"Brother Lu, how do you feel?"
Mansam looked at Lu Li with some nervousness. Though he did not think Lu Li would die from a single injection of Gourmet Cells, if there were a severe rejection reaction, Lu Li definitely would not get away unscathed.
What was more, Lu Li had injected the Gourmet Cells directly into his spine. That was the most dangerous method of injection. If the Gourmet Cells could fuse successfully, this method was the most efficient, but if it failed, the result was basically instant death.
"Let me feel it out a little longer."
Lu Li spoke with a solemn expression.
Seeing how serious Lu Li was, Mansam did not dare make a sound. He even gestured for everyone else to move away from the area, afraid Lu Li might lose control from the pain and cause destruction.
In truth, Lu Li's expression was so grave not because the Gourmet Cells were causing rejection within his body, but because he felt that these Gourmet Cells, which excelled at devouring and growing, were instead being devoured and absorbed by his body.
This was not fusion, but absorption from a higher level into a lower one. Because the injection had been made into his spine, the Gourmet Cells quickly spread throughout Lu Li's body through hematopoiesis and blood circulation.
Yet precisely because they had dispersed into countless tiny units, they had effectively become nothing at all, suppressed and absorbed by Lu Li's flesh and blood.
After that injection, there seemed to be no change. Lu Li opened the menu to check his status and found only a fleeting injection record, but that status soon disappeared.
Lu Li fell silent. He suddenly realized that obtaining Gourmet Cells and completing the first stage of the Main Quest would not be