Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1315 1287. Mouthparts Eyeballs

When Lan En and Maria separated from Henrik, they didn't spend too much time.

They just stopped by the research center to take a look.

Because both Maria and Lan En knew that hope no longer existed.

Gray blood disease was originally a difficult plague. The healing church research hall, which Maria originally thought was the "way of salvation", also showed its truest color under Lan En's exposure.

The research hall was not to study how to defeat the plague, but to gain more profound knowledge through this strange plague pathology.

They wanted the patients to be more infected and mutated more, so as to show more complex disease manifestations as a basis for research.

The treatment of gray blood disease has made no progress at all under this research purpose.

Maria insisted on taking another look. In fact, she just wanted to give up.

It is precisely because this process does not take too much time that Lan En went with her.

This female hunter from the blood noble family, her current mental state seems to Lan En to be not right.

After witnessing the truth of the research hall and the transformation of the hunter, she returned to Yharnam and saw the spreading sea of ​​fire.

Maria now often loses her mind when facing the burning buildings on the road, and her hands, which should be steady and accurate, tremble uncontrollably.

She would only break free if Lan En intervened every time.

In this mental state, Lan En would not find it strange if she committed suicide.

After all, what she witnessed today undoubtedly destroyed many things she believed in before.

But Lan En did not want such a cool and capable female hunter with a good heart to disappear in the burning old Yharnam.

On the one hand, Maria is indeed a powerful hunter with skilled skills and strong blood. Lan En's next goal will require such a powerful helper.

On the other hand, in Yharnam, Lan En rarely sees a hunter who can care for others out of his heart.

The trust of those patients in Maria is precious.

Therefore, the demon hunter was willing to take extra time to accompany Maria to the research hall when time was running out.

And now it seems that Lan's decision was very correct.

"Are you still clear? What have you become now?"

The boots with bone-white dragon scales were swimming in the sticky blood pool.

There was a bloody "swishing" sound, and the sound of the armor plates colliding slightly with each other.

Lan's body was already stained with a lot of blood.

The smelly and sticky blood was dripping from the edge of the skirt armor made of Smaug dragon skin.

The demon hunter walked cautiously and asked questions to the "thing" blocking the road to the church town.

He could vaguely see that the "thing" might have been Ludwig, who was proudly called [the first hunter of the church] by the people of Yharnam not long ago.

But now

"Hu~"

Ludwig was in a daze and did not feel that he opened his mouth to breathe, but a stinking airflow did blow past his right side face, which was still twitching involuntarily, with a very close breathing sound.

This person in front of him. What on earth is he talking about?

Ludwig's confused head still did not react.

He even used his left eye, which he could still control, to turn it to his right side.

And the only movement he could do was to "roll his eyeballs". His neck was out of control.

But Lan En, who was standing opposite, could see it clearly.

The hunter in front of him, who was once praised as a hero, had a distorted body at this time.

Just like all beast patients when they are sick.

His limbs began to become thin and elongated by the beast disease.

The originally fitting and neat clothes became wide but short under this change, and basically hung on his body empty.

But it was different from ordinary beast patients.

In addition to the basic changes in his body shape, Ludwig's right neck

"Hu~"

Another deep breath was blown out without Ludwig opening his mouth.

Because the deep breath was not Ludwig's "mouth" in the conventional sense.

——On his neck, which had become skinny and even showed the joints of the cervical vertebrae, the needle hole left by the blood collection bottle had now expanded and torn into a mouth!

That mouth protruded outward from the collarbone at the root of his neck.

It didn't look like the mouth of a human or an ordinary beast patient.

Instead, it looked like the mouth of a marine creature, a squid. A round circle, constantly surging and wriggling.

And in the process of wriggling, the inner wall of the mouth was also exposed.

There was no normal oral structure or sharp teeth inside. It was a dense, crowded spherical eyeball!

And that wriggling weird mouth was protruding outward and getting bigger and bigger.

It even began to occupy the space that originally belonged to the neck and head in terms of shape and position.

Lan En narrowed his eyes slightly and paced in the blood pool.

The [First Hunter of the Church] who was once famous for his knight-like honorable spirit was now facing him with his round mouthparts with eyeballs on the inner wall of his mouth.

The flesh on the right side of the face was sucked out by the big mouth and tightened, leaving only the left side with some normal human features, and was pushed aside as if it had no dominant position.

At this point, there was no need to answer the question raised by Lan En.

The twisted body in front of him had already shown with his actions that it was not the human head that could control this body now.

Ludwig's head seemed to understand this as well.

He could only use his left eye, which was still controllable, to watch his vision being squeezed to the far left side of his body, unable to see anything and do nothing.

This body acted on its own under his own witnessing and feelings, and the fear that he could not control at all made the already confused Ludwig scream in fear.

"Ah!"

However, this cry seemed to have been distorted into something other than human.

It was similar to a donkey waiting to be slaughtered.

But this funny cry with sadness and fear, in such a grotesque, bloody, burning environment, only makes people feel chilled.

The two hands of the body in front of him seemed to be out of control, swinging on both sides of the body as it shook.

But Lan En flashed to the side the moment after the sad and terrified cry sounded!

And in the next moment.

"Bang!"

In addition to the blood splashing in the blood pool due to the sudden movement of the footsteps, a mercury bullet suddenly cut through the air and shot at Lan En's original foothold!

Holding the exclusive firearm made by the Healing Church for Ludwig, the hand of that thing seemed to be swinging uncontrollably, but Lan En noticed it from the beginning.

Although the arm was swinging, the palm holding the weapon had never loosened!

Although the beast disease can cause patients to mutate their limbs and lose their thinking, in the early stages of the disease, these patients will still use their normal tools.

For example, pitchforks, torches, and firearms.

As for Ludwig's body, although the symptoms of his beast disease now do not match the common phenomenon in Yharnam, his big eyes and deformed limbs are more like the marine life mutations in the small fishing village.

But there is no doubt that he has practiced hunting skills to his bones!

Even this body that is no longer under his control is still a skilled hunter!

The heavy armor of the demon hunter plus his own weight, even in the rapid movement, there is a sense of fierceness and violence.

After a sudden sideways flash, Lan En's center of gravity quickly shifted, and he immediately stopped in a very short moment.

Then he switched the direction of movement and rushed forward!

The sudden switch between emergency stop and burst is a load that the demon hunter's current body can easily bear.

His strong bones, muscles, steel cables on tendons, and internal reinforcement organs all treat this as normal walking.

But the blood pool under his feet is different.

The rocky ground under the blood pool was ravaged by the reaction force of his rapid and violent stomping!

Simply crushed under the boots of dragon scales and dragon skin with a "crack"!

The blood splashed by the rock collapse was almost as high as Lan En behind him.

The blood fell down with a splash, and was splashed up because of Lan En's extremely fast movement!

The next breath after the gunshot, the muffled sound of boots hitting the ground exploded, and Lan En had come within two meters of Ludwig's body!

At this distance, the densely packed eyeballs in the wide open, squirming round mouth made a sticky sliding sound and turned to the direction of Lan En.

With a "hiss", the sharp sound of the weapon cutting through the air!

A silver light was like a whip, swung out from Ludwig's swinging hand!

It was a relatively normal-looking half-hand sword, which seemed very simple in Yharnam, a place where all kinds of strange weapons were used.

However, in Ludwig's wavering hand, the sword was swung out in a way that was more like throwing the arm and the sword out together.

However, facing the long sword whose end had clearly drawn white lines in the air due to the swinging force and the superb quality of this body.

Lan En, who was rushing towards the long sword, did not change his expression.

Because of his grasp of the distance sense of the sword fight and his observation of the situation on the scene, he was very confident that this sword would not touch him.

As if the sword blade that was swinging across in front of him did not exist, Lan En just stared at Ludwig's body opposite.

Sure enough!

At the same time as the long sword was swung out, a spiral wind was wrapped around the hunter's legs!

[Acceleration]!

It disappeared like green smoke, and when it appeared again, it was already five or six meters away from the back!