Delving Deeper

Excrement Processing Room

Since sinners were beings defined by the Old World as a type that would "accelerate the destruction of the world," they were often plagues within plagues, and their excrement was even more vile.

Just as penicillin was a "waste product (secondary metabolite)" of penicillium that could kill large numbers of bacteria,

the filth metabolized by these sinners posed no small danger to normal Sick Ones, and could even inflict considerable damage. The room that processed these accumulated metabolites was privately called the Deactivation Room by the monastery.

There had even been cases in the monastery's history of monks falling into cesspools.

After falling into a fermenting pile of metabolites containing tens of thousands of sinners and remaining there for merely ten seconds, the monk suffered severe corrosion and developed serious aftereffects. Even the iron chains inside his body were completely rotted away, and he ultimately died despite treatment.

Therefore,

even experienced prison guard monks loathed, rejected, and feared this area. They did their best to have the sinners clean and clear it in groups of three or five by issuing them missions.

Princess had come here every day during her previous inspections, but out of instinctive disgust, she had merely ordered her subordinates to inspect the area once with detection devices before leaving.

Moreover, the Excrement Processing Room had multiple diversion, grinding, and sedimentation devices. Any object larger than 5×5×5 cm would quickly be ground up inside and flow into the next processing chamber. The liquid ultimately produced through decomposition was discharged from the monastery and used to irrigate and nourish the thorn forest surrounding it.

During her final search, Princess made up her mind to reach into the waste pool and use her unique Thorned Iron Chain to search for Yi Chen, who might be hidden