Free Web Novel“Holy crap!” Wang Shun couldn’t help blurting out a curse. “I haven’t even finished collecting information on the God-level NPC yet. Don’t go killing yourself!”
“If you touch those wax figures, you’ll be alienated—mutated. Once you’re alienated, your mental value drops. Once your mental value drops, you’ll become delirious before long. At that point, you won’t be able to tell what’s real from what’s fake, and you’ll be dead in no time!”
Wang Shun’s agitated voice drew over several player-spectators.
The players whose Small TVs ended up in the [Death Comedy] zone were generally one of two types: those who deliberately played in reckless, provocative ways to attract attention, and those who genuinely didn’t want to die but were so terrible at the game that they managed to “court death” every step of the way.
Naturally, the audience wandering around this section enjoyed watching players find creative ways to get themselves killed.
But when the spectators drawn over by Wang Shun looked up and saw Bai Liu reaching out to touch the mermaid wax figure, they still let out a faintly surprised, “Whoa.” freewёbn૦νeɭ.com
“I’ve seen a lot,” one spectator said, feeling as though his horizons had just been broadened, “but this is my first time seeing someone seek death like this. He’s going out of his way to touch a monster. What is he trying to do?”
Wang Shun was speechless too. Turning to the spectators, he pointed at Bai Liu on the screen, who was currently touching the mermaid wax figure with infuriating calm.
“I followed him all the way from the Central Screen. This player earns points ridiculously fast. He got close to a hundred almost instantly. And do you know what he spent them on?”
“Almost a hundred points?” The spectator was shocked. He glanced at the time record on the Small TV. “It’s only the second day of the game, and he already had almost a hundred points? That’s excellent performance. How did he end up in [Death Comedy]?”
Before the spectator could finish, Bai Liu had already leaned so close that his face was almost pressed against the mermaid wax figure’s. He even raised his fingers and began tracing the patterns on its body.
The spectator’s expression cracked.
He didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
“With that kind of playstyle, never mind. It makes perfect sense that he got sent here... So what did he buy? In Siren Town, a hundred points can get you plenty of useful items. A Flaming Torch and Underwater Bubbles together cost about that much. Those are the optimal items for clearing the game.”
“No,” Wang Shun said gloomily. “He bought neither.”
“He bought nine barrels of high-concentration alcohol.”
“No way?!” The spectator stared at the Small TV in disbelief, dumbfounded. “Nine barrels of alcohol?! Has anyone ever even bought that stuff before?”
Wang Shun nodded.
“Judging by common sense, the flame and light produced by burning alcohol are too weak. It shouldn’t be useful against either the mermaid wax figures or the mermaid sailors...”
As he spoke, Wang Shun leaned closer to the Small TV, his expression turning strange.
“Wait. What’s going on? He’s been touching it for so long. Why hasn’t he started being alienated?”
The other spectators frowned and leaned in as well.
“It’s been five minutes... By now, he should’ve been completely alienated by the mermaid wax figure. His mental value should have dropped to zero.”
On the screen, Bai Liu calmly continued touching the mermaid wax figures craning their necks up toward him.
His expression was casual, almost leisurely, as though he were not a player touching monsters but a sculptor examining a piece of art.
There was no trace of fear on his face.
He even murmured to himself, as though speaking to the wax figure.
“As expected, your face didn’t change into mine.”
“When the mermaid wax figures tried to attack and incubate me before, their faces shifted to resemble mine. But your face hasn’t changed at all. You’re still in the cocoon form of a mermaid wax figure.”
“You can’t alienate me through touch because you already—”
Bai Liu smiled.
“—already have someone else’s face.”
“You’re the sailors’ amulets. Their cocoons.”
“It’s impossible for you to incubate me again.”
The mermaid wax figure beneath Bai Liu’s hand had the exact same face as one of the sailors he had just seen on deck.
Looking closer, Bai Liu discovered that the paint on these wax figures was peeling.
Their material was brittle and thin, completely different from the wax figures he had seen elsewhere. Under the beam of his flashlight, they looked like hollow shells, thin enough for light to pass through, as though a single poke would shatter them.
They resembled the husks left behind after butterflies emerged from their pupae.
These wax figures were far closer to the “amulet” mermaid wax figure at the hotel front desk—the one that looked exactly like the receptionist.
In the Monster Book, those amulet-type mermaid wax figures were also described as being in the [Cocoon State].
If Bai Liu’s guess was correct, then the mermaid wax figures in this cargo hold were all amulets belonging to the sailors aboard the ship.
They were their [Cocoons].
And cocoons did not possess the ability to attack.
A mermaid wax figure transforming from [Pupa] into [Cocoon] meant the creature inside had already become a butterfly and emerged, leaving behind only an empty shell.
The sailors wandering the ship were the monsters that had once been trapped inside these wax figures.
[“Siren Town Monster Book” Updated — Mermaid Sailor (3/4)]
[Monster Name: Mermaid Sailor (Butterfly State)]
[Weakness: ??? (To be explored)]
[Attack Method: ??? (To be explored)]
Wang Shun and the spectator in front of the Small TV both froze.
Leaning toward the screen, Wang Shun stared at the newly updated Monster Book page in disbelief.
“...I’ve watched Siren Town clearance videos so many times, and I never realized these were monsters you didn’t need to hide from.”
“Even God Mu, the current record-holder for highest points in this dungeon, never discovered that these were cocoons instead of pupae.”
“Normally, aren’t players supposed to get chased up by these amulets, trigger a pursuit sequence with the mermaid sailors, and only then unlock this Monster Book page after encountering the sailors?”
“How did Bai Liu know the wax figures below didn’t need to be avoided?”
“And why did he unlock the third page of the Monster Book so casually?”
The spectator was completely dumbfounded too.
“Damn! Is he trying to collect the entire Siren Town Monster Book before clearing the game? That’s way too cool. The last person to complete the Siren Town Monster Book was God Mu, right?”
“Impossible!” Wang Shun snapped back to his senses and immediately rejected the idea.
He pushed up his glasses. When he looked at Bai Liu now, his gaze finally carried a hint of admiration—along with regret.
Wang Shun sighed and shook his head.
“His luck isn’t good enough.”
“The second page of the Monster Book he unlocked was a roaming NPC.”
“The Siren King has no weakness. To complete the Siren King’s Monster Book page, the player has to explore its attack method. And to explore its attack method, the player must wake the Siren King and have it attack.”
“But once that God-level NPC attacks, the player is guaranteed to die.”
“What?!” The spectator suddenly shouted. His gaze toward Bai Liu instantly filled with reverence. “He even triggered a God-level roaming NPC?!”
“This is the first time I’ve ever seen a player still alive after a God-level roaming NPC appeared in their game. Normally, anyone who triggers one does everything possible to exit the game immediately. But this guy is actually still playing?”
“Isn’t he panicking?”
“Ignorance is bliss, I suppose,” Wang Shun said with a laugh. “He’s a newcomer.”
The loud, excited conversation between the two soon attracted many wandering spectators.
News spread quickly: Bai Liu had triggered a God-level roaming NPC and unlocked three pages of the Monster Book on the very first day.
A crowd began gathering around his Small TV.
The audience in the Death Comedy zone especially loved players like Bai Liu—players who took bizarre, unorthodox paths.
“He really knows how to play!”
“Not bad, not bad. I love this kind of guy—crazily courting death but somehow refusing to die.”
“Don’t be scared! Just do it! Go! Bai... what was his name again? Let me check...”
...
[205 new users liked Bai Liu’s Small TV.]
[200 new users bookmarked Bai Liu’s Small TV.]
[35 users rewarded Bai Liu’s Small TV.]
[Player Bai Liu has gained 35 points.]
[297 users are currently watching Player Bai Liu’s Small TV.]
[Congratulations to Player Bai Liu for becoming highly popular in the Death Comedy zone and obtaining the title “Death Comedian”~]
[Please continue amusing the audience with your humorous gameplay as they watch you die~]
...
After discovering that the sailors were the true monsters, Bai Liu stopped climbing back up.
If he wasn’t mistaken, the warehouse door that had lured him down [N O V E L I G H T] here in the first place was probably already being guarded by sailors.
The moment he went back up, he would alert the sailors who had discovered his intrusion, triggering an exciting chase sequence across the deck.
And if a player didn’t know that the wax figures in the lowest hold were harmless, they would likely panic and flee blindly, only to be ambushed from both sides.
That would create a proper life-or-death situation. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
“A game design completely lacking aesthetic sense,” Bai Liu thought, somewhat bored.
Because the solution to this chase sequence was painfully obvious:
jump into the sea.
Unfortunately, he didn’t like going into the water.
