I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 377 - 301

Chapter 377: 301

A powerful jet erupted from beneath his feet, and in the instant the jet appeared, Zheng Yichen’s black spear pierced into the flesh wall beside him, securely hanging himself in this inner nest belonging to the sandworm, to avoid being blown away by the force of the eruption.

There was air inside, and the battle suit that was still functioning was now working at full capacity, continuously extracting oxygen. After the air flow ceased, the flesh wall beside Zheng Yichen began to wither, and the withering traces on his left hand slowly disappeared.

Part of the flames around him were blown away by the air jet, while the rest clung higher up. The jet did not extinguish the fire but successfully expanded the influence of the Hellfire.

Like a madman, Zheng Yichen rapidly moved to another area, leaving trails of flames wherever the black spear touched the ground. New withering symptoms emerged on his body, but with unrestricted movement, the sandworm’s body became his replenishment point.

’All along the way’, the juvenile forms of the sandworm became increasingly numerous.

Zheng Yichen was now in a circulatory system inside the sandworm; such a colossal creature naturally contained such areas. Moreover, Zheng Yichen didn’t have the problem of getting lost; his world was a mad world of flesh, but his observation of heat sources had always been normal. As long as he located the hottest concentration...

The flesh walls inside the sandworm were riddled with dense holes, and a giant sandworm over twenty meters in length drilled out, covered with a sticky secretion. As it approached Zheng Yichen, it sprayed out acid.

In Zheng Yichen’s eyes, this creature was just spraying out a massive ’heat source’, prompting him to dodge instinctively. Mentally frenzied but not mindless, he dodged the spray of heat and thrust the spiked black spear into the mouth of the massive tubular heat source.

It was the exact spot where the sandworm spewed acid. The sandworm began to struggle, its body twisting in an attempt to free itself from the spikes of the black spear, which, after penetrating its mouth, were rapidly draining its blood.

After tearing a lot of flesh, the sandworm freed itself from the spikes and quickly burrowed into a hole in the flesh wall. Before it could fully escape, it was struck by the black spear, and a ghostly green flame latched onto the sandworm’s body—

Zheng Yichen continued to advance toward the greatest concentration of heat sources, drawing blood from any obstructive flesh. The sandworm’s muscle was quite strong but still became brittle after being drained of blood, and the shock damage was now irrelevant. Zheng Yichen’s mind was overwhelmed with the demonic thoughts to kill this sandworm.

The sandworm was his blood pack; as long as he didn’t die on the spot, this sandworm would endure continuous torment!

Some sandworms burrowing out from the cavities within were intercepted by Zheng Yichen before they could emerge, and the straight stabs with the black spear were generally lethal to those sandworms, the greatest damage still being the loss of blood and a bit of Hellfire.

Those sandworms traversing the holes became mobile ignition devices, and as Zheng Yichen rampaged through, he found one of the hottest spots inside the sandworm.

Upon reaching this place, Zheng Yichen fiercely charged toward the massive heat source, which appeared to him as a ferocious, blood-red human head over thirty meters in diameter, still roaring as he drew near, its sound deafening.

The serpentine hair atop the head came to life, viciously entwining to strangle him, as he swung the black, spiked long spear with full power enhancement from his battle suit. A sandworm that usually moved on that heart was pulled away, but many more sandworms assaulted Zheng Yichen.

When Zheng Yichen finally broke free from the mass of sandworms, his battle suit bore a multitude of damage marks and appeared unstable, yet he approached the giant head, the focal point of intense heat, without any pause.

He viciously drove the spiked long spear only slightly into the powerful heat source, which was so intense that a rebounding force nearly launched Zheng Yichen away after he struck, igniting new Hellfire on the black spear, burning through the small wound.

Zheng Yichen turned and forcefully stamped on the head of a sandworm, using this force to drive his black spear into the burning area, as a great amount of heat surged out. In Zheng Yichen’s view, the roaring of the giant head intensified, and he ascended against the gushing heat source.

He entered the heart of the heat, enduring the agony of being plunged into boiling water, sucking blood, causing destruction, and setting fire!

To him, the pain of external injuries only made his spirit, fueled by demonic thoughts and madness, more aggressive, which in turn fed back to his body, allowing him to inflict even greater damage to this heat source.

Outside, the artificial intelligence Lilith was recording the entire process of the sandworm’s changes. The time had already exceeded the preset duration, yet the sandworm’s struggles had not stopped. Without a visible expression, the sandworm’s body language revealed it was facing more pain and threat than twenty minutes earlier.

It made the sandworm cease burrowing into the desert ground and instead violently twist and struggle on the surface, like a worm thrown under the sun. Lilith’s available computing power was ample, so while recording, she could also allocate extra cameras for additional analysis.

Zheng Yichen’s combat duration exceeded the original predicted limit, and in its analysis, Lilith found the most probable cause.

When the sandworm was struggling earlier, its body emitted a large amount of "airflow," which contained dust of the same color as the sand and even some smaller sandworms resembling snakes. If Zheng Yichen had found those respiratory pores inside the sandworm’s body, he could have replenished his oxygen reserves and extended his fighting time.

After this possibility was analyzed, the number reflecting Zheng Yichen’s chances of survival began to rise.

But as time progressed, that number started to decline again.

The sandworm’s struggles also began to decrease, gradually losing vitality, but the sandworm hadn’t died yet, as the surrounding Alien Phenomenon didn’t dissipate; according to the information provided by Zheng Yichen, if an Alien Phenomenon creature died, the related moving phenomenon would immediately fade away.

The sandworm had only lost the ability to move; the phenomenon remained intact, indicating that the creature hadn’t died at all.

There was a problem with the internal structure that influenced the sandworm’s mobility.

AI Lilith, lingering nearby, analyzed this outcome. The sandworm’s superficial activity hadn’t ceased, but its bodily mobility had significantly decreased. It was still struggling, but it could no longer move as a whole.

The motorcycle changed its position and captured an even more important scene: the sandworm’s body was burning with a ghostly green flame, not very intense in color, but it had burned through the outer layers of the sandworm and was hard to extinguish.

A flame burning from inside to outside... it was like cockroaches that usually go unseen, but once the homeowner discovers them, it signifies that they’ve become too numerous to hide.

Great patches of Hellfire appeared on the surface of the sandworm, indicating that its insides were in even worse condition.

Half an hour later, the sandworm’s struggles ceased completely; the entire creature became a massive piece of combustible material. The motorcycle’s jamming device had little effect on these flames, which were different from ordinary fire and not made of normal fire Elements.

Even though the power of the fire had greatly diminished in the terrestrial environment, its lethality to living organisms was still at its peak. No matter how massive a creature like the sandworm is, it’s still a biological entity. No matter how strong its muscles or how tough its body structure, being burned would still turn it into cooked meat.

As the Hellfire spread thoroughly over time, the sandworm’s life began to end. Once its life completely dissipated, the intensity of the Hellfire surged, the sandworm’s carcass rapidly collapsed, revealing the hollow interior burned clean. The bones inside the sandworm were charred and fractured, and the massive creature decayed as swiftly as rotting deadwood.

A creature that could be deemed invincible in a low-environment setting swiftly turned to dust and smoke after its life vanished and the moving phenomenon disappeared; the surrounding mist also dissipated quickly, and the Environmental Adjustment caused by the moving phenomenon returned to normal, in sync with the native world.

AI Lilith’s observation range was increased to the maximum, trying to capture Zheng Yichen’s figure within the rapidly enlarging coverage of Hellfire.

From within the deep pit covered by Hellfire, a hand emerged from the sand, and a hoarse roar sounded. Zheng Yichen tore off his helmet and lay on the ground in agony after crawling out; his head felt like it was splitting.

The hallucinations didn’t disappear with the death of the sandworm or the restoration of the environment to normal. The world of Flesh around him burned with raging flames, and within this sea of fire, his presence seemed exceptionally insignificant.

Still in a state of spiritual madness, he felt the urge to grasp his weapon and continue searching for something moving to vent his combative fury. The pain in his body drove him into an even greater frenzy.

He hadn’t expected that forcibly entering a state of demonic thoughts would lead to madness rather than a calm psychopathic state... Perhaps this was due to his insufficient cultivation of demonic thoughts?

The insufficient demonic thoughts produced by his crazed mind weren’t enough to normally execute the Demonic Abyss Seven Kills.

He clutched his forehead, struggling to sit up. His body was in terrible shape; after the environment had normalized, he didn’t feel any recovery in his Blood Asura inner force, which had been exhausted during the fight.

How could his empty body recover the Inner Strength along with the environment? Zero multiplied by anything is still zero; he could only recover naturally, and this process was exceedingly slow.

There was also the damage his body had suffered. By touch, he could tell that much of his flesh was missing.