I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 378 - 302 This Contains Blood_1

Chapter 378: Chapter 302 This Contains Blood_1

Flesh had been gnawed away from his left arm in several places, and his body was covered in wounds corroded by acid and extensive burns. These wounds were healing slowly; his body’s consumption was too great now, with hardly any reserves left. As his physical strength and mass increased with Environmental Adjustment, the consumption required for recovery also increased.

The unhealthy state of his body had intensified with Environmental Adjustment, but in percentage terms, the condition was preserved. A ten percent condition in a low environment remained a ten percent condition in a high environment, only the state’s quality was higher in the latter.

Had he remained motionless, he would have died soon after in a low environment, but in a high environment, staying still could give him a chance to recover, or perhaps leave behind a couple more last words.

The slow healing of his wounds was compensated by the increased environmental intensity, which at least ensured normal activity in his miserable state; he wouldn’t bleed to death, and the residual acid in some wounds wouldn’t further worsen the injuries.

The impact of hallucinations also decreased gradually with his enhanced constitution. His frantic mind calmed down as he adjusted his mentality—at least that’s how it was supposed to go... Still, he felt the urge to kill something alive, especially now that he felt particularly insecure in his current state.

Just thinking like that momentarily poured gasoline on the previously subsiding madness of his mind, causing it to flare up again.

"Arghhh—damn it!!" Zheng Yichen cursed loudly, clutching his forehead and venting his emotions with his voice, which was better than bottling it up and going insane.

Artificial Intelligence Lilith, searching for Zheng Yichen’s whereabouts, picked up his voice. The projections next to her disappeared, and it shown a series of probabilities about Zheng Yichen, including his survival rate, while his voice could be heard.

Although the recorded rant required noise cancellation, the analysis of the voice’s intensity indicated that Zheng Yichen faced no immediate threat to his life at this moment.

No further crisis.

After venting his emotions, Zheng Yichen raised his hand, and a breeze emerged, followed by a strong headache. Feeling the madness ready to reignite, he immediately stopped and looked around with both a physical and psychological headache.

He was in a deep sand pit, still ablaze with raging Hellfire. Had it not been for the fishing rod’s repeated enhancements, and since the Hellfire was transformed from his own Life Force, he would have been cooked in this pit.

Armed with the fishing rod, he wasn’t affected by the flames, but the issue was how to get out now?

This was a massive sand pit over fifty meters deep, a deep hole left by the sandworm’s final struggles. The soft sand made it impossible to climb out.

He waved the fishing rod in his hand, causing the Hellfire around him to shift, intensifying the flames elsewhere, as he sat in the fire-free circle waiting. Looking at the fishing rod in his hand, Zheng Yichen rubbed his eyes.

He had grown to love the sensation of setting fires, glad that he wielded fire-related powers. If it had been water or wind powers, killing that sandworm? A pipe dream.

Fire, as long as there’s ample fuel, a single spark can start a prairie fire. Fire, it’s simply wonderful! He decided that afterward, he would find not one, but a flock of mighty flame creatures.

Noticing an additional speck in the sky, Zheng Yichen let out a soft breath. A minute later, he sat on the airdropped motorcycle and swiftly left the giant sand pit that could have served as a lake.

Lilith’s projection stood on the vehicle’s computer screen and seriously said to Zheng Yichen, "Welcome back, Boss."

"First, find a safe place. I need a good rest for a while," Zheng Yichen said, picking up a body-scanning probe that popped out from within the motorcycle, and penetrating his arm with it, waiting for the results of the body check.

Although the hallucinogenic effects had lessened, they had not completely vanished. Lilith’s voice sounded to Zheng Yichen like a sharp screech. The hallucinations kept the madness in his mind from extinguishing, ready to ignite anew at any moment. The lingering effects of battle had been significant.

Physical wounds could heal, but mental issues? Practicing magic power meant bodily or mental issues were to be expected.

Moreover, although he had tried to estimate the sandworm’s vitality as high as possible, he still underestimated it. That thing had several hearts! After going through great lengths to burst one as if swimming through boiling oil, there were second and third ones!?

Fortunately, as time passed, the flames he had released and the small sandworms eagerly spreading fire gradually hollowed out the giant creature, sparing him the arduous task of dealing with other hearts and searching for ’air holes’ in the sandworm’s body to provide oxygen.

"Boss, the hallucinogenic components in your blood are severely over the limit. Your blood is now a potent hallucinogen; even exposure to air can cause ordinary people to hallucinate," Lilith reported the results of the body check to Zheng Yichen, indicating that his current blood was filled with a large amount of hallucinogenic powder mixed with blood...

"So my head is really hurting now, and everything I see and hear is abnormal. The wound on my arm still looks like it has grown a mouth with teeth, in my eyes. Do you see any teeth?" Zheng Yichen lifted his left arm.

Where his arm lacked flesh, it appeared to him as a fierce mouth without lips, surrounded by a ring of irregular teeth writhing. When Zheng Yichen stared at it, those mouths even seemed to emit a hoarse, mocking noise, and the wounds corroded by acid were oozing ’pus’, while the burns on his body looked like they had been claimed by a multitude of red threadworms squirming around.

Looking at these things, how could one not go mad??

"No, but the wound is very severe, Boss. You need to treat your injuries as soon as possible."

"But what I see with my eyes is completely different from what I feel. It’s even hard to make basic judgments, so let’s draw some blood first." Zheng Yichen signaled Lilith to extract blood from him through a probe inserted in his arm. This device had a blood testing function, so naturally, it could also draw blood.

Unfortunately, the motorcycle’s specifications limited it from having such comprehensive functions; otherwise, a blood dialysis could have potentially accelerated his recovery.

The blood that could be used as a potent hallucinogen, heaven knows how much of the hallucinogenic powder belonging to the sandworms he had inhaled.

Lilith began to draw blood from Zheng Yichen through the probe she had inserted into his arm. This process was very slow, in order to ensure that Zheng Yichen wouldn’t suffer from rapid blood loss and related physical problems, while Zheng Yichen endured the discomfort and ate what, to his eyes, seemed like rotten food.

While drawing blood, Lilith connected to the severely damaged battle suit network and checked the suit’s oxygen storage, finding that the stored oxygen had also been contaminated with a large amount of hallucinogenic substances, and the suit’s filtration device was long damaged.

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"Truly astonishing." Observing the Hellfire at the scene that showed no signs of dying down, several Boundary Breakers recorded the scene in detail, incidentally collecting some of the Hellfire to take back to the Great World, so that the Great World’s research department could properly study it and devise a countermeasure to this force or discover other powers.

"To eliminate the sandworm handpicked from the Great World in the lowest environment, this Proxy Agent is damn powerful!" another Boundary Breaker blurted out, unable to restrain himself. The Alien Phenomenon creatures were brought by them, but it wasn’t up to them to decide on the environmental settings of their movements.

The randomness was significant. A large sandworm paired with a low environmental anomaly, this combination could be said to be the most invincible. The enormous size of the sandworm along with the low environment would leave some Dusk mercenaries helpless if they arrived here. Use technological weapons?

First, one would have to bring those weapons over, and it’s not like all the Dusk mercenaries could mobilize nuclear weapons or anything like that. Plus, the sandworms could burrow underground, and without the right conditions, it’d be too difficult to bomb them to death.

As for dropping it into the mouth of a sandworm? Well, that’s something they, the Boundary Breakers, would have to agree to.

After testing the potency of the flames on the ground, a Boundary Breaker said coldly, "Without this type of fire, it would have been absolutely impossible to kill the sandworm!"

He wanted to complete the mission and receive the corresponding reward, rather than becoming a postmortem armchair strategist after a mission failure.

"Since it was Dusk’s arrangement, why would Dusk arrange for a Proxy Agent who is not adept at handling this situation?" The Boundary Breaker collecting Hellfire stood up, "Alright, we should leave quickly."

They left the area swiftly. The mobile anomaly had vanished, and the environment was returning to normal, signaling that local powerhouses could rapidly converge on the site.

The native world experienced widespread aberrations and distortions for three days, but fortunately, these anomalies never reached the worst stage.

The world is in chaos now, but the order of the sun has returned to normal following the disappearance of the mobile anomaly’s influence on this world. They did not want to be the ones thoroughly settled with after the fact, so of course they ran as fast as they could. As for the loss of personnel... that was an unavoidable matter.

Although a good number of Boundary Breakers from the Great World perished, there were also top forces who were persuaded by them to betray their world in pursuit of higher realms. Although their mission failed, those forces from this world would leave with them to the Great World and become members of the Boundary Breakers.

As for the induction of natives, the forces of Boundary Breakers from the Great World were always open; top combat capabilities from other worlds were still valuable combat resources. Among the Boundary Breakers who came to this world this time, many were not natives of the Great World.

As for chasing down that Proxy Agent? Uh... now that the environment has returned to normal, it’s time to consider a rational withdrawal rather than rashly leading oneself to death.

Gamble that the Proxy Agent is currently in poor health? But first, one would need to find out where the Proxy Agent is. If they can’t locate them, then let it be. The mission has failed anyway, so why exert oneself to the limit?