I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature-Chapter 1837 - 1280: No One Gets to Live

"Boss, most of the information is now gathered by us. The influence of the Scales of Trade hasn’t reached the expected level."

Zheng Yichen deployed a large number of Scales of Trade. Their production cost isn’t high. You can ensure every Dusk mercenary has one by casually finding a mine in the Savage World.

After all, it’s a mass-produced item, not meant for combat. As long as it works effectively, the strength of the carrier isn’t that important.

This device is mainly for communication, using a platform developed through Lilith for real-time interaction, initially requiring faith power to activate.

But after obtaining research data from the Boundary Breaking Organization, the Scales of Trade didn’t need that element much.

Of course, someone can still trade using faith if they want; Zheng Yichen has enough residual power to provide feedback.

The feedback power is equivalent to a magic scroll or similar items, which can be saved if not used, or used once or multiple times.

After all, faith power can be converted into his power. Wool comes from the sheep’s back.

However, what those Dusk mercenaries want more is the World Tree fruit.

They use the Scales of Trade merely as a convenient communication device. Although Lilith could gather useful information through communication, it’s still far less compared to the information they collect.

Zheng Yichen also disseminated many bionic beings originating from the Firmament Wheel. These special beings were adjusted by Lilith and Ahn Ke, with decent combat prowess and excellent endurance.

They don’t have substantive self-awareness, resembling Terminator robots. If they encounter special information, Lilith will take over them. She has enough threads to handle it effortlessly.

To date, more than half of the special existences he searched for were found by Lilith.

It’s not that the Dusk mercenaries aren’t trying hard, but they currently focus more on their mission. From initially going through the motions to now giving their all, they only need a sliver of hope. The Dusk mercenaries demonstrate this aspect brilliantly.

They actively counter the Boundary Breaking Organization, aiming for more merit points, eagerly waiting to do more as the millennium calamity approaches. After all, the Boundary Breaking Organization has declined.

Now, they are like weak, refresh-less wild monsters. The millennium calamity news isn’t a secret. Everyone knows joining the Boundary Breaking Organization now is a dead end, except for some deceived ones.

Now, the Boundary Breaking Organization can only recruit by deception. In expansion, it is doomed not to be like the past anymore.

Although the Boundary Breaking Organization can occupy a World and block information to recruit people, once they come in contact with Dusk mercenaries, the newcomers will surely know the inside story.

Mass recruitment is like laying mines.

These Boundary Breaking Organizations only get weaker with each fight. If they don’t put in the effort now, they won’t find a way to earn merit points in the future!

Therefore, many Dusk mercenaries focus their efforts on dealing with the Boundary Breaking Organization, and compared to usual, they are more aggressive, with many Dusk mercenaries holding World Tree fruit leading teams.

The strength displayed by such Dusk mercenaries is no weaker than a Proxy Agent, rendering the declining Boundary Breaking Organization unable to effectively resist.

Even if some are capable of fighting, they are rare. Those few Boundary Breaking Organizations merged with growing Devouring Factions.

They either grew the Devouring Factions fat or merged with yet-to-be-fat ones, ear-marking reconstitute funds after the original organization collapses.

This type of new Boundary Breaking Organization is ultimately the minority. Some Boundary Breaking Organizations are still weaker than those Devouring Factions, illustrating being bred as pigs by them.

Facing weaker Boundary Breaking Organizations, they are like wild boars. Some Boundary Breaking Organizations, in turn, are swallowed by Devouring Organizations, which is considered a merger.

Once Devouring Organizations swallow Boundary Breaking Organizations, they become new Boundary Breaking Organizations.

In any case, these merely seek survival but can’t latch onto Dusk’s mad survivors, akin to locusts after autumn, some seeking survival and others causing destruction.

Thus, Dusk mercenaries are now anxious. Autumn locusts diminish while destructive Boundary Breaking Organizations increase.

Some of them indeed engage in mutual destruction!

During missions, Dusk mercenaries discovered some Boundary Breaking Organizations ceased everything else, directly connecting other Worlds, similar to what happened in Zhong Yan’s World.

This utilizes Devouring Organization’s technology, creating a kind of resonance explosion in those connected Worlds.

Once accumulated sufficiently, they immediately detonate and evacuate swiftly before the explosion, setting up evacuation points in other Worlds.

Without the original organization’s support, Boundary Breaking Organization struggles in other fields, but drastically improve in relocating and escaping.

With little foundation left, when it’s time to flee, they can swiftly pack and leave.

This significantly delayed Zheng Yichen’s pace in acquiring information from Dusk mercenaries. This situation persists for a long time; the more intense the conflict, the more Boundary Breaking Organizations focus on destruction.

Reading through Lilith’s intelligence summary, Zheng Yichen felt a headache. These disruptors don’t quite impact the Great World anymore but cause chaos out there.

The impact from chain-exploding Worlds still affects the Collective World.

A thousand years later... is there truly a millennium left?

These new Boundary Breaking Organizations inherited the old master’s legacy, causing deliberate destruction, and their destructive power cannot be underestimated.

"Continue searching, given the current situation, we should be stable for a few years."

Zheng Yichen sighed; the intelligence hasn’t reached the expected level, but the activation rate of the World Tree fruit is increasing. Clearly, those organizations hoarding the World Tree fruit have realized the severity of the problem.

The more those things accumulate, the more likely disasters are to occur. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

"Boss, I hope things are truly as you say."

Lilith pulled up some photos, and Zheng Yichen casually grabbed one to look at and asked, "Do you have a hobby of secretly photographing Dusk nuns?"

Besides Tia in these photos, there were other Dusk nuns that Zheng Yichen didn’t know.

"I compared the curvature of their smiles."

"Huh?" Zheng Yichen was slightly stunned. "Is that possible?"

The chibi-version of Lilith nodded: "So far, there seems to be a change. Although very subtle, the smiles of the Dusk nuns are deepening."

"Let’s hope there won’t be a scene of grinning and baring teeth in the future." Zheng Yichen shook his head; even the smiling Dusk nuns were creepy enough now. If they started cackling with bared teeth, few Dusk mercenaries would dare to enter the Dusk Territory.

Just as Zheng Yichen planned to continue with the action, a figure stormed out of the Dusk Territory, her eyes brightened when she saw Zheng Yichen and she immediately walked over complaining.

"So annoying!"

"What happened?" Zheng Yichen removed the Illusory Eye interface from in front of him.

"I failed the mission." Julie was full of frustration. "I’m too unlucky; I encountered a disruptive Boundary Breaking Organization. That organization has linked over a dozen worlds. They discovered my trace and directly detonated the mission world."

Originally, the Boundary Breaking Organization and the Dusk mercenaries were fighting well, not because of the organization’s goodwill, aiming to give the Dusk mercenaries merit points, but because they could delay more time to link other worlds during the wars.

Until the Proxy Agents arrived!

"That fast?" Zheng Yichen was somewhat astonished. "What about Dusk’s reserved time?"

"There’s reserved time, but that reserve is based on ’Boundary Breaking’ and ’Devouring’. As a result, the organization on that side directly played self-detonation, and the reserved time became just for reference."

Julie spoke, grinding her teeth; through Dusk, she understood the reason for the failure and the issue with the time limit.

In sabotage, the time limit is uncertain, especially using such a dedicated form of sabotage.

Their chosen method of destruction is abrupt and crude, yet very effective. It’s accomplished by instantly extracting resources from connected worlds, concentrating them within the world set to detonate, causing the world to exceed its limit and turn into a bomb on the spot.

The explosion’s impact will funnel through the connected channels into related worlds, triggering multiple chain explosions, while the self-destructing Boundary Breaking Organization can escape ahead of time.

Then go on to harm other worlds. For the Boundary Breaking Organization specialized in world detonations, it’s a grand extinction celebration.

Any survival prospects are bleak for them, attempts to weather collapse and destruction are too scarce, yet releasing malice can draw those who have survival chances into death.

"I must prepare some disguise methods; otherwise, facing this kind of situation again will be even more disgusting." Julie’s face was gloomy; her task failed catastrophically, the Twilight Mission was direct fail, and she thus lost a preservation opportunity.

A thousand years, with Proxy Agents deploying once every month or two on average, dying once yearly, they wouldn’t have many preservation counts left over decades.

"I suspect this could be part of an accounting process, and Dusk has arranged it all!"

"I’ll note this suspicion; after the whole world turns this way, it doesn’t matter if there are any Proxy Agents, even if the Boundary Breaking Organization gets along fine, facing a thousand years, their frantic salvation efforts would be futile, right?"

Zheng Yichen, speaking, thought of Ancient Venerable and the Great Evil God serving as the ’Ark of Life’, giving ways to take off runaway development Boundary Breaking Organization over a thousand years — maybe they could actually create something to survive into the next world epoch.

But discussing this now is already too late.

"Forget about that. How’s your body recovery?"

"How else could it be? Does an increase in blood vessels count as improvement?"

"That’s really slow... I’ll go take a bath, see you later." Julie waved, she didn’t die this time, or got ’frozen’ by Dusk, only deducted a preservation count. Despite this, Julie felt extremely unlucky.

After Julie left, the smile on Zheng Yichen’s face was much less; Lilith’s projection appeared, saying, "Boss, based on Julie’s encounters, our time budget is at most two years."

The problems Julie faced, Zheng Yichen is bound to encounter too. His preservation count is too few; a few mishaps and he won’t have many protection opportunities.

The Twilight Mission continues, thinking to enjoy the last thousand good years?

The Proxy Agents don’t have such good days; as long as those triggering Dusk feedback are acting up, can still tussle, they shouldn’t think to enjoy the last glow, each like the forewarning of late years.

"Two years, then two years; judging by current developments, I might not die first, and this world will collapse here first. Dusk isn’t working well, I’m kind of longing for home."

He was referring to Earth.