Looking up along the winding mountain path, the folded cliffs and wildly growing trees blocked his view, making it impossible to see the church directly.
Yi Chen quickly organized the suspicious points in his mind.
1. Even after killing the village chief and searching every corner of the village with the chickens, including the underground river, he still had not found the missing Gentleman Squad.
The village chief's memories of the church were blurred. They might also have contained information about the missing squad. Most likely, they were all taken to the church. I hope they're still alive.
2. The true purpose of the Regeneration Church remained unknown. All he had managed to obtain were a few keywords: reproduction, holy fetus, umbilical cord.
So far, he still had not seen a single church member in person.
Yi Chen was currently standing at the hillside entrance, yet he felt as though he were standing on a "dividing line."
The Fusion Affliction in the village stopped spreading here. Whether it was the iridescent spores permeating the air or the various bizarre animal hybrids, they all remained at the foot of the mountain.
"I suspect the church deliberately restricted this local affliction to the village, using it only for the birth of the holy fetus. The affliction itself is of no use to them.
"It can even be assumed that the fundamental reason the Newborn Church chose Shepherd Village was the local disease related to reproduction.
"They want to use this reproductive fusion disease to accomplish some objective of the church—or even the ultimate purpose for which they founded the church.
"And the Sick Ones within the church suffer from an entirely different special affliction related to new life.
"They may even be able to use the 'umbilical cord' as a medium to