After clearing out the mutated Licker, the church was temporarily safe.
The surrounding zombies and living people had already been swept clean by the mutated Licker. The church itself had an outer garden with iron gates and heavy wooden doors within. It had also served as a refuge during wartime.
They could rest here for the time being without worrying too much about safety.
The Reincarnators searched the area and eliminated several potential hazards. They also found quite a few canned goods and barrels of wine in the church cellar.
Clearly, the priest who had originally been here possessed some sense of precaution.
Food and water would not be a problem for the short term.
The Reincarnators were unwilling to escort Xu Yue out and kept dragging their feet, so naturally, Xu Yue himself was even less inclined to leave.
He merely understood the Reincarnators' temperament, which was why he had deliberately kept emphasizing earlier that they needed to escort him.
After urging them halfheartedly for a while, he settled down here with peace of mind.
Having just broken through to the Third Tier Gene Lock, he needed time to consolidate it.
The Third Tier Gene Lock did not place much burden on the body to begin with. It greatly weakened the side effects, allowed the body to adapt to the Gene Lock state, and laid a foundation for what came next. Combined with Xu Yue's fully developed Second Tier foundation and a physique several times beyond the limits of ordinary people—
The moment he broke through, he was already able to reach a state with no side effects at all.
His appetite was just a little large.
He continued strengthening his mind and brain within this body, whose mental power was already several times the limit of an ordinary