Chapter 185 Maria of the Star Clock Tower (Two in One)

When the three of them passed through the ruins of the small fishing village and came to the clock tower covered with starlight, they realized that the tower was taller than they had imagined. It stood above the sea of ​​blood, and the spire was as high as the clouds, pointing directly to the bright moon in the sky.

With Hua Jun, the super fighter holding the moonlight sword, by their side, they were no longer timid and directly opened the closed door, but they still maintained the habit of looking around before entering the door. After all, the lessons along the way have made this habit deeply engraved in their instincts.

The door opened with a creaking sound accompanied by dust. Although there were only a few human-shaped deformed monsters wandering in the wide circular hall, judging from the complicated carvings on the wall and the various decorations with golden light, this place was once prosperous.

These deformed monsters had dull faces, some of them gently hit the wall with their heads, and some sat on the ground in a daze, as if they had not noticed anyone coming in at all.

"Wait a minute." Wen Qi held down Mo Lang who wanted to attack and shook his head, saying, "These deformed monsters are different from those outside. They don't seem to have any desire to attack. Let's not attack."

"Okay." Mo Lang muttered and took back his weapon and continued, "But compared to the outside, this place can be regarded as a peaceful paradise."

"Paradise? I don't know whether angels or demons live in heaven." Wen Qi seemed to have a hint.

"Ms. Maria, where are you? Have you seen my brain?" A lady called faintly from upstairs. She seemed to be in great pain. "Ms. Maria! I can't find my brain."

The three looked at each other, and then tacitly walked upstairs along the spiral staircase. It seemed that the Maria they were looking for was in this star clock tower. Just halfway up the stairs, they smelled an extremely unpleasant stench, like the stench of a corpse and a mixture of various excrement.

It made their faces tangled up, and they didn't know who could survive in this environment. It was foreseeable that the scene upstairs might not be as peaceful as the first floor.

The stairs were very long, as if they would never reach the end. If it weren't for the lady's increasingly clear calls and the changes in the surrounding scenes, they would have thought they were trapped in a place they could never get out of. When they finally reached the end of the stairs, they felt sick. The sound came from the dark room on the right.

Even though they had prepared themselves in their hearts, they were speechless for a long time when they stepped into the room. This place was like a farm, with all kinds of glass and gold utensils that were extremely precious in this era scattered all over the floor and covered with all kinds of filth.

Rows of cages were parked by the wall, holding human-shaped deformed monsters and mice and crows the size of cats and dogs. Most of them had already died, leaving only corpses emitting a foul odor.

The beasts kept roaring after discovering someone coming in, and the human-shaped deformed monsters in the cages were all dead, and the ones that were still alive were released by someone and placed on the beds.

"Ms. Maria, is that you? I'm in so much pain." The lady who made the voice was a big-headed monster tied to a stool. Its brain, which was as big as its body, was on its thin neck, but it was still looking for its brain everywhere.

Wen Qi carefully avoided the excrement on the ground and came forward, frowning and asked: "Is it Maria who locked you up here and tortured you?"

"Isn't it Ms. Maria?" After understanding, the big-headed lady shook her head that looked like it would fall off at any time and said: "Not so, Maria placed us here to take care of us."

"It's just that the careless Ms. Maria seemed to have forgotten to tie me to the chair. I haven't seen her for a long time. I don't know how long it has been. After all, it's always dark here."

"Even the flowers she brought here died because no one watered them. By the way, have you seen my brain?"

This lady seemed to have not chatted with anyone for a long time. Once she opened her mouth, she kept talking. Although the other people on the bed were still alive, they seemed to have lost their ability to speak or think. They only knew to lie on the bed and hum and repeat a few words indistinctly.

"Hungry, I'm so hungry."

"Ms. Maria, I seem to have pooped in my pants again."

"Help me get rid of it quickly."

Flowers?

Wen Qi turned his eyes to the table next to him and found that there were indeed a few bunches of withered flowers on it. Judging from the color of the fallen petals, they were white. After careful observation, he found that these deformed monsters did not seem to have been tortured. They had changed their quilts and there were food next to the beds. It seemed that no one had been here for a long time, and all the food was moldy and maggoty.

But those hungry patients would not take the initiative to put food into their mouths. Maria took care of so many people who had lost the ability to take care of themselves.

Wen Qi had served his grandfather who had stroke and hemiplegia. He had to be taken care of by someone for eating, drinking, defecating and urinating. Just one person was enough for him, and this was his own grandfather, not to mention that Maria had to take care of these strangers who had nothing to do with her.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but admire this Ms. Maria whom he had never met.

"Wen Qi, come and take a look." Hua Jun waved at the table at the door. She and Mo Lang didn't dare to step into the room because of the filth on the floor and the patients on the beds.

"What?" He avoided the wandering deformed monsters and walked to the table to open the thick dusty books. His face became uglier the more he looked at them. It recorded the detailed process of the mutation of these crows and mice, as well as each time. The last sentence about the amount of blood injected into Luna was heard by Lawrence in Ludwig's memory, but it was only half a sentence too long.

"This is the only way to let the light of the Moon God shine in Yharnam, and the Healing Church will coexist with Yharnam from now on."

"It's true, just as I guessed before." Wen Qi explained to Hua Yun and Mo Lang, who were still full of doubts: "The plague was also caused by the Healing Church. They used the blood of the Moon God to infect animals. The plague spread throughout Yharnam, and was then cured using blood therapy.”

"We use this method to gain prestige and trust among the people of Yanan, but it seems that the subsequent plague may be beyond their control. No wonder the indigenous people of Yanan who we met along the way have great trust in the Healing Church. "

"It seems that German, Ludwig and Maria discovered this and killed Lawrence."

"It's too disgusting." Hua Yun took a sip on the ground. Although she didn't say it clearly, both of them knew that she was not talking about the filth in the room but the even more filthy Healing Church.

"If this is the case, shouldn't Ludwig and the others tell these things to clear their grievances? This doesn't make sense!" Mo Lang was very puzzled.

"I'm afraid they have to ask themselves. I'm afraid there is something unspeakable in it." Wen Qi couldn't give an explanation.

"What unspeakable secret is more important than restoring his reputation and freeing Yanan from the rule of this dirty church?" Hua Yun could feel from Ludwig's memory that he was a man who advocated justice and For a chivalrous hunter, honor is more important than his life.

But such a person actually chose to help the Healing Church conceal it, and even specially guarded the small fishing village to prevent anyone from approaching the Star Clock Tower to prevent the evidence of the crime from being discovered.

Wen Qi could only smile bitterly at this. If he could explain it, he would have explained it long ago.

"Can you go upstairs and look for Ms. Maria for me? Tell her that my brain is gone again." The big-headed lady kept chattering like a fly.

"Okay, I'm very happy." After Wen Qi said that, he turned around and whispered: "Let's go meet this lady Maria and see if we can get the answer from her."

Fortunately, there is no need to walk up such a long staircase to get to Ms. Maria's room. After turning around the rooftop filled with white flowers, we arrive in front of her room. A lantern for preservation quietly rises from the ground.

"It seems there is another fierce battle." Wen Qi smacked his lips and touched it.

Before I walked in, I saw a huge round window. The moonlight shone in through the glass. A white-haired lady wearing a cool hunter costume leaned weakly on the back of the chair. On the left was a small round table with a small table on it. Bouquet of flowers and photos, right hand hanging down, sleeping peacefully under the moonlight.

That handsome face was peaceful and relaxed, as if she was having a sweet dream, which would make people unable to bear to wake her up, if it weren't for the fact that there was a small pool of blood under her hanging right hand.

"She is already dead." Hua Yun looked at the sleeping beauty and spoke in a much softer voice unconsciously.

"Our sins have never been repaid because we feel guilty for the massacre we caused in the small fishing village when we were deceived? Is it also to take care of those deformed patients to relieve our inner guilt?" Wen Qi looked at the words written on the photo of the three hunters. The bloody words on the photo murmured to themselves, and he stretched out his hand to pick it up and look at it carefully, but as soon as he reached it in the air, he was grabbed by a pale and cold hand, and a handsome face came up to him.

"The corpse should enjoy peace, and you should not disturb this deep sleep." Maria, who should have been dead for a long time, actually revived at this moment. She looked at Wen Qi carefully in front of her for a long time and relaxed after seeing the pocket watch on his chest. He opened his hands and stood up with the two swords placed aside.

"I knew it." Wen Qi quickly calmed down after the initial fright. He realized that Maria in front of him still had her own reason. He quickly raised his hand to show that he was not hostile, "We don't want to fight with you. , it was German who asked us to come here to free you and Ludwig."

He wanted to use Geman's name to get out of the upcoming bloody battle and have a good chat with her.

Maria was not surprised at all when she heard Geman's name. She just didn't stop the movements in her hands and combined the two swords into a long double-edged sword. "Hasn't Geman got rid of his naive delusions yet?" ? You shouldn’t be here. Only true death can get you out of this hell and let the dirty past sleep."

"Why do you still protect this place to this extent!?"

Wen Qi's answer was only the cold tip of the sword, but fortunately, Hua Yun blocked it in time with the moonlight sword. He said with a confident smile: "It seems that only fighting is the best way to communicate."

"Ludwig..." Maria also smiled after a brief absence. Her toes touched the floor and her figure floated away like a ghost. Her aura began to become calm and fierce. After seeing the Moonlight Sword, I started to get serious.

"You guys exit to the save point and let's have a battle between women." Hua Yun curled her lips toward the door.

"Can......."

Before Wen Qi finished speaking, Mo Lang grabbed his collar and dragged him out. He grinned and said, "A rookie should be aware of his rookie status. Our role is to shout 666. Besides, why don't you sit down and enjoy such a rare scene?"

"What rare scene?" Wen Qi was confused.

"Two women fighting! I like watching women fighting the most!" Mo Lang was excited, and then he muttered in a low voice, "It's a pity that this game doesn't have a clothes explosion system? Qin Laozi really added all the good things without adding the bad. I must give him some suggestions after this."

Swish!

As soon as Mo Lang finished speaking, he was nailed to the ground by Maria who suddenly approached him. She glanced at Wen Qi with a warning look and then walked back into the room.

"I'm not talking nonsense." Wen Qi waved his hands repeatedly, looked down at the hard and cold ground and Mo Lang's body, which was still warm. After hesitating for a while, he chose to sit on his body. "Thank you for your hard work, Brother Lang. I will help you shout 666."

What a fast speed, faster than Ludwig.

Hua Jun didn't have much opinion on the death of her teammates. She was used to dying, but Maria's speed shocked her. She put away the arrogance that had arisen in her heart because of the Moonlight Greatsword and planned to take it seriously.

But at this moment, the alarm bells in her heart rang loudly. Maria's figure had been lost in her vision. She hurriedly turned sideways. A blood flower was still blooming on her left shoulder. She immediately slashed with the greatsword, but the result was only a broken wooden floor.

After Maria succeeded in one blow, her figure had turned into a residual shadow and retreated again. Standing in the distance, she was like a patient cheetah waiting for the next opportunity.

This person's fighting style is very different from Ludwig's. If Ludwig is a warrior, his sword moves are all open and close, then Maria is like an assassin, each move is very small, but each move is fatal.

Hey!

Hua Jun just glanced at the wound on the left side, ignoring that the blood volume on his head had dropped by one third, and tightly grasped the big sword. The blue moonlight flowing on the big sword suddenly became bright. With a strong chop, a moonlight sword energy rushed out and broke through the wall and rushed into the air, but Maria was faster. As soon as the moonlight sword energy appeared, her figure appeared somewhere else.

"I wonder how long you can hide!" Hua Jun's attacks were not effective, and she began to get angry. She swung out the moonlight sword energy one after another, stirring up dust all over the room.

"Losing your composure is a big taboo for a hunter." Maria's voice came with her sword blade, but when she saw the smile on Hua Jun's face, it was too late to retreat. The moonlight surged like waves and rolled her in.

"Lose your patience, too." Hua Jun said happily as he looked at Maria whose health had dropped significantly.