I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 1259 - 907 No Boundary Breaking Core

Chapter 1259: Chapter 907 No Boundary Breaking Core

The intelligence from the investigation is crucial, as it involves reducing the degree to which the world is being devoured.

If they can take the information out, then at least their world can continue to exist normally for a while longer.

Even though the chances of getting the intelligence out are slim, they still have to try. Not only did she wake up in a better state, but she also encountered the Proxy Agent here.

The people in their world knew of the Dusk mercenaries and had established quite a close cooperation with them, successfully suppressing the Boundary Breaking Faction for a time.

They even came close to completely defeating the Boundary Breaking Faction. Under normal circumstances, they should have been able to achieve total victory.

But the Boundary Breaking Faction suddenly made a comeback from a desperate situation.

They added combat power that shouldn’t have been there, allowing the Boundary Breakers to turn the tables in a very short time.

Originally, it wouldn’t have been easy for them to make a comeback, but after a God Descender from the Boundary Breakers appeared, they introduced a method very targeted at this world.

That thing could bypass their defenses to some extent and directly harm the body.

A highly potent Energy Toxic Poison. Even if their defenses could withstand 99% of its effects, the remaining 1% was enough to deal them fatal damage.

Their bodies were just too weak.

Even though becoming a Revenant, the strength of Zhong Yan’s body hadn’t increased much; it just had more characteristics of a dead person, able to withstand more external damage.

"If the God Descender had appeared half a month later... we could have completely repelled the Boundary Breakers," Zhong Yan said with melancholy before detailing the situation of this world to Zheng Yichen.

"We initially discovered the Boundary Breakers; the power they possess is vastly different from ours, making it impossible to hide. They had many special methods, and at first, we were merely puzzled by the existence of the Boundary Breakers.

It was only after further investigation that we discovered their abnormalities, but by then it was a bit late. The Boundary Breakers had successfully infiltrated our world. Although we later cleaned up most of them, they had already taken root here.

We were well aware of the Boundary Breakers’ threat and never gave up cleaning them up over the years, but we were never able to completely eradicate them. Eventually, we found out that the Boundary Breakers were using a method of reincarnation.

Through this method, they thoroughly entrenched themselves in this world, and over years of confrontation, the forces behind the Boundary Breakers gained more understanding of our powers and developed various targeted methods.

We also tried to compensate for our deficiencies from other aspects, but due to environmental influences, we never succeeded in this area, including using methods like ’Genetic Modification’ obtained from the Dusk mercenaries."

Zheng Yichen raised an eyebrow in surprise: "Science and technology don’t work either?"

Scientific power can override environmental constraints. Although biological technology isn’t quite effective, it’s still a way to significantly enhance an individual’s strength in a low-environment.

"No, it doesn’t work." Zhong Yan shook his head with a heavy expression: "The upper limit of physical strength in my home world is too low. Even with biological technology, it only pushes physical strength up to the limit, not beyond it."

Realizing this impacted their subsequent plans greatly. If they could improve their physical strength by even a dozen times, they wouldn’t be so passive.

In fact, using methods provided by the Dusk mercenaries for calculation, the humans in their world had a maximum physical capacity just 1.5 times stronger than the standard physical condition of a world of the same strength level.

The standard physical condition refers to a body that is fully healthy without sub-health issues. 1.5 times stronger is basically the human limit.

A higher degree? There’s no higher degree. Even methods for further enhancement from other aspects would lift it directly from the lifeform level.

The capacity for enhancement in this aspect is limited, considering these factors, around 2.5 times the standard human is the real limit.

Faced with such a strength limit, they feel particularly powerless. As for alternative methods, they have tried them and found them lacking.

This method is called cyborg modification, directly replacing body parts with technological power, but this results in a significant reduction in their individual energy reserves.

The body greatly influences their use of energy, so a normally intact body is very important.

Undergoing such modification is tantamount to abolishing one’s martial arts.

Even if the cyborg modifications come with energy reserves capable of many attacks, in this world where a strong person is a self-moving nuclear power plant, what use are the energy reserves that come with cyborg modifications?

While body strength indeed increases massively, not just by a dozen times but by dozens or even higher, energy decreases sharply.

Going into battle in that state, one would be crushed by the Boundary Breakers in a single encounter. Undergoing such modification is seeking death.

"No fault in that." Zheng Yichen clenched his fists, profoundly grasping the strength level of this world—it was exceedingly lackluster.

"That’s why we used something like battle armor." After completing his search here, Zhong Yan sighed and cremated the accumulated corpses.

Such an affair is very easy for those who wield power in this world. With fire or water, it only requires using the appropriate power conversion method.

This method is akin to martial arts in a martial arts world, where the energy inherent in an individual serves as the core driver, equivalent to Inner Strength, and the conversion methods are comparable to techniques—who wouldn’t know some basic yet effective techniques?

"Battle armor is also good; given this world’s conditions, it doesn’t require any energy. Once you wear it, it is self-sufficient."

Zhong Yan nodded as expected, "The energy source integrated into those battle armors indeed can’t compare with ours. The presence of armor allowed us to suppress the Boundary Breakers for a time, especially after the disappearance of the God Descenders among them for a while.

We seized that opportunity, almost cleansing the Boundary Breakers and disrupting many of their preparations. However, the reappeared God Descenders brought new technology.

The corrosiveness of that Energy Toxic Poison is too strong. Even battle armor cannot withstand it. Moreover, there is a way to burn energy.

Once such a method touches the battle armor, it not only burns away our own energy but also the energy driving the armor, causing it to overheat, ultimately burning the person inside to death."

"..." Tsk, is that method of burning energy called mana burning?

Zheng Yichen shook his head. The upper limit in this world is extremely high; the energy level of individuals is too high, but physical constitution though...

Just like someone in a game Yichen played before transmigrating, where every hero’s attributes seem normal, yet this one inherently has zero strength and zero strength growth.

Even though the blood bar is thin, the strength of the magic shield is very high. The energy protection here equates to a hundred percent damage reduction, as long as the shield isn’t broken.

Yet it still doesn’t address the drawback of a thin blood bar. When faced with a method of direct execution under a certain blood level, what use is a thick shield?

Of course, this isn’t a game. A thick shield is indeed quite unreasonable, but that thickness signifies a high enough energy intensity, which can resist the impact of other forces more effectively.

Unless the method of direct execution under a certain blood level follows a Rule System, otherwise, it is hard to take effect.

But with the manifestation of energy levels in this world, even if it is a Rule System, one can mount some resistance; at the worst, they can elevate the threshold for execution.

Yet... the native human race still has a fragile fate.

No matter if it’s the Rule System or other methods, as long as they can slightly bypass their defense, reducing the hundred percent damage reduction by a tiny bit...

It is fatal to the protected person.

Clearly, the Great World forces behind the Boundary Breakers successfully developed countermeasures, making the native world’s combat power become passive.

As for the others... The neighbors are of the zero-intellect type, strong in physical constitution.

The main factor is that the Descent of God system of the Boundary Breakers returned to normal. The God Descenders returned to this world, providing sufficient support for the crippled Boundary Breakers.

Allowing them an almost base-backed comeback.

"Have you never found this world’s Boundary Breaking core?" Zheng Yichen asked with a slightly odd expression. Having crippled the Boundary Breakers, that Boundary Breaking core should be solvable, right?

It couldn’t be that those Boundary Breakers brought Alien Phenomenon creatures, right? If it’s Alien Phenomenon creatures, they might resist in this world.

No matter the environmental conditions in this world, in the moving phenomenon, it’s just the same.

"... We never had a Boundary Breaking core. Our initial direction of investigation was already flawed." Zhong Yan’s expression grew heavier. Indeed, they intended to search for the Boundary Breaking core, destroy it to thwart the Boundary Breakers’ plans.

Yet the outcome was a considerable failure.

Could not find something that didn’t exist at all.

"According to the intelligence provided by Dusk mercenary, they used new technology... This technology can bypass Dusk’s detection to some extent, openly building bridges while secretly crossing. My native world was invaded, but the ultimate issue lay with the world eroding this one."

As Zhong Yan spoke, she glanced back at the area where the environment was twisted: "I uncovered crucial intel here, but I failed to bring it back in time... Four days have passed, too late."

She and Zheng Yichen had already left the intersection point. Zhong Yan found the setting she left before entering the intersection point.

It was a timing method; upon touching it, she immediately determined how long she had been dead.

Four days.

Now their world was essentially in a race against time; four days were enough to influence many things.

"Judging by the degree of decomposition of those corpses, they don’t seem like four days." Zheng Yichen thought about the bodies he had encountered.

"But my record here indeed shows four days." As Zhong Yan spoke, she crushed the light orb in her hand, subsequently revealing the internal record of the light orb.

It was a record of the intense distortion change occurring at the intersection point; clearly, Zhong Yan died in that process.