I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 42 - 40 Feeling Unwell All Over_1

Chapter 42: Chapter 40 Feeling Unwell All Over_1

"This powder can reveal souls, it’s a shame there’s so little of it. Otherwise we could produce a drug allowing those on the verge of death to briefly exist in the form of a soul after they pass away."

"Oh? That’s not bad, how much can we make?" Ahn Seven was interested as she listened to the researcher’s report. The research institutes of Hazy City had studied souls extensively. Their world wasn’t one with a high energy level, so naturally preserving souls was no easy feat, it was exceedingly stringent.

Whether souls appear easily is determined by the ’energy level’ of the current world. If the energy level is too low, even if that world’s strength level is very high, the powerhouses who die there will not become specters or similar entities.

They would simply adhere to the saying ’death is like extinguishing a lamp’: mighty in life, able to shoulder mountains, but stripped of everything in death.

Her family had conducted extensive comparisons and research. Even though their world was a low-environment one, in terms of both strength and energy levels, it was far from the bottom.

This could be seen in the average physical constitution. A standard healthy adult could easily run a hundred meters within ten seconds. In some worlds, only professional athletes could achieve that. The strength level in such worlds definitely wouldn’t be high and would be much lower than their own.

Within the range of normal people, if there’s a significant gap in strength levels, there would also be a noticeable fluctuation in physical constitution among them. If being able to run a hundred meters in ten seconds is the standard for physical fitness, that’s how it would be in worlds with low strength levels.

In a world with high strength levels, the average person’s hundred-meter sprint speed might improve by 25%, taking it from ten seconds to eight seconds. Of course, such an improvement rate is only seen in worlds with very high strength levels.

Most are within this floating range, and there are few that exceed a 20% increase. Hazy City only exceeded the benchmark by a few percentage points, but this was a genuine lower limit.

In their world, outstanding athletes could run under nine seconds, and that’s compared to ordinary people. In some worlds, even the best athletes struggle to run under nine and a half seconds.

Comparing these baseline values, it’s certain that Hazy City’s strength level isn’t at the bottom. As for energy levels, there are Extraordinary Beings in their world who can unleash flames. Supernatural incidents are also common, with numerous eyewitnesses capturing them on camera every year.

A certain strength and energy level in such a low-environment world makes it highly conducive to development.

"The quantity is too small; we can only produce up to twenty pieces at most." The researcher provided a precise figure.

"Make all of them." Ahn Seven nodded. Twenty pieces weren’t many, but their scarcity highlighted their value. As a special commodity, they might be hard to sell to ordinary people, but she could find very suitable buyers.

Initially, obliterating a hunter squad was a huge loss. Although this new discovery might recoup some of that, overall it was still a deficit. If the hunter squad had survived and been nurtured over time, it could have brought in more value. Now, they were gone.

Ahn Seven was slightly annoyed by this unexpected incident, but she had already adjusted her mindset. Hunters weren’t flowers in a greenhouse. Moreover, nobody could have predicted that such an anomaly would occur at that place, and that specter-like entities would emerge from it.

Research on this powder, along with an investigation of the battle at the scene, yielded a basic assessment of what the hunter team encountered.

If it had been undead creatures like skeleton soldiers, it would have been somewhat better; at least those bony frames had a physical form, making firearms effective. For specters, firearms were useful, but only due to the heat produced by bullets’ friction with the air.

Such damage was a mere trivial burn to such beings, and against powerful ones, it might not even cause slight charring. Faced with such an enemy, the hunter squad, no matter how well-equipped or strong, would not have withstood the onslaught.

In the investigation at the site, there were more than ten ’enemies’. It’s just a shame for the hunter who intervened afterward. That individual managed to eliminate specters with just a gun, something ordinary hunters couldn’t do. More importantly, they had adaptability to enter anomalies.

However, such a hunter did not leave the anomaly to return to their own world but went through the anomaly and stayed in another world. Ahn Seven, who had some plans, didn’t know what to think anymore. The chance of that person returning to Hazy City was simply too low.

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"At last, I’ve found people." Zheng Yichen sighed deeply as he looked at the distant town. After walking for nearly a day, unfamiliar with his surroundings, he finally found a populated place. He glanced at the attire of the people in the town, then at himself.

Hmm... Standard modern combat attire, though slightly damaged, it didn’t change the fact that his style stood out starkly from that of the locals.

Zheng Yichen couldn’t help but ponder if he would be chased away by the townsfolk wielding pitchforks after he approached. That shouldn’t happen, right?

"Who are you??"

"I’m a traveler? Wait a moment... damn it." Seeing the residents come at him with wariness, Zheng Yichen immediately got irritated. With a flick of his fishing rod, which he didn’t even cover with his black spear, he broke their crude wooden guns with its innate strength.

After a simple altercation, Zheng Yichen also felt a clear difference. His strength had indeed weakened a bit, but that didn’t mean he was manageable for some weaker villagers.

Just the overwhelming advantage of his physical fitness was enough to subdue this group, to say nothing of the firearms he carried.

"Talk. Why did you attack without provocation?" After dealing with the villagers who had attacked, Zheng Yichen looked at the others on guard. Following the brief skirmish, half the town had gathered, armed with scythes and dung forks aplenty. Considering the everyday use of those tools, Zheng Yichen stepped back a bit; he didn’t want to get jabbed by them.

"We’ve had some killings here recently, and we’re quite wary of strangers. We just wanted to drive you away..." said the town mayor, shamefaced. They couldn’t overpower Zheng Yichen, so they had to speak to him civilly. Able to easily knock down several strong men in their town, he was clearly not someone to be trifled with.

In their eyes, Zheng Yichen was an outsider, dressed strangely with clawed tears in his clothing. That outfit was different not only in style but also emitted an aura of strangeness to them.

Usually, they would just be indifferent to such a person, but at this time, it was different.