Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 201

Chapter 201: Burning Wangxi

She found nothing…

This building, like other places, was occupied by “trees” with mimic fruits and connected to dried limbs, showing no unusual signs.

Super-Sensory Hunt—

Trusting her instincts, Lin Jiayao decisively consumed the equivalent of one Blood Crystal stored in her body and activated Super-Sensory Hunt.

Everything before her eyes blurred, dissolving into countless interconnected, illusory lines, revealing the structure of every object.

The building in front of her became a network of gray lines, the fruits and “branches” turned red, and the woman before her was a black void…

“Back!!!”

Lin Jiayao plunged her hands into the top of the Building-Tree Guardian, quickly controlling it to leap backwards. The supplies tied with vines tumbled to the ground.

As they landed, under her control, the Building-Tree Guardian’s arms plunged into the earth. The extending roots split and branched, pushing through the asphalt and stone bricks, spreading beneath the building before exploding upwards.

Several sharp root spikes, like a burst of thorns from a hedgehog, shot towards the figure at the window, impaling it.

In Lin Jiayao’s vision, the black lines covering the woman rapidly dissipated after she was impaled, revealing the lines that should have belonged to her.

Her sister had already scooped up the sleeping Huayibai and brought her to Lin Jiayao’s side, her arms’ veins pulsing with black blood as she vigilantly watched the building pierced by countless roots.

The dust and debris settled, accompanied by the clatter of falling stones. Then, silence.

The two sisters faced the impaled corpse for several minutes. Only when she was certain there was no more movement did Lin Jiayao slowly withdraw her hands from the Building-Tree Guardian’s head.

The effects of Super-Sensory Hunt were fading, and the lines in Lin Jiayao’s vision gradually coalesced into solid forms, returning to their original appearance.

What was going on?

Where was the counterattack?

“Crack—”

With a series of crisp cracking sounds, the sharp branches, no longer infused with blood crystals, shattered and fell to the ground.

Without the branches’ support, the corpse slid from the balcony and landed heavily on the concrete floor below.

After waiting for a few seconds and seeing Blood Crystals begin to precipitate from the corpse, Lin Jiayao and Lin Xiwan exchanged glances.

“I’ll go take a look.”

Lin Xiwan placed Huayibai, whom she was holding, into her sister’s arms, then leaped from the Building-Tree Guardian’s head and landed beside the corpse.

“Crack…”

Crushing some branches underfoot, Lin Xiwan looked down at the mangled corpse.

It looked no different from an ordinary Awakened corpse.

Lin Xiwan looked up at the large hole in the window created by the branches, jumped up, landed steadily on the third-floor balcony, and walked inside.

She went to the pile of items covered with black cloth, lifted the cloth, and saw boxes and boxes of neatly organized supplies.

Water, canned food, various building materials and tools, and dried food… Aside from a thick layer of dust, they seemed perfectly normal.

Just like the things a normal survivor would collect.

Lin Xiwan glanced back at her sister, who was watching her from the Building-Tree Guardian, pointed to a nearby room, and indicated she was going to check inside.

Seeing her sister nod, Lin Xiwan began searching the rooms.

Clean and tidy. Unlike the dusty food, the frequently used areas—like the bed and bathroom—showed signs of regular use and were spotless.

After checking and finding nothing unusual, Lin Xiwan returned to the hole in the window, jumped down, picked up the blood-stained Blood Crystals, and jumped back onto the Building-Tree Guardian, returning to her sister’s side.

“It’s very strange. The food hasn’t been touched, but the room and bathroom have been cleaned regularly.” Lin Xiwan sat beside her sister and described what she had seen. “Other than that, nothing unusual… Did you find something just now?” she asked curiously.

Lin Xiwan didn’t have Super-Sensory Hunt and hadn’t seen what Lin Jiayao saw.

From her perspective, after that strangely behaving Awakened walked towards them, her sister had controlled the Building-Tree Guardian to jump back and instantly impale the Awakened with its roots.

It seemed like an overreaction, but Lin Xiwan didn’t think her sister would kill so readily without a reason. There must have been a reason.

Moreover, she herself had been wary of the Awakened’s unusual behavior, but her sister had reacted faster and more decisively.

“Yes, I saw something I’ve seen before…” Lin Jiayao said slowly, looking at the blood-stained Blood Crystal in her sister’s hand. “Let me see that.”

“Something you’ve seen before?” Lin Xiwan blinked, handing the Blood Crystal to her sister. “What was it…?”

“A B-rank, or perhaps A-rank, ability.” Lin Jiayao took the Blood Crystal and replied.

In Lin Xiwan’s blind spot, a tentacle extended from Lin Jiayao’s palm, taking a trace of blood from the Blood Crystal and retracting back into her body.

After carefully tasting the blood, Lin Jiayao confirmed it was indeed connected to those fruits.

But now…

Using Bone Spike Lurker, Lin Jiayao could still see many fruit eyeballs splitting open their skin, watching her.

As if she was constantly being watched.

“B… A-rank?” Lin Xiwan looked at the corpse on the ground again, disbelief in her voice.

She hadn’t considered that possibility at all. After all, no matter how she looked at it, the other party didn’t seem to have the strength of a B-rank.

Her sister hadn’t experienced this, but Lin Jiayao had already seen this kind of scene with Mask’s wide-range Bone Spike Lurker and A4’s Super-Sensory Hunt—being blocked.

But Lin Jiayao had never encountered this specific situation before.

Never encountered…

Suddenly, Lin Jiayao thought of something and gently touched the mask on her sister’s face.

She didn’t feel any spores…

Yes, Lin Jiayao suspected that it was some kind of fungal blood crystal, created by some kind of fungal zombie.

They might not be mimicking trees at all, but were mycelium itself…

These clustered, orange-yellow eyeballs with slender stems looked very much like the Dictyophora indusiata, a type of stinkhorn mushroom.

Those densely clustered eyeballs were the spore sacs, and the stems formed by the dried arms were the stalks…

Thinking about it this way, it almost perfectly matched all the characteristics of Dictyophora indusiata. Those clusters of yellow eyeballs were deliberately created to mimic the stinkhorn mushroom.

If they were fungi, then their weak mental power made sense… they hadn’t evolved developed brains.

Only special individuals like Huayibai, who developed from Blood Orb Mycelium and deliberately devoured human memories, had slightly stronger mental power.

Having a general guess, the next thing to do was simple…

Lin Jiayao inserted the half Blood Crystal into the Building-Tree Guardian beneath her, replenishing its consumption, and while controlling the Building-Tree Guardian’s vines to pick up the scattered supplies and put them back, she looked at her sister.

“Do you have a lighter, Sister?”

“Yes.”

Lin Xiwan immediately stood up and rummaged through the supplies.

“I remember it’s here…”

“Found it, here.”

Because Lin Xiwan had categorized the supplies in advance, she quickly found an unopened pack of lighters, tore open the packaging, and handed one to Lin Jiayao.

“Sister, set a fire.” Lin Jiayao pointed to a box of metal gasoline barrels lifted by the Building-Tree Guardian and looked at her sister.

“Set a fire?” Lin Xiwan paused, retracting the hand holding the lighter, and asked curiously, “Burn what?”

Although they didn’t drive, they still brought a few barrels of gasoline. Gasoline itself was a good way to deal with zombie hordes, and flames often had unexpected effects.

Just like now.

“Anywhere, find a building and burn it.” Lin Jiayao slightly raised her chin and explained, “I suspect those are fungi.”

The “those” Lin Jiayao referred to were naturally the ubiquitous clusters of fruit eyeballs.

In Yunnan Province, the probability of encountering fungal zombies was indeed much higher than in other places.

Lin Jiayao watched as her sister carried a metal paint bucket and a lighter to a nearby building, poured a whole bucket of gasoline on the “eyeball tree” downstairs, and then took out the lighter and lit the gasoline.

“Whoosh—”

The fire instantly surged with black smoke. After throwing down the gasoline barrel, Lin Xiwan directly returned to her sister’s side and watched the fire spread with her.

Almost the moment the flames rose, Huayibai, who was pretending to sleep soundly in Lin Jiayao’s arms, suddenly opened her eyes and quickly looked back, as if feeling the heat of the flames.

“It’s okay.” Lin Jiayao pressed Huayibai’s head and pushed her back into her arms, preventing her from continuing to look in the direction of the flames.

If the other party was a fungus like Huayibai, when facing flames, it would definitely be even more restless than Huayibai…

The only way to force it out was this method.

“Pfft—”

As expected, under Lin Jiayao’s gaze, the “eyeballs” on top of the clusters of black stems, scorched by the flames, burst open one by one, trying to extinguish the flames with the liquid flowing inside.

But this amount was simply not enough to stop the intensifying fire – flames were naturally effective against fungal zombies.

“Rumble, rumble—”

Under the sisters’ gaze, a large number of mimic Dictyophora indusiata uprooted themselves from between the buildings, huddled together, and rushed towards the flames, trying to extinguish the flames with the little liquid on their tops.

“Crack—”

The ground around the building-tree cracked, and countless thorny branches emerged from the ground. The Building-Tree Guardian exhausted the Blood Crystals it had just replenished and built a thorny defense around the flames.

“Thud—”

The clustered mimic Dictyophora indusiata, like small trees, quickly contracted, and the eyeballs on their tops and the torsos formed by their arms began to contract, turn black, and harden, rushing quickly towards the Building-Tree Guardian.

It was starting to panic.

As those blackened mycelium clusters rushed towards Lin Jiayao, without Lin Jiayao having to do anything, Lin Xiwan beside her clenched her right fist.

“Thump—”

With a violent heartbeat, the blood vessels in Lin Xiwan’s right arm burst open, and black blood threads splashed to the side, connecting to her arm and forming a huge demonic hand.

“Hah—!”
“Boom—”

Lin Jiayao just flicked her right hand forward, and the huge black blood hand changed from a fist to a claw, and swept horizontally towards the fan-shaped area in front of her, drawing black blood lines and tearing apart all the approaching eyeball mycelium clusters.

They couldn’t withstand the powerful attack of a B-rank at all.

Their torn bodies dropped the Blood Crystals that served as their cores, and the torsos that formed their bodies also lost their adhesion and peeled off.

The strong wind caused by this claw also intensified the fire in the building.

If it wasn’t stopped, the flames would quickly spread to the entire building, and if the building collapsed, the flames would spread to the surrounding buildings, causing a terrifying city fire.

If the other party was really anxious, it should appear now…

“Tap, tap, tap—”

Without making the two wait too long, footsteps came from afar, quickly running towards the Building-Tree Guardian.

“Damn it!!! You!!! Damn it!!!”

It was a male Awakened with a frantic look on his face. He roared at the two while running.

They had no grudge against each other, and it was only their first time meeting.

Was he being controlled? Or invaded by mycelium?

“Let me try.”

Before Lin Jiayao could pierce the other party with tree roots, Lin Xiwan took the lead and jumped down, rushing directly to the male Awakened.

While running, Lin Xiwan raised her left arm to her right shoulder, and with an elbow strike, directly hit the man’s chest.

A living person.

The moment her elbow touched the other party’s heart, Lin Xiwan made this judgment.

No, wait…

The moment Lin Xiwan’s arm exerted force and sent the other party flying, the other party’s vital signs also disappeared at this moment.

Impossible.

Lin Xiwan was sure that she had held back, but after being hit by her, the other party still fell backwards as a corpse.

It was as if something had sucked the life force out of him before she hit him.

Or rather, he was just a corpse from the beginning, only being controlled by something to act like a normal person.

Instantly, Lin Xiwan thought of the food in the house before, which looked like it hadn’t been touched for months, and the room that had been used regularly.

The one just now was also a living dead…