I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 131 - 122 Not So Easy... Right?_1

Chapter 131: Chapter 122 Not So Easy... Right?_1

The notice also mentioned something about money.

Money? In the post-apocalyptic world, money had become synonymous with waste paper. A stack of paper money probably only had the value of actual paper used for burning for the deceased. Its overall worth was most likely less than that of a bullet.

"How should I put it, hasn’t this thing not been updated for like thirty years?" Li Yun expressed his opinion.

"Probably... But the nuns here are really young." Liu Haipeng glanced at the sisters inside the cathedral. Their beauty, fair skin, and good figures immediately attracted the attention of many young men from the post-apocalyptic world.

Even some of the female transmigrators from before seemed very beautiful to the people of the post-apocalypse.

There was no other reason. The living conditions in the post-apocalypse were so poor that it was basically impossible to find people with beautiful and fair complexions—there simply weren’t conditions conducive to that kind of maintenance. Moreover, for survival, most of the time they had to endure all kinds of exposure to wind and sun, and were often in the company of firearms.

Under such conditions, even a great beauty could lose points due to the effects of the environment.

The fair-skinned and beautiful nuns stood out as quite attractive here. However, the notice was very clear about forbidding any harassment of the nuns, who possessed substantial combat power, and when they thought of people with the strength of Zheng Yichen working as mere laborers, no one dared to test how tough the nuns actually were.

Moreover, they hadn’t come from afar for fun. Ultimately, they were there because of Zheng Yichen. He had been purposeful from the start, aiming for transdimensional phenomena. Did his connection with Dusk Cathedral not directly indicate that the cathedral had a deeper understanding of anomalies?

This place might be an extraordinary force. As for phenomena, Liu Haipeng and the rest had held meetings at the gathering place. After acquiring resources from the territory of the suitcase remains, their development would greatly accelerate in the future. But this did not mean they could always live in comfort—they had greater aspirations...

They wanted to understand more about the phenomena, even to explore and uncover more of these anomalies.

"Stop looking at the nuns for now, something’s off with our people." Li Yun said in a low voice to Liu Haipeng, who then looked at the team members who had come in with puzzlement. Some members seemed very relaxed here, while others appeared quite uncomfortable.

It wasn’t that they were exhibiting any anxiety, but there was a sense of not wanting to be there.

"What’s wrong with you?" Liu Haipeng directly asked.

"Captain, we’re fine," a questioned team member replied with some confusion.

"...You seem like you really don’t want to stay here," Liu Haipeng frowned slightly.

The team member shook his head: "It’s not that I don’t want to be here, it’s just that there’s an odd feeling being in this place that I can’t quite describe."

After understanding more, Liu Haipeng thought about how the team members described their feelings, and his expression became odd. He attributed the weird feeling to something akin to jet lag discomfort.

Jet lag discomfort? But clearly, there was no time difference here; it was just that the overall color tone inside the cathedral gave the impression of being in the dusk. Not real dusk. And those members who had no issues didn’t feel this way.

Some of the transmigrators they brought along also experienced this ’jet lag’ discomfort.

Was there an issue here? Or was it just an issue for certain people? Liu Haipeng figured it was the latter. Once those who felt uncomfortable left the interior of the cathedral, they returned to normal. It was as if they had been under some kind of strong psychological suggestion.

"Let’s start by understanding some of the information we want to know," Liu Haipeng discussed with Li Yun. No matter what, they came here to better understand the issues related to the anomalies, for the sake of future development.

Zheng Yichen, outside Dusk Cathedral, didn’t find it strange that some team members came out. Dusk Cathedral also emphasized adaptability; those who liked it here would often come back, while those who didn’t wouldn’t return after one visit.

Clearly, those who came out were the ones who didn’t adapt well to Dusk Cathedral.

As for the purpose of Liu Haipeng and his team... maybe they could become Dusk mercenaries in the future. In that case, they might still have the chance to greet each other and meet up.

In this apocalyptic world, becoming a Dusk mercenary could be beneficial, right? As long as the Dusk mercenaries thought of aiding their own world, they would incidentally acquire some things that would be useful for their world during their actions.

Whether it was technology or something else.

However, becoming a Dusk mercenary probably wasn’t that easy, right?

"We might be colleagues in the future!" Liu Haipeng said excitedly to Zheng Yichen.

"..." Zheng Yichen retracted his previous thoughts. It wasn’t as simple as ghosting someone, huh? Had he really succeeded just like that?

"Alright, colleagues be colleagues, but there won’t be too many opportunities for us to act together."

"It’s okay, there will always be chances to meet in the future," said Liu Haipeng, feeling somewhat sentimental. He had only come here to understand the situation, and not only had he gained an understanding, but he also learned about more things that he didn’t know before.

Then he wanted to become a so-called Dusk mercenary. The nun from the Dusk Cathedral agreed without hesitation, and Liu Haipeng wondered how the Dusk nuns chose people. He could become a Dusk mercenary, but his good friend Li Yun couldn’t, and likewise, several capable team members were also rejected by the Dusk nun.

They spoke very bluntly, stating that those who were rejected did not qualify to become Dusk mercenaries. Those transmigrators who wanted to find a way home were also driven to madness. They didn’t want to live in this damned apocalyptic world; they were eager to return to a normal society.

Some even became so emotional that they wanted to take action by force, but fortunately, Liu Haipeng intercepted them in time. He asked other questions which somewhat improved the transmigrators’ morale. They still had the chance to return home, as long as they found other normal anomalies. By passing through a normal anomaly, they could make contact with other worlds.

Liu Haipeng also felt that if the transmigrators really continued to be agitated, it would likely lead to a serious issue. It might not lead to collective punishment, but Liu Haipeng didn’t want to test that feeling. As for these troublemaking transmigrators, they would deal with them after returning.

They had already become potential sources of instability.

Moreover, there was another matter. Zheng Yichen’s arrival in their world to deal with the moving anomaly was to help their world solve problems. Otherwise, their world would be completely torn apart by the moving anomaly and then be swallowed by an alternate world.

Liu Haipeng, knowing this, wanted to help, but the Dusk nun indicated that it was Zheng Yichen’s job, and his participation was meaningless—even more so because he couldn’t get involved.

Dealing with moving anomalies wasn’t suitable for him. With no strong opinions on the matter, Liu Haipeng, who had just become a Dusk mercenary, was thinking about how to take on missions to other worlds in the future, completing them while incidentally acquiring sufficient special resources or new technologies.

Zheng Yichen, back on the road, had mixed feelings. He really hadn’t thought becoming a Dusk mercenary would be so easy... well, it seemed not that easy. Out of the entire convoy, aside from Liu Haipeng, there wasn’t a single other qualified person.

Firstly, those who couldn’t adapt to the Dusk Cathedral were out of the question; they definitely didn’t qualify. Only those who could stay had further choices. Yet out of the one-third of people who stayed, only Liu Haipeng was qualified because he had the adaptability for anomalies, as well as enough potential for growth.

To be able to maintain sufficient combat power under various Environmental Adjustments?

Anyway, as Liu Haipeng had become a Dusk mercenary, Zheng Yichen was definitely going to congratulate him. As for the likelihood of meeting in the future, unless some special situation arose in Hazy City that required a large amount of combat power to resolve, the chance of seeing Liu Haipeng again was really slim.

Looking at the distant moving anomaly, Zheng Yichen took a deep breath and walked into it. He would eventually have to face the giant serpent.

The environment where the serpent resided was disgusting. If it had been a highly intense environment, Zheng Yichen pondered that he could’ve gone in after entering Burst Mode and directly hammered the serpent hard.

Poison was a significant threat, but as long as he avoided direct contact and inhalation, he wouldn’t have much of a problem in a short-term melee. However, the intensity level here was too low.

Burst Mode wouldn’t produce a protective qi field around his body.

Zheng Yichen used another method, controlling a large amount of soil to turn himself into a Stone Person, and then, as expected, he was smashed by the giant serpent.

He could make the Stone Person’s body very large, but it still wasn’t enough against a serpent longer than a hundred meters. He was sent flying upon impact, so Zheng Yichen had to switch tactics. He took out all the gems obtained from Oma and embedded them in the black spear.

The earthy yellow gems added an extra layer of earth armor over Zheng Yichen, the blue gems turned the surrounding wind into ultra-high intensity wind armor, and the purple gems made the lightning power on his weapon even more rampant.

Triple-layered defenses allowed Zheng Yichen to combat the poison-releasing giant serpent, though the resources consumed were quite significant.

The poisonous venom sprayed by the serpent was directly repelled by the wind armor surrounding Zheng Yichen, while the earth armor served as an additional layer of protection to prevent any possibility of the wind armor breaking, getting tainted with the deadly poison, and causing trouble.

The lightning power focused tightly on the black spear. When confronted with the spear’s concentrated burst of lightning, the serpent’s tough scales were blasted open, resulting in a bloody wound. Once the defense was broken, the fishing rod concealed within the spear showed its effect; Hellfire poured into the serpent’s flesh.

The black spear also siphoned a ’small’ amount of blood from the serpent.

After landing a successful strike, Zheng Yichen didn’t give the serpent a chance to shed its skin. The wind armor burst open with a gust, deflecting the sprayed venom and bringing him close to the serpent’s vital area. Lightning gathered, and the thunderous outburst shattered the serpent’s scales once again.

This attack exhausted the purple gem on the spear, and Zheng Yichen saw the serpent’s exposed heart.