I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 859 - 622: Spar Next?

Chapter 859: Chapter 622: Spar Next?

In a spacious tent, Zheng Yichen took out a portion of the items from his built-in space. Because of the overwhelming number of hunts and the high biomass of this world, the Essence of Life he had expended had fully recovered.

Now, Zheng Yichen’s situation was such that if an enemy could not inflict substantial, continuous, severe damage on him, he would emerge from a fight as if nothing had happened. Once he left the combat area, no one could tell he had been in a battle.

"...You outsiders always have magical means." Looking at the filled-up tent, Chi Liao suddenly felt that the tent was a bit too small.

Seeing those spoils of war, he even thought there was no need to send tribesmen to investigate the marked spots on the map anymore. Looking at these skins, claws, horns, and the like—the essentials for the Wild Ancient natives to settle and establish themselves—it couldn’t be that after Zheng Yichen’s visit, they had amiably offered these items to him?

"It’s just that there are too many of these things. Our tribe doesn’t have enough to trade."

Zheng Yichen thought for a moment and responded, "Then help me process them. Keep the parts you deserve, and I will take the rest. Du Gang probably needs some materials to make weapons; we can deduct from here as well."

Chi Liao nodded, "That can be arranged."

They certainly could not afford the exchange, but taking what they needed was no issue. They had exerted effort and deserved some compensation. Besides, Zheng Yichen had also provided a map; without it, it would be difficult for him to accomplish such extensive hunting in a short period of time.

The Wild Ancient natives wouldn’t be shy about getting what they deserved.

When Zheng Yichen found Du Gang, the man had just stepped out of his tent, looking troubled.

"What’s the matter?" Seeing Du Gang’s expression, Zheng Yichen sat beside him with a smile. Du Gang sighed and subconsciously reached out to touch something.

But now he wore a beast-skin skirt around his waist without pockets.

"Want a smoke?"

"I could go without, but kind of want to give it a try." Du Gang shook his head. Zheng Yichen could tell he wasn’t a smoker.

Zheng Yichen smiled and snapped his fingers, and a pack of cigarettes appeared in his hand. They had cigarettes in the world of magic too, but the materials used were different. Commoners had ones for commoners, mages had ones for mages.

Du Gang didn’t hesitate, pulling out a cigarette and rubbed his fingers to spark a flame, lighting it up. After taking a puff, he showed a strange expression, "Hm? This tastes a bit odd but feels good."

"I also have spicy ones, want to try?"

"Then I won’t hold back." Du Gang looked at the additional pack of cigarettes that appeared in Zheng Yichen’s hand and slightly shook his head, "Space-type items are so convenient. I want to make one too, but just don’t have the raw materials. The ready-made ones are very unstable."

He had enough merit points; after all, he was an experienced Proxy Agent. The problem was, without the right raw materials, he couldn’t make what he wanted. Should he ask Dusk to make it? That would be ridiculously expensive—painfully so.

"You’ve resolved your problem, so why do you still look so down?"

"Uh..." Du Gang showed an indescribable expression, finished his cigarette in one drag, and then crushed it into crumbs, saying, "The Wild Ancient natives are just too... well, let’s put it this way. Chun Xi talked to me earlier. She did swear an oath, but it’s only directed towards me. She won’t pursue another man while I’m alive, but the oath doesn’t affect me."

"Sounds like a pretty nice double standard for you?" Zheng Yichen chuckled, almost guessing the situation.

"Pah, to Wild Ancient natives, this seems quite ordinary. That woman was so matter-of-fact when she said it. Is this even about swearing an oath? They’re after my body! When did men have to start guarding themselves even when outside?"

Du Gang rubbed his face, looked at his calloused and bronzed palms, "You’d think it would be those delicate types, but me encountering this?"

Du Gang was not particularly tall compared to this Wild Ancient man, probably around two meters, and he was bigger-framed than Zheng Yichen. With his shirt off, he appeared much more robust than Zheng Yichen. On his body, aside from the light traces of not fully healed wounds, there were no scars.

As a powerful entity, not wanting scars was still challenging unless the scars were inflicted by some curse or other affliction necessitating their presence. Otherwise, with their body’s self-regulation and healing abilities, scars would just be metabolized away as ’abnormal injuries’ by the body.

After all, scars represent irregular healing, and with sufficient diurnal regulation and healing capability, the body wouldn’t tolerate such ’flaws.’

"What can you do when this world’s values differ from other worlds? In other worlds, charisma is what influences allure, but in this world, strength is linked to charm. In the Morning Light Tribe, you’re considered a supremely handsome man," Zheng Yichen laughed.

He hadn’t done much, but he knew that people from the Morning Light Tribe wanted to ’invite’ him. This began occurring after the tribesmen had dealt with the spoils of war. Once those spoils were processed, he probably would face more ’harassment,’ yet by then, they would have left the place, so it wouldn’t affect him.

But Du Gang was different—he had just dueled with the entire tribe. In the scene Zheng Yichen witnessed on the road, some children had taken two big hits... kids who were one meter eighty in height.

"Phew—let’s leave Chun Xi out of this, but the other Morning Light women? Forget it." Du Gang straightforwardly shook his head. Even though Chun Xi said those women were also willing to swear their allegiance, he wasn’t willing at all. He was sure that if he agreed, there would immediately be a long line at this female Clan Leader’s tent.

Were these people being treated like livestock?

"Actually, I think you might be overthinking this. They really respect the strong, and even if you agreed, there probably wouldn’t be that many people. First off, Chun Xi would need to approve, right? After all, you are her sworn man, and as the leader of a tribe, she wouldn’t let her own man be humiliated, right? Unless you yourself want to play."

Du Gang glanced at Zheng Yichen, "Then you go ahead, they’d certainly welcome you!"

"I can’t, man. I have a girlfriend." Zheng Yichen vigorously shook his head. He really couldn’t handle Wild Ancient women—not because of their height or looks, but because of their ideologies...

He found the concepts of the Wild Ancients hard to accept. Though he didn’t think these concepts were terrible—after all, such things depend on the environment. This world’s environment is just like this. If the Wild Ancients didn’t become stronger generation after generation, perhaps they wouldn’t have become the formidable standing apes in this world, right?

Also, because of their sufficiently powerful individual strength, technological development here was somewhat sluggish.

Still, tools are meant to provide convenience, and if a tool can’t offer that convenience, is there any need for its existence?

But some things that provide sustained convenience could still be seen here. Zheng Yichen had observed things like water wheels in the Morning Light Tribe.

Though the Morning Light tribesmen could carry water, and carry several tons at a time, that required back and forth effort. A water wheel could continuously move water.

To say this place was backward, they really weren’t; nor were they particularly advanced.

When Zheng Yichen visited Chi Liao’s tent, he also saw some incredible things there, like a printing press, and even a movable type version made of stone. Considering the material strength of this world, the quality of the stone-made printing press was much better than metal products in other worlds.

"I even have kids!" Du Gang clicked his tongue.

"Then your kids must be quite excellent, right?" Chun Xi’s voice came out from the tent.

"..." Du Gang fell silent. His children were back in his home world and had already grown up. As for their strength... it was just average.

The reason was simple; he wasn’t a Proxy Agent before he had children.

"Hahaha, let’s not talk about this anymore. Here, this is for you." Zheng Yichen took out a red jelly-like substance.

After looking at that thing, Du Gang sincerely said, "Life type abilities are really convenient."

He could sense that this jelly-like substance was a kind of Life Force Crystal. He didn’t hesitate and ate it right away. Afterwards, a vapor-like heat appeared on the surface of his body.

He rapidly digested the immense Life Force. The quality of this Life Force wasn’t as good as the crystal-like strand of hair left in the heart, but it was much easier to absorb and digest. This stuff directly restored his condition to about seventy percent.

The rest would be recovered over at Dusk’s place, better to recover early than to spend more on medical fees later on.

"Shall we have a match?" Du Gang sent a challenge to Zheng Yichen.

"Sure, let’s get to know each other better. It’ll make cooperating in the future easier." Zheng Yichen immediately agreed.

Hearing that the outsiders were going to duel, the Morning Light tribesmen who were still working on the land immediately put down what they were doing. That kind of stuff could wait—they wanted to watch the fight between powerful individuals.

On an open ground, Zheng Yichen exhaled, looking at Du Gang who sported an ancient bronze complexion. Du Gang’s state reminded Zheng Yichen of a TV series he had watched... He looked as though he had activated an indestructible body.

A scarlet aura exploded from Zheng Yichen, feeling the violent energy rush directly at him, Du Gang’s eyes involuntarily twitched.

Zheng Yichen’s physique was very strong. Although it was obscured by the cat spirit cloak, he could still tell; however, his previous use was of Life Force cleansing power, making Du Gang think Zheng Yichen specialized in that. Now, the scarlet aura and Life type abilities exploding from Zheng Yichen didn’t seem related.

Under the cover of the scarlet aura, Zheng Yichen seemed not human in Du Gang’s perception but more like a ferocious beast. The energy intensity of this world wasn’t high, which meant this display of aura wasn’t a normal energy reaction...

How did he train such a thing?