Chapter 5: Siren Town

Bai Liu could hear the crisp ringing sound of marble crashing against the door, and the doorknob moved twice by this time.

Though the door had been unlocked, the doorknob made the fragile metallic snapping sound of gragra under the vigorous wringing of the mermaid wax figure outside the door, and it sounded like it was going to be scrapped soon.

This thing seems to want to come in, its dead white eyes in Bai Liu's room searched a circle, seems to be found in the room there is no one, seems to be left in front of Bai Liu's door, the door knob did not move, outside the room became silent and silent, the other party seems to have left the general.

But Bai Liu still held his breath, he remembered that when this thing moved it would make that very dull sliding sound, without this sound it was not right.

This mermaid wax figure hadn't left at all, and was more than likely still quietly guarding his door.

This thing is swindling him, baiting him out, Bai Liu thought as he squinted and noticed that the cat's eyes, which had reverted to the color of the carpet, had suddenly turned back to the white of the bulging eyeballs.

That thing is really still there.

The thing waited for a moment and didn't seem to die, still trying to get in, and the doorknob was violently twisted into a protruding shattered shape, shakily about to slide off the door.

The mermaid wax figure outside the door is coming in.

Bai Liu Some of the kind-hearted viewers in front of the TV screen have already closed their eyes with impatience.

"It's rare to see a seeded player...eh, shame."

"The main thing is that this copy of Serenity Town is too disgusting, it's not even the difficulty of a novice copy, and it's completely murderous for novices."

Bai Liu's brain was spinning so fast that his breathing slowed down.

The game clearly told him that these ghostly monsters had weaknesses that the player could utilize to escape from these monsters, so the way to break the game at the moment was to find the weaknesses that limited this thing's movement.

Bai Liu closes his eyes and thinks back over the entirety of tonight's stay.

As long as it's a game, it's a game with a solution, and games without solutions are the worst kind of crap, and Bai Liu had been making horror games for so many years that he was beyond certain that there had to be something that hinted at the weakness of the other guy's fishy wax figure.

What exactly is it .....

Bai Liu, calm as can be, began to comb through all the scenes in which he had encountered the mermaid wax figure.

The first time was at the fountain outside the hotel, and Jeff exclaimed that he saw the mermaid wax figure move, and that the movement was silent, just spinning after the car, and that the mermaid wax figure wasn't looking directly at them, was looking into the water.

The second time was in the hotel lobby, where a huge number of wax figures of various mermaids, looking straight at them, did not move.

The third time was in the hotel room, all the mermaid wax figures looked straight at Bai Liu except for the huge mermaid wax figure looking in the mirror, and started to move after Bai Liu fell asleep, the mirror mermaids were the fastest movers, but after Bai Liu woke up the wax figures didn't move.

But apparently Bai Liu staying awake isn't much of a constraint on the mermaid wax figure's movement, because the mermaid wax figure outside the door is ready to break in.

The game wouldn't have a situation that couldn't be broken, he must have something on him, something that would limit the movement of the mermaid wax figure.

It's not something in the room, it's not something in the hotel, it must be something Bai Liu brought with him, because something in the hotel and in the room doesn't restrict the movement of a mermaid wax figure, as evidenced by the fact that this wax figure was able to come and go freely from Jeff's room earlier.

What the hell is it?

Mirrors...water...sleep .... Looking Straight!

Bai Liu knows what it is.

Bai Liu jerks to his feet as he pulls the door open to stare directly at the mermaid wax figure.

The wax figure outside the door has gotten so close that from Bai Liu's point of view, the lifeless mermaid's wax figure's face seems to be pressed against the tip of Bai Liu's nose, its palm still resting on Bai Liu's doorknob, and its pure white, beadless eyes looking through the cat's eye to the lower right corner - that's where Bai Liu is hiding.

No wonder this thing had to come in, it should have seen Bai Liu hiding in the lower right corner behind the door.

Its movement stops, its tail has touched the tip of Bai Liu's foot, and at the last moment of stepping into Bai Liu's room, it stands still in front of Bai Liu's door.

Bai Liu breathed a sigh of relief, it was true, the weak point that kept this thing from moving was the direct view of the human eye.

Bai Liu The crowd in front of the small TV was stunned.

"Holy shit! How did he think of that! Just pulled the door open without hesitation!"

"General new players simply can't think of it, even if they think of it, they don't dare to pull open the door, they only dare to look straight through the cat's eye, and that's still certain death, because that close to look through the cat's eye of this kind of mirroring, the movement of the mermaid wax statue will only be partially restricted, enough to break into the door."

"Woj, I got goosebumps when he just locked eyes with the mermaid wax figure!"

"What's his name, so awesome ah this newcomer ...."

The crowd gradually gathers around Bai Liu's small television.

【168人围观玩家 Bai Liu的小电视，玩家 Bai Liu 达成新手百人斩成就】 【168人围观玩家 Bai Liu的小电视，玩家 Bai Liu 达成新手百人斩成就】

[102 people liked Bai Liu's TV, 143 people favorited Bai Liu's TV, 3 people charged Bai Liu's TV, and player Bai Liu gained 3 points].

Bai Liu's expression on the small TV remained calm and collected, as if he didn't think he had done anything wrong.

Extrapolating the weakness that [Human Eyes] restricts the movement of mermaid wax figures when they see it is actually quite simple.

Because after Bai Liu went to sleep, these wax figures began to move, and after he woke up, they stopped instantly, and the only difference between before and after he went to sleep was that he opened his own eyes, and that meant that [human sight] was able to limit the movement of the mermaid wax figures.

But there's a catch here - that is, looking at such a thing through a mirror-type item will only weaken some of the mermaid wax figure's movement speed, and you have to look directly at it in order to stop the mermaid wax figure's movement completely.

Because there are two other kinds of wax figures that can still move under the direct view of the human eye, the fountain wax figure in front of the hotel and the mirror mermaid wax figure in the room.

The wax figure of a mermaid in the fountain pool outside the hotel door looks into the water, then the person is looking [directly] at the wax figure of a mermaid through the water, and the wax figure of a mermaid, though restricted from moving fast, can still move slowly or even rotate, that's why it's slowly rotating in the doorway.

And of the wax figures of mermaids in the room, the mirror mermaid is the fastest moving, and it's also because the mirror mermaid looks inside the mirror, and a person looking through the mirror [directly at] the wax figure gives a limited limiting force, that's why the mirror mermaid runs the fastest.

And the mermaid just now was looking at Bai Liu through the cat's eyes, so it was movable, whereas Bai Liu should still be able to move the mermaid wax figure if he's just looking directly at the mermaid wax figure through the cat's eyes alone, although it would be somewhat limited.

Such a close distance, through the cat's eye is definitely not enough to limit the mermaid movement to break into the door, if it is allowed to come in, the player is pressed under the door, losing the condition of [direct human eye view], the player will soon be cold.

But it has to be said that in this case, there are very few new players indeed who have the ability to pull open the door and look squarely at the mermaid wax figure.

Most of the players panicked, even if they deduced the condition of [human eye direct vision], they didn't have the courage to verify it, only Bai Liu, who wants money but not life, has this kind of calmness even if he is not 100% sure that his deduction is right, but he still doesn't have a straight face.

[The Monster Book of Siren Town Mermaid Wax Figure Panel Refresh]

[Monster Name: Mermaid Wax Figure (Chrysalis state), Amulet Wax Figure (Cocoon state)]

[Weakness: Direct human eyes (1/3)]

[Attack: Hatching]

The mermaid wax figure has drooping eyes, head slightly tilted a little to the right, the corners of the mouth slightly up with a hint of a smile, the fish tail is graceful, the body is white and flawless, and the gesture breathes an indescribable hidden beauty and divinity.

The wax figure, once fixed and motionless, had lost the spine-tingling invasiveness in its body, becoming a wax statue of great aesthetic value, standing silently in front of the door of a stranger's house in the middle of the night at the seaside.

[Player Bai Liu earns 3 points for watching the player recharge his batteries, unlocking the game's merchandise store]

[Points are too low to purchase any items, so please work harder!

That player charges three points, Bai Liu a little bit understand, should have watched the people to give him a reward, and this unlocked merchandise store, all the goods are black and white, displaying the status of [Unable to buy].

He briefly scanned a few times and found that this merchandise store had everything from daily necessities to weapons, and a lot of messy things, what with [Intact Heart] and [Magic Potion of Love at First Sight], such unbelievable sounding items were also being sold, but accordingly, the prices of such items were also very high.

Bai Liu understands the sentence when entering the game - [Points can buy everything you want].

Bai Liu closes the merchandise store and stares at the mermaid wax figure in front of him, which remains motionless.

Now it's true that the thing doesn't move, but there's no way Bai Liu can stay up all night confronting this thing, and after this incident, Bai Liu has a new appreciation for the destructive power of this thing.

He looked to the stainless steel handle that was just about to come off his door.

Judging from the behavior of those wax figures in his room earlier, although this thing had tremendous destructive power, it seemed that it could only rely on its eyes to locate it, or rather, it was only sensitive to visual things, and there was no way to locate Bai Liu once he was covered by the white cloth, and it would be difficult to locate him even if he was in the same room.

In other words, mermaid wax figures seem to have no senses such as hearing or smell.

Otherwise Bai Liu and so many people fish wax figure in the same area of the room, even listening to the sound of Bai Liu's breathing is also very easy to locate and find Bai Liu, and then Bai Liu's head like a doorknob unscrewed, do not need to struggle to tear open the white cloth and then look for him, based on the ability to unscrew the doorknob with his bare hands, would not still be locked in the toilet closet can not come out.

.... What a pain in the ass, and in such large quantities that it's a real burden to keep.

Bai Liu narrowed his eyes slightly, and his heart moved with a little evil thought - now that he had a motionless wax statue in front of him that was at his mercy, could he do something to it, experiment with it, experiment with what its weaknesses really were, such as roasting it over a fire and banging on it with a stick to kill it and break it up, or something like that ....

[Tip: If a player directly attacks the monster, if the monster does not die, it will cause the monster's hate value to be on the player for a long time, and will keep attacking the player, reducing the player's survival rate]

Bai Liu rubbed his chin thoughtfully as he smiled, revealing a small, harmless pear swirl on the right side of his face.

"Attacking it directly will cause it to hold a grudge against me and take revenge on me right..." Bai Liu muttered to himself, "Then if something happens to it on its own, it won't be my fault."

Bai Liu did the same thing again, wrapping the wax mermaid in a sheet and tying the opening underneath with a string, then he put the wax mermaid in front of the hotel staircase in an unsuspecting manner.

Mermaid wax figures walk around headless when they can't be seen, and Bai Liu put the mermaid wax figure in this spot so that the figure would fall down the stairs of its own accord.

With hate value, Bai Liu wouldn't voluntarily crack these wax figures; it's fine if they can be cracked outright, but if they can't be cracked out, it's pretty obvious that he's going to get himself in trouble.

But the number of mermaid wax figures is a hidden danger, Bai Liu only has one pair of eyes, if it is a wooden man kind of mode, if he is surrounded by wax figures in 360 degrees, the horizontal view angle of human eyes is only 188 degrees at most, Bai Liu has no way to grow eyes in the back of his head to see all the mermaid wax figures, then he will die for sure.

Bai Liu likes to do things that are more cost-effective, and while the game says that using weaknesses to escape from monsters is all that's needed, he wants to know if he can just destroy the wax figures somehow.

Or whether there are other Achilles' heels to these wax figures.

He wasn't one to voluntarily crack or strike a wax figure of a mermaid, the risk was too great for him to take - who knew what might crawl inside this chrysalis or cocoon when it shattered.

But if the mermaid wax figure stepped off the stairs and fell because of his own poor eyesight, it's none of his business.

Bai Liu just wanted to do a little test to verify that the thing could be smashed as he retreated back into the room.

The wax figure of a mermaid really moved shortly afterward, Bai Liu was puzzled, in fact, he was still looking at the wax figure, but the wax figure was covered by a white cloth and didn't know that Bai Liu was looking at him, so it moved on its own.

This one proves that [the human eye looking straight ahead] is only an objective condition, and that it takes the subjective feeling of the mermaid wax figure that it is being looked at straight ahead for it to stop moving.

There are so many wax figures in Bai Liu's room that he can't see them all the way through, and before Bai Liu woke up and had a chance to look around, they stopped moving of their own accord.

So as soon as the mermaid wax figure [feels] like it's being looked at straight on, it's going to stop moving.

Being able to self-realize to this level, these things were indeed living things, or living things that possessed a certain level of intelligence, though it didn't seem like the level of intelligence was high.

The wax figure of a mermaid at the head of the stairs struggled for a few moments, and with a scratch from the side of the stairway steps, it crackled down, blindfolded in white cloth, and flung itself down with a loud, dusty thud.

Bai Liu stood on the stairs and looked over from his perch, patting ash from his hands and tutting somewhat regretfully as he looked down at the wax figure of a mermaid, unharmed and only slightly curled up, without even a crack in the marble.

...... really can't break the fall ah ...... physical attack is invalid ah ....

Bai Liu did not know that his villain-like appearance in the small TV, causing a crowd of players to stare in disbelief.

"Is this guy really new? Hooded head over sheet drops mermaid wax figure down stairs .... .... Was this new guy a kidnapper before he came in? Or a terrorist?"

"I was just nervous and scared for him, now I'm starting to sympathize with the mermaid wax figure that knocked on the door, all falling and bucking, it's so tragic..."

"...... Does this guy really think of himself as a player?!"

"All the other players are trying to survive the monsters, he's good, he directly doesn't want the monsters to live..."