I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature

Chapter 1616 - 1143: Outer Realm Issues_2

"Boss, I have completed the recording. Should we attempt interference?"

"Not for now."

After a moment of hesitation, Zheng Yichen said this. Upon completing the information recording, he returned inside the world; from the beginning, he never fully left the World Barrier.

Poking his head out was just to take a look, and now that he saw the special situation, the next step wasn’t to attempt anything further.

He directly used Sky Mending to patch up the hole, then immediately returned to Dusk, where he found Tia.

Go straight to a follow-up attempt? That’s a joke. Although he mostly appears straightforward, that directness is based on understanding many things in advance.

Even if he doesn’t understand much, accumulated experience can be useful, so he might seem more direct. However, his knowledge about the Outer Realm is indeed too lacking.

Instead of making blind attempts, it’s better to find someone more professional.

Regarding Zheng Yichen’s efficiency, Tia wasn’t surprised. It was only after Zheng Yichen finished explaining his findings that she began to explain what the black rings were.

Dusk doesn’t hide things; it just doesn’t proactively answer questions that Zheng Yichen hasn’t asked.

Now that Zheng Yichen asked the relevant question, Dusk provided an answer, though sometimes Dusk might give an annoying "I don’t know" response.

But most of the time, Dusk’s responses are reliable, including this time.

"Those black rings are not part of the Outer Realm environment; they are remnants after World Destruction. Normally, there shouldn’t be any remnants after a world collapses.

However, when multiple collapses happen at once, such remnants will appear, and the condition is that those worlds were all balanced.

This chain collapse won’t cause large-scale destruction phenomena, but will leave short-term traces in the Outer Realm environment."

"Short-term traces?" Zheng Yichen noticed Tia didn’t continue, so he asked: "What is the significance of such traces?"

"They are meaningless; time itself doesn’t carry much significance in the Outer Realm. The transient remnants are akin to a peculiar display of fireworks in the Outer Realm."

Well, those fireworks must be quite expensive. Zheng Yichen continued to ask: "What if this situation is man-made?"

"It was originally man-made; if it weren’t, such a special phenomenon wouldn’t exist."

Zheng Yichen felt choked by Tia’s answer, even doubting his brain for a moment, wondering why he asked such seemingly useless questions.

Luckily, Tia had no restrictions on answering questions; as long as Zheng Yichen could ask, she could answer.

"Alright then, is there any suspicion that Boundary Breakers are utilizing such phenomena?"

Tia calmly looked at Zheng Yichen’s dusk-colored eyes. After a brief pause, she spoke, not directly answering Zheng Yichen’s question.

"What you’ve seen has also been seen by the local Dusk. It’s not about whether the Boundary Breakers can utilize this phenomenon; they are already utilizing it.

The existence of the black rings disrupts the Outer Realm environment. What you see in the Outer Realm isn’t the real one; it’s the result of multiple black rings causing interference, with some things being shielded due to this disturbance."

"...So what did you see?" Tia didn’t play the riddle, directly stating the problem existing in the Outer Realm, yet he understood too little about it.

Tia didn’t provide additional explanations, so although she wasn’t playing the riddle, the information still felt puzzling.

Simply put, it was like modern people communicating with ancient people. The result of information asymmetry made the communication seem ordinary to modern people but like riddles to the ancient ones.

Modern people would explain a bunch of straightforward content, with another modern person nodding along, affirming the clarity of the content.

However, an ancient bystander would feel completely confounded.

The main issue was that during the exchange, modern terms like ’computer,’ ’phone,’ and ’world beacon light’ were used, which were incomprehensible to the ancients.

Information easily understood by modern individuals could sound like riddles to someone from ancient times.

What Tia explained to Zheng Yichen had a similar implication.

It wasn’t that Tia wasn’t clear enough; it was his cognitive limitation preventing immediate understanding of certain issues.

"I didn’t see anything. What Dusk saw is the same as what you saw."

"Tia, you’ve changed." Zheng Yichen’s mouth twitched slightly; he could understand Tia’s words but still found them frustrating.

This is also like communication between modern and ancient individuals. The modern person sees a scene, and the ancient person also sees it.

The ancient person finds the view beautiful, filled with melodies and fragrance, seeing no issue.

Yet the modern person, having transmigrated, finds the view jarring.

For instance, certain places appear as false scenery constructed by backdrop, a bicycle is placed somewhere, and amidst a flock of birds in the sky, there’s an aircraft.

The reason it blends in isn’t because the aircraft shrank but because it joined the background of those bird flocks.

These detailed traces are very discreet, but upon close observation, they are visible. The ancient person doesn’t comprehend these things and might subconsciously overlook them.

A modern person with ample knowledge, after seeing these details, would definitely recognize them and feel extremely off.

"I’ve transmigrated, so why am I seeing things that shouldn’t exist?"

The Outer Realm environment viewed by Zheng Yichen and Dusk was a similar contrast, although both saw the scene as a picture.

But due to differences in understanding, the information perceived was different for each.

"I won’t change. Any other questions?"

"You better not." Zheng Yichen changed the topic, considering that Tia seemed idle daily, thus engaging in chat.

In the time that followed, Zheng Yichen continued asking a slew of questions, including many he himself considered silly.

However, Tia showed no irritation, consistently answering Zheng Yichen’s various questions, even those that only seem logical to a bizarre mind.

Afterward, Zheng Yichen left the Dusk Cathedral in high spirits.

Initially, he asked out of personal curiosity, then turned into a question machine, a curious child.

Anyway, as long as Tia answered, there was respective information. Zheng Yichen didn’t have to process it himself, whereas Lilith would collect and analyze the information comprehensively.

After leaving the Dusk Territory, Lilith had already completed an analysis report.

Overall, the issues within Misty City World are severe. The Outer Realm environment observed may not be the true Outer Realm environment but possibly an obscuring layer misguiding the observer.

As to how to fully confirm this point, it’s straightforward: Zheng Yichen only needs to breach the boundary of the black rings.

Massive world collapses, forming a chain of black rings with a defined perimeter, meaning distances are immaterial in the Outer Realm.

Yet once some things are connected and form a complete, continuous whole, then this whole bears a distance meaning.

It’s akin to using the World Barrier as a reference point.

Normally, things departing from inside the world, upon contacting the Outer Realm, would "fall apart" since those entities cannot withstand the chaotic, disorderly environment of the Outer Realm.

Falling apart doesn’t mean they’re directly torn apart by the Outer Realm environment; such individuals cannot resist the realm’s disorderly chaos. Upon contact with the Outer Realm, they lose the meaning of ’distance.’

Each cell and molecule on their body randomly disperses into disorderly, distance-meaningless distribution. Conditions permitting observation, such existence experiences a ’falling apart’ process.

If this process can be observed.

The echoes of World Destruction are now connected into black rings; black rings aren’t affected by the Outer Realm, so the Outer Realm will inevitably be affected by the black rings.

The impact of a single black ring is minimal, but with many black rings, the influence scales up.

Outside the black rings might be normal, but inside reflects what Tia described to Zheng Yichen.

What he perceived as an abnormal picture is actually more abnormal.