Under Qin Ge's gaze, Su Bai recounted what they had experienced at the Lorimas Grand Hotel. He told him about the mermaid named Lorimas, who should have lived forever, yet had willingly become a test subject for the Elixir of Immortality out of love for a human. In the end, clinging to the hope of reuniting with her lover, she had willingly let humans carve away pieces of her flesh. Su Bai described how Lorimas, once blessed with a perfect life and appearance, had been imprisoned in a damp laboratory, her entire body filthy and covered in scabs where her flesh had been cut away. Her hair, once as golden as sunlight, had turned pale and dry, and her beauty had withered completely.
Su Bai then described the human players who had taken over the Lorimas Grand Hotel. They had used Lorimas's flesh and blood to make an unfinished version of the Elixir of Immortality, then injected it into the other players imprisoned in the hotel, turning them into half-human, half-fish "monsters" covered in scales.
"Something like that actually happened?" Qin Ge looked shocked.
"So, Mr. Qin, you should understand how I feel." Su Bai stood and walked over to the floor-to-ceiling window, narrowing his eyes as he gazed out at Qingliu City's nightscape. "When I learned that the monsters appearing in Qingliu City were covered in scales, I began to wonder whether 'Poison Grass'... the force that caused the mutations, might have something to do with merfolk flesh and blood. In fact, after we cleared the game at the Lorimas Grand Hotel, Lorimas turned to foam and died, but the half-human, half-fish creatures imprisoned in the hotel under her control didn't die with her. They regained their freedom and left the hotel."
"Those half-human, half-fish creatures hadn't lost their