The Gentleman at the End

Chapter 103: Chapter 102 Death

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Severe Patients, Patients, and Primary Infected all share a characteristic—”Weakness”, which is the Pathogen that has not fully combined with their physical and mental states,

we only need to shatter the Pathogen Core to complete the kill.

This is widely recognized and clearly explained in Pathology classes, with no exceptions.

Even Mr. Lee, who had a gentlemanly background, infected with the rare “Moon Transformation Disease” as a Severe Patient, could not erase this Weakness but could only hide it deeper.

Currently,

Jin had demonstrated strength beyond her peers, reaching the human Limit, and even resorted to her seldom-used ‘tactical strategy’. @@novelbin@@

At the cost of sacrificing a pig’s head and her entire left arm, she delivered a deadly blow to the Village Chief.

The Village Chief’s Weakness—”Steel Heart”—cracked with the explosion of Red Lotus inside his body, just a light touch away from completely shattering.

The Village Chief also lost the ability to act, his aura becoming faint.

Actually, even Jin did not expect that, her original purpose was to blow the opponent to death… After all, facing such a formidable foe, once the idea of holding back crept in, the one to die would likely be herself.

Unexpectedly, the Village Chief could be so tough,

She used the chance between life and death to perform “Weaponization Transformation” on the Village Chief who was at his last breath.

The weapons produced in this manner naturally had higher activity.

When Yi Chen witnessed this scene, he naturally slowed his pace, not disturbing Jin’s ‘post-battle handling’. The situation in front of anyone would be deemed the battle was over.

However,

The emergence of a new umbilical cord instantly changed the situation.

Little Grape shuddered and immediately issued a warning: “What is this strange thing, doesn’t look like something the Village Chief owns? William, tell your friend to be careful, it feels completely different!”

Yi Chen also immediately shouted a warning and rushed toward Jin’s location again.

But unfortunately,

For some reason, Jin just froze in place… and was directly encompassed by the mutated Village Chief’s swollen sack, and her aura completely vanished.

“Jin!”

Yi Chen who was three meters away suddenly stopped.

Neurotransmitters in his brain began to secrete in large quantities and transmit faster,

creating neurotransmitters related to emotions crazily, and even some strange black spots slowly seeped out from the depths of his cerebellum, gradually overtaking his entire brain.

Although his time with Jin had not been long, and her personality was quite quirky and unlikable in many ways,

Yi Chen was willing to accept such a flawed companion, perhaps because he harbored similar ‘flaws’ himself.

The color of Yi Chen’s pupils also dimmed, and even specks of black material emerged in the lens of his eyes, almost dyeing his entire eyeball black.

Crack!

Yi Chen, standing still, suddenly twisted his head 90° and then quickly snapped back to place, emitting a crisp cervical spine sound… even feeling as though his neck had been twisted off.

All of his body’s joints, including his finger joints, also started twitching and popping.

The feeling was quite strange, even eerie to describe.

However, the Village Chief, now in a ‘hanging state’, completely ignored Yi Chen’s odd state, his toes gliding on the ground as he approached rapidly in a ghostly hovering state.

The Village Chief wanted to use this powerful new power to capture Yi Chen as well, displaying his strength.

By doing so, he might even receive additional grace and even become a core member of the Church.

As the Village Chief was about to approach,

Whizz! A black shadow flashed by.

The Village Chief could not even see what happened; he just instinctively dodged backward.

Swish!

Yi Chen, moving at a speed invisible to the naked eye, horizontally sliced the newly grown flesh of the Village Chief, leaving just a skin membrane connected, nearly splitting him in two.

Death!

Village Chief Cordy sensed an intense, real presence of death at this moment, even overpowering the new vitality he had just received, scaring him into retreating continuously, losing his will to fight.

Just as Yi Chen was about to pursue,

Little Grape suddenly sensed something inside him,

Not sensing anything about Yi Chen, but feeling a “surveillance sensation” fast approaching from behind… exactly the same as the one felt earlier in the woods.

A third party that had been secretly observing them intervened!

Little Grape wanted to warn,

But after quickly assessing the situation, it chose to bury itself deep inside Yi Chen, shrinking into a finger-sized black meatball, sticking to some flesh surface and entering “dormant state”, its presence vanished.

Outside,

Yi Chen had just taken a step in the direction the Village Chief had fled… whoosh!

An arm clad in a black Church robe penetrated from his back, and then protruded from his left chest, firmly grasping a throbbing heart covered with green roots,

Withdrawing the arm, it pulled out the heart along with it.

Thump! Yi Chen’s eyes went dark, and he fell to the ground, blood incessantly flowing from the opening in his chest.

The newcomer was none other than Bishop’s assistant, Theodore. He intervened early because he had already reached a conclusion.

Jin’s performance was excessively remarkable,

whether it was the absolute control over his physical body,

or his innate combat talent,

and having reached the state of “Limit of Man,” it was enough to designate Jin as the final sacrifice for the Birth ritual. Since the Village Chief had already successfully bagged the target, there was no need to continue testing.

As for Yi Chen,

Theodore, looking at the heart in his hand marked with plant patterns, showed a look of disdain.

“A body mixed with plant impurities, such material would only desecrate the Birth ritual… However, since the body is related to plants and has a high nutritional concentration, it will be beneficial for the accelerated construction of our sanctuary.

His body will be taken for proper processing to be used in the expansion of the high walls.”

“Yes…” the Village Chief nodded in response.

In a hanging state, the Village Chief slowly descended to the ground, his umbilical cord retracting back into his body.

The Village Chief, looking as he originally did, appeared extremely weak and staggered as he walked.

But the wounds on his body had been filled and repaired by ‘young’ blood and flesh, the gaps in his Steel Heart also glued together with newly grown tissues… This was the external power from the umbilical cord.

Village Chief gave a hard yank, whoosh! He tore off a growth on his right shoulder completely and handed it to Theodore.

Afterward,

the Village Chief picked up Yi Chen, who had a chest wound, and collected his axe and suitcase, heading towards the village’s “Flesh Factory.”

…

In the silent and waveless black sea,

a young man floated on the surface without any vessel.

The most fundamental “Thought” could not form in this sea region, all brain functions were unusable, he could only rely on instinct, heeding the call from afar.

Sometimes, different types of vessels passed by him,

either dropping down a rope,

or casting a net,

or throwing a piece of driftwood,

yet the young man instinctively resisted climbing aboard, drifting alone,

until a badly damaged wooden boat approached, an arm so rotten that the whitened bones were visible reached out to him.

Only then did the young man actively grasp the arm,

and when he climbed aboard the boat, the rotting ‘rescuer’ in front of him was himself… or perhaps it had always been just him, he had simply climbed aboard the wooden boat that solely belonged to him.

Hum!

The lighthouse beam immediately fell on the boat. Under the illumination of the light, the young man’s body rapidly evaporated,

leaving behind only a white bone frame and brain tissue wrapped around the skull, turned black by the seawater.

The beam further penetrated the skull,

the black matter within the brain was gradually expelled,

dormant thoughts were reactivated,

and the sea was no more,

the view before him began returning to reality.

Clang~

Sounds of clashing iron chains came from above, accompanied by a piercing pain at the roots of his shins.

Upon opening his eyes,

he saw numerous hanging misshapen corpses, predominantly of human or animal origin… and Yi Chen was among them.

Stripped of his clothes, his shins were pierced by an iron hook hanging him upside down.

The candlelight burning in different corners lit up this flesh-processing room,

where a butcher with a pig’s head was swiftly handling the bodies here,

removing a body, placing it on a table, chopping it up, adding ingredients,

a body’s processing took no longer than five seconds, already forming a muscle memory… after five turns, it would be Yi Chen’s turn on the table.