Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 247

Chapter 247: Locating the Main Body

True, living A-rank flesh and blood was even harder to devour than Lin Jiayao had imagined.

The mycelium extending from Lin Jiayao’s mouth encountered strong resistance as it latched onto the flesh.

It was like trying to drink bubble tea with a straw clogged by a giant tapioca pearl.

The devouring ability A4 obtained wasn’t as strong as Huayibai’s. Directly devouring a living creature was basically impossible.

“Shing—”

Lin Jiayao’s right hand transformed into a bone blade, slicing into the flesh around the opening, creating a shallow wound.

Fortunately, the A-rank flesh wasn’t as tough as its outer shell. The bone blade could cut it.

Lin Jiayao’s hands transformed into bone claws, and she began digging out chunks of flesh and blood, piling them to one side.

The freshly carved pieces of flesh and blood twitched slightly, as if still alive.

After trembling for a while, they even began to wriggle towards the bloody holes Lin Jiayao had created.

Like flesh worms trying to return to their nest.

To avoid wasting her efforts, Lin Jiayao didn’t dig out too much at once.

She grabbed a large chunk of flesh and blood in each hand, tossed them onto the wriggling pile of meat, sat down on the bloody ground, and extended her mycelium towards the pile.

This was too slow…

The flesh, freshly cut, was still too active.

It was like poking a few small holes in the tapioca pearl clogging the straw.

Although she could get a little “milk tea,” it was much slower than before.

At this rate, it would take her ten minutes to devour this small pile of meat.

The situation on the battlefield was constantly changing; she didn’t have time for a “picnic.”

It seems to be recovering. Be careful.

The little blue serpent on her forehead glowed, sending a warning amidst its efforts.

The large amount of mental energy Lin Jiayao had used to simulate the A-rank evolution seemed to have temporarily stunned the A-rank.

But now, it was about to recover.

She had to speed up.

Several pustules swelled on Lin Jiayao’s arms. Soon, these dark green pustules burst, revealing the bloody holes within.

“Pfft—”

Lin Jiayao raised her arms, and several dark green poisonous balls shot out, exploding on the pile of meat.

The green pus splattered, covering the flesh.

The moment the poison touched the flesh, a sizzling sound, like grilling meat, filled the air. The flesh began to rot, emitting black smoke that filled the small space between the flesh and the carapace.

Now, let’s try again.

Lin Jiayao opened her mouth again, her mycelium covering the pile of meat, devouring it with all her might.

To her surprise, the green pus seemed to neutralize the activity of the severed flesh.

Along with the poison, Lin Jiayao quickly devoured all the flesh and blood.

The taste wasn’t pleasant, but now wasn’t the time to be picky.

The A-rank flesh and blood was rapidly broken down within Lin Jiayao’s body, converting into energy and replenishing the Blood Crystals she had consumed activating the Annihilation Pupils.

The burns on her hands and back quickly healed, the nearly depleted black scales renewed, and even more mycelium tubes grew on her body.

The swollen mycelium tubes, layered and intertwined, covered the parts of her body without weapons, making her look grotesque and bulky.

Her head, the only part not mutated, looked like it had been photoshopped onto this body, completely out of place.

Like a Predator with a beautiful woman’s head.

Whether it looked good or not didn’t matter, as long as it was strong enough.

Lin Jiayao clenched her fists, feeling the renewed power coursing through her body, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Although she felt mentally drained, and the regenerated parts of her body weren’t as strong as the originals, at least she had regained her offensive capabilities.

“Rumble…”

A muffled sound echoed around Lin Jiayao, and she felt the “ground” around her shaking.

And the opening in the fleshy wall, created by the laser, was slowly closing.

The A-rank was recovering from its stunned state; the counterattack was coming.

There was no time to hesitate. Lin Jiayao leaped towards the opening, her massive claws gripping the edges of the fleshy wall, clinging to it like a gecko.

After crawling for about four or five meters, Lin Jiayao finally made it through the thick fleshy wall and entered a slightly larger space.

A huge “chamber” surrounded by fleshy walls.

Lin Jiayao was familiar with this place. Mask had extracted from a similar place before, later being ejected by some unknown liquid after logging in.

The main body couldn’t be in these chambers; these chambers were used to trap ordinary zombies.

And the fleshy walls inside were extremely thick, even Mask couldn’t penetrate them. They were like prison cells, and Lin Jiayao didn’t want to risk entering one again.

There were passages between the chambers; there was no need to enter them.

Lin Jiayao clung to the edge, not jumping into the chamber, but searching for other paths within the fleshy well she was in.

Many blue serpents had drilled down from here earlier. Since they weren’t in the chambers, there must be a passage she hadn’t discovered.

Super-Sensory Hunt.

Lin Jiayao activated Super-Sensory Hunt, which had deactivated earlier due to excessive consumption. Everything around her transformed into lines.

Like Mask’s Bone Spike Lurker, Super-Sensory Hunt couldn’t penetrate the A-rank’s shell from the outside, but from within, she could see everything.

Countless chambers appeared around Lin Jiayao. If this A-rank were a building, Lin Jiayao was currently on the top floor.

And below her, layer upon layer of chambers stretched out. Most were empty, only a few containing zombies in the process of being repaired.

And within the fleshy walls connecting the chambers, there was indeed a passage.

Lin Jiayao crawled to the middle of the fleshy well and saw the easily missed crack in the flesh.

The crack was tightly closed. Lin Jiayao thrust her giant claws into it and ripped it open.

A large chunk of flesh and blood was torn apart, revealing a narrow passage within.

The blue serpents had entered through this crack before it closed.

Lin Jiayao jumped into the opening she had created.

“Thump, thump, thump—”

She rapidly crawled downwards through the narrow, seemingly bottomless, bloody passage.

As she crawled, her detection range expanded. She even saw several blue lines, representing blue serpents, trapped in different chambers.

It seemed the blue serpents that had entered didn’t have very good detection abilities. Once they mistakenly entered a chamber in this fleshy maze, they were trapped.

Lin Jiayao didn’t try to rescue them; it would waste too much time.

It was better to use her detection abilities to quickly search the A-rank’s insides and mark the main body’s location for the Blue Serpent.

Soon, a chamber completely filled with black lines appeared in Lin Jiayao’s line-of-sight, standing out like an inkblot on a white page.

Found it.

Lin Jiayao crawled towards the black lines, using both hands and feet, and mentally addressed the blue serpent on her forehead:

“I think I found it. Can you see it?”

Yes, but all my bodies inside are trapped. Wait for me to open another passage…

“Rumble…”

Whether due to Lin Jiayao’s approach or the Blue Serpent’s intensified attacks outside, the entire chamber began to shake.

And the fleshy walls on both sides of Lin Jiayao were slowly closing in.

“It seems I can’t wait…” Before she could finish, Lin Jiayao reduced the range of Super-Sensory Hunt to ten meters. The surrounding vibrations slowed in her perception.

She had already memorized the specific location and route. Now, she just had to reach that chamber before the fleshy walls crushed her into a patty.

“Crack, crack, crack—”

As she accelerated, her claws flew across the fleshy walls, each movement tearing off chunks of flesh and spraying blood.

As if surprised by Lin Jiayao’s fearless charge deeper, the fleshy walls began to close faster.

Soon, Lin Jiayao could no longer maintain her crawling posture, the wall behind her pressing against her back.

Almost there…

For the final stretch, Lin Jiayao held nothing back. Her movements had already been detected.

“Click—”

The black scales on her back and arms opened, and a torrent of scarlet flames, laced with lightning, erupted, propelling her forward along the fleshy wall.

“Thump—”

Without any room to brake, Lin Jiayao slammed headfirst into the end of the fleshy wall just before it completely closed.

Her entire body was now pinned, as if squeezed in a giant hydraulic press, immense pressure coming from above and below.

“Crack, crack, crack—”
“Pop—”

Crushed by the force, the mycelium tubes on her body burst one by one, and the bones in her body creaked ominously.

In a few seconds, she would be crushed.

At this critical moment, she couldn’t afford to hesitate.

Lin Jiayao decisively abandoned all her Blood Crystal reserves and the mycelium tubes and black scales covering her body.

The armor shattered and detached, giving Lin Jiayao a moment of mobility. She abruptly raised her head, looked at the fleshy wall before her, and pressed her hand against it.

A crack opened in her palm, a scarlet vertical pupil appearing and rapidly charging.

“Buzz—!”

A dazzling beam of light erupted from Lin Jiayao’s palm.

“Boom—”

The beam collided with the fleshy wall at close range, causing a violent explosion in the confined space.

The flames and the smoke from the explosion blasted an irregular hole in the narrow space, sending chunks of flesh flying.

And at the center of the beam’s impact, a hole had been blasted open. Through the hole, Lin Jiayao could already see the golden light emanating from within.

Lin Jiayao only had time to grab a relatively intact mycelium tube, kicked off the fleshy wall behind her with both legs, and, before the opening closed, carrying the blue serpent, she squeezed through.

“Thump—”

After entering the hole, before Lin Jiayao could even see anything, she lost control of her body, tumbling and falling under the pull of gravity, landing on a soft sarcoma.

Using the momentum, Lin Jiayao rolled to her feet and quickly scanned her surroundings.

This entire chamber emitted a pale golden light, emanating from huge eyeballs embedded in the fleshy walls.

The “sarcoma” Lin Jiayao had landed on was one of these eyeballs.

This was a fleshy space enveloped by eyeballs. Lin Jiayao didn’t see anything else in the chamber.

Compared to a main body, this place looked more like a trap room filled with deadly weapons, waiting for Lin Jiayao to fall in…

“A trap?” Lin Jiayao asked mentally, addressing the blue serpent attached to her forehead.

No, it’s him, wait for me…
I can’t stay here.

The vibrations intensified. The Blue Serpent’s attacks on the carapace were becoming more frantic. It seemed to know something.

And the blue serpent on Lin Jiayao’s forehead suddenly lost its life force. It withdrew its bone wings, turning into blue light and dissipating before Lin Jiayao.

What happened?

Lin Jiayao instinctively took a step back, and all the eyeballs in this space slowly turned, following her movement.

Seeing this, Lin Jiayao froze.

She stood there, not daring to move.

Why did the blue serpent commit suicide after marking the location and bringing her here?

Now Lin Jiayao couldn’t even contact the Blue Serpent and could only wait. She kept glancing at the system countdown in the upper right corner, not wanting to miss a second.

Did these eyeballs all have the “offspring’s” ability? Did the blue serpent commit suicide to avoid being controlled?

Then why didn’t these eyeballs use their ability on her?

Was it because she had blown one up before?

Lin Jiayao, emboldened, slowly took a step forward.

One step, two steps, three steps… The eyeballs followed her movements, but did nothing, not even attacking.

If you don’t attack me, then I’ll attack you.

Lin Jiayao’s right hand, covered in mycelium and bone spurs, transformed into a sharp claw.

She stood before one of the eyeballs, her gaze fixed on it, and pressed her claw against its surface.

This time, the eyeball finally reacted.

It slowly retracted, as if trying to avoid Lin Jiayao’s claw.

Afraid?

An A-rank… actually avoiding her attack?

She had already given the location information to the Blue Serpent, and this body couldn’t carry anything anyway. Even if she died, it wouldn’t affect her.

Might as well try.

Lin Jiayao swung her arm and abruptly stabbed at the retracting eyeball.