I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature-Chapter 1349 - 961: Alien Star
At the site of the alien star’s arrival, Zheng Yichen looked at a giant meteorite in the distance, which resembled a mountain. The surrounding environment was filled with distortion and peculiarity, giving off a strong sense of dissonance.
Even though the surroundings looked normal, since this thing is recorded, and it’s a record from three thousand years ago, how could this thing still be here in good condition?
Three thousand years, no matter how special this thing is, it should have been flattened by now, but it remains intact to this day.
"Such a massive meteorite, won’t the ecosystem of this planet be doomed?" Katrina looked at the meteorite from afar, her eyes feeling somewhat uncomfortable. This was still with the projection used for activity; if her true form were here, it’d probably feel worse.
"This is not a normal meteorite." Zheng Yichen stared at the meteorite mountain and said, "Hey, walking deeper into the phenomenon really is like opening a blind box, surprises await."
He said to Tanshia Firlo, "You should also enter the embedded space first."
"Huh? Is it necessary? After all, I’m a god."
Zheng Yichen picked up Tanshia Firlo by the back of her collar and shoved her into the embedded space.
He then walked towards the meteorite, and upon entering the area mismatched with the distorted environment, Zheng Yichen felt a sensation similar to entering a phenomenon.
"I see!" Zheng Yichen realized, no wonder this place has existed for three thousand years. The environment, similar to a phenomenon, turns it into a prohibited zone for creatures.
Plus, with the technological development here not being high, unable to create automated devices, all they could do was watch this place continue to exist.
Zheng Yichen raised his hand and tapped on the stone, a crisp ding sound occurred, and sparks emerged at the contact point between his fingernail and the stone.
So sturdy?
Zheng Yichen grinned, snapped off a piece of stone beside him with a crunch, and tossed it into the embedded space. Lilith quickly provided analysis information.
"BOSS, this piece of stone seems to be... a world, please get me more."
"World?" Zheng Yichen felt he had a connection with worlds. He directly inserted his finger into the stone beside him and pulled out a piece embedded three or four meters underground.
The patterns on the stone were complex, resembling withered blood vessels embedded within.
Once thrown into the embedded space, the abnormal object was broken down and absorbed by Lilith using the core of the virtual world.
Zheng Yichen’s Illusory Eye immediately displayed related information, much of which he didn’t understand. But among the understandable parts, he saw the words ’viral invasion’.
"BOSS, it’s still not enough, please get me more."
"...There’s no problem with that, but what you’re saying is a bit strange."
Zheng Yichen shook his hand, and a fishing rod appeared in his hand. A dark red blood blade sliced from the sky, shaving off a tenth of the ’alien star’ that changed little in over three thousand years.
The surrounding environment grew somber, with the sound of wind and clouds roaring like ghosts wailing and gods howling.
Zheng Yichen felt a strong sense of rejection here, which was soon suppressed after he used Alien Phenomenon manifestation.
The Virtual Genesis, unfolded through Alien Phenomenon manifestation, enveloped the shaved-off meteorite, triggering a string of alarm information.
When Zheng Yichen wondered if this thing was too intense for Lilith to handle, the dozens of pages of red alarm information turned into healthy green in an instant, a false alarm look.
"Is that it?" Zheng Yichen thought this stuff would be more formidable.
"BOSS, this meteorite is indeed... a world, or a part of a world remnant."
"A remnant part? Does that mean a material remnant after Breakworld?" Zheng Yichen thought for a moment, then shook his head: "No, normal material can’t possibly remain in the Outer Realm. This should be a part of the world’s essence, akin to a remnant of the world’s heart?"
Zheng Yichen had encountered the Outer Realm before; normal material simply couldn’t exist outside the Boundary.
Moreover, this stone had characteristics of a phenomenon, which made him roughly ascertain what it was.
It’s likely a special fragment of a planet with a Dusk element from a world that perished.
Dusk’s location essentially acts as the heart of that world; this thing itself wasn’t congruous with this world, unlike anything from inside, so isn’t it a remnant from another world?
"You can consider it that way, but the simplest way to understand it is to go to Dusk."
Lilith offered the best answer; her analysis concluded that this thing is a ’world’, or a materialized ’alien world’, just without any intrinsic space, merely a stone.
The ancient person’s record of this as an alien star wasn’t wrong; though it’s residual, it contains information from another world. Unbeknownst why when it fell into this world, it acted like a storage disk with a virus.
The storage disk forcibly inserted itself into this world and started spreading the alien star virus, causing a series of changes in this world.
As for the ’environmental’ accompaniment, without such a thing, this organism wouldn’t split the originating world’s environment, merely relying on forcibly inserted world influence.
If this world’s environment is a dual-low environment, this thing would probably be a special-point Meteorite, but since this world has quite a high environmental level, the influence of this thing has quickly risen.
"Judging from its impact on the world, the origin world of this thing isn’t a good one either, as it has caused some sinister changes in this world, affecting even the crops,"
Zheng Yichen picked up a piece of stone, intending to consult the Dusk Cathedral locally about the situation.
As for its impact on crops, the bun he ate earlier had problems; such an influence was akin to a parasitic effect.
But this world was perfectly fine originally, and this alien star is the invader, causing a conflict between the native and the alien star.
In the native Dusk, Zheng Yichen found a Dusk nun, whose eyes were somewhat unusual, with pupils shaped like sawteeth, similar to the big-eyed monster he had seen before.
However, there weren’t any significant changes in the external form, indicating this world is still predominantly human-centric.
"Tia isn’t here?" Zheng Yichen first asked a question.
The Dusk nun replied, "If you stay here for more than a day, she will come."
"Hmm, there’s no need for that. I can deal with that alien star in half an hour," Zheng Yichen said, taking out a piece of stone: "Is this considered a World Fragment?"
"You can think of it that way," the Dusk nun nodded, agreeing with Zheng Yichen’s statement: "It belongs to this world’s foreign matter, yes, equivalent to a Virus.
It’s caused a series of influences on this world; long-term influence might change the world’s apparent form, but it won’t lead to World Destruction because of it."
"Alright, I’ll dismantle this thing later," Zheng Yichen nodded, speaking straightforwardly.
Upon hearing the Dusk nun say this thing won’t cause World Destruction, Zheng Yichen understood Dusk’s meaning, that Dusk isn’t concerned with the world being invaded by a Virus.
As long as the world itself is fine, even if any living being in this world adopts a different mindset, as long as the world is fine, Dusk won’t interfere.
But if this alien star were to cause World Destruction, it would be a different story, as Dusk would have arranged for Dusk mercenaries or Proxy Agents to dismantle it from the start.
However, as this thing won’t lead to such a situation, Dusk chooses to ignore it, as Dusk doesn’t care about the form the world’s creatures take.
"Any more questions?"
"No more,"
The Dusk nun turned around and left.
Zheng Yichen thought for a moment, left a statue at the entrance of the Dusk Cathedral, and returned to the alien star.
The observation station near the alien star was already buzzing; just ten minutes ago, the people at the station discovered changes occurring around the alien star.
The alien star, which was fine just moments ago, suddenly got a flat top haircut, and they wanted to observe it up close. Although there were mysterious messages warning them to stay away, their duty compelled them to approach, but even before they got too close, some of them went mad.
It forced them to observe from a relatively safe distance, trying to transmit the news from here via radio, but with little success, as the environment near the alien star had utterly gone mad.
The surrounding plants seemed to have come to life, frantically attacking their defenses, with bizarre phenomena occurring in the environment itself.
This trapped them in what felt like a mirage-like setting.
Yet this setting appeared exceptionally real, including the people living in it, who could switch between being children and seniors in this bizarre environment.
Some with unstable wills lost themselves in this role enactment, while the remainder struggled to endure.
"Phenomenon, huh? These people are too reckless," Zheng Yichen remarked upon observing the changes near the alien star upon his return. He noticed the staff from the observation station there, but those areas were originally safe distances. Zheng Yichen had merely warned them before going to find Dusk.
Overall, it didn’t take long, but the place fell apart when he returned.
A large number of observation station staff were enveloped by the Phenomenon, forcibly integrated into roles within the Phenomenon.
This Phenomenon wasn’t a mist Phenomenon but more like a memory stored by this ’World Fragment,’ with parts of the memory manifesting in this environment as a Phenomenon.
The creatures here were forcibly drawn into the scene of the Phenomenon recreation.
"Want to restore the past? Unfortunately, this is only a Fragment." Zheng Yichen ignored the Phenomenon effect emanating from the alien star and returned to the Fragment.
This alien star’s origin world might have been normal, but now it’s become like a Zombie.
Without further dividing the thing, Zheng Yichen directly enveloped the entire alien star using Virtual Genesis, thoroughly disintegrating the vast Meteorite.
He tasked Lilith with comprehensively recording the information contained within the alien star during the disintegration, so it could be recreated in the Virtual World.
Incidentally, to see if any ’destruction’ information exists in the alien star.
