The Journey of the Demon Hunter

Suddenly, he noticed that his cheeks were a little wet

The fingertips of the demon hunter wiped his lips, and then the blood covered his palms

He has a nosebleed, not just his nose, but there are also traces of blood in his eyes and ears.

"Damn it, what's going on" This is not the voice of Yusevka and Amelia, but Father Gascoigne

"No, it was just an accident"

Looking at Father Gascoigne who thought he was in trouble, Zelin threw the blood off his hand. It seemed that he had slept long enough, the priest had brought his daughter to the clinic, and Viola seemed to have a voice. Maybe the incense in their home finally burned out, but the amount of incense in the clinic seems not enough.

"You don’t look very good." Gascoigne walked to Zelin with two hunter weapons hanging behind his back. The priest looked at him. "You look like you just had a fight with someone. Fighting, I thought you had been sleeping upstairs, um...what happened to your left hand"

"It's just a boring nightmare." Zelin shook his head. "I just feel like I have to figure out something...Where is Yusefka?"

"The doctor is about to start blood therapy, but the silver-haired girl is very reluctant." The priest adjusted the dome hat. It is not surprising that the priest does not know Amelia. One is the bishop who stays in the cathedral all day, and the other is the majority The priest who stayed with Yanan all the time to accompany his family, coupled with Amelia’s changing appearance, is not recognizable but normal. "She was infected with the plague, right? Um... You told me in advance, I don’t want my daughter. In danger"

"Are all your family members here?" Zelin peeled off the soaked inner lining like clay, revealing the muscles covered with scars underneath.

"The incense is almost burned out, Viola and I have no other choice...what are you going to do?"

"Go and make sure of some things." Zelin put the shirt that almost turned into a damp cloth on his hand. "How many pieces of incense have been burned in your home?"

The old priest tapped on his forehead. "My memory is very messy. If I remember correctly, since that afternoon, it burned almost 20 yuan."

Twenty yuan...Zelin tightened his lips. Twenty, it’s not too late

Chapter 101 The Place of Refuge

Similar to the small church in the workshop, the garden is full of lilies, and the surrounding soil was once covered with stone slabs. Amelia admitted that there is indeed such a place as described by Zelin. It’s near the cathedral, a place called the Hunter’s Factory, but just like the demon hunters have seen, the Hunter’s Factory has long been abandoned as a place for making hunter weapons and providing hunters with rest. Now there is only dust and Weeds.

"The hunter Geman was buried near the factory church. Before the tragedy of Old Yanan broke out, there was by no means only a small church. It used to be a very lively place. All kinds of new hunter equipment were removed from the factory. It was developed to fight against the monsters and veterinarian townspeople that constantly emerged from the old Yanan. I remember that the craftsmen there were divided into several genres, such as the dynamite gang, because of their different concepts in making weapons."

"But later, Old Anan was destroyed. It turns out that no amount of hunters can prevent the tragedy from happening. The executioners and hunters led by Master Logarius went to defend the establishment of New Anan and fight against Cainkster’s The blood race, the result was heavy losses, and the master also sacrificed himself. The number of old hunters is decreasing because of certain things the church has done in Jiu Yanan... Not many local people in Yanan are willing to become hunters, and at that time people are all I thought that the disaster had completely passed, so the number of hunters gradually declined, and the workshop was abandoned."

"What? You ask what happened to Jiu Yanan? It was just a big fire... the passage to Jiu Yanan is just below the cathedral, you can go and see... you won't like it."

"Oh, yes, this is what I just found on the first floor of the clinic... an invitation letter, maybe it's for you, maybe someone else, take it, no one here can use it, who will be at this time Go to the sordid place of Cainkster".

Walking in the huge sewer of Yanan, Zelin recalled the shortcut mentioned by Father Gascoigne, while thinking about Yanan. It has to be said that Yanan’s sewers are just like this city. They are huge and extend in all directions. Although I don’t know the exact time, but only with humans to build such a huge city, Zelin believes that the time will never be less than a hundred years, but The width of the sewers is wider than some streets in Novigrad.

With the help of Amelia's narration and his own understanding during this period, the Demon Hunter can almost conceive a more complete route in his mind. The church town once stood on the top of the mountain, and Yanan town was located at the foot of the mountain. Later, when the plague broke out, the church sent hunters to clean up the disease, but they failed, so the church at that time decided to abandon the old Yanan and burn the town completely. , And then moved all the surviving townspeople to halfway up the mountain to build a new town, which is now Yanan.

Unfortunately, the new Yanan has fallen into the same tragedy like the old Yanan.

There are few veterinarians in the sewers, and most of them are mutated giant rats and crows crawling on the ground. This road is very close to Father Gascoigne’s home. There is almost no sewage in it. Maybe it will become a new road in a while.

Despite this, there are still hidden dangers in the sewers. For example, in a certain place, Zelin saw a domestic pig that was two meters high and three meters long.

Perhaps because of the veterinary disease plague, the livestock that ran out of which pigsty did not know became extremely ferocious. If the little girl from the priest’s house is allowed to walk through the sewer, she can avoid the slow-moving townspeople, and the slow-moving crows, maybe the rats are no problem, but this end is almost full of the road. It is estimated that it is difficult to hide from the domestic pigs. So Zelin killed it just in case.

"Listen well, Amelia. No matter what happens, you must stay where there is incense... Don't roll your eyes, I'm serious. Father, you can also see that the remaining incense in the clinic is not Many, if the last three pieces of incense are burned, and the dawn has not appeared, go to Orton Chapel. I know there are many incenses there. Take the shortcut you know, I will go ahead and wait until the end , We meet in the chapel".

The worst enemy in the sewer is the stench. Yes, the smell of sewage and the smell of rotting corpses are mixed together. It is almost like a battlefield two or three days after the end of the war. The stench makes you want to stop breathing. When Zelin walked out of the sewer, he felt as if he had come to life again, he just compared the degree of safety with fresh air, and safety was more important.

When Zelin returned to Mission Town again, earth-shaking changes had taken place here. Of course it does not refer to the topography, but it means that there are no longer just animals such as crows and wild dogs. Many church priests in black robes have become irrational creatures like the townspeople of Yanan. They Still wearing a white mask, carrying a lantern, and holding a cane, one of the priests wanders near the Orton Chapel. He is walking outside the chapel. The church is not closed, but the priest seems to be about it. Turning a blind eye until Zelin appeared, he chose to greet the demon hunter---want to stick his stick in his chest.

Oh~ It’s really creative to say hello in this way

So Zelin responded to him with the same etiquette.

Compared with Zelin’s first visit to the church, there are a few more people here. One of them is a lady who is so virtuous and artistic that the demon hunter knows. There is also an old lady with white clothes and exquisite dressing. A man with a beard and torn clothes.

The woman I met with the Demon Hunter was sitting on a finely crafted chair. She wore a dark red dress and had a very elegant sitting posture. Unlike a person who is doing a pleasant career, she has golden curly hair with a shawl. The skin is white as snow, can be broken by blowing, and the facial features are exquisite and beautiful. She has a sweet smile on her face, and her body exudes the smell of perfume different from incense.

"Oh, hello, dear...".

Seeing the demon hunter walking into the church, she greeted with a smile, her voice was as sweet and greasy as ever, with an ambiguous smell deep in her bones, "You are right, this is a safe place, thank you, you treat me Grace."

She stood up, put her hands on her waist and bent over and bowed. "I want to thank you. My name is Arianna. I want to thank you very much, but I have nothing. I have nothing to give you. I'm so sorry..." .

"It's nothing, this is a dangerous time" Zelin shrugged. "But I don't have a way to help you. Try to live."

With that, he put his hand on the opponent's shoulder and pushed her back into the seat. It seems that he is not the only one who knows here, there may be other hunters who have also been entrusted to send the survivors to the chapel. Which hunter will it be? I just hope that this is a truly safe place, otherwise, what else is there? Can be used as a refuge.

Zelin looked at the red figure lying on the doorway. Before he had time to speak, the old witch spoke in advance, her voice very happy.

"Ah~ Hunter, thank you! You told them about this place, right? I'm glad to see them alive. What you said is right, this is a dangerous moment... I hope I can help in the end To them...really, my appearance, and my body, I have never brought any use to others, you see...".

"I am very happy now...".

"Really happy...".

"Not everyone, other people are not what I saved" Ze Lin explained, "but this is not important, the incense in many places has been exhausted, is the incense here enough to last through the night".

Although I don’t know why, but the demon hunter can be sure that there is a problem with the time here. Most people only prepare incense for one night. However, at least 20 days have passed. This can explain why there is an advance In the case of preparation, there are still so many people who have mutated due to the plague. If the incense of this small church is enough to last, Zelin can do what he needs to do as soon as possible, if not, then...

He also didn't know what to do.

"Perhaps I didn't know before this... Hee hee, besides you, I saw another kind hunter whose jaw is impressive. It is now certain that the night will go back and the disaster will go back. Survivors can live to see the dawn...hehe" The witch’s way of speaking remains the same. Without this terrible appearance and sensational laughter, she might be a popular person, but she does seem to be a Good people, better than those who look pretty, like Yusevka's sister.

"I hope so." Zelin sighed. He looked through the door to the night sky outside, and the moon was as bright as ever. "Hope to see the sunrise...".

Chapter 102 Special Skills

Although Amelia told Zelin the way through the Hunter's Factory, it took Zelin a long time to figure out whether he had gone wrong in the almost maze of streets in Church Town. Many places called road signs by the silver-haired bishop were not noticeable in the eyes of the demon hunters, such as at the intersection with three statues or the street lamp with wooden boards. But when Zelin was really serious about looking for these signs, he realized , There are statues everywhere, forks everywhere, there are few street lights and none of them have wooden signs hanging on them

In order to save time, Zelin definitely went to the place he knew best first. The road leading to Jiu Yanan is located in the lower church of the Healing Church. He knows the location of the cathedral, and that passage is said to be covered by a mechanism. He only needs to pull the iron stakes on the second floor of the church. In order to cover up what happened at the beginning, the church almost concealed all the things related to Jiu Yanan, and only people of Amelia’s status can know the things related to it.

As a result, Zelin walked closer to the cathedral and he met another hunter he knew

The sound of whip waving came from a low downhill on the left side of the cathedral. Unlike the last time he came to the cathedral, Zelin knew almost nothing at that time. He just wanted to find a stable place in a crisis, and then waited for the time to pass. Now, he can focus on the surroundings of the church. Environment

This is a relatively narrow church square, which may be due to the fact that the city was built on the top of the hill, and the small flat space caused the square to be compressed as much as possible. There is a statue in the center of the square. The woman in the statue prays to the sky, her hands stretched toward the sky, and her face is pious. The tombstones surround the statue on four weeks, and they spread out like waves. The side of the tombstones worshipping is the woman who is praying. If it weren’t for the whip sound, Zelin would not have noticed it the second time. Hidden among the tombstones, there is a weedy path.

There are some dry corpses lying in front of the tombstones on both sides of the trail. The skulls of many corpses have become translucent and no longer look bony. There is faint light flickering in the eye sockets of the skulls, and the faint light is floating in the air. , Like countless wildfires. The bodies were all dressed in the clothes of church priests, and they died here collectively shortly after Zelin and Amelia left here. It’s a strange thing. The cause of their death should be an abnormal change in the brain. Unfortunately, the cause of the change is unknown.

However, Zelin's observation of the environment is definitely not because he has plenty of time now, but at some point, two giants over three meters tall appeared on the church square. They dragged their axes and slowly walked around the square, but they weighed in. What doesn’t match is their bodies, their pale and thin spine looms in the shattered church robe.

Obviously, they are reluctant to get along well with Zelin, and their interest seems to be greater in how to chop off other people's heads with a giant axe. They may have been humans or clergymen of the church, and they have not been able to escape the plague.

"Be careful!"

The hunter walked out of the trail with the sound of whip swinging. The weapon in his hand sometimes turned into an iron rod and sometimes turned into a long whip. He walked to the square before the demon hunter, and naturally attracted the two holding giants first. Attention of the axe monster

The two monsters walked towards the hunter with their chopping axes. Zelin didn't know whether the opponent could be one enemy two. Although heavy weapons would limit their fighting speed, the power brought by their size could make up for this deficiency. Seeing that Zelin picked up a small stone in his footsteps, he threw it at the monster's head that still had a little human appearance. The effect of the pebbles was better than expected. After being hit by a stone, the monster who was close to him turned around, dragging the axe to the annoying little guy in front of him.

"Um... I know"