Chapter 1283 1255. Nightmare Secret
In the direction where Lan En turned his head to look, a translucent humanoid outline swayed, slightly incongruous with the truly empty air around him.
The other party did not speak or move, and soon those incongruities quickly disappeared.
He seems to be able to hide even more perfectly when he is standing still.
But 'discovering a hidden person' and 'continuously staring at an exposed hidden person' require different levels of observation and energy.
Having already discovered the opponent, Lan En just frowned under his hood, and then the witcher's extraordinary senses made it a little difficult for him, but it was effective enough to lock on the opponent's existence.
The other party did not move, so Lan En just stood up from his crouching position and looked at the other party without making any hostile movements.
The residents in this alley must have died of gray blood disease.
The door that was smashed open by the mentally retarded giant was creaking and shaking.
Finally, less than a minute passed, and at the position Lan En had been staring at, a person appeared like a chameleon who had lost his disguise.
He was a man dressed in rags, with both his lining and coat almost torn into strips.
But the capable leggings are still intact, the large stand-up collar of the windbreaker that stands high covering half of his face, and the strange-shaped weapon on his waist still indicate that this is a hunter from Yanan.
He didn't panic much after he appeared. Instead, he lit the small lantern hanging on his waist in the dark alley.
At this time, Lan En noticed that the other party had a lot of bandages on his head, like a burn patient, or as if he didn't want to see something.
“I’ve never seen you before, which is really strange.”
The unknown hunter said this, not to mention how he could see with his blindfolded eyes, just with this tone
Lan En said indifferently: "Have you ever seen everything in Yanan?" People? ”
Although from the perspective of modern people, Yanan’s population is not large. But to say that you know everyone, that's a bit...
"Of course, I know them."
But the hunter in front of him said something that was unlikely in a relaxed tone.
He held his forehead with one hand, put his other hand on his waist, and leaned his back against the stone wall at the end of the alley.
Looks relaxed.
Lan En looked at him and tilted his head.
This person seems a little special.
"You are a hunter who is still sober, right? It seems that at some point, you have stepped on the wrong path. It seems that we two have a lot in common."
The unknown hunter's mouth was also covered with a bandage, and his speech was a bit muffled, but still clear enough.
Lan En heard that he seemed a little happy because of his appearance.
‘The hunter who is still sober’, this title is not unfamiliar to Lan En.
The crow hunter had already told him when he was in Yharnam last time, under the guidance of Master William, he killed [Spider Rom], the man-made superior who could only make time go back. .
Some hunters are aware of the rewinding of time, and they maintain valuable sobriety during the never-ending night of hunting.
And is the one in front of me one of them?
And if he is indeed the kind of 'sober hunter' he knows, it means that
Lan En's mind is quickly sorting out his ideas based on the existing information.
On the other side, the unknown hunter seemed to be ready to give Lan En a heads up because he was happy.
But because of the professional habits of the Yharnam hunters, his deep laughter sounded like a malicious sneer.
"This is a hunter's nightmare. Hunters who are lost in blood and hunting will come here."
"You can leave before you are trapped here."
< br>"You will soon see those unlucky ones who can't walk away, those hunters who are lost in blood, drooling like wild beasts. This is the fate of fools."
"So don't be too confident. Come back before it's too late. Unless..."
At this point, the tone of the unknown hunter in front of Lan En became a little strange.
He said it in a tone of 'watching the show' and becoming cautious.
“Are you interested in this nightmare?”
Lan En did not answer him immediately. Instead, he lowered his head in contemplation. It didn’t last long, only a few breaths. That’s all.
Waiting for him to raise his head: "You said this is actually a dream?"
After the other party said for the first time that this was a 'Hunter's Nightmare', he was once in the 'future' Yanan. Experience, and the old Yanan he is in now
Isn't it time travel, but the so-called 'memories in dreams'?
In other words, outside of this 'dream', the real timeline is still traced back countless times by Rom, but now it has broken away from the retrospective night of the hunting of Yharnan!
Dreamland.
Lan En is no stranger to this concept of Yanan.
Although the last time he came to this city, he had a conversation with Master William after finally killing the [Spider that trapped time]. It was only at the very end of the journey that I got a little bit of information.
But Master William is undoubtedly the furthest human being in Yharnam, if he can still be called a human being.
Conversations with him are very informative.
After all, in his eyes, even those hunters who stayed awake were nothing more than a group of flies stumbling around in the fog.
At the end of the conversation, Master William revealed to Lan the source of the disaster in Yharnam -
The desire of the ancient gods to give birth to a son of god has become a nightmare, destroying the entire Yharnam. Dragged into a nightmare. And now this situation.
"Dream within a dream? Nested dream?"
The witcher said uncertainly, and at the same time took off the hood of the cloak, revealing his appearance to show his sincerity. .
"That's it, you understand quickly."
The unknown hunter nodded and sneered a few times.
"Oh, in this long nightmare, it's not unusual to encounter anything, even if you go back to the past, isn't it?"
It was rare for him to not have any fluctuations after seeing Lan En's appearance. people.
This seems to be because of the bandage covering his eyes.
But if he couldn't see Lan En's face, how could he move freely here?
Lan En can only assume that the other party also has a 'vision' in a non-general sense, perhaps also [spiritual vision] in Baron Weiss's academic theory.
But his [spiritual vision] is obviously different from his own. At least his own [spiritual vision] cannot see through. After covering his eyes with a layer of cloth, he can only use the intensity of other senses to make up for it.
After the initial conversation, the demon hunter walked slowly and cautiously approached the other party.
"I am Lan En."
It was a very normal self-introduction, but because it was too normal, the unknown hunter smiled in surprise.
"In this endless night of hunting, the rich blood has not made you forget such trivial things. Haha, call me Simon."
"I think it's a good thing to be able to remain normal in the endless chaos, even if it's just trivial normality, right?"
After introducing each other, Lan En said softly.
Simon hummed noncommittally.
"You just said 'sober hunter'. I have heard this expression in the mouth of a hunter dressed as a crow."
Lan walked to Simon and looked at the armor plate. Amidst the sounds of friction and collision, they leaned against the wall and sat half-sitting on the tombstone beside the wall.
At this time, the two of them were looking at each other equally.
"[Crow Hunter] Erin, do you know her?"
When Lan En mentioned this image, the upper half of his face was originally covered in bandages, and the lower half of his face always showed a mocking smile. Simon's mouth tightened visibly.
"Do you know Eileen? She is still outside now? How is it there?"
A series of questions popped out of Simon's mouth anxiously.
Lan En disclosed some less important things in an orderly manner to increase the trust between himself and Simon.
“At least she was fine until I left. Staying with Henrik and the Gascoignes.”
“Henric and the Gascoignes?” But this The news seemed to arouse Simon's doubts, "I know that Irene has been trying to kill Henrik's difficult old dog, but she hasn't done it yet, let alone stay with him?"
When Simon called Henrik an 'old dog', there was no malice in his tone, it was just a joke.
In fact, in the never-ending night of hunting, as long as there is no particularly deep love and hate, hunters will basically become very cold in the end.
Those thick blood, dangerous fights, and endless nights are all too consuming for a human being’s mental structure.
Going crazy seems to be the unavoidable final destination of hunters.
But Simon’s statement made Lan En frown.
"Henryk didn't go crazy this time, because the Gascoigne family is alive."
Lan looked at Simon with strange eyes.
"A blood moon rose in Yanan, and the retracement stopped. It's just that there are still people who are lengthening the night. How long ago was the last time you contacted someone outside the nightmare?"
"Blood Moon? The flashback outside the nightmare has stopped?" And Simon was even more surprised than Lan En.
He covered his forehead: "My resonance bell is broken. How long have I been here?"
Simon looked like he had already tracked the time. Feeling blurry.
But he quickly cheered up, just like Irene at that time, and even a little more excited.
"Change! That's a good thing!"
"But change may also cause disruption, making us unable to find the secrets we need to get from dreams." Lan En frowned slightly.
Secrets, Yanan is full of unknown secrets.
The ancient gods pulled the city into a dream, and these secrets are the key information keys.
The awake hunters are running back and forth with death again and again, just to unlock more secrets, hoping to finally get them out of the dream.
In Yanan, many things cannot be solved with violence.
Where is the ancient god? What is the existence form of the ancient gods?
If you don’t even know these secrets, how can you leave the dream of the ancient god?
(End of this chapter)