I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 529 - 408 Local Plan_2

Chapter 529: Chapter 408 Local Plan_2

Environmental imbalance created an energy vacuum, and while it wouldn’t affect all things, raw materials were safe; but once some materials underwent a reaction to produce energy, that energy would be sucked away by the vacuum.

If certain materials had inherent energies, then those materials would be degraded after losing their special energy.

The warfare meeting was swift; they didn’t intend to stand by completely but were ready to deploy some bionic soldiers to do something useful, such as poisoning—

The flesh carpets absorbed nutrients from the ground, including toxic substances, which would be absorbed and converted. However, the technology in this world was not like that of ordinary worlds, so whether toxic substances could be absorbed and converted depended on the type of poison.

They hadn’t had much time to study the flesh carpets, unable to produce any targeted drug that could destroy them at a genetic level, but they could still create some poisons that avoided conversion.

Currently, the output wasn’t high, but since the bugs within the mobile anomaly weren’t running out, some resources could be directed towards accelerating production.

The precondition was that the Proxy Agent could hold on for a while, as the amount of poison they could deploy at this stage wasn’t substantial.

Zheng Yichen had been fighting for two and a half days inside the mobile anomaly; the endless swarm of bugs made him lose his sense of time, feeling as if he were in the vast sea, battling the ocean itself. The flames were fierce, but for every hundred bugs he incinerated, more would fill their place.

The relentless bugs caused Zheng Yichen to feel a sense of spiritual exhaustion. His body could withstand it, but continuous fighting wasn’t a solution. These bugs lacked blood and, over time, their resistance only increased.

Hellfire was potent, burning both the body and soul, but these bugs had no souls, and their exoskeletons grew increasingly resistant to fire. They couldn’t be turned to ash instantly when burned.

As he walked, a thick layer of ash and residue from the incompletely burned bugs accumulated under his feet.

After popping a ’sugar pill’ into his mouth, the refined nutrients from the flesh carpet satisfied his bodily exhaustion, but the exhaustion of his energy couldn’t be replenished. Zheng Yichen was well aware that such battles boded ill for him.

The number of bugs was simply too great; two and a half days were just the beginning. If the fight dragged on, they could battle until the end of time, but he didn’t have that much time.

He had also tried to find the core of the mobile anomaly, to no avail. He had seen many heat reactions, but they all remained hidden; pursuing them would require exterminating hundreds of thousands of bugs at least.

Defeating these bugs brought no enhancements to Zheng Yichen; he couldn’t collect blood, and his extraordinary ability to gain life force through blood was useless here, as the bugs had no blood but only nutrient-rich and toxic fluids.

This was a blind spot for Zheng Yichen. Life plundering? He didn’t possess such an ability, and while the practice of the Blood Asura improved due to prolonged fighting, these bugs offered no sense of combat feedback.

Each one was a cold, unfeeling killing machine; whether they attacked or were killed, the countless numbers of their kin slain by Zheng Yichen had no effect on the bugs’ ’emotions.’

With no emotions, there was no combat feedback; they were as dangerous as they were inert, like wooden stakes, and practicing with them felt more like striking posts than battling monsters.

"If only I had a system that allowed me to farm monsters for experience, I’d be at max level by now!" he said as he swept aside the ash at his feet, the black long spear pointing skyward as fire clouds pressed down the fog nearby, and shooting stars of flame plummeted from the sky.

Gazing at the flames that burned with an ethereal green hue, Zheng Yichen couldn’t help but think of the ability he named ’soul control,’ a power belonging to the Devourers that could invoke ’Susa.’ This was an active ability trait.

In the past two days, Zheng Yichen had taken extra time to ponder and experiment; it was an ability that required a ’soul,’ and his was certainly not as complete as the original, but it could still achieve corresponding effects. This ability allowed him to create a link with the souls he dominated.

Under that link, dominated souls could be temporarily enhanced, and in return, he could receive temporary feedback from the dominated souls. However, Zheng Yichen felt this was risky and could result in him being overtaken.

Yet, seeing the Devourer use it, it seemed that such a problem did not exist. Since his acquired ability wasn’t complete, if there were such a problem, Zheng Yichen wasn’t overly concerned.

To him, these abilities were just icing on the cake; he didn’t rely on the ’soul control’ power for extra enhancement from those dominated souls... Besides, if he truly wanted to strengthen, there were ways to do so.

If quality wasn’t an option, he could go for quantity. However, the method the Devourer used to wield phantom souls like Gundam wasn’t something Zheng Yichen could replicate. It might be due to the unique soul the opponent used, or perhaps a flaw in the ability itself.

But in summary, the ability he acquired now could be likened to a passive skill in a game called ’DotA,’ resembling the Shadow Fiend’s soul-collecting passive and the Death Prophet’s ultimate that commands Evil Spirits...

Apart from these, there was an extra incentive; Zheng Yichen could temporarily enhance the souls he controlled with this ability. However, this enhancement was a ’linked’ one; after the enhancement, if the dominated soul suffered damage or was killed, he would likewise sustain some injury.

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