I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 39 - 37: The Backward World_1

Chapter 39: Chapter 37: The Backward World_1

The abandoned, dilapidated ranch was littered with mutilated carcasses, their rotting flesh clinging to them. Occasionally, the clacking of a decaying skull’s lower jaw could be heard until a black spear punctured it, plunging it back into silent death.

Zheng Yichen sat on a worn-down tombstone that looked more like a stone due to the erosion obscuring any inscriptions. He looked down at his phone, watching a video recording about the disappearance of an alien phenomenon. Sometimes, these phenomena appear dangerous, but the visions that manifest are more akin to mirages, illusory scenes.

Seeing a massive, fearsome figure or a colossal object within a phenomenon doesn’t necessarily mean that one will face such an entity upon encountering it.

This was common knowledge shared by the Old Capital TV station.

Residents of the Old Capital didn’t need to worry when they observed the visions of tumultuous clouds and rampaging behemoths within these phenomena; they were indeed just abnormal spectacles, and the actual beings linked to these manifestations could be of any size.

A change in height from one and a half meters to two and a half meters wouldn’t seem outrageous to observers, but with some projection equipment, people within that range could appear as tall as fifteen or twenty-five meters, which would be quite exaggerated.

Such sights could terrify many in a less advanced ancient era.

Alien phenomena are similar.

Because of the existence of these abnormal images, it’s difficult to discern the specifics on the other side of a phenomenon. This information was shared with him by Hunter Arno.

Now, in the video Zheng Yichen captured of the vanishing phenomenon, a few seconds before its complete disappearance, the abnormal image that veiled the scene vanished, revealing a faint outline of a forest... It must be the southern forest where he had been earlier.

Unfortunately, this recording was made from the opposite side of the phenomenon in Hazy City, which is in another world, rendering the way back nonexistent.

Zheng Yichen pondered for a moment. When he arrived here, he had almost spent all his money, and the house he was staying in was rented. Even though he didn’t bring his car, it seemed there were no additional regrets.

"Let’s figure out what’s going on here first," Zheng Yichen made a mental note of this abandoned graveyard. He planned to come here more often in case a new phenomenon appeared.

He wasn’t too harried by the uncertainty.

When leaving the graveyard, Zheng Yichen discovered a new vengeful spirit had set its sights on him. Back in the southern forest, he could only detect such entities when they were close enough to affect the temperature.

But in this other world, he felt a faint sense of being watched by a vengeful spirit. Once it realized Zheng Yichen had detected its presence, the spirit flew out from its hiding place and began overtly tailing him from above ten meters in the sky.

It took advantage of its aerial superiority to do as it pleased.

This spirit seemed different from those he encountered in the southern forest, which were more violent and chaotic. This one appeared to be controlled by something.

Zheng Yichen immediately thought of the possibility of a Necromancer or similar being.

He attempted to find the hidden ’Necromancer,’ but failed. It was only after he had completely left the abandoned graveyard and the sun appeared that the vengeful spirit finally vanished, either summoned back or concealed somewhere else.

Zheng Yichen was no longer concerned with that spirit; what mattered was that he had found a path. It wasn’t a convenient cement road but a muddy one. Nevertheless, it was a road with visible tracks of vehicle wheels and horseshoe prints.

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"...So it is a comparatively underdeveloped world, huh?" From these traces, Zheng Yichen had ascertained the general situation and felt somewhat disappointed.

He adjusted his backpack, which contained quite a few resources: emergency medication, food, water purification tablets, spare batteries, solar chargers, and hand-crank generators, among others.

Disregarding resources like emergency food, the solar panels and hand-crank generators were considered more important by Zheng Yichen. The former weren’t too difficult to obtain, but he certainly couldn’t expect to handcraft electronic devices.

He had brought plenty of ammunition, but such items were consumables, and not easily replenished once depleted. Where guns were necessary, it was best to preserve the casings and see if he could find a local blacksmith to reload them.

As for the small grenades for his hand cannon, there was no point in thinking about them—they were truly a case of ’use one, lose one.’ Shotgun shells were not like pistol rounds either.

After taking stock of his possessions and forming a preliminary plan in his mind, Zheng Yichen tossed a coin to decide which way to go. After all, every direction was just about the same, as long as he could find people.

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"You rarely drink like this." In the Night Banquet Bar, the bartender placed a glass of water in front of the woman.

Ahn Seven glanced at the glass but didn’t touch it, "Some people just piss you off, a bunch of rookies without much skill discovered an alien phenomenon and decided to explore it alone. They didn’t report in promptly and got wiped out."

Hearing Ahn Seven’s words, the bartender’s expression remained unchanged, and he made no comment about the matter. He seldom dealt with hunter-related issues anymore, and what Ahn Seven was talking about didn’t concern him. He wasn’t about to start recommending newcomers to her either.

As for Ahn Seven drinking her troubles away, that was genuine frustration. The high-quality newcomers she sought were not just fierce fighters or extraordinary beings who hunted extraordinary beings.

The type of newcomers she wanted were hunters with adaptability, and such hunters were hard to find—one in ten at best. The loss of an entire team certainly hurt.

"Perhaps they encountered an unexpected situation they couldn’t handle. Another drink?"

"..." Looking at the bartender who hadn’t continued the conversation, Ahn Seven downed the glass of water in one go, "No more for me."

She needed to deal with the aftermath. Although those hunters had been wiped out without timely reporting, they were still her subordinates. She had to handle the situation properly to avoid unsettling the rest of her team.

The hunter team she assembled primarily focused on exploring alien phenomena. The association of alien phenomena with other worlds was a secret to many, but not to the major families and some powerful individuals of Hazy City.

The existence across the alien phenomenon might invade their side, and from a different perspective, their side could also ’invade’ the other.

However, the maintenance of an alien phenomenon was limited, and such invasions were more specifically forms of ’plunder.’ Only after entering an alien phenomenon to ascertain its background, and whether nearby living things could be quickly found, would subsequent actions be taken.

The duration of an alien phenomenon was finite. Hazy City had studied them for a long time, and while their assessment of their lifespan wasn’t 100% accurate, they could reduce the margin of error to within half an hour.

Once the general situation on the other side of the phenomenon was clear, this assessment included not only environmental exploration but also ’Environmental Adjustment’ factors. The former ensured targets could be found within the limited time, while the latter determined if one or more worlds on the other side were worth further action.

If it was deemed worthwhile to mobilize, her team of Alien Phenomenon hunters would swiftly take action, always managing to secure some special items.

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