Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1284 1256. Chase

"This is the most dangerous and deepest nightmare."

Simon said to Lan, who was half sitting on the tombstone.

"The answer found in this nightmare must be extremely important. That's why I came here and immersed myself in running around here."

"You can't even remember how many times you have been regressed by this nightmare." Lan En sighed, "How far have you found out about this nightmare?"

Simon shook his head and whispered in frustration: "To be honest, I still don't know clearly."

The whole alley was dead from gray blood disease.

The gloomy sunshine outside did not shine in, and only a gloomy wind blew from time to time, blowing the weeds growing in the cracks of the bricks on the alley floor, carrying the unique bloody smell of gray blood patients.

"I only know that this nightmare lasted from yesterday until the hunting night that burned down the entire old Yharnam."

"During this period, many sudden and violent changes must have occurred."

"But I have said it hundreds of times, and I have never been able to get to the core of the incident and observe what happened. And"

As he said this, Simon smiled to himself.

"I rarely survive until conflicts and accidents break out."

Lan En looked up, a little surprised: "What do you mean?"

Every sober hunter is aware of the rewinding of time and can continuously accumulate experience.

Even among the Yharnam hunters, few have the experience of fighting to the death as many times as they did.

Therefore, their level is completely higher than the general level of hunters.

Hunters like Henryk, who even Irene had to go back several times to have a chance to capture, were the outliers among the outliers.

Although Old Yanan is currently suffering from the gray blood disease plague, the situation is not chaotic. How could Simon remain in such a peaceful situation and not even survive until trouble arose?

"This nightmare is dangerous, Lan."

Simon did not directly answer the other party's question, but simply repeated his original words meaningfully.

"Secrets in nightmares. Secrets always have a reason to be secrets, and there are always people who don't want the secrets to be revealed. Especially those secrets that are particularly shady."

Someone is hunting him in this nightmare.

Lan En understood what he meant immediately.

With warning and reminder, Simon said to Lan En: "The closer I get to the secret, the more dangerous it is. He can always find me, no matter where I am. I don't know how he does it, but every time Before he showed up, I would hear a ringing sound."

If Lan En also wants to explore the secret of this nightmare, there is no doubt that he will have the same experience as himself.

"ringing bell"

The demon hunter frowned and couldn't figure it out. He could only first conclude that this was some kind of Yharnam's technological product, which could target those who wanted to explore a certain secret.

"It is because exploring secrets can be dangerous, and the hidden knowledge itself is dangerous enough, that I wear these things."

Simon said with a self-deprecating smile as he pulled the bandage on his head that was so dirty that it turned yellow and black.

"I suggest you prepare yourself. When you feel something is wrong, close your eyes immediately. Don't listen to anything or look at anything."

Because that knowledge is inherently dangerous, it should be treated with caution.

But if you don’t look at that knowledge, how can you solve the mystery?

Yanan, the irrationality, contradiction, and danger reflected in the current disaster in this city have been fully exposed.

The hunter's actions here are like acrobatics on a tightrope.

If you are not careful, the originally precious sobriety will turn into irreparable corruption and fall into madness.

But Lan En is not too worried about this.

The [Song Gland] in his brain has already demonstrated resistance to mental oppression and distortion in the world of fire.

At that time, Lan En's heart and spirit were infected by the power of darkness just because he saw the inner essence of [Netherworld Saint] Eldridge.

In the process, he showed extraordinary endurance, until he finally killed Eldridge and completed the purification of his body and mind.

Moreover, Mentos had already developed ways to deal with the scene of spiritual pollution as early as when he dealt with Dagon.

The biochemical brain will intelligently filter images to ensure that those things that will cause pollution are filtered out in Lan En's eyes.

With double insurance, the witcher felt that he had a much better chance of winning than these Yharnam hunters who fought hard with their lives.

"Nightmare."

Lan En's fingers lightly tapped the tombstone half sitting under his butt. The feeling of the touch, as well as the people he saw on the road, young Henrik and Mark.

Can the dream created by the ancient gods really be called an 'illusory dream'?

But then, Lan En shook his head.

"Is there any news we can communicate?"

The witcher asked Simon cautiously.

Because this information may attract unknown enemies, or the information itself is dangerous, Lan En confirmed it with the other party.

"I can't say too much." Simon said lightly as if he was weak, "I only know now that the Healing Church is organizing a large-scale hunting event, and they have summoned many old hunters. There may also be Baron Weiss among them. 's shadow."

"It's best if we don't investigate in one direction, so that the clues collected will be more extensive. Maybe in the end we can piece together the whole picture."

Lan En nodded, indicating his understanding of this statement.

Amid the sound of ‘Ka La La’, Lan En stood up.

“Be careful, Simon.” He looked down at the hunter who looked embarrassed, “Don’t die too early, otherwise if you can escape from the nightmare this time, you will not be able to catch up.”

“It’s better to stop bragging.” Simon chuckled softly.

“I don’t know how powerful you are, but I said, this is the most dangerous and deepest nightmare in Yharnam, you will die dozens of times anyway. Do you want to say that you have never died before?”

“You haven’t even seen [Blue Spirit Medicine]? I don’t think you are an old hunter I haven’t seen, but a novice who was recently dragged into the nightmare.”

As he said, Simon took out a bottle of [Blue Spirit Medicine] from his backpack and threw it to Lan En.

It seems that this is the method that even Lan En felt difficult to detect when he was standing still just now.

"I really haven't died once." Lan En waved his hands, took the glass bottle thrown from mid-air without looking back, and walked out of the alley.

"I haven't undergone [blood therapy], and I don't have holy blood in my body, so if I die once, I'm really dead, and I'm still standing in front of you now, right?"

Lan En put on the hood of his cloak again and walked out of the alley.

But Simon, who was deep in the alley, suddenly widened his eyes and looked at the tall back in astonishment.

Wait, he said he didn't undergo [blood therapy]?

In other words, he broke into such a deep nightmare and didn't even get hurt? !

No, no, no, the point is not here.

Simon just wondered if he had heard it wrong.

——Why can a person without holy blood in his body enter this nightmare?

He was about to rush over and grab Lan En to ask clearly.

But at this moment, "Dinglingling~"

A crisp and distant ringing sound rang in Simon's ears.

Lan En, who had just walked to the entrance of the alley and turned out, seemed to be unaware of it.

It seemed that the ringing sound was completely out of his hearing range.

Simon knew that this was because he didn't know anything yet.

Only those who wanted to explore the secret and had already gained something could hear the ringing sound.

The steps that were about to go out to chase people suddenly stopped.

Simon first looked at the entrance of the alley, then lowered his head and shook his head silently.

In the alley, a door that was smashed open by the mentally retarded giant had a faint red light coming out.

The embarrassed hunter took out another bottle of [Blue Spirit Medicine] from his bag and drank it up.

While drinking, he also walked quickly out of the alley, but after leaving the alley, he turned in another direction completely opposite to Lan En.

Two or three seconds later, a soul body with a red glow walked out of the house that had died of gray blood disease.

This soul body looked similar to the soul body that attacked Lan En in the world of fire, both of which were translucent and emitted hostile red light.

This was a male hunter wearing a suit lining, a suit vest, and suit pants, holding a one-handed leaf hammer that seemed to be made of many jagged and messy blades.

But the suit coat that was supposed to match it was gone.

Instead, there was a piece of skin that seemed to be directly stripped from the head of a deer, connected to the neck and back, and the fur was wet and bleeding.

Covering the area behind him from the top of his head to his waist.

There were twisted, asymmetrical and winding antlers on the rough fur, just on his head.

He was holding a rattle in one hand, and there was no bell in the rattle at all, but he shook it casually, and then as if he had determined the direction, he walked out of the alley with the hideous one-handed hammer.

——

After walking out of the alley, Lan En was walking while sorting out his thoughts with Mentos in his mind.

The current Old Yharnam is a nightmare from the past. After clarifying this, he could temporarily suppress many of his concerns about the power of time.

But this did not make the situation much better.

Dreams are not a place that can be cracked by brute force, or in other words, even if brute force is to be used, one must rationally and clearly understand how and where to use it.

The key to dreams often lies in those hidden secrets.

According to Simon, the hunting night in Old Yharnam that burned the entire city is not far away.

And his main investigation direction is the gathering of hunters by the Healing Church during this period.

And Lan En felt

"I really have a fight with the plague."

The demon hunter curled his lips in the shadow under the hood.

Then, on the topographic map constructed along the way, Mentos marked many medical treatment hospitals established by the Healing Church to treat severe patients with gray blood disease.