Very weak and ordinary,
That was Yi Chen's immediate impression after killing the old man. It wasn't that he had become much stronger—it was simply an objective assessment.
He was nowhere near as strong as Moonscar Lorien's unfinished work created at the Twilight Clinic. The Male Doctor who had defibrillated the heart alone could handle three or four old men like this.
However,
If one was caught off guard and the Black Cat pounced directly onto their face, it was still quite dangerous... Once it completed the pounce, the furry old man's tongue would worm its way into the body through the esophagus, perhaps even carrying out "Ovipositor Infection" directly.
As for the memory fragments Yi Chen had extracted, they were completely worthless as well.
They were all just details of the old man's daily life. There was absolutely no information about the Newborn Church.
When the wall of trees rose, the old man, hampered by his impaired mobility, could only stay home and remain cooped up there.
As the gray erosion rose between the floorboards,
He took the Gray Fog as a sign that the Grim Reaper was approaching. Thus, he brought the Black Cat that was his only companion to the attic, sat in a rocking chair that had not been used for a long time, and waited for death to arrive.
However,
Death never came.
Under the influence of the gray erosion, the old man developed strange mutations and voluntarily stuck out his tongue to lick the Black Cat.
The licking continued without pause. After about a week, his tongue fused with the Black Cat, transforming into a deformed Sick One.
"The disease spreading through the village and forest seems to be related to fusion... The young one beneath the trees earlier was the same. Although it