After hearing Fang Zheng's answer, Josephka and Irene were speechless. They knew how terrible this nightmare was, but...
"This nightmare is far more terrible than you can imagine, outsider."
After a moment's silence, Erin spoke again.
"It's not as simple as it seems. In fact, there are deeper secrets hidden behind it..."
"so what?"
Faced with Irene's dissuasion, Fang Zheng seemed quite unconcerned.
"Although I don't know what secrets are hidden behind this town, what will happen if it goes on like this? The Hunting Night will continue, and then those people will have mental breakdowns, go crazy and die, just like what we are seeing now. One after another, they fall and become monsters. What else can we do? Wait here to die until the last moment? That's not my style. Maybe there will be bigger troubles after defeating the Hunting Night, and there may be more dangerous existences, but we can't just do nothing..."
Having said that, Fang Zheng glanced at Irene.
"Or are you ready to hunt those crazy hunters in this endless hunting night until one of you dies? What's the point? Excuse me, from the previous battle, I think it's more likely that you will die before those crazy guys. And even if you die, it won't change anything."
“…”
Hearing Fang Zheng's words, Irene couldn't help but glare at him, while Yusefka remained silent. Then, as if she had made up her mind, she raised her head and looked at Irene.
"I think Mr. Outsider is right, Irene. We have been running away, but... maybe it's time to change something."
"I don't think he can do it."
But in response to Yusefka's words, Irene shook her head.
"You know, Dr. Yusefka, you know what a terrifying existence is behind this nightmare. It is something that ordinary people cannot fight against. This is all we can do now..."
“You won’t know unless you try.”
Fang Zheng obviously didn't take Irene's advice to heart.
"We have to do something. If possible, I still hope you can help me. At least even if I fail, I will be the only one to die. But if we succeed in breaking through all this, it will bring new hope to the entire Yharnam, right?"
“But it could also make things worse.”
Irene obviously disagreed with what Fang Zheng said, and her tone became serious.
"Believe me, stranger. I have been here for a long time and have witnessed countless things. Why do you think I want to hunt those crazy hunters? That is my duty, my mission, and it is what I can do to them. Death is not terrible. It can even be said that it is the real relief. When you can't even die and can only fall into an endless nightmare, into eternal pain and unspeakable curses, that is the real nightmare."
After saying this, Irene turned and left.
"Don't let the blood blind your vision, outsider. The night of hunting is just the beginning... You don't know the secrets hidden behind it..."
After leaving these words, Irene disappeared out the door. Fang Zheng looked at Irene's disappearing back and shook his head.
“I hate this kind of person the most.”
"Mr. Stranger..."
Hearing Fang Zheng's complaint, Dr. Yusefka became a little flustered.
"Actually, Ms. Irene is not a bad person, it's just..."
"No, Dr. Yusefka, you don't understand me."
Fang Zheng waved his hand.
"Do you know what kind of people I hate the most? The kind of people who only say half of what they say and think they are the only smart ones and everyone else is stupid. She said I don't know the secret behind it, so why doesn't she tell me the secret? She doesn't tell me, doesn't let me know, and even tries to stop me... Don't you think there's something wrong with her brain?"
"Well……"
Hearing Fang Zheng's complaint, Yusefka was embarrassed for a moment, not knowing what to say.
Having said this, Fang Zheng paused and then looked at Yusefka.
"Doctor Yusefka, you wouldn't do such a thing, would you? We are all sensible people, and it would be better for everyone if we explain things clearly. Don't try to fool me with things like 'you have to find out for yourself' or 'the truth lies in the exploration'. I'm not interested in running a hundred miles and acting as a detective to solve a problem that can be explained in a few minutes..."
"……this……"
Facing Fang Zheng's question, Yusefka also looked embarrassed.
"I'm sorry, I can't tell you too much, outsider. After all, this is the greatest secret of the Healing Church..."
"Secret? The world is about to be destroyed, and everyone is about to die. Who would want to hear this secret?"
Fang Zheng shrugged.
"Even if they knew, no one can get out of this damn place. What can I do if I just use a loudspeaker to play my music all over the street? Can I rule the world? Or become the king of Yharnam? Those who need to hide in the house will still hide, and those who need to be killed will still be killed. If your secret is leaked, will the situation be worse than it is now?"
“…”
Hearing this, Yusefka was also stunned. After a while, she smiled softly.
"Indeed... Outsider, as you said, we have been foolishly guarding this secret, but now it seems that all this is just our selfishness. In this case, then I will tell you, although I myself don’t know much, the root of all this has to start from the cemetery under Yharnam..."
From Yusefka's narration, Fang Zheng finally learned the secrets about the Yharnam area.
At the beginning, this was just a small town, nothing special, and in this small town, there was an organization called Byron Weiss College.
It sounds like a place composed of intellectuals, and it is indeed so. These people have nothing to do all day long, so they think about all kinds of things and dig here and there. You say that if you can come up with Fermat's Last Theorem, it can be regarded as a contribution to human civilization. But what was unexpected was that this group of people did not come up with anything good, but instead accidentally dug up an ancient relic hidden under Yharnam.
So these guys who had nothing to do and were not good enough academically immediately changed their jobs to become archaeologists and began to study these ruins. As a result, they found that these ruins were left by an ancient civilization called Sumer. What surprised them even more was that they found many extraordinary things in the ruins of Sumer. For example, huge beasts and mutated monsters, even various secret documents, etc.
If it were an ordinary country bumpkin, he would immediately turn around and run away in fear upon seeing a monster. But the people in this academy are all experts in courting death. After seeing so many incredible discoveries, they would risk their lives to get closer!
The result was that although there were heavy casualties during the exploration process, the academy did get a lot of good stuff. What excited them the most was that according to the documents excavated from the underground Sumerian ruins, this group of ancient Sumerians seemed to have possessed some technology that could allow humans to "evolve" into a higher level of life!
So, just like in all horror movies, Byron Weiss began to study and try to acquire this technology with great enthusiasm. Fang Zheng really wanted to complain that they didn't think about it. If the Sumerians really succeeded, would it be the turn of humans to dominate the earth? Isn't that just wishful thinking?
And hard work pays off, this group of old scholars actually managed to make this thing. According to Sumerian records, what they had to do next was to obtain "blessed blood" and then gain the power to communicate with the ancient gods.
So Dean William volunteered to be the first test subject - of course, Fang Zheng couldn't figure out why they didn't use animals for experiments. Maybe they were afraid that after injecting cats and dogs with divine blood, they might really communicate with the ancient gods and say, "The humans here have a very bad conscience by treating us as experimental animals. Please ask the gods to exterminate them." Then the ancient gods would just snap their fingers and exterminate humans?
So, just like all horror movies, the dean who was injected with the divine blood felt like he was taking melatonin, he was in great shape, he ate everything he wanted, and it was as easy as drinking water and eating to solve the Goldbach conjecture while lying in bed. So the dean felt that he was getting close to the truth of the universe, and seeing their dean turned from a talent into a genius overnight, others couldn't help it, so the Bayer-Watkins Institute turned into a blood bank and began to recruit a large number of volunteers to transfuse the "divine blood", thus promoting the research on Sumerian civilization.
Then... just like all horror movies, too much is as bad as too little, and something goes wrong.
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