I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 424 - 333 Want to Survive_1

Chapter 424: Chapter 333 Want to Survive_1

An alien demon that’s too clever is inherently not right. Qi Xiangyun wanted to advise Lin Yaoyao, as understanding these creatures reveals that they are no longer the original people they once were. Even if they have regained consciousness and recaptured their intelligence, they’re not the same as before.

Lin Yaoyao was aware of this, but she still wanted to try. Initially, she should not have allowed her to find her parents who had turned into alien demons. Now, saying these things is already meaningless.

"Can they speak?"

"I have never heard them speak," Qi Xiangyun shook her head.

Zheng Yichen stared at the two poisoned alien demons, and they were also looking at Zheng Yichen at the cell door. Qi Xiangyun was surprised to find that the two alien demons showed a reaction they had never displayed before, a look of panic on their faces that had never been there.

"Speaking of poison, I also have a decent resistance to it," Zheng Yichen said. He had acquired poison resistance after taking care of the giant serpent, but he hadn’t used this feature since he’d never encountered being poisoned by anyone up to now.

Correspondingly, he had used the ability from the serpent’s exuvia twice.

"We, we bear no malice towards that girl," the alien demon with skin as dry as bark but very strong said, "She’s just someone trying to restore her relatives, but she took the wrong path."

"...Why didn’t you speak before?" Qi Xiangyun fixed her gaze on the desiccated alien demon.

After a moment of silence, the alien demon looked towards Zheng Yichen, "I want to live."

The girl who caused them to become like this was, fortunately, trying to research alien demons to find a way to turn them back into humans. It was this research that transformed him from a muddled state to what he was now. Although he experienced intense pain at the beginning due to some experiments, it was this research that restored his consciousness.

No, it should be said that he had gained a new self. He and the former occupant of this body had no connection—once turned into an alien demon, the former occupant had died. He was a being that grew anew from the remaining ’soil’ of this body.

The former occupant’s partial knowledge and memories were additional nutrients that allowed him to quickly mature after gaining a new self, without appearing distorted from being a new self.

This made them completely different from other alien demons... The girl’s experiments could be said to be complete failures, without a chance of success from the beginning. Yet, the failure did not bring any adverse changes—at least, those changes were manifested in them.

They were no longer their former human selves, but as alien demons, they were obviously closer to humans.

However, no matter how close to humans, they were still alien demons. In this place, their fate was not in their hands. Any one of the three girls who visited here could decide their life and death. They wanted to live and also thought of finding opportunities to escape this place.

But now someone even more ruthless had come directly.

This ’young man’ with mixed black and white hair, appearing not much older than Qi Xiangyun and the others, brought them a significant sense of threat. Seeing Qi Xiangyun’s attitude, he clearly could make more decisions, which meant they could no longer remain silent.

The desiccated alien demon continued, "Not telling the girl is also because we want to live, to avoid her being disheartened after realizing her luck has run out and deciding to ’destroy’ us."

"You are very rational," Zheng Yichen finished speaking and looked towards Qi Xiangyun, "Have you ever seen such an alien demon?"

Qi Xiangyun shook her head, "Most of the alien demons that have appeared are in a very agitated mental state, and even the cunning ones do not seem like normal people."

That included the alien demon that Zheng Yichen had dealt with before, which could speak and communicate but appeared as mentally unstable as a person.

"Yaoyao has also studied the brains of alien demons. Their brains are in a lightly distorted state, which means that even if they develop a new self, they will be different from normal humans."

"Let’s go see her parents first."

"Okay," Qi Xiangyun closed the heavy door.

Afterward, the alien demon inside with a swollen body coldly stared at the desiccated alien demon, "You talk too much!"

The desiccated alien demon glanced at his ’roommate’ but didn’t say anything, just lowering his head to look at his hands. The heavy chains on the arms felt weightless, a power he had never possessed as a human.

But not feeling the power did not mean he could break free from the constraints of these chains, nor from that young girl, whose intentions were clear but far too naive. An alien demon is an alien demon, no longer associated with the body’s original owner.

As for this roommate, alien demons are also different from one another. Like him, the other wanted to survive and escape from here, but the other thought about much more.

Lin Yaoyao’s parents were also in this ’dungeon’. However, the room they were in was not a cell but a very normal room. There, her parents were in a state of deep sleep, yet even in slumber, they could not change their characteristics as alien demons.

With contorted faces and jumbled sharp teeth, their bodies had twisted joints. The male alien demon even had an arm mutated into a bony blade entwined with flesh.

"Yaoyao has always been trying to restore their normal appearances, but she hasn’t succeeded yet..."

"What’s important is not the body, but the soul," Zheng Yichen said, looking at the two alien demons. "Her research direction is really wrong."

Looking at the two alien demons, Zheng Yichen felt that Yaoyao should not have studied medicine in the first place, but rather should have learned necromantic skills such as summoning spirits.

"Ah?" Qi Xiangyun blinked her eyes. "Can this persuade Yaoyao?"

"Let’s try it. I have people on my side who are skilled in necromantic skills; they should be able to help." Zheng Yichen was powerless to restore the alien demons to normal, but when it came to matters of the soul, he had people who were sufficiently powerful to help.

Eileena had also acquired knowledge belonging to that Evil Spirit and would only become stronger in necromancy in the future. She could try summoning spirits or teach Lin Yaoyao some knowledge.

In the past, he hadn’t thought of this, underestimating Yaoyao’s persistence. Now, the research she had developed was clearly off track. She should have focused on studying medicine, but what was she researching now...

"We’ll have to wait for their return to consider that."

As for the two poisoned alien demons, Zheng Yichen had examined them at the first meeting. By observing through thermal vision, he noted that the alien demon with desiccated skin was somewhat stronger, its "heat source" was more concentrated and intense, while the other with the swollen body was somewhat dissipated.

It might also be a problem of different forms between the two. How to handle those two alien demons would have to wait until Yaoyao returned. They were her research creations, and since they were acquaintances, he couldn’t just dispose of them arbitrarily.

"Shall we go eat then? Oh, we should take a bath first," Qi Xiangyun said excitedly. At first, she felt it was a pity that Hong Zhao and Yaoyao weren’t there, but now she thought it was quite good. At least before their return, Zheng Yichen and she were alone together.

"When eating, use separate utensils, but let’s skip the bath."

Taking a bath would certainly be a separate affair, without the complexities. But with his current situation, even taking a bath could cause a stir, if the water wasn’t properly treated, just the residue of hallucinogens alone could cause quite a commotion.

"I’ll go arrange it now."

Leaving Lin Yaoyao’s house, Zheng Yichen walked on the streets of Qi Family Town. As the evening approached, the busy townspeople gradually returned home. Being a new face here, he couldn’t avoid being curiously scrutinized by some people.

Overall, the atmosphere of the place was quite nice. However, as a small town, the absence of elderly and the scarcity of children made it seem a bit odd.

"Is that man also a Diviner?" Zheng Yichen spotted a middle-aged man with a small mustache manning a stall not far away, his clothes adorned with patterns of some divination symbols.

"Yes, some diviners work for me, while others stay in Qi Family Town and do not participate in any actions," said Qi Xiangyun, pausing for a moment: "But these people also help the villagers with some things... I had never thought of it before, but now I know that some diviners are very good at farming."

In this world, a well-known fact is that the more powerful a person is, the less likely they are to do things that ordinary people do, like farming.

In her previous impression, diviners were supposed to be the same.

Yet in reality, diviners could do even better when it came to that kind of work. They could easily find more fertile land and plan the use of the land more effectively, even surpassing the villagers in understanding crop combinations.

Apart from her mistrust of some diviners’ identity, Qi Xiangyun had to admit that these diviners staying here were useful, demonstrating their value through this kind of assistance.

If they had really been practicing fortune-telling and such, Qi Xiangyun would have driven them away long ago. If she didn’t, then Hong Zhao would have, no, she would have cut them off.

"I never thought diviners would be so adept at miscellaneous knowledge."

"Haha, diviners need to be exposed to a lot, and if necessary, we may even live and eat with beggars, so naturally, we need to learn more," the middle-aged diviner at the stall chuckled, having heard Qi Xiangyun’s words. "Plainly speaking, we diviners are people who have no fate of our own but want to latch onto someone else’s fate. To do that better, we can only learn everything possible."

Upon hearing this, Zheng Yichen felt it was like accumulating certifications -- having more valuable certifications would make one sought after everywhere, and if that led to a powerful boss, one could do various kinds of work under them and make a lot of money.

Qi Xiangyun smiled, "Can you do a reading for him?"

"That would not be appropriate!" the middle-aged Diviner flinched and quickly pocketed the mustache hair he had subconsciously plucked. When he looked at Zheng Yichen, his eyes showed amazement, as if he were looking at a Supreme Demon, not a human.

The Diviner’s gaze momentarily lingered on Zheng Yichen’s eyes, then turned to Qi Xiangyun, "My name is Yi Nan."

"Are you planning to join Qi Family Town, Master Yi?"

"Of course," Yi Nan smiled, as previously, he was only settled here, ready to leave at any moment if needed...