Ke Meng watched closely as the epithelial cells entered the mouth. His resistance of over a hundred million points was not just for show.
And yet.
As the chopsticks went in, the life energy attached to the epithelial cells vanished.
He withdrew the chopsticks. Their surfaces were perfectly clean, without a single virus or bacterium.
Until the bacteria in the air attached themselves to the chopsticks again.
Ke Meng was still staring at the chopsticks.
He decided to test Big-Faced Cat somewhere else.
He opened a door with the Silver Key, moved somewhere else, then changed locations again.
He scanned the surroundings with his spirituality, confirmed that no one was nearby, then kept staring at the chopsticks.
Before long.
An image surfaced in Ke Meng's mind through his intuition: a slow-motion replay of the epithelial cells on the chopsticks disappearing.
Half speed, a third of normal speed, a sixth of normal speed.
Ke Meng scrutinized the disappearance of every single cell with the utmost care.
Even when the final cell vanished, Ke Meng had not spotted a single observable clue.
Everything, including energy, lifelines, and fundamental particles, was annihilated completely inside Big-Faced Cat's mouth.
Ke Meng studied it for ages, but his research stalled. He was utterly stuck, unable to find any direction toward a solution.
All he could say was that Big-Faced Cat was beyond his current ability to observe.
However, Big-Faced Cat's inexplicable digestive ability made Ke Meng even more eager to stuff the air produced by the decomposition of Nya's corpse into Big-Faced Cat's mouth and let the cat digest it.
Or he could process it in the Dark Cuisine Pot, turn it into meat, and feed it to Big-Faced Cat.
With an idea in mind, Ke Meng began studying the sacrifice process.
Sacrifice was a two-sided