Chapter 146: Shrinking

Chapter 146: Shrinking

“Hey, time to eat.” Holding a lollipop, Zheng Yichen stuck it inside the crystal cage. Loris quickly swatted her hand over, and the lollipop crisply turned into powder. Zheng Yichen did not mind. He slightly moved his fingers, and a gust of wind gathered the powder and stored it again. He would restore it later.

These lollipops were snacks Zheng Yichen made using many precious materials. On Earth, they would be super-energy food. Licking one meant you wouldn’t need to eat for almost half a day. Chew and swallow it directly? Sure!

Doing that would allow you to live-stream what happens to someone who gets over-nourished to death.

Of course, that was the case for ordinary people. For a being like Zheng Yichen, eating a few was acceptable, but eating too many would really make him uncomfortably full.

Smack!

The second lollipop pushed into the cage was slapped and exploded again. Zheng Yichen still wasn’t angry. He controlled the Alchemical Avatar to grab several lollipops and stuck them in together. This time, Loris’ hands were not enough. Using both her left and right hands, she also used her mouth. With a crack, Zheng Yichen saw the lollipop being bitten into pieces in her mouth. Shaking his head, Zheng Yichen withdrew the Alchemical Avatar and stared blankly at a huge egg in the distance. He found it hard to imagine what kind of creature could produce such a gigantic egg.

Yes, this egg was much larger than the adult Red Dragon Zheng Yichen had seen before! The Dragon Clan were considered large creatures in this world, but now it seemed there might be even larger super-giant creatures than the Dragon Clan.

This egg was probably the only clear and pure thing in this Forbidden Zone. Everything Zheng Yichen had encountered and seen before was either pitch-black giant boulders, rusty oversized giant swords, or imposing black towers. Only this egg was white. The area around the Giant Egg was not filled with any strange aura either; it looked normal. However, this normalcy didn’t give Zheng Yichen any ideas to go and make direct contact. Kidding, what if everything was just an appearance?

If he rashly walked over and this egg suddenly came to life, what if something jumped out from inside and bit him? With an egg this big, even if it just grew a mouth, swallowing him whole would be more than enough. Not all eggs were like Cool Brother.

So he better just stay honestly in the Safe Zone and wait. Anyway, during this time, while having the Alchemical Avatar move around everywhere, Zheng Yichen had also been continuously transporting supplies here. Right now, the resources stored here were enough to stay in this place for one or two months without a problem.

It wasn’t that those factions pursued the Alchemical Avatar too relentlessly, greatly affecting Zheng Yichen’s supply transport process. His initial plan was to stay here for several months, close to half a year, but now it was forcefully compressed to one or two months. You could imagine how fiercely the factions out there were suppressing his Alchemical Avatar.

For this, Zheng Yichen could only helplessly maintain the current situation. Confronting them head-on was impossible; showing up meant getting caught. Better to be cautious for now. As for those factions that had smashed his Alchemical Avatar, Zheng Yichen had recorded them all in a little notebook. When this master becomes stronger in the future, he vowed to make you all suffer continuously ever after!

“Although you are a mature lady now, Loli, please recover quickly.” Swinging his body, Zheng Yichen pinched a long cat-teasing grass and came to the crystal cage. He watched Loris inside, who became frantic again as he approached. Actually, there were some things he felt quite awkward about.

Back in the Black Mist, Loris was covered in a layer of substantial black fog, so nothing was visible. After he forcibly took her away from the Black Mist area, the layer of black fog on her disappeared along with the subsequent depletion of her power and the neutralization of the Alien Energy.

From the few pitiful pieces of cloth on Loris, Zheng Yichen guessed that her transformation into this adult body type must have been extremely sudden. Those pieces of cloth on her were all torn apart from being stretched…

As if she didn’t hear Zheng Yichen’s words, she was now focused on struggling with the cat-teasing grass he was shaking. With her power not recovered, she really was like a fierce cat now. Her character setting had completely collapsed!

Muttering, Zheng Yichen groped with his free hand in his pocket. He took out a pocket watch suitable for his size and checked the time. It was hard to tell the time in the Forbidden Zone; you could only tell through this thing. Hmm, it was time to sleep.

Hanging the cat-teasing grass on the cage, Zheng Yichen tiptoed around to the back of Loris. He glanced at Loris, who was still struggling with the soft, swaying cat-teasing grass that offered no resistance, and nodded slightly. He gently lay down and slightly closed his eyes to rest.

He hadn’t had proper rest for several days. The Alchemical Avatar was heavily targeted. Many people, in order to obtain useful information from him, tried to forcibly intercept his Projection. Fortunately, his Projection also had the characteristics of his own Mana, plus the special nature of his Otherworldly Soul in this world. No matter what they did, they couldn’t successfully forcibly intercept the Projection, but he couldn’t avoid encountering such situations many times.

After multiple times, Zheng Yichen’s spirit was also quite worn out. As for real rest?

Don’t forget there was still a fierce ‘cat’ here watching him at all times. That gaze was really too cold and sharp. Even though Loris didn’t have much power now, being stared at with that kind of look, Zheng Yichen would feel restless as soon as he closed his eyes, let alone sleep properly.

Helplessly, he had researched this way of diverting attention. Let her struggle with the cat-teasing grass…

Crack—crack, crack, crack!!

In his sleep, Zheng Yichen heard a series of faint cracking sounds. He slowly opened his eyes and saw a scene that wiped away all his sleepiness. The sturdy crystal cage had developed cracks under Loris’ attacks. That cat-teasing grass had long been torn into scattered fluff.

“Hey, hey, this isn’t right. Has the cage’s quality dropped?” Zheng Yichen quickly jumped to the side of the cage and checked it. The quality was fine; the Enhancement Magic applied was also fine. Then it was Loris’ problem. Was her power starting to recover?

This was also a good thing… Hopefully her sanity would recover along with it. Muttering, Zheng Yichen grabbed a larger cage nearby and put it over this smaller cage. It was a precaution he specially prepared! Just to avoid the current situation. Apart from this cage, behind him there were ten more crystal cages that could continue to be nested one inside another.

“…” Loris, who was destroying the cage, paused her arm slightly. She raised her head and looked at Zheng Yichen silently and indifferently. With a sudden wave of her hand, two crystal cages shattered with a crash!!

“Oh crap!” Seeing this, Zheng Yichen decisively retrieved the scattered Alien Energy and put the third, fourth, and fifth cages over her… Additionally, he noticed that after this burst of attack, Loris’ body size seemed to have shrunk a little.