The Gentleman at the End

Chapter 102: 101 Mutation

“Little Grape, you take the left, I’ll take the right!”

Diversify the field of vision, swiftly scanning for the Pathogen Core within the dog’s body.

Just when conducting the visual search,

from the jaggedly sawed and torn wounds of the dog’s body, outstretched a pale human arm, followed by a young boy in agonizing pain, with sparse hair and his body coated in slime.

“Brother! It hurts so much~ I feel awful! I want to get out, I want to leave this place.”

Similarly, another emaciated arm crept out from the other half of the dog’s body, squeezing an old man’s weathered face among the organs.

“Young man… please kill me quickly, I beg you.”

However,

this scene didn’t affect Yi Chen in the slightest; in his past life, he had witnessed countless such situations, under the mask of hypocrisy, they were all gaping maws eager to devour you.

Swinging the Hand Axe,

he first severed the half of the dog’s body that had sprouted the little boy at the waist and proceeded to chop multiple times until the Big Bloodletting effect was achieved.

The lacerated wounds on the surface of the dog’s body joined together, forming an enormous, blood-stained gash bleeding in unison.

Pop! Like piercing a balloon filled with red paint.

The Big Bloodletting caused the half of the dog’s body to entirely burst into a mist of red, scattering in all directions, reduced to the smallest particles of flesh.

Unfortunately, luck was not in his favor, and he lost the 50% bet.

The Pathogen Core was hidden on the old man’s side.

When he turned back, the other half of the dog’s body had already combined with the old man who had crawled out from within… half of it remained the original hound, the other half the body of the old man, jointly supported on the ground.

This creature, part human, part dog, made Yi Chen feel immensely disgusted.

“The ‘Pathogen Core’ of an Ordinary Patient should be easy to find. This dog must have been modified by the Village Chief, deliberately hidden away.

We can’t delay any longer, I need to treat this quickly.”

Considering Jin was alone dealing with the Severe Patient, and in the enemy’s home ground… even though there were no outside interferences at the moment, he still felt uneasy.

Huff~ taking a deep breath

Yi Chen lowered his center of gravity again, almost on the same horizontal line as the dog.

Left hand on the ground,

right hand holding the Moon of Slaughter,

the plant mask on his face was thoroughly dyed red,

even the ‘Gentleman’s Skin’ was influenced by the intent to kill, with the recently absorbed blood mist, the gentleman’s clothes emitted a faint red glow.

With such a pose combined with the overflowing intent of slaughter, the Pathological hound involuntarily took a step back due to its biological instinct,

Suddenly! Boom!

Not far off, a violent explosion erupted in the village streets, the dog could sense its Master being harmed, the ‘protection mechanism’ implanted in its brain fully activated.

No longer fearing the human in front,

even more terrifying changes occurred to the dog’s body.

Ugh!

The human-like heads protruding from the dog’s body all began to vomit in pain,

and from their gaping mouths grew sinewy arms without skin, one after another bracing against the ground, serving as extra appendages.

The Village Chief’s dog now looked more like a human-faced spider.

The multiple arms, along with the original limbs, rushed forward!

This burst of Extreme Speed in an instant was unimaginable, and the twisting wrists kept altering the trajectory, making it hard to track.

However,

when Yi Chen saw this scene, his expression was somewhat strange.

The crawling stance of the hound, made him recall sparring sessions with Zede, his teacher.

Zede would often adopt a ‘crawling’ movement pattern, saying that being closer to the ground was fundamental to life, allowing the body to parallel the earth, aiding in physical sensation and scrutiny.

Lessons from teacher Zede echoed in his mind at this moment:

“Don’t just focus on superficial cutting, make sure to display all the ‘inner beauty’! Regardless of any body structure, size or corpulence, there are common traits in the flesh of living beings.

Turn the act of slaughter into Appreciation of art, into an exploration of the Origin of the flesh… eviscerate their bodies, savor it to your heart’s content!”

In that moment,

Yi Chen became a primordial beast entering the ‘Paradise State’, charging head-on at the hound,

just before the collision,

the hound opened its gaping maw again, and the appendages on its body also reached out attempting to grab Yi Chen, so that the dog’s head could crush him in one bite.

Faced with this, Yi Chen made only one move,

[Left Arm Extending]

Just one left arm stretched towards the hound’s gaping mouth, and just when it seemed about to be torn and chewed to pieces.

Hum!

Steam billowed from Yi Chen’s head, and the ‘Emblem of a Book’ at the back of his skull was fully lit up, activating the Pathological Characteristic associated with [Intelligence] to its maximum extent.

One could even clearly see the restless green tendrils squirming beneath Yi Chen’s skin. @@novelbin@@

In an instant,

Hundreds of roots and vines sprouted from his left hand, constructing a gigantic plant palm on the basis of his palm’s structure, exceeding the mouth of the hound and even larger than the hound’s head.

He squeezed the hound’s mouth shut with a grip!

Not only that, the plant hand that gripped the hound’s mouth continued to grow spiky roots, piercing through the top and bottom of the entire mouth, rendering it unable to open.

The dog, with its mouth sealed, still tried to struggle,

But the hand axe on the other side was already swinging down,

Slashing through the pathological rotting flesh between the neck, cutting through the cervical spine… whoosh! The entire hound’s head, along with the arms that tried to block the way, were severed, flung into the air.

Before the beheaded hound had time to twitch a few times,

Yi Chen’s left hand, previously used to seal the mouth, shrank back to its normal size and reached into the hound’s sliced-open neck, digging into its body.

Snap!

There was a sound of something being crushed, and the twitching stopped.

Disease extraction complete!

As Yi Chen pulled his left hand from the corpse of the dog, he was holding a slightly crushed canine cyst between his fingers.

Such a “Pathological Core” needed to be collected, as it would undoubtedly fetch a good price back at Zion.

Yi Chen had no intention to rest, his gaze immediately turned to another battle zone.

The road and streets were filled with explosion craters of varying sizes, many of the beasts caught in the crossfire were blown beyond recognition.

The Village Chief’s black coat had been destroyed by the blasts, his pathological flesh fully exposed.

Only then did Yi Chen finally get a clear view that the burlap sack hung over the Village Chief’s right shoulder was not a separate object but a “Black Tumor” grown from proliferated flesh,

As it hung behind the shoulder, it was large and open-mouthed, resembling a burlap sack on his back.

During the fight, the Village Chief repeatedly tried to stuff Jin into it, but could never capture Jin, who possessed extreme speed.

The timing was just right,

As Yi Chen looked over, he arrived at the final moment of the battle.

The electric saw had been completely destroyed by the Village Chief’s brute force; a pig’s head hung on a nearby house, the saw blade scattered on the ground.

However,

By targeting the abdominal wound she had created earlier, Jin successfully extended her entire right arm into the Village Chief’s body.

This was Jin’s strategy from the start of the battle, finally managing to break open the Village Chief’s flesh, as tough as steel.

The right hand extended into the Village Chief’s abdomen was grasping a “Compressed Meat Cube.”

The Red Lotus blossomed on the surface of the meat cube.

“Ultimate Explosion”

Boom! Light instantly enveloped both of them, a terrifying mushroom cloud rising from the explosion point.

When the smoke cleared,

Jin’s right hand and the Village Chief’s torso were both obliterated.

Whoosh! The syringe, which had been prepared in advance using synthetic flesh, was quickly inserted into the break in her right arm, which then began to regenerate slowly.

As her arm gradually recovered,

Jin, with light footsteps, approached the Village Chief, who had a huge cavity blown into his trunk and his skeleton so shattered by the blast that he couldn’t move.

Even the Village Chief’s “Pathological Core” – a heart with a steel shell riddled with cracks, oozing essence symbolic of life’s origin, barely alive – was exposed.

“So-so, I guess~ Except for your hard and strong body, there’s nothing particularly notable. Just perfect since I specialize in physical strength and completely overpower you in terms of speed.

Let me think, what kind of weapon should I make you into?

A heavy hammer? Seems a bit inconvenient to carry.

A giant axe? That might overlap with William’s weapon, not quite suitable.

Full-coverage gauntlets? That seems like a very nice choice… Just bear with it for a bit, I’ll have you turned into my very own exclusive weapon soon.

Once we’ve finished the investigation and returned to Zion, we’ll proceed with refinement and transformation.”

With that said, Jin even blew a kiss to the Village Chief.

As she was preparing to perform flesh modification with her hands on the Village Chief’s faint body,

A strange sensation suddenly struck,

In the vicinity of the Village Chief’s abdomen, there emerged a distinct feeling of vitality, incredibly young, like that of a newborn baby.

The next second,

A bizarre umbilical cord burst out, tightening around a neck!

Not Jin’s neck,

But it wrapped around the Village Chief’s neck, suspending his roughly four-hundred-pound body in the air in a “hanging state.”

“Jin! Be careful!”

Yi Chen’s warning reached her immediately, but Jin surprisingly froze on the spot.

Perhaps drawn by the bizarre sight in front of her,

Or perhaps hearing some unfathomable whisper, experiencing spiritual corruption,

Or perhaps she had her own thoughts, simply wanting to seriously comprehend what was going on.

The Village Chief, who should have been dead, suddenly opened his eyes,

His shoulder tumor sack burst open, and the stationary Jin was instantly enveloped within…