"Um?"

Feeling the trembling of the dagger in his hand, Fang Zheng was stunned for a moment. He could feel that there seemed to be some kind of will coming from the dagger in his hand. Although it was not very clear, Fang Zheng could still understand the meaning of this dagger.

"Can you upgrade?"

The dagger trembled, then stopped - which was equivalent to a nod.

"Can I do it now?"

The dagger trembled twice, and then there was no sound.

"No? Do you need something... ah, I see..."

It was not until this moment that Fang Zheng finally remembered that the two swords were recast by the Fire Keeper in the Firelink Shrine in his dream. This meant that if he wanted to transform these two weapons, he had to go back to his dream and find the Fire Keeper?

In that case, let's just wait a little longer.

Fang Zheng doesn’t have the time for this at the moment, after all, that big chin is still dangling in front.

The further he walked, the more Fang Zheng realized that this place was like a chaotic battlefield. Killing and fighting could be seen everywhere. Hunters slaughtered werewolves, monsters slaughtered hunters, and villagers slaughtered monsters. The sewers and streets were full of corpses. However, those who had been skinned seemed to be alive. They groaned in pain. When Fang Zheng and Big Jaw got closer, they could see those people who had been skinned, as if only bones and internal organs were left, stretched out their hands to them, as if begging them to end their suffering.

Is this the hunters' nightmare?

Looking at the sea of ​​blood and corpses in front of him, Fang Zheng remained silent. He didn't know what happened here, but Fang Zheng suspected that the "action" mentioned by Dr. Yusefka before might be related to this. According to Dr. Yusefka, the Healing Church has undergone considerable changes after a certain action, and many hunters disappeared almost overnight. From the current point of view, the disappearance of these hunters is likely related to this.

But…what exactly did these hunters do?

From what Fang Zheng had seen so far, it was obvious that they had carried out a massacre, but this was very strange, because from what Fang Zheng had seen, the situation in this Yharnam was even worse than the one he had been to before. And if it was really the Healing Church that had done such a thing, then the people of Yharnam would definitely not be completely unaware of it. Not to mention the little girl, that Lady Sophie would have known something about it. But when Fang Zheng recalled what the old man had said before, he had never mentioned anything like this.

However, this is just a nightmare after all, and the scenes in it do not necessarily correspond to reality.

At the same time, Fang Zheng and Big Chin also waded through the bloody sewage, crossed the underground river, and came to a wide place inside. This place looked like an abandoned garbage dump, with bloody corpses abandoned everywhere on both sides.

"ah……"

Just as Fang Zheng and Big Chin walked in, suddenly, a skinny man covered in blood struggled to get up from the pile of corpses not far from them and stretched out his hand towards them in despair.

"Ah... please, please help us..."

As he spoke tremblingly, he turned his head and looked behind him.

"That ugly beast... a great fear hangs over us..."

“Boom…!!”

As if to complement his words, a low sound of footsteps came from the front of the two of them. Upon hearing the footsteps, the man trembled and curled up into a ball, shaking continuously.

"Ah... here he comes! Listen! The cursed Ludwig is coming! Spare us! Spare us!"

With wailing sounds, a huge monster soon appeared in front of Fang Zheng and Big Chin. It had a huge body, and looked like a product of a human and a horse fused together. It had two necks, one of which had half a human face and half a horse face fused together. The other neck seemed to have been chopped off by something, leaving only a huge hole. But in that hole, countless eyeballs were attached, and they kept flipping with the monster's movements.

The monster's two arms stretched out like a wild beast, and it was supported by four horse legs. On both sides of its body, two human legs could be vaguely seen. Moreover, it seemed that he was carrying a big sword behind him?

"This horse-faced brother has a real personality..."

Looking at the monster in front of him, Fang Zheng couldn't help but be stunned. He had seen disgusting things before, but he had never seen anything as disgusting as this. Fang Zheng really wanted to see who had dreamed of this. Your aesthetics are too anti-human!

“——!!”

But the monster obviously would not be polite to Fang Zheng. It made a sound that sounded like a shout and a horse's neigh, and then rushed towards Fang Zheng and Big Chin as fast as a war horse!

"This is not easy to fight, we need to observe carefully!"

At this moment, Big Jaw seemed to realize that something was wrong. He screamed, then quickly rolled on the ground, dodging the monster's attack from both sides with Fang Zheng. The monster, which missed the attack, quickly turned around, raised its head and looked at Fang Zheng, then grabbed him with one claw.

Oh my god, why didn't you catch me and him? Is it because I am more handsome than him? You are discriminating based on appearance!

Seeing the horse-faced monster rushing towards him, Fang Zheng secretly complained. It was not his fault that he was handsome. He was born like this. He didn't want to be handsome. If possible, Fang Zheng also hoped to be indistinguishable from the crowd, instead of being so outstanding. What's the benefit of being handsome? Being surrounded by girls since childhood, girls confessing to you at every turn, and boys picking fights with you because their beloved girls have taken a fancy to you... Alas, this is all unprovoked disaster!

From this, we can see that this horse-faced monster was probably also an ugly, short and ugly person when he was a human being, otherwise why would he attack himself?

It must be jealousy!

It’s not my fault that I’m handsome!

Fang Zheng was secretly complaining in his heart, but he did not stop his hands. He just stared at the horse-faced monster in front of him, and rolled sideways again as it pounced on him. The horse-faced monster's right claw almost brushed Fang Zheng's hair as it passed over his head and swept across the ground on the other side, even creating a series of sparks on the hard floor.

She is so hostile to handsome guys, she must be an ugly person.

Fang Zheng leaped up, and at the same time, he swung the sword in his right hand and chopped it on the right front leg of the horse-faced monster, causing it to stagger and stop. Fang Zheng then stood up and spun around, and then the sword in his hand whistled out again, piercing the side of the horse-faced monster.

"Bang!!"

The sharp sword was unable to penetrate the equally hard body of the horse-faced monster, but the blow made the monster wail, and then fell limply to the ground.

At this moment, Fang Zheng suddenly saw the man with the big chin sneaking up behind the horse-faced monster, and then he raised his right hand... Oh my god, brother, you are kidding me!

"Pick your ass!"

As Fang Zheng watched, the man with the big jaw yelled, and then he suddenly stretched out his right hand. Then Fang Zheng saw the man's right hand directly inserted into the horse-faced monster's butt! It went in all the way to his elbow! !

Looking at the scene in front of him, Fang Zheng was completely stunned!

“——!!”

After suffering such a brutal blow from Big Jaw, the Horse-Faced Monster cried out in pain. Then it suddenly turned around and pounced on the opponent!

"Wow, this guy's counterattack is so fierce, I can't hold on any longer!"

Facing the crazy counterattack of the horse-faced monster, Big Chin seemed to be a little embarrassed. He kept dodging the attack of the horse-faced monster, but was still hit by the horse-faced monster. Big Chin's reaction was also very fast. He immediately rolled up the moment he landed, and then took out a blood bottle from his waist and drank it. Then he rolled again and avoided another collision with the horse-faced monster.

"Hey, Immortal Squad, help! Someone's going to die!"

You are quite steady in pulling out this hatred.

Looking at the horse-faced monster that was chasing after Big Jaw, Fang Zheng sighed. He had originally thought about letting Big Jaw lure the monsters here so that he could take the opportunity to slip away. But then he thought that the other party had at least helped him learn a new counterattack skill, so as a human being... one should still be grateful.

So Fang Zheng also stared at the monster in front of him and tightened his grip on the sword in his hand again - soon, the pitch-black blade began to turn red again, and burning flames emerged from the sword.

Just as the horse-faced monster jumped high and then fell down to try to crush Big Jaw, Fang Zheng roared angrily, then he suddenly jumped up, and the sword in his right hand drew a perfect arc in the air, hitting the horse-faced monster's body heavily, knocking it away.

"boom!!"

With a loud bang, the horse-faced monster crashed into the wall not far away and then fell to the ground. At the same time, the big sword on its back fell out and stuck next to the horse-faced monster.

It was a very beautiful sword, transparent throughout, shining with a soft glow like a dark moon. You could even see dots of light on the blade.

"ah……"

Under the moon-like light, the horse-faced monster seemed to gradually wake up. It opened its eyes and slowly looked at the big sword beside it, with a hint of nostalgia in its eyes.

"Ah... So you have always been with me... My true mentor, the moonlight that guides me..."

As it spoke, the horse-faced monster slowly climbed up - this time, it no longer looked like a wild beast, but had truly turned back into a human being.

Then, the horse-faced monster stretched out his hand, grasped the shining sword, held it horizontally in front of him, and looked at Fang Zheng.

"Come on, hunter..."