Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 170

Chapter 170: A Wall of Flesh and Blood

Chambers… chambers… countless chambers of varying sizes…

Beyond the five or six-meter thick fleshy walls surrounding Lin Jiayao were innumerable chambers composed of flesh, blood, and mucus. Judging by their size, the chamber Lin Jiayao occupied was the largest of them all.

“Click, clack, clack…”
“Woo—”
“Screech…”

Lin Jiayao picked up a cacophony of monstrous sounds, chaotic and disorganized. They told her little beyond the nature of the creatures’ calls. However, she noticed that, unlike herself, every seabed zombie in these fleshy chambers had several thick, hollow blood vessels connected to their brains and bodies. They looked like they were used to transport nutrients.

She had previously observed a certain degree of social behavior here, but now Lin Jiayao revised her thinking. Rather than social behavior, this was more like… farming?

“Glug…”

Suddenly, a thick, gurgling sound came from a small chamber next to Lin Jiayao’s. In the 3D image formed in her mind by the vibrations, she saw a large amount of viscous liquid gushing out from the fleshy wall of the adjacent chamber, quickly filling the entire space. The blood vessels connected to the half-fish, half-human creature inside detached from its body, leaving the fish-man zombie floating in the pale yellow pus.

“Gulp—”

Suddenly, a small opening appeared in the previously airtight fleshy wall, accompanied by a few bubbles. Then, the entire chamber rapidly contracted, squeezing the pus and the fish-man zombie through the tiny crack.

Lin Jiayao, able to see through the sarcoma with the vibrations, watched as the fish-man zombie was squeezed by the fleshy wall and propelled upwards through the passage, quickly disappearing from her perception.

What was this…?

Lin Jiayao tried her best to explain what had just happened, but, having little experience with marine zombies, she couldn’t understand. Was this sphincter-like transportation meant to quickly send the fish-man to the surface? Or was it to quickly deliver it to the mouth of that… thing, to become its meal?

Were these large and small fleshy chambers actually “pens”? Used to imprison and sustain these zombies?

Lin Jiayao had seen that fish-man zombie before, in the Zombie Loot Box. She had even retained its underwater breathing ability. It was at most a low-level D-rank, not very strong, similar to a land-based Biter, likely at the bottom of the seabed zombie hierarchy.

If the thing was A-rank, one zombie wouldn’t be enough to satiate it, would it?

Also, why didn’t she have those tubes attached to her anymore? Lin Jiayao remembered that when she first entered, those blood vessel-like tubes were inserted into her body.

It seemed that whenever Lin Jiayao thought about something unlucky, it would become particularly effective. Just as she was thinking that one fish-man zombie wasn’t enough, the other chambers also began to fill with pus.

“Gulp—”
“Gulp—”
“Gulp—”

The sounds of pus splashing and fleshy walls cracking open instantly filled Lin Jiayao’s Bone Spike Lurker, distorting the images she received.

“Splash—”
“Gurgle—”

As cracks opened one after another, all the strange seabed zombies in the chambers around Lin Jiayao were squeezed out through the passages.

This scene… strangely reminded Lin Jiayao of a mecha anime from before the apocalypse, where mechas were deployed to the ground in a similar way.

The scene in front of her was just changing the deployment method from mechanical technology to biotechnology…

“Squish—”

Just as Lin Jiayao wanted to expand the range of her Bone Spike Lurker to investigate further, she heard the sound of pus being injected into her own chamber.

Lin Jiayao immediately stopped using Bone Spike Lurker and focused all her attention on the pus that was constantly filling the chamber. The pus didn’t slow down because the chamber was larger. On the contrary, because the space was larger, it gushed and filled from all directions, almost filling the chamber in seconds.

She could almost hear the squishing sound of the fleshy walls contracting and the cracking sound of the opening above.

Something was wrong!

It seemed like she was about to be squeezed out too!

In a short time, Lin Jiayao considered many things, until she decided that her fate was in her own hands, and after stabbing a bone spur into the fleshy wall, only to have it penetrate a dozen centimeters, she completely gave up.

Her B-rank strength and body couldn’t even break the defense… Further struggle seemed pointless and might even attract unwanted attention.

Anyway, she couldn’t get out while staying in the chamber. She might as well take advantage of this opening and go up to see what was going on.

“Gulp—”

With a surge of large bubbles, the pus in the chamber, which had already reached its limit, instantly gushed upwards, carrying Mask’s huge bone fish body with it.

“Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle…”

Mask’s massive skeletal frame tumbled rapidly in the pus mixed with bubbles, being carried upwards through the passage.

Unlike the previous fall, the speed of this ejection was much faster.

In just a few seconds, Lin Jiayao felt a faint light from the dark fleshy passage.

Was she going out?

“Whoosh—”

Lin Jiayao was flung out into the ocean, tumbling several times on the seabed, knocking over countless underwater zombies, before finally stabilizing herself.

Without the zombie ray’s scales and flame ejection ability, it was extremely difficult for her to stabilize such a large body underwater.

Even though she had learned the “swimming” skill from the system, it only allowed her to make emergency stops and swim faster than other large creatures. Her mobility was nowhere near what it was with the scales.

After stabilizing herself, Lin Jiayao quickly began to observe her surroundings.

Besides the egg yolk-colored pus gradually dissipating into the seawater, she saw countless underwater zombies being ejected from the cracks in the fleshy walls opened by the crisscrossing black bone spurs below.

And this “zombie geyser” was still continuing. After the large bone spur ray came out, countless strange zombie fish gushed out behind Lin Jiayao, most of them hitting her body.

One unlucky ten-meter-long zombie fish even directly slammed into the bone spurs on Lin Jiayao’s body due to the strong inertia of being ejected, its blood exploding in the sea.

Countless zombie fish that had stabilized themselves, after smelling the bloody scent of blood crystals, frantically surged towards the fish stuck on Lin Jiayao’s bone spurs, tearing and biting at its body.

In an instant, the surrounding sea was dyed blood red.

What was… happening?

Lin Jiayao twisted her fish body and turned her gaze towards the direction she had been ejected from.

Still the endless black bone spurs, and countless cracks that were transporting zombies…

Lin Jiayao finally remembered what this creature, which seemed to cover the entire seabed and was covered with countless black bone spurs, resembled.

A sea urchin.

Even saying it herself, Lin Jiayao found it hard to believe.

If it really was a sea urchin, and the exposed area was already so large, then how huge was the body buried in the sand…?

Perhaps even Godzilla from the movies would look like a baby in front of it, or maybe even more ridiculous.

Because the sea in front of Lin Jiayao was basically covered with pale yellow liquid, and along with the spread of the pale yellow liquid, there were also countless underwater zombies…

To be honest, this was the first time Lin Jiayao had seen such a dense group of underwater corpses, and the shocking scene even made her forget what she was here for.

At the limit of her vision, she even saw a strange creature half her size, with a blood-red lantern hanging in front of its face, its body curled like a seahorse, and even three slender arms.

Judging from the aura emanating from it, it was definitely B-rank. It seemed that besides herself, there were other B-rank zombies being “farmed” in those chambers.

What was its purpose? Why did it consume nutrients to raise so many zombie fish?

It didn’t even have any means of controlling these zombie fish, because Lin Jiayao had already noticed that the zombie fish in several areas were biting each other, and the blood gradually spread, causing more zombie fish to join the biting.

This A-rank suspected sea urchin-like zombie didn’t have any means of controlling zombies similar to the Hive Zombies.

Thinking of this, the blood light in the eyes of the bone spur ray controlled by Lin Jiayao flashed.

She had actually forgotten a very important thing just now.

That was, she could pierce those fleshy walls for more than ten centimeters… then why didn’t she just dig out a piece of meat?

If she could dig out a piece of meat and put it directly into the Safehouse, she could bring it back to feed A4!

Thinking of this, Lin Jiayao wished she could go back and dig out a piece of meat.

But this was just wishful thinking.

It was fine that she just pierced its flesh, but if she deliberately dug out a piece of meat… it was estimated that Mask’s body would also be lost.

Now there was still a glimmer of hope. It was better not to do such risky operations without being certain of death.

Constantly observing the giant sea urchin shell that almost occupied the entire seabed within sight, Lin Jiayao actually found a slight suction force.

This suction force was not pulling Lin Jiayao towards the seabed, but seemed to be absorbing the surrounding seawater.

Many weaker scale fish and human underwater zombies, just ejected, were almost sucked back, desperately paddling their finned arms against the suction force.

Although she didn’t know what it wanted to do… now seemed to be a good… chance to escape?

Quickly glancing at the nearby Extraction Points, Lin Jiayao directly chose the one closest to her.

Now she didn’t care about the fact that it was easy to have problems if the distance was close. The most urgent thing was to extract quickly, at least to save Mask.

Shaking her body slightly, she shook off the zombie fish pierced by her bone spurs, and the surrounding fish followed the falling zombie fish, diving and chasing the corpse to bite.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lin Jiayao quickly turned her body upwards, and her tail swung back sharply. The huge thrust pushed Lin Jiayao, who was swimming on her back, hundreds of meters away.

After “throwing” herself out, she began to swing her huge bone fins, turning over in the seawater while quickly swimming towards the shore.

With her skeletal body, crawling ashore would be faster than swimming.

As long as she reached that place…

Lin Jiayao looked at the rift’s entrance to the sea and mustered all her strength to leap ashore in one go.

But soon, Lin Jiayao’s heart skipped a beat, feeling an immense pressure from behind.

It was impossible to turn around and see what was happening now. Lin Jiayao directly maximized Bone Spike Lurker.

The vibrations passed through layers of seabed zombies and reached the place where Lin Jiayao felt the pressure.

As the vibrations constructed the image in Lin Jiayao’s mind, even controlling the bone spur ray, she couldn’t help but open her mouth slightly and quickly turn around to look.

In the dim seabed, at the very end of her vision, countless flesh and blood, along with the pale yellow pus, formed several huge waterspouts with the seawater.

Countless zombies were tumbling in these waterspouts, and almost only Lin Jiayao and another B-rank zombie with a lantern in front of its face could still steadily stay in place.

“Boom—”

With a muffled thunder-like explosion on the seabed, a huge water current shock wave quickly spread outwards from the bottom of those waterspouts.

Countless seabed zombies were swept towards Lin Jiayao by the wave, and Lin Jiayao also began to feel that the sea surface was getting closer and closer to her.

This was…

Lin Jiayao quickly turned around, towards the direction where the seabed zombies were being swept, and stopped swimming towards the shore.

As she swam towards the horde, the water level had already receded to the point where Lin Jiayao had to crawl on the seabed.

And the huge shock wave formed by the waterspout just now set off a super-giant tsunami nearly two hundred meters high. This tsunami also contained countless yellow pus, blood, and zombies. From afar, it looked like a thick, disgusting giant “wall of flesh and blood”.

If you asked Lin Jiayao what she felt, it was probably the R-18 version of the giant tsunami in “Interstellar” – extremely bloody and violent.

Lin Jiayao, who swam back towards the giant wave in time, was also directly swept up by the giant wave, and her whole body seemed to merge with this wall of flesh and blood.

This giant wave, with the help of the A-rank on the seabed, became higher and higher. Lin Jiayao could already see Yangzhou City, which had been ravaged by the tsunami and only had some ruins left.

She watched as the “tiny” Yangzhou City in front of her got closer and closer, and this huge wall of flesh and blood slowly collapsed, slamming onto this already devastated city.

“Boom—!”

The wall of flesh and blood was like a giant bulldozer, sweeping away all the buildings along the way.

And Lin Jiayao, who tried her best to swim to the top of the giant wave, struggled to cross this wall of flesh and blood, using her huge body to “surf” on the top of the giant wave.

From afar, it looked like she was a large ship on the giant wave, in danger of capsizing at any time.

However, Lin Jiayao, who was staying on top of the giant wave, was now relieved.

Fortunately, she didn’t foolishly continue to run ashore, otherwise, with this big wave hitting down, her bones would have been broken or scattered.

“Rumble…”

Riding the giant wave, Lin Jiayao directly crossed a distance of more than ten kilometers and was slammed onto the ground by the giant wave.

“Thump—”

Fortunately, the zombie ray’s body was flat. After being slammed onto the ground, it didn’t roll at all, letting the subsequent waves wash over its body.

And Yangzhou City behind Lin Jiayao, which was covered by the giant wave, had been flattened. The nearly ten-meter-high accumulated water quickly receded, like a hand of death dragging the buildings and zombies on the shore towards the seabed.

“Crack, crack—”

Lin Jiayao, who fell to the ground, shook the bone spurs on her body and found that they were still intact.

Many of the bone fins originally used for crawling were broken by the giant wave, and the zombie ray’s bones were no longer complete.

And all around Lin Jiayao, almost the entire Yangzhou City, was covered with densely packed seabed zombies.

Some of these zombies were directly crushed by the giant wave, but most of them survived, flapping their bodies on the coast, moving towards the direction with flesh and blood, and devouring the flesh and blood.

These blood crystals, which were originally from the deep sea, actually maintained a considerably high level of activity after coming ashore.

After all, they didn’t need oxygen, and gravity couldn’t crush their strengthened bones and muscles.

Many deep-sea zombies that didn’t get any food had already begun to move towards the deeper inland…

Vaguely, Lin Jiayao seemed to understand the intention of that A-rank zombie.

Was it… sending vanguard zombies to scout?

This possibility could not be ruled out. After all, B-rank zombies had already begun to have some thinking ability, and could have strong reactions to pain. A-rank might have even higher intelligence.

Then the crisis that the system mentioned… what was it?

Although there were some dangers just now, it was obviously not to the point of threatening Mask.

But also… if she didn’t log in, Mask would be forcibly returned to the previous Extraction Point under the system’s control.

That was to say, the system would try to forcibly drill back from the place where it was ejected before…

This mechanism, which Lin Jiayao originally used to deal with the Voodoo Cult, now made her bear the danger that she didn’t have to bear before.

It seemed that she couldn’t trust the system’s mechanism too much in the future… She had to analyze the Extraction Point herself. Not every Extraction Point was completely safe for zombies.

Now it should be safe for the time being.

It was just a pity that Mask couldn’t detect much information on the seabed, and couldn’t dig out a piece of meat from that huge monster.

After waiting for a while on the spot and confirming that there were no subsequent waves, Lin Jiayao waved her bone fins and turned towards the seabed zombie group behind her.

No matter what, she couldn’t return empty-handed… At least the Safehouse had to be filled with Blood Crystals.

Because she was controlling Mask, not A4, Lin Jiayao did not choose to hunt for the other B-rank seabed zombie, but cleaned up the “large” zombies near her huge body.

Although they were said to be large, compared to Lin Jiayao’s huge body, the visual difference was like Yao Ming and a baby.

Under the double crush of strength and defense, these seabed zombies, which were at most C-rank, were easily defeated by Lin Jiayao like a hot knife through butter.

She didn’t kill randomly, but almost picked one zombie of each type to kill, and hung part of their bodies on her bone fins.

Since she didn’t dig out the A-rank’s meat, bringing the meat of these seabed zombies to A4 could at least make up for it a little.

It was literally “you are what you eat”.

While slaughtering these seabed creatures, Lin Jiayao also paid attention to the surroundings and found that there were no other B-rank seabed creatures paying attention to her, and the A-rank zombie on the seabed didn’t seem to react either.

It wasn’t until Lin Jiayao filled most of the upgraded 4×4 Safehouse with Blood Crystals that she felt a slight vibration on the ground.

Looking up into the distance, Lin Jiayao’s scarlet, glowing pupils slightly constricted.

Another new “wall of flesh and blood” rose, almost endlessly, and slapped towards the shore.

It seemed to want to sweep all the sand and soil on the shore into the seabed.

Lin Jiayao no longer lingered in battle, and more than a hundred bone spurs flew, crawling towards the nearest Extraction Point to the north.

“Pitter-patter—”

The reptile-like crawling method was obviously more familiar to Mask and Lin Jiayao. The crawling speed was obviously much faster than swimming.

After all, when she first controlled Mask, she also used crawling, but at that time, it was only the size of a human head.

At this speed, in less than an hour, Lin Jiayao could crawl to the Extraction Point hundreds of kilometers away.

This was almost an unbelievable speed for this huge body.

“Rumble…”

After setting the boring command to rush there, Lin Jiayao switched her consciousness back to her body.

Slowly opening her eyes and rolling her eyeballs slightly downwards, she saw her sister doing something at her feet.

“Sister?” Lin Jiayao called softly.

“Hmm? You’re awake?” Lin Xiwan looked up at Lin Jiayao, smiled and shook the bubble socks in her hand, “I just came back and saw that you forgot to take off your socks before sleeping, so I’ll help you take them off.”

“Oh…” Lin Jiayao nodded slightly, without further questioning, but changed the subject and asked, “Why did you come back so early?”

Lin Jiayao still remembered that her sister said she was going to the camp before she went out, and she would usually stay in the camp for one or two hours.

Now it hadn’t even been an hour, and her sister had come back. Something must have happened.

“Um… there’s something I thought I should come back and tell you…”

After glancing at Huayibai, who was still asleep, Lin Xiwan lowered her voice and told her sister everything she had just heard from Wan Zi.