I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 326 - 264 A Peaceful Oblivion_1

Chapter 326: Chapter 264 A Peaceful Oblivion_1

Looking at his now short arms and legs, Zheng Yichen sighed deeply, this time his body shrinking was much more severe than the last. The previous occasion was simply a matter of losing a few years, but this time it was a direct halving.

This made Zheng Yichen somewhat anxious; the serpent’s exuvia ability from the great snake, although a lifesaver, was clearly not an unconditional escape from death. If the consumption was too great, or the damage sustained was too severe, it was unlikely that he could be fully brought back.

Barely scraping through, was there any remaining combat strength? Perhaps enough to leave a whole corpse?

"Should have retained more life essence at the time," Zheng Yichen said to himself as he sat on the motorcycle, looking around at the Abyss’s broken walls. There were no longer any visible flesh and blood materials in the environment, only petrified flesh and piercing cold.

As the motorcycle flew out, the howling wind still rang in his ears, and the cold air poured into the planetary abyss.

Fiddling with a planetary globe, the planetary abyss seemed much larger than Mo City, but compared to the planet itself, it didn’t seem like much. So could this world still return to normal?

As Zheng Yichen thought this, only after he left the planetary abyss did he realize he might have been overly optimistic.

The area with a hundred kilometers radius centering on the planetary abyss had undergone petrification changes, whereas further away... was decay!

The originally blood-red sky had turned a dark yellow, and the color of blood easily agitated people, driving them to madness, while this dark yellow hue inherently produced a profound sense of despair.

The smell of the planets’ decay was enough to make Zheng Yichen’s head swim. He quickly took out a filter mask and put it on, which made him feel a bit better.

The decaying land flowed with some dark liquid, further exacerbating the land’s rot wherever it went. The flesh chunks of the city’s people were also highly decomposed, no longer recognizable as human forms, and buildings and the like collapsed amidst the decay.

The ocean had turned into pus, and on the way back, Zheng Yichen’s expression had gone numb, even wondering if this rotting land might give rise to larger bacteria.

Dusk Territory.

The native survivors also noticed the change in their world. Some children looked up at the rotting sky and land and couldn’t help but start crying out loud, while adults felt an overwhelming sense of despair in such a scene.

"Did he, did he succeed?" Monili whispered as she observed the change in the world. The rotting world had taken on a dark yellow color, nearly that of Dusk, but the feeling inside the Dusk Territory was completely different from the outside.

Monili found a native Dusk nun and asked her urgently, "Please tell me, what will become of the world now?"

"The rot will disappear," the native Dusk Nun said calmly, already aware of this since Zheng Yichen had dealt with the source of the world’s cancerous mutation.

The cause of the world’s cancerous mutation was not significant, but its influence was world-level. It was like an apple where the core and the stem connecting it to the tree are not large, but if these parts rot, the effect on the apple is lethal.

Removing the rotten core doesn’t keep a fruit fresh for long, and once the stem is cut, the fruit will likewise rot.

This world was already cancerous, so when the source of the cancer was removed, the rot immediately became apparent, without even a moment’s wait.

The world before the cancer mutation was akin to a tumor that, once matured, would cause ’cancer cells’ to spread wildly. After all, cancer cells have little to do with death—they’re still alive and more ’vital’ than normal cells.

But when cancer turns into rot, it’s different. A rotten fruit will eventually fall from the tree and, decomposing on the ground, will only serve as fertilizer, without any worse outcome.

"Then, what about us?" Monili’s heart clenched. Were they, who had struggled and fought for survival, going to perish with this rotting world?

"The Dusk Territory will be the last to be transferred and merged," the native Dusk nun said and then fell silent.

...

In Dusk Territory, having returned, Zheng Yichen was surrounded by a strong gathering of the native survivors. He pulled a face and went straight to the garage of the Dusk Cathedral. After parking the bike and opening the storage compartment, he looked at the few remaining eyeballs inside. These things had been preserved.

He figured these could be used as high-level enhancement material within the Dusk mercenary circle.

After packing them away, Zheng Yichen returned inside the cathedral where Prioress Tia was already waiting for him.

"I need a physical examination!"

"Come with me." Tia looked down at the now much smaller Zheng Yichen and reached out her hand.

Zheng Yichen hesitated for a moment, looked at his tiny palms, placed his hand on hers, and followed Tia to the medical room.

This time Tia gave Zheng Yichen a very thorough physical exam: "Apart from being weak, there’s no residual damage. After recovery, you’ll become stronger."

"...Ah, and then the things I have to do will become trickier to handle, right?" Zheng Yichen sat up and felt that his enlarged clothes were not very useful, as his form had shrunk considerably. He had cut down many backup clothes; otherwise, one could wear a shirt and have it double as a skirt.