The Gentleman at the End

Chapter 100: Chapter 99 Village Chief

“Jin, this fellow, seemed immersed in the pleasure of killing on the surface.

Yet, she was actually able to precisely and perfectly strip brain tissue while encapsulated within the patient’s body.

Her personality might not be as bad as imagined,

or perhaps it was her survival instincts suppressing her impulsive exterior on her first visit to the Grey Zone.

If she could be slightly guided afterward and understood more deeply, perhaps a coordination point in her thoughts could be found to establish a more efficient partnership.”

As Yi Chen reflected briefly,

Jin was already standing in front of him, leaning forward, almost pressing up against him, “Hurry up and show me how you use your professional abilities.”

However, Yi Chen did not move, and the two masses in his palms shriveled up on their own, eventually turning into two dry, hard walnuts.

Jin’s expression turned very disappointed, “So that’s it? How boring…”

As Jin spoke these words, Yi Chen had fallen into the brain immersion brought by “Central Tasting.”

This was the first time Yi Chen was assimilating two essences simultaneously, replenishing his brain matter while integrating two fragmented memory fragments. It felt somewhat like coffee with milk, simply fantastic.

For a moment, the desire provoked by spore dust was instantly wiped clean, making his brain clear and unobstructed,

and several shattered memories were successfully accessed.

Unfortunately, the memories related to the Church were very vague, and memories involving the interior of the church were directly stripped away. The effective memories he was able to read were mainly after the onset of the mutation.

The images related to “Combination” in the memories made Yi Chen, as ‘Memory,’ very uncomfortable.

A couple from the village returned from the Church and desired to reproduce that same night,

but they could not separate once they engaged in the act, until their skins fully adhered and their bodies fused together… yet, this biologically abnormal combination did not make them feel uncomfortable.

During this process, the aura they emitted attracted the household’s cats and dogs, the mice in the walls, and the goats kept in the backyard, all of whom contracted “Combination Disease.”

The increasingly intense scent even lured animals from the woods,

eventually forming the rotten flesh form that Yi Chen and Jin saw, turning into a kind of immobile fertile ‘patient.’ @@novelbin@@

They could produce three litters a day on average.

The offspring they produced would be dealt with in one of the following three ways according to their condition.

1. [Unqualified]: Offspring that lacked a basic human form and could not mature quickly (85%) would be collected by ‘Scavengers’ from the village— large-framed villagers carrying sacks.

Based on the malformed offspring Yi Chen first found under the twisted trees, these unqualified offspring would be buried under different trees, forming a symbiotic relationship with the trees, becoming the forest’s scouts through the ‘animalization’ of the trees.

2. [Qualified]: Offspring with a basic human form and mixed with other animal traits (14%) would continue to draw nutrients from the mother. If they could ‘come of age’ within one hour, they would become [Villagers].

This was precisely the origin of the breeding-type patients,

and if they possessed certain traits, they would also find corresponding professions within the village, like the Butcher who Jin killed, who once worked in the village slaughterhouse, or the aforementioned ‘Scavengers.’

Most were just ordinary villagers, responsible for basic tasks like patrolling and inspecting around the village perimeter.

3. [Holy Embryo]: A rare few that had a complete human form and only carried standard goat traits (

Those were all the information Yi Chen could gather, but he himself was quite puzzled by it.

Neither the books he had read so far nor the pathology knowledge taught by Teacher Zede had ever covered such ‘illnesses,’

It might be documented in the Pathogen Center of Hippocrates Hospital, but Yi Chen’s current status was not sufficient to visit it.

There’s an issue with the ‘essence’ of this type of Patient.

Generally speaking,

Patients exhibit significant ‘selfishness,’ striving by any means to enhance themselves.

However, the patients here voluntarily confine themselves in rooms, reproducing as in the early stages of infection, even at the cost of their own ‘essence’ to produce high-quality offspring.

In the end, Death awaits them, which clearly contradicts the biological survival instinct.

“Even normal parents seldom wish to sacrifice their lives for their offspring… not to mention that their offspring might not necessarily stay by their side.”

There is only one answer: this type of reproduction must involve some ‘benefit’,

If they can produce a ‘Holy Embryo’, the Church is likely to grant them a ‘blessing’… This blessing might help them escape their current bondage and achieve a more perfect and free state of Patient disease, or even become accepted as members of the Church.”

As Yi Chen was making these mental deductions,

the animals integrated into the streets outside suddenly emitted a series of deep, strange noises, as if they were frightened by something or warning of something.

Jin also smelled a strong and unusual meat scent at the same time, grabbed a pig’s head, and dashed out immediately.

Yi Chen quickly followed, ensuring the plant connection between their wrists did not break.

In the depths of the blurry, colorful street,

a huge figure was slowly approaching,

shouldering a massive sack on his right shoulder,

and leading a large, unidentifiable species of pet with his left hand.

Only when he came into view did a dark-skinned man wrapped in a black trench coat come into sight.

His physique was a size larger than Yi Chen’s former teammate Darkberg, with bulging and strangely distributed muscles squirming under his clothes, heavy, strong, and sturdy.

In his left hand, he was leading a ‘Pitbull’ two meters in length.

To be exact, it was a diseased hunting dog with human heads all over its body.

It randomly devoured combination animals in the streets, biting off a complete goat head in just one bite, crushing the tough goat horns in its maw as well.

When the dog noticed the two young humans blocking its path on the road, its limb muscles instantly tensed up, and it leaped forward in a pounce!

Clang!

The thick iron chain around its neck tensed completely; the pet’s unauthorised motion was firmly restrained by the dark-skinned man.

As the dog went into a frenzy, the human heads growing on its body also began madly screaming.

However,

Yi Chen’s attention, compared to the dog, was more focused on the dark-skinned man… especially the black sack he was carrying on his shoulder, which felt extremely unsettling.

This image also reminded Yi Chen of a special type of villager he had seen during memory retrieval – the ‘Scavenger’.

“Scavenger? No… The Scavengers in memory fragments didn’t have such a huge physique, nor did they carry pets. What is this?”

As Yi Chen felt puzzled,

the dark-skinned man stopped ten meters away,

“Hello to you, foreign visitors, I am Kaldi, the Village Chief of Shebolt Village, welcome to our village…”