I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature-Chapter 1421 - 1011: Unifier

"The Dusk’s beacon is still there, impressive." In the reset environment, Zheng Yichen looked in one direction, where the Dusk’s beacon was.

As you get closer, you can find that the beacon is actually a ’background image,’ but it’s definitely not fake. Following the direction of the beacon, smashing through walls all the way, you can definitely reach the Dusk of this world.

The question is, how many walls have to be smashed to reach Dusk?

Zheng Yichen didn’t know, but he knew that the ’walls’ here were hard to break through.

It’s not that they can’t be broken, but once broken, they will ’reset.’

At first, he thought it was like this, but after resetting several times, he realized it was a kind of replacement. In the environment he was in, there could be thousands of identical spaces existing simultaneously.

These spaces overlapped with one another. Breaking one or two still didn’t allow him to leave because of the overlapping state.

Zheng Yichen continued to share the intelligence he collected. The forcibly revived human brain had already been analyzed by Lilith.

The main memories of the other party were extracted. This world was fine originally, but one day it suddenly underwent a ’mutation.’

At first, no one realized this change and continued living their normal lives. The true panic only arose when the living environment around them grew increasingly narrow, and people started disappearing frequently.

But after the panic, a Project Immortality emerged, spreading like a virus, affecting people all over the world in a very short time.

Everyone wanted to experience the feeling of immortality. As for the changes in the world, it didn’t matter, as the areas most people spent their entire lives in were that limited anyway.

Although the world turned into a state similar to a Magic Cube, it wasn’t impossible to contact other areas, and this special overlapping state of the world became the foundation of the Project Immortality.

In just twenty years, most people inside the world achieved immortality.

Although the price of immortality was the loss of the ability to reproduce, since everyone could live forever, reproduction was no longer a concern.

And this man was special. While he was active in the area he lived in, he ’crossed the boundary.’ This boundary-crossing phenomenon was considered one possibility in the Project Immortality.

Somewhat like a car accident, although it could be dangerous, it wouldn’t lead to the ban of automobiles as a mode of transportation.

A normal boundary crossing was not a big deal, at most just switching to another living zone, while the version of himself in the other zone would be displaced.

But his luck was better; the other version of himself in the same living zone wasn’t displaced. Moreover, it created a collapse-type overlap.

This triggered a chain reaction, allowing him to become a ’Unifier.’ The unified version of him became a wandering existence, like a bug, hunted relentlessly and lost the trait of immortality.

The reason he wasn’t resolved immediately was still because he couldn’t be detected normally. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Or rather, he couldn’t be detected by the special technology within this world.

Yet normal detection methods were still effective. He fought against pursuers, even countered and killed some, but ultimately couldn’t escape the hunt.

Of course, due to this person’s experiences, he provided plenty of new intelligence at once.

The most important among them was Project Immortality, which divided the world into countless parallel spaces, and those who participated would have a parallel existence of themselves.

As long as one parallel existence is still alive, that person is Immortal!

No matter the repeated killings, torture, and such, they couldn’t be completely erased, unless all parallel existences of the person were erased.

This immortality, demonstrated here, was more formidable than even those of the Supreme Demons, hence the man became ’Unifier’ because of boundary-crossing and was, in a sense, just unlucky.

But due to the manifestation of Unification, he also received additional benefits. The difficulty for the Project Immortality to capture his existence being one, and the increased intensity brought by Unification being another.

Even though he still appeared ordinary, he simultaneously wasn’t ordinary. It belonged to the ’twist’ brought by this world’s phenomena, which substantially heightened his influence.

Although he couldn’t make conspicuous changes to many things, he could still have some ’facts’ confirmed!

It’s still that ’if a person is killed, they will die,’ and the bullets shot by those specters could hurt Zheng Yichen. Zheng Yichen insists on using his body to resist, even risking bleeding.

Yet this man, even wielding an ordinary firearm, could exert greater influence than the specters.

Even now, it’s possible for ordinary firearms to harm Zheng Yichen, as long as the bullets he fires can hit Zheng Yichen.

In addition, slashes from blades, impacts from certain bombs and traps, and such would also harm Zheng Yichen due to the absolute nature brought by the twist.

The explosive effects could carry this kind of twist.

In the memories extracted by Lilith, the pursuers this man encountered included those specters, wearing the same exoskeleton armor.

But externally, there are still some subtle differences; when the opponent eliminates a specter, it seems difficult to reset or reappear.

Like some unique penetrating attack, or perhaps due to the reason of ’unification’ on the opponent’s side, the absolute effects brought by distortion get significantly strengthened.

It strengthens the ’when a person is killed, they die’ characteristic on the specters, so after the specter is eliminated by the opponent, those specters find it hard to reset quickly.

"Is this a case of one thing overcoming another?" Zheng Yichen shook his head, somewhat understanding why the opponent had issues after being forcefully revived due to willpower interference.

Thousands of times the human attack feedback brought by distortion?

No, no, no, given the opponent’s condition, it’s not merely thousands of times, but countless times of feedback acting directly upon him, leading to the situation.

However, the opponent’s body has now completely turned to ashes, even if Lilith extracted all the information from his brain, trying to copy him using the Ark of Life would be futile.

Even if such a copy resulted in an identical being, without the ’unification’ trait, the person would be a totally ordinary human.

A human who could be killed with just a gun, without the need for any absolute influence from distortion.

And the cause of his death... tetanus.

Uh, saying this might sound a bit embarrassing, but in the context of an ordinary person, it’s quite realistic, even though his experiences seem very protagonist-like.

He even encountered Zheng Yichen after his death, but unfortunately, the unification trait made him further bear the twisted backlash of forced resurrection; otherwise, he could have continued being a ’protagonist’.

"What a pity." Zheng Yichen shook his head. According to his findings, there seems to be quite a number of such Unifiers.

But this man only heard about them while fleeing and never truly discovered his kind.

And he was mostly unlucky, accidentally exposing his identity. Had he realized his unification without making a fuss, he might have tried to hide himself.

The indigenous humans over at the Dusk Cathedral are truly ordinary people, those who haven’t joined the Project Immortality.

It’s not that when the world’s authority executed the Project Immortality, a few slipped through by accident; it’s that they deliberately did so.

This man was able to discover these truths because, while fleeing, he stumbled upon an abandoned research facility in a parallel space and found some information inside.

In parallel space like where Zheng Yichen is, it appears somewhat broken and filled with dangerous specters, but in other parallel spaces, there are bustling districts filled with ’normal people’.

The scenes in parallel spaces are the same, but the parallel existences within them aren’t necessarily identical.

In this world, those ordinary people who can come into contact with Dusk are deliberately left in their ignorance by the world’s top echelons.

They have not participated in Project Immortality, and they have not heard of it. Their primary function is to procreate.

After all, once you join Project Immortality, the possibility of reproduction doesn’t exist, even if all other bodily functions are normal. Numerous parallel existences have split the capability of reproduction.

Only those ordinary people who maintain normalcy can continue to increase the population of this world, slowly raising the number of participants in Project Immortality.

The intelligence provided by the man ends here. Though he appears to be in his thirties, he is actually more than fifty years old.

Unification drastically slowed his aging process. He struggled for over a decade evading and crossing boundaries, a model of perseverance, yet still died.

"Too pitiful." Zheng Yichen said sympathetically, arranging for Lilith to assign him a place in the Virtual World. Since Lilith had already acquired his brain, it was easy to embed him seamlessly into the Virtual World.

Having shared this intelligence with other Proxy Agents, Zheng Yichen’s next goal was clear, to find other Unifiers.

Becoming a Unifier was not this man’s original desire; he once tried to return to normal. This mindset doomed him, leading to his identity exposure and a decade-long pursuit.

Other Unifiers that survived did so either because they had only recently unified or because they hid well enough.

"Hmm... let’s start looking."

At the Dusk Cathedral, upon receiving the new intelligence sent back by Zheng Yichen, the Proxy Agents there marveled at Zheng Yichen’s efficiency, amazed by how much intelligence he gathered in such a short period.

With intelligence in hand, they were ready to take official action. As Proxy Agents, it’s not in their nature to flee; those who hadn’t planned to carry a Faith weapon now had reason to choose one.

As for the enemies they had to face and the environmental challenges, though not yet fully understood, as long as they could maintain communication and continuously share intelligence, they could eventually explore everything clearly.

What they had was time, and they couldn’t let Zheng Yichen handle all intelligence alone.

They weren’t children, after all.

"Let’s not wait any longer!" A Proxy Agent strode out of the Dusk Cathedral.