I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 567 - 437: Then Don’t Eat It_1

Chapter 567: Chapter 437: Then Don’t Eat It_1

The transformation began with a single finger, which was the limit Ahn Ke had reached after the tests. More parts? With the resources at her disposal, she couldn’t surpass Zheng Yichen’s constitution. What she sought was transformation, not deformation.

In this experiment, Zheng Yichen’s experience was akin to getting vaccinated. He watched as one of his fingers thickened, growing suspicious scales and such, but the transformation of this part didn’t last long before his finger began to molt.

"The deformed part was suppressed by your high lifeform level constitution, and the deformed part mutated to become part of your constitution," Ahn Ke explained somewhat speechlessly after the examination—it wasn’t reversion.

It was simply that the transformed part couldn’t overcome Zheng Yichen’s constitution, unable to change him, and so it was his constitution that transformed it. The deformed part underwent a new mutation on top of the original changes.

"Although this was expected, I still find it outrageous to witness... But it won’t affect the outcome," she said.

Because the part wasn’t reverted back to Zheng Yichen’s constitution, it mutated on its base to become part of his original constitution. Naturally, such a mutation could try to retain parts that were beneficial to Zheng Yichen personally, though this required effort.

The deformed finger was already close to the Skeleton behemoth, naturally carrying the potential of the Essence of Life.

However, due to Zheng Yichen’s constitution, part of her original plan was prepared to address a full deformation of Zheng Yichen. Now, this preparation was used to protect the deformed finger, to prevent it from being quickly "deformed" by Zheng Yichen’s constitution.

Due to Zheng Yichen’s robust constitution, the experiment yielded results in just four days.

The scales that shed from Zheng Yichen’s finger were collected, and the constantly bothered finger successfully produced the Essence of Life. Although it was just a slender thread of the Essence of Life, after Ahn Ke’s tests, the biological information of this Essence of Life matched Zheng Yichen completely.

It wasn’t a part of the deformation, and now that the finger possessed the Essence of Life, mutation was out of the question, as the rate of deformation couldn’t outpace Zheng Yichen’s body’s ability to correct it.

Once this seed was sown, the rest was up to Zheng Yichen’s body to adapt, and this process went so smoothly that it left him feeling uneasy: "Is it really that simple?"

"...It’s simple for you, but for another test subject... They would have died ten thousand times over," Ahn Ke said calmly. What humans can achieve easily cannot be replicated by ants no matter the cost of their lives, and the same applies to you: "Now you should eat and drink more, it will help you accumulate more Essence of Life."

"I might as well seek out some powerful life forms."

"What you need, I have right here," Ahn Ke immediately arranged. Here, a large number of experimental subjects tested for Essence of Life and life matter had accumulated—failures, although the transformation machinery could recycle them.

But the transformation rate of that machinery wasn’t one hundred percent.

Better to repurpose those experimental subjects elsewhere, waste utilization is better than directly recycling the life matter.

After all, that type of life matter is quantifiable, so there’s no reason to waste high-quality test subjects.

Now, those experimental bodies slated for waste utilization were all handed over to Zheng Yichen by Ahn Ke. As for the deformities they might cause, even life deformities triggered by the Essence of Life couldn’t overcome Zheng Yichen; to him, those test subjects were merely nourishment.

"These were made from beasts captured from other worlds," Ahn Ke told Zheng Yichen, as some of the special beasts caught by the hunters group ended up here.

"Sounds brutal."

"Then don’t eat them."

"But they are suffering in their current state, so I will help them find release," Zheng Yichen said and walked straight into the experimental field. The subjects, which were involved in life level enhancement research, each looked like a giant, active cancer cell—it was a good thing Zheng Yichen had seen more eye-jarring things, or else it would have been difficult to bear.

He dealt with these creatures very professionally, his black spear not even connected to the fishing rod. The vitality of the experimental bodies was incredibly resilient, but they stood no chance against Zheng Yichen’s extraordinary abilities, their blood drained of its tenacious Life Force.

After disposing of all the experimental bodies, he waved toward an observation port.

"How is the data?" Ahn Ke asked her assistant while she opened the exit.

The assistant hurriedly replied, "I’m sorry, the information recorded may not have much reference value."

"Then forget it," Ahn Ke was unconcerned. She had already understood Zheng Yichen’s extraordinary resistance to deformation. She approached Zheng Yichen and asked, "How do you feel?"

"To be honest, it’s just... average," Zheng Yichen looked at his finger. The Essence of Life had given him quite a boost... right?

At the very least, it was promising for the future. He could feel the minute Essence of Life within his finger had grown larger, from the size of a hair strand to that of a needle: "The conversion rate doesn’t seem very high."

"That’s within the normal range; the conversion rate will gradually improve," Ahn Ke said after taking Zheng Yichen to the lab for a check-up. "Right now, only this finger of yours has the characteristic of generating the Essence of Life, and the conversion is limited to this finger. Your body needs time to assimilate this change, which will take a while."

"When I think about how my whole skeleton could be filled with crystals, I feel kind of weird," Zheng Yichen couldn’t help but say.

Ahn Ke said matter-of-factly, "It won’t affect your activities, you can consider it a new type of bone marrow. In fact, due to the Essence of Life, your bones may become ’solid’ and increase in strength."

The Essence of Life itself is very strong. Even if shattered, unless processed in a specific way, the broken pieces will quickly rejoin if they are from the same source.

"Now, please leave a bit of the Essence of Life for my research materials."

"Here you go," Zheng Yichen did not refuse. He had always wanted the Essence of Life, and now that he had it, he couldn’t really turn down the chef’s request to share the meal, right?

The process of extracting the Essence of Life was a bit painful, essentially a special needle piercing the bone to acquire it. The amount collected was less than two grams, yet Ahn Ke’s breathing quickened as she looked at the blood-red fine Essence of Life, saying, "The quality of the Essence of Life is very high. Once your body fully assimilates this change, your weight will increase significantly, but that’s normal."

"How much heavier?"

"The prediction is between five to ten times the weight of normal bone marrow. The increase in your total weight won’t exceed forty kilograms."

"...I already feel pretty heavy," Zheng Yichen said somewhat speechlessly. As his physique strengthened, the density of his muscles and bones had been continuously increasing, which under the same body frame, made his weight far exceed that of someone who appears to weigh less without clothes.

Moreover, his enhancements were not via the route of sheer energy increase, which might not require consideration of weight. But for him, it was different.

Katrina had mentioned this before. Looking at people who don’t seem to gain weight but are actually heavier than overweight individuals, was he now adding to the burden?

"It doesn’t matter for you. You won’t be affected by the increase in weight, or to put it another way, after a certain increase, any gain in weight apart from eating will correspond to a high degree of strengthening in your power or some other aspect of your physique," Ahn Ke explained.

Others might worry about getting fat with weight gain, but that wasn’t an issue for Zheng Yichen. An increase in his weight meant an inevitable enhancement in some attribute of his.

For instance, the additional weight from the Essence of Life meant his bone marrow was transformed into a higher substance, which made his health bar surge upwards.

Whereas the added weight in bones or muscles meant his body became tougher and his strength greater.

"For a human, the increase in weight is limited. At first, you will gain a considerable amount, but after reaching a certain point, it will slow down significantly or even stop unless your body undergoes some other transformation, like what’s happening now."

Without the Essence of Life, any future changes in Zheng Yichen’s weight will also be very slow. The Essence of Life is an additional increase, which will become more or less fixed after transformation.

"So you don’t have to worry about being under two meters tall but weighing several tons."

"How about several hundred pounds?"

"You really don’t need to be concerned. Given your current situation, it’s difficult to exceed three hundred kilograms," Ahn Ke reassured him. Even with the estimated weight of the Essence of Life included, Zheng Yichen’s weight at the moment wouldn’t exceed one hundred and sixty kilograms, which is still several hundred pounds, but different types of several hundred pounds.

Zheng Yichen’s own weight was focused on mass rather than the quantity of fat.

"Actually, I’m not that bothered," Zheng Yichen said, looking at the ground. "I’m just worried that if I get too heavy, I’ll leave potholes when I walk."

"That’s just overthinking; if you later want to significantly increase your weight, apart from growing taller, you’d have to implant something extra, or change the nature of your bones," Ahn Ke said and then eyed Zheng Yichen. "But the strength of your bones already surpasses many metals, so there’s really no need for that. You don’t have to make any changes to your body now; take care of it."

Zheng Yichen looked at the woman somewhat speechlessly, "If you could just tone down that look in your eyes when you say that, I’d take it as concern."

"You’re my collaborator, and an irreplaceable ’original body’; I can’t help myself."

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