Lu Li quickly saw the patients infected with the "strange" pandemic as described by the assistant at the Exorcists Association.
They lay on hospital beds receiving treatment, with plant branches bizarrely growing from their torsos, their flesh seemingly fertile soil that allowed the branches to sprout new green leaves.
The local Exorcist told Lu Li that the infected and the branches were integrated; harming the branches would cause them pain as well. They had tried to remove the branches, but the wounds would bleed, and the detached branches would wither and die quickly, even if reattached to the stump.
The arrival of Lu Li was noticed by the infected, who simultaneously turned their heads, numbly crawling off the beds, approaching Lu Li like walking corpses.
They felt a soul-comforting aura emanating from Lu Li.
