I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 427 - 336 You Are the Big Boss_1

Chapter 427: Chapter 336 You Are the Big Boss_1

Yi Nan was going to find a diviner not from Qi Family Town, and he wouldn’t even let those diviners know about his current relationship with the town. In this world, news doesn’t travel that fast; there was a lot of room to maneuver.

"The bolder one gets, the swifter one dies; the timider one starves to death." In times of chaos, there are always diviners who dare to gamble.

As for completing this task and succeeding, at that time, the diviners within Qi Family Town could be used. But having missed the most dangerous first opportunity, the benefits they could reap afterwards wouldn’t be as substantial.

"Alas, diviners have so many problems." In her bedroom, Qi Xiangyun leisurely unboxed the large crate Zheng Yichen had brought over. It was late after dinner yesterday, so she didn’t rush to open it, waiting until today when she was done with her errands to get started.

Although she could guess what was inside, it was her first time opening a crate with Zheng Yichen by her side.

While opening the crate, she was talking with Zheng Yichen about the day’s events, the conversation had now turned to diviners, and then they casually mentioned Yi Nan. Regarding Yi Nan’s arrangements, Qi Xiangyun planned to wait and see what he could do.

Qi Family Town was indeed short on manpower. Although from Yi Nan’s previous ’Declaration of Allegiance,’ it seemed fitting for him to be a strategist, the reality still needed to be observed. She planned to give him one or two tasks to test his capabilities.

But Zheng Yichen had found Yi Nan first.

"Merchants or gamblers, they all want to make money. For diviners, it’s about earning their lives," Zheng Yichen said. It wasn’t about contesting lives but earning lives. Seizing the opportunity once could earn enough life energy to ensure a smooth journey in all endeavors and an easy breakthrough in cultivation.

Even when divination needed to consume life energy, one could use the life energy earned to substitute for it. This was the key point. Defying heaven and changing fate sounds exhilarating, doesn’t it?

"So, the diviners involved in this are gamblers, right?" Qi Xiangyun looked at a packet of seeds in her hand, smiling as she placed them aside. The sufficiency of food in Qi Family Town had a lot to do with these seeds provided by Zheng Yichen.

The crops that grew from these seeds developed quickly, greatly satisfying the town’s demand for food.

"Of course~ But for diviners, if this matter succeeds, the payoff would be enormous."

"Yi Nan has his own agenda too, right? If he’s willing to take a bet, not to mention the other diviners in Qi Family Town," Qi Xiangyun said. Yi Nan’s previous ’Declaration of Allegiance’ had already revealed his cautiousness, and being diviners themselves, they understood one another.

The diviners under her command told her that those who had not yet truly joined Qi Family Town were still observing. They might want to make contact with Yaoyao and Hong Zhao.

The diviner who mentioned this to her was very cautious, not delving deeper to avoid arousing Qi Xiangyun’s suspicion of instigation.

"As long as we can locate the Supreme Demon, that’s enough. They are earning their lives. But as the ’Daughter of Heaven’s Mandate,’ you’re the big boss. They have to be sensitive to your mood," Zheng Yichen said with a smile.

"Oh, Brother Chang Qing, stop talking about that! These are all rumors from who knows where, getting exaggerated the more they spread." Qi Xiangyun blushed, covering her face. When others talked to her about the Daughter of Heaven’s Mandate, she didn’t feel much. But when Zheng Yichen mentioned it, she felt like a teenager watching a somewhat embarrassing anime with her parents.

"Let’s drop it, let’s drop it. Inside here is the latest projection equipment, some new medication for treatment, as well as some other trinkets, all with instruction manuals."

Qi Xiangyun fiddled with a small projection device: "I’m like an ancient person over here. Reading the instruction manual is bothersome. Brother Chang Qing, can you teach me?"

"..."

Then let’s give it a shot.

At night, back in his own room, Zheng Yichen yawned. A projection appeared beside him, and the artificial intelligence Lilith extended her hand into the air and pulled out a projection screen: "Today, six unusual energy flows were detected. Insufficient information to identify the types."

Lilith was particularly sensitive to the monitoring of energy flows within a certain range, but there were many types of energy flows. If they were of basic Elements, then they could be analyzed directly. Slightly more unique types fell into the category of lacking relevant data.

After encountering and entering related information, one could make comparative analyses the next time a similar energy flow was detected. This way, one could at least determine the type of energy flow and get a basic understanding of its function.

"Some kind of energy flow related to a spell for scouting?" Zheng Yichen looked at the energy flow chart on the projection screen, which appeared like mixed paint after applying a ’filter.’ With the filter, the charts could overlap or be displayed in layers.

"Shall we tentatively classify these similar energy flows as ’scouting type’?"

Zheng Yichen shook his head: "Let’s keep it as ’type undetermined’ for now. Just make an additional note."

Lilith’s range of detection for energy flows was only a radius of forty meters. This area might seem large, as it’s bigger than the house most people on Earth would strive for their entire lives. However, when facing spells and the like, this range appeared quite small—especially in this world where the environmental level was quite high. Would there be a problem if a spell for scouting was cast hundreds of meters away or even farther?

"Understood." Lilith grabbed the projection screen and stuffed it into a projection file bag.

Zheng Yichen yawned, "I’m going to sleep, goodnight."

The lights in the room went out. Here in Qi Family Town, some places used light bulbs. Candles could be made, but when the technology could produce light bulbs, there was no need to make candles anymore; the saved resources could be used elsewhere.

A light bulb could last a very long time, and as for the issue of electricity, in a world with spells, what was there to talk about electricity storage issues? There certainly was a way to solve it.

Zheng Yichen still remembered how Qi Xiangyun, when she was cultivating the Blood Asura, had used his blood in her training and had gained the characteristics of thunder.

In the darkened room, the projection of Lilith didn’t emit a bright glow; she said, "Goodnight, boss."

The projection dissipated.

Under the not-yet-full moonlit night, a black cat spirit jumped out from the cloak hanging on the motorcycle, nestled on the motorcycle, licking its paws and washing its face. Even as a spiritual body, the cat spirit retained the habits it had in life.

After washing its face, the restless cat spirit even stretched out a small paw attempting to flick at the Q-version small form projection of Lilith, who was gazing at the night sky and didn’t pay any attention to the cat spirit beside her.

Zheng Yichen, asleep, wasn’t too worried about someone taking his equipment. The weapons on his body and some of his equipment weren’t quite normal; touching the fishing rod was like an ordinary person holding the Headless Knight’s territory sword, they would start losing blood upon contact.

The cat spirit cloak was the same, it wouldn’t cause blood loss when touched, but the cat spirit inside wouldn’t be polite to strangers, and it would actively devour the life essence of the target.

The next day.

As soon as Zheng Yichen woke up, there was a new projection in his room. Lilith said, "Boss, today’s plan is fishing, the weather is good and we can travel without any obstruction."

"Mhm, got it," Zheng Yichen slapped his face and began to get dressed. Observing the weather was one of Lilith’s functions, too. Ancient people would observe the stars at night, whereas Lilith’s main system, after recording enough information related to the weather, could also do the job.

It might be slightly different from the observations made by meteorological satellites, but it was more than sufficient for civilian use.

"Are you going out, Brother Chang Qing?" Hearing the noise outside, Qi Xiangyun, with her hair down, immediately walked out of her room and saw Zheng Yichen pushing the motorcycle.

"I don’t have much to do here, so I’m going out to fish and incidentally clear out some of the alien demons nearby," Zheng Yichen said to Qi Xiangyun, who had not tied her hair. "I’m going to skip breakfast."

"If you’re going fishing... wait for me, Brother Chang Qing," Qi Xiangyun ran back to her room and brought out a map.

She was preparing to hand the map to Zheng Yichen, but after he took it, he let the Lilith projection on his shoulder scan and record it, then he handed the map back to Qi Xiangyun.

"Technology really is convenient," Qi Xiangyun said with a sense of amazement. She had tried the projection device that Zheng Yichen brought her. It was very convenient to use and didn’t have any traces of spells.

When activated, just set it properly and it could silently change the layout of the room. Just don’t touch it directly.

In Qi Xiangyun’s mind, that kind of projection could even attempt to create an Illusion Array. The items projected were fake, indeed, but some projected things could be used as real, such as mirrors, and some Illusion Arrays were related to mirrors.

A sort of Illusion Array set up with unmarked mirrors without spell traces would be really convenient.

"Mechanical Techniques aren’t bad either," Zheng Yichen said with a smile. Technology was easily disturbed, but those Mechanical Technique creations had a great advantage in resisting electromagnetic explosion interference, and the automata he’d seen moved rather flexibly.

The map didn’t significantly impact Zheng Yichen’s itinerary, but with it, it was quite easy for him to find a nearby river.

It had to be said that the self-regulating ability of this world was very strong.

In those marked rivers one could actually find normal fish, but in most places, the fish were abnormal. However, after some tests by the Qi Family Town, those abnormal fish could be eaten once caught, though there’s a chance you might be eaten by the fish while fishing.

Arriving at a riverside, Zheng Yichen found a suitable place to sit down, attached the fishing line and hook to the fishing rod. With the support of wealthy lady Ahn, the fishing line he used was super high-strength, capable of both fishing in times of peace and striking down enemies when needed.

However, most of his opponents rendered the gadget useless, as it had no chance to perform. Since it didn’t take up space, he had prepared quite a lot of it.

According to the original plan, he intended to find a place and cast a line into this world’s ’Hell’ a couple of times. Normal fishing was fun, but catching something abnormal was even more interesting.

But after the map indicated there were normal fish nearby, his plans underwent a slight change. Since he was already here...