As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 789 The Girl from Beyond the World Tree
The world in the painting, Yanan.

Night finally fell.

Yharnam once again entered the night of the hunt.

Li Nuo and Xiao Wu were driven crazy by Amuro. That guy was really organizing a militia and even opened a choir on Yharnam Street, a poetry society that used singing about "a prosperous and beautiful world" to offset the curse.

Yharnam on the Night of the Hunt is teeming with beast-like residents and hunters. Even if you kill them all, it won't make a difference, as they will respawn every day. In other words, those who die on the Night of the Hunt might be resurrected somewhere a week later.

This is the eeriness of the Dreamland.

Never underestimate a sanctimonious hypocrite with exceptional drive.

Amuro has found a way to cope with the mystery he has been solving these past few days; in fact, he has found a way to save everyone.

"By fixing them under the streetlights and creating a small magic circle, some of them will temporarily regain their senses, so we won't have to kill them."

Amuro pointed to the hundreds of beast-like residents under the streetlights.

Li Nuo wanted to set them all on fire.

Xiao Wu shrugged: "Now you know why I don't want to work with Amuro anymore."

Li Nuo nodded: "I really hope Char can kill Amuro."

Amuro: "I'm not that Amuro..."

Pippen: "Are all the Federation's drivers that kind?"

Aita: "Who is Char?"

The five of them chatted idly as they walked toward the cemetery behind the sewers.

In front of the cemetery, they met two other guys who had been messing around with Amuro.

A muscular, bearded middle-aged man, Derby.

And Miaham, the strong girl with short brown hair who has taken a liking to Li Nuo.

Previously, both of them were employees of Bayer Kinworth and were identified by the trio of Black Sisters in the courtroom as "people awaiting death" who had gone missing in the Cain area.

The two of them guarded the cemetery near the sewers to prevent the sleeping corpses there from being disturbed.

Miaham's eyes lit up as soon as he saw Li Nuo.

"Mr. Li Nuo!"

Just as she was about to run over, she noticed something was wrong. Why was Li Nuo swaying her hips when she walked? Although the amplitude was very small, it was still a woman's way of walking.

Moreover, Li Nuo's eyes became like those of a deer.

She's transgender?

Miaham walked towards Xiao Wu, whom she had been looking at, and found herself standing next to her. Looking at Xiao Wu's deadpan eyes, she realized: "What strange game did you two play?"

Mr. Derby, who seemed to have more social experience, said, "Soul exchange."

Mr. Derby felt that Xiao Wu, whose body was now occupied by Li Nuo, had suddenly become more charming.

The idiotic couple began with simple self-introductions.

Li Nuo grabbed Amuro's shoulder, said nothing, and only glanced at Miaham.

He still remembered what the Black Sister in the courtroom had told him when he left Yharnam:

"Miaham's strength is problematic; there are no humans in this world that strong. But this girl is perfectly normal; there are no problems with her past life. In fact, you could say she's a very good person."

Amuro understood immediately.

He shook his head to tell Li Nuo that he hadn't noticed anything unusual about Miaham during their time together.

"but……"

Amuro said in a low voice.

"They are really amazing. They feel like a new kind of human that has been modified by an evil scientist in a science fiction world."

"Let's go quickly," Xiao Wu urged from ahead, and told them in simple sign language, "We can talk about it later."

The group arrived at the cemetery. The corpses that had been at a party that day had sunk into the graves and continued to die because of Li Nuo's departure.

Li Nuo had Xiao Wu use her abilities to revive the corpses.

Xiao Wu struggled a bit when using Li Nuo's skill for the first time, and it took her a long time to successfully revive all the corpses with the [Seal of Aden].

When the group of corpses saw Li Nuo and Xiao Wu, they felt a sense of kinship, but they also felt something was strange. Why did Li Nuo (Xiao Wu) seem to have no charm at all? Xiao Wu, who had no charm before, now seemed to have a certain gender-specific quality.

Then, Xiao Wu pulled the Sun Knight Solar out of Li Nuo's mask.

"what--!"

The moment Solar appeared, the light emanating from him was as dazzling as the sun. This excessively hot light struck straight to the soul, and all the corpses were set ablaze.

Li Nuo stared with dead fish eyes: "It really turned into a bonfire party..."

Xiao Wu said with a smile, "This can be considered a cremation that saves land resources."

"You two are joking!"

Pippen and Amuro quickly helped put out the fire.

The reason you have to see the corpse to trigger the appearance of the Sun Knight is because there is a side quest.

The Sun Knight's helmet was awakened by possessing the body of an Undead Asylum jailer, who was the son of a corpse there.

As they were putting out the fire, Aita went over and took the [Sun Knight's Helmet] off Solal's head. With a whoosh, Solal transformed back into his son.

And so, this is what everyone saw.

Because of the curse of Yharnam, the corpse witnessed its son turn into an orc. Two hours later, Aita helped to clear the curse from the son.

When the son saw his father's corpse hopping around, he just stared blankly for a moment, then knelt down in front of Aita and Linuo.

He remained silent throughout.

No one speaks.

After a moment, the son asked, "How long can he live?"

Xiao Wu, using Li Nuo's body, said to him, "Until you die."

And then, there were countless "thank yous".

Only the son was saying thank you.

In the midst of a night of insane and dark hunting, a child longing for his father offers an endless expression of gratitude to a group of wicked men whose hands are stained with the blood of countless lives.

Li Nuo wanted to end this scene quickly; he wasn't used to being thanked.

But Mr. Derby pressed down on Lino's shoulder.

This seemingly rude and somewhat clumsy middle-aged scholar shook his head at Li Nuo, using his more than forty years of life experience to tell this young man who lacked some emotional capacity.

"They only have a few minutes left."

Li Nuo remained silent and turned around.

The son was arguing with his father, who had become a rotting corpse. The father said he was too long-winded, and the son felt that his father was not giving him face.

Perhaps influenced by Xiao Wu's body, Li Nuo actually thought of the scene of seeing his mother in his dream. He even thought of Doctor Xu, his father whom he had always refused to see, and Mu Lan who remained in another world.

His sudden display of sentimentality was conveyed through Xiao Wu's almond-shaped eyes, but no one would notice, since Cha Bai was not present.

Aita saw that the signs of bestiality were reappearing on her son, so with a helpless, bitter smile, she told them that it was time.

"Praying for you..."

The Gemini Goddess placed her hands on her chest, closed her eyes, and her golden hair turned azure blue under the night sky, as if scattering shimmering magical energy, like the Milky Way under the night sky.

Tonight, because of the presence of the Twin Goddesses, and because of the presence of these vile creatures, the night of the hunt is no longer so ominous.

After a flash of light, the son collapsed unconscious. Xiao Wu went over and put him into [Emil's Mask].

As the goddess prayed, all the corpses gradually became transparent, their souls withering away, and they were about to go to a new heaven or hell.

A moment later, the once chaotic cemetery became extremely quiet, with only tombstones recording the names of a group of villagers who had once lived here and were killed by ancient gods and vampires.

Side quest completed: Find the old father's son.

[Quest Reward: Yharnam's Secret Treasure Key]

[Task Details: Well done] The key to the secret treasure appeared in front of Li Nuo. He pinched the key with Xiao Wu's slender fingers and saw the panel.

The Key to Yharnam's Secret Treasure

[Quest Items]

[Effect: There is a warehouse beneath the graveyard]

Lino flicked the key to Amuro.

"You guys go first, Xiaowu and I have things to do."

After everyone left, he took out a piece of paper, wrote down the names of some materials on it, and handed it to Xiaowu.

The paper contained instructions on how to make "truth serum".

Marger used the "truth serum" from Doraemon to force Lennon and Fenrir to reveal the plan.

But since it's an expired product of Doraemon, it might not work sometimes.

Currently, only Xiao Wu, who controls Li Nuo's body, can use alchemy to make potions.

Whom are you suspecting?

"It's not so much a doubt, just a request for confirmation, Miaham."

……

Their consciousnesses traveled together to the courtroom on January 2, 1888.

“Miaham…” Blackie still remembered the name: “That’s the girl I was talking about, the one with superhuman abilities.”

Li Nuo shrugged and said, "I'm a good person, and Xiao Wu is a good person too. We can't do bad things, otherwise I would shoot that girl dead. But I don't want to lay a hand on that powerful girl when there's danger, so I need to know her secret."

Blackie picked up the tablet, which contained a record: "I checked, Miaham is indeed not from this world. Her family used to have connections with the celestial sphere, like Bulma's incident. Take a look at this."

The tablet reads: Do Miaham, from the Bulma family of the Western Continent (illegitimate child).

The Bulma family is actually unrelated to Bulma. After Bulma left, some people began to conduct business experiments, including various research and development projects such as time-related technology. As a result, the upper echelons of the Bulma Chamber of Commerce are referred to as the Bulma family.

It's normal for rich people to have more children. Miaham's family has a long history of illegitimate children, and in her case, they are the illegitimate children of illegitimate children.

Her awakening of power comes from the "Dragon Ball World Gene" inherited from a previous generation.

A similar example is the fishman guarding the gate outside the courtroom, who could crush Li Nuo and Xiao Wu to death.

Descendants from the world of Dragon Ball.

Thinking of this, Li Nuo raised an eyebrow: "Let's see what she has to say."

Blackie asked with concern, "What if her answer seems strange to you?"

Li Nuo replied, "You know what I'll do."

……

An hour later, Aita used telepathy to tell them her location, and the Truth Potion was ready.

There was an inconspicuous maze in the underground chamber of the tomb, with a maze-like structure. The best way to deal with a difficult maze is to directly destroy the walls. Judging from the extent of the cracks in the maze walls, Li Nuo and Xiao Wu knew at first glance that it was Miaham's superhuman strength.

When they reached the end, a large door was half-open, leading to an abandoned factory.

This Victorian-style weapons factory seems to have been forgotten by time in the shadow of the Industrial Revolution, with its beams and pillars mottled and its gears and drive belts rusted dark red.

"Wow--!"

Aita looked on with the surprise of a child who had just seen a toy, and walked deeper into the area, carrying the illuminating flame in her palm.

"Pippen, look! It's a meat saw!" Aita jumped up and down, standing on the edge of the wall.

“Wow! Really? Lino, and your cane too!” Pippen exclaimed.

A dazzling array of weapons hung on the walls.

Bloodborne features a weapon manufacturing plant that produces various obfuscated weapons for hunters to combat the power of different monsters.

Li Nuo's cane originated from the factory's mysterious weapon.

The factory is now a thing of the past, its presence in an un-deconstructed area beneath Yharnam only suggests that it was left behind by hunters or church organizations in the past.

"Damn it, we're too late. If we had been here a year earlier, we would have made a fortune."

Xiao Wu complained a few times.

"For players around level 80, there are weapons and equipment, enhancement stones, and runes that increase strength everywhere. These things are of little use to us."

She picked up a [Beast Rune] from the table, glanced at it a few times, and tossed it back onto the table.

Mr. Derby is recording the scene here with his camera.

Miss Miaham was writing a report with her pen beside him.

Both of them adhered to the academic tradition of the Bayer Kinworth Institute and seriously explored this place.

Li Nuo walked over, took out the [Truth Potion], and sprayed it on Miaham.

"Xiao Wu, no... Mr. Li Nuo..."

Miaham looked at him in surprise.

"So, who exactly are you? What is your purpose? What are you hiding from us? Please explain everything we don't know about you," Li Nuo said.

“I…” Mr. Derby: “When I was little, I had a crush on my sister-in-law… does that count…”

Because Mr. Derby was standing too close to Miaham, he was affected by the Truth Potion and vividly described his unrequited love story with his sister-in-law.

But Miaham kept staring at Li Nuo, and finally spoke slowly.

“I like it, Mr. Li Nuo.”

silence.

Even Mr. Derby fell silent; everyone just stared at Miaham.

All the players, including Li Nuo, stared at her with rather speechless looks.

“Tell us something we don’t know.”

Everyone knows that Miaham likes Lino.

Aside from Mr. Derby, it's not unreasonable for him to still be single in his forties.

"Anything else?"

Miaham looked at the spray in Li Nuo's hand and asked, "Can you answer me first? This is truth serum, right? Never mind... there's no point in saying so much. I guess you all think I have superhuman strength, and that my abilities are completely mismatched with this world. It's strange, isn't it?"

Mr. Derby said, "Miaham came to Bayer Kinworth five years ago. We have a fairly clear understanding of her past, so please don't..."

He hesitated.

Because Miaham grabbed his arm.

“Mr. Derby, you don’t need to explain for me, I’ll explain myself.”

She bowed her head to the crowd.

“My ancestors came from the world on the other side of the celestial sphere. My family has inherited genes related to the power beyond the universe. I am an illegitimate child. My family is the Bulma family.”

As a result, Miaham's [Memory Fragments] have been updated once again.

The underlying logic of mask-based memory observation has two aspects: 1. The target has a past that can be explored in depth but is insignificant, and more information will be updated as the target confesses; 2. When the target is abnormal, the abnormal points in the memory are immediately displayed.

Xiao Wu taps on the information on the mask, making it visible to all players.

Miaham described his past, including the fact that he had an illegitimate child. He didn't hide anything, and everything matched the information from Black Sister and the memory fragments from the mask.

She didn't want to talk about it; the fact that she had an illegitimate child was ultimately painful for her.

“I have never been involved in the deep issues of the family, or rather, I have no connection with that family except for some blood ties.”

Miaham gave a slightly bitter smile.

“I understand your concerns. In such a dangerous environment as the Night of the Hunt, you can’t take that step forward without clarifying a potential problem. So let’s see… about the real contradiction within me.”

Miaham slowly removed her clothes, her skin gleaming like pearls in the dim light.

"Please be mentally prepared."

(End of this chapter)