I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 97 - 95: Not bad, you are this time..._1

Chapter 97: Chapter 95: Not bad, you are this time..._1

Crawling out from the behemoth’s wound, Zheng Yichen looked at his hand, which was as skeletal as a skull, his Life Force severely depleted to the point that his body was in a significantly deteriorated state.

He had intended to make an internal breakthrough from inside the behemoth, aiming to kill the creature from within, but the behemoth’s Life Force greatly exceeded Zheng Yichen’s expectations.

When he wanted to get out, he found it was impossible to escape. After being stimulated, the Alien Phenomenon behemoth’s muscles contracted, trapping him tightly inside. All Zheng Yichen could do at the time was to continuously release Hellfire.

This type of flame inflicted massive damage to life.

"Wonder what it tastes like..." Looking at the behemoth’s chest charred, and its skin cracked from the Hellfire, Zheng Yichen’s throat moved as he tore off the dead skin from the back of his hand that looked like tree bark.

He shakily walked towards the behemoth’s head, his black spear stabbing into the behemoth’s unclenched eyeball, the black spear extended and pierced through the eye into the behemoth’s brain, extracting a great amount of blood.

Zheng Yichen took a deep breath, feeling the Life Force he had lost rapidly returning. Bare-skinned, he constantly shed dead skin, the Hellfire had not cooked the Alien Phenomenon behemoth, as most of its blood was still intact.

To Zheng Yichen’s regret, the behemoth’s heart had been destroyed, as he had attacked through the wound on the behemoth’s chest, which was closest to the heart.

However, this risky venture served as a lesson, not to venture into the wounds of such robust creatures, as it’s easy to end up dying inside.

The mere pressure from that powerful musculature was unbearable.

Fortunately, it seemed that the Alien Phenomenon behemoth didn’t possess any special powers.

Zheng Yichen looked at his clothing; his high-quality bulletproof combat suit was now reduced to just a pair of trousers, which were also tattered from the fight, and the behemoth’s blood that stained his body had already been absorbed by his skin.

With the behemoth’s death, the surrounding mist began to dissipate, though the buildings and other objects twisted in the phenomenon did not vanish along with the mist.

The behemoth’s massive body started to wither under the extraction of the black spear, its tough skin turned brittle and cracked, while the parts that had been cooked remained, lacking any normal blood, outside the range of his extraordinary abilities to absorb.

After the phenomenon completely disappeared, Zheng Yichen’s body, which was as dry as a skeleton, also returned to normal. He uncomfortably grimaced, casting a glance at the behemoth’s shriveled corpse, made his way to the wound on its chest, and with his black spear sliced open the behemoth’s body to retrieve the short gun he had thrown earlier.

He also carved off a piece of flesh to taste. How to describe it? It was like boiled meat without any seasoning, lacking flavor, and he had not controlled the temperature when he burned the behemoth with the Hellfire.

"Bit burnt."

After having his fill, Zheng Yichen dusted off his hands and shook his fists, feeling a sense of loss. The strength he had gained during the phenomenon had reverted to normal; he could no longer perform the ultra-high speed movements that left afterimages in his wake just by moving.

Jumping up to a height of over ten meters and stirring up Hellfire with little consumption of Life Force, with this power now, he could have been instantly killed by the Alien Phenomenon behemoth with a single blast from its mouth!

"Environmental Adjustment really is unbearable," Zheng Yichen suppressed the discomfort of the loss, feeling as though he had been downgraded from max level to around level twenty or thirty—an unpleasant realization for anyone.

Zheng Yichen was unclear about the combat level of the Alien Phenomenon behemoth in its original world, but the battle had made him aware of the gap between them. He could become stronger in a higher-grade environment, but such strength was not invincible; it was, as Hunter Arno had said, a proportional increase, maybe not even an exact proportion.

With the phenomenon gone and the behemoth’s leftover blood all consumed by him, the amount of blood was so vast it could have drowned dozens of Zheng Yichens. While the black spear absorbed the blood, it was directly transformed into another form of power. Zheng Yichen was not sure what kind of change would result from absorbing so much of the behemoth’s blood this time.

But he knew that this gain was akin to striking it rich overnight; he felt that he wouldn’t have to worry about his body withering for decades to come.

"My car!!" After tallying the spoils of battle, Zheng Yichen slapped his forehead, realizing that while he had tried to lead the fight away from his vehicle, he had no idea what had become of it amidst the chaos.

Looking at the surrounding buildings, which were a jumbled mess of just about everything, Zheng Yichen took a few leaps... but failed to reach a sufficient height, the sense of loss surfacing again. Shaking his head, he ran up the slanted building to survey the surrounding environment.

The aftermath of the phenomenon’s disappearance left behind an extensive array of things. The environment directly overlaying this world had disappeared, but the objects and beings distorted into this world by the phenomenon seemed to remain, including the creatures. Some animals that had fainted were waking up.

They looked around in terror at the unfamiliar surroundings before scurrying off to who knows where. Some people were also gradually coming to.

Those people were quite pitiful. They had been minding their own business when they were dragged into a world resembling the apocalypse because of distortions produced within the moving phenomenon.

Zheng Yichen quickly found his car, which hadn’t been affected much by the aftermath of battle. His car lay on the ground, untouched by any debris. He rushed over and sighed with relief when he confirmed the car could still be started.

Then he drove around and gathered all the living people he could find. He had found some suitable clothes in a clothing store that had plummeted from the sky, and he decided to spend the next few days in this chaotic place, searching it thoroughly.

"Ca-Captain, should we go and take a look??" A team member holding a worn-out telescope asked Liu Haipeng hesitantly, looking towards the place where the Alien Phenomenon had vanished.

The fact that such a massive Alien Phenomenon just disappeared right before their eyes, and the site where it vanished had left behind a plethora of buildings that were jumbled but relatively new!

They didn’t show signs of decades of post-apocalyptic neglect, with plants overgrowing unchecked on the buildings. Besides the structures, there were also many uneven plants; in short, it was a hodgepodge of an area.

Some team members who were over forty felt sentimental looking at those new buildings. Though damaged by the impact, the aura of civilization resonating from them gave them the illusion of seeing the world as it was over thirty years ago.

"Wait for now, there’s no hurry," Liu Haipeng was tempted but then shook his head, "Observe the situation first."

Inside the hodgepodge area, the people dragged there due to the distortion caused by the Alien Phenomenon gradually woke up. Sitting on his motorcycle, Zheng Yichen retracted his fishing rod as he saw people waking up, and the black ring at the tip of the rod disappeared.

"Not bad, you are the best among the newbies this time."

"??" The first woman to wake up—a white-collar worker—stared at Zheng Yichen, who wore a hoodie, with wide eyes, "What, what place is this??"

"First, tell me about what happened before you passed out," Zheng Yichen sized up the white-collar woman; her makeup could hardly conceal her fatigue—likely from overworking.

"I..." The white-collar woman recalled her experience before passing out, "I think I was caught up by a whirlpool, and at that time, my colleague tried to hold on to me. After that, I knew nothing."

"Ever read novels?"

The white-collar woman nodded slightly.

"Then, why don’t you relate your experience to a novel?"

A moment of puzzlement crossed the woman’s face, then her eyes widened in realization, "Did I really transmigrate??"

There was also a hint of uncontrollable excitement in her tone, though it was unclear what kind of novel she might be associating with.

Zheng Yichen snapped his fingers, "Everyone who’s awake, open your eyes. There’s no need for doubt, you’ve transmigrated! And it’s a group transmigration, but unfortunately, the world you’ve transmigrated into is a post-apocalyptic one!"

"The good news is that along with you, these buildings have transmigrated as well. There are ample resources here for you to survive the hardest times, but whether you can adapt afterward is up to you."

The woman, who was initially excited, had her expression suddenly cool down as she heard ’post-apocalyptic’. She hurriedly surveyed her surroundings.

Leaning buildings, vehicles littered around, all looking like they had been hammered; in those leaning buildings, she could even see a toppled modern statue.

"How do you know all this?" the white-collar woman suppressed her anxiety and looked nervously at Zheng Yichen, who seemed very knowledgeable about the situation and even leisurely explained it.

"Of course, because my situation is somewhat similar to yours, but not quite," he glanced at those who had woken up but pretended to be asleep, as well as those who really hadn’t awakened from unconsciousness, and began flipping through his phone, checking the map information.

One less of the six marked moving Alien Phenomena; five remained... Getting rid of one Alien Phenomenon in less than a week was a good start, wasn’t it?

"Don’t ask me anything else; I don’t know much more. Instead, you should really think about how you’re going to adapt to this post-apocalyptic world and how to survive well in it~"

Zheng Yichen had done what he could; he still had important matters to resolve. As for this group of people who had been dragged in due to the distortion of the Alien Phenomenon, it was certain they couldn’t go back. Take them to the Dusk Cathedral? That group of nuns wouldn’t likely send them back one by one.

"Or you could go find a place called the Dusk Cathedral."