When an alien is bound to a world-saving system Chapter 22 part2

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After everyone saw the little alien roll over, they calmed down a little and a fat uncle then asked with lingering fear: “How did you guys…… bring it into the city?”

“Your deputy city lord Tang Shen agreed in person. When he saw this little black cub, he also acknowledged that it was just a dog.” The black-haired youth quoted out of context.

“You actually met our Yun Cheng's deputy city lord?!” A well dressed middle aged woman cut in, her tone carrying the lofty air of a native resident. “Deputy city lord Tang has never appeared for trivial matters such as welcoming newcomers into the city before.”

“Um, shouldn't the deputy city lord handle some trivial matters? It's usually the city lord who deals with the important stuff, right?” Hearing that madam's words, Chen Da Yong felt that it wasn't quite right and hence retorted. He then looked at everyone present, waiting for their agreement.

However, he didn't expect that as soon as he said this, it suddenly stirred up the long term residents of Yun Cheng. Everyone lively explained to this group of outsiders who didn't know anything:

“In our Yun Cheng, deputy city lord Tang Shen is in charge of all the important matters.”

“Deputy city lord Tang is a fifth level healing ability user! I have never seen him up close before! You newcomers are so lucky!”

“Of course, our city lord is even more powerful. You guys should have seen the reinforced concrete wall when you entered the city. That is our lord's masterpiece. He is a seventh level metal ability user! It's just that our city lord rarely comes out. I've only seen him from far away when the city walls were being built, but he was always wearing a metal mask. I have never seen his actual face before.”

“Don't mention you, I bet that even the guard captain has never seen it before! This is the city lord!”

……

Consequently, after being forced to listen to those native fangirls and fanboys worship their deputy and city lord for 20 minutes, the Chang Feng members finally bid farewell to the neighbours and returned to their rooms to continue sorting things out. Because there wasn't much space in the building nor a communal area for them to eat together, the members simply received their dinner from the black-haired youth and returned to their rooms to eat. Since they were rushing about and fighting for the entire day, they were all exhausted and went to bed after they ate.

After bidding his teammates good night, the black-haired youth left behind a strand of black filament on the door to keep guard. Standing in front of the window, he then thought about the next step of his plan:

“First, I must go and replenish my black strands. There's now so few that it's even hard to synthesise food!” The black-haired youth mumbled to himself. “Even worse is that without my black strands, I'm basically in a single form. I can't receive any information from my scattered parts!”

The black-haired youth stood beside the window, seeming like he was contemplating on whether to jump out.

System 2d14: [Lord Host! Is it really urgent? What if you're discovered by Yun Cheng's guards?]

“I must quickly connect with all my scattered strands! Because I installed a self-destruct gene in these strands, if I'm not in contact with them for more than 72 hours, then they will automatically decompose. I've worked so hard to kill every last member of my race. I don't want that laboratory to get my DNA and then breed another flock.”

The black-haired youth said with a trace of disgust. Then, he immediately morphed into a black alien and put his clothes into his space. Leaping out of the window, he quickly disappeared into the streets under the cover of the night.

A few minutes later, a certain alien had already rushed out of Yun Cheng and arrived at a grassy meadow several hundred metres from the edge of the city. Letting out his black strands, he absorbs the nutrients without restraint while also extending several strands into the surroundings to find their lost comrades.

Inside Yun Cheng

A man wearing a metal mask suddenly appeared out of thin air behind Tang Shen. Tang Shen quickly turned around and gave a slight nod:

“You're back, my lord!”

The masked man however didn't exchange any greetings. He directly cut to the chase and asked:

“What do you think of that youth who can control the mutant beast?”

Tang Shen also went into work mode. He thought for a moment and replied: “If he is reliable, then perhaps he can be a helping hand? However, if he is an enemy, then it's not like we can't eliminate him…… Of course, this is your decision.”

The masked man didn't voice his opinion. After muttering something to himself, he said:

“Go. Let's pay this talented boy a visit.”

Reaching out and grabbing Tang Shen's arm, the two of them then vanished on the spot.

Having eaten and drank his fill, a certain alien was currently rushing back along the streets. After making several turns, he arrived outside the small building in which the Chang Feng members resided. Seeing that there was no one around, he then jumped up to the open window and climbed into the room while starting to restore himself into human form. But just at this moment!

Yun Cheng's city lord, along with deputy city lord Tang Shen suddenly appeared in the middle of the small room! They stared in shock at a certain alien who had jumped in through the window and was halfway through his transformation!

The black-haired youth was also startled by the sudden appearance of those two people, causing him to stop halfway through his restoration!

His upper body had already changed back into human form. However, his lower half was still a black exoskeleton with his claws treading on the ground, awkwardly frozen in place.

For a moment, there was dead silence between the three of them……

A certain alien was the first to break the silence. He said to the two people who were staring at him:

“What are you looking at! Don't you know to turn a blind eye to things?”

Saying this, he took out his upper clothes from his space and put them on piece by piece. Then, ignoring the two who were standing in the middle of the room and on high alert, he used his alien legs to scuttle into the bathroom. After putting on his pants, he then change his lower half back into human form and casually walked back out.

“Don't talk nonsense!”

The mask wearing city lord didn't let down his guard upon hearing the black-haired youth's words. Instead, he vigilantly asked:

“What exactly are you? What is your purpose for coming to this world?”

That deputy city lord called Tang Shen also looked at the youth as though he was facing a big enemy, waiting for his reply.

The black-haired youth was not at all affected by their drawn swords and loaded arrows. Instead, he chuckled and looked up at Yun Cheng's city lord:

“Before that, can I ask you a question?”

The black-haired youth paused for a moment and then asked:

“Are your earth and metal abilities bought from the system store? If they're very useful, then I should also buy them. Hm? What do you think, Xu Yun Cheng?”

“You……” The metal masked man was extremely shocked!

And beside him, Tang Shen's expression further confirmed a certain alien's deduction. He was currently looking back and forth between the black-haired youth and Yun Cheng's city lord, seeming like he was trying to figure out what was going on.

“Don't be so nervous. We've known each other for half a month. Don't tell me you still haven't realised that I'm also a member of the Salvation Alliance, Xu Yun Cheng?” The black-haired youth asked.

Yun Cheng's city lord directly took of his mask and revealed Xu Yun Cheng's solemn face. He doubtfully asked:

“The Salvation Alliance has always bound with humans. Are you human? How can you prove that you're also a saviour?”

The black-haired youth thought to himself: You're doubts are very reasonable! I'm really not human! If it weren't for my stupid system…… However, he didn't reveal anything from his expression. He directly alienated his left arm back and said:

“2d14, prove our identities to this big shot.”

System 2d14 immediately displayed ‘System zz2d14' in blue light on the surface of the youth's left arm.

Xu Yun Cheng's expression slightly relaxed, and then he suddenly thought of something: “So you're that Surnamed H god's newbie in the forum……”

Hearing this, the black-haired youth face froze and he immediately rushed to cut off his own black history: “Let's talk business, don't raise those unrelated matters! My personal ability is to convert one kind of organic matter into another. As for whether I'm human…… I have all the genes that you have. Is this simple enough to understand?”

Saying this, a certain alien followed the human way of receiving guests. He took out two transparent plastic cups from his space and put them on the small folding table in the room. He then took out a bottle of water and poured it into the cups, gesturing to Xu Yun Cheng and Tang Shen who were still standing in the middle of the room:

“Have some water?”

He then indicated to the two worn out plastic stools next to the folding table. “Sit!”

The two of them politely declined. Xu Yun Cheng said:

“Cough. Sorry for the previous offence. So you've also discovered the problem with this world? The mutant beasts you controlled have destroyed almost all the electrical cables and wires.”

“Yes.” A certain alien concisely answered. “As for you, Yun Cheng's city lord, you still haven't explained why an SSS boss like you would appear in a small A rank mission, unless this mission has some other secrets!”

“This is Class 1 classified information in the Salvation Alliance. According to the regulations, I can't tell you about it. Of course, in the future we can complete the mission together.” Xu Yun Cheng replied.

“What are you afraid of? There's no electronic devices in Yun Cheng.” The black-haired youth said: “Since you guys can't reveal anything because of the Salvation Alliance regulations, then it's up to me. The reason humans turn into zombies is not because of a zombie virus, but rather a section of the DNA that is originally hidden in every human's gene chain. If it is triggered, it will cause a portion of humans to turn into zombies, while the other portion evolve into ability users.

The way it is triggered seems to be exposure to certain types of electromagnetic radiation. Exposure to gamma rays and X rays can cause the human DNA to unwind and lead to genetic mutations. However, radiation with longer wavelengths such as radio and microwave also can't cause the gene to change so quickly. It's just like there's a code made of different frequencies that can accurately trigger the ‘zombie gene' or the ‘ability user gene' of the human DNA.

Who is strong enough to control all the electrical cables and circuits? Even the hydroelectric power plant at the Riverside base wasn't spared. Could it be that it isn't a life form, but rather a powerful computer program like the host system?!

So, here's my deduction: this zombie world's mission difficulty is actually at least SS rank, but in order to hide this from everyone, the host system also released an A rank mission to let those clueless low level saviours come over to kill zombies, plants crops and hinder the hostile system who's controlling this entire world.”

Xu Yun Cheng looked in astonishment at the black-haired youth who was leaning again the table. However, he was only stunned for a moment before saying: “Enough. Don't continue to analyse; at least don't say it out loud. Tang Shen actually also doesn't have the authority to know about this.”

This time, it was the black-haired youth's turn to be shocked. He awkwardly glanced at the ‘clueless low level saviour' Tang Shen who was standing to the side and trying his best to reduce his existence.

“Cough, I'm not laughing at you. Don't think too much of it.”

The black-haired youth consoled and then turned to Xu Yun Cheng again: “But why did you go through the trouble of using another identity to establish Chang Feng base in the north 4 years ago? What are your intentions? In any case, you don't seem to care whether they live or die. After you discovered my unusualness during the hospital trip, you even stole our base's electrical generator in order to lead me to Yun Cheng!”

After listening to the black-haired youth's mocking words, Xu Yun Cheng wasn't affected at all. Instead, he coldly and resolutely said:

“The success or failure of this mission is related to the lives of several hundred billion, even up to a trillion people. If I devote my energy to protect every single person I've become acquainted with, then that wouldn't be called kindness, but rather it's using the lives of a hundred in exchange for one life.”

“Don't talk nonsense. With you ability, you can save them with your eyes closed.” The black-haired youth was completely astounded. How can this generally good human be even more cold-blooded than an alien like me!

“Even if I have the ability to teleport, it is not omnipotent.” Xu Yun Cheng said.

“Heh!” A certain alien laughed. “If you only had the teleportation ability, then how could you have become an SSS ranked god who could raise a ‘cat'! You're ability is clearly……”

While saying this, he saw the confused expression on deputy city lord Tang Shen's face and immediately stopped. He then asked Tang Shen in surprise:

“Even as Xu Yun Sheng's assistant, you don't have the authority to know this?”

Having stood awkwardly in the room for half an hour, Tang Shen felt that he had suffered a critical hit! As a proud Salvation Alliance S rank saviour and the most capable assistant of SSS rank big boss Xu Yun Cheng, he didn't even know the actual mission nor his boss' true ability……

Xu Yun Cheng didn't take heed of his subordinate's psychological damage and continued to say to the black-haired youth:

“Although we have different views on certain aspects, this should not affect our future cooperation in the mission. If I require your help, then I will directly come and find you.”

“Please use the system messaging function to inform me in advance. I don't accept you coming whenever you want.” The black-haired youth interrupted.

Xu Yun Cheng was momentarily speechless, but he eventually nodded: “Sure. However, no matter how you found out about this classified information, you must strictly keep it confidential! Alright, that's all for today.”

Saying this, Xu Yun Cheng grabbed deputy city lord Tang Shen who was still doubting his own life and they instantly vanished from the room.

Chapter end