Chapter 1315 1287. Mouthparts and Eyeballs
When Lan En, Maria and Henrik separated, it didn't actually take much time.
They just stopped by the research center to take a look.
Because both Maria and Lan know very well that hope no longer exists.
Grayemia has always been a troublesome plague. The Healing Church Research Hall, which was originally considered by Maria as the 'way to salvation', also showed its truest undertones under Lan En's exposure. .
The research hall is not studying how to defeat the plague at all, but hopes to gain more profound knowledge through this strange plague pathology.
They are eager to make patients infected with the disease more deeply and with more variations, 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 for this kind of 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 long that Lan En goes with her.
This female hunter who was born into the Blood Nobles, her current mental state seemed really not right to Lan En.
After witnessing the truth of the research hall and the hunter's beast transformation, he returned to Yanan and happened to see the spreading sea of fire.
Nowadays, Maria often loses sight of the burning buildings on the road, and at the same time, her hands that should be steady and precise can't stop shaking.
Every time Lan En had to intervene before she could break free.
With this mental state, Lan En wouldn’t be surprised if she committed suicide.
After all, what she witnessed today undoubtedly destroyed many of the things she believed in before.
But Lan En didn't want such a sassy, capable and good-hearted huntress to disappear into the burning old Yharnam.
On the one hand, Maria is indeed a powerful hunter with skilled skills and strong blood quality. Lan En's next goal will require such a powerful helper.
On the other hand, in Yharnam, Lan En rarely saw a hunter who cared about others out of sincerity.
The trust those patients had in Maria was commendable.
Therefore, the demon hunter was willing to take extra time to accompany Maria to the research hall now that time was running out.
But now it seems that Lan En's decision is very correct.
"You still don't know what you have become now?"
The boots with white dragon scales on the outside are swimming in the sticky blood pool.
There was a "crash" sound that smelled of blood, and there was a slight collision between the armor plates.
Lan En'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 witcher paced cautiously and asked questions to the 'thing' blocking the road to Church Town.
He could vaguely see that the 'thing' might not long ago have been Ludwig, who was proudly called the "First Hunter of the Church" by the people of Yannan.
But now
"Hoo~"
In his confusion, Ludwig did not feel that he had opened his mouth to breathe, but a burst of smelly air did indeed come from a very close breath. He blew on the right side of his face that was still twitching involuntarily.
This man in front of me. What is he talking about?
Ludwig's confused and confused mind still didn't react.
It is only now that he can control his left eye to move to his right side.
And the only action he can do is 'roll his eyes'. His neck was out of control.
But Lan En, standing opposite, could see clearly.
The hunter in front of him, who was once praised as a hero, has become distorted.
Just like all lycanthropic patients when they get sick.
His limbs began to become thin and stretched by lycanthropy.
The originally fit and neat attire had become wide but short due to this change, and it was basically hanging empty on his body.
But it is different from ordinary lycanthropy patients.
In addition to the basic body shape changes, the right side of Ludwig’s neck
“Huh~”
Another deep breath, on the right side of Ludwig’s neck Xi blew it out without even opening her mouth.
Because the thing that issued the deep breath was not Ludwig's 'mouth' in the conventional sense at all.
——On his neck, which has become so skinny that the joints of his cervical vertebrae can even be seen, the pinhole left by the blood collection bottle has now expanded and torn into a mouth!
The mouth protruded outward from the base of his collarbone.
It doesn’t look like the mouth of a human or an ordinary lycanthrope patient. Instead, it looks like the mouthparts of a sea creature, a squid. A round circle, constantly surging and squirming.
And during the process of peristalsis, the inner wall of the mouth is also exposed.
It does not have a normal oral structure or sharp teeth. It is a densely packed spherical eyeball that is squeezed together!
And that strange, squirming mouth is protruding more and more outwards and getting bigger and bigger.
It even began to occupy the space that originally belonged to the normal neck and head in terms of shape and position.
Lan En narrowed his eyes slightly and paced in the blood pool.
Opposite him, the [First Hunter of the Church] who was once known for his knightly and glorious spirit, was just facing him with the round mouthpart full of eyeballs on the inner wall of his mouth.
The flesh and blood on the right half of the face was taken away and tightened by the big mouth, leaving only the left half of the face that still retains some normal human characteristics. It seemed to have no dominant position and was pushed aside. go.
At this point, Lan En’s questions no longer need to be answered.
The twisted body in front of me has shown it through actions - the person who has control over this body now is not the human head.
Ludwig's head seemed to understand this.
He could only use his left eye, which he could still control, and watched helplessly as his field of vision was squeezed to the far left side of his body, unable to see anything or do anything.
This kind of body acted on its own under what he witnessed and felt, and the fear that he could not control at all made Ludwig, who was already confused, scream in horror. Voice.
“Ang!”
But this cry seems to have been distorted into something other than human.
Approximately a donkey waiting to be slaughtered.
But this comical cry with sadness and horror in such a grotesque, bloody, and burning environment can only make people shudder.
The two hands of the body in front of me seem to be disobedient, swaying on both sides of the body.
But Lan En immediately flashed to his side the moment after the miserable and frightening cry!
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 also suddenly cut through the air and hit Lan En's original foothold!
Holding the exclusive firearm made for Ludwig by the Healing Church, the thing's hand seemed to be swaying uncontrollably, but Lan En noticed it from the beginning.
Although the arm was swaying, the palm holding the weapon never let go!
Although lycanthropy causes patients to mutate their limbs and lose their thinking, in the early stages of the disease, these patients can still use their normal tools.
Such as pitchforks, torches, and firearms.
As for Ludwig's body, although the symptoms of lycanthropy he is currently showing are not commensurate with the common phenomenon in Yharnam, on the contrary, the deformed limbs with eyeballs and a big mouth are more like the variation of marine life in the small fishing village.
But there is no doubt that he has practiced hunting skills to the core!
Even though this body is no longer under his control, he is still a skilled hunter!
The witcher's heavy armor combined with his own weight gives him a fierce and violent feeling even in his swift movements.
After suddenly dodging sideways, Lan En quickly changed his center of gravity and stopped immediately in a very short moment.
Then switch the direction of movement and rush forward!
The sudden switch between emergency stop and explosive charge is a load that the demon hunter's current body can easily bear.
His strong bones, muscles, cables in tendons, and internal reinforced organs treat him as if he were walking normally.
But the blood pool at his feet was different.
The rocky ground under the blood pool was ravaged by the reaction force of his rapid and violent stamping!
He might as well be crushed under the boots of dragon scales and skin with a 'click'!
The blood spray caused by the rock collapse was almost as high as Lan En behind him.
The blood fell in a splash, and at the same time, it was splashed by Lan En's extremely fast movement!
The next breath after the gunshot sounded, the muffled sound of boots hitting the ground exploded, and Lan En was already within two meters of Ludwig's body!
At this distance, the densely packed eyeballs in the wide-open, wriggling round mouthparts made a sticky sliding sound, and all turned in the direction of Lan En.
There was a "squeak" sound, the sharp sound of a sharp weapon cutting through the air!
A ray of silver light was whipped out from Ludwig's swinging hand like a whip!
It was a relatively normal-looking half-hand sword. In a place like Yanan where various strange-shaped weapons were used, it looked very simple.
It’s just that in Ludwig’s wavering hands, the way the sword was cut out was more similar to throwing the arm and the sword together.
But facing the end of the long sword, it was obvious that white lines were drawn out in the air due to the force of the swing and the super quality of this body.
Lan En, who was rushing towards the sword, did not change his expression.
Because of his grasp of the distance between sword fights and his observation of the situation at the scene, he was very confident that there was no chance that this sword would touch him.
As if the sword blade swinging across in front of him did not exist, Lan En just stared at Ludwig's body opposite.
Sure enough!
While throwing out the long sword, spiral wind wrapped around the hunter's legs!
[Acceleration Technique]!
Disappeared like blue smoke, and reappeared five or six meters straight back!
(End of this chapter)