Inside the Witch Laboratory.
Yang Yi lay on two metal tables pushed together, undergoing a series of examinations.
"Systolic pressure, 380 mmHg. Diastolic pressure, 200 mmHg. Are you sure you don't feel any discomfort?" Su Na asked after taking his blood pressure.
"No, apart from not having enough stamina."
"Your pulse is very fast too. Probably over two hundred beats a minute..."
After measuring his blood pressure and pulse, Su Na took out a syringe. While Yang Yi wasn't paying attention, she plunged it into his thick arm and drew out some blood-or rather, fat.
The liquid was pale pink, like strawberry milk.
"Why is it this color?" Yang Yi was a little surprised when he saw it.
He remembered his blood still being bright red when he took off the Penitent Armor earlier, but now it had turned pale pink.
Su Na didn't answer. She injected the extracted liquid into a Reagent Bottle, then lifted her Silver Beak Mask and tried sniffing it. She immediately closed the mask again, her brows tightly furrowed.
"You're transitioning into the third stage."
She told Yang Yi.
Without needing an explanation, Yang Yi quickly understood what this third stage was.
Previously, Su Na had fed delicious food to several Long-Legged Sardines. The transformation she observed could be roughly divided into four stages.
The addiction stage, the weight gain stage, the assimilation stage, and the final stage of turning into a meat lump.
The meat lump's further form was probably the Rotting Whale.
Yang Yi was currently somewhere between the second and third stages, since his blood hadn't turned completely white.
But on closer consideration, there were still many things that didn't add up.
The strangest thing was that Yang Yi didn't have the negative status Gourmet Desire. He simply felt hungry and would