Chapter 1302 1274. Tonight, Lan En joins the hunt!
The residents of the small fishing village, like their houses, already resemble the skin of fish, with signs of being parasitized by marine life everywhere.
Barnacles, shellfish, starfish.
Many fishmen have died around, and they all have this image. At most, he had a rag hanging on his body and a simple harpoon in his hand.
The back of this large murloc was almost covered in a thick shell by these things.
As for his mouth, it was as if the chewing muscles were completely weak, and the entire lower jaw drooped casually.
But in the mouth that has lost the ability to bite, the teeth are densely packed all the way up the upper teeth.
It is completely unclear what the purpose of these teeth is.
Among the hunters who besieged him, two were armed with weapons similar to meat saws.
They are both enlarged versions of folding knives, but the folded and opened blades are more like a sharp arc compared to those of meat saws.
This should be a more old-school hunter weapon than the saw.
The other man's weapon is a heavy and ferocious broadsword.
The big knife was serrated and thick, and the blade was divided into sections. I don’t know if it was due to the forging technique or other technical reasons.
The giant murloc is holding a large anchor, which is already rusty.
With the size of this anchor, it can even push it forward, and then the hunters' attacks will rarely hit him.
After all, he is tall and has long hands, and his weapons are long and big. The distance advantage is real.
As long as you push the weapon forward and control the distance, the hunters will definitely feel very uncomfortable.
But when Lan En and Maria came over, the oily skin on his body had been torn to pieces, and a large amount of gray-white blood flowed from his body into the water on the ground and melted.
And under this situation, he was still attacking rashly without thinking, leaving an opening.
The hunters were delighted.
He quickly dodged to avoid the powerful but cumbersome attack, then got close to the giant murloc, using his weapon to tear open the flesh and blood!
The three hunters were breathing heavily, but it was not because of exhaustion.
They were like three hungry wild dogs, gasping excitedly and uncontrollably after smelling the smell of meat.
Seeing someone approaching, the three of them slowed down their offensive slightly.
And the giant fishman who seemed to have no brain suddenly seemed to have a brain and pushed forward the big anchor in his hand.
"Maria?" Some of the hunters knew this blood noble, but after he asked in confusion, he couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth in a bloody arc.
"You're late! Maria! The hunting is almost over. The beast has been slaughtered. The murlocs here are our prey!"
"Is it over?"
The long leather boots stepped on the stagnant sea water on the ground as she walked closer. The swan feathers on Maria's three-cornered hat became wet and became limp and drooping, just like her depressed mood at this time.
"Yes, it's over." The hunter pressed his hat and smiled nervously, "It's scary to say that, but Ludwig, Germann, and two old guys After entering, what monster can survive the siege of four old hunters?”
"Then where are they now?" Maria asked with a headache, "My teacher, where are they now?"
"Back to Yanan." Another hunter lowered his voice as if he was high on drugs. He was holding his head, and the hand holding the weapon was shaking uncontrollably. "After they hunted the beast, they couldn't wait to go back and study it."
"It was the archbishop's order." The last hunter added, "He said that in order to solve gray blood disease, we must Study it quickly.”
Maria frowned: “But didn’t he say before that as long as the beast was killed, the plague would disappear naturally?” The old hunter lowered the brim of his hat and smiled in a hoarse voice that was uncomfortable to hear, "Who is interested?"
"There's nothing wrong with that. There are still many things here that can kill and bleed. He didn't ask us to go back quickly. There is still a lot of fun here."
Maria frowned.
Even though she was very familiar with the general mental state of the Yharnam hunters, she now began to feel that these people were no longer normal.
Can these people still smell anything other than the smell of blood in their noses now?
Burned wood? The fishy saltiness of the ocean?
What happened to them?
The huge fish man found a house that had not been burned down and leaned against it. He held the big anchor forward in his hand, and a large set of teeth in his mouth that could not be closed followed his violent breathing. , while making an amplified 'whoosh' sound with the air.
Maria looked at the three hunters who had their heads lowered and could not see their faces clearly under the dark sky, and took two cautious steps back.
She took Lan En's hand and whispered: "We missed my teacher, let's go back."
But Maria was surprised to find out on the way back. She can't pull it!
The Blood Noble raised his head in confusion, just in time to see Lan En's amber cat eyes looking in a certain direction, shining slightly in the dark environment.
"What is that?" The demon hunter looked behind the three old hunters and said calmly, "What are you doing?"
"What are you doing?" The old hunter He asked in confusion, and turned his head in the direction Lan En was looking.
Then he laughed in a low voice.
“Ah~ we did waste too much time.”
It was a wooden pile with four or five fishmen tied to it with chains.
Each murloc had a leg chopped off, and only two murlocs were still alive at the moment, and the remaining heads had a gap that went straight into their skulls.
"Quick, let's start over! Quick!"
Lan En's question seemed to remind them. The old hunter sniffed and shouted with a nervous smile.
“Come on! Let this big fish move! Let it bleed some more!”
The giant fishman panting with his back against the house seemed to have a premonition of something bad. He let out a muddy roar from the depths of his large mouth that could not be closed, and at the same time excitedly pushed forward the big anchor in his hand.
One of the old hunters chuckled and walked to the wooden stake where the fishman was locked.
The mouth under the brim of his hat was exuding heat from his exaggerated smile.
‘Pa ji ba ji’, sticky trampling sounds came frequently.
The old hunter’s thick boots stepped carelessly on the motionless corpses of the fishmen. The greasy corpses covering the floor made it a little difficult for him to stand still and aim.
Where to aim?
——The head of a living fish-man!
The giant fishman roared, and his legs, which had almost lost a layer of flesh, pushed themselves up from the house on their backs and approached the hunters.
The steps were heavy and painful but he was still getting closer.
Close to the hunters who inflicted pain on him.
This is not something something like a lycanthrope patient can do!
At this time, Maria also loosened her hand holding Lan En in a daze, and she seemed to have realized something.
"Wait!" She had seen so many facts beyond her imagination today that her originally cold and calm voice was filled with a lot of emotions.
“What are you going to do?!”
"Pfft!"
Before Maria could finish her question, a stream of gray-white blood spurted out from the fish-man's head. The female hunter's expression suddenly froze because of this.
The hunter who made the cut was just excitedly pulling out the knife that had sunk into the opponent's skull.
“Ah!!!”
The giant fishman roared and rushed over again waving the big anchor.
Now, both Lan En and Maria knew why this giant fishman seemed to have lost his mind after being beaten.
He's not brainless, he's just lost his mind.
"Come on!" the old hunter shouted happily, "shed some more blood!"
After that, he and the hunter who pulled the knife out of the skull rushed towards the giant fish. people.
The blood was splashing, and the smell smelled like intoxicating singing to the old hunter.
The old hunter standing in front of Lan En and Maria was gasping for breath at the smell of blood, and the hand holding the thick sword was trembling.
"Hunting, hunting! Blood!"
He murmured in a low voice, and at the same time he was about to turn around and join the hunt for the giant fishman.
But just when he was about to turn around.
“You use this method to hunt intelligent creatures?”
Lan En put his hand on the collar of his cloak and suddenly asked.
The body of the old hunter suddenly froze: "Smart creatures? What nonsense are you talking about, kid? They are beasts"
"Beasts bleed and they bleed, so they are beasts. As long as they bleed. Anyone who bleeds is a beast."
"Listen, those sweet bloods are singing!"
The murmurs without logic are like the babble in a nightmare.
But Lan En and Maria, who have seen the whole process, know these old hunters, they do it just like their own babble!
If a person acts completely according to what he talks in his sleep, there is no doubt that he is a madman!
Maria’s expression at this time was colder than frost.
She doesn’t know what the hell happened today! But she knows one thing very well - hunters are not here to do this kind of work!
Their job is not to kill intelligent life!
They are a profession that was born to hunt wild beasts. A profession that was born from her teacher!
That's not what her teacher taught her.
"What's going on with you? Are the people here mutated by a curse?"
Maria lowered her head and slowly held her hands around her waist. on the hilt of the knife.
“Archbishop Lawrence, and me and my teachers, do they know these things?!”
As if he felt the chill of the two people in front of him, the old hunter took a deep breath after being stunned.
"Ah~ What a pity." The old hunter pressed his hat, grinned with a big smile, and raised his head. "It seems that you are also 'beasts'!"
Under the top hat, the old hunter revealed his eyes for the first time.
And the pupils in those eyes were like broken egg yolks, disintegrated and cloudy to the point of being shapeless!
“Come on!” Not only were his pupils as turbid as broken egg yolks, but also hard and rough black hair began to grow on his face and body!
"Let us bleed more! Let us bleed more!"
A stench of lycanthropic patients suddenly appeared in this damp and gloomy village!
The first old hunter who showed the characteristics of lycanthropy seemed like a starting signal.
The other two hunters present, their bodies wrapped in windbreakers and burqas made a heartbreaking sound of bones and flesh stretching.
The height of the whole person is at least half a head longer!
Their bodies suddenly changed dramatically and blood mist burst out, floating out from their bodies.
Make the stench of lycanthropic patients stronger in the air!
The degree of animalization of the old hunters is not deep, at least they have not directly lost their human appearance.
But they are far more dangerous than patients with deep lycanthropy. Because of their hunting career!
The thick and long machete in the old hunter’s hand brought up a series of water splashes and mud from the ground and slashed forward, heading towards Maria!
But before he could cut it completely with the knife.
“Bang!”
The water on the ground exploded due to this kick!
Lan En, who was half a head taller than the old hunter who was suffering from lycanthropy, kicked the old hunter seven or eight meters away with one kick!
At the same time, he also tore off his raincoat with one hand.
"You like hunting very much, don't you?"
The cloak made a hunting sound in mid-air and was thrown out.
"So tonight."
"Lan. Join the hunt!"
(End of this chapter)