Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 238

Chapter 238: The Pseudo-A Rank Brain

“Buzz——”

Even inside the command center, through the reinforced glass, Yuri could feel the terrifying buzzing through his subordinates’ senses. The multicolored glow in the distance, centered on the little girl-like zombie, began to radiate a golden light.

Like a drop of golden ink spreading across a blank page, the expanding golden “sphere” in the distance was as dazzling as the sun.

Yuri’s eyes widened, cold sweat soaking his back.

What was going on?!

Sam, whose brain had been partially damaged at C-rank for easier control, being no match for the opponent was understandable.

But he never expected that the opponent could bypass his control and directly seize control of Sam.

What kind of concept was this?

Under normal circumstances, without damaging the brain, controlling a B-rank Awakened was harder than ascending to heaven. Even Yuri, at full power, could only completely control Sam when he relaxed his mind.

The opponent, under these circumstances, could actually forcibly seize control.

Sam, mentally unguarded, became a puppet without any resistance.

And with such powerful mind control abilities, the opponent could also control such a large number of flying insects… This was far beyond Yuri’s imagination.

This… was this an A-rank?

Even if it wasn’t, it must be a B-rank that had pushed its blood crystals to the limit. Otherwise, such an overwhelming situation would be impossible.

“Buzz——”

The buzzing in the distance suddenly intensified. The brilliant golden light rushed towards him, scattering after a certain distance and approaching from different directions, surrounding him.

“Motherfucker!!!”

Yuri frantically cranked the machine on the armrest used to control the blood crystal pump to its maximum. His bloodshot eyes burst open due to the violent influx of blood crystals, pus and blood mixed with cerebrospinal fluid flowing from his nostrils.

Under his extreme control, more than ten missiles, trailing flames, rose into the sky simultaneously. This was all the individual missiles in the camp.

But these missiles, used for air defense, were practically useless. Those golden flying insects dispersed too quickly.

Without the element of surprise, these small missiles only took down a few dozen golden flying insects. The vast majority had already arrived.

“Pamela!!!”

Yuri, now completely blind, frantically switched through his subordinates’ viewpoints, searching for the other B-rank.

When he finally found Pamela on the watchtower, he saw the bald woman had completely sealed off her mind, leaning against the railing, motionless.

“Pamela! What are you doing! Move! The enemy is here!” Yuri controlled another soldier in uniform on the watchtower to yell at Pamela.

But the woman, Pamela, simply glanced at the controlled soldier, said nothing, pulled out the pistol from her waist,

“Click—”
“Bang, bang, bang, bang—”

fired four precise shots into the soldier’s shoulders and knees, instantly incapacitating him.

Then, Pamela casually tossed the pistol aside, letting it fall from the tower. She leaned against the railing and lit a cigarette.

“Phew—”

She exhaled a puff of smoke, her expression still blank.

Finally, she could take advantage of the chaos and break free.

She turned around, facing the swarm of golden insects, and spread her arms, as if welcoming them.

Her paralyzed face, due to the damage to her brain, showed no emotion, but her green eyes reflected the golden light.

“Damn it! Fire! Fire!!!” Yuri was practically frantic.

He couldn’t understand why the Awakened, who usually obeyed his every command without complaint, would suddenly betray him.

Of course, he hadn’t considered why they obeyed him in the first place.

Relying solely on his ability to control and restrict them, he couldn’t gain their true loyalty. The reason why so many Awakened under him didn’t resist was simply because they couldn’t.

“Crack, crack, crack—”
“Crash—”

Countless golden flying insects slammed into the reinforced glass in front of him, covering it completely. The glass cracked under the impact.

Although Yuri couldn’t see anything, precisely because he couldn’t see, the sound of the glass cracking was even louder.

For a moment, he was lost in thought.

The mind-control “empire” he had painstakingly built for years, the one even the Hand of Freedom couldn’t shake, was being destroyed in such an overwhelming manner.

The continuous influx of blood crystals caused his brain to mutate, his white brain swelling and turning crimson like it was engorged with blood.

His skin, unable to withstand the massive influx of blood crystals, began to harden and deform, his teeth falling out one by one.

As he zombified, his aura began to surge, breaking through its limits.

“Crash—”

The fragile reinforced glass couldn’t withstand such a violent impact. It only lasted for a few seconds before shattering along with the wall.

A large number of golden flying insects swarmed into the command center like a stream of light. After the swarm passed, the tubes used to inject blood crystals into the chair, and even Yuri’s entire body, were gone.

Only a skeleton remained, with mutated internal organs and a swollen, crimson brain, completely devoid of life.

It was more thorough than a swarm of locusts.

The moment Yuri died, the people on the ground operating tanks, firing rifles, and loading rockets all froze.

Most of these people, with open wounds on their heads, were in a daze, only a few Awakened still looking around in confusion.

And the B-rank Awakened on the watchtower had already opened her eyes, turning to look in the direction of the command center, and at the figure being carried by the flying insects, slowly flying towards the command center.

Not… a zombie?

A human?

In the distance, Sam, already gnawed to the point of being unrecognizable by the insects, also stood up shakily.

From his shattered skull, several black and white brain worms slowly crawled out, having eaten their fill inside, devouring all the backhands Yuri had left in his brain.

Ignoring the dazed humans sitting paralyzed on the ground, Lin Jiayao, carried by the bone spur insects, landed lightly in the command center of the military pier.

This was a military pier on an inland lake, its facilities far less advanced than those at sea, but Lin Jiayao wasn’t here for weapons.

She looked at the skeleton with only rotting internal organs left, sitting in the strange chair, her gaze fixed on its brain.

He almost made it…

Lin Jiayao recalled the aura she felt earlier. It was clearly the gradual transformation into a zombie, abandoning reason, after being injected with a large amount of Blood Crystals.

This kind of evolution wasn’t always successful. It was very likely that he would have ended up as a mindless lump of rotten flesh.

It was fortunate that it was interrupted during the evolution process.

Suddenly, a sharp pain in her chest made Lin Jiayao frown slightly.

Her body was also seriously injured, and now it was only because the flying insects were filling her body that the injury wasn’t getting worse.

Now Lin Jiayao began to miss the “Happy Water” she made for Huayibai.

After all, it contained her own blood and the system’s Blood Crystal Serum, which were very useful for physical recovery.

But this brain…

Lin Jiayao temporarily ignored the large hole in her chest and looked at the skeleton in front of her.

She stood in front of the skeleton, stood on tiptoe, reached out, and forcefully pried at the already cracked skull.

“Crack—”

Like opening a brittle watermelon, Lin Jiayao directly lifted the skull and saw the already crimson brain inside.

This brain, unlike the other organs in the body, hadn’t died, but was still functioning independently, and tiny, star-like crystals were flowing along the lines in the translucent brain.

There was no doubt that the bald man had almost succeeded in his evolution just now.

His brain almost had some characteristics of an A-rank. This brain, which was a circle larger than an ordinary human brain, contained almost all the Blood Crystals in a B-rank’s body, and even had some extra capacity.

It was a bit like the organs of the “Living Weapon”, with a feeling of being half a step into A-rank.

Lin Jiayao carefully held the brain and observed it closely.

It wasn’t soft like other brains, but felt like a thick crystal.

But when she tried to put it into the Safehouse, she couldn’t, because it was still “alive”.

This was a living thing.

A rare and valuable item. Lin Jiayao made this judgment in her mind.

Could eating it increase her mental power? Should she eat it herself? Or give it to A4? Or directly let Goldie devour it and see if she could evolve?

Lin Jiayao didn’t have a good idea of how to best utilize this half-step A-rank brain yet and decided to simulate it in the training ground after returning to her body.

Next was to deal with those people below.

Because there was nowhere to put it, Lin Jiayao temporarily stuffed the brain into the hole in Goldie’s chest and let the flying insects fix it there.

If there were no battles later, she could just let Goldie stay there and slowly recover without wasting Blood Crystal Serum.

Lin Jiayao put away the brain, slowly walked to the edge of the window, and looked down at the slightly chaotic scene below through the windowsill.

Actually, Lin Jiayao’s original plan was to directly slaughter everyone here, as they were all controlled puppets.

But when she was about to kill another B-rank Awakened, Lin Jiayao saw that the female Awakened closed her eyes without any resistance.

This suicidal mentality made Lin Jiayao quickly understand that this was not an organization like the Voodoo Cult.

The Voodoo Cult was basically a gathering of anti-social or mentally abnormal people because of the apocalypse, but here, it seemed like most people were being controlled.

As Lin Jiayao expected, after dealing with the bald man, the humans below stopped attacking.

She noticed a figure slowly approaching her.

It was the B-rank woman from before.

The insect swarm gradually gathered towards Lin Jiayao, preparing for a possible battle.

“My name is Pamela—” The woman stood below, looked up at Lin Jiayao standing at the edge of the third-floor command center, and shouted, “Did you save us?”

Save?

She was just an invader. Since the other party used this word, it meant that she was putting Lin Jiayao on a moral high ground, and also indicated that she didn’t want to fight.

“Thud—”

The flying insects around her landed neatly on the surrounding stairs and ground, and the command center, which was originally noisier than dozens of helicopters hovering, suddenly became quiet.

“Jin.” Lin Jiayao slowly said. Because her lungs were also damaged, her voice was a little soft and weak.

“Thank you, Jin,” Pamela looked up, pointed to the command center, and asked, “Is he, Yuri, dead?”

“Dead.”

“Oh…” Pamela couldn’t make any expressions, and her tone didn’t fluctuate much. She calmly asked, “What do you plan to do with us?”

“Two choices.” Lin Jiayao extended her fingers and said, “One, leave directly. Two, leave after being parasitized by me.”

“Parasitized?” Pamela blinked, obviously not quite understanding the second option.

But from the first option, she also knew that the little girl standing above, high above and with a strong sense of oppression, didn’t seem to have any hostility.

“Your brains… are all damaged,” Lin Jiayao explained, “My parasitism can help you fill the gaps in your brains.”

“Besides permanently losing part of your mental power, you will also be controlled by me – just like the Yuri you mentioned.”

A black and white brain worm flew from a nearby building and landed on Lin Jiayao’s fingertip, flapping its wings slightly.

“You can forcibly parasitize us,” Pamela stared at Lin Jiayao and said, “No one here can resist you.”

Hearing Pamela’s words, Lin Jiayao slightly moved her fingers, and the brain worm on her fingertip flew away. She casually waved her hand and said:

“I don’t need your little bit of mental power.”

Now what Lin Jiayao wanted was to harvest Blood Crystals and mental power.

If she really wanted to parasitize brains, weren’t brain-computer towers better? The output was high, the cost was low, and most importantly, it was convenient.

Lin Jiayao admitted that some of her actions were a bit anti-human, but she wouldn’t go around parasitizing and controlling humans.

“Are you done asking?” Lin Jiayao withdrew her right hand. “I’m busy. If there’s nothing else, go and evacuate the crowd, bring supplies, and let them stay away from Chicago.”

Lin Jiayao said, already preparing to turn around and collect the large amount of Blood Crystals stored in this B-rank’s room.

Being able to use Blood Crystals to create a pseudo-A rank brain in such a short time, the boss of the Headshavers must have stored a lot of Blood Crystals.

“Please wait!” Pamela called out to Lin Jiayao, who was about to turn around, and just stood there, half-kneeling down, lowering her head, and said, “Can I follow you? I’m willing to be parasitized.”

Lin Jiayao: “?”

Why was there such a request?

This was the first time Lin Jiayao had seen such a strange request.

Wasn’t she just in a state of no desire to survive, just seeking death?

Forget it, there were many lunatics in the apocalypse, let alone those with brain problems. A free B-rank combat power, don’t let it go to waste.

Lin Jiayao raised her hand and pointed at the half-kneeling Pamela. Several brain worms flew towards Pamela.

Pamela looked up at the brain worms, but there was no fear in her eyes, as if she had no emotions.

Was her frontal lobe cut off?

Lin Jiayao, who was very familiar with brain structure and had seen more brains than others had eaten, quickly came to a guess.

The brain worms followed the existing gap in Pamela’s brain, bit open the nails that sutured the bones, lifted part of the scalp and skull, and drilled in.

Blood flowed down her head and across Pamela’s face, but she didn’t show any expression of pain.

She could even feel something stirring in her brain.

After those brain worms drilled into her brain, after a long time, Pamela, who had been half-kneeling there with a blank expression, suddenly showed a puzzled look.

Huh? Puzzled?

Pamela blinked her already…

This emotion, which she hadn’t felt for a long time, suddenly appeared, making her a little at a loss. Soon, tears flowed down her cheeks uncontrollably.

“Huh… hahaha… hahahaha!!!” She was like a lunatic, sitting on the ground, crying and laughing.

This was the first time she had felt emotions and a clear mind since she was caught here. The previous feeling of her brain being covered with a cloth had completely disappeared.

Lin Jiayao glanced at her and then ignored Pamela, who was having a mental breakdown below, planning to wait until she calmed down.

Everyone who was controlled here had sutures and gaps in their brains, which was why so few of them had hair.

Either their frontal lobes had been cut off, or other parts of their brains had been destroyed. If they were freed from Yuri’s control, many of them would soon die in the apocalypse.

Because the most severely affected, after being freed from Yuri’s mind control, couldn’t even walk, and could only lie on the ground drooling.

Lin Jiayao would implant brain worms into those who couldn’t move or think later. What they chose to do next was their own business.

She walked to the chair, and controlled the bone spur insects and red flying insects to start dismantling the things inside.

This huge chair had everything: a crusher, a vacuum suction device, a water pump, storage batteries, and a generator…

Its main purpose was to crush the originally complete Blood Crystals into powder, and then, before the powder fused back into Blood Crystals, mix them with cerebrospinal fluid and inject them into the brain.

Several liters of cerebrospinal fluid… would be heated and then extracted.

How many people did he have to kill to extract so much?

It was even possible that he specifically raised a group of ordinary people for regular cerebrospinal fluid extraction.

It seemed that his death was too easy.

Lin Jiayao turned off the machine, unplugged the tubes, and shook her head slightly.

There was still a lot of extraction time left. She would see if there were any people who could be saved later and try her best to save them. This was all Lin Jiayao could do, after all, she was also facing potential danger at any time.

While Lin Jiayao was counting the Blood Crystals stored by Yuri, the flying insects she deployed outside saw Pamela stand up.

She took out the dagger from her waist with a bitter smile, and sharp ice covered the dagger along her palm, and she stabbed it towards her own eyeball.

Looking back at those painful memories after regaining her emotions made her mind completely collapse.

“Thud—”

Lin Jiayao gently snapped her fingers, and Pamela’s body froze, slowly falling into a deep sleep under the control of the brain worm.

People who suffered great blows were generally impulsive. Lin Jiayao let her sleep peacefully. If she still wanted to commit suicide after waking up, Lin Jiayao naturally wouldn’t stop her, and would even wait beside her for the Blood Crystals to precipitate.

“Buzz—”

Under Lin Jiayao’s control, the green bugs swarmed out, searching for any possible hidden compartments where Blood Crystals might be stored.