Dying and coming back to life at the lamp, watching the blood echoes he had collected become zero, Ben couldn't help but twitch his mouth.
Running into monsters, or getting lost?
The scariest thing is being trapped in a narrow space, surrounded by a bunch of small enemies.
The famous three dogs ganking the Soul of Cinder in the previous Dark Souls game is no joke.
And in the game "Bloodborne", this rule is clearly followed as well.
No matter how strong a hunter is, they'll still die if they run into a bunch of small monsters.
"I wonder when I'll be able to get a shield. This gun doesn't feel very useful," Ben said, after coming back to life at the lamp.
While complaining, he continued to go back the way he had come.
Sure enough, just like lighting a bonfire in Dark Souls, as long as you go back to the lamp in "Bloodborne", all the monsters on the road will come back to life.
The small monsters along the way didn't put any pressure on Ben, and when he came to the stairs again, he had learned his lesson this time.
He hid at the top of the stairs for a while without going down, and then watched those monsters slowly patrol forward. After they passed, Ben came down from the stairs.
Behind these patrolling people was a door, leading to the big door on the first floor after coming out of Iosefka's Clinic, which was clearly a shortcut.
But what caught Ben's attention was that in the alley next to this big iron door, there was also a plump enemy holding a heavy axe, looking like an elite monster.
Looking at the big axe guy pacing back and forth inside, Ben stood there and watched for a while, then smiled.
He switched the axe to its long-handled mode.
"Let's go, let's go..."
Without any intention of testing, Ben directly chose to run away.
Thinking about the Bugatti Veyron in the Cemetery of Ash, and Havel under the Undead Parish tower.
The big axe guy in front of him definitely looks like an elite monster.
Plus, he's competing with Zack, so he's not going to deliberately get himself killed.
So, it's better to run away.
Ben kept going forward.
The town of Yharnam is full of danger. In the direction the patrol had gone, there was a bonfire party being held, probably to welcome outsiders like Ben.
You could see a lot of fire pillars, and when you got closer, you would find that these fire pillars were actually wooden crosses, with firewood piled up at the bottom and burning, and werewolves tied to the top.
Unlike the werewolf he encountered in Iosefka's Clinic, these werewolves were severely beastly, their bodies covered in black hair, with sharp claws and teeth faintly visible.
And Ben found that the Yharnamites holding torches also showed signs of becoming beasts. Some people had black hair growing on their heads and faces, and some even had their entire arm turned into a wolf's.
Combined with some of the previous story, this led Ben to make some guesses.
Could it be that Yharnam's so-called blood ministration is what caused this transformation into beasts?
And the hunters, are they hunting these transformed monsters?
Ben had many questions in his mind.
But even though he was confused, one thing was very clear, and that was not to think about figuring out the whole story until you cleared the game.
This is also a characteristic of the Souls series games. The whole story is like a puzzle, which players need to piece together little by little.
And this is the charm of the Souls games.
Ben hadn't understood the story, the only thing he was clear about was that these Yharnam villagers, who looked like farmers holding pitchforks and other farm tools, as well as axes and other weapons, were really too welcoming.
Yharnam has a special way of treating outsiders.
The simple people of Undead Parish, the beautiful scenery of the dragon bridge, these famous scenes in Dark Souls.
Now, Ben thinks that the people of Yharnam are no worse than these places at all.
Here, many Yharnamites will give Ben, this foreigner, the warmest welcome.
Inviting him to join the bonfire party, afraid that he would be cold, so they poked him with torches.
Even when lying on the ground, Yharnamites would get up and say hello when he passed by.
When passing a corner or a car, a Yharnamite would rush out and give him the most sincere greeting.
Even the little dogs and some crows in Yharnam would dance with him in a friendly way.
Even the old man in the wheelchair would greet him, this foreigner, by giving him a peanut to eat.
The only thing that Ben couldn't stand.
Was that after each friendly greeting, he always had to go back to the lamp.
"The villagers of Yharnam are too welcoming, I can't handle it!" Ben couldn't help but exclaim.
Of course, although most of the people in Yharnam are friendly.
But there are all kinds of birds in the forest. There are also many Yharnamites who are full of malice towards Ben, this foreigner.
When Ben, this foreigner, wanted to ask for a room to stay, the other party would shout:
'Who would believe a word you say, you outsider!'
'Give up, I won't open the door for you!
'Despicable outsider, leave quickly, don't even think about tricking me into opening the door for you!'
'Despicable outsider, who will open the door for you on the night of the hunt!'
After wandering around Yharnam for a long time, Ben couldn't help but complain when he heard these people's words.
Despicable outsider?
Although Ben really wanted to complain, who is pretending to be dead in Yharnam?
Who is playing surround-and-attack in Yharnam?
After going around Yharnam for a long time, what Ben found strange was that he hadn't found a second lamp yet.
Plus, the style of Yharnam is still the same, monsters are placed in tricky spots, and there are all kinds of malicious traps.
The map has clear layers, the whole of Yharnam is divided into many levels, including elevators and sewers.
Moreover, in the sewers, the werewolves with scythes and spears have a much higher attack desire and damage than the previous Yharnam villagers.
Similarly, on the way to a big bridge, Ben also saw two werewolves.
But these two werewolves are not the weaklings in Iosefka's Clinic. Ben rushed up confidently at first.
Then he found that he was killed by two swipes of their claws, and the two werewolves had much higher attack desire and health.
The only thing that made Ben feel relatively happy was that he found a set of hunter clothes on a corpse in the sewer.
It was the clothes the hunter was wearing in the previous trailer, and the stats were better than the ones he was wearing before.
Of course, it was just the stats on paper. In Dark Souls, changing into a set of armor with stronger protection would change the number of hits you could take from two to three.
But in Bloodborne, Ben found that the werewolf that slapped him twice before, still slapped him twice after he changed his clothes.
(End of this chapter)
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