I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 643 - 478: Usually Appears in Stories_1

Chapter 643: Chapter 478: Usually Appears in Stories_1

"How is your body holding up? Do you want me to give you a check-up?" Ahn Ke, as casually as one would pocket a lighter, swiped the fragment from Zheng Yichen’s hand. Since it was meant for research, the more the merrier. Even though according to her findings, just one piece was enough.

But for research materials... who wouldn’t want more? One piece is barely enough, two pieces are much better, and with twenty or thirty, you could casually embark on various projects with multiple branches of study without fearing a shortage of materials.

Speaking of Zheng Yichen’s body, Ahn Qi in the laboratory turned her gaze to Zheng Yichen’s right arm, which was covered in a layer of red scab-like skin and appeared particularly dissonant.

That made Ahn Qi involuntarily touch her own left arm. Her being here naturally meant that she had already adapted to the influence of her arm. Although as a power source she still couldn’t fully utilize the strength of this arm, as she adapted, she no longer felt excessively tired because of it.

The burden of daily activities and some combat was within an acceptable range for her, as long as the combat wasn’t too intense. At the moment, she was the type with an explosive power of ’A’ and endurance of ’C’. The day her endurance approached her explosive power would be the day she had completely assimilated her arm’s enhancement.

Just a few days ago, she had directly participated in a hunters group action. The operation went very smoothly with no substantial conflicts arising, foiling her desire to flex her muscles. With a weapon in hand, the urge to kill arose naturally; previously, she wasn’t keen on engaging in direct combat, but now that her body had become stronger, she wanted to give it a try.

"Can it be healed?" Ahn Qi asked Ahn Ke.

"No." Ahn Ke was very certain, looking at Zheng Yichen’s injured arm. Zheng Yichen’s recovery ability was astonishing; if it could heal, his arm would have already done so, without any need for her to treat it.

An injury that even Zheng Yichen himself couldn’t heal would unlikely be affected by other treatment methods.

"I mean, like replacing it with another arm."

"You’re underestimating his constitution," Ahn Ke said with some exasperation, shaking her head. Zheng Yichen himself was a being of high lifeform level. With his current injury, even if she cultivated a suitable arm for Zheng Yichen to replace, it would likely be synced by him to its current damaged state, unless he got a mechanical arm that wouldn’t sync up.

"Now that he’s injured, some people might think they have a chance against him."

Ahn Ke said rather casually, "That’s yours and Sister Longling’s issue to deal with."

That’s the perk of being a researcher. All she needed to do was to produce research results periodically, whereas Ahn Ke and Ahn Longling controlled the combat resources. Therefore, they had to step up when faced with certain issues.

What they were discussing was one such issue. Should Zheng Yichen handle the potential troubles himself? Judging by his attitude, it seemed he didn’t care much about it, and Ahn Ke could assure that those issues wouldn’t pose much of a threat to him.

His arm might appear out of place, but his overall strength hadn’t changed at all, let alone weakened. Anyone attempting to take advantage of him now would be courting death.

But if Zheng Yichen handled everything, what would be the point of having collaborators? Were they just there to freeload? If that were the case, Ahn Ke thought Ahn Qi and Ahn Longling might as well get cleaned up and find time to lie in Zheng Yichen’s bed.

As for the Ahn family... frankly speaking, it was just that the environmental level of this world wasn’t high enough. If the environmental level were higher, the Ahn family should face reality and obediently become a vassal. Ahn Ke personally felt that Zheng Yichen was being overly generous.

Or perhaps he felt it was all the same to him. This perspective had its pros and cons. The good thing was, as long as the Ahn family didn’t do anything stupid, this kind of relationship could probably be maintained. The bad thing was, if the Ahn family had any self-destructive ideas and acted on them, Zheng Yichen would be able to cast them aside without any burden and take down the Ahn family, possibly sparing some people worth keeping...

"Such a minor issue doesn’t need his attention." Ahn Qi pinched her left wrist: "I’m actually looking for an appropriate opportunity to test my own strength."

Challenge Zheng Yichen? Forget it. Her arm was just cultivated with the Essence of Life, whereas Zheng Yichen was now filled with it. Such an entity, even in a lower environment, was an unimaginable ’monster’, a being that even the fire dragon would feel inferior to.

It just so happens that Zheng Yichen didn’t have the fire dragon’s physique. All things considered, challenging him would be humiliating. Fighting someone similar would at least give her a goal to strive for. A battle with an entity like Zheng Yichen? No, thanks.

"If there’s nothing else, I’ll be off then~ Just send me a copy of any research results," said Zheng Yichen as he left the research facility. He had already delivered the items, and since he couldn’t understand much of the subsequent research, it was better to leave early and attend to his own plans.

He found the Fire Dragon Klakauska.

The fire dragon had now transformed into a burly red-headed man over two meters tall, clearly having mastered his Transformation technique... at least to a significant extent. The man had red hair and skin, matching his scales.

Not only that, but one could see fine scales on the fire dragon’s face and the back of his hands, like snake scales. When he turned his head to look over, the first impression he gave was quite frightening, especially when the fire dragon smiled to reveal a mouth full of sharp teeth.

"Can’t you make your transformation look a bit better?"

"Hey, I just shrank in size, that’s all. This’ll do just fine, what’s the need for it to be any better? I think my current image is pretty cool," said the fire dragon, baring a fearsome grin full of sharp teeth, completely indifferent to the fact that his appearance could easily scare little children to tears. "Why have you come back so early this time?"

"It’s not that early, is it?" He had only been away for a little over half a month, and that was after spending some extra time in the City of Evil Spirits. Otherwise, he could have returned even earlier.

"I’ve only just transformed into this form less than two days ago and still feel somewhat unaccustomed to it. Anyway, it’s good that you’re back, how was your experience this time? What kind of entities did you encounter?" The fire dragon seemed as curious as a kid, even considering becoming a Dusk mercenary to get back home.

He was a dragon who had lived for a very long time, but this was his first encounter with such matters, and he felt somewhat apprehensive, making him eager to learn more from Zheng Yichen.

"The experience was alright, I suppose..." Zheng Yichen reviewed his journey in that world. Although some parts were quite unpleasant, the overall result was good: "The environment over there was so-so for me. It was influenced by my presence and produced Mental Aberration creatures, but it wasn’t as exaggerated as I had imagined. The initial Mental Aberration creatures that appeared were only good at bullying ordinary people."

To him, they were useless. Zheng Yichen’s initial guess was that such things should be like inner demons from immortals and heroes fiction, irritatingly troublesome, and notably uncomfortable for anyone afflicted.

However, these were not inner demons linked to one’s strength but monsters formed from the special environment combined with the abnormal mental power he emanated, related to Zheng Yichen. Yet, in his view, this relationship was no different from creating monsters from the sweat and dirt shed from his body.

How could those things compare with him, the person in question?

"I thought that world was going to be utterly preposterous, and that’s it?" After hearing a bit of information from Zheng Yichen, the fire dragon clicked his tongue twice, emitting an attitude of ’I could have managed that too’: "And here I was, kindly warning you that the summoning ritual might bring some harm, but it seems I was worried over nothing, huh."

"In a sense, the summoning ritual did bring a surprise. The success rate doesn’t even need mentioning, but there was a special entity in that world that manifested independently through the summoning ritual. I stirred up a God of World Order over there."

"Uh? That sounds pretty wild." The fire dragon gave Zheng Yichen an odd look. Zheng Yichen didn’t return looking like a disco ball of Divinity, his divine radiance chaotically flaring. He had hidden it well, preventing the fire dragon from detecting any enhancement Zheng Yichen might have acquired.

On the contrary, his attention was caught by Zheng Yichen’s arm, which was reduced to a bloody skin-like state, making the fire dragon quite concerned. That condition suggested to him that the danger in that world was higher than how Zheng Yichen had described it.

"What do you make of this?"

Zheng Yichen brought out a fragment of the Great Evil God. The fire dragon, quite surprised, took it and examined it carefully: "This thing retains a very subtle sense of Divinity, integrated with the fragment. I can’t really tell if it’s good or bad."

To call it good, the Divine presence was too faint; to say it was bad, it still held a Divine presence. In the hands of an ordinary person, it would definitely be considered a low-tier Divine Artifact. But anything related to the gods isn’t too friendly without the proper handling methods.

In his world, a God’s Corpse wasn’t something one could simply utilize. Some lucky individuals might come into possession of Divine Blood or a fragment of a god and manage to use it, crafting a human epic worthy of storytelling.

The reality was that most individuals with such experiences ended up with their life forms distorted, which isn’t necessarily a mutation, but the results were seldom good. Those with distorted life forms may grow stronger but would also edge closer to the fate of a fallen god.

Not only in terms of power, but their appearance and thought processes would increasingly align. Those with even worse luck might ’awaken’ some memories, leading to their complete replacement. Such existences weren’t considered as the rebirth of a fallen god using a human as a host.

Instead, they were fortunate yet unlucky individuals who couldn’t withstand everything left behind by a god. Their life forms were twisted and changed, their consciousness overwhelmed by the remaining divine information to form a new entity that was neither the original person nor the fallen god.

That’s the result of ordinary people encountering some ’higher-level’ substances. Occasionally, some lucky beings emerge, but such cases are exceedingly rare, to the point where one has to look for exceptions in storybooks.

Yet, stronger beings don’t really need to use such things on themselves, unless under some special circumstances. But those beings are no longer ordinary, capable of ignoring many effects and therefore should not be used as a reference.

The fragment Zheng Yichen showed him seemed inferior even to the pieces of a God’s Corpse the fire dragon had once fortuitously come into contact with. The item was similar in nature, yet had some differences. The fire dragon didn’t bother discerning precisely what made it distinct since it was of no use to him.

And his knowledge on the subject was limited to what his elders had taught him in the past. More than the fragment, the fire dragon was more concerned about Zheng Yichen’s injury.