I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 357 - 281 Sky Dome_1

Chapter 357: Chapter 281 Sky Dome_1

Looking elsewhere, the animals previously dominated by the vine’s main body had also begun to deform; it seems that their brains had been damaged by the parasitic vines, turning the local extraordinary creatures into fools.

Many extraordinary creatures’ flesh had begun to decay, abnormally proliferating.

However, this deformation did not possess much offensive power; instead, as they proliferated, the aberrant creatures continued to expand their territory. Under Zheng Yichen’s twitching gaze, a continuous expanse of aberrant flesh brought back some rather unpleasant memories for him.

In the sunlight, the flesh rapidly spread across the ground without any extra growths; it was just endlessly expanding. When Zheng Yichen threw a piece of wood into it, the wood’s surface was quickly digested by the flesh carpet.

This sight made Zheng Yichen feel that it would be acceptable even if a few bugs crawled out of it.

Zheng Yichen had burnt this thing to a crisp with a fire; its rate of expansion was simply too fast, giving Zheng Yichen the feeling of looking at math textbooks and solving arithmetic problems about how many days it would take for a type of algae in a pond to double and fill it up.

After confirming there were no other miscellaneous things nearby, Zheng Yichen nodded in satisfaction and left the area. A motorcycle approached toward him, and another target was crossed off on the projection screen hanging from it.

Having Artificial Intelligence as an assistant was incredibly convenient. Zheng Yichen’s reminders and even some offhand remarks he didn’t pay much attention to would be recorded by Lilith and reminded to him at the appropriate moment, dealing with them as needed, or skipping them if unnecessary.

"Damn Evil Fiend!" After Zheng Yichen left, another team arrived at the scene, looking at the scorched marks with angry expressions, one of them struggling to contain his rage.

His sister had died in a tracking operation a few days ago. According to the investigators’ report, she had been ambushed by that invader. The invader wasn’t skilled with extraordinary powers but had cunningly concealed his tracks and wiped out the entire tracking team while they were gathering intelligence at the scene.

There wasn’t just one tracking team; they were specifically formed to guard against alien world invasions. Losing one team was not a problem; things like this had happened before in battles against the Dusk mercenaries. But his sister had been part of the team wiped out this time!

Stationed in the distance watching Zheng Yichen, he had to suppress his inner rage and hatred several times, wanting to attempt to snipe Zheng Yichen, but his companions stopped him, and he could only watch as the invader eventually left the area with ease.

"The problem is getting more and more serious..." The captain of the tracking team watched the scene’s restoration, including the part where Zheng Yichen wanted to roast a rabbit. However, before he could start the fire, the rabbit deformed first.

Retrospection through light and shadow is fine, but it can’t backtrack sound information. However, from Zheng Yichen’s actions, it seemed he was quite eco-friendly, directly cleaning up the aberrant flesh produced after the creatures mutated.

And such phenomena had not just occurred here; similar situations were emerging elsewhere. The mutation rate among ordinary creatures was increasing daily, and even humans were starting to show problems.

According to information from researchers studying this phenomenon, the severity of the problem wouldn’t just double in the following week; it was projected to increase by more than tenfold. At this rate, all life on this world would undergo abnormal changes.

Abnormal changes meant a possibility of deformation. Those born with innate extraordinary abilities were better off, at least able to ensure that they wouldn’t deform, with a very low likelihood of deformation unless affected by external factors or personal issues.

For those individuals, possessing extraordinary abilities already categorized them as extraordinary creatures different from regular lifeforms, having long passed the most dangerous thresholds after the onset of abnormalities.

It was different for ordinary lifeforms. After encountering abnormal changes, their rate of deformation was far greater than normal transformation.

If all lifeforms in this world underwent abnormal changes, at least eighty percent of the human race was guaranteed to deform, and the remaining ten percent who had bad luck might not be spared either. However, those who remained normal would have undergone abnormal changes, stepping out of the range of ordinary humans and becoming normal individuals with extraordinary abilities.

But that didn’t mean the crisis would be over by then. Without resolution after three days, normal people with extraordinary abilities would continue to be affected. Having special powers was never a comprehensive safeguard—problems would still emerge when they were meant to.

Taking a bath in water at a comfortable temperature feels nice, but continue heating the water, and it’s no longer bathing—it’s boiling meat.

People with extraordinary abilities had higher resistance to some effects, but they were not immune. Before the event known as "Three Days Without Night," no one had realized how severe the consequences would be after night disappeared.

"We must kill him to prevent his existence from causing our salvation to fail!" a young man said agitatedly.

The captain of the tracking team fell silent for a moment, "The main forces aren’t here; continue to observe."

"The main force...should be coming to deal with him at this time!" the young man was still unwilling to accept the situation. He also understood how things stood currently; most of the world’s elite fighters were engaged in important matters.

Saving the world wasn’t just talk, but that wasn’t a reason to allow this invader to move around freely. He even doubted whether the higher-ups had been corrupted or had run into some problems. Would it really be that hard to dispatch a few elite fighters??

"We don’t have the power to do that," sighed the captain of the tracking team, who supported the suggestion. But they didn’t have the authority, nor could they influence the decisions of the upper echelons.

The morale of the entire tracking team had dwindled, but the captain quickly recovered: "The target hasn’t reached the actual alert zone yet. Once it gets there, the main force will definitely take care of him. For the time being, we just need to keep a close watch on him!"

Zheng Yichen, back on the road, looked at the icons on his map. The world was just too vast. Passing through some places with fine environments, he also saw more problems cropping up; crops were growing wildly, and they had started to develop some peculiar qualities. The parasitic vines from before were not the only instances.

Especially in mountainous regions, the plants at the mountaintop became extremely dangerous. Zheng Yichen encountered a tree whose canopy covered an entire mountain, blocking all the sunlight that should have fallen elsewhere.

The massive tree roots, like the veins of the mountain, caused the death of all nearby living creatures and plants, turning them into nourishment for the tree.

In other areas, the small animals he encountered became increasingly ferocious and mad, and there were many animals whose original forms could not be discerned at all.

"At this pace, it’ll take me another two days to reach the destination. Seems like I need one of this world’s modes of transportation..." Zheng Yichen felt somewhat melancholic. His current speed was already quite fast, but some of this world’s vehicles were even faster.

Moreover, those vehicles were related to light, similar to planes but without the normal passenger capacity. However, their speed was formidable; civilian models could reach more than twenty times the speed of sound. Of course, that was only applicable to flight. The land vehicles were not that exaggerated. Zheng Yichen’s motorcycle was not inferior either and could even go faster, but once it came to flying, there was no comparison.

However, those vehicles could only run on fixed tracks, similar to trains, but damn, they were fast!

Zheng Yichen was quite interested in that technology; however, the internet in this world didn’t have much ’technical’ information available. Unlike some worlds where even the formulas for creating nuclear bombs were accessible.

The next day, Zheng Yichen noticed that the sky had darkened.

"Eh?" Zheng Yichen, who wore an eye mask, immediately tore it off and looked at the sky with some confusion. A layer of ’black curtain’ had appeared in the sky, blocking the sunlight. At first, this thing was somewhat transparent, but it later solidified.

"What’s going on, creating night this way? Is this world that intense?" Zheng Yichen rubbed his eyes. Having been under the scorch of three suns all this time, the rare encounter with night made him feel unexpectedly at ease.

A world with high environmental abilities... Even if it was deceived, it still had sufficient strength to resist external influences.

Thinking this, Zheng Yichen activated his thermal vision, and his eyes twitched slightly. He saw that the ’black curtain’ blocking the sky’s three suns was gathering a tremendous ’heat source’.

The obstructed sunlight hadn’t disappeared but was accumulating at the area separated by the black curtain. And this black curtain wasn’t contiguous; it was wrapped around each of the three suns separately. Whoever did this was clearly aware of the connection between the three suns and didn’t block them all together mindlessly, opting for a separate approach instead.

But upon close observation, Zheng Yichen realized that even with this method, it was just a temporary solution. Once the material blocking the suns couldn’t hold on anymore... tsk tsk.

Zheng Yichen shook his head, quenching thirst by thinking of plums... no, it was more like forcibly sustaining life.

Without the influence of the three suns hanging in the sky, the world’s creatures would be spared from further impact. Not to think about what would ultimately happen to the world, but at least it would ensure that the creatures of this world wouldn’t become chaotically mutated in the meantime.

However, by this method, the end result would still be this world being devoured by another world. The outcome wouldn’t be much better. There were two weeks left, but Zheng Yichen didn’t believe that the black veil in the sky could last for two weeks.

"Even if it’s necessary to block them separately, shouldn’t it be done in a cyclic manner?" Zheng Yichen looked up at the stars appearing in the sky, deprived of sunlight, and thought of a better way.

There was no need for complete darkness, just allow the three suns to work in shifts. There would still be no night, but it would reduce the load on the black curtains. That was his thought, but he didn’t believe that the person who came up with this black curtain was really that foolish.

If an amateur like him could think of it, wouldn’t the creator of the black curtain have already considered it?