise closed room begin to slowly turn again, as if someone else was about to follow Jeff out of his room.

The hotel room is for one person.

He was the only one in Jeff's room, Lucy couldn't have gone to Jeff's room in the middle of the night, Andre was on bad terms with Jeff and couldn't have gone to Jeff in the middle of the night, and Bai Liu was in his room.

So who's this guy who's coming out of Jeff's room?

Bai Liu's chest jumped as he realized something with a jolt, slightly shifting his face a bit from being pressed against the cat's eyes.

What came out of Jeff's room wasn't human!

Jeff's doorknob turned until it clicked and finally opened slowly from the inside, and Bai Liu heard that dull dragging sound he'd heard in his half-asleep moments again, as if something was being dragged along the floor on its knees.

But Bai Liu knew this time how the sound was made.

A wax figure of a mermaid of equal height emerges from Jeff's room, stony-faced and motionless, its face devoid of expression, deadened by the absence of eyeballs and the whiteness of its eyes, the tail of the fish on the ground, scuffing and dragging along the empty corridors of the late night.

Its snow-white fishtail trailed across the hotel's sturdy, old red carpet, leaving a greasy wax trail in its wake, and its whole body kept the slightest bit still as it marched toward the stairs, reminding Bai Liu of a zombie, the kind of stiff ghostly creature that can only move forward by bouncing.

...... This thing actually runs out of the room by itself and opens the door ......

When the wax figure of the mermaid dragged out of Jeff's room reached the stairway, it seemed to have sensed something, and the head on its shoulders suddenly twisted a hundred and eighty degrees and turned straight back.

The candles on its face were slowly melting away, revealing an almost fleshy glow.

It then shifted its forward direction and walked expressionlessly in the direction of Bai Liu's room.

Bai Liu made sure the door was unlocked and then took two steps back with his back pressed against the door holding his breath as he wondered what this thing wanted.

Bai Liu quickly saw out of the corner of his eye that the cat's eye on the door had turned white and was still spinning.

The thing was coming up to look at the man in the door with its eyes, and the thing that kept turning was the white eye of the wax figure.

The thing is searching through the cat's eye to find who's in the room.

The eyes of this mermaid wax figure can actually see through the one-way cat's eye to the person inside.

The white eyes on the cat's eyes are still rolling, Bai Liu holds his breath and moves slowly aside, reaching out his foot to hook the white cloth on the floor, ready to cover himself with it.

The chilling image was projected onto the screen of the small TV, and those waiting in front of the small Bai Liu TV were holding their breath and biting their hands with nervousness.

"Fuck fuck fuck fuck, that's horrible, I'm sure my mental value would have dropped if I was in-game ......"

"Steady! Steady! This place has a super high mortality rate for newcomers!"

"The monsters in Siren Town are really nasty, it's hard for newcomers just coming in to keep their cool and figure out the weaknesses of this thing ......"

Bai Liu The new players around the screen have almost gotten to the point where the mermaid wax figure is blocking the door, and some of them are playing faster, and the mermaid wax figure outside the door is clanging against the door.

One of the players was whimpering and crying while clutching his ears as he huddled by the vibrating door, holding a wooden stick in his trembling hand as if he was preparing to use it for an attack.

The mermaid wax figure bangs on the door and he cries and screams a little louder, but there isn't anyone there to save him. The door to this player's room shakes twice before stopping, and the mermaid wax figure outside seems to leave.

The weeping player wiped his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief like a hijacker, bracing himself against the door to get up on weak hands and feet.

What he didn't realize was that the cat's eye on the door was still white, and a pure white stone eye stared silently through it at the people inside.

That mermaid wax figure didn't leave at all. It just pretended to leave.

Seeing the player stand up, the wax figure's face broke into a wry and stiff smile, and it grinned contentedly as if it had found its prey.

The door was slammed twice more, easily broken open, and players who hadn't reacted screamed as they were crushed under the door.

The mermaid wax figure entered the room dragging its fish tail, a smile on its face that was strangely innocent and oddly grim as it slowly reached out with open hands to the player pinned under the door.

The moment he was touched by the mermaid wax figure, the player seemed to be wrapped by something all over his body, his eyes rolled upwards, his limbs were curling up in slow motion, and his legs were twitching and swaying on the ground with his legs together, just like a fish struggling frantically after being splashed with boiled water, and his skin also became stiff and pale in an instant.

The wax on the mermaid melted quickly as if it had met hot water and wrapped itself around the stiff player on the floor.

Grayish-black marbling of the sort seen in Bai Liu's mirror appears around the player's eyes, and the eyeballs disappear, leaving only the whites of the eyes covered by the marbling, and the corners of the mouth stiffly upturned.

He was encased in this melted wax into a mermaid wax statue.

[Player Yi Zhong's mental value is zero, he is completely alienated by the monster mermaid wax figure, and fails to pass the game]

[Player Liu Xiaohong's spirit value cleared 0, failed to pass the game by the mermaid wax figure ......]

[Player Zou Mingri ...... game pass failed]

The small TVs of the players who failed to pass the game went out with a "zip", and the people gathered around them sighed.

"Eh, I knew it, I guess it's still hard to have a pass this time around, Siren Town is too hard ......"

It was only the first night, and the monster had only taken one look, and almost a fifth of the entire [newcomer area] TV wall was darkened with small TVs.

Bai Liu The TV screens above and below him went out, leaving him alone in a sea of black screens, looking calmly out the door.