Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 175

Chapter 175: Piercing the Heavens

At the end of the conversation, Lin Jiayao reiterated the threat from the sea to the middle-aged man before concluding their discussion.

“I’ve said everything I wanted to say, and I’ve learned everything I wanted to know. I’ll choose a place to sleep, and I’ll come back when there’s something.”

After finishing her last sentence, Lin Jiayao stood up, supporting herself with her arms, and slowly walked towards the stadium exit.

“I’ll have someone escort you,” Li Wei called out to the departing zombie, but received no response.

Although he knew to only half-believe what a zombie said, Li Wei didn’t doubt her words. Especially with her cold attitude and direct manner of speaking, he didn’t sense any deception. It gave him the feeling of, “I’m telling the truth, believe it or not.”

Li Wei would naturally send the Pioneer Team to search the shortest highway route from Donghai to Jingzhou. If they found her, they would escort the survivor north. Even if they didn’t find her, the southbound exploration team could also listen to radio broadcasts from the central and southern regions and gather information about the south through those broadcasts or from smaller camps along the way.

As Li Wei was thinking about this and preparing to send a subordinate to escort the zombie out, to prevent it from alarming the patrol team if it wandered off alone, a slender figure rushed forward, faster than his order.

“Clang, clang—”

With the crisp sound of metal striking metal, Lin Jiayao felt someone knocking on her drooping arm.

“What did you do to Gundam?”

A slightly aggrieved voice sounded from beneath Lin Jiayao. She looked down and saw a girl, looking about sixteen or seventeen but nearly 1.78 meters tall, taller than her sister, looking up at her.

So this was the original owner of this zombie.

It seemed she had directly snatched her zombie without the girl’s consent.

“I’m controlling it,” Lin Jiayao looked down and replied truthfully.

“Then when will you return it to me…?” the girl asked tentatively as she quickly followed.

Because she was relatively far away just now, she didn’t hear much of the conversation, only that the leader stood up and saluted the other party.

She had never seen the leader be so respectful to anyone, so she didn’t dare to be rude, just asking tentatively.

Hearing the girl’s words, Lin Jiayao paused and thought for a moment.

She would most likely keep this zombie as a convenient channel to contact the north.

Otherwise, even if she let this zombie get lost and let the girl control it again, Lin Jiayao would still be in some random zombie next time she logged in.

Then she would have to explain her identity again and find the leader of the north again, which was too troublesome.

And the next zombie might not be able to talk. She didn’t want to write on the ground to communicate, that was too much trouble.

It was better to just keep using this zombie body to contact them. It could run, jump, and talk, and it could also save her the trouble of introducing herself every time.

“I’ll compensate you next time,” Lin Jiayao promised the girl, and then continued towards the nearest Extraction Point.

Lin Jiayao came in a hurry this time, and she didn’t even put any spare Blood Crystals in the Safehouse. She could only see if she could compensate her with some Blood Crystals or materials for raising zombies next time she logged in.

This time, the girl didn’t follow. She was stopped by the guards who caught up and replaced by another person to follow Lin Jiayao.

After Lin Jiayao left the stadium, the tall, middle-aged man named Li Wei walked to the girl with his crutch.

“Xiao Ruan?” Seeing Qiu Ruan, the man’s voice softened slightly. “Why did you rush up just now? Did something happen?”

Li Wei wasn’t unreasonable. He knew that Qiu Ruan had always been well-behaved and wouldn’t have acted so rudely without a reason.

And Wang Guohua, who had rushed over to hold Qiu Ruan, released his hand from the girl’s shoulder and whispered to Li Wei, “That zombie… was originally controlled by Xiao Ruan.”

“Oh…” Hearing Wang Guohua’s words, Li Wei seemed to understand and nodded thoughtfully.

“What did you say to him just now? How did he reply? Tell uncle.”

“I asked him what he did to Gundam, and then… finally he told me he would compensate me next time…”

“Next time…?”

“Then what about my trial? Uncle Li?”

“You can ask Xiao Wang about the trial. Uncle Li has something to deal with.”

Li Wei was a smooth operator. He had to gather the Pioneer Team and explain the situation. Such trivial matters could be left to the young man beside him.

Getting into the car parked beside him, the jeep quickly drove Li Wei towards the Jingzhou Great Hall.

Meanwhile, Lin Jiayao, after setting the zombie’s extraction route, switched her consciousness back to her body.

She hoped Jiang Chun could withstand this blow. Only she could save herself.

Lin Jiayao sat up from the bed, her mind a little confused.

She didn’t know what she was confused about. She was safe and sound, with plenty of food and water, her sister was about to break through, and everything was developing in a good direction.

But she had a feeling that if she didn’t do something, tragedies like Survivor’s Light would happen again.

She had already retreated inland from the seaside with her sister. What about next time? Would they have to retreat to the mountains?

She couldn’t wait until there was nowhere to retreat before starting to think of a solution.

But now Lin Jiayao didn’t have any zombies that could approach the seabed.

Especially land-based zombies like A4, which might be immediately attacked if they approached the seabed.

But as she thought about it, an idea gradually emerged in Lin Jiayao’s mind.

Although she couldn’t approach the seabed through normal methods, Lin Jiayao had other ways… although there might be some cost.

That was to use the system.

Use the system’s login feature to clear out a city area completely free of zombies, and then lure the A-rank in the seabed ashore…

In this case, if Lin Jiayao directly chose to log in, she might be able to directly log into that A-rank zombie.

Since she couldn’t solve the problem, wouldn’t it be fine if she just controlled the zombie causing the problem…?

But to achieve this condition, Lin Jiayao still had many prerequisites to complete.

Promote Goldie to B-rank, and further enhance her mental power while logging into Goldie, to avoid dying immediately after logging into an A-rank.

After her mental power increased, she had to determine the area that needed to be cleared, and it had to be close to Lin Jiayao’s zombies.

This area, in fact, already existed.

Japan, the flooded Chiba Prefecture.

The zombies logged in Yangzhou City were too dense. It was better to directly deal with the southeastern part of Chiba Prefecture, which had been completely submerged, find a city that had been completely submerged, and clear out the seabed creatures inside…

No. 5 was B-rank, with extremely strong defense, and even its flesh and blood were the best bait.

There was even a religious group of Awakened who had been following it, and the most fanatical girl among them had already reached B-rank.

No matter how you looked at it, Japan was the most suitable place.

Directly log into the A-rank that shook Japan…?

Although it sounded crazy, Lin Jiayao knew that it was feasible.

To avoid failing to log in the first time and logging into an uncaptured zombie, Lin Jiayao also had to free up slots 2 and 6-8.

If the login failed, she would quickly kill herself and switch logins until she successfully logged into that A-rank zombie.

After this plan sprouted in Lin Jiayao’s mind, it immediately took root.

And these prerequisites could all be solved by Lin Jiayao one by one, it was only a matter of time.

Was it a race against time again?

Just then, the No. 7 zombie in Jingzhou had completed its extraction, and the system was prompting Lin Jiayao to choose the retained evolutions.

Unsurprisingly, this tough-skinned zombie, almost the same “model” as the No. 5 zombie, didn’t bring Lin Jiayao any special evolutions.

After reluctantly choosing [Bite Lv.1], an evolution that enhanced biting and tearing ability that she had never chosen before, Lin Jiayao felt the changes in her body as expected.

Her nails became harder and shinier, and as long as Lin Jiayao wanted, she could extend claws that were not as useful as bone spurs for biting at any time.

She reached out and touched her teeth. Her originally neat white teeth, the canines had become slightly sharper.

It could only be said that it was fortunate that they didn’t protrude or become longer, it was just a minor change.

At least she didn’t have to worry about accidentally cutting her lips or her sister’s when she opened and closed her mouth.

Lin Jiayao leaned against the bed and looked at the last empty login slot in the system interface.

No. 8.

The number was quite auspicious, but she didn’t know how lucky it was.

In order to understand the situation first, Lin Jiayao decided to use No. 8 to see if she could log into a zombie in a flooded area.

She didn’t know if the originally log-inable area would become un-log-inable like the sea after being covered by seawater.

Her sister and Huayibai had just gone to train not long ago, and she still had a lot of time to act freely.

As long as she didn’t hit the jackpot and directly log into that A-rank in the seabed, Lin Jiayao herself shouldn’t have any major problems.

[Login]

After opening the login entry, Lin Jiayao found Japan and looked in the direction of Chiba Prefecture.

Except for Tokyo, which was grayed out because she had already logged in and the No. 5 hadn’t died yet, every city in Chiba Prefecture across the sea was available for login.

After thinking for a while, Lin Jiayao chose Togane City, which was relatively centrally located, closest to No. 5, and also closest to the sea.

The most important thing was that Togane City had a very small area. If she really wanted to clear it, the speed and efficiency would be the fastest.

Lin Jiayao slowly closed her eyes, and her consciousness chose Togane City.

A light blue light exploded from the virtual map, surrounding Lin Jiayao, and her consciousness slowly sank, and she began to feel cold all over, and the wind around her also completely disappeared and became silent.

“Gurgle—”

Habitually maintaining her breathing, Lin Jiayao only heard a bubble coming out of her mouth.

Slowly opening her eyes, Lin Jiayao saw everything around her surrounded by light blue.

Buildings, vehicles, road signs, corpses… The afternoon sunlight passed through the light blue curtain and these suspended objects, shining into Lin Jiayao’s eyes.

Only a few taller buildings could reach the surface of the water, and everything else was submerged in the sea.

At first glance, it looked like a small city deep under the sea.

Slowly lowering her head, Lin Jiayao looked at her hands.

Three fingers opened and closed, with smooth webs between the fingers, and black scales covering her arms.

Lin Jiayao’s heart did not waver at all because of the changes in her hands.

She had eaten even scarier things, so there was nothing to be afraid of becoming like this.

Perhaps the so-called courage and aura were cultivated in this way.

Because she hadn’t controlled many seabed creatures before, no evolutions were inherited by this zombie. Lin Jiayao could only use its innate abilities.

But it was also Lin Jiayao’s luck that this fish-man zombie she controlled had at least C-rank combat power, which should be considered strong among pure fish-man zombies.

Through the reflection of the glass, Lin Jiayao saw her black fish head with black sharp bone spurs and rough scales, and a strange light emanating from her large, round, white fish eyes.

“Gurgle—”
“Crack—”

Reaching out to the side and breaking off a one-meter-long steel bar, Lin Jiayao carried this sharp steel bar and swam in the water.

If you ignored Lin Jiayao’s terrifying appearance at this moment, she really looked like the fish-man monster in a certain game before the apocalypse that only shouted “Ulala”.

But now, compared to the fish-man in the game, she looked more like the humanoid races that believed in evil gods described in some myths.

In the waters around Lin Jiayao, she saw many seabed zombies of various kinds shuttling between buildings, and even saw a one-meter-wide, very slender zombie fish similar to a hairtail swim past in front of her.

But compared to a hairtail, it didn’t have any scales on its body, but holes that could contract and expand. Most of the holes were stuffed with corpses and heads of land zombies.

It seemed that they were still devouring land zombies.

Ignoring these zombie fish, and not even looking at the Extraction Point, Lin Jiayao’s purpose for logging in this time was to gather information, and she didn’t have the intention of extracting at all.

This was another advantage of logging in. She could collect information without leaving home.

She swam quickly in the seabed, towards the edge of the city. The further she swam, the colder the water around Lin Jiayao became.

Soon, after passing a building, Lin Jiayao finally reached the edge of the city…

Although there were no road signs, she could completely identify it just by the terrain.

The broken and winding road directly broke off here. Following the break, Lin Jiayao did not see a “beach”, but an almost pure black area, a pure black that sunlight could not penetrate at all.

Sunlight…

Suddenly, Lin Jiayao realized something.

The volcanic ash from Mount Fuji’s eruption couldn’t be dispersed in such a short time, so why could she see the sun in Chiba Prefecture, which was not far from Tokyo and still within the Tokyo metropolitan area?

Shouldn’t she be seeing thick volcanic ash and dark clouds?

Lin Jiayao quickly floated upwards, swimming towards the sunlight on the water surface. Finally, she broke through the water surface and saw the sky.

Other parts of the sky were still covered by volcanic ash, but the sky above Lin Jiayao’s head was like being pierced by a huge pillar. A huge hole was formed between the dark clouds and volcanic ash, and the sunlight shone directly from inside.

And this hole, with the surrounding volcanic ash and clouds, at a huge arc angle, like a semi-circular skyline, directly “pointed” towards the distance behind Lin Jiayao.

That was the direction of Tokyo.

Lin Jiayao quickly turned her head and looked, her pupils slightly constricting.

A huge black spike was diagonally inserted into the center of Tokyo, leaving only a hazy smoke and dust.

Like the Spear of Longinus piercing the moon, or the Sword of Sargeras piercing Azeroth, it pierced through the center of Tokyo in the distance.

This attack happened a few hours ago.

And the width of the huge spike, Lin Jiayao estimated, was at least two or three hundred meters. It was equivalent to inserting a two or three times larger Tokyo Tower upside down into Tokyo.

What were these things…

Lin Jiayao, floating on the water surface, looked at the huge spike inserted upside down in the distance, took a slow breath, and plunged back into the water.

No matter how outrageous the A-rank was, it would not affect her plan, because she never thought of fighting it.

As long as she could “possess” it, it would be a victory.

After she successfully “possessed” an A-rank seabed zombie, she could use it as a base to thoroughly investigate what was happening on the seabed.

Lin Jiayao swung her webbed feet and swam towards the bottomless deep sea.