I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 304 - 251: The Criminal_1

Chapter 304: Chapter 251: The Criminal_1

"Hmm—okay, let’s go." Zheng Yichen checked the motorcycle’s status, making sure that nothing abnormal had appeared on it. He walked ahead, with the vehicle automatically following behind.

In the orchard, Zheng Yichen used his black spear to prick off a plump, full apple. The fruit’s outer layer seemed to have no issues, but once it was split open, the juice inside was the color of blood, and the flesh also had the hue of raw flesh.

"Boss, I don’t recommend consuming this kind of thing." The projection of the artificial intelligence Lilith appeared on Zheng Yichen’s shoulder.

"...Hmm, I’ll just have a look first." Zheng Yichen glanced at the projection with a hint of surprise, as he indeed had the thought of taking a bite. After all, he had eaten lots of abnormal things, so why not try this fruit which seemed edible?

It didn’t even smell of blood. All there was the fragrance of fruit, quite tempting.

"Feels like water." Zheng Yichen used his black spear to draw out the juice, feeling the feedback from this blood-like liquid. There was no feeling of disgust, nor the usual sensation of extracting from extraordinary creatures. It really just felt like swallowing water.

Could this Thing be edible?

Having picked a few apples, Zheng Yichen left the orchard, reasoning that since the orchard wouldn’t run away, he could always return for fresh fruits after solving the issues at hand.

Next to the motorcycle was a following projection screen displaying map data. This time, there was no need to cross half the planet, but the map and the actual terrain didn’t match up very well. Some terrain had been distorted, and on the torn ground, one could see thick ’blood vessels’.

Thin ones were twenty to thirty centimeters in diameter, the thick ones surpassed twenty to thirty meters.

"Could this planet be coming to life? Did you get that recorded?" At the edge of a cliff, Zheng Yichen asked the artificial intelligence.

"Recording complete."

Zheng Yichen directly activated the motorcycle’s hover function, crossing over the cliff. Before this cliff had formed, there had been a plain with a long highway running through it.

"Living people, are there any living people..." Zheng Yichen muttered as he circled around the cliff. He hadn’t found any live people, but he did come across a signal tower, one that was partially fleshified. Zheng Yichen pulled out a cellphone.

It was something found in that little house, previously without a charge, but during the journey he had charged it significantly, and now it was functional. Unexpectedly, it could even detect a signal.

The daring Zheng Yichen, looking at some of the numbers, directly called one saved under ’Boss Wang’.

"Hello? Is that you, Lü? It’s not time for the delivery yet, is it?" came a man’s voice from the other side of the phone.

Surprised that the call had actually connected, Zheng Yichen said, "Lü is dead, and so are you."

"Who are you? What kind of joke is this!" The voice of the man over the phone turned furious.

"No joke. How else would I have gotten Lü’s phone?"

"You murderer! Just wait to be caught!!"

A beep signaled that the call had been ended. Zheng Yichen curled his lips and continued dialing the next number, this time labeled ’wife’.

"Honey, will you be home for dinner tonight? If you’re busy, I’ll bring your meal to you; don’t go ordering those takeouts for no reason."

"...Darling, I don’t think you’d want your hus...ahem, your husband passed away, and I am the person specially notifying you about this." Zheng Yichen spoke with feigned sincerity.

After a pause of silence on the other end of the phone, a scream: "No, you killed my husband. You will pay for this!!"

You and that Boss Wang had an abnormal connection, huh??

This time, Zheng Yichen hung up first, contemplating dialing the third number when the phone screen began to ooze blood. A bloody number came through, its ringtone becoming a noisy disturbance—the number was unmistakably that of the phone’s original owner’s wife.

Zheng Yichen flung the cellphone away, and a pale green flame turned it to ashes.

"So, are the people in this world dead or not?" Zheng Yichen pondered the information he had gathered from the calls. If not unexpected, the remaining numbers could go through too, but who would be on the other side remained uncertain.

"Avoid connecting to the network. Everything encountered after connecting to the network is abnormal, but reality seems abnormal as well." Zheng Yichen glanced at the signal tower, where atop an eye had opened without his notice, fixatedly staring at him.

And Zheng Yichen felt a very clear intuition when he saw it—it was a woman’s eye.

"What are you looking at—" Zheng Yichen, not indulging the gaze of the eye, spun his black spear in his hand before throwing it. The spear, like a shooting star, pierced through the signal tower and the eye, shredding the massive eye in an instant.

The half-flesh signal tower snapped in two, and the black spear continued its trajectory, unrelentingly soaring towards the sky.

The power level of this world was too high, Zheng Yichen could tear through the air with a simple thrown attack.

Having left the signal tower, Zheng Yichen continued toward the target marked on the map, passing by a city where police sirens began to wail. The police cars were covered with flesh, and the drivers, though humanoid in shape, were more accurately described as clumps of flesh with a human form attached to them.

"Wanted criminal ahead, surrender immediately for leniency!" The voice over the loudspeaker of one police car called out for surrender.

Zheng Yichen acted as if he hadn’t heard, continuing to drive into the city. Were those people in the cars even still alive? His eyes were not deceiving him; if they were alive, they were far from normal.

Anything abnormal was to be eliminated.

A city of flesh; perhaps, due to the high population density, the flesh mutation here was much worse than in the wilderness. The majority of buildings were over half converted to flesh, but that wasn’t all.

What Zheng Yichen found even more bizarre was that there were ’people’ moving around. These moving figures were much like the drivers in the police cars, with flesh and human form amalgamated together, large and small—all were present: a family of three out for a stroll, single individuals walking alone, couples walking hand in hand, office workers in suits, and cats and dogs in the pet store.

Everything seemed so normal that Zheng Yichen, amidst it all, appeared to be the abnormal one.

"Murderer!!" A ’girl’ in a school uniform pointed at Zheng Yichen and screamed, causing everyone around to halt in unison.

"Murderer, murderer—"

"Fine, come and catch me if you can." Watching the reaction of these ’people,’ Zheng Yichen swung the fishing rod he held, and an ethereal green flame enveloped the surroundings. As their uniform screams filled the air, ripples formed around them.

The precision of their screams was unnerving, causing an irregularity in Zheng Yichen’s heartbeat, though it didn’t last long before returning to normal.

The police cars arrived at the scene, and the officers emerged, drawing their flesh-transformed handguns and attacking Zheng Yichen.

The bullets seemed especially slow in Zheng Yichen’s eyes. Surprisingly, he caught a bullet, which felt like...a finger bone.

After crushing the bullet’s fleshy outer layer, there were indeed ossified elements inside. He threw the bullet into the flames.

The gusts created by the swinging long spear scattered the Hellfire. In this world, only one Dusk nun remained. These people, even if alive, were no longer human. Piercing screams filled the air, clearly emitted by a large number of ’people,’ yet bizarrely uniform in nature.

Lilith said, "Your mental state shows significant fluctuation. I recommend using noise-canceling headphones."

"No need for now. Let’s change locations," Zheng Yichen said, spreading the ghostly green flames like a pyromaniac. A ’fleshy human’ ignited by the flames rushed towards him, only to be impaled and killed by his spear, drained of blood before even turning to ash.

Compensation for his own energy expenditure.

"Is there someone there? Help!" Amidst the burning, a desperate cry rang out. Zheng Yichen turned towards the source—a young man clad in a thick protective suit similar to Da Bai’s, waving for help.

Zheng Yichen’s long spear swept through the air, unleashing an arc of blood created by the attack mixed with Blood Asura inner force, vaporizing every ’fleshy human’ in front of him into a mist of blood. Some of it converged towards Zheng Yichen. Despite their bizarre state of existence, these flesh creatures were still living beings.

Extraordinarily abnormal creatures, but Zheng Yichen’s extraordinary abilities didn’t discriminate against any comer.

Making quick work of a clear path, Zheng Yichen reached the man crying for help. After a quick glance confirmed he was not a monster, Zheng Yichen grabbed him and rapidly escaped the encirclement of flesh creatures.

"Don’t run towards the outskirts. I still have a sister!"

"...Where? Lead the way." Zheng Yichen thrust his long spear forward, the column of air charged with Blood Asura inner force clearing all the ’fleshy humans’ in front of him. The attacks he unleashed, even without special powers, caused wide-spread impact and spatter because of the high-intensity environment.

"That way." Swallowing hard, the man in the protective suit hurriedly pointed out a direction to Zheng Yichen, who quickly approached it.

Before even reaching the site, a pungent odor wafted up, likely caused by some chemical compound. The blood-red filaments were absent in this area.

"Jingjing! Open the door quickly." The man in the protective suit shouted, banging on the tightly closed metal door. A series of sounds followed, and the door was slowly pulled open from the inside by a woman wearing a gas mask.

"Brother, who is he?"

"...I don’t know, but he’s very strong. He killed many monsters in an instant," said the man in the protective suit, sounding somewhat nervous.

"Come inside, I have many questions for you." Zheng Yichen peered through the gap in the door to check the conditions inside the house, from which wafted an even stronger odor of chemical substances.

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