Chapter 6: Siren Town

Bai Liu is oblivious to these discussions and his attention is soon drawn to something else when he sees Jeff.

Jeff was sneaking around under the stairs, talking to someone, and when he was done, he headed back.

Jeff was sneaking out in the middle of the night and now he's actually back.

Bai Liu just had a good view from the stairs, and he saw Jeff followed by another person, who was the same height and dress as the driver who drove them here today.

The two men seemed to be whispering about something, and Jeff handed the driver a bunch of fancy stuff and gave him a few more instructions.

If Bai Liu was right, the money Jeff gave the driver should be from this world.

You've inspired a hidden subplot for a character - Jeff's bloody conspiracy.

[Explore the entire subplot, 50 bonus points. Currently the subplot is 15 percent complete.]

Bai Liu narrowed his eyes slightly, his hand reaching into his collar to pull out the perforated dollar coin and point it at the driver as the panel popped up with the character's information.

[npc: Driver]

Your driver, the one who drove you and your party to Siren, hired for you by Jeff, who allegedly knows Siren well and has a history of arson, robbery, and other crimes.

Sure enough, it was a character npc with status as well.

Bai Liu and the driver had never had any direct contact with each other before, and the driver had been sitting in the front seat while Bai Liu sat in the last row of the car, so he was unable to see the driver's face.

The driver didn't get out of the car when he got off the bus, so Bai Liu never saw the driver's face, so he never recognized the driver's character information.

He hadn't thought anything of it before, but now Bai Liu realized in retrospect that it seemed Jeff had been intentionally or unintentionally blocking Bai Liu's access to the driver, whether it was the choice to sit between Bai Liu and the driver or the shrieks of surprise when he had to get out of the car ......

What conspiracy did these two have that they needed to keep from themselves?

Regarding the conspiracy, based on what is known so far, Bai Liu speculates that Jeff paid the driver, who has a certain criminal history, to do something for him. This is unknown at this time, but Bai Liu thinks it's probably revenge against Andre.

On entering the town the driver had said that many people in this town hadn't had financial resources for a long time and told them to be careful.

Previously Bai Liu thought this was a reminder, but now it seems to be more of a smug and arrogant admonition from this driver, and a kind of zoning of his prey.

He's sending a warning to Jeff - away from his cooperation and protection, Jeff could easily be victimized by the other townspeople in this town.

Of course, the driver was a townsman in the town of Siren, and he was short of money, and it was certainly possible that he could have done something to rob Jeff's caravan because of that lack of money.

This driver probably didn't do a lot of taking people's money for people's trouble, it doesn't seem to be a good person, and obviously want money like crazy, when they entered the town of Siren, they were insinuating threats, it's no wonder that Jeff stayed up in the middle of the night to come down to get the money for this driver.

There's no telling what this driver will do if he doesn't get the money in time.

Bai Liu went back to his room before Jeff could see him and helped Jeff close the door to the room that had been opened.

Jeff hesitates for a moment as he passes through Andre's room and lowers himself. He put down a piece of black stuff, and Bai Liu looked through the cat's eye and saw that Jeff had put down something that looked like a big piece of fish.

Soon Bai Liu saw a bunch of white and gloomy wax figures of mermaids gathered in front of Andre's room.

A series of dull, cackling wax movements resounded through the corridor again.

For safety's sake, Bai Liu covered the cat's eye of his room with a white cloth to avoid mermaids' prying eyes, and put a cupboard against the door, hoping to make some noise to wake him up if a mermaid broke in.

His stamina value had already been emptied. After doing so, Bai Liu laid down on the bed and closed his eyes.

A dreamless night.

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The next day, Bai Liu woke up to find that the closet door and the door to his room were closed, but the bathroom door was about to open.

Bai Liu opened the bathroom and found that all the mermaid wax figures he had blindfolded and tied up had already broken free of the white cloth, and were moving towards the bathroom door in various twisted and strange postures. Some of the mermaid wax figures' hands had already reached the bathroom door handle, and were only one step away from turning away.

The poses of these mermaid wax figures remind Bai Liu of when he was playing with 123 Wooden Man and suddenly turned around to see the man behind him unable to control his expression and posture.

These eerie cold white wax figures in order to come out behind the door to chase the surge were inexplicably oozing.

The oppressive force of these human-like marble wax figures stacked like this is all the greater because of the high density of their eyes gazing at Bai Liu in a small space, which can be uncomfortable, or so normal people feel when they are being looked at by so many pairs of eyes of dead things.

Bai Liu closed the bathroom door, he didn't care about the wax figures anymore, and he didn't tie them up.

Because it doesn't make sense anymore.

These things were breaking free faster and faster, and if we couldn't find more weaknesses to control the thing, constant blindfold binding was a cost-effective way to do it, and maybe work on the ability of these wax figures to get out of their bindings quickly.

The moment Bai Liu opened the door to his room, a new alert popped up on the panel:

【Player Bai Liu completes the main quest - Stay in the house without being alienated overnight, rewarded with 20 points】.

[Current balance: 23 points, props can be purchased, is the player buying?]

Bai Liu opened the store store, he was so poor now that he could count the things he could purchase on one hand, Bai Liu bought a 15 points strong searchlight flashlight, there were still 8 points left - he pondered slightly.

...... I wonder if there are any of those 3D holographic projection instruments.

[Yes, one for 4 points, a promotion discount is being held, three for 8 points, will the player buy three?]

Bai Liu nodded without thinking: [Yes!

As a social animal who lacked money, two of the most unheard words in his life were definitely [Discount] and [Sale].

He bought it instead and naturally started playing with the 3D projector he got.

This kind of promotional discount projector quality is not bad, Bai Liu recorded into their own characters like, after the projection out of the effect is amazing, there is no sense of inferiority, color realistic, vivid characters, in the light of the darkness of the eye, almost almost like a real person.

Bai Liu is very happy with his purchase.

But his viewers are not happy about it, and it's a tradition in this game that once a certain newcomer gets their likes, attention, and airplay, they're going to demand a certain amount from that newcomer.

A group of people gathered around in front of the small TV pointing and sighing.

"This newcomer isn't trying to use the projector as a human eye to fool the mermaid wax statue, right? It's written in the Monster Book's weaknesses that it requires the human eye to look directly at it, so this projector can only fool the mermaid wax statue for a while, it won't last long."

"I can't believe I bought discounted projectors... this thing looks premium, but it's useless! Otherwise it wouldn't be a lagging item that no one would buy for one point a piece! What is this newcomer thinking!"

"...... Yes, this projector was on sale when I came in and it's still on sale now after all these years ......"

"Fuck, 23 points, clearly the highest points currently available in the Novice Zone, and it's all gone to waste, not a single useful thing has been bought! Are you out of your mind?!"

Suddenly, a player exclaimed in surprise in front of a small screen, "Come here! There's a newbie over here who bought a Flaming Torch! This thing grunts mermaids, he's solid!"

The crowd all of a sudden clamored away from Bai Liu's small TV screen and gathered around the novice who had supposedly bought the right props, many nodding approvingly.

"Yes, that's the regular level-breaking prop, this newbie idea is good."

"The Flaming Torch can be used three times, and with a good grasp, he should be the only one of the newcomers in this group to pass."

......

Bai Liu's small TV is again in front of only a few people.

[34 people are watching Bai Liu's small TV, 167 people left]

[50 people un-liked Bai Liu's TV, 44 people un-favored Bai Liu's TV, 17 people stepped on Bai Liu's TV, and no one has charged Bai Liu's TV].

......

After testing his props, Bai Liu left the room and went to Jeff's room to wake him up.

Jeff had obviously slept badly last night, his face was a little pale, and there were two large dark circles under his round-framed glasses.

And the number of mermaid wax figures in Jeff's room - Bai Liu eyeballed it - was about the same as in his own room.

But unlike Bai Liu's wax figures that he had made to close up, these wax figures were quietly placed in their original places, and I don't know whether it was Bai Liu's illusion or not, but he felt that the wax figures in Jeff's room looked obviously a bit more realistic than the ones in his room, and their faces had become a bit subtly similar to those of Jeff... ...

The mermaid wax figure had a layer of translucent redness under its white waxy case, its eyes seemed to move in their sockets at any moment, and its expression was cozy and natural, as if it were a fish that had absorbed enough water, and the scales on its tail were stretched out.

The room also began to smell vaguely fishy.

Bai Liu went to Lucy and Andre's room to observe them, and after careful comparison, he found that the mermaid wax figures in these rooms were indeed much closer to human skin color than the ones in his own room, both in terms of touch and color, and both began to resemble the facial features of the people who lived in the rooms.