I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 372 - 296 I’m not watching anymore_1

Chapter 372: Chapter 296 I’m not watching anymore_1

It was impossible to come out completely unscathed. With so many opponents, the only thing Zheng Yichen could do was to minimize the chances of injury from all aspects. The unavoidable part of it—well, he would just not avoid it. If he was seriously injured, he would abandon the subsequent action and very decisively run out of the Alien Phenomenon. Once he recovered in a normal environment, he’d take action again.

The number of Boundary Breakers was substantial. Every time a few died, they shouldn’t expect to have it easy. But if he really made it out, he would definitely first raid the military camps he’d encountered before, equipping himself thoroughly before returning.

"Damn it..." The sniper hidden in the shadows was staring intently at Zheng Yichen. He had already attacked several times, even signaling other companions for coordinated strikes, but the hit rate was so poor it made him doubt himself—had prolonged combat in high-level environments made him rusty in these lower ones?

In fact, every time his crosshairs lined up on Zheng Yichen, the target would quickly move out of range. His movements were not large, but they were enough to prevent them from locking onto him accurately.

The Hellfire Zheng Yichen had used was even more outrageous. Could such an environment allow for the release of flames generated by special powers? Let’s be reasonable; special powers aren’t technology. If Zheng Yichen brought out a laser gun and went ’BIU’ to kill everyone, they’d understand, but this was beyond their expectations.

Was this breaking environmental limitations? If environmental limitations could be so easily broken, then their top masters wouldn’t have chosen to be conservative.

"Could Dusk be giving Proxy Agents some sort of special treatment?" The snipers, unable to hit Zheng Yichen, had no intention of engaging in close combat; they silently switched to machine guns and began firing at him. This sort of attack made it even harder to kill Zheng Yichen.

But they couldn’t bear not to try.

As expected, as soon as they began their barrage, Zheng Yichen’s motorcycle had already moved closer. The projection camouflage covered his silhouette, causing them to completely lose visual track of him.

Sitting on the motorcycle, Zheng Yichen looked at a battle suit he had confiscated. It came with some kind of authentication function, which became useless after he acquired it.

"Hack it," Zheng Yichen said calmly.

"Understood." The artificial intelligence Lilith left behind a projection screen, which showed the progress of hacking into the steel battle suit. Being a virus-like artificial intelligence, hacking other electronic devices was her specialty.

While the firewall of the battle suit was excellent, it didn’t take long for AI Lilith to breach its system defenses. The forcibly shut down battle suit was reactivated, and she even displayed a series of related functions of the suit to Zheng Yichen.

"Boss, if you equip this battle suit now, I can assist you to maximize its performance through online connection. However, the energy system of the battle suit isn’t compatible with the one I’m equipped with, so I can’t recharge it. If we have the right tools, we could improve the charging port of the battle suit," Lilith said.

Zheng Yichen glanced at the battle suit’s 42% energy remaining. It was decent endurance for such a suit; it had maintained high-speed flight while chasing each other for a while and then used a high-energy-consuming method of combat.

The remaining energy was enough; if he had to fight using this equipment, he wouldn’t be flying around but rather using it as armour for close combat. It sufficed if it could help him avoid gunfire.

His energy expenditure during the recent battle, such as that little bit of Hellfire, resulted in incomplete recovery even after killing the Boundary Breakers.

Setting the newly hacked helmet of the battle suit aside, he watched to see just how relentless those Boundary Breakers would be in their pursuit. He stared at a projection screen he was operating, which soon displayed his real-time image, just like looking into a mirror—with him wearing an expressionless face.

He had accumulated enough demonic thoughts and had never "stored" them for so long before; usually, he’d release them as soon as conditions were met. Now, the problem he faced was that although conditions were met and the demonic thoughts didn’t dissipate in the low environment, they were still affected by Environmental Adjustment, diminishing their impact.

However, the sustained influence persisted. The strength of the demonic thoughts had diminished, but so had his own strength. With a double reduction, the impact remained the same as in the previous environment.

It meant that the Demonic Abyss Seven Kills, when executed, would be lousy in augmenting physical attacks, leaning more towards psychic ones—harming both enemy and self.

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"This Proxy Agent possesses the power to break environmental restrictions; let’s first collect these battle suits and repair them," spoke the Boundary Breakers who arrived at the scene of Zheng Yichen’s battle. The atmosphere amongst them was tense. Despite leveraging these armors, they failed to kill the Proxy Agent and instead suffered a counterkill.

The eerie green flames completely turned the tide of the battle. As they inspected the battle suits, they gained a new understanding of the power of those flames. Battle suits made of such high-strength materials could be burned through; direct contact with those flames meant certain death.

While examining, someone heard a ’click’ and his body instantly stiffened: "Wait! I think I’ve triggered a landmine!"

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"...," the others didn’t bother with a second word and prepared to escape, but the explosion that occurred directly engulfed several nearby Boundary Breakers, destroying many of their battle suits in the process. The remaining Boundary Breakers felt cursed, and as a result, became even more cautious in their subsequent inspections.

After confirming there were no third hidden mines, they quickly left the area with the slightly damaged battle suits. After regrouping, they would continue the manhunt for Zheng Yichen, and they also had to take some of the bodies back to the Great World for research.

Although the bodies were all drained of blood and dead, the environmental conditions here were too poor. They couldn’t determine other factors, so they planned to take them back to the Great World where professionals would conduct a more detailed analysis.

Once they returned to their mobile camp and learned of Zheng Yichen’s latest whereabouts, their headaches began anew. Without any interception, the Proxy Agent had a clear path ahead and was making definitive progress toward the mobile alien phenomenon center. Previously, they hadn’t believed that this Proxy Agent could handle an Alien Phenomenon creature.

But now, since he was still able to use special powers, they no longer had the confidence to deal with him. They figured wresting with the Proxy Agent in a battle of wits and delaying him for ten or eight days would be a better strategy. By then, the mobile alien phenomenon would have completely torn through the exterior of this world, their mission would be complete, and the failed Proxy Agent would definitely be carried away by Dusk.

"First, let’s repair these battle suits. That Proxy Agent is alone without any supply sources. If we continue to drag this out, our advantage will only grow!"

That evening, chaos erupted in the temporary camp when the repaired battle suits were tested and found to have issues with their internal circulation systems. Some people were affected by a virus or parasite, causing the people inside to mutate into Aberrant creatures.

The rampaging, battle-suited Aberrant creatures caused significant casualties before being eliminated. Until a thorough inspection of the remaining battle suits was complete, no one dared to wear them.

As for the original battle suits, they were checked against the destroyed Aberrant creatures, which showed strong signs of infection. The infectious bodily fluids from the Aberrant creatures had spread through the internal circulation system of the battle suits, reaching the entire mechanism. Even after intensive disinfection, the Boundary Breakers were reluctant to don the battle suits.

What if the disinfection wasn’t thorough enough and they became reinfected by wearing them?

Rather than risk it, they preferred to engage the Proxy Agent from a distance using firearms, testing their mettle in a battle of wits. Even if they ultimately failed the mission, the punishment upon returning wouldn’t be too severe, given they had fought earnestly and hadn’t shirked their duties.

Over at Zheng Yichen’s side, in the evening, he found an open space and continuously discharged his giant saber at a rock.

Each strike consumed a vast amount of demonic thoughts, and with each attack, he savored the feedback, considering it carefully. The low environmental conditions limited the power of Demonic Abyss Seven Kills but allowed Zheng Yichen to experience the technique at a lower, clearer level.

After four strikes, his accumulated demonic thoughts were depleted, leaving only the amulets filled with demonic thoughts for backup.

The reason he chose to exhaust all his demonic thoughts at this time was that after wresting with the idea on the road, he made a deliberate decision. Demonic thoughts, being external in nature, were of no benefit to him if he forced himself to retain them just for the sake of preservation.

As they weren’t truly his own "demonic thoughts," using them up was no cause for regret. To truly master Demonic Abyss Seven Kills, he had to rely on himself.

After expending all his demonic thoughts, his mental state quickly returned to normal. Since he had left a crack open in advance, the absence of lingering demonic thoughts meant that the state of demonic thoughts disappeared without any residue.

"Huh, I’m such an idiot. Something that should have been decided just like that, and I agonized over it until now."

He sighed deeply, rubbed his head, found a spot to sit down, and started to eat his dinner. The taste of the compressed rations wasn’t great, but he was enjoying it nonetheless.

Lilith’s projection approached Zheng Yichen and began to enlarge as it got closer. "Boss, I have made a complete record of your previous state. Would you like to review the playback?"

With his state returned to normal, the artificial intelligence Lilith also switched back to its normal mode.

"I’ll watch it on the road." Zheng Yichen quickly stuffed the compressed rations into his mouth, washed them down with water, got on his bike, and set off on the road. After engaging the autopilot, he began to watch the video recordings made by Lilith.

It felt like watching a cringe-worthy history of himself, especially when he continuously maintained a cool demeanor, which made even his ears feel a little hot despite being alone.

"I’m done watching, I’m going to sleep!"

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