Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 222p1

Chapter 222: With You, Lay Eggs p1

Hello.

Seeing no reaction, the bright blue snake twisted its body into the shape of a question mark. “?”

Lin Jiayao realized she should respond, but her communication attempt immediately encountered a problem.

She didn’t know how to communicate underwater.

Speaking might not be understood. Although she could now understand the blue serpent’s language, she didn’t know how to vocalize it. It wasn’t within the system’s definition of “Earth languages,” so she hadn’t been taught.

Perhaps she could surface and try using Chinese. Since it understood the question mark symbol, it might understand her spoken words.

Lin Jiayao pointed upwards towards the surface. The little blue serpent seemed to understand, wriggling its body and swimming upwards.

Unlike the small blue serpent, Ino’s bulky form wasn’t so buoyant. Without her large purple exterior for assistance, and lacking body fat, Lin Jiayao was like a lump of iron on the seabed, the effort to ascend too great.

The little blue serpent seemed to notice this, swam back down, and flicked its tail in front of Lin Jiayao.

Grab

Grab?

Was it asking her to grab it?

It was so small…

Lin Jiayao tentatively reached out, her thumb and forefinger gently pinching the blue serpent’s tail, careful not to crush it.

After all, she had eaten smaller blue serpent larvae before; their bodies were soft, bursting with a single bite.

As Lin Jiayao grasped its tail, the blue serpent slightly unfolded its two pairs of bone wings.

Was it about to use its ability?

A true A-rank ability…

Lin Jiayao pursed her lips, her gaze fixed on the blue serpent, a mixture of tension and anticipation building within her.

This was the first time she had experienced a true A-rank evolutionary ability up close, not a fragmented part like the Living Weapon.

What kind of ability was it, one that even A4’s Devour couldn’t acquire…?

Under Lin Jiayao’s intense gaze, the blue serpent suddenly flapped its bone wings, its body wriggling violently, its translucent skin emitting a blue glow.

And then…

Lin Jiayao simply watched as the little snake thrashed wildly between her fingers. No matter how hard it tried, no matter how it changed direction, it couldn’t budge Lin Jiayao in the slightest.

Lin Jiayao: “…”

After watching the little snake struggle for over ten seconds, Lin Jiayao let go.

With a “Whoosh—”, the freed snake darted away, returning after a moment.

Difficult

The little snake drooped its wings, seemingly admitting defeat.

If this didn’t work, then she could only crawl ten kilometers on the seabed to reach the shore.

Lin Jiayao looked at the little snake, wanting to ask if it had any other ideas.

It was an A-rank, after all, and capable of communication. Maybe it knew a way to communicate underwater.

So, Lin Jiayao pointed at her throat, opened her mouth, exhaled, and then waved her hand.

This way, the other party should understand what she meant. It didn’t seem unintelligent.

Probably smarter than Huayibai.

Probably.

As expected, the little snake quickly reacted to Lin Jiayao’s actions.

It swam around Lin Jiayao, observing, then stopped in front of her, its body twisting into the shape of a question mark.

Mute

Lin Jiayao opened her mouth, speechless for a moment.

Should have, said earlier

The little blue serpent flapped its bone wings, drifted to Lin Jiayao’s forehead, and pressed its head against her again.

Hello

This time, with the blue light on her forehead, Lin Jiayao heard a muffled voice in her mind.

She felt as if a small snake, outlined in blue lines, had formed in her mind, and the voice emanated from it.

The voice was ethereal and strange, layered, as if every greeting she had ever heard—“ni hao,” “hello,” etc.—was playing simultaneously.

Although she couldn’t distinguish the specific sounds, she immediately understood the meaning.

“Hello.” Lin Jiayao tried using the same method she used to communicate with the system, silently repeating the word in her mind.

The little snake flicked its tail, seemingly indicating it understood.

“Who are you? How do you know I’m the zombie from before? And that I saved you?” Lin Jiayao asked directly, taking the initiative.

From “hello” to this series of questions, Lin Jiayao felt both the little snake in her mind and the one before her freeze.

In her mind, countless strange symbols and formulas appeared around the little snake outlined in blue lines, as if searching through everything it had ever seen.

Mental overload?

Was it because there was only one snake here? Why did its thinking ability seem even weaker than Huayibai’s?

If that A-rank giant serpent truly relied on multiple small snakes to increase its processing power, then it was a possibility.

Fortunately, Lin Jiayao had plenty of experience communicating with less-than-intelligent beings.

She quickly adjusted her questioning strategy and asked silently in her mind:

“Who are you?”

Asking one question at a time shouldn’t overload it.

The search in Lin Jiayao’s mind continued. After a while, the little blue serpent before her twitched.

I am, me.

Well, that was philosophical.

Lin Jiayao immediately gave up on getting a proper self-introduction and asked directly:

“You, here, purpose, what.”

She separated each word, fearing it wouldn’t understand a complete sentence.

As expected, the little snake responded much faster to these simpler questions.

Waiting, for you.

“Why, waiting for me.” Lin Jiayao continued, following the snake’s fragmented speech.

Thinking like a kindergarten teacher, the communication suddenly became much smoother.

Following, you.

Following her?

Why?

Lin Jiayao voiced her inner confusion.

Protecting, you.

Protecting her…?

Lin Jiayao recalled the little blue serpent’s frantic struggling between her fingers earlier.

Was this…

The blue serpent’s way of showing gratitude?

“You, big one, where?” More than its protection, Lin Jiayao was more concerned about the whereabouts of the injured Giant Blue Serpent.

Revenge.

This time, the little blue serpent’s response was very quick.

Revenge? Seeking revenge against the main body of the Living Weapon?

The scenario Lin Jiayao had imagined, of reaping the benefits while the “snipe and clam” fought, hadn’t happened. The “snipe and clam” were still locked in combat, leaving her, the “fisherman,” standing there dumbfounded. (TN: This refers to a Chinese idiom about two parties fighting and a third benefiting.)

Kill, it.

I, return.

Finally, Lin Jiayao understood the blue serpent’s intentions.

It wanted to kill the injured main body of the Living Weapon, and then return to protect her.

If this was true, then it was a creature of principle, repaying kindness with kindness and revenge with revenge.

But the problem was, Lin Jiayao didn’t know if she could trust this snake.

She had inadvertently saved a creature that, at its full strength, could easily destroy her. It might even know the location of her main body.

If she truly trusted it, she might end up like the farmer in the fable “The Farmer and the Viper.”

Lin Jiayao didn’t trust it, and she couldn’t bring herself to trust it so easily.

According to what it said just now, its main body should be on its way to seek revenge.

Compared with the empty promise of “protection,” Lin Jiayao wanted more useful information.

“You, why, fight.” Lin Jiayao tapped her fists together lightly, using gestures to help it understand.

This question was obviously more difficult than the previous ones. After a while, the little blue serpent emitted a blue glow again.

It, bit me.

“Why, bit you…?”

Lin Jiayao spent the next half hour asking why they fought, why they came to the shore, and what its purpose was after revenge. It took repeated explanations for the little snake to understand her questions.

Fortunately, it patiently answered each one, and Lin Jiayao gained some of the information she needed, confirming and dispelling some of her previous speculations.

Their purpose in coming ashore wasn’t because of any threat in the deep sea, nor was it to devour land creatures.

They had simply fought their way up from the deep sea, battling for who knew how long, constantly colliding with the continental shelf, causing various natural disasters in Japan and the sinking of Chiba Prefecture.

This at least proved that these two A-ranks in Japan didn’t come ashore to devour land-based blood crystals.

And the little snake’s subsequent answers to Lin Jiayao’s questions were rather intriguing.

After Lin Jiayao painstakingly explained and asked what it planned to do next, after it fully understood, it gave the same answer as before.

That it wanted to protect Lin Jiayao.

It seemed that in its mind, it had been close to death, but Lin Jiayao, following its plea, had saved it, freeing it from the fate of being drained dry in a coma, allowing it to revive.

It might have even… developed certain feelings.

As for how Lin Jiayao knew this, it started with the little blue serpent’s answer to one of her questions.

Want, with you, lay eggs.

Yes, those were its exact words. After saying this, the little blue serpent even rubbed against Ino’s forehead in a gesture of affection.

This made Lin Jiayao break out in a cold sweat.

Before this, Lin Jiayao wouldn’t have believed that an A-rank zombie—no, a blood crystal—would want to mate with her after she saved it. It was too crazy.

Lin Jiayao didn’t even know what species it was.

And, the most terrifying thing was that this A-rank blood crystal seemed to have gained the ability to locate her because A4 had devoured part of it.

It was truly bizarre.

Lin Jiayao imagined a giant blue serpent, over a thousand meters long, standing before her, emitting a blue glow, and saying it wanted to lay eggs with her. The thought alone was absurd.

Fighting, wait.

As Lin Jiayao was thinking about how to dissuade it, the little blue serpent suddenly broke its mental link with her, drifted to Ino’s finger, curled into a ball, and the light on its body dimmed.

It seemed that its main body on the other side had entered battle and was using all its processing power, just like Huayibai.

Lin Jiayao looked at the translucent blue serpent coiled around Ino’s finger, looking more and more like a ring, and twitched the corner of her mouth.

To protect herself, should she just sell Ino?

She could say that Ino was her main body, and after extracting, leave Ino for the blue serpent to drag into the deep sea for egg-laying.

It would be the system’s headache, not hers.

“Sigh…”

Lin Jiayao looked at the little blue serpent on her finger, feeling a headache, and sighed inwardly.

“System, it’s up to you now, you two have to get along well on the seabed.” Lin Jiayao silently said to the system in her heart.

Unfortunately, Lin Jiayao didn’t receive any response from the system, as if it had shut down in anger.

She could only take things one step at a time now… For the rest of the time, Lin Jiayao planned to stay with Huayibai, protecting her as she continued to devour the remains of the Living Weapon.

Lin Jiayao stood up, left the edge of the pit, and walked towards the Living Weapon.

Following her own footprints, Lin Jiayao quickly returned to where the Living Weapon was.

She controlled Ino to sit beside the Living Weapon and placed the hand without the blue serpent “ring” on the Living Weapon’s body.

Huayibai, sensing Lin Jiayao’s touch, extended her tiny mycelium again and wrapped it around Ino’s hand, as if holding hands.

After briefly calculating the time to go back, Ino could probably stay here with Huayibai for more than an hour.

Lin Jiayao controlled Ino to slowly lean back against the Living Weapon and gently closed her eyes.

Consciousness switch.

As soon as her main body opened her eyes, she felt a bit stuffy.

Although it was already autumn, she was covered with such a thick quilt, and there were two warm bodies pressing against her from both sides. Wrapped up like this, Lin Jiayao was sweating a little.

There were still a few hours until sunrise, which was basically the same as the simulated time for Huayibai to complete the devouring.

If nothing unexpected happened, she would have to log into Ino again later to check on Huayibai.

Was there any way to prevent being entangled by that blue serpent?

With this question in mind, Lin Jiayao closed her eyes again and directly opened the training ground.

She wanted to see how to kill that blue serpent in the training ground – she had already seen its body.

Now the Blue Serpent and the Living Weapon’s main body were still seriously injured, and they were about to fight again.

No matter who won or lost, the probability of Lin Jiayao picking up the scraps was very high.

Anyway, time was limited, might as well try it first…