Liam White understood the meaning of that sentence upon entering the game—[Points can be used to purchase anything you desire].

Liam White closed the shop and stared at the unmoving mermaid statue in front of him.

Right now, this thing really wasn’t moving, but Liam White couldn’t possibly stay up all night confronting it, and after this incident, Liam White had a new understanding of its destructive power.

He looked at the stainless steel doorknob that was about to fall off his door.

But judging from the behavior of those statues in his room earlier, although this thing had tremendous destructive power, it seemed to rely only on sight to locate targets, or rather, it was only sensitive to visual cues. Once covered by a white cloth, it couldn’t find Liam White’s position anymore, even if they were in the same room.

In other words, the mermaid statue seemed to lack senses like hearing and smell.

Otherwise, with so many mermaid statues in the same room as Liam White, even just listening to Liam White’s breathing would make it easy to locate him and twist his head off like a doorknob. There’d be no need to struggle to tear off the white cloth to find him. With the ability to twist off a doorknob barehanded, it wouldn’t still be trapped in the bathroom closet.

...What a hassle, and there are so many of them. Keeping them around is really a burden.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, a hint of malice stirring in his heart—right now, there was a statue in front of him, completely motionless and at his mercy. Could he experiment on it, test its weaknesses, like burning it with fire or smashing it with a stick to see if he could destroy it...?

[Hint: If the player directly attacks this monster and the monster does not die, the monster’s aggro will remain on the player for a long time, and it will keep attacking the player, reducing the player’s survival rate.]

Liam White thoughtfully stroked his chin. He smiled, a harmless little dimple appearing on the right side of his face.

“Attacking it directly will make it hold a grudge and seek revenge on me, huh...” Liam White muttered to himself. “But if something happens to it on its own, it can’t blame me.”

Liam White repeated his earlier trick, wrapping the mermaid statue in a bedsheet and tying up the open end with a rope. Then, with ill intent, he placed the mermaid statue at the hotel stairwell entrance.

When the mermaid statue couldn’t see, it would wander around blindly. Liam White put it here so the statue would fall down the stairs on its own.

With the aggro mechanic, Liam White wouldn’t actively smash these statues. If he could destroy them directly, that would be fine, but if he couldn’t, it would obviously cause trouble for himself.

But with so many mermaid statues, it was a significant hidden danger. Liam White only had one pair of eyes. If it was like a game of Red Light, Green Light, and he was surrounded 360 degrees by statues, while a human’s field of vision is at most 188 degrees, Liam White couldn’t grow eyes on the back of his head to see all the mermaid statues. In that case, he’d be doomed.

Liam White preferred to do things with higher cost-effectiveness. Although the game said escaping from monsters by exploiting their weaknesses was enough, he wanted to know if there was a way to destroy these statues directly, or if they had any other fatal weaknesses.

He wouldn’t be the one to actively smash or strike the mermaid statues—the risk was too great, and he couldn’t afford it.

But if the mermaid statue fell down the stairs because of its own poor vision, that had nothing to do with him.

Liam White just wanted to run a small experiment to see if this thing could be smashed. He retreated back into his room, and sure enough, the mermaid statue started moving not long after. Liam White mused that he was still watching the statue, but since its head was covered with a white cloth, it didn’t know Liam White was looking at it, so it started moving on its own.

This proved that [direct eye contact] was just an objective condition. The mermaid statue had to subjectively feel that it was being watched in order to stop moving.

With so many statues in Liam White’s room, he couldn’t watch them all at once. Earlier, when Liam White woke up and hadn’t had a chance to look around, they had already stopped moving on their own.

So, as long as the mermaid statue [feels] it’s being watched, it will stop moving.

To be self-aware at this level, these things really were living creatures, and even had a certain degree of intelligence, though it didn’t seem very high.

The mermaid statue at the stairwell struggled a few times, then slid off the edge of the stairs, tumbling down with the white cloth still covering it, making a huge crash and sending up a cloud of dust. Liam White stood at the top of the stairs, looking down from above, patted the dust off his hands, and clicked his tongue in slight disappointment as he looked at the mermaid statue below, which was completely unscathed except for curling up a bit—there wasn’t even a crack in the marble.

...Sure enough, it can’t be broken by falling... physical attacks are useless...

Liam White didn’t know that his villainous behavior on the little TV had left all the other players dumbfounded.

“Damn, is this guy really a newbie?! Covering its head with a bedsheet and throwing the mermaid statue down the stairs... What kind of villain behavior is this... Was this newbie a kidnapper before he came in?! Or a terrorist?”

“I was just worried and scared for him, but now I’m starting to feel sorry for the mermaid statue knocking on the door. It’s even got its tail sticking up after the fall, so pitiful...”