I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature-Chapter 1812 - 1266: The True Value of Reserved Lives
In the infirmary, Zheng Yichen looked at the ceiling, raised his palm, and looked at the bandages on his arm, wanting to quip: "Your treatment is a bit too conservative, isn’t it? It’s not like I don’t have enough merit points."
He was willing to spend tens of thousands of merit points, but this time Tia only charged a hundred points, and after the payment, Tia wrapped Zheng Yichen in bandages all over.
Just like when he lost his arm before, the bandages wrapped around the air outlined angles and highlighted the shape of his body, and then... nothing.
These were just wrapping air, empty inside, yet the bandages crafted a relatively stable ’body’ for Zheng Yichen.
"Your body has detached from the normal time layer, conventional treatment is ineffective."
"Then why not use unconventional methods, it’s not like I lack merit points."
"Unconventional treatment requires extracting normal time, aligning your time discrepancy."
Zheng Yichen understood Tia’s words, this method could harm the World or even the Collective World itself. As Dusk, they wouldn’t knowingly break the law, so it was impossible to use such unconventional treatment on Zheng Yichen.
"Then... shall I try it myself?"
Tia’s eyes curved slightly, showing Zheng Yichen a faint smile.
"... You really are beautiful when you smile," Zheng Yichen sincerely said, and he didn’t ask further; the rare smile conveyed too much information.
Directly extracting time is even more destructive to the World.
The World Barrier of the Great World shattered nearly a third, largely not due to Oblivion and the explosions of the Heaven-Slaying Weapon.
It was the extraction of normal time from the world that caused severe temporal dislocation, leading to violent turbulence and impact tearing through.
Oblivion can consume entire worlds, but true time power-induced tremors can instantly destroy a world, even the Great World cannot avoid.
Oblivion might be considered high real damage, whereas extracting time and the resulting temporal dislocation tremors equate to percentile real damage of the blood bar.
No matter how thick the blood bar, once a problem arises, it’s direct real damage equivalent to XX% of maximum Life Value, and this damage percentage can even exceed the maximum Life Value percentage limit.
Exceeding the limit, even a fixed addition of 1 means the blood bar is emptied, leading to ultimate death.
His current problem is that his body has detached from the normal time layer.
"So that means I have to maintain this for a long time?"
Zheng Yichen moved his bandaged hand slightly; everything felt normal, and others wouldn’t see any issue.
Only he knew, inside the bandages there was nothing, void. He could feel his body recovering, but this recovery takes too long.
By the time his lifespan is depleted, he might still not have recovered to normal.
"What if I die once?"
"You can be completely restored."
Zheng Yichen admitted the valuable nature of consuming Dusk’s resurrection count again; the preservation count given to the Proxy Agents by Dusk, although it requires four hundred primordial points to obtain once.
Yet the value of this preservation count is unbelievably high; Proxy Agents killed by Heaven-Slaying Attacks all resurrect, and now his injuries needing unconventional Dusk treatment could be erased through the preservation count.
This means that Dusk’s preservation count in terms of Proxy Agent recovery, is ’regardless of cost’; the conventional merit point cost won’t make Dusk use unconventional treatment forms for recovery.
Yet can resurrection through preservation count...?
"What about my lifespan then?"
"It will also be restored to your optimal state."
"Really, regardless of cost?"
"This is the treatment Proxy Agents deserve."
Zheng Yichen came out of the infirmary, his expression quite colorful, Julie looked at him puzzled: "Did the Dusk Nun give you a special reward?" 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮
"No, just discovered some new things." Zheng Yichen found a place to sit down, and during his trip to the infirmary, the Dusk Territory Proxy Agents of the Great World had decreased significantly.
Julie reached out and pinched the bandages on Zheng Yichen: "The Dusk Nun didn’t restore your body?"
"I can’t recover in a normal way, but preservation count can restore it." Zheng Yichen didn’t hide his discovery, explaining the value of the preservation count to Julie and Tongyue.
Yet the two seemed very calm.
Tongyue rested her cheek on her hand, apparently showing none of the rampage during battles, saying: "Even so, we don’t need it. For Dusk, how much unconventional treatment is possible?"
How much indeed?
The world’s countless diseases, injuries, no matter how difficult to treat, are all insignificant regular parts under Dusk.
Even curses related to Fate, are part of the regular treatment coverage under Dusk.
The severe injury Zheng Yichen faced has nothing to do with them; they wouldn’t sustain such injuries, even if they encountered attacks that cause them, they wouldn’t survive like Zheng Yichen.
Keeping a head alive is easy, like Zheng Yichen who only has a head left yet a body blasted away from the normal time layer, how would they survive?
Only Zheng Yichen can survive, and he hasn’t even been torn apart by the forces detaching from the normal time plane.
"Then why don’t you use such reserved counts?"
"There’s no rush for now; the reserved counts can reset me to an optimal lifespan state, meaning if I’m near death, using one reserved count lets me live another two hundred years."
"Hahaha, that also means that the shackles of Dusk bind you more heavily than us." Julie couldn’t help but laugh, "In the future, when we truly retire, you’ll still be striving to live... but it doesn’t matter, there’s only a thousand years left anyway."
"But Dusk can persist through collapse and destruction, you still have a chance."
"Give me a break," Julie said, looking uninterested, "even if Dusk remains, if everything else is gone, what’s the point?"
"Staying with Dusk to watch a void for eternity? When that time comes, you won’t be able to access the reserved counts anymore, ultimately leading to oblivion."
"I can leave the Firmament Wheel and the World Bubbles behind, use the World Bubbles to create items similar to a Minor World as a way to entrust Dusk."
"What about resources? No matter how you persist, it’s just clinging to life. How exhausting that would be."
"Then let’s wait and I’ll attend to some other matters before discussing this further." To continue the discussion in Dusk Cathedral would be akin to conspiring loudly.
"What is it?" Julie asked, slightly interested.
Zheng Yichen looked at the Firmament Wheel on his wrist and smiled lightly, "It’s naturally to eliminate the last hidden dangers inside the Great World."
Outside the Dusk Cathedral, Ling gazed at the sky of the Great World, with a third of it being a sky stitched together by the Sky Mending chains, looking quite desolate.
The Great World now lacked the World’s Will, which made the entire world very still, as if it had lost its spirit, filled with a deathly stillness.
In the short term, it was fine, but over time some things were bound to happen, like the rapid decay of an uninhabited house.
Ling successfully became the temporary World’s Will of the Great World, and the stagnant Great World began to flow again, causing the earth to tremble slightly as it healed from being torn apart during battles with the outside world bugs.
The dried-up rivers regained vitality.
Creatures in madness gradually returned to normal.
Ling could feel the feedback from everything returning to normal order, she sighed and accepted this feedback.
A once-good world became this dilapidated state; even though the Great World now looks intact, she could still sense the Great World gradually heading toward death.
The world itself was suppressing the sobs of impending death.
Creatures recovering from madness stared blankly at the sky, not knowing what had happened, but the desolation between heaven and earth agitated their hearts.
"Is there really no hope?"
"I don’t know, but as the World’s Will, you can try to shape a Minor World to entrust Dusk," Zheng Yichen’s eyes sparkled with spatial refraction.
With Ling’s help, the outside world bugs spread across the Great World were swiftly anchored, and the refracted space enveloped all those outside world bugs.
However, Zheng Yichen no longer had a complete Heaven-Slaying Weapon, so the best way to handle these bugs was to kill them normally.
Letting them return to the world was a certain degree of replenishment for the Great World.
Though this supplement was just a drop in the bucket.
Zheng Yichen called out Liu Hongzhao and the others, "Let’s do it together."
He didn’t intend to use Oblivion to annihilate these outside bugs, as physically eliminating them all had more value.
Oblivion erases the outside world bugs, essentially deleting data, leaving nothing behind after they’re killed.
Dragon roars, sword clashing sounds, resonated within the mirrored space Zheng Yichen unfurled.
Countless outside world bugs assailed the figures appearing there.
The Great World was miserable enough, he took responsibility for cleaning these outside world bugs, as for the natives inside the Great World.
A thousand years might not be long, but at least it could let these modern people experience a normal life.
As for future matters... we’ll see. There were still many things he needed to do now.
Regarding restoring himself through Dusk’s reserved counts, Zheng Yichen didn’t plan on waiting until his current lifespan was exhausted before using them.
He merely planned to use them after finishing what he needed to do afterward.
After all, the information left by the senior members of the Boundary Breaking Organization still bothered Zheng Yichen.
According to the senior members of the Boundary Breaking Organization’s perspective, Dusk is an existence that did nothing yet did everything.
Is Dusk the root of all evil?
Then he must see what kind of root of all evil Dusk truly was; before doing so, undoubtedly, he had to resolve everything that needed to be solved.
At least let himself be free of worries to some extent.
His time was running out anyway, so instead of waiting for death, he would rather uncover more truths.
