Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1299 1271. Injection
"I have a carriage outside." Maria looked Lan up and down and nodded decisively. "We can take the carriage to the fishing village."

The demon hunter turned around and walked out the door.

Maria followed closely, but before pushing the door and leaving, she looked back with a complicated expression at the patients in the laboratory who were still tied to the steel beds and almost motionless.

"Whoo~"

She took a deep breath, then as if she had made up her mind, she slammed the door and left.

After leaving the laboratory, the two men walked towards the door downstairs without stopping or hiding.

Time is tight now, and they all feel there is no need to hide anything.

So in the research hall, many clergymen coming and going looked at them in astonishment.

Maria should have left by now, right?
The clergy had all seen the female hunter get in the car and leave this morning, but now
As if they remembered something, many clergymen who were holding materials, books, and notebooks and walking briskly as if expecting something, froze when they saw Maria.

Although they always have no expression on their faces, the emotional fluctuations that have been revealed in their body movements are still too obvious.

It was so obvious that Lan En, who was walking in front, felt the disharmony almost immediately.

There is something wrong with these clergy today.

"Adeline." Suddenly, Lan, who was walking in front, stopped and asked Maria thoughtfully, "Did you see where Adeline was when you came back secretly?"

"What? No, I didn't."

Maria, who was already upset, responded subconsciously.

But she had just said halfway when she immediately realized something was wrong.

She turned back secretly, thinking of being on guard against Lan En, so it was reasonable that Adeline didn't see her.

But Adeline was running around in the research hall every day, helping enthusiastically, and had been doing so since Adeline came to the research hall. How could she not have seen Adeline when she came back?

Maria felt as if she was falling into an icy cave for a moment.

All the hairs on my body stood up!
She looked around the entire research hall blankly.

Before coming back today, although this research hall was eerie, it was actually not much different from Yharnam's overall style.

Although there is a strange smell of medicine and the patients' cries and screams, Maria has always felt that this is an unavoidable painful process in treating the disease.

As long as you can get through it, there is hope. You have more hope than those patients who can only watch the disease progress step by step and wait to die after being diagnosed with gray blood disease.

For patients with this disease, being able to feel pain sometimes is something they should be thankful for.

But what about now?
The patients' wails and cries were weakened by the well-soundproof walls and doors, turning into faint low moans that echoed in the empty research hall.

Maria now looked at the entire research hall and felt cold all over.

What have I done?!
How many of these patients were able to persevere in such great pain because of her encouragement and persuasion?

Compared to these pains, death seems like a relief.

If there is a possibility of curing the disease, then of course everything is worth it, but now.
Am I cursing them by telling them to 'stay alive'?!
The female hunter, who was always known for her stability and accuracy, seemed to be dizzy at this moment, and raised her hand to press her forehead under her tricorn hat.

His face was no longer as white as porcelain, but more like the paleness of a corpse.

But then, a big hand reached out from in front of her and pressed down the palm that was pressing on her forehead.

Lan held down Maria's hand and walked straight past her to a clergyman who was standing there in a daze.

In the dim light of the kerosene lamp, Lan's tall body cast a heavy shadow, covering the entire person opposite him.

"Adeline, the Blood Saint who was busy here before." Lan En's voice was low and gentle. "Where is she now?"

The gentle voice made people tremble inexplicably.

".No." The clergyman facing Lan En stuttered, but still said with a stern face, "Hunter, you, you just need to do your job well. Don't interfere in research matters."

He obviously hoped to use the so-called "rules" in the research hall to keep Lan En from interfering.

But since the most crucial information of this nightmare has been confirmed, why should Lan En care about the little "rules" of this research hall?

"You just said, 'Research'?"

Lan En did not respond to the clergyman in front of him. Instead, he tilted his head and asked softly.

For some reason, the clergyman felt increasingly uneasy when he saw Lan En tilting his head slightly.

He opened his mouth and wanted to say something.

But it's no longer necessary.

"Oh!"

A huge black shadow flew out from under the wide cloak and smashed onto the opponent's head horizontally!

Lan En's clenched fist was not much bigger than a human head.

The dragon scales on the outside of the gauntlet smashed his cheekbones, squeezing his eyeballs out of their sockets. Then the sharp-edged dragon scales tore off almost half of his face. Immediately, the clergyman who was standing in front of Lan En fell back more than two meters from the ground and finally fell to the wet stone brick floor.

The clergy who were originally watching this place immediately retreated far away, and Lan En didn't pay much attention to them.

It's just that the vertical pupils in his eyes were shrinking unsteadily, and the witcher's senses had been opened.

Even if someone walked on the damp brick floor of the research hall, no trace would be left.

However, those details that are invisible to ordinary people cannot escape the demon hunter's super senses.

He glanced at the ground and immediately recognized Adeline's footprints, which were lighter than those of the others in the research hall.

He followed directly along the footprints.

Maria followed behind him as they passed the clergyman whose half facial bones were shattered and whose only arm was still unconsciously scratching the wet ground.

"Pfft~"

The tip of the long sword [Fallen Leaf] stabbed into the clergyman's back, and with the sound of flesh and blood stirring, it turned ninety degrees before being pulled out neatly.

This action frightened the clergy so much that they immediately scattered and ran away in different directions.

The descendants of Sumeru who were guarding at the stairs upstairs were still like stiff puppets. They just lowered their heads to take a look and then ignored them.
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Adeline was being tied to a chair by a clergyman in white robes, which made her feel like she was being tortured.

But she knew that this was impossible.

"You don't have to tie me so tightly." Adeline said to the white-robed clergyman who was tightening the leather restraints, twisting her body a little uncomfortably.

"I will cooperate with your experiment, and I can endure the pain."

"Really?" The clergyman in white robes continued his work expressionlessly. "It's hard to say, Adeline. This experiment will be very painful."

"But in order to help those patients with gray blood," Adeline swallowed to relieve her tension, but still regained her confidence, "I can definitely make it through!"

"Get through it?" As if hearing something interesting, the white-robed clergyman smiled inconspicuously.

he said softly.

"I'm afraid you won't make it. Even if you have a good tolerance for pain, our experiment is meant to exceed your endurance limit."

"As long as you can still bear it, I will keep increasing the amount. Always, always. Hehehe."

"Is, is that so?" Having said this, Adeline smiled a little unconfidently, but she still sat on the chair without struggling.

Just trying to calm my nervousness and fear with deep breathing.

Adeline's hands were also tied to the armrests of the chair, and the retention needles in her hands were exposed.

In the dim light, the clergyman in white robes brought over a tube of liquid that was so dim that its color could not be seen clearly, and it seemed that he was going to inject it into Adeline's body through a retention needle.

"This is the blood of a patient with gray blood."

He explained to Adeline with great interest.

This made the Blood Saint purse her lips, because normally, the clergy would not speak nicely to people like her who were not involved in the research.

She thought that maybe her enthusiasm had finally been recognized by everyone?

So Adeline asked softly, somewhat relaxed.

“Will it infect me?”

"Yes, of course." The white-robed clergyman leaned over to connect the outer end of the retention needle and said, "But don't worry, the sacred blood can cure all diseases."

"And your body is full of this sacred blood. It can't hurt you. It can't hurt you."

The other party's mumbling echoed in the room, eventually twisting into a sinister whisper.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Adeline muttered to herself to encourage herself, "No disease can resist the great [Blood Healing]!"

"You don't have to fight it." The white-robed clergyman had a cold smile on his face.

Adeline didn't understand why, but she felt that this smile made her feel more uneasy.

"What do you mean?"

"I said." The test tube containing the gray blood patient's blood has been docked with the external interface of the retention needle, and the finger of the white-robed clergyman has been pressed on the plunger of the syringe!

"You don't have to fight it, Adeline. We need you to nourish it, with the endless supply of sacred blood in your body! Let it take root in your body!"

“Listen to its growth, and listen to the knowledge beyond human wisdom it reveals in its growth!”

As he spoke, regardless of Adeline who didn't understand but was still panicked, his finger was about to push the plunger down and inject the blood into Adeline's body.

But at this moment, there was a noise coming from outside the laboratory door, and it was getting closer and closer!

(End of this chapter)