I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 262 - 217 You’re Not Good Enough_1

Chapter 262: Chapter 217 You’re Not Good Enough_1

"This place really has a nice feel to it," Chiang Wei said as she looked around the Dusk Cathedral, showing an expression of enjoyment. "I’ll probably come often if I have the time."

"That’s actually quite good, wait for me a moment," Zheng Yichen said as Chiang Wei watched him with some confusion. He found Prioress Tia, who was holding a small notebook for records: "A total of 10 merit points."

"Ah? Even more this time?"

"Because you’ve dealt with a lot of Boundary Breakers this time," Tia explained.

Zheng Yichen thought about the Boundary Breakers he had killed and the compressed Alien Phenomenon he’d dealt with: "Does that mean those Boundary Breakers didn’t even make it to a one-to-one ratio for merit points?"

"They’re not that strong for you."

"But they did give me quite a bit of trouble."

Tia did not deny this: "That’s your own problem. Any other questions? Do you want to go back?"

Zheng Yichen shook his head: "No rush for now. Do you know what that Alien Phenomenon creature I contended with was?"

The nun was unperturbed: "There’s no need for unnecessary probing. If you want to ask, I can tell you directly. Since you’ve seen that heart, Dusk has it on record. You can consider that heart a product of an Artificial God."

"Similar to a Supreme Demon kind of entity."

"Yes, if it continues to grow spontaneously, it can reach that level, and the strength of a grown Artificial God depends on the environment it’s in."

Zheng Yichen couldn’t help but click his tongue, thinking about those giant heart tentacles. Would those tentacles eventually grow into a body? And everything he had seen was recorded by Dusk: "So, am I considered a God-slayer now?"

"Do you want to take pride in that?"

He immediately shook his head. It was just a motionless heart, nothing to be proud of. What he was interested in was what the heart could bring to him. For now, it seemed to be a more robust heart performance and a stronger body coefficient.

If, after he had obtained the Supreme Demon Blood, his body attribute’s Performance Coefficient went from the human standard of 1 to 1.3, now it had become 1.8 with a direct 2.0 Performance Coefficient in physical fitness.

Compared to the even higher coefficients of a fire dragon, there was a big gap, but he was human, after all. Concentration is the essence.

Now, if he fought with a fire dragon in Hazy City, he could really hammer it to death.

"Speaking of which, am I still considered human? Oh right, I got hurt earlier, give me a vitality check," he added.

"Come with me," Tia led Zheng Yichen away.

Chiang Wei, who had been keeping an eye on Zheng Yichen, widened her eyes, then huffed and sat down at a long table, opening the computer she carried with her.

In the infirmary, Zheng Yichen took off his shirt, and Tia, with her usual expression, checked his physical condition: "There’s no problem at all. If you’re not reassured, I can give you two vitamin pills."

"...That won’t be necessary. What is that Red Star Rock?"

"You can think of it as a kind of high-energy mineral. It affects people because the human bodies in this world aren’t strong enough," Tia didn’t explain much, and Zheng Yichen did not continue to ask questions. He was relieved after confirming there were no issues with his body.

As he dressed, he asked another question: "Am I still considered a human now?"

"It’s the same as before. You’re not a normal person, but whether you’re a human depends on your own perspective," Tia said as she opened the door to the infirmary. "If you consider yourself human and do human things, then you are human. It doesn’t matter if others don’t acknowledge you, as long as it doesn’t affect you."

"Haha, if I put it that way, as long as I’m powerful enough, they’d be delighted to consider me human," laughed Zheng Yichen.

Seeing Zheng Yichen return, Chiang Wei asked curiously, "Is that nun your contact person?"

"What contact person? She’s my boss," Zheng Yichen sat down beside her and glanced at the page Chiang Wei was browsing. It wasn’t any kind of hacking into someone’s fake system, just a normal computer technology discussion forum. He could recognize the individual characters, but their combination was beyond him.

"Your boss? That doesn’t seem very likely. By the way, aren’t you really worried about this place being under investigation and surveillance all the time?" Chiang Wei asked after a while.

"Not worried. If something directly involves this place, the nun will make a move." He had seen the state of the Dusk Territory in the apocalypse, especially how different it was from the Great World filled with Demon Flowers.

"How powerful are they?"

"I don’t know," Zheng Yichen smiled at her. "There’s something I need to talk to you about. Whether you agree or not is up to you."

"Oh? Let’s hear it," Chiang Wei said, interested.

"I have a storage place here. I can give you access to it. In the future, we can use it for some cross-dimensional interaction, exchange some items, and so on."

"Can it really be done this way? You’re not planning to just reach out to me directly through this method whenever you run into some trouble, are you?" Chiang Wei realized what Zheng Yichen was thinking.

"Of course, but I’m not going to let you do all that for nothing. If I come across some high-tech worlds, I’ll send stuff over to you through the storage facility, including local specialties from other worlds."

Her eyes lit up, "I can’t think of any reason to refuse! Your life is really enviable... Hey, why are you rolling your eyes at me?"

"Envy all you want, but I won’t go into the dangers involved."

Chiang Wei said with a smile, "I know it’s dangerous, that’s why I’m envious. After all, my skills are just in computer and mechanical technology."

"Enough of that, with proper training, you too could have a great body... I’m leaving in a bit."

"Then goodbye." Chiang Wei’s face showed a hint of reluctance, "Honestly, I’m kind of sad to say goodbye."

"Ha, it’s not like we won’t see each other again—you can send photos through the storage facility."

Previously, he had thirteen merit points, but now he had set up an additional storage facility, and with what he had received, he had twenty-two merit points in total. However, he hadn’t yet decided what to do with these points, although a sum less than a hundred was already considered a very significant wealth amongst the Dusk mercenaries.

These merit points could get them a full set of gear made entirely for themselves, or even use some type of material to change their physical constitution. Otherwise, why would Zheng Yichen feel like the Dusk Territory is like the Main God Space?

It’s just that compared to those places, this one seems a lot more ’primitive’.

Zheng Yichen left, and inside the Dusk Cathedral, Chiang Wei stared blankly at her computer. Over two hours later, an encrypted email came through, which she opened to find the unsurprising draft of a ’World Protection Protocol’, with an invitation attached below...

But she knew that the invitation was just a formality; the decision had been made long ago.

Once she knew about the existence of the Boundary Breakers in the Great World, it was a done deal, and the research on the Alien Phenomenon creatures wouldn’t be left behind, either.

Even if the Alien Phenomenon creatures could only exist briefly.

This development made Chiang Wei think of a story Zheng Yichen had told her, about when he first encountered an Alien Phenomenon creature. He had carelessly come into contact with it and met a... well, a dog-headed person. And it turned out that side had a deep understanding of visitors from the Alien Phenomenon and even had arrangements prepared in advance, along with immigration services.

Chiang Wei thought this might be something to reference, and that maybe their side would develop similar services once they had the conditions in place.

After encrypting the email further, she searched for some information. Alien Phenomenon creatures were not common in their world, but their world was technologically advanced and meticulously observed the globe. Every year, they were able to detect the presence of a few Alien Phenomenon creatures.

In a good year, there might be more than a dozen; in a slow year, just a few. Most appearances of the Alien Phenomenon were in sparsely populated areas—if it weren’t for advanced satellites, these occurrences would likely be even less documented.

"Right!" Remembering something, Chiang Wei approached a Dusk nun, "Hello, I’d like to learn about Dusk."

She was very straightforward because Zheng Yichen had told her that Dusk wasn’t that complicated. There were no demands here for confidentiality about various types of information; it was just that if someone spoke carelessly, they had to take responsibility for it. External factors didn’t affect Dusk.

Even if the local Dusk Cathedral were to be sealed off, there were countless worlds with Dusk Cathedrals; the absence of one such place—or the addition of another—would hardly make a difference. Doing otherwise would seem... foolish?

"You’re not suitable," a Dusk nun said after taking a look at Chiang Wei, speaking very directly.

"Eh? I’m pretty good at everything other than combat, aren’t I?"

The Dusk nun shook her head, "You lack sufficient adaptability."

"So, you’re saying that those with enough adaptability could do it?"

"Of course not. But they can choose to become Dusk mercenaries and get whatever they want to have."

Chiang Wei pouted; they already knew this information. The Boundary Breakers’ minds contained a lot of such data, and they also knew about the unique aspects of the Dusk Cathedral. Actually, the Boundary Breakers envied the Dusk mercenaries quite a bit—provided you have enough merit points, you could have anything you desired.

But now, she couldn’t even meet that threshold.

What exactly is Dusk?

With that thought in mind, she went to the storage facility that Zheng Yichen had authorized for her. Upon opening the locker, she saw some items inside, including some tea leaves accompanied by a note, "Can enhance human constitution? They haven’t been genetically modified, have they?"

Muttering to herself, she then checked the usage amount. With her current constitution, she figured using just one or two leaves at a time would do; any more than that, and her body might not take it well.

She picked up the small pack of tea leaves and left a note that read ’Thank you’ inside the empty locker. She had made up her mind: she would buy a house as soon as she got back, one as close to the Dusk Cathedral as possible!

Not to mention that she could now communicate with Zheng Yichen across dimensions through the storage locker—just being in this environment and atmosphere made her feel comfortable.

And as for her job, she didn’t need to go anywhere as long as she had internet and a computer. She had also decided to settle Doris there...