Blood therapy made Yanan famous. It is a therapy that can cure all difficult and miscellaneous diseases, so many patients who have been ill for a long time come here, hoping to save their lives through blood therapy.
As a result, the city of Yanan became a veritable "hometown of blood therapy", with blood collection devices, blood transfusion clinics, and even pungent blood cocktails.
Everything about Yanan is bound up with blood.
The wealth brought by the blood therapy made the whole of Yanan expand rapidly. The church town and Orton Chapel were rapidly expanded in the old city.
However, blood therapy soon revealed the same drawbacks as Byron Weiss’s blood transfusion experiments. Blood transfusion recipients showed serious dependence on blood, and they began to suffer from septicemia, cough, lung necrosis, nerve damage, and degeneration into cholera. Blood monsters roam around and attack humans for their blood.
Thus, the hunter appeared.
The first hunter Geman and Lawrence are good friends. He established a hunter workshop to create professional weapons, armors, and guns to hunt monsters.
When the full moon comes, Yanan ushers in the "hunting night", the residents stay behind closed doors, and the hunters take advantage of the night to sweep out the monsters in the city.
In order to prevent the lycanthropy from destroying the entire Yanan, the hunters are still hunting, and the night of hunting has become a tradition in Yanan.
After tireless exploration, Lawrence finally discovered the last secret of the birth of the ancient god in the burial complex of the Sumerian capital in "Ikhur".
"When the red moon is low, the blessed womb will give birth to the Son of God."
The red moon is also called "pale blood" or "dark blood" in Sumerian literature. This title is to describe the blue-gray sky when the red moon falls, like a corpse that has been drained of blood.
However, summoning the red moon requires a woman of pure Sumerian blood to wear a white wedding dress to marry the ancient gods, and no one knows where the pure Sumerian blood actually exists.
For Lawrence, the splendor of the Church of Healing now takes a terrifying turn.
The ceremony of summoning the red moon has stalled, and the spread of the beast disaster has caused the Healing Church to be questioned. Even Lawrence himself suffers from septicemia due to long-term intake of Uldun's blood, and feels that his time is numbered.
In order to maintain the prestige of the Healing Church, Lawrence desperately hopes to use more powerful means to consolidate the rule he established with blood therapy.
The original group of hunters could hardly cope with the increasing animal disasters, so Lawrence ordered Ludwig to form a group of church hunters, and use the powerful weapons developed while exploring the maze to perform "eradication treatment" on Yanan's patients.
The vigorous hunting action allowed the hunter organization to develop rapidly, and different hunter schools were born.
While hunting, a race named Cainhurst appeared in Yanan, and some of them joined the hunter organization.
According to legend, Cainhurst Castle hangs alone on the sea and is only connected to the Yanan Highlands by a bridge. The gate has always been closed, and the Cainhursts have never intermarried with the outside world.
This Cainhurst team came to Yharnam in search of a special blood, and then joined the hunt because of the flood of beasts.
Maria is a Cainhurst person, she is as beautiful as a pure angel, she is keen to help the weak, and very disgusted with Cainhurst's traditional blood-based fighting methods.
Maria became the apprentice of Geman, the first hunter, and fell in love with this powerful hunter.
At this time, a piece of news rekindled hope for Lawrence, who was in a desperate situation: "The ancient god Kos will give birth to a son of God."
The field research team discovered a small fishing village in the bay around Yanan, where the residents worshiped an ancient god named "Kos". The fishermen believed that Kos was a god who lived in the deep sea, and that the ocean was connected to the universe.
According to the records of the Sumerians, most of the ancient gods were unique existences. They were unable to give birth to offspring, and could only give birth to their sons of gods through human wombs through the ceremony of the red moon.
But Kos is different. It can give birth to the Son of God through its own womb, which is equivalent to a kind of transformation, shedding the old body and ushering in a new childhood.
Therefore, Lawrence immediately decided to gather the armed forces of the Healing Church to attack the fishing village, capture the God Son of Kos, and obtain the third umbilical cord he had dreamed of.
The residents of the fishing village were slaughtered, and Kos fought desperately with the hunters, but was eventually hunted down. The creature it gave birth to died soon, and this creature, known as the "Orphan of Kos", was taken away by the Church of Healing, so Lawrence finally got the third umbilical cord he had dreamed of.
However, Lawrence did not usher in evolution, because according to the last unearthed Sumerian literature, human beings need three third umbilical cords if they want to become a god and become a complete ancient god.
This is why the ancient gods have almost disappeared, because every three ancient gods can support one human being to become a superior.
Lawrence fell into despair again, but it was clear that his madness would not stop there. Through research on Kos and the villagers in the fishing village, Lawrence discovered that injecting Kos parasites into the human brain can cultivate brain fluid, which will allow people to have spiritual communication with the ancient gods.
A large number of patients in the Healing Church were injected with this brain fluid. Their heads swelled up and they could hear the sound of dripping water. Eventually, their heads fall off and they die a tragic death.
However, there are also some outstanding experimental subjects who have made progress, so the church is still full of confidence, firmly believing that messengers who can communicate with the ancient gods will eventually appear.
Feeling lost, sad and lost during the hunting operation in the fishing village, Maria came to the Healing Church to take care of those suffering patients. And these patients regard Maria as the only sustenance in their miserable lives.
The four failed works were placed in Mingshu Garden. Although they failed to achieve their goals, they already possessed the ability to summon cosmic power. Lawrence firmly believed that he would soon be able to find more ancient gods and become superior.
At this time, an inadvertent thought changed the fate of the Healing Church.
"Does the Cainhurst people, who are isolated from the world, maintain the bloodlines of the ancient Sumerians?"
Guided by this clue, Lawrence noticed Sister Yusefka. The twin sisters are from Cainhurst and were adopted by the church. The elder sister assists in brain fluid research, while the younger sister becomes a powerful hunter.
Thus, Lawrence secretly started preparations for the first round of the Red Moon Ceremony.
At this time, the beast disaster in the lower city has brought the whole city to the verge of collapse, and even the hunters who are hunting are constantly falling into madness. A group of special personnel were differentiated from the hunter organization. They are all foreigners and have excellent resistance to septicemia. They have become full-time "hunter hunters", including the crow Irene and the church assassin Brado.
Crow Irene is the "bird sister" who helped the foreign hunter many times later, and the church assassin Brado uses a unique weapon called the "bloodletting hammer".
Hunters are hunting wild beasts, and hunters are hunting mad hunters. Large Gatling guns were set up on the roof, and the entire lower part of Yharnam was in chaos.
In order to summon the blood moon ceremony, Lawrence forced his sick body to enter the ancient tomb again, looking for a ring that could make a marriage contract with the ancient god, hoping to make Usefka a bride and give birth to the son of Uldun.