Cave

Inside the homestay,

Catherine had stopped playing on her phone long ago.

When William went to the beach for a tryst with The Boss's Wife, she immediately headed to the Dining Hall and found the replica idol carved by the village chief.

This mass-produced statue, which carried a trace of divinity, naturally could not compare to the Guanyin the Child-Giver William had absorbed. But in Catherine's eyes, it was already delicious enough—and it had another use.

Once she absorbed it, she might be able to locate the Main Idol through the connection between the idols.

Unlike William, who had placed the idol in his abdomen and let the Abyss absorb it,

Catherine used a more direct method. She first smashed the idol apart with her tentacles. Aside from the shattered stones, its interior contained a large amount of dead flesh and Rotten Flesh, petals, fish bones, seashells, and other rotting mixtures.

Catherine was not disgusted in the slightest. Instead, her face lit up with delight! She wanted to absorb the evil things in this world, obtain power different from that of the Old World, and use it to reach a higher position.

Malice began to breed within her body.

Catherine mixed those disgusting things directly with the remaining white rice and ate them ravenously.

A faint, unknown energy that did not belong to any disease rapidly spread through her body. It even tried to tear her flesh apart, but it was quickly suppressed and transformed into something of her own.

When Catherine opened her eyes, one of the two Octopus Tentacles that had previously been severed had already grown back, and a puddle of water had appeared on the floor.

Her face flushed as she gasped heavily.

She reclined against the stool, her whole body looking utterly satisfied.

Just then,