I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature-Chapter 1462 - 1038: The Consequences of a New End
"Hmm? What’s going on??" Zheng Yichen felt a slight tremor and immediately stopped.
This time, the boundary crossing showed a slight delay, and he immediately had Lilith conduct an environmental check. On the map displayed within the Illusory Eye, their location had shifted.
Not only that, Zheng Yichen clearly felt a ’shaking’ in space.
He contacted other Proxy Agents, and predictably, the other agents were encountering various issues as well.
Fortunately, the impact wasn’t too severe, and everything soon returned to normal. Everyone kept their guard up, remaining cautious of this change while continuing their actions.
The sharing of information made them extremely efficient. At their current speed, they would reach this world’s central region in less than a month.
If someone got injured during the mission, it was no matter; they could simply return to Dusk through the boundary crossing.
The biggest obstacle they faced was the Curse soldiers.
Each of these Curse soldiers bore a heavy curse, starting with hundreds of thousands in sacrificial strength.
If it weren’t for the fact that these things were hard to conceal, and the agents could spot them from afar to avoid them, they would have suffered significant casualties due to this menace.
But even with precautions, some places used Curse soldiers as human walls. Without dealing with them, they couldn’t pass through, and the range of those curses was extensive.
For accuracy, the curses would burst across a wide area.
The single-target intensity of range curses might be reduced, but starting with a hundred thousand sacrifices still packed a powerful curse punch.
Fortunately, those Curse soldiers weren’t terribly strong. They could be sent miles away before they self-destructed, making the explosion less impactful.
As long as they dealt with the Prism in the separate space, the rest wouldn’t be an issue. If a pile of Curse soldiers came in, they could just change their position.
Zheng Yichen had also encountered these Curse soldiers, but he used his new extreme speed ability to deal with them in a high-speed state.
On a side note, this world’s drop rate was truly low.
His information solidification had been active the entire time, but so far, the returns were almost zero.
It seemed that after parallel entities split off, their probability of information solidification also greatly reduced.
His recent gains were mainly from dealing with those cursed beings.
The obtained items weren’t skills, nor were they equipment, but a special material—purple-black crystals with irregular edges.
These were items filled with curse power, their strength extremely high. Holding one for over ten seconds without protection would turn his hand black.
Holding it for over ten minutes would necessitate a new arm, even under his curse resistance.
Without curse resistance, merely approaching these items would cause trouble; the items from information solidification were not harmless.
These crystals were beneficial to those proficient with curses, but to most, they were like high-concentration nuclear fuel.
He had cleared out dozens of cursed creatures, but only obtained two such crystals, which Lilith sealed away, uncertain what future use they might have.
Even for a starting-level cursed crystal, with sacrifices starting in the hundreds of thousands, he could throw one into a water source in another world and unleash a biohazard.
What’s more, the starting level of hundreds of thousands might actually be much higher — millions, even billions were possible.
In Dusk’s standard for not being innocent, anyone involved in Project Immortality was not considered innocent since they benefited from the project’s perks.
While the Unifiers were forced to escape Project Immortality, in a way, they were somewhat cleansed.
They typically lacked Dusk adaptation.
Approaching Dusk made them uneasy, with psychological pressure spiking, more severely than ordinary people.
"What’s the matter with this Prism?" Zheng Yichen looked at the now-red Prism, which had previously been blue.
"Boss, this Prism is in an overloaded state. Please do not touch it rashly," Lilith warned with a reminder.
"Can it be controlled?"
"Yes." In Red Dress State, Lilith placed her hand on the Prism. Her projected body blurred for a moment, then returned to normal.
After the contact ended, Lilith’s outfit did not revert to its original color.
"Boss, I detected abnormal data. This Prism is undergoing ’aggregation,’ and the nearby parallel space is converging. Overlap expected in six minutes..."
Overlap wasn’t significant, but this time it was the core space overlapping.
"What are they planning?" Zheng Yichen sent a message on the communication platform, suggesting other Proxy Agents hold off for now, being cautious with the unknown situation.
They weren’t short on time.
Some Proxy Agents chose to hold back, others planned to continue, to which Zheng Yichen said no more.
He hopped onto a bike, crossed the boundary, and left this parallel space, returning to his newly opened world.
But this time, the boundary crossing encountered issues again, with a severe sense of delay, like network congestion.
Upon arrival, Lilith compared the time, confirming that the boundary crossing time delay had increased nearly a hundredfold.
Facing this situation, Zheng Yichen headed straight for the Dusk Territory.
The new world has connected with the Dusk Territory, plus there’s no Prism here, making the space where the Dusk is, in a disconnected state.
But there is a physical connection here.
It’s the mechanical tentacles Zheng Yichen observed when he first came here.
Those things are equivalent to wired network cables. Later, after the Proxy Agent obtained the information, they directly cut off those mechanical tentacles, completely disconnecting the independent space where the Dusk is.
After Zheng Yichen arrived here, he first greeted Tia. There are also some Proxy Agents stranded here.
The Dusk nun in charge of them is also here, but due to the number of Proxy Agents, other Dusk nuns are not at the level where Zheng Yichen can see them. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞
However, the Dusk nuns not at the same existence level can communicate with the corresponding Dusk mercenaries.
Otherwise, having over a hundred Dusk nuns crowded here would be quite overwhelming.
"What’s happened to this world?"
"The separated parallel spaces have started to merge. Your mission time hasn’t shortened, it’s been extended." Tia immediately provided the corresponding answer.
Zheng Yichen really appreciated the straightforward answers from the Dusk nuns.
If it’s something they can answer, they’ll definitely provide an answer if asked. If not asked, they won’t proactively address unasked questions.
"How long is the extension?"
"Eight months."
"Well, two and a half years is plenty of time, but why does it sound like bad news?" Zheng Yichen clicked his tongue, feeling like these changes were draining potential to deal with a crisis.
"Indeed, it’s bad news for you, and it’s also bad news for this world."
"...Then why is the mission time extended instead of shortened?"
"Because you’ve successfully interfered with the normal development of local powers, delaying their time to cause issues." With that, Tia waited for Zheng Yichen to continue asking questions.
Seeing Zheng Yichen in thought, she continued: "You’ve already encountered the ’Chaos,’ which is what the world itself truly is."
Zheng Yichen suddenly realized: "So, even if all the spaces are integrated, it doesn’t affect the world itself; even if it collapses, it’s the same."
"Exactly so."
Well, complete spatial collapse is just part of it; the Dusk doesn’t care about life as long as the fundamental structure remains. In this regard, the Dusk has always been consistent.
"Then when the spaces are fully integrated, our mission difficulty should decrease."
Zheng Yichen contemplated the pros and cons, seeing it as a good thing. The enemy’s current approach is akin to voluntarily gathering together, eliminating the need for them to ’herd the enemies’.
As long as they manage to completely destroy the integrated space, the world would return to a state of ’nothingness.’
This isn’t Oblivion; it’s merely the place known as the world being entirely formatted.
A typical apocalypse is like wiping a hard drive, but system files still exist; formatting is erasing even the system files.
To reboot that computer, you need to reinstall the system.
Oblivion directly smashes the chassis and monitor along with it.
Then those components are thrown into a shredder to be crushed again.
Zheng Yichen still didn’t wish for too many native residents to die. However, this kind of enemy-gathering action easily leads to complete extinction of life in this world.
"If this world managed to connect with other worlds and grow, what kind of existence would it eventually become? What form would its End take?"
Suppressing his sympathy, Zheng Yichen asked another question regarding some things about this world, doing his due diligence. If the best way to resolve it can be found, that’s the goal.
If it can’t be resolved... then they would end up being the ones getting resolved.
"A massive overlap of parallel worlds."
Zheng Yichen nodded, finding it to align with his earlier thinking, Tia’s words proving his analysis was sound.
"As the number of overlapping parallel worlds increases, so does the density, eventually collapsing into a ’Black Hole.’
The new End has emerged; the Boundary Breaking Faction is madly expanding, ultimately causing the world’s massive framework to collapse under its own weight.
The Equilibrium Faction balances the world itself, leading to world resonance, triggering mutual destruction.
The Devouring Faction is cultivating itself into a bomb. Of course, whether the Devouring Faction can explode is something Zheng Yichen doubts. It’s not that he thinks the Dusk is lying, but because the Devouring Faction seems related to the Boundary Breaking Faction.
There is potential to become a big bomb, but before the explosion, it resembles a pig being fattened for slaughter.
Now, there’s also a new star with the potential to ’collapse’ into a black hole.
Let’s just say a lucky draw has brought about a change in fate.
About to crash halfway through, nearly succeeding in defying destiny.
The enemy has set up their formation; next comes... the siege battle, right?
Zheng Yichen checked the communication platform and found that in a short while, quite a bit had happened elsewhere; planning to dive further into cleaning up the enemy, his fellow Proxy Agents had gotten beaten up.
