I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 232 - 197: My Matter is Very Critical_1

Chapter 232: Chapter 197: My Matter is Very Critical_1

Zheng Yichen was grateful that he could come to her aid, but it also drove her crazy. It was a sorrowful event, for Zheng Yichen had been targeted by participants of the Eye of Time and Space, and now he came to rescue her. Did that make her an accomplice in some sense?

No, there was still a chance to remedy the situation. After getting into the car, Chiang Wei quickly erased all the nearby surveillance records. It would cover their tracks for some time at least.

"What’s the matter with you? You got attacked as soon as you arrived," Zheng Yichen asked her, curious about her situation. He had randomly chosen a place, and it just happened to hit the mark?

"I was being watched," Chiang Wei felt uneasy inside. Fortunately, she had made some preparations before entering the town and hacked into the nearby police systems. Otherwise, there wouldn’t have been any extra movements, and she would have been caught directly.

"Although I’m curious as to why these people are after you, if you don’t want to talk about it, how about I take you somewhere else? But you’ll need to help me obtain some additional information."

"..." Chiang Wei wanted to roll her eyes. That sounded easy, but the Eye of Time and Space Plan was a no-go zone for hackers. It was lucky enough not to be discovered the first time, but a second time? That would really be life-threatening.

Chiang Wei looked at the vehicles chasing after them and gritted her teeth, "Then I’m causing you trouble!!"

"Let’s go!" Zheng Yichen immediately sped up his motorbike, soon shaking off those behind them. It seemed their preparation wasn’t very adequate, likely because the forces that had been watching Chiang Wei had spread out their power, waiting for her in an ambush.

After all, humans need supplies in the wild, and it was even more so for a woman alone. If they just covered all the inhabited places nearby... well, in a way, the faction catching her had quite a large number of people on hand.

"Whew~" Back at the riverbank, Chiang Wei finally had a moment to catch her breath and pay attention to her own injuries. She had numerous scrapes, and there was a bullet graze on her leg still bleeding.

Zheng Yichen handed her a hemostatic spray, "You weren’t hit, were you?"

"Those people aren’t willing to kill me yet," Chiang Wei glanced at the hemostatic spray in Zheng Yichen’s hand, sprayed it on her wound, and couldn’t help wincing. She then took the wet wipes Zheng Yichen passed to her and cleaned the blood around the injury.

"We’re not safe here."

"I know, but we need to take care of your wounds first." Zheng Yichen, who had taken out a bandage, saw that the girl could handle her own problems and didn’t interfere further. He just stood aside after handing her the items.

Having bandaged the more severe wounds, Chiang Wei, who sat on a stone, stood up again, "Let’s reintroduce ourselves. My name is Chiang Wei."

That name... Zheng Yichen nodded and said, "My name is Chang Qing. Once your wounds are treated, we’ll change locations."

On the road, Chiang Wei looked at the bike Zheng Yichen was riding with some perplexity, "Your bike isn’t nuclear-powered, is it? I didn’t find any information about it when I looked at the computer systems."

She thought the endurance of Zheng Yichen’s bike was outrageous. Even with solar charging, it shouldn’t be able to keep up like this, right?

"You’re even paying attention to this?"

"I’m worried that we’ll have to walk later on!"

Zheng Yichen rubbed his fingers together, a streak of electricity appearing on them, "Here, just add a converter to the bike for a quick charge and that’s it."

Battery stuff can always be replaced with new ones once they get back anyway.

"...Special abilities really are convenient," Chiang Wei said enviously. She wasn’t a special ability user, and Zheng Yichen seemed to possess more than one special ability. Some people only have one, or even none, while others have many.

"Indeed," Zheng Yichen looked at the map in his hand, finding a mountainous area. Tracking them in such a place wouldn’t be easy. As for how a motorcycle could travel in such terrain, a bike with a built-in hover function didn’t have to worry.

They only had to consider living creatures like wild animals.

Those weren’t wild animals; they were provisions...

"Why would a rabbit be able to breathe fire??" Zheng Yichen held onto a rabbit, its mouth capable of shooting fire, catching him off guard and burning his fingers.

"Any living being can have a special ability, even animals are no exception," Chiang Wei was about to laugh at Zheng Yichen’s carelessness but then saw the minor burns on his fingers healing gradually. She swallowed her words.

Forget it, there was no point in comparing herself with someone like him. She also noticed something else. It had been two or three days since she’d met Zheng Yichen, and it was quite evident his hair had grown noticeably longer.

"So... can we eat it?"

"Why not?" Chiang Wei didn’t have the typical girlish squeamishness, like "rabbits are so cute" and such. When she saw the creature breathing fire, she didn’t find it cute anymore, "In another place, this little thing would be quite valuable, being a rare animal."

There were many rabbits, but not many that could breathe fire.

"Then okay," Zheng Yichen drew some blood from the rabbit and placed it in a small refrigeration compartment inside the motorbike, a device developed by the Ahn family to preserve blood to the greatest extent and prevent any subsequent effects.

And then, the fire for roasting the rabbit was provided by the rabbit itself.

"There’s internet access here too..." Seeing that the device in Chiang Wei’s hands was still functioning, Zheng Yichen glanced up at the sky obscured by the trees and felt it was a bit far-fetched.

"Just what kind of woodsman are you? The internet was capable of global coverage a decade ago," Chiang Wei said somewhat speechlessly. The internet’s worldwide coverage relied on breakthroughs in new technology. It could not guarantee high-speed internet everywhere, but at least it could ensure connectivity.

Except in those areas with severe magnetic interference.

"I just think it’s impressive. What about the information I want?"

"The Eye of Time and Space is a no-go zone for hackers; it’s not so easy to deal with," Chiang Wei muttered, devouring the roasted rabbit meat in large bites. Perhaps it was just her imagination, but she thought the meat of a rabbit with special abilities tasted much better than that of an ordinary rabbit.

The drinking water was also obtained by Zheng Yichen through "special ability", which made Chiang Wei even more envious. Having this ability in the wilderness was incredibly convenient.

After eating and drinking their fill, she wiped her mouth, took a casual glance at Zheng Yichen, and began what seemed to him a rather tedious process of opening the suitcase that had been treated as a treasure until then.

"Is this also a computer?"

"...Yes, I didn’t mention this earlier," Chiang Wei said.

Zheng Yichen found a place to sit down: "Are those people after you for this thing, or specifically for you as a person?"

"Both, I suppose," Chiang Wei slightly pursed her lips. "But I suppose I’m the more important one."

"Okay."

Half an hour later, Chiang Wei couldn’t help but turn to Zheng Yichen, "Aren’t you curious about this thing?"

"Everyone has their secrets. You don’t want to tell and yet you expect me to force you to?" Zheng Yichen smiled gently at her. "I just need to get what I want, and the rest is up to you."

"How about we make a deal?" Chiang Wei brushed back her hair and looked earnestly at Zheng Yichen. "You tell me about the Eye of Time and Space project you know of, protect me to a certain place, and I’ll help you get the information you want."

"That place must not be easy to get to," Zheng Yichen did not think things would be that simple.

Chiang Wei nodded, "It’s not easy to get to, but compared to where you want to go, it’s much simpler."

The place she needed to go paled in comparison to the Eye of Time and Space Fortress.

"My business is very dangerous," Zheng Yichen put away his relaxed expression.

"The fact that I’ve been seen with you has been noticed by quite a few people. Do you think I can stay out of the trouble you’re encountering?" Chiang Wei spoke somewhat helplessly. It had been fine in the wilderness, but after encountering several incidents in town, she became associated with Zheng Yichen.

Even if others hadn’t tracked down the people involved with the Eye of Time and Space, Zheng Yichen was still a suspected criminal.

"What exactly is the Eye of Time and Space?"

She was very curious about this point. Zheng Yichen was being targeted by those people, and he was here for the Eye of Time and Space, but he knew so little about it, which was contradictory. The vehicle Zheng Yichen rode could not have been produced without substantial technological backing.

Moreover, the style and operating system of the vehicle were very different from what she knew, indicating the support of a unique power behind him. With such backing, it didn’t make sense for him to be so ignorant about certain things.

"I don’t know either," Zheng Yichen said honestly. "But I can be sure that there’s something wrong with the ’Eye of Time and Space’ that this world has put so much effort into creating."

"...What’s wrong?"

"This world will be swallowed up, accompanied by intense turmoil. Anyway, it’s easy for more than half of the lifeforms in this world to die."

"How is that possible? The world is so vast, a single planet can’t mean that much, there’s the universe!" Chiang Wei found Zheng Yichen’s words somewhat fantastical, as the destruction of the world was usually limited to a single planet in certain artistic works.

"That I don’t understand. All I know is what I’ve been told," Zheng Yichen smiled. He had pondered this question as well—compared to the universe, a planet is like a speck of dust, right? But Prioress Tia had explained to him that the world was vast, yet not as large as one might imagine.

From his point of view, the entire world is a vast universe wrapping around particles of dust called planets, but from a higher perspective, a world is not that big.

A small emergency stop button can pause machinery thousands, even tens of thousands of times larger than a person, and the actions performed by the Boundary Breakers and the Equilibrium Faction are similar. It may seem as if their deeds are confined to specks of dust, but if successful, the impact is far greater than the size of the dust.