I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 974 - 701: Want to Be Even Faster?

Chapter 974: Chapter 701: Want to Be Even Faster?

"You guys can explore the new equipment, I’m heading to the garage."

Grasping the unchanged-looking fishing rod and flinging the cat spirit cloak over his shoulder, Zheng Yichen said impatiently, preventing Tanshia Firlo, who wanted to follow, from speaking, causing the small white dragon to involuntarily pout.

Sitting where Zheng Yichen was just seated, she played with the Holy Relic of Life in her hand. Since the materials used for the equipment were similar, the equipment they held all possessed the same characteristics, albeit with different focal points due to the type of equipment.

Although this situation seemed like mass production, in reality, the equipment they held was unique; without the corresponding materials, others couldn’t create such types of weapons and equipment.

"Why is Brother Chang Qing in such a rush?" Lin Yaoyao said somewhat disappointedly. She had been ready to try out her newly acquired equipment and wanted Zheng Yichen to help see if it looked good.

"He’s eager to see another wife," Ahn Ke said calmly.

"What??" The three little ones were taken aback and exchanged looks. What was going on??

"It’s his car."

"...Then is that... considered a wife?" Qi Xiangyun asked, somewhat puzzled.

"It has been with him longer than us," said Ahn Ke, stating a somewhat irrefutable fact. She added, "And some people do like to consider things they really like as special husbands or wives."

She had picked up this piece of seemingly useless knowledge accidentally from the chatter of researchers at the institute.

In the garage, Zheng Yichen didn’t need to search; guided by his senses and with his eyes closed, he could find where Lilith was. He reached out and touched the seat, which had subtly changed, with the leather now feeling like the leaves of the World Tree.

He bent down to feel the tires, whose patterns had also changed to resemble the bark of the World Tree, presumably not bad in terms of anti-slip effects. The handlebars and various other parts had also seen some changes.

From the cat spirit cloak placed on the car, the cat spirit leaped out, scratching its hind legs and then licking its front paws while washing its face, observing Zheng Yichen’s slightly odd behavior.

With its tiny head and large eyes, it looked towards the projection of Lilith on the other side, feeling that this ’fellow species’ seemed a bit off at this moment... Hm? Why was it thinking so much?

The cat spirit paused briefly while washing its face then continued the action. Let it think too much; after all, it was just a cat. Speaking of which, after its master had stuffed new things into its body this time, it felt some changes.

Its body seemed capable of new transformations now.

The cat spirit cloak underwent some changes, gradually syncing with the cat spirit itself, transforming into a cat.

This change didn’t bring any strength enhancement; whatever the current status could achieve, the cat spirit could manage just as well, even though such transformations prevented it from phasing through walls like before.

Shaking its body, the cat spirit directly shook off the cloak, which had transformed into a cat shape, returning to its previous state.

Zheng Yichen stood up and put on the cat spirit cloak: "Why didn’t you continue transforming into a cat?"

The cat spirit on the seat jumped onto Zheng Yichen’s shoulder, rubbing his head against him, communicating its thoughts.

Its body was armor, meant to be worn on its master’s body, not acting as some additional bodily helper. Even shaped into a cat, it wasn’t a substantive body.

It was just an external form; internally, it was still hollow, less convenient than being in a spiritual state.

"I see," Zheng Yichen said, patting the cat spirit’s head, then looking towards Lilith: "Let’s go out for a spin."

Just stepping out already confirmed the motorcycle’s changes; next was its practical use.

"BOSS, may I sit behind you?"

"Of course."

Leaving the garage, Zheng Yichen found an open space and started moving along the roots of the World Tree spread across the land.

The engine roared as the natural essence enveloped them. Zheng Yichen’s peripheral vision now included a new projected map with annotations provided by Lilith, this map named the natural map.

After being strengthened by the primordial branches and leaves of the World Tree, the motorcycle had gained the ability to communicate with nature.

This effect allowed it to more easily harness the elemental powers of nature; the enhancement of natural elements like earth, water, wind, fire, thunder, and lightning was significantly increased.

It could even trigger broad-range natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, and thunder; tsunamis required specific environmental conditions.

In natural settings, it could more efficiently draw free energy from the surroundings, akin to the way a planet ’breaths’ when it generates elemental power, a trait also inherent to the World Tree itself.

Otherwise, how could she absorb the power of the universe? This characteristic allowed her to reactivate barren environments on those planets with weak "breathing" capabilities.

Even her motorcycle’s core battery was affected by this trait, turning what was already a powerful battery into a true "infinite energy" state. However, this infinite energy depended on extremely high recovery capabilities.

There were specific environmental requirements, but as long as it was within a normal cosmic environment, the motorcycle’s energy would essentially never run out, unless the output was too high. But, after being strengthened by the World Tree’s primeval tree branch, her maximum output consumption couldn’t overcome the recovery rate.

Unless it was in an overloaded mode state.

Additionally, the liveliness induced by the World Tree’s branches enhanced the motorcycle’s inherent self-repair function, allowing it to draw energy from the natural environment to repair itself faster after damage.

The enhancements brought by the World Tree’s materials not only added new effects to the motorcycle but also significantly enhanced many other performances on top of the existing ones.

Besides the performance enhancements of those effects, the strength of the motorcycle’s body itself also saw a substantial increase.

"Boss, if you could get those warship engines miniaturized for use in my body, we could attempt real interstellar travel. With my own performance, I can break the speed limits of those spaceships. I can be faster!"

Sitting behind Zheng Yichen, Lilith, embracing him, spoke of her new possibilities.

The ability that previously allowed her to reach one-thousandth the speed of light relied on space distortion for enhancement, a mode of progression unaffected by planetary environments. In cosmic environments, she could advance even faster.

In space, using spatial distortion also had an accelerating effect, but no matter how much she accelerated, her body was still a motorcycle, not a cosmic spaceship.

Even after this round of strengthening, she could further enhance her moving speed. Once conventional speeds increased, the effects of Explosive Speed Mode became even more apparent.

However, her body still ran on wheels. Even after this strengthening, the wheels often merely served as decoration. The wheels, enhanced by the World Tree, could act as boosters, with the energy flow produced during their rotation providing additional acceleration.

The motorcycle’s built-in hardware functions achieved new breakthroughs, but these were only enhancements of existing hardware functions, with no new functions emerging out of nowhere.

For example, the flight technology that comes with cosmic spaceships; the quadruped extraterrestrial beings’ Mother Star is more than twenty light-years away, yet they can arrive here in less than two hundred years.

In long-distance travel, quadruped extraterrestrial beings’ flight speeds are no less than one-tenth the speed of light.

Lilith calculated and found that, given her current state, even with continual acceleration and the extra effects of space distortion on space itself, her speed limit was only about one-third of those spaceships.

Without the influence of spatial distortion, the speed would need to be halved.

"Higher than one-sixtieth the speed of light? That’s still very fast," Zheng Yichen slightly twitched the corners of his mouth, sensing Lilith’s slight dissatisfaction with this speed.

"In the cosmos, the speed of light isn’t that fast."

"The problem is, I don’t need to wander in space. How fast could you really go in the cosmos if you could get the engine technology of the quadruped extraterrestrial beings?"

"With the enhancements from Dusk, after gradually accelerating, my maximum speed wouldn’t be less than one-fifth the speed of light. Beyond that, I’d need to upgrade my own performance."

"Tch, if that speed could be achieved on land..."

"The land couldn’t handle that speed."

"Alright, let’s leave it at that for now. Those are quite distant prospects. I think planets are pretty good. If we really want to do interstellar travel, it might be better to put more effort into space teleportation."

Extraterrestrial being’s warship engines? Lilith’s body is already so large, and a heavy motorcycle looks huge and cool to others. Further modifications would just mean switching to a four-wheeled vehicle, wouldn’t it?

So the miniaturization Lilith spoke of was something for the far-off future.

With her current performance, she could cope with environmental conditions both in space and on land.

Moreover, those cosmic spaceships desiring to achieve maximum speed also required sufficient time to accelerate, while Lilith was superior in short-term acceleration.

Otherwise, during combats in space, those extraterrestrial spaceships would have fled the moment Zheng Yichen approached, not giving him a chance to get close.

Zheng Yichen circled this planet.

Previously, Lilith needed sufficient time to accelerate to a speed of 30 kilometers per second. Now, after her performance enhancement, the required time was negligible.

She could also interact with the natural environment, synchronously updating the map as she moved forward. The various plants served as informants for map updating, this highly efficient form allowing Lilith to pre-plan her route a hundred kilometers ahead.

She could avoid all obstacles a few seconds in advance.

With their speed, even if someone wanted to set up obstacles, they would have no chance—just as the thought emerged, they would have already flown past any potential obstacle-setting locations.