Chapter 472: Stealing Gascoigne
Here is a question: How do adventurers know the name of every elite or boss monster?
In fact, the way each name is learned is different.
Some of them can only be known by looking at the hunting manual after the game, and some of them can be guessed through various hints during the previous exploration, such as [Furnace Knight] and [Phantom of Pope Sullivan] as examples.
As for some special monsters, their names will appear in big magic letters like the names of various areas when they appear. If used together with various cool special effects, the shocking feeling will be explosive, such as the [Full Moon Queen's Imitation Teardrop].
Since Vann and his team did not have a hunting manual, they only learned the name of the elite monster they first encountered, "Priest Beast", from its dropped items later.
Father Gascoigne obviously hasn't reached the level of the Full Moon Queen's self-defense tears, because there is no real name revealing stage.
Now everyone only knew that this was a mad hunter, and he was rushing towards them.
Although they knew that Father Gascoigne was a hunter, Vann and the others thought that human enemies normally did not seem to be as impactful as monsters.
If any of Sean's old adventurers were here, they would probably quickly correct his dangerous idea. In the Sean series dungeons, just be happy when you encounter beast-like enemies with formulaic appearance, because that means there is nothing special about them except their strong desire to attack.
However, if they encounter a humanoid enemy, even the most experienced ones cannot guarantee that they will be in a good mood.
"Let's go!" The two hunters looked at each other, and rushed forward one on the left and one on the right. Realizing their intention, the others immediately opened fire from the front to attract Father Gascoigne's attention.
These two hunters used to be thugs wandering the streets. They often got into fights and learned the techniques of fighting. They were best at pinning the enemy to the ground and fighting with him.
That's right, seeing how old Father Gascoigne looked, they wanted to use the fighting style of street thugs to overwhelm him directly, and maybe they could even interrogate him to get some information or something!
Both of them were holding meat saws, one chopped off the hands and the other chopped off the legs. The people in front fired repeatedly at Father Gascoigne's arms, trying to use the impact of the bullets to prevent him from swinging the axe.
"Oh."
With amazing skills, Father Gascoigne dodged the two men's attacks at the critical moment with a delicate posture that looked like he would fall at any time. What rich combat experience must this have brought?
However, this is exactly the effect they wanted!
"Drink it, watch me!"
"Fall down!"
The two men suddenly dropped their weapons before they could retrieve them, and rushed towards Father Gascoigne with both hands!
"Good job!" Vane praised, because the two really pounced on the priest. He rushed over and said, "Hold on, wait for us--"
Before he finished speaking, two screams were heard, and the two men who had just pounced on the enemy and had not yet had time to form a lock-up position were thrown out with screams.
Throwing two strong adults out at the same time? What kind of strange power is this?
Vann's footsteps suddenly stopped, and Father Gascoigne also stood up at this time. His body, which was slightly taller than his head, stood in front of him like a big black tower, and one could even smell the blood on his breath.
It was also at this moment that Fann and others realized something:
The strength of the enemy cannot be judged simply by his size.
The meat saw slashed out fiercely, and Fann reacted immediately and chopped it off, but...
"Bang!"
A gunshot rang out, and Vann knelt on the ground with black lines all over his face.
Damn, I found that in the battle between hunters, whoever strikes first will suffer.
Although it is very cool to use a gun to counterattack, it will also be very "cool" to yourself if it falls into the hands of the enemy.
"You bastard boy, I'm going to kick your ass!"
The sharp tone unique to old lady Bell sounded from the side, luckily leading Father Gascoigne away who was about to say something heartfelt to Vann.
Everyone surrounded the enemy together, and everyone tried their best. The sound of gunfire and weapon deformation could be heard continuously, making the scene more lively than the Chinese New Year.
Father Gascoigne was extremely brave during the siege due to his rich combat experience, higher weapon proficiency than everyone else, and inhuman strength. Ordinary attacks could not stop him, and everyone's attacks had no effect on him.
It clearly looked like people surrounded him, but from the actual combat experience it seemed like he surrounded others!
Vann finally recovered from the state of being lying on the ground. When he got up, he saw that there were already several people kneeling on the ground like him, obviously they had been shot. Some of them even had a close relationship with Father Gascoigne. Blood was all over the ground.
This is an enemy more terrifying than the priest beast!
He was running over to help, but after only a few moves he was hit by the axe and flew backwards. He felt many of his bones were broken, and the axe stopped only when it hit the tombstone.
These stone-carved tombstones look dilapidated, but they feel surprisingly hard to the touch. There are many similar things in the cemetery.
"Hiss, there are three bottles left."
He pierced himself with a blood collection bottle. When the injury was serious, the time required for recovery became relatively longer. He could only use this time to observe the enemy.
Father Gascoigne's attacking moves are both bold and subtle. You never know when he will secretly shoot you. The probability of a successful counterattack is as high as 99%. Someone will fall down almost every time a gun is fired.
Compared to him, Vann felt like a gorilla who didn't know how to use a gun correctly. No, gorillas are at least strong, so he might as well be a monkey.
It would be great if I could avoid making an enemy of this seemingly experienced hunter and let him teach me fighting techniques.
As soon as this thought popped into his mind, the injuries on his body had recovered under the effect of the blood collection bottle. He shook his arms, which were still a little numb, and was about to join the battlefield again. If he didn't join the battle quickly, everyone would be defeated.
However, at this moment, he suddenly heard a muffled sound.
It was the irritating muffled sound of a weapon hitting an indestructible hard object.
People in the fierce battle may not have noticed it, but as a bystander, he saw it clearly. Father Gascoigne's axe missed the target and hit an inconspicuous tombstone. The axe was immediately bounced back by the hard tombstone.
A tombstone can make him deflect a knife?
Vann's eyes lit up. There were so many tombstones around. If they could figure out Father Gascoigne's attack method and the terrain here to guide him, could they use these tombstones to defeat him? It seemed like a very good idea!
History seemed to be repeating itself. He loudly told the news to others, and they were delighted.
But at this time everyone was already at a disadvantage, and they didn't even have the extra energy to observe the terrain or guide the enemy to where there were more tombstones. Vann's eyes changed, and he suddenly cut his wrist and sprinkled blood on the priest. The fragrance of the blood and the sound of the gunfire successfully attracted the other party's attention.
Father Gascoigne rushed over and Vann ran away.
The crowd, who finally had a chance to catch their breath, shouted anxiously:
"Vann, you've come to the wrong place! There are more tombstones behind you!"
"I know!"
Vann pulled down his mask, revealing the passion aroused by the dangerous situation on his face, and turned to face the priest who had caught up with him.
The place where he was was one of the few open areas in the cemetery. There were no tombstones around. If it was a fair duel, this place would be perfect, but they couldn't win in a head-on confrontation now. What was he doing?
"Rest quickly, and while I'm holding him back, find a place with more tombstones to fight," Vann shouted to the crowd, and turned his gaze back to the priest: "I want to fight him one-on-one!"
“Are you crazy!?”
"I finally met an experienced hunter. How could I give up this precious learning opportunity?"
He stared at Father Gascoigne and said with respect in his tone:
"I don't know if you can still understand what I'm saying. I'll learn your hunting skills in battle."
Father Gascoigne exhaled a breath of foul air, and as if in response, he took the lead in launching an attack.
Vann felt the fatal threat, which made the smile on his face even more unbridled, and he rushed forward to meet the attack.
He realized the way to skip class, but he just told his companions that he did not put it into practice, but had a one-on-one duel with an impossible enemy.
This was not to show how noble his morals were, but he really wanted to train himself and learn more hunting skills. A head-on confrontation with Father Gascoigne, his teacher, was undoubtedly the fastest way to improve, even though he would undoubtedly die many times.
He thought that he would wait until he was really defeated and then use the tombstone to fight.
People watched him rush up to fight the enemy. They fought evenly for a few seconds, but after a few seconds he was overwhelmed and beaten miserably. For a moment, they didn't know what to say.
"I'll go to the place with more tombstones first." Someone turned around and hurried to look for more tombstones.
But some people looked at Fann's fighting figure and fell into deep thought. Finally, they sighed and said, "I want to learn it too."
"Count me in," someone else chimed in, "My axe is the same model as that guy's, but I don't know how to use it, and it's hard to hit him. I want to fight him for a while longer."
"What are you doing? I am a cane player, so I don't dare to fight alone. Who wants to help me?"
Under Fann's actions, people gradually realized one thing:
Rather than defeating Father Gascoigne or more enemies, quickly increasing the exploration level of the map, and other common goals of adventurers, what they should do is improve their own strength.
Their goal is to recapture the city of Saviss and even the entire Red, rather than just trying to conquer the dungeon!
"Change people!"
Vann barely held on for two minutes before he was knocked away by an axe. A strange force flew him out of the cemetery and he fell on the roof of a nearby building.
He did not forget to remind people before taking off, which shows that he has done his job conscientiously.
“Oh, I feel like I learned a lot, but when I think about it, I can’t remember it.”
His body was extremely tired, but he felt a sense of satisfaction in his heart, which made him laugh.
He turned around to see how his companions were fighting.
But what he saw when he turned around made him stop laughing.
Why is there a dead body of a woman lying next to him? Was there something like this on the roof?
Since this place was supposed to be accessible only after defeating Father Gascoigne, people had never noticed the presence of a woman's body here.
There were thousands of corpses in Yanan, but one corpse was nothing surprising, but there was one thing that caught his attention.
A brooch was pinned to the woman's body.
A large, beautiful ruby brooch.
(End of this chapter)
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