I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 276 - 230 Are You Also Increasing the Difficulty?_1

Chapter 276: Chapter 230 Are You Also Increasing the Difficulty?_1

"I want to become a Dusk mercenary too," Lin Yaoyao said to Qi Xiangyun as she looked inside the medicine box.

Liu Hongzhao had completed a mission as a Dusk mercenary and had directly encountered other worlds. The world she visited was similar to theirs, except that it had no Supreme Demons and the situation was not as dire as in their world.

The main conflict there was against the Boundary Breakers, whose presence hadn’t yet greatly affected that world.

Liu Hongzhao had harbored deep hatred for the Boundary Breakers, vowing to kill any she came across. Upon her return, she even brought back some martial arts rare manuals from that world.

"Then it’s best for you to act together with Hong Zhao," Qi Xiangyun said. She currently couldn’t become a Dusk mercenary, even if she was qualified. Qi Family Town couldn’t afford to be understaffed, and although one could now quickly travel to the Dusk Territory using mechanical chariots, accepting a mission there meant being away for at least ten days to half a month.

If she did, there was no telling what Qi Family Town would become; there were always many spies lurking about.

"Of course, she’s so powerful..." Lin Yaoyao murmured under her breath, "When she decides to set out next time, I’ll go with her to have a look."

She wanted to learn the medical techniques of other worlds. She was gifted in self-study but lacked guidance, which meant she spent a long time resolving some issues by herself. If an experienced doctor were to guide her, perhaps she could quickly solve problems that would otherwise trouble her for a long time, right?

"Let’s head back."

"Let’s go."

They left the Dusk Territory, which was now under ’control,’ albeit only on the outside. Inside, those people didn’t dare to do anything.

Qi Xiangyun eyed a camp outside the Dusk Territory, squinting ever so slightly. The environment influenced one’s growth, and she had grown quickly during this period. While not as ’ruthless’ as Liu Hongzhao, she also had her own plans.

She would find time to uproot that place... And their leader? If he didn’t cooperate, she would find a way to take care of him. Right now, they were unimpeded in their travels to and from the Dusk Territory because they were in good shape, and those people could not touch them.

The moment any other circumstances arose, they would be like hyenas showing their claws and teeth.

"How’s your poison crafting coming along?"

"Why? If you want to deal with someone, can’t you just have Hong Zhao do it?" Lin Yaoyao asked, puzzled, as she sat in the mechanical chariot.

"Hong Zhao doesn’t lack combat experience," Qi Xiangyun replied, "but you do."

"When we get back, I’ll make you some, though I can’t guarantee they’ll be very effective."

Qi Xiangyun nodded. Initially, Lin Yaoyao hadn’t been developing poisons; she was trying to create medicine for the mutated and deformed human race. She hadn’t yet succeeded in creating a cure but due to frequent failures, she inadvertently produced a powerful poison.

Lin Yaoyao named it the ’Demon Eroding’ poison.

...

"Aside from being a bit cold, it doesn’t seem like there are any major problems, right?" Zheng Yichen mused, looking at the newspaper he had bought from a store. The shops here were still operating normally.

The people on the streets were dressed warmly but didn’t show any significant panic or other emotions; their faces wore the everyday expressions of life going on as usual.

The use of electronic devices was limited to radios and bulky televisions. Computers were rarely seen, and Zheng Yichen couldn’t even find an internet café.

Finally, Zheng Yichen decided to try using a telephone line.

In this world, artificial intelligence Lilith was like bringing a gun to a knife fight.

To the onlookers, Zheng Yichen looked like a rich young man riding a very advanced motorcycle, practically holding two large steamed buns in a very down-to-earth manner, oh, and also quite resistant to the cold.

Zheng Yichen wore only a shell jacket, and his pants didn’t seem very warm.

He didn’t find the information he wanted in the newspaper. Although it mentioned some major events, these were of no use to Zheng Yichen. At this moment, he started to miss the era of the internet explosion; in such a world, events from years ago could be easily dug up online.

But on this side...

He might as well look for a telephone line. He threw the paper bag into a trash bin and casually stowed the newspaper in a storage compartment on the motorcycle before riding away. The offline map on his phone displayed a countdown timer set for twenty days.

This implied that the world didn’t have much time before its end, but the people here, at least most of them, seemed blissfully unaware. He wondered, if he solved some issues here, might this world gain a legend similar to the ’1999’ confidential files?

"How cool is that bike??" A young man with a woman behind him, riding a very retro motorcycle, widened his eyes as he watched Zheng Yichen pass by. He wanted to keep watching but was poked in the side by the woman behind him.

"What are you looking at? Hurry up and go home, it’s freezing outside!"

"I know, I know." The man, who was dressed warmly and didn’t feel the chill, replied, "This damn weather is getting colder every day, and it’s supposed to be summer."

"Who knows what’s going on, everything was fine last year." The young woman couldn’t help complaining. Last winter was cold enough, but that was at least winter, and nobody thought much of it.

Then autumn was cold too, but that was explainable - an occasional bout of weird weather can be understood. But when summer rolled around and it stayed cold, that’s when people started to feel something was off. However, for ordinary folks, life had to go on as usual, and even if they cared, they couldn’t pinpoint what exactly was wrong.

There were some domestic and international experts on TV shows enlightening the public with some information, claiming that their planet was encountering an epochal ice age. But they aren’t Primitive People, unable to fight against such epochal changes, and the overall impact on human life, they said, wasn’t too significant, yada yada yada.

Hearing it was somewhat impressive, yet the effects were clearly felt – for instance, the rise in prices. Right now it hasn’t been long, but given more time, nobody would be able to stand it.

"Recently my grandma mentioned that some people are preaching about the coming of the end of days. They’re saying you have to believe in that certain thing to be saved."

"My mom told me about this too. Seems like a bunch of those people were even arrested."

"What’s with these old tales in this day and age." The man riding the bike disregarded the messages those people were spreading, but the young woman sitting on the bike felt some worry. She looked up at the sun - the sun seemed normal, but its warmth was not. This was the time she should be playing by the river with her boyfriend.

Not wearing thick cotton clothes during a hot summer day.

She was more educated than her boyfriend, not to say she could see the changes in the world, but in the daily details, there were many things that felt off. For example, with temperatures like these, water should freeze quickly, but she tried some experiments.

She deliberately put a basin of water at the door before going to bed at night, and when she woke up the next day, the water was still liquid, not turned to ice. Not to mention lighting a fire, which could provide extra warmth, but the range of heat distribution seemed to have become much smaller.

All aspects conveyed a sense of wrongness.

Over at Zheng Yichen’s side, with the projection feature of his motorcycle, he successfully hooked up a telephone line, and the projected, chibi-version ’girl’ Lilith began working.

"It’s done."

Artificial intelligence Lilith tossed away a projected network cable in her hand, jumped out from the display screen of the onboard computer, landed on Zheng Yichen’s shoulder, and with a tap of her finger, a projected screen appeared in front of him showing the filtered information.

Zheng Yichen browsed the information on the screen. Due to the artificial intelligence Lilith’s overwhelming advantage in this world, obtaining this information was very easy. After reading it carefully, Zheng Yichen gained a new understanding of the situation in this world – overall, things looked pretty bad.

There were attempts to debunk rumors, but it wasn’t real debunking; it was to prevent panic. It was still semi-manageable here, since visible problems were not apparent, but elsewhere there was already quite a bit of chaos.

If this were an era of advanced networking, such things definitely could not be hidden, but the network in this world was not widespread at all.

The main way most people received information was through the newspaper, TV news.

It was good enough for each family to have a landline phone.

"The Sky Pillar, huh... What new trick is this?"

He looked at a photo on the projection screen, a pale ’Sky Pillar’ that pierced the heavens and earth. In the file compiled by Lilith, this pillar was indeed called ’Sky Pillar’.

This thing appeared four months ago. At first, an abnormal weather pattern emerged in the sky, and dense clouds gathered into a heavy ’vortex’, as if a century’s tornado was about to surface. But what happened next defied expectations.

It wasn’t a tornado that appeared, but a sword-like ’Sky Pillar’. At first, the pillar was quite short and didn’t touch the ground.

During that time, many ’superhumans’ emerged around it - this was also from secret files, but everything was dug out by Lilith, allowing Zheng Yichen to browse through them here.

These superhumans engaged in a protracted and frequent battle around the Sky Pillar. The detailed records were hard to obtain due to the fierceness of their battles, making close observation impossible.

But the end result was that the Sky Pillar made contact with the earth, plunging the whole world into an odd ’winter chill’, colder than a typical winter, yet many details were extraordinarily unusual.

"Damn, they even conducted ’nuclear testing’??" Zheng Yichen stumbled upon a record and couldn’t help but twitch at the corner of his mouth, "Dammit, isn’t this making things more difficult for me?"

The nuclear blast did not destroy the Sky Pillar, nor did it bring any substantial impact to the Sky Pillar. However, it turned the area near the Sky Pillar into a ’biologically forbidden zone’ because of nuclear radiation.

Zheng Yichen felt that the Dusk mercenaries would be cursing their luck now – not just them, he felt like doing it too!

And what’s more critical is that this record was less than a month old!

"..."