Survive with the beautiful girl

Liucheng explained in detail to Hayasaka Ai, and the two quickly caught up with Xiaoye in front. Hayasaka Ai also happened to see the whole process of the "Physalis" singer being killed and her body turning into dust and disappearing from sight.

"Are there many of them?"

"Compared to the fishermen who have been transformed into seafood in the fishing village above and the transformed patients in the research building behind the clock tower, they are relatively few. You will see stronger fishermen later, and they will look like monsters after being transformed into seafood."

The sound of heavy flesh hitting the mountain wall and the roars of monsters rang out one after another, and the ground was shaking uneasily. After watching Sayo kill the stronger giant fisherman holding the anchor with just a few slashes, Hayasaka Ai took out her sniper rifle eagerly and went after the remaining fishman.

Hayasaka Ai uses magic to strengthen her physical fitness, speed up the speed of bullets, and guide the bullets to explode in the eye sockets of the giant fisherman to increase the lethality.

Everything in this dream was so real, until the giant fisherman that Xiaoye left for Hayasaka Ai to practice with, who bled to death under Hayasaka Ai's kite tactics.

Each of her shots was aimed specifically at the vital parts of this monster that still had some human form left, which were bleeding heavily.

Hayasaka Ai still has a clear understanding of her own physical strength. Xiaoye and Liucheng can tear monsters apart with their bare hands, but she and others may not be able to do so.

Hayasaka Ai stood in front of the monster she had killed, looking at the blood plasma on the ground, as if she was recalling the excitement before killing the monster and the excitement and emptiness after killing the monster...

Restraining her disgust and surprise, Hayasaka Ai took out gloves and a mask from her backpack and quickly examined the two monsters, whose bodies were gradually "seafoodized" and evolving into marine life due to the influence of the ancient gods.

She suddenly understood why Liucheng concluded that the "brain monster" existed as a distorted consciousness, because in their reality, they did not have an extremely real body like these two giant fishermen.

"Did you find anything?"

Liu Cheng squatted beside Hayasaka Ai and studied with her, wanting to hear her opinions and ideas.

"This dream was so real that even the food residues in the stomachs of these monsters were restored."

After Hayasaka Ai cleaned the monster's blood on her gloves, she seemed to remember something and reminded Xiaoye seriously.

“In the future, when you hunt monsters, try to wear gloves and a mask.

In order to prevent these monsters from carrying infectious diseases, the technique of tearing the monster's internal organs with bare hands should be used as little as possible."

The viruses and bacteria carried by marine life are often fatal and disabling to humans. Looking at these fishermen, who were supposed to be humans, being deformed into various monsters with characteristics of marine life, Hayasaka Ai could not help but suspect that it was some kind of germ carried by the corpse of the ancient god on the beach that caused these innocent fishermen to transform into monsters that are more suitable for survival in the sea.

Xiaoye nodded slowly. In fact, she could vaguely feel that every time the blood from the monster's body sprayed onto her exposed skin, some kind of power in the blood was being absorbed by her.

The feeling of "hunger" that had always existed and was actively suppressed by her was moving away from her. Even though hunting monsters was only in her dreams, she would still have the feeling of "eating" the blood of the "ancient species" she had killed in reality.

“Let’s go to the research building.

I have explored the fishing village thoroughly and can use the power of words to recreate everything here at any time."

Liucheng reminded them that the purpose of their trip was to go to the research building, and the real-world research data reflected in the dream inside was very important information to them.

Chapter 262 Invaders

When Liucheng and Xiaoye easily climbed the stairs behind the gate of the Star Clock Tower, the abnormal behavior reported by Hayasaka Aita made Liucheng think deeply.

She tried jumping, climbing, and using flying magic to make herself fly...

There was a path extending from the entrance of the fishing village to the bottom of the stairs, and there were stairs half a person's height ahead, but Hayasaka Ai tried everything she could but found that she could not climb up the stairs.

There seemed to be an invisible wall of air in front of her, blocking her progress.

To Hayasaka Ai, the location of the Star Clock Tower and the fishing village are like two completely separate worlds.

"...I see."

Liu Cheng frowned as if he had a headache, feeling both relieved and regretful. He was relieved that he had brought Hayasaka Ai with him to explore, so he could only now notice the subtle differences in this dream; at the same time, he was also regretting why he hadn't discovered it earlier.

"The main body of this nightmare is composed of multiple dreams linked together by a curse from the ancient god Kos on the hunters who committed atrocities in the fishing village.

The nightmares of the fishermen who died tragically in the fishing village, the dreams of Ms. Maria who participated in the massacre, the dreams of the patients whose bodies were transformed...

Just like what you said to her yesterday, Xiaoye, Ms. Maria, because of her kindness in her heart, could not bear the ugliness of the transformed patients and the cruelty of the hunters' massacres.

She voluntarily abandoned her identity as a hunter and chose to take care of the tortured patients who failed to be transformed in the research building. In the end, she committed suicide or was murdered...

Even after her death, her consciousness was trapped in an endless nightmare. She still wanted to hide everything that happened in the fishing village and guard the Star Clock Tower...

This is also the reason why Hayasaka Ai cannot enter the clock tower from the fishing village. Maria's dream is influenced by her own will, and she almost defensively resists revealing the secrets of the fishing village.

If we kill the child of Kos who was born successfully due to the distortion of the dream, it means that everything in this dream will end...

Fortunately, I realized the specialness of the ancient god's offspring and this dream, so I kept it."

What a tough enemy. My invasion of this "nightmare" must have been part of "Him's" plan. If I had really killed that offspring at that time, the curse would have disappeared and the dream would have collapsed...

It is not difficult for "Him" to invade the dreams of the hunters who were cursed because of their participation in the fishing village massacre. Destruction is much easier than construction. That's why "Him" noticed my existence that time and took action to collapse the dream in the first place...

Putting aside his heavy heart, Liu Cheng jumped down the stairs. Amid Hayasaka Ai's exclamation, he picked up the girl in a princess hug and jumped up the stairs.

A crisp, glass-shattering sound was heard, and the boundary between dreams became blurred. Liu Cheng, through control over dreams, forcibly brought Hayasaka Ai into Maria's dream.

"Put me down."

Perhaps she felt a little shy because of Sayo's expressionless face, so Hayasaka Ai struggled to jump out of Liucheng's arms.

“I really envy you guys for coming here without feeling anything.

Xiaoye, did you also choose to become an ancient god? I know that this guy chose to become the Dragon King with the power of "God" in order to have the power to resist the invasion of dreams. "

The cute and shy Hayasaka Ai is forcibly changing the subject. Xiaoye knows that she is an "ancient species" raised by a human mother, and she is not sure whether she is an ancient god...

Seeing Xiaoye looking at her, she seemed to want to know Liucheng's opinion.

"When I first met Xiaoye, I had a very clear intuition that she might kill me...

In terms of life level, she and I should be similar to those "ancient gods".

They can kill each other, and they can raise their own tribes, but they still maintain their human appearance. "

The three did not disturb Maria, who was still sitting in a dead state. After eliminating those losers with simple yet twisted shapes, who could summon "small" meteorites and whose bodies were artificially transformed into "families", they began to explore the research hall again.

Because of yesterday's experience, Hayasaka Ai and Sayo searched quickly. After handing the task of recording the books and materials to Liucheng, they started to clear out the crazy patients on each floor of the research building from top to bottom.

These wandering sarcoma patients, wearing blood-stained hospital gowns and with heads swollen to indescribable sizes, attacked Hayasaka Ai and the others frantically, uttering heart-wrenching howls to vent the torture and pain they had once endured.

Even Xiaoye had to harden her heart to cooperate with Hayasaka Ai to kill these monsters whose appearance could no longer be considered human.

As for those mentally ill patients who curled up in their own corners due to physical and mental pain, they still maintained their sanity and did not kill them all.

In a dark ward, they saw those suffering patients lying on the beds, calling out for Maria...

Liu Cheng's guess about Maria was confirmed. Hayasaka Ai, who couldn't bear to see these patients suffer, tried to cast healing magic on them to relieve their pain.

After examining the traces of transformation left on the bodies of these patients, Liucheng looked through the research materials he had collected and restored the original purpose of the building full of patients.

The words that appear most frequently in those books are "Healing Church", "Family", "Heavenly Messenger", "Blood"...

This building is where the Healing Church conducts forbidden research on transforming "humans" into their own "Heavenly Messengers" in pursuit of the power of the Ancient Gods.

The group walked down the ingenious spiral staircase with heavy hearts. Along with the strange sound of an ominous bell, the invader with an ominous red light all around him that Xiaoye met yesterday, Brad, appeared again. He attacked Hayasaka Ai and the others indiscriminately.

This mysterious man, wearing tattered clothes and with his head covered with a hood that looked like it was made from the scalp of a wild animal, was holding a strangely shaped weapon in his hand.

The most incredible thing was that before launching the attack, he stabbed himself with the peculiarly shaped weapon covered with spikes on the top, as if he wanted to release all the blood in his body that was contaminated by the blood of the ancient gods.

Blood gushed out of his body, and Brado brandished his weapon "Bloodlet" and smashed down with a bold and sweeping move.

Hayasaka Ai raised her gun and shot to suppress him, while Sayo drew her sword and rushed towards him.

Chapter 263: Cathedral Statues

"Those who peek into the unknown will suffer endless death!"

Brado, the church assassin who was repelled by Xiaoye's sword, realized that the situation was not good. He slid to avoid the bullet shot by Hayasaka Ai, then took out a white porcelain bottle and swallowed the pill inside.

Brado's originally agile steps suddenly became extremely heavy and slow. Facing Xiaoye's slashing knife, he did not even try to dodge, intending to withstand the blow head-on.

He gathered strength in his hands, holding two strangely shaped, long weapons, and smashed them down at Xiaoye's forehead.

The bullets blessed with magic by Hayasaka Ai bombarded him, splashing large amounts of blood, but Brad seemed to have become more "clear-headed" and ferocious as a result, and he moved forward without any delay.

puff-

The bow blade, bent into a strange arc, suddenly pierced the church assassin from behind at a tricky angle.

Liucheng's figure disappeared in a flash. After stabbing from behind, in order to avoid being discovered by the "enemy", he quickly eliminated his presence in the dream.

This crazy assassin armed with strange weapons had his body dissipated in the dream just like when the "Physalis" singer was killed.

"Is this guy still alive? Is he still sane?

Did you suddenly appear just to stop us from exploring the secrets of this dream?"

Hayasaka Ai came to the shadow of Liu Cheng, whom she could only vaguely see, and tried to confirm her guess through Liu Cheng's answer.

Because he was just a phantom at the moment, Hayasaka Ai couldn't see the expression on Liucheng's face, but through his blurry posture and movements, she could vaguely tell that he looked like he was thinking.

The vague shadow of Orange passed under the spiral staircase, past the poison pool filled with strange mist and soaked with the corpses of patients, pointing to the downward passage opposite the first floor of the research building.

"The one we just killed was his clone. He is still down there."

Without Liucheng saying anything, Hayasaka Ai and Sayo quickly walked down the worn stone steps and stopped on the suspended platform behind them.

Xiaoye walked to the edge of the platform with gorgeous reliefs, lowered her head and looked down. It was about four or five stories high.

It shouldn't be a problem for her to jump down, but if it was Hayasaka Ai, I don't know if she would be seriously injured.

Click——

Hayasaka Ai tried to pull the black iron joystick on the platform that seemed to be used frequently. Along with the mechanical push sound of the valve actuator in operation, the iron chains hanging vertically around the stone dome ceiling were pulled and retracted, making a rattling sound.

Xiaoye looked back at Hayasaka Ai in surprise. She didn't expect Hayasaka Ai to be so direct.

“I always feel like I’ll die if I jump down.”

Hayasaka Ai shrugged at Sayo, made some comments with some black humor, and then looked seriously at the strange and blasphemous statue that was gradually rising from the bottom of the platform.

In the middle, on the stone table that looked like an operating table, there was a skinny half-body with the head and torso also covered with white cloth.

Three full-body human-shaped statues wearing the clothes of the Healing Church stood around the stone table. The crowned statue in the middle had surgical gloves on both hands with ten fingers spread out, as if grabbing something from the half-body corpse below; the hooded human-shaped statue on the left was holding a heavy scripture in both hands, and the statue on the right was hunched over with a bell in his right hand as if preparing to shake it; and under the white cloth hanging from the edge of the stone table, a ferocious beast that looked like a wild wolf emerged.

Hayasaka Ai stared at this large statue that was integrated into one and had a mysterious and ferocious sense of religious ritual. She tried to walk forward and lift the white cloth to check the half-body.

As if feeling the weight of Hayasaka Ai's body, the slightly delayed mechanical transmission sound rang again. Xiaoye looked up at the iron chain that was being lowered quickly near the statue, and jumped to Hayasaka Ai's side.

When the statue sank, it was as smooth as riding in an elevator. After marveling at the ingenuity of the human architects of this world, Hayasaka Ai covered her nose with the back of her hand, trying to weaken the morgue-like smell, and carefully examined the half-body corpse.

The top of the head of this half-body corpse was cruelly dug open, as if to look for something important in his brain. This strange coincidence reminded Hayasaka Ai of the heads that she had seen in the fishing village being taken off and cruelly dug open by hunters.

She stared at the skinny and rotten half-body skeleton and thought. The shape of the skull of the corpse gave Hayasaka Ai a sense of déjà vu.