I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 117 - 115 That’s the Initial Stage_1

Chapter 117: Chapter 115 That’s the Initial Stage_1

It didn’t take much time to locate Zheng Yichen, Jiang Fuxing observed the creature that had been placed on a rack. Judging by the skeleton, it should be a gorilla, right?

It was definitely not human anyway.

The gorilla’s skin had been peeled off, and the flesh on its body had been meticulously stripped clean, but the chunks of flesh removed were like rotten wood, bearing no resemblance to normal flesh and blood.

Zheng Yichen had changed out of the leather jacket he was previously wearing into a very ordinary set of casual clothes. When her people found Zheng Yichen, he seemed to be admiring his work, making her subordinates’ hearts twitch.

"I’ll leave this place to you guys," Zheng Yichen said as he packed up the gorilla’s skin, removing the skeleton from the rack and disassembling the limbs to bundle them all inside the skin of the gorilla.

"May I know what happened here?" Jiang Fuxing saw that Zheng Yichen was about to leave. She hesitated for a moment before quickly asking. Information about the Alien Phenomena was too scarce, and this one known as Chang Qing...

"Alien Phenomenon creatures bring about the Phenomena. Nothing can escape from it. I dealt with the Alien Phenomenon creature here, and the Phenomenon disappeared. Stationary Phenomena differ from these and are safer. Just remember to tie a rope around you during testing."

Zheng Yichen said impatiently, then waved his hand, "Also, stationary Phenomena could vanish at any moment after they appear. I must leave now, and you can deal with the resources here as you wish."

"..." Watching Zheng Yichen leave so decisively, Jiang Fuxing couldn’t think of a reason to stop him right away.

"Captain, he’s gone and took some gasoline with him." Not long after, a subordinate reported Zheng Yichen’s tracks to Jiang Fuxing, who nodded, her eyes gleaming with intense eagerness as she observed her surroundings.

Clothes from before the apocalypse, electronic devices, bedding, and even other items—although many things were destroyed, the resources that remained were immense. As long as these resources were assimilated, the development of their settlement would certainly rise to another level.

"Forget about him. Call people to scavenge resources here quickly, and oh, let them bring more weapons. We’re going to war with the marauders soon!" Jiang Fuxing didn’t care about the gasoline Zheng Yichen took. What was that little bit of resource compared to this vast Alien Phenomenon Remnant Zone?

Even if Zheng Yichen took other things, she wouldn’t have minded, but it seemed he had no intention of resting here. She had even prepared to try for some additional developments with him... alas.

Even though Zheng Yichen’s origins were unknown, the strength he displayed and the information he knew were all desperately lacking for her side—no, for their settlement.

Zheng Yichen didn’t disclose much information, but she had firmly memorized it. Moving Phenomena were very dangerous, but the creatures inside couldn’t escape. If the Alien Phenomenon creature died, the moving Phenomenon would disappear. Stationary Phenomena were safer but could vanish at any moment...

What was the difference between stationary and moving Phenomena? Zheng Yichen hadn’t explained, but Jiang Fuxing planned to try finding stationary Phenomena if she had the chance in the future.

"Ah? We’re really going to war?"

"Those marauders will be even crazier than us if they discover this place. Do you intend to wait for them to strike first?" Jiang Fuxing glanced at her team member. Warring with the marauders would bring significant losses, but at the same time, they could fully claim all the resources in the Alien Phenomenon Remnant Zone.

The only threat nearby was the marauders’ settlement.

The rest? By the time the rest discovered this place, it would have already been emptied by them.

In her hand, Jiang Fuxing held a cellphone that she had found in a damaged store, where various goods and construction debris were piled up together.

However, some items could still be used after cleaning, and devices like cellphones were something she had contact with before she turned ten. Her parents had told her how colorful the world was before the apocalypse, and she yearned for such a world, but by the time she was born, the world was already in its apocalyptic phase.

Looking at the unlock screen of the phone, Jiang Fuxing’s face showed a hint of irritation. She had heard her parents talk about this kind of unlocking... Not knowing the password kept her from properly trying out the phone.

"Huff..." Elsewhere, after riding far away from that group of apocalypse survivors, Zheng Yichen let out a lengthy sigh, his eyelids starting to tremble.

The gorilla had hardly rested properly for nearly a week, and he had done the same. The difference was that he hadn’t been disturbed by anything and his food supply had been secure, allowing him to deal with the gorilla in better shape.

If those apocalypse survivors were Liu Haipeng and the others, Zheng Yichen might have considered resting there, but he did not know this group at all, so naturally, he wouldn’t foolishly rest there. He didn’t want to gamble on unexpected events happening.

He and the gorilla had endured so long, it would be too pathetic if he overturned the cart at the end...

"Huff... right here... forget it, I should keep going." Zheng Yichen looked at the map location, there were still over two hundred miles to the Dusk Cathedral. He stopped the motorbike to check its condition, and everything on it was intact. The fuel had been topped up, enough for him to make it all the way back to the Dusk Cathedral.

Interceptions en route? Well, he was just retracing his steps. The entities that could have intercepted him before wouldn’t have ’regenerated’ so quickly, right?

Humans were way too scarce in the post-apocalyptic world, and Zombie Evolvers weren’t so rampant either.

Back at the Dusk Cathedral, Zheng Yichen didn’t even think about tidying up his things. After parking the car at the entrance of the cathedral, he simply found a bench to lie down on and fell asleep as soon as he closed his eyes.

Watching Zheng Yichen sleeping on the bench, the three sisters in the church looked at each other without a word. After a while, the elder sister among the church sisters said to Tia, "The Proxy Agent you found this time is quite good; he may be able to keep going."

"It’s his abilities that are very good." Prioress Tia approached Zheng Yichen, looked at his exhausted face, and then added, "He is different from us and from everyone else."

"You didn’t share this information."

Prioress Tia didn’t say anything; the sister didn’t continue to question and kept standing still, staring at Zheng Yichen as if time within the Dusk Cathedral had frozen.

Zheng Yichen slept very deeply, without even a dream. When he woke up, he felt refreshed and all the fatigue he had accumulated was gone. He picked up his phone to check the time and found that it was already two days later; he had slept for at least forty hours.

The sisters were cleaning the church, which barely needed any cleaning, and Prioress Tia was sitting on the bench looking at the cathedral’s twilight-colored glass windows, seemingly deep in thought.

The interior was, as always, unchanging. If it weren’t for the time on his phone, Zheng Yichen would have no idea whether it was day or night outside.

"Good evening."

He greeted Prioress Tia, who looked at Zheng Yichen and nodded gently, "Good evening."

After washing his face, he sat back in his original spot, looking at his own hands. The feedback from dealing with the gorilla had manifested while he was asleep.

But this kind of feedback wasn’t like a game’s attribute panel where changes could be directly observed; to see these changes, he would have to explore slowly on his own.

First, he could confirm that there were no noticeable mutations in his body, and his face looked normal, without any sign of turning into an ape-like creature. His skin was the same as before, his muscle strength had increased, but his physique was still the same as it had always been.

"Did I get any handsomer?" Zheng Yichen suddenly asked Prioress Tia.

The nun still looked at Zheng Yichen with an indifferent expression, "There are no changes in your external features. Your weight has increased slightly, but it is negligible. You have become stronger."

"I’d still be hammered by that gorilla," Zheng Yichen exhaled. He wasn’t sure how much stronger he had become, but he knew that the extent of his improvement was definitely not beyond that of the gorilla.

The feedback from his extraordinary abilities certainly wouldn’t translate fully; simply devouring the flesh and blood of a target to gain all its strength was just a fanciful thought.

If he really had that kind of power, he would have been strutting around everywhere by now. Even if he couldn’t have a physique as formidable as the Alien Phenomenon behemoth’s, he would at least be able to clash with it head on instead of being pounded into submission, right?

"The fact that you made it back alive means you are stronger." Prioress Tia stated a fact; no matter how formidable Zheng Yichen’s enemy was, being the last man standing made him the strongest. Until there was an undeniable gap in strength between both sides, the stronger wouldn’t necessarily win.

"There are three Alien Phenomenon creatures left." Zheng Yichen scratched his cheek, "When I was fighting that gorilla, cracks appeared in the distortion of the phenomenon around it. Could this lead to something?"

The black cracks looked nearly identical to spatial rifts, devoid of substantial damaging effects. But since it was an unprecedented situation for him, it wouldn’t hurt to ask.

"That’s the sign of an Alien Phenomenon creature tearing through the barrier. What you’ve described is just what happens in the initial stage."

"That was just the initial stage??"

"Otherwise, you wouldn’t be in this world at this time."

Zheng Yichen clicked his tongue, "Alright, then make me some more bait; the previous ones were wasted because they weren’t used."

The bait was carried on him, but after his clothes were smashed by the punch of the gorilla, everything he was carrying was also destroyed, including the unusable bait, some of the gems scavenged from Oma, and so on. However, winning was all that mattered, so it wasn’t a loss.

"How much do you need?"

"The same, three pieces. It’s not good to drain too much blood."

In the infirmary, Tia easily inserted the needle into Zheng Yichen’s back hand vein, treating his skin’s toughness as negligible. His skin was already very sturdy now, but here in this place, it was still as fragile as paper.

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