The Creators: From Night City

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This is quite normal, after all, the 'Hunter's Dream' was jointly constructed by the 'Moon Goddess' and Gehrman's consciousness, so it is only natural that the scene presented is Gehrman's most unforgettable 'home'.

Even this doll, which has been given life, is probably due to Gehrman's own obsession; otherwise, she should have turned into a mortal as the 'Moon Goddess' left the dream.

Unlike the dream of 'Yarnen', this dream is not desolate. Some kind of unknown wildflowers bloom along the roadside, the stone path is swept spotless, various trees are lush and green, and there are rows of tombstones connecting various nodes of the Yarnen Secret Realm.

Of course, these tombstones with teleportation capabilities were completely reduced to mortal objects after the departure of the 'Moon Goddess'.

"Where is Gehrman?"

Jiang Bing asked bluntly.

The puppet was not surprised. After bowing, it decisively led Jiang Bing to the location of the First Hunter.

Following the path and past the workshop huts, a vast sea of ​​wildflowers blooming with unknown species appeared before Jiang Bing.

A thick, ancient tree seemed to block out the sky, and sitting quietly beneath it was the person Jiang Bing was going to meet on this trip.

The First Hunter – Gehrman.

Gehrman looked quite old; his left leg was severed from the knee down, the result of some unknown hunt, leaving him confined to a wheelchair, silently watching the edge of his dream disintegrate.

Without the support of the 'Moon Goddess', this dream is inevitably heading towards destruction.

Having broken free from the moon goddess's control, the old hunter seemed to have lost all will to live.

He simply let Jiang Bing walk behind him, completely unguarded, which was almost unthinkable for an old hunter who had experienced countless battles.

But he just let it happen, completely lying down.

"This nightmare is finally coming to an end, isn't it?"

The old hunter didn't turn his head, but asked desolately.

“You don’t seem surprised.”

"Fighting, battling, annihilating each other yet assimilating each other, humanity and bestiality tug at each other, we strive to survive, but in the end we are just a piece on the chessboard."

"Take what you want, you 'great being' I've never met, as long as I can quietly enjoy my last moments."

Jiang Bing fulfilled the wish of this old hunter who had just regained himself from the control of the 'Moon Goddess'.

The towering flames ignited the giant tree and then spread throughout the entire 'Hunter's Dream'.

A faint flame enveloped the entire dreamscape. In the golden flames, the doll gently pushed Gehman's wheelchair, together watching over him through destruction forever.

With this, the main dream realm of 'Yanan' officially changed hands.

It's time for dawn to break in Yanan.

The recapture of the dream has entered its second phase.

Maintaining stability.

Orden Cathedral in the Cathedral Quarter is one of the most famous churches in all of Yharnam, and also the safest sanctuary on the Night of the Hunt.

At least that's what the people in the cathedral thought.

Ariana was awakened from her slumber by the sound of the cathedral's hinges turning. Her head was still fuzzy, but thankfully she had finally had a good night's sleep.

In her dream, there were no annoying noises that had been bothering her, nor the creepy feeling of being watched; only absolute silence.

"It's dawn!"

The old woman beside her belatedly exclaimed.

Chapter 843 Yanan in the Daytime

Warm sunlight streamed into the church through the open doors, shining down on Ariana and giving her a sense of relief.

In any case, humans are always phototropic animals.

But soon, she discovered that her genitals were covered in bright red blood. Although she no longer felt pain in her abdomen, she knew that she had miscarried.

After all, she was a prostitute and had extensive experience with these kinds of incidents.

But then a question arose in her mind. Of course she knew her own physical condition. When did she get pregnant?

"Who are you? Hunters from the Healing Church?"

The voice of the administrator of Orton Cathedral drifted into her ears.

"There is no more Healing Church, Father. There will never be another one." A hoarse female voice came from behind.

"What nonsense are you spouting, hunter?" the old woman beside Ariana asked angrily.

"By the will of the Lord of Eternal Flame, effective immediately, Anti-Entropy will take full control of Yharnam. The Healing Church is now a thing of the past, madam."

"This is impossible!" the devout old woman murmured in disbelief.

"So much happened that night, madam, so much," Raven said as he approached the group, clad in magnificent armor. "But thankfully, it's all over now."

As she spoke, she immediately noticed Ariana, who was bleeding beneath her, and reported over the communication channel: "Odon Cathedral, one wounded person and eleven refugees have been found. Please send personnel to make contact."

She was relieved after receiving a positive reply.

Soon, a group of medical personnel in green and white protective suits rushed into the church, lifted Ariana onto a stretcher, and the other survivors in the church were finally able to leave the church and see the light of day again.

Ariana had never felt the Yharnam sun so warm.

The golden sun hangs high in the sky, showering the earth with endless light and heat.

The cathedral district where Oden Cathedral is located remains the same, but the damp streets have been dried by the scorching sun, and the fishy smell that had surrounded Yharnam for years has disappeared without a trace.

Large numbers of hunters clad in full-body armor were burning corpses scattered throughout the streets and alleys with some kind of flamethrower that Ariana had never seen before.

These carcasses, covered in wild animal fur, appeared to have had all their bodily fluids evaporated, making them highly flammable.

Ariana, who had suffered a miscarriage, was carried by medical staff to a medical point that was crowded with all sorts of patients.

However, apart from those patients with obvious external injuries, all patients with the initial stage of 'beastification disease' who showed deformities, mental insanity, or even the slight growth of wild animal hair were uniformly arranged to lie in the open ground to sunbathe.

Ariana didn't feel much discomfort; in fact, it was as if the miscarriage had never happened at all.

However, those bloodstains cannot be faked.

"Are you a vampire descendant of Cain Hearst?" Beside a strange-looking instrument, a blonde, blue-eyed female doctor from out of town placed a sample of blood into the device, glanced at the screen, and immediately revealed the prostitute's deepest secret.

Cainhurst's vampires are ostracized in Yharnam, as evidenced by their nickname "filthy vampires."

"Let me explain!" She struggled to get up, but the female doctor pressed her back down.

“We at Anti-Entropy don’t engage in racial discrimination; I just need to confirm your ‘bloodline’.”

The female doctor showed no impatience and continued to carry out the examination procedure methodically.

A strange-looking, hollowed-out helmet-like device was placed on her head, and soon, the machine connected to it emitted a piercing alarm.

The red light was as blinding as blood, making Ariana's heart pound.

Although I don't know what happened, judging from this situation, it's definitely not a good thing.

But she still dared not make any rash moves, and instead chose to lie obediently on the recliner, waiting for the doctor's next move.

After all, the two steel warriors standing silently at the two corners of the tent seemed to be beings she could not resist, and the guns they held were more exquisite, heavy, and powerful than any other guns that Mariana had ever seen.

Not to mention that before she was carried into the medical tent, she saw dozens of soldiers, also armed and on guard, outside the medical point.

They don't seem like the type to tolerate unreasonable behavior.

“Strange, how can it be a level IV infection? You don’t see any obvious limb deformities, but the degree of sanity deviation is only level II. That’s really strange.”

"Could it be related to your bloodline? But that doesn't make sense either."

The female doctor mumbled various technical terms that Ariana couldn't understand. Finally, she carefully examined Ariana's pupils and teeth, and then looked over her fingernails and toenails. After finding no obvious deformities, she had her lie flat and used an instrument that Ariana had never seen before to slide back and forth over her body, while carefully examining her on the screen in front of her.

Ariana didn't dare to breathe, quietly awaiting the verdict.

Sometimes, hunters from the Healing Church would take seriously ill 'Beast-Sick' people directly from their homes before nightfall. They usually never returned, and their fate was predictable.

Fortunately, this [Anti-Entropy] Church was not as brutal as the Healing Church, or perhaps her condition was not as serious as she had imagined. After studying her various test reports for a while, the female doctor stroked the strange-looking headdress next to her temple and generated a report for Ariana on the glowing metal plate.

A thin metal sheet was ejected from the machine beside the female doctor and then pinned to her chest.

"This is your identification document. It contains your personal information and medical examination report. It's very important, so don't lose it. Otherwise, those 'auxiliary troops' responsible for maintaining order won't be easy to talk to," the female doctor instructed responsibly.

Completely bewildered, Ariana was quickly taken away for further treatment.

Of course, because she had just miscarried, unlike other patients who walked there on their own, she was carried to the treatment area by two medical staff wearing closed masks.

Along the way, she vaguely heard a bunch of words from the two of them, such as "business trip," "allowance," "credit points," "employee level promotion," and "shut up, confidentiality agreement." To be honest, she didn't understand a single one of them.

'Holy Blood Square'

As the most famous square in the cathedral district, Ariana naturally recognized it.

However, the square has long since changed.

All the streetlights and decorations were removed, and the railings, benches, and even several buildings along the edge of the square were bulldozed.

The rugged corridors and elaborate, luxurious decorations had all been removed, and those that couldn't be moved in time were all violently destroyed.

Behind Holy Blood Square lies the headquarters of the Healing Church—the Healing Church Cathedral.

Chapter 844 Special Treatments

The magnificent church has been riddled with holes and looks as if it had just been ravaged by a hurricane.

The heavy and exquisitely carved stone doors of the church were blasted open by some force, leaving two terrifying holes. The outer walls were also riddled with similar craters, making the entire church appear somewhat dilapidated.

Meanwhile, Amelia, the current bishop of the Healing Church and the nominal supreme authority in Yharnam, was cruelly bound to a tilted cross with chains that shimmered with golden light, facing the sun, as if her enemies intended to leave her corpse there.

But she was still alive, wailing in agony under the sunlight as if the light were scorching her body and soul.

Ariana was eventually carried to the upper left corner of the square, marked by a yellow line. Although she didn't know what it meant, Ariana understood that it was definitely much better than the area marked by red lines.

After all, the patients in that area all seemed to have some kind of inhuman appearance.

They were all howling in agony under the sunlight, which made them even more terrifying to look at.

'Is this an execution ground?' Ariana looked around. She found neither the syringes needed for blood therapy nor any other medical equipment. Instead, rows of deck chairs were laid out in the square, filled with patients sunbathing.

“They said it was a necessary treatment, which sounds ridiculous, right?” A patient next to Ariana spoke up after the two fully enclosed medical staff left.

"What treatment plan?" the vampire prostitute asked curiously.

The person who struck up a conversation with her was a woman of similar age.

She lay weakly on the comfortable recliner, pointed to the top of her head and said, "What else could it be but sunbathing?"

This treatment method sounds like something only a Mongolian medicine family could come up with, and it sounds even more unreliable than 'bloodletting therapy' and 'enema therapy'. However, fortunately, most of the 'Yanan people' have experienced 'blood therapy' and have a very high acceptance of this fantastical treatment method.

Most importantly, sunbathing seems to really work.

The warm sunlight shone on Ariana, its intense heat seeming to penetrate her skin and permeate her flesh and blood.

Under the scorching sun, an invisible and intangible chill, yet clearly perceived by Ariana, was expelled from her internal organs, her bone marrow, her blood vessels, and her brain, and then evaporated by the sunlight.

Her body was a little weaker, but her mind felt much lighter, as if a great burden had been lifted. Her whole body seemed to have been freed from some kind of shackles, radiating clarity and ease.

The young woman standing nearby clearly noticed this as well, and her incessant complaining and nagging gradually stopped, and she soon fell silent.

Surrounded by the warm sunlight, Ariana drifted off to sleep, only to be awakened by a delightful fragrance.

dinner's ready.

The square was immediately agitated, but quickly calmed down after the guards raised their gun barrels to warn them.

But soon the commotion broke out again, though this time it was mostly hushed whispers and gasps.

"Ah~"

The woman beside her gently nudged Ariana's chaise lounge with her foot. Seeing Ariana turn her head, she whispered, "Look, the food delivery isn't from humans, but from several 'wild beasts'."

The word 'beast' is not a good thing in Yharnam. Ariana was startled by the other person's words and quickly looked up.

"This is... a cat?!"

Several Palicoes, dressed in full chef's uniforms, were busily serving meals to patients according to designated areas, pushing trolleys piled high with food.

Holy Blood Square was filled with hundreds of patients undergoing 'sun therapy', and this was just one of many medical points.

Medical points are also set up in Upper Yanan, Yanan City Central District, and Lower District, and the situation is roughly the same.

After all, every survivor in Yharnam had some serious illness and had been corrupted by the 'superiors'.