Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 228p1

Chapter 228: Mask, A4 p1

“[Spirit Lv.5 (Blue)] research complete. Claim now?”

“[Nutrition Department] food preparation complete. Claim now?”

After spending about half an hour researching the new infection source in the training ground, Lin Jiayao heard the notification from the system’s Research Lab.

Looking at the mountain of disgusting corpses piled up before her, Lin Jiayao shook her head helplessly.

Despite spending so much time, she still couldn’t deduce the appearance of the mother body from these super-infected individuals.

But this experiment wasn’t a complete waste of time. Lin Jiayao had learned a lot about how to deal with the super-infected.

Their blood was only rapidly infectious when it came into direct contact with flesh or blood, and it could even infect bones.

But it couldn’t penetrate dense, seamless armor. Both Divine Skin Armor and A4’s black scale armor could effectively block the infected blood from entering her body externally.

Besides these two, other zombies didn’t have such strong resistance.

Goldie was fine; geographically, she was completely isolated from the possibility of infection.

Other zombies weren’t so lucky. If they encountered a battle, they were almost certain to be infected.

Not to mention the people in Kun City, including her sister and Huayibai, none of them could resist this infection.

And the super infection was currently irreversible. Even if Lin Jiayao continuously used medicine and cut away flesh to keep them alive, once the infection reached the brain, they would become mindless zombies focused solely on reproduction.

She had to find a solution, or an antidote, to deal with the potential spread of infection.

Lin Jiayao temporarily stopped the experiment, her consciousness exiting the training ground and opening the Hideout.

Spirit Lv.5 was finally finished researching. Twelve hours felt like a long wait.

She just wanted to claim it quickly. Even if she couldn’t upgrade the Hideout, she would gain enough mental power to quickly feed A4 the A-rank flesh and blood.

As her current strongest combatant, Lin Jiayao had high expectations for A4.

Opening the Research Lab, Lin Jiayao directly clicked to confirm and claim.

“Thump—”

The moment she clicked confirm, Lin Jiayao’s vision went black, as if her brain had been struck with a hammer.

Not just her main body, but all the brain towers connected by her brain worms also momentarily froze.

Like a tightly compressed spring suddenly released, a surge of mental power rushed into Lin Jiayao, pushing her mental capacity to unprecedented heights.

Even her previously depleted mental power was fully restored. She felt better than ever.

Every increase in mental power brought Lin Jiayao a sense of mental euphoria, but this time, the impact was the greatest, as if she had broken through a bottleneck.

This was a feeling she had never experienced even with Goldie… Her mental power had now surpassed that of a B-rank Hive Zombie.

This increase in mental power not only increased the number of logins she could perform, but she even felt a new understanding of all her evolutionary abilities, an understanding that transcended mere skill.

She felt like she was gradually understanding everything.

After briefly experiencing this new state, Lin Jiayao slowly closed her eyes and opened the Hideout.

Even before she clicked on it, an exclamation mark had already appeared in the upper right corner of the Hideout affix on the system interface.

Good. It seemed there were upgradeable creations.

Lin Jiayao opened the Hideout. As expected, there were two large exclamation marks inside, one on the [Control Center] and the other on a bone pillar surrounded by flesh and blood.

The Control Center could be upgraded!

This was undoubtedly good news for Lin Jiayao. Previous Hideout upgrades were basically based on the [Control Center]. As long as the [Control Center] was successfully upgraded, it would unlock upgrades for other creations.

Ignoring the flesh and bone pillar, Lin Jiayao first focused on the [Control Center], checking its description and required materials.

[Control Center Lv.3 (Upgradeable)]
[Control Center Lv.4]
[Description: Unlocks an additional “Descend” slot; evolution and death cooldown time reduced to one hour; new zombie login changes from random to selection from a random pool.]
[Descend: Clone a selected zombie from the login slots and deploy it to a designated location. The descend cooldown is independent, with a 24-hour cooldown time.]
[Materials required: 100 Blood Crystals]
[Note: Descend mode does not share Safehouse access; cannot share warehouse access; cannot evolve; cannot retain evolutions; cannot extract; automatically recycled and destroyed by the system after a designated time.]

As expected, the Blood Crystals required for construction had doubled.

But… Lin Jiayao felt that this effect was truly worth one hundred Blood Crystals.

Not to mention that logins now allowed for selection from a random pool, instead of being completely random.

Even just the “Descend” function alone made it worth building.

This was a lifesaver.

Cloning a zombie from a login slot and deploying it to a designated location for a period of time, what did this mean?

Take the recent, brutal sea battle in Japan against the Living Weapon, for example.

If Lin Jiayao could have directly deployed A4 to Fukushima at that time, so many people wouldn’t have died, let alone Ino being so severely injured.

Even just now, Lin Jiayao wouldn’t have needed to log into No. 6 herself. Directly deploying an A4, or even Goldie, would probably have been enough to eliminate the mother body of the super-infected.

However, it was a pity that Descend didn’t share system functions. Lin Jiayao couldn’t use the Safehouse to bring things back, couldn’t retain evolutions, and naturally, there was no settlement space.

It was like working for free, best used for defense.

Of course, these were all for later. The important thing wasn’t to regret the past, but to prepare for the future.

Even if there was a situation where the zombies couldn’t be defended against in time, she could still rely on Descend to hold them off.

Lin Jiayao was determined to get this Descend function.

Although it was a bit painful, Lin Jiayao still pulled out one hundred Blood Crystals from the bottom of the warehouse and put them into the upgrade construction of [Control Center Lv.4].

[Constructing 23:59:59]

Lin Jiayao wasn’t surprised by this construction time.

Now that things had been mostly resolved, she could wait for these twenty-four hours.

While the [Control Center] was under construction, Lin Jiayao turned her attention to the other new flesh and bone pillar.

This illusory flesh and bone pillar showed that it could be built, but Lin Jiayao couldn’t tell what it was.

Lin Jiayao simply clicked on the description.

[Crystal Detector Lv.1 (Unbuilt)]
[Description: Your login interface will use color density to distinguish the total amount of blood crystals in an area.]
[Materials required: 5 Blood Crystals]

Five Blood Crystals…

Compared to the “Descend” function just now, this function made Lin Jiayao hesitate for a moment.

It wasn’t particularly useful, only being able to detect during login.

If she built this, Lin Jiayao could see the global blood crystal distribution during her next login, but it would be blurry, without specific details of individual blood crystals.

Forget it, maybe the upgrade or construction prerequisite for some other buildings was this [Crystal Detector]. It was somewhat useful, and it wasn’t very expensive, so she might as well build it.

Thinking this way, Lin Jiayao directly clicked on build.

The construction speed of this thing was much faster, only needing one hour.

After finishing this, Lin Jiayao looked at her warehouse.

There were still three hundred and ninety-five Blood Crystals left, which seemed like a decent amount.

The other space in the warehouse, besides the boxes, only had that large piece of A-rank carapace.

Lin Jiayao planned to keep this large piece of carapace for crafting weapons at the [Workbench].

But this thing couldn’t be directly thrown into the Workbench, she had to find something to fuse it with.

What to fuse it with…?

Lin Jiayao was a bit troubled. She didn’t have any handy weapons that could be fused with these A-rank carapace pieces.

She couldn’t really find a kitchen knife and fuse it, could she?

Nor could she break off A4’s hand and fuse it.

Lin Jiayao planned to keep this carapace piece for now, but it was a bit of an eyesore taking up so much space in the warehouse.

Lin Jiayao first took out all the A-rank flesh and blood cans from the Nutrition Department and neatly arranged them in the warehouse.

Then, Lin Jiayao directly bent down, picked up Huayibai from the bed, and held her in her arms like a large doll, holding Huayibai with one hand and pushing the wheelchair to the garden with the other.

Looking at the empty road outside, Lin Jiayao nodded slightly.

Let’s just leave it here for now.

Lin Jiayao raised her hand towards the empty road outside, and a large piece of carapace appeared out of thin air, crashing onto the ground in front of her, crushing a large area of moss and vines.

Then, by the roadside, Lin Jiayao put the ten cans of A-rank flesh and blood and twenty cans of eyeball cans refined by the [Nutrition Department] into the Safehouse.

There were still fifteen slots left, and Lin Jiayao didn’t waste them.

After putting the pistol stained with the super-infected blood, which was originally in the Safehouse, into the warehouse, Lin Jiayao exchanged for five bags of Blood Crystal Serum and put them into the Safehouse.

It directly filled the thirty-five slots.

Lin Jiayao looked at the large piece of carapace in front of her.

She couldn’t separate the carapace into smaller pieces herself, so she could only wait for her sister to come back and ask her to find a way to break it into smaller pieces. She wouldn’t bring this to A4 this time.

Hmm… A4 might not be able to chew it now anyway, she would probably have to store it in her body and slowly devour and absorb it.

Looking at the supplies filling the Safehouse, Lin Jiayao directly closed her eyes by the roadside and entered the login interface.

Lin Jiayao’s finger directly clicked on No. 4 A4, and she slowly closed her eyes.

Opening her eyes again, everything in front of Lin Jiayao became clearer. She was standing on top of the overpass, looking at the surrounding wasteland.

Moving her fingers, a familiar power surged through her body, and Lin Jiayao took a deep breath.

She raised her hand, and a transparent can appeared in her hand. Through the transparent container of unknown material, she could clearly see the crimson flesh and blood inside.

Lin Jiayao opened her mouth, directly stuffed the entire can into her mouth, and bit it.

The system-produced can instantly shattered, the fragments disappearing, leaving only the flesh and blood, which she swallowed in one gulp.

The moment she swallowed the can, Lin Jiayao felt her skin harden slightly, and her originally snow-white skin darkened a little.

This was the special effect of the cans produced by the Nutrition Department, which could temporarily strengthen her muscles and skin, but these byproducts were not what Lin Jiayao needed.

She only wanted the meat inside.

After swallowing one can, besides the increase in blood crystal liquid, Lin Jiayao didn’t feel any other changes.

So, Lin Jiayao simply took out the cans from the Safehouse one by one, put them into her mouth one after another, chewed, and swallowed the remaining nine cans of flesh and blood.

The mycelium in her body frantically entangled and devoured the flesh and blood inside, and the decomposition of the flesh and blood made Lin Jiayao stop taking out more cans.

She just stood there, slightly raising her head, feeling the fusion and reorganization of the flesh and blood in her body, the muscles under her skin constantly twitching.

She didn’t know if it was because there was too little flesh and blood, but Lin Jiayao didn’t obtain any of the A-rank’s abilities from the flesh and blood, only feeling an increase in strength and speed.

Now, even without activating Perfect Form, A4 could launch a punch with the same power as an ordinary B-rank close-combat Awakened’s full-powered attack.

It was still an enhancement.

Lin Jiayao clenched her fists, feeling the changes in her strength, and then took out another can of eyeball fragments.

Still swallowing them whole like before, Lin Jiayao continued to stuff the cans into her mouth one after another.

But this time, the eyeball cans clearly brought more changes to A4 than the flesh and blood cans.