Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1283 1255. Nightmare Secret
In the direction that Lan En turned his head to look, a translucent human figure swayed, creating a slight disharmony with the surrounding empty air.

The other party didn't speak or move, and soon the incoordination disappeared quickly.

He seemed to be able to hide more perfectly when he stood still.

However, the observation and energy required for 'discovering a hider' and 'keeping an eye on an exposed hider' are not at the same level.

Having already spotted the other party, Lan merely frowned beneath his hood, and then the witcher's extraordinary senses made it a bit difficult for him, but it was effective enough to lock onto the other party's presence.

The other party did not move, so Lan En just stood up from his squatting position and looked at him without making any hostile moves.

The residents in this alley must have all 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 later, a figure appeared at the position that Lan En had been staring at, like a chameleon that had shed its disguise.

He was a man wearing tattered clothes, with both his lining and his coat almost torn into strips.

But the neat leggings were still intact, the large collar of the windbreaker that stood up high and covered half of his face, and the strange weapon at his waist still showed that he was a Yharnam hunter.

He was not panicked after he appeared. Instead, he lit the small lantern hanging around his waist in the dark alley.

At this time, Lan En noticed that the other person had a lot of bandages on his head, like a burn patient, or as if he didn't want to see anything.

"I haven't seen you before, which is really strange."

The unknown hunter said this. Not to mention how he could see with his blindfolded eyes, just the tone of his voice...
Lan En said indifferently: "Have you met all the people in Yanan?"

Although Yharnam doesn't have a large population from a modern perspective, it's a bit difficult to know everyone.
"Of course I do."

But the hunter in front of him said something that was unlikely in a relaxed tone.

He held his forehead with one hand, put the other hand on his waist, and leaned his back against the stone brick wall at the end of the alley.

Appear relaxed.

Lan En looked at him and tilted his head.

This person seems a little special.

"You are a sane hunter, right? It seems that you have gone astray at some point. It seems that we have a lot in common."

The unknown hunter's mouth was also covered with a bandage, so his speech was a little muffled, but still clear enough.

Lan En could tell that he seemed a little happy about his appearance.

'The hunter who is still awake', this title is not unfamiliar to Lan En.

The Crow Hunter had already told him this when he was in Yharnam last time, under the guidance of Master William, he killed the Spider Rom, the man-made superior being that made time go back endlessly.

Some hunters are able to sense the reversal of time, and they maintain a precious lucidity during the never-ending nights of hunting.

Is this one in front of me one of them?
And if he is indeed the 'awake hunter' that he knows, it means
Lan En's mind was quickly sorting out his thoughts based on the existing information.

On the other side, the unknown hunter seemed to be happy and was about to give Lan some advice.

However, due to the professional habits of the Yharnam hunters, his low laughter sounded like a malicious sneer.

"This is the hunter's nightmare. Hunters who are lost in blood and hunting will come here."

"Leave if you can before you get stuck here."

"You'll soon see the unfortunate ones who can't leave, the hunters lost in blood, drooling like wild animals. This is the fate of fools."

"So don't be too confident. Turn back while it's still possible. Unless..."

At this point, the tone of the unfamiliar hunter in front of Lan En became a little strange.

He said this in a 'watch a good show' and cautious tone.

"Do you have any interest in this nightmare?"

Lan En did not answer him immediately. Instead, he lowered his head as if in deep thought. It didn't take long, just a few breaths.

When he raised his head, he asked, "You said this is actually a dream?"

After the other party first said that this was the "Hunter's Nightmare", his experience in the "future" Yharnam, and the old Yharnam he is in now
Isn't it time travel, but the so-called 'memories in dreams'?

That is to say, outside of this "dream", the real timeline has been retraced by Rom countless times, and now it has escaped the Yharnam Hunting Night that was retraced!

Dreamland.

Lan En was not unfamiliar with Yanan's concept.

Although the last time he came to this city, he talked with Master William after he killed the Spider that Caught Time. He only got a little information at the last stage of the journey.

But Master William is undoubtedly the human being with the farthest vision in the whole of Yharnam, if he can still be called a human being.

The amount of information in the conversation with him is very large.

After all, in his eyes, even those hunters who remained awake were nothing more than a group of flies flying around in the fog.

At the end of the conversation, Master William revealed to Lan the root cause of the disaster in Yharnam.

The desire of the ancient gods to give birth to the son of God has become a nightmare, dragging the whole of Yharnam into a nightmare. And now this situation.
"A dream within a dream? A nested dream?"

The witcher said this uncertainly, and at the same time took off the hood of his cloak, revealing his face to show his sincerity.

"That's it. You understand quickly."

The unknown hunter nodded and sneered a few times.

"Oh, in this long nightmare, nothing is surprising, even if it means going back to the past, right?"

He was a rare person who showed no emotion after seeing Lan En's appearance.

This seemed to be due to the bandage covering his eyes.

But if he couldn't see Lan En's face, how could he move around freely here?
Lan En could only assume that the other party also possessed a "vision" in a non-ordinary sense, perhaps the "clairvoyance" in Byron Weiss's academic theory.

But his [Clairvoyance] is obviously different from mine. At least my [Clairvoyance] cannot see through things. After covering my eyes with a layer of cloth, I can only use the strength of my other senses to make up for it.

After the initial conversation, the witcher slowed down his pace and approached the other party cautiously.

"I'm Lan."

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 matters. Haha, call me Simon."

"Being able to maintain normality in the midst of endless chaos, even if it's just a trivial normality, I think it's a good thing, right?"

Lann spoke softly after introducing each other.

Simon hummed in a noncommittal tone.

"You just said 'sober hunter'. I've heard that expression before, from the mouth of a hunter dressed as a crow."

Lan walked to Simon's side, leaned against the wall, and half sat on the tombstone beside the wall, with the sound of armor plates rubbing and colliding against each other.

Only then did they look at each other at eye level.

"【Crow Hunter】Aileen, do you know her?"

As soon as Lan En mentioned this image, Simon, whose upper face was wrapped in bandages and whose lower face always had a mocking smile, visibly tightened his mouth.

"You know Irene? Is she still out there? How's it going there?"

A series of questions popped out of Simon's mouth anxiously.

Lan methodically revealed some less important things to increase the trust between himself and Simon.

"At least she's fine until I leave. Stay with Henrik and the Gascoignes."

"Henrik and the Gascoigne family?" But the news seemed to arouse Simon's doubts. "I know Irene has been trying to get rid of that troublesome old dog Henrik, but she hasn't done it yet, let alone stay with him?"

There was no malice in Simon's tone when he called Henrik an 'old dog', it was just a teasing statement.

In fact, in the endless night of hunting, unless there is a particularly deep love or hate, the hunters will basically become very indifferent in the end.

The thick blood, the dangerous fighting, and the endless nights are all very detrimental to a person's spiritual structure.

Going crazy seems to be the inevitable final destination for hunters.

But Simon's words made Lan En frown.

"Henrik didn't go crazy this time, because the Gascoignes are all alive."

Lan looked at Simon strangely.

"A blood moon rose in Yharnam, and the rewind stopped. It's just that someone is still lengthening the night. When was the last time you had contact with someone outside of the nightmare?"

"Blood moon? The flashback outside the nightmare has stopped?" Simon was even more surprised than Lan.

He covered his forehead and said, "My resonance bell is broken. How long have I been here?"

Simon seemed to have lost track of time.

But he soon cheered up, just like Irene at that time, or even a little more excited.

"There's change! That's a good thing!"

"But change may also bring disruption, making it difficult for us to find the secrets we need to get from dreams." Lan En frowned slightly.

Secrets, Yharnam is full of unknown secrets.

The ancient gods pulled the city into a dream, and these secrets are the key to crucial information.

The awake hunters run back and forth with repeated deaths just to uncover more secrets, hoping to eventually escape from the dream.

In Yharnam, many things cannot be solved by violence.

Where are the ancient gods? What is their form of existence?
If you don’t even know these secrets, how can you leave the ancient god’s dream?

(End of this chapter)