What about other creatures?

Four-Player Mahjong, with a veteran hunter, a novice hunter, and two enthusiastic ordinary citizens interested in it, plus some ordinary people and other hunters who came to watch out of curiosity. Zheng Yichen wondered if he should create some copyright...

"Eight Wan!" Zheng Yichen played a tile from his hand. His mahjong skills were very rough; he just collected tiles and played them based on luck, basically not considering remembering tiles or other factors. It was a standard, casual game for ordinary people.

He played tiles as he pleased, and if it wasn't a tile he wanted, he definitely wouldn't keep it.

"Peng." After a few rounds, the hunter Arno had gotten the hang of it. The rules of mahjong were simple, and Zheng Yichen hadn't created any complicated rules. Perhaps he would in the future, but it wouldn't be him developing them. His attitude towards this game was that it was fine to play, but he wouldn't suffer if there was no one to play with. It was something to entertain with relatives during festivals.

"I don't think anyone will specifically use this thing to gamble heavily in the future, right? If so, I feel like I'll have made a mistake."

"You worry too much." Hunter Arno looked at the tiles in his hand, wanting to play one, but after considering it, he put it back and replaced it with another: "Gamblers don't mind any game; one more like you won't make a difference."

He admitted that mahjong was indeed a good game, but the board and card games in this world were not bad either. Just as he said, this type of game might become popular in the future, but before it became popular, the original board and card games of this world would not decline because of it. At most, it would just be one more game among many.

"I won't be coming here for the next few days."

"Going on a mission?"

"Yes." Hunter Arno didn't say much about the commission. As time went by, the enthusiastic ordinary citizens who had joined didn't leave first; instead, Arno was the one to stop: "Let's call it a day. We'll play together next time."

Zheng Yichen glanced at the time. It was almost eight o'clock without him realizing it. It was hard to perceive the passage of time inside the Twilight Chapel. Once inside, it gave people the feeling that time was frozen at dusk.

Looking around, there weren't many ordinary people left in the chapel; the rest were hunters.

He left the mahjong game to Hunter Arno and put the mule's head back in the chapel's storage. Zheng Yichen packed his things and took the subway home.

The next day, he checked his physical condition. He clenched his fist. His arm, which had felt very painful when he moved it before, had recovered quite a bit. His movement was no longer significantly restricted, and the wound covered by the suture patch had healed on the surface.

He picked up the heavy barbell from the ground. It felt completely different from before; the object felt lighter.

In the past, Zheng Yichen had panicked quite a bit when the 'Withering Disease' appeared on him. While he was worried and fearful, he also resisted physical examinations, afraid of being sent to some institution to become a research subject. Later, after clarifying some issues, his fear and worry decreased significantly, but the drawbacks still bothered him.

Now that the drawbacks of his abnormality could be effectively eliminated, he actually felt it was quite good. He picked up a wet towel and simply wiped the parts of his body without wounds. He returned to the Twilight Chapel and found Nun Tia. It couldn't be said that he found her; he saw her as soon as he arrived.

When he didn't pay much attention, this nun seemed to be absent, but when he wanted to find her, he could see her at a glance.

Although he had seen many abnormal things in his years living in Longcheng, this experience made Zheng Yichen feel that he still hadn't experienced enough.

"I want to have my body re-examined, preferably a very comprehensive and detailed check-up," Zheng Yichen told Tia his purpose. With a few encounters, and since she already knew he was an Aberrant, it was fine to get the physical check-up he missed back then.

It would be a lie to say he wasn't curious about his current physical condition. As an Aberrant, he really wanted to know the difference between his physique and that of an Ordinary Person, and whether there was anything extra inside his body.

What if he had a Parasite in his body?

Thinking of the abnormally mutated small animals revealing their abnormal forms, he immediately thought of the 'Chrysanthemum Monster' from the Resident Evil series that could emerge from a person's mouth. The thought of it made his throat itch.

"Okay," Nun Tia nodded. "Follow me."

This time, they didn't go to the infirmary or the place where he had his body checked last time, but to another large room. Here, Zheng Yichen didn't feel like he was in a chapel but in a hospital. Seeing a nun operating some equipment made Zheng Yichen feel even stranger.

"Lie down." Tia pointed to the examination bed and looked at the somewhat nervous Zheng Yichen, her tone as calm as ever. "Don't be nervous, your wounds won't affect the subsequent examination results."

This was just the beginning. After checking Zheng Yichen's basic physical condition, other tests were conducted. Zheng Yichen even entered a device similar to an MRI. When he came out, he felt dizzy.

It was like being in his ear with a dozen Unicorn Mules hissing.

This time, Tia gave him a physical examination report and even scan images. Zheng Yichen looked at the images. There were still traces of fractures in some places on his bones, which were remnants of previous injuries that hadn't fully healed. Everything else was normal. No extra bones had appeared, nor had they grown into other shapes.

There were also no abnormal shadows inside his body.

"From a structural standpoint, you are exactly the same as a normal human, with no internal differences," Tia said to Zheng Yichen, who was sitting obediently. "Then, on this same foundation, you possess characteristics that Ordinary Persons do not. Some Aberrants panic due to their own abnormalities, resisting all physical examinations, even viewing it as a symptom. In reality, this idea is unnecessary."

"Then why do some small animals become so bizarrely shaped after becoming abnormal?"

Little rabbits spitting out flower mouths, chicks with exploding heads sprouting numerous tubular tentacles, giant rats whose mouths could tear open half their bodies to bite, snakes whose skin could sprout dense tentacles, their bodies like caterpillars.

They were all so "adorably" strange.

"Are you sure you're comparing yourself to small animals?" Tia glanced at Zheng Yichen.

"Of course not."

"That's good. When your abnormality first appeared, as long as you subjectively still considered yourself human, there wouldn't be any additional changes, nor would there be significant changes later on. You wouldn't even have reproductive isolation from Ordinary Persons."

Hearing the Nun Tia say this, he felt much more at ease. He then quickly asked another question: "What about with other creatures?"

After saying it, he regretted it.

"Hmm?"