I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 916 - 655: Hunting

Chapter 916: Chapter 655: Hunting

"Are you lucky or just miserable??" Du Gang, somewhat speechless, asked Zheng Yichen as they arrived at this mountain range and saw the city established within. A great deal of life force was emanating from this city.

The people moving around in this city seemed quite vigorous, like iron-blooded warriors equipped with high-tech, yet preferring to engage in hunting combat with their prey.

Since it was a city, most of them were ordinary people.

Zheng Yichen didn’t mind causing some trouble for the Great World. In that previous Blood Pool...er, he had plunged a source of chaos power into it, leading to new changes in the entire Blood Pool, and the demons that sprang from it also changed.

But for Zheng Yichen to slaughter in this place...

"You’re much more important than a city, Dusk is only concerned with the World’s fundamental board," Du Gang said very seriously to Zheng Yichen.

"Forget it, I haven’t sunk that low yet."

"Is this really a matter of sinking low? The Boundary Breaking Organization would be delighted if you died, don’t you think about how many of their people are here?"

"It shouldn’t be more than one-tenth," Zheng Yichen estimated with Life Perception, fully grasping the situation of the city. In this World, the range of Life Perception was outrageously large.

Especially when his physical condition was terrible, his Life Perception became extremely sensitive, almost as if equipped with a Malice Lock-on. Such Life Perception seemed to urge him to hunt immediately.

In a critical health state, using Life Perception made it seem like each new life within its range gave him a slight boost... No, it wasn’t an illusion; there was indeed an enhancement.

This reminded Zheng Yichen of a hero from a certain battle game. However, the hero known as Blood Demon received bonuses when facing critically wounded heroes. As long as the enemy was in critical health, their position would be revealed anywhere on the map.

Moreover, it would grant the Blood Demon a great deal of movement speed, breaking the game’s movement speed limit, and after killing the enemy, it would regenerate a high amount of health points.

But for him, it was the opposite; his own critical health state enhanced the Life type’s Life Perception, although not as drastically as in the game. And Zheng Yichen felt this enhancement was more like the potential spurred by the body’s survival instinct.

The Life type power he possessed greatly amplified this demonstration of survival instinct, making it more substantially manifest.

How could the Life type’s abilities become so bizarre when the body was desperately thirsting for life force in a critical health state? Zheng Yichen mused. Could it be that he controlled too many abnormal powers, causing even the normal ones to seem abnormal?

Mador—if he really encountered beings like the Demon King in the future, they’d have to make way for him too!

Suppressing the intense desire to plunder life, Zheng Yichen was well aware of the consequences of being controlled by such impulses. If he couldn’t suppress it, he wouldn’t expect an easy recovery after using possession by demonic thoughts later.

A flaw that once appeared was like a baseline being broken, similar to the Vajra Body. But although the Vajra Body could be healed, repairing mental flaws was not so simple.

A return to the original state? What about the addiction in the heart?

"That’s still quite a few."

"...Old Gang, why do you sound like a devil leading others into damnation? You’re not a succubus."

"Dammit, do you really want to die in the Great World??"

"I choose to bully animals."

Zheng Yichen took out a bait. Through Life Perception, Zheng Yichen didn’t feel any unusual movements in the city established in the mountain range, indicating that the people in the city hadn’t noticed his arrival.

If it had been the City of Technology, they probably would have surrounded him with a mechanical army by now.

"Bait?" Du Gang looked at the thing Zheng Yichen took out with some surprise, but said nothing more and nodded, "That thing can also attract powerful creatures, then I’m responsible for killing them; you just wait."

"Let’s change location first."

The bait’s effect was strong, although less effective on beings with higher intelligence, there would always be those who couldn’t resist and would be lured by intense desires.

"Always so troublesome."

They moved to a place far from the mountain range. Zheng Yichen crushed the bait in his hand, and the scattered bait immediately attracted nearby creatures. The first to arrive were the flying ones.

Du Gang, ready for action, directly broke the wings of those giant birds and threw them next to Zheng Yichen, and he gladly accepted, using the Sword Control Technique, which he had learned not long ago but was currently unnecessary. The black Flying Sword efficiently reaped the lives of those immobilized giant birds.

The blood plundered during the blood-sucking didn’t alleviate Zheng Yichen’s physical condition by much. The lingering storm and lightning scars still continually damaged him, with his Life Perception growing restless; numerous lives drawn by the bait, strong or weak, he refused none.

Like a freeloader accepting Du Gang’s feeding, so what if the Little Golden Man had rested for so long? What’s wrong with a bit of hard work?

The scene, which should have been extremely bloody, appeared very clean. In places where a large number of beasts from the Great World, and even magical beasts, had died, not a single excess corpse could be found. All that could be seen were withered feathers or other biological hairs.

Even the sharp claws of some creatures would crumble to pieces like weathered stone upon touch.

"How much has been recovered?" Looking at the greatly reduced number of beasts, Du Gang asked.

"Less than one-tenth."

"... Are you joking?" Watching the still unliving appearance of Zheng Yichen, Du Gang couldn’t help but twitch at the corner of his eye. He felt that the beasts he had killed would have fed the people in the mountain city for over a year.

So many creatures couldn’t fill Zheng Yichen up?

"Try being struck by Heavenly Punishment for nearly an hour..."

Du Gang didn’t speak. He stopped insisting, "Let’s change locations. There’s no need to continue squeezing this place dry."

Could he undertake Heavenly Punishment like the state of Zheng Yichen? Even for an hour?

He could probably maintain an unscathed state for the first few minutes, but the moment his Vajra Body broke, he would die instantly.

"Let’s go." Zheng Yichen retracted the Black Sword condensed from the dark substance around him. His range of Life Perception was still filled with a large amount of life, keeping his Life Perception in a state of agitation. Even after his body started to recover, the agitation felt stronger than before.

They left the area.

The people observing from a distance trembled with relief. They didn’t know the identities of Zheng Yichen and Du Gang, but to the original inhabitants of the mountain city, those two were like personified devils that killed without spitting out the bones.

A horde of crazed beasts converged towards them, among which were many that would normally require great effort to hunt. Yet those beasts were being cleaved by the Little Golden Man with a single slash, then tossed next to another person who resembled a corpse, and absorbed by the personified devil into dust.

If not for having witnessed it personally, they couldn’t have imagined such an unprecedentedly efficient slaughter that directly impacted the ecosystem of the mountain range.

"Why do I feel like your condition has gotten even worse?" After setting off again, Du Gang looked uncertainly at Zheng Yichen, who still had no sign of life and seemed even weaker.

The bandages rewrapped around his arm had strangely bulged, and a waxy bodily tissue was oozing from the gaps in the bandages.

Tiny sparks of electricity emerged from the treelike lightning scars that covered his body, which seemed powerful at a glance, but in reality, they were harmful to the body.

"This means I’m recovering. My body condition was very poor before, unable to resist the injuries. Now that my body is getting better, it’s starting to fight against the residual destructive forces and the damage that is hard to heal."

"So, does that mean your condition will decline again after a while?"

Zheng Yichen nodded, "Better than I was not long ago when I was close to dying."

"Ah, let’s change our path. We need to speed up," Du Gang sighed. He surmised that something had gone wrong with the Boundary Breaking Organization’s sort of monitoring when Zheng Yichen unleashed that slash, causing the Boundary Breaking Organization to completely lose their trail.

After all, the Demonic Abyss left behind by the Single Oblivion Slash was still visible at the previous hunting site. Who from the Boundary Breaking Organization would dare to approach that area covered by the slash?

If they don’t approach that area, plus considering how vast the Great World is, how could the Boundary Breaking Organization, possibly having lost that unique tracking ability temporarily, determine their location?

In fact, this was a good opportunity to break through. They could quietly sneak near Dusk and then forcefully break through.

The problem was that Zheng Yichen’s physical condition was so bad. What if, after a sneak through, he was killed by someone there?

Reality is not a game where, after being critically wounded, various Attributes would decline, including resistance-related ones. Du Gang could think of many possibilities, such as the Boundary Breakers blocking near Dusk being proficient in some kind of Curse or something similar to Word Spirit.

Such things might not be effective against Zheng Yichen in a normal state, but against a weakened Zheng Yichen, it would be different—fatal Curses, instant-death Word Spirits, and the like designed to kill those who can still fight out of sheer will despite being on the brink of death...

The likelihood of Zheng Yichen falling to such an attack wasn’t high, but he wasn’t invulnerable to dying.

Starting now would essentially reveal their trail to the Boundary Breaking Organization. They might not be able to pinpoint their exact location now, but once they had a rough idea, they could quickly start searching.

"Let them search. At ultra-high speeds, it won’t mean much. Charge!" Zheng Yichen patted his motorcycle. Lilith had collected a large amount of energy generated by Heavenly Punishment, and that portion of energy had not been exhausted yet.

Because once Explosive Speed Mode reached a certain level, Lilith thriftily switched the energy supply, using a different source of power since the vehicle speed wouldn’t be affected by the energy adjustment.

High-quality energy was more useful in the acceleration phase of Explosive Speed Mode.

By conserving some of it, they could more quickly respond to other unforeseen incidents.

They set off again in Explosive Speed Mode. The Boundary Breaking Organization’s branch in the mountain city also confirmed the identities of the people who had recently carried out the slaughter and internally breathed a long sigh of relief...