Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 254

Chapter 254: Arriving in China

Autumn winds began to rise, and the temperature in the north reflected the change of seasons more distinctly than in the south.

“Pitter-patter, pitter-patter—”

A military Mengshi jeep sped through the wind and sand, pebbles striking the windshield with a constant crackle.

Inside were a middle-aged man with a crutch, a driver, and an accompanying Awakened.

Their destination was a nearly abandoned place.

The military jeep stopped outside an underground passage. This passage, originally leading to a subway station, had long been abandoned, filled with sand, gravel, and debris washed in by rain.

The middle-aged man in the back seat tightened his windbreaker, put on his hat, declined the umbrella offered by his subordinate, and got out of the car, braving the wind and sand, and entered the abandoned passage.

“Long time no see, friend.” Li Wei took off his hat, dusted off the sand, and looked at the glowing red eyes in the darkness.

It had been a long time since they had heard from the zombie before him. Even the usually calm Li Wei was starting to feel uneasy.

From the returning team and from Jiang Chun, who had returned and was preparing to leave again, Li Wei had learned about the changes happening outside.

The radio broadcast about Kun City, Jiang Chun and Survivor’s Light’s tragic fate, the warning from Kun City about the threat from the sea…

All of it pointed to troubled times ahead.

The cold winter was fast approaching.

The northern cold was no joke.

Even within the Northern Alliance, many people froze to death every winter.

Moreover, their food reserves were only enough to last through this winter.

This meant that before the next spring harvest, any disaster could lead to famine.

Li Wei had already dispatched exploration teams to distant cities to scavenge for canned goods and other supplies, hoping to stockpile enough food to withstand natural disasters before winter arrived.

But Li Wei was still worried. In the past, there would have been no solution to this situation.

But now, they could contact Kun City through the zombie in front of him. Perhaps through communication, they could get some help from Kun City.

Of course, they would pay a sufficient price, as long as the problem could be solved.

“Long time no see.”

As Li Wei was thinking, a hoarse voice came from before him.

“Shall we talk somewhere else? This environment isn’t very good.” Li Wei gestured with his cane towards the stairs and continued, “That Awakened you mentioned, Jiang Chun, has safely arrived in the north. It’s just that…”

“We can talk here.” Lin Jiayao, controlling the zombie, remained seated, looking at Li Wei and asking, “What about Jiang Chun?”

“It’s not a big deal… It seems she saved the deputy leader of a Pioneer Team. Now, to thank her, that team has agreed to help her find any surviving members of Survivor’s Light… They’re currently working on restoring communication with the controlled cities.”

Li Wei slowly explained the situation.

He was actually a bit worried about this.

After all, that Pioneer Team was the strongest in the Northern Alliance. If they were going to be on a different mission for a while, it meant that the north’s combat power would be weakened.

This gap had to be filled. Otherwise, with two B-ranks and a group of Awakened gone, their defenses would be compromised… Of course, this was a problem for the Northern Alliance to solve themselves.

They couldn’t keep all the Pioneer Teams tied to Jingzhou City, and they couldn’t expect Kun City to conjure up a group of people for them, complete with B-rank Awakened.

He wouldn’t even dream of such a thing. After all, in the north, those who could still move, and those who wanted to move, had basically all come to the Northern Alliance. Where could they find new people?

“I hope she hasn’t caused you any trouble,” Lin Jiayao said, looking at Li Wei.

“She obtained the food and delivered it to us, so it’s no trouble at all. We will fully support Miss Jiang’s efforts, as long as it doesn’t jeopardize the survival of the north.”

Li Wei’s expression remained unchanged, a polite smile on his face.

“That’s good.” Lin Jiayao nodded, deciding not to waste time on pleasantries, and got straight to the point. “Actually, I came here this time to discuss something.”

“Something? Please tell me.”

Li Wei feigned surprise, but he had already guessed that the other party must have something to discuss if they were controlling a zombie to come here.

“There’s a group of refugees I’d like the Northern Alliance to take in. If that’s not possible, you could shelter them for a few days until I send someone to pick them up.”

Lin Jiayao added, “As for any food consumed during their stay, I’ll repay you in canned goods.”

Food production in Kun City was now self-sufficient, even with a surplus.

Lin Jiayao could take a batch of food and vegetables, mix them with zombie meat, and make canned food—if they wanted meat, she could even have the Black Stem Fungus replicate some animal meat, make it into canned food, and transport it in bulk to the north.

Now, the food problem was no longer an issue for Kun City.

“Refugees?” Li Wei was taken aback.

Refugees? Refugees that would be picked up later?

They definitely weren’t from the south, otherwise, Kun City would have taken them in directly.

But the north… where would refugees come from?

The Northern Alliance had even accepted a group of survivors from Mongolia and Russia, but after so many years, things had mostly settled down. It had been a long time since they had seen any newcomers, let alone refugees.

“Yes, refugees from Japan.”

Lin Jiayao knew the situation was complicated, but she explained briefly:

“There were two A-ranks battling in the waters near Japan, and the country was almost destroyed. I managed to rescue some people who wanted to leave, and their ship is on its way here, it should be arriving soon.”

Lin Jiayao summarized the situation as concisely as possible.

But these simple words contained a huge amount of information that shocked Li Wei.

He had already seen from the standardized bags of Blood Crystal Serum that Kun City was quite powerful.

But he never expected them to be this powerful.

They could even conduct cross-sea, international rescues?

While two A-ranks were battling?

And… A-rank zombies?

What kind of concept was this?

He could count the number of B-rank zombies he had seen on one hand. Even including humans, he had seen no more than ten B-ranks.

Although he knew that blood crystal evolution hadn’t reached its limit, and he vaguely sensed that it could still be improved, he basically couldn’t imagine how powerful an A-rank was.

A B-rank’s full-powered attack, at its most extreme, could cover half a street, turning the area into ruins.

Then what about an A-rank? What kind of concept was that? Could it destroy a district with one punch? Or destroy half a city with a single ability?

And it wasn’t just one A-rank, but two?

Then the person behind this zombie, who could rescue so many people from two A-ranks, how terrifying must they be?

Li Wei took a deep breath, trying to calm himself, and then said:

“Please understand, I’ve never seen an Awakened or blood crystal stronger than B-rank…”

“You said you transferred those people from Japan, from under two A-ranks?”

“Are… are you also an A-rank Awakened? Did you force back two A-rank zombies?”

If the other party really was, Li Wei would have to consider taking the Northern Alliance’s accumulated supplies and migrating, directly joining Kun City.

“Oh, you misunderstood.”

Lin Jiayao knew that the Northern Alliance leader had misunderstood, waved her hand, and explained:

“I’m not an A-rank Awakened, and I didn’t force back those two A-ranks.”

“They were already seriously injured from fighting each other. I just took advantage of the situation.”

Would an ordinary person dare to wait beside two A-ranks to take advantage of the situation?

In other words,

Would an ant dare to watch two fighting humans, waiting to take a bite after they were dead?

The person behind this zombie was definitely not as low-key as she described. She was hiding her strength.

“Comrade… Lin, is it?” Li Wei took a deep breath and said, “There’s no problem with communication with the Japanese refugees. We have Awakened here who are Japanese exchange students. It’s just the situation there…”

“You don’t have to worry about those people. They are just people who want to escape the suffering and survive. They are law-abiding people.” Lin Jiayao directly addressed Li Wei’s concerns.

Hearing Lin Jiayao’s reply, Li Wei was relieved. He looked down at the cane in his hand with pursed lips, and after a while, he looked up at Lin Jiayao and said:

“The north can accept these people, but I have one condition.”

“What condition?” Lin Jiayao asked.

“I need that Combat Stimulant from last time.” Li Wei looked at Lin Jiayao and stated his condition. “The price is negotiable.”

“Blood Crystal Combat Stimulant?” Lin Jiayao asked.

She thought the other party would need Blood Crystal Serum, but unexpectedly, he wanted Combat Stimulant instead.

“Yes… as long as the price is not too expensive, I can purchase a large amount regularly.”

Li Wei paused slightly and continued:

“You know, many Awakened in the Pioneer Team, because of long-term battles and other reasons, have accumulated a lot of stress, and occasionally use drugs to stimulate their minds, and they become addicted…”

“There’s no way to completely stop this. Just like wars before the apocalypse, countries would also distribute these drugs to soldiers.”

“But the abuse of these drugs also causes many problems… even deaths from overdose. And this is the apocalypse, it’s basically impossible to prohibit this.”

“So, I’ve been looking for a substitute… After seeing those stimulants before, I also started experimenting.”

“These stimulants, even after being diluted with glucose solution or saline, can not only suppress addiction, but also have no side effects, and can also enhance combat power.”

Li Wei reached into his windbreaker pocket and took out an unused Blood Crystal Combat Stimulant.

“So I was thinking, can we purchase a large batch and directly use this Combat Stimulant to completely replace those drugs?”

Li Wei’s tone was very sincere, and what he was thinking about, the use of Blood Crystal Combat Stimulant, was indeed for practical purposes.

Even without her sister’s influence, Lin Jiayao probably wouldn’t refuse this request.

“Okay, cost price, 200g of Blood Crystals per tube.” Lin Jiayao said directly.

“Cost price? No…” Li Wei was about to refuse, but was interrupted by Lin Jiayao.

“At least they can’t become like those unrestrained addicts of the Voodoo Cult.” Lin Jiayao waved her hand and slowly stood up. “How many do you need? I’ll bring them next time.”

Voodoo Cult?

The terrifying organization that ravaged the central and southern regions before the cross-river bridges were opened and communication was restored?

From the few words of Jiang Chun and Comrade Lin in front of him, he also understood how anti-human that organization was. Since they had talked about this, Li Wei couldn’t continue to refuse.

After thinking about how much he would need to dilute it enough for most people to get rid of their addiction, he slowly said:

“Fifty tubes… if not, ten…”

“Okay, fifty tubes, twenty Blood Crystals.”

“Okay… oh right, those refugees you mentioned, which sea area did they land in? I’ll send someone over to pick them up immediately…”

“Tianzhou Port…”

Lin Jiayao walked towards the Extraction Point in the wind and sand, while communicating with Li Wei beside her, who was leaning on his crutch, about the handover and trade matters.

After arriving at another subway station Extraction Point three thousand meters away, Lin Jiayao had finished all the talks and agreed with Li Wei on the refugee handover and stimulant trade matters.

For the Blood Crystal Combat Stimulant, Lin Jiayao only charged 200g of Blood Crystals, which was the original exchange price with the system, and she didn’t intend to profit.

Just treat it as paying the living expenses for those Japanese people, and she would find a way to get it back from them later.

What? You said why would she want to get it back if she didn’t make a profit or lose anything?

No profit is a loss!

Before extracting, Lin Jiayao also received a down payment of five Blood Crystals from the other party, which was full of sincerity.

Although five Blood Crystals didn’t seem like much to Lin Jiayao, for an ordinary Awakened, or even a camp, it was definitely a considerable amount.

Not to mention that it was a down payment paid before even seeing the goods, which was enough to show the other party’s trust in Lin Jiayao.

After dealing with the matters here, Lin Jiayao stepped into the Extraction Point and sat there, waiting for extraction.

Skipping the settlement space, Lin Jiayao directly let her consciousness return to her body.

[Please retain your evolution.]
[1. [Bite Lv.3 (White)]: …]

Gundam was just a C-rank Sprinter zombie, at most a bit bigger and with some genetic talent, but nothing special, so naturally, there wouldn’t be any powerful evolutions.

Lin Jiayao directly chose Lv.3 Bite, felt a slight itch in her teeth and gums, and then ignored this tasteless evolution.

It was time to log into the real A4.

Lin Jiayao wanted to control A4 to rush to the estuary of Yangzhou City, contact the Blue Serpent within an hour, and explain the matters related to the port and Huayibai to it.

A4 was now less than a hundred kilometers away from the estuary. At full speed, one hour was definitely enough.

Lin Jiayao closed her eyes and reopened the login interface.

[No.1: [Mask] (Available)]
[No.2: [Unnamed] (Available)]
[No.3: [Goldie] (Available)]
[No.4: [A4] (Available)]
[No.5: [Ino] (Available)]
[No.6: 🌐 (Available)]
[No.7: [Gundam] (Available)]
[No.8: 🌐 (Available)]
[No.9 – Descend – (23:41:51)]

Lin Jiayao moved her consciousness to A4 and confirmed the login.

After a brief trance, Lin Jiayao’s consciousness successfully switched to A4’s body, and she slowly opened her eyes.

As soon as she opened her eyes, she felt that her stomach seemed a bit bloated, as if there was something that hadn’t been digested yet.

After a while, Lin Jiayao belatedly remembered that this seemed to be the thing she had poured into A4.

Soon, Lin Jiayao devoured and absorbed everything in her stomach, and her pupils began to turn brown, as if filled with worms.

This was the change she had felt during the descend before. Now A4’s main body also successfully had this evolution.

After briefly glancing at the Extraction Point, Lin Jiayao locked onto a certain Extraction Point 100 kilometers to the south.

[HK International Airport Extraction Point: 102KM]

That place should be mostly submerged, very close to where the Blue Serpent and the Flesh and Blood Cube were. She should be able to arrive within an hour.

“Boom—”

Black scales formed on Lin Jiayao’s back, and with a terrifying flame ejection sound, her figure turned into a stream of light and rushed towards the distance.

One hour later.

At Tianzhou Port in Tianzhou City, a warship towed by a giant blue serpent slowly docked by the port.

The huge mycelium monster originally lying on the deck of the warship was dragged into the sea before docking.

And the Blue Serpent, after towing the ship to the port, also directly left the port, leaving only a ship full of people, looking at the slightly messy port below and a few convoys that had just arrived at the port with dumbfounded expressions.

The people who got out of the convoy held up a red banner with a line of words sprayed in gold paint in Japanese.

“Warmly welcome our Japanese friends to the north.”

The others were cheering excitedly, waving at the convoy below, but one person seemed out of place in this atmosphere of escaping death.

Kisaragi Mika, standing on the deck, saw that the people were being orderly taken off the ship and even given a can of food each.

It seemed that the people who came ashore were safe, and the Chinese people who came to greet them seemed very friendly.

But Kisaragi Mika kept staring in the direction where the Blue Serpent left, worried.

Where was the Ino God… Didn’t He ask her to follow His daughter?

But His daughter was suddenly dragged into the sea halfway, and Kisaragi Mika couldn’t follow because she had to stay with the people on the ship.

After seeing that almost everyone had been taken off the ship, and the blue color was getting further and further away, almost out of sight, Kisaragi Mika finally made up her mind.

No, she had to follow.

Otherwise, she wouldn’t be able to find the Saint, and she wouldn’t have any way to return to Japan to find Lord Ino… If she lost track of them, she would completely lose contact with Lord Ino.

She had even specifically found a female Awakened who spoke Chinese on the ship and seriously studied Chinese for several hours, preparing to communicate with the Saint.

“I’ll leave the rest to you, I’m going to find the Ino God.” After shouting to the two B-rank Awakened who were maintaining order, Kisaragi Mika’s whole body glowed with a pink light.

“Buzz—”

Her figure quickly flew towards the sea, in the direction where the Blue Serpent left.

It wasn’t until she felt that she was getting further and further away from the coast, almost out of sight of the coast, that she finally saw the Blue Serpent swarm resurfacing.

At this time, the serpent swarm had already separated into several smaller snakes, arranged in a strange formation, emitting blue light.

And one of the larger blue serpents, about ten meters long, had something wrapped around its tail…

A mushroom?

It was a huge mushroom with a white stem, a scarlet cap, and countless thin mycelia.

The Blue Serpent, holding the mushroom, was about to drill into the blue hole formed by the smaller blue serpents.

This hole had already “swallowed” all the small blue serpents.

Seemingly noticing the light spot above, the Blue Serpent raised its head above the water and looked up at the sky.

Seeing the Blue Serpent looking at her, Kisaragi Mika stopped in mid-air, not knowing what to do for a moment.

She knew that the other party was very strong, but she didn’t know how to communicate with it, only that the Blue Serpent was very friendly to Lord Ino.

It looked like a divine pet.

In Kisaragi Mika’s vision, she saw the Blue Serpent open its huge mouth towards her and stop in this posture.

Was it… letting her in?

After hesitating for a while, her desire not to lose contact with Lord Ino overcame her reason, and she flew directly towards the Blue Serpent’s huge mouth, fell into its mouth, and was swallowed directly.

After swallowing the girl, the Blue Serpent slightly twisted its body, adjusted the girl to a suitable position inside its translucent body, then wrapped its tail around the large mushroom behind it, and directly drilled into the blue hoop formed by the small snakes in front of it.

“Buzz—”

Its body turned into a stream of light and was quickly ejected to the next hoop’s location.