Horror Game

Volume 1 Central Hall-Chapter 4: Siren Town

The system sent Chu Qiu the first task, but Chu Qiu's focus was not on the task. He looked at the words' avoid hatching 'and fell into contemplation.

... hatching?

Tsk, can those wax figures hatch them?

Chu Qiu silently noted down that as soon as he turned around, he saw a mermaid wax figure standing across from the bed.

This is the largest mermaid wax figure in the house that Chu Qiu saw.

This mermaid wax figure is magnificent, holding a smooth mirror that is one person tall in its hands. The frame of the mirror is also embedded in wax, and the beautiful hands of the mermaid wax figure are the brackets that support this dressing mirror.

This is also the only mermaid wax figure in the room that did not look at Chu Qiu.

It looked at the mirror with a smile on its face, and Chu Qiu was reflected in the mirror. It wrapped its hands around the mirror, as if embracing Chu Qiu in this mirror, which made Chu Qiu feel a little uncomfortable.

The gaze of the mermaid wax figure fell on the mirror, with furrowed brows and drooping corners of the eyes. The fish tail lay weakly on the ground, with a realistic and cheerful expression, as if welcoming the arrival of the person in the mirror.

Chu Qiu looked in the mirror, and the "self" inside looked at Chu Qiu outside the mirror, revealing a wax like gloomy smile.

Chu Qiu remained unmoved and covered the mirror with a white cloth.

This level of horror imagery is ineffective for Chu Qiu. He is a horror gamer in the real world and often stays up late until two or three o'clock to come up with various horror scenes. This kind of conventional horror scene where the person in the mirror is smiling at you has made Chu Qiu almost numb and will not feel anything.

It seems that the tourists who disappeared silently in the hotel and never found their bodies, as mentioned by Jelf before, were probably hatched by these mermaid wax figures.

Although Chu Qiu doesn't understand exactly what incubation is, it won't be a good thing anyway.

To be conservative and cautious, Chu Qiu covered all the mermaid wax figures with white sheets from the hotel room, including the huge mirror, to block the eerie and ubiquitous view. Although not necessarily useful, it's better than nothing.

The most important thing is that with so many mermaid wax figures looking at Chu Qiu, she couldn't sleep either.

When he was covering the mirror, he touched the tail of the mermaid wax figure, and the touch on the tail was not the smooth and silky white wax touch, but the sticky and slippery feeling like a sea fish.

Chu Qiu even felt the scales on the fish tail of his wax figure gently open and close.

Chu Qiu paused for a moment. After touching the wax figure, he sniffed his fingers and smelled a strong fishy smell. However, when Chu Qiu approached the mermaid wax figure to smell it, he did not smell any fishy smell, only the fragrance of the hotel room.

Maybe it's the smell brought down from the car

... It is more likely that Chu Qiu himself emitted that fishy smell. Thinking of the mermaid wax figure that can hatch tourists, Chu Qiu frowned and felt a bit uncomfortable.

What can be hatched from a mermaid wax figure?

Most likely it's some disgusting looking fish or the like.

The word 'hatching' reminded Chu Qiu of a movie called 'The Mermaid in the Sewer'. He had watched it two or three times for inspiration, and from then on, he had no more romantic fantasies about mermaids.

After rushing for the car for half a night, Chu Qiu was already tired. He simply washed himself and then lay down in bed, falling deeply asleep. His stamina has been reset to zero, and he urgently needs to sleep and replenish his stamina at a relatively safe time.

At midnight, Chu Qiu was awakened by a strange and dull dragging sound.

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

Some of these wax figures were covered by white cloth, revealing only one eye, and their expressions seemed to have changed slightly, from carrying divine compassion to unwillingness and resentment. They stared at Chu Qiu motionless, as if blaming him for covering them with white cloth.

Chu Qiu noticed that these wax figures seemed to be closer to him than before he went to bed, like a group of people gathering at the dining table, slowly gathering around his bed with their hands raised.

Especially the mermaid figure holding a huge mirror, Chu Qiu woke up in a daze and saw that her feet were almost touching the mirror.

The huge mirror facing the bed has already moved to the bed.

As soon as Chu Qiu sat up, she saw herself reflected in the mirror.

In the mirror, Chu Qiu's skin was as pale as rocks, and there were no black eyeballs in his eyes. Around his eyes were spider like patterns of marble. He smiled stiffly at Chu Qiu outside the mirror, but in a blink of an eye, he became a normal mirror image again, as if it had just been Chu Qiu's illusion.

Chu Qiujing quieted down, stood up from the bed, and calmly tied up these mermaid wax figures with white cloth.

In order to prevent these mermaid wax figures from breaking free, Chu Qiu also used hemp ropes to tie them tightly twice, then wrapped the smaller mermaid wax figures in white cloth and threw them into the wardrobe to lock them, while the larger wax figures pushed into the bathroom and locked them back, acting decisively and agilely like a skilled kidnapper.

These things seem to be subject to certain movement restrictions. Before Chu Qiu fell asleep, these things could not move, and even after Chu Qiu fell asleep, they seemed to need to break free from Bai Bu to see Chu Qiu before moving towards him.

Some small mermaid wax figures covered in white cloth that were not removed were wandering around in the white cloth, not gathering towards the bed, but scattering and escaping in all directions.

After understanding this rule, Chu Qiu decisively increased the restriction to its maximum.

Just as he finished these tasks and clapped his hands to prepare for sleep, Chu Qiu heard the sound of a glottal opening and closing next door, as well as a flurry of tiptoeing footsteps.

Chu Qiugang couldn't help but lay on the bed. The four rooms he booked are all adjacent, with Andrei and Jelf living in the adjacent rooms on both sides.

The sound of the door opening and closing came from the left, which was Jelf's room. Chu Qiu got up from the bed, leaned against the door, and looked towards the corridor through the cat's eye.

I saw Jelf standing in the hallway, looking left and right. After confirming that there was no one in the hallway, he sneaked down the hotel stairs.

Chu Qiu furrowed his brows. What was Jelf up to, staying up late like this?

Just as he was about to open the door and follow to take a look, he noticed that the doorknob of the room that Jelf had originally closed was slowly turning again, as if someone else was about to follow Jelf out of his room.

Each hotel room is for one person only.

Jelf was the only person in his room. Lucy couldn't have gone to Jelf's room in the middle of the night. Andre had a bad relationship with Jelf, so he couldn't have gone to see Jelf in the middle of the night. Chu Qiu was in his own room.

Who is the person who came out from Jelf's room?

Chu Qiu's heart skipped a beat. He suddenly realized something and slightly moved his face away from the cat's eye.

It wasn't a human being who came out of Jelf's room!

The door handle of Jelf's room creaked, and the door slowly opened from the inside. Chu Qiu heard the same dull dragging sound he had heard in his half-dreaming state, as if something was being dragged along the ground on its knees.

But this time, Chu Qiu knew how the sound was produced.

A waxwork of a mermaid, towering in height, emerged from Jelf's room. Its face was rigid and expressionless, appearing lifeless due to the absence of eyeballs, which made its eyes appear completely white. Its tail was dragging on the ground, scraping along the deserted corridor in the dead of night.

Its snow-white tail drags along the sturdy yet old red carpet of the hotel, leaving a greasy wax mark on the carpet. It keeps moving towards the stairs without moving its body at all, reminding Chu Qiu of the stiff zombies that can only move by hopping.

... This thing can actually run out of the room by itself and even open the door

When the mermaid waxwork, which had been dragged out of Jelf's room, reached the staircase, it seemed to detect something. The head on its shoulder suddenly stiffly twisted 180 degrees and turned directly to the back.

The candle on its face was slowly melting, revealing a light that resembled a fleshy texture.

Subsequently, it altered its direction of travel and headed towards Chu Qiu's room with a blank expression.

After making sure the door was locked, Chu Qiu took two steps back, pressed his back against the door, and held his breath. He wanted to know what this thing was up to.

Chu Qiu quickly noticed with the corner of his eye that the peephole on the door had turned white and was still spinning.

This thing is peering at the person inside the door with its eyes, and the thing that keeps rotating is the white eyeball of the waxwork.

This thing is searching for people in the room through the peephole.

The eyes of this mermaid waxwork can actually see the person inside through the one-way peephole.

The white pupils of the cat's eyes were still moving ceaselessly. Chu Qiu held his breath and slowly moved to the side, extending his foot to grab the white cloth on the ground, preparing to use it to conceal himself.

The thrilling scene was projected onto the small TV screen, and everyone waiting in front of Chu Qiu's small TV held their breath and stared intently, so nervous that they were almost biting their fingernails.

"F*ck, f*ck, f*ck, this is so terrifying. If I were in the game, my mental health points would definitely drop..."

"Hold on! Hold on! The mortality rate for newcomers in this place is extremely high!"

"The monsters in Siren Town are really disgusting. It's hard for newcomers to stay calm and find the weaknesses of these things when they first enter..."

The new players around Chu Qiu on the screen had also reached the point where the mermaid waxworks were blocking the door. Some players were playing faster, and the mermaid waxworks outside the door were banging against the door.

One of the players was sobbing, clutching his ears and crouching beside the shaking door, with a wooden stick trembling in his hand, seemingly ready to attack.

The mermaid waxwork knocked on the door, and he cried out in a loud scream, but no one came to rescue him. After the door of this player's room swayed twice, it stopped, and the mermaid waxwork outside seemed to have left.

The weeping player wiped away his tears, heaved a sigh of relief as if he had escaped from a disaster, and stood up with his hands and feet trembling, leaning on the door for support.

What he didn't notice was that the peephole on the door was still white, and a pure white stone eye was quietly staring at the people inside the house through the peephole.

The mermaid waxwork never actually left; it was just pretending to.

Seeing the player stand up, the waxwork's face revealed a strange and stiff smile, as if it had found its prey and was smiling contentedly.

The door was slammed twice again and easily broken open. The player who hadn't reacted yet was trapped under the door, screaming in agony.

The mermaid waxwork, with its fish tail, entered the room. The smile on its face exuded a strange purity and an odd ferocity. It opened its hands and slowly reached out to the player who was pinned under the door.

The instant the player was touched by the mermaid waxwork, it felt as if something had enveloped their entire body. Their eyes rolled up, their limbs slowly curled, and their legs twitched and swayed on the ground, resembling a fish desperately struggling after being doused with boiling water. Their skin instantly turned stiff and pale.

The wax on the mermaid's body melted quickly as if it had encountered hot water, covering the stiff player on the ground.

The player's eyes were surrounded by the grayish-black marble-like patterns seen in Chu Qiu's mirror, and their eyeballs had disappeared, leaving only the whites of their eyes covered in patterns. The corners of their mouths were stiffly turned up.

He was encased in melted wax, transforming into a mermaid wax statue.

【Player Yi Zhong's mental value is reset to 0, and he is completely alienated by the monster mermaid waxwork, resulting in a failed game completion】

[Player Liu Xiaohong's spirit points are cleared to 0, due to the mermaid waxwork... Game completion failed]

"Player Zou Mingri... Game clearance failed."

The small TVs of the players who failed the level went out with a "sizzle", and the people standing around them sighed.

"Oh, I knew it. It's probably going to be hard to clear this level again. 'Siren Town' is just too difficult..."

It was only the first night, and the monster had only made a single appearance, yet already almost a fifth of the small TVs on the entire TV wall in the [Newcomer Area] had gone dark.

The TV screens above and below Chu Qiu, as well as to his left and right, all went dark, leaving him alone in a sea of black screens, calmly gazing out the door.