Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 232

Chapter 232: Black Stem Mimic?

After asking her sister to prepare some food for the journey, Lin Jiayao temporarily bid farewell to her sister and Huayibai, and left the villa.

She needed to go to the place where she buried the brain-computer towers, find the Black Stem Fungus, and get some more of its “eggs,” or fungal spores.

Lin Jiayao also remotely controlled a Building-Tree Guardian through the vascular network, having it carry the remains of the flapping-wing insect corpse that hadn’t been fully decomposed by the building-trees.

Because her sister didn’t like the disgusting brain-computer towers, Lin Jiayao built them relatively far away, and it took some time to reach Waterfall Park.

When Lin Jiayao arrived, the Building-Tree Guardian happened to bring the incomplete flapping-wing insect corpse.

The incomplete insect corpse was placed on the ground nearby, covered with countless white mold spots and fresh soil.

It was probably just dug out from the ground. The entire insect had been decomposed to only some carapace pieces and broken wings. If it were a few days later, there would probably be nothing left.

“Buzz—”

A golden flying insect flew out from behind Lin Jiayao’s hair, carrying synergistic pheromones and flying towards the corpse.

“Come down.” Lin Jiayao looked at the pile of corpses and ordered.

Of course, she wasn’t ordering the corpse. She didn’t have the ability to control corpses with words.

Under Lin Jiayao’s command, the fluffy white mold spots on the insect corpse began to gather, turning into a fluffy white basketball-shaped object that fell to the ground and quietly rolled to the side.

It was Huayibai’s friend, Little Black. Lin Jiayao couldn’t directly communicate with it like Huayibai, and could only use simple commands.

Anyway, this white Little Black had always been quite timid and couldn’t cause any trouble, so Lin Jiayao had always left it alone.

Just let it quietly be a “firefighter” in Kun City, it was good at extinguishing fires.

Extinguishing fires…

Lin Jiayao suddenly thought of the weapon she wanted to make for Huayibai, which was to give Huayibai the ability to resist flames. Could she use this Little Black as a raw material?

Perhaps because Lin Jiayao’s gaze became more and more terrifying, this white ball trembled in place for a while, then slowly rolled away, as if pretending not to be noticed.

Lin Jiayao simply let it go. Anyway, it was everywhere in Kun City, and she wouldn’t have trouble finding it when she needed it.

The blood-person formed by the blood-red mycelium behind her pushed her towards the lake.

The creature in the lake seemed to notice Lin Jiayao’s movements and suddenly emerged from the water, revealing a black stem about five meters tall above the water surface.

One of the follicles on its head was missing, why did it feel like its body had become shorter?

Was it attacked?

Soon, Lin Jiayao knew the reason.

After the main stem of the Black Stem Fungus emerged from the water, the water surface was still rippling unsteadily.

Was there something else?

Lin Jiayao didn’t activate Bone Spike Lurker or other detection evolutions, but just quietly watched the ripples on the water surface and the thing that climbed out.

It was a smaller Black Stem Fungus.

Well… rather than calling it a Black Stem Fungus, it looked more like a black scarecrow.

The slender black stems were bundled together with water plants and vines, even separating and bundling a torso and a head with a yellow follicle.

There was even a “smile” made of water plants on its “face”, which was nailed to its face with rusty nails.

Besides the torso, face, and limbs, it was even wearing a tattered, blood-stained, completely soaked, dirty dress that looked like it had been stripped from a dead person.

Some of the more obvious holes in the dress were even crudely patched with water plants and nails.

Was it… trying to mimic a human?

Lin Jiayao looked at the terrifying black scarecrow in front of her, carefully walking towards her with clumsy steps, and couldn’t help but raise her eyebrows.

Even though she had seen so many terrifying creatures, the horror level of the black scarecrow in front of her was definitely among the top, even at the forefront.

It wasn’t scary for a monster to look like a human, but it was scary for a monster to want to mimic a human. This kind of human-like but not quite human appearance easily triggered the uncanny valley effect, which was the most frightening.

And judging by its height… was it mimicking Huayibai’s height?

Lin Jiayao watched the black scarecrow, formed by Black Stem Fungus and with an awkward and clumsy gait, stagger to a position about three meters away from Lin Jiayao and stop, as if it didn’t dare to continue forward.

As if Lin Jiayao hadn’t spoken for too long, it stood there, its body slightly curled up, the soaked and tattered clothes still dripping water onto the ground, seemingly at a loss.

It probably couldn’t understand why, even though it had tried its best to imitate the way Lin Jiayao liked, she still wouldn’t hug it like she hugged that red thing in Wangxi.

“What a sin…”

Lin Jiayao sat in the wheelchair, raised her hand and rubbed her forehead, feeling a bit of a headache.

Why did it feel like these fungal blood crystals were all somewhat infatuated with her? Huayibai was like this, and so was the Black Stem Fungus in front of her.

Was it because the system gave her fungal evolutions, making her appear “perfect” in the eyes of fungi? Would it make them unconsciously want to get close to her?

If she obtained the mycelium evolution of the Black Stem Fungus again, would there be another one calling her Mommy?

One Huayibai was already clingy enough, Lin Jiayao didn’t want another one, so she might as well get down to business first.

“Eggs, give me.” Lin Jiayao directly gave it a simple command using Blood Crystal Synergist.

The Black Stem Fungus in front of her, after hearing the command, was slightly stunned for a moment, but without hesitation, immediately nodded, turned around, and limped towards the lake.

It jumped into the lake, and at the same time, the huge Black Stem Fungus body also submerged, churning the water and stirring up quite a bit of mud and sand.

Soon, the black scarecrow emerged from the water again, holding several orange-yellow eggs about the size of blood crystals in its hands.

It held these eggs and moved back to Lin Jiayao step by step. This time, the black stems on its body seemed to have shrunk a lot, and the originally tight ropes could no longer bind its body.

It could only maintain the ropes by moving slowly like this, and it moved to a place not far from Lin Jiayao.

Lin Jiayao extended her hand towards it, and the black scarecrow carefully moved to her, rolling the eggs in its arms and placing them in Lin Jiayao’s hand one by one.

Three… although not many, it was enough to create three more areas for placing brain-computer towers.

Lin Jiayao put the three orange-yellow eggs into the Item Storage Box and let the mycelium flesh-person behind her pounce on the flapping-wing insect corpse beside her.

Lin Jiayao watched as the flesh-person devoured the insect corpse, concentrating on controlling it to slowly mimic the original form of the insect corpse, using mycelium to mimic the blood-red bone spurs and fill the gaps in the insect corpse.

With Mask’s various abilities, Lin Jiayao’s ability to mimic corpses was much stronger than Huayibai’s. In the future, she could even directly let Lin Jiayao use mycelium for cargo transportation, the cost being just creating more brain-computer towers to control the separated mycelium bodies.

Her sister and Huayibai were still waiting at home, so she should go back soon.

After the new fungal flapping-wing insect finished mimicking, the flapping-wing insect, which had shrunk to seven or eight meters long, vibrated its wings and flew to Lin Jiayao’s side.

After Lin Jiayao entered its abdomen, the flapping-wing insect directly vibrated its wings and flew towards the villa area with a loud buzzing sound.

After Lin Jiayao left, the black scarecrow still stayed there, swaying, the orange-red follicle on its head watching Lin Jiayao’s figure disappear.

After Lin Jiayao’s body disappeared, the exhausted Black Stem Fungus could no longer support this broken scarecrow body and fell apart.

It frantically used its black stems to put its scattered body back together, but it was useless.

The body that slipped out of the ropes scattered like noodles that had lost their restraints, and there were deep marks where the ropes had been tied before.

The soaked and dirty clothes were still dripping water, which dripped onto its head as it moved, slid down the huge follicle eyeballs, flowed through the water grass smile fixed with rusty nails, and dripped onto the ground.

At this time, Lin Jiayao didn’t notice what was happening behind her. In her opinion, she had just simply exploited the controlled zombie.

She often did this and didn’t think there was anything strange about it.

With the flight of the flapping-wing insect, Lin Jiayao quickly returned to the villa area.

Her sister had already prepared canned food and water, taken a bath, changed into new clothes, and was sitting on the sofa waiting for Lin Jiayao to come back.

“Come up.” Lin Jiayao waved to her sister at the gate while on the flapping-wing insect.

Lin Xiwan didn’t waste any time, directly put the backpack of food on her back, picked up Huayibai from the side, and jumped onto the flapping-wing insect.

Having learned from the painful lesson last time, Lin Xiwan didn’t bring too many supplies this time, only enough food for the three of them for three days.

Although Huayibai basically only liked to drink water, Lin Xiwan still included Huayibai’s portion and even gave her a few more bottles of mineral water.

After getting onto the flapping-wing insect, Lin Jiayao, who had been uncomfortably leaning against the flapping-wing insect’s carapace, moved to her sister’s side, leaned against her sister, and closed her eyes.

During the journey, Lin Jiayao planned to log into the empty No. 8, take a look at the zombie distribution map, and go to Fuquan City where Fuquan Mountain was located in advance to understand the zombie intelligence there.

Now on the flapping-wing insect were two B-ranks and Lin Jiayao, whose strength was undefined.

With this configuration, as long as they weren’t extremely unlucky and encountered an A-rank or several B-ranks, they basically wouldn’t have any problems.

After confirming in the Hideout that the Crystal Detector had been built and was running, Lin Jiayao opened the login interface.

The login interface was gradually becoming more and more dazzling, especially the No. 9 login slot, which had a scarlet “x” mark, and the text on the slot had changed from (Available) to (Descendable).

The cooldown time for Descend was too long and had to be used in more useful places, so she would just use a normal login this time.

Lin Jiayao chose the empty No. 8 and clicked login.

When she reached the map selection interface, the map, which was originally all blue with only the sea area in black, had completely changed.

The black that originally represented the seabed had now completely turned into scarlet, which could be seen at a glance as the most eye-catching area on the map.

But unfortunately, the sea area was still un-log-inable.

Lin Jiayao turned her gaze towards the land.

On this world map, different areas also showed different shades and saturations of red, and it was difficult to distinguish between adjacent areas, so she could only look at them in large areas.

It was like looking at a satellite thermal map.

Except for a few inland areas with high-density red, the trend in other places was similar, the red gradually fading from the coast to the inland.

It looked like the scarlet of the sea was slowly seeping into the continent.

Especially in the direction of the original Yangzhou City, the current city color was basically the same scarlet as the sea. It seemed that a very large number of blood crystals remained there, and there were quite a few B-ranks.

Lin Jiayao turned her gaze towards America across the Pacific Ocean. Unsurprisingly, the situation in America was basically the same as here, with crimson seeping in from the coast.

On the west coast, in Los Angeles, where the Hand of Freedom was located, it had also been infiltrated by crimson, and even a large area behind it had been “soaked”. She didn’t know if this was their evacuation route, or if it had been completely destroyed by the seabed zombies.

Then, Lin Jiayao set her sights on the only place on all these continents that was glowing bright red.

It was New Delhi in India…

That bright red area in New Delhi was like the deep sea encroaching on the land, spreading towards the surrounding cities, like a drop of ink dripping onto paper.

This was…

Lin Jiayao frowned.

A-rank?

A-rank on land?

A4 hadn’t even reached A-rank yet, and there were actually humans or zombies on land that had directly reached A-rank?

This evolution speed was terrifying… was it because of talent or because they devoured a lot?

The danger level in India was instantly raised to the same level as the seabed by Lin Jiayao.

But fortunately, there were natural mountains blocking it, so the threat there shouldn’t affect this place in a short time.

Finally, Lin Jiayao set her sights on her destination this time, Fuquan City.

The red in Fuquan City was indeed a few shades deeper than the surrounding areas, which was not normal for a small city. It was estimated that B-ranks from other places had gone there.

Knowing this news, although the woman on the radio spoke in a way that was half-understood, at least she wasn’t lying.

Lin Jiayao reached out and chose Fuquan City.

If she could directly log into that B-rank, the matter would be directly solved, and she could even get a B-rank combat power out of thin air.

After Lin Jiayao made her choice, a new selection box appeared in front of her.

The phantoms of three zombies appeared in front of Lin Jiayao, and even their evolutions were clearly listed.

Oh? A choice of three?

The system was finally doing something right.

Unfortunately, there were no B-ranks.

With a probability of tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands to one, it was indeed a bit difficult to encounter one.

Among the three zombies in front of her, the strongest was only a C-rank Hunter.

But strangely, this Hunter was actually wearing clothes. It was covered in black cloth, wearing a bamboo hat, and the veil hanging from the edge of the hat covered its face.

It looked like a masked swordsman from some fantasy movie.

Raised by an Awakened? Interesting…

After exchanging ten bags of Blood Crystal Serum and putting them in the Safehouse, Lin Jiayao directly chose to log into the clothed C-rank.

Her vision blurred, and soon, all the noise around her, such as the buzzing of flapping wings and the wind, instantly disappeared.

She felt the C-rank blood crystal content in her body and slowly opened her eyes.