Chapter 268: Evolution “Ritual” p2
Lin Jiayao didn’t know if it was because her own mental power had increased, but now after logging into Goldie, although Goldie’s current body and mind were in a very unstable state, Lin Jiayao felt that she could steadily suppress this instability.
Fortunately, she chose to wait until the Spirit research in the Research Lab was complete before logging into Goldie, otherwise, Lin Jiayao would definitely not be able to control the current Goldie.
It was estimated that once she logged in, she would experience the weightless, crazy switching like during the previous extraction, and she would have to experience it for a full twenty-four hours.
While waiting for Huayibai to arrive, Lin Jiayao could find a suitable and undisturbed place for evolution.
From the wide-area reconnaissance of the green bugs, she could see that within twenty or thirty kilometers of this city, there wasn’t a single zombie in sight. The Headshavers who were originally at the naval pier had probably scattered and fled.
In this area, besides Lin Jiayao, there was only the woman in front of her left.
She hadn’t left yet? And she even made a wooden board to block the sun for Goldie…
Goldie’s skin, before she had the Insulated Rubber Skin, indeed couldn’t be exposed to sunlight.
But after evolving to B-rank, the entire human form had become a “rubber suit” to protect Goldie’s main body, block sunlight, and provide protection. It would no longer react to sunlight.
But she should send this woman away first. The destructive power of an A-rank evolution was not something that a B-rank like her could withstand.
Otherwise, Lin Jiayao wouldn’t risk letting Huayibai come over. She could just directly send her mycelium clone over to assist, and when she lacked Blood Crystals, she could let Goldie directly swallow her mycelium clone.
“Buzz—” A large number of flying insects emerged from a nearby building, flew into the pit, and then transformed into relatively large bone spur flying insects, lining up in front of Lin Jiayao like a staircase.
Lin Jiayao followed the stairs and walked towards the top of the pit step by step. Under Pamela’s somewhat excited gaze, she stood in front of her.
She looked at Pamela, who was half-kneeling in front of her, turned her head and glanced at the wooden board behind her, and asked calmly, “You did this?”
“Yes… yes, because you were lying there motionless, and I didn’t dare to move your body, and the sun was very strong, so I…”
Pamela explained. After her emotions returned to normal, after these past few days, she no longer had the coldness she had when she was with the Headshavers.
Now, she had basically transformed all the negative emotions she had accumulated into a kind of feeling towards the zombie girl in front of her, like gratitude and repayment.
She was ready to serve this blonde zombie girl.
“Thank you.” Lin Jiayao nodded and said with a smile, “I’m glad to see that you didn’t choose to commit suicide.”
“Because I found a purpose in life.” Pamela did not stand up, but continued to speak fluently while maintaining a half-kneeling position, which looked like a knight in front of a princess.
“It’s a good thing to find a reason to live,” Lin Jiayao nodded, pointed to Milwaukee in the north, and continued, “If you can’t find a place to go for the time being, you can go north along the lake.”
“Go to Milwaukee, there’s a pretty good human camp there, they should be very happy to see a B-rank Awakened join them.”
Lin Jiayao noticed that when she said this, the originally excited and happy look in Pamela’s eyes suddenly changed.
So Lin Jiayao stopped and waited for her to speak.
“You, can’t I stay with you?” Pamela’s expression was clearly no longer as excited as before, but had become a little anxious and worried. After her emotions recovered, her emotional changes were obviously much greater than before.
“I’m a B-rank Awakened, and in the Headshavers, I was mainly responsible for deterring other Awakened and B-ranks in the team. I have enough strength to be your helper…”
As Pamela spoke, the logic in her words became lost.
She seemed to really want to stay with Goldie.
Looking at the woman half-kneeling in front of her with a pleading look on her face, Lin Jiayao shook her head and said, “This is not something a B-rank can solve. I’m asking you to leave now for the sake of your life.”
Seeing that she still didn’t seem to give up, Lin Jiayao gently shook her head and sighed, saying, “If you insist, I can take you back to my camp after this is over, but you have to leave now.”
“But…” Pamela opened her mouth, wanting to say something.
She wasn’t stupid, nor was she a child whose brain hadn’t fully developed. She knew how difficult it was to contact someone again after separating in the apocalypse without communication.
Once they separated, it was basically equivalent to never seeing each other again in this lifetime.
But before Pamela could finish speaking, she was interrupted by a vague voice in her mind.
“Your brain was repaired by me, I can naturally find you wherever you are.”
The voice in her mind was the voice of the blonde girl in front of her, but the girl in front of her clearly didn’t open her mouth.
The voice came directly from her subconscious, as if a memory of speaking had been implanted in her mind.
“Go to Milwaukee and wait.” The blonde girl’s voice sounded in Pamela’s mind again.
At the same time, a small fluorescent green bug floated down from the sky and landed in her palm, staying there quietly.
Holding the cold bug in her palm, Pamela’s heart finally calmed down. She stood up, looked down at the girl and nodded, then turned to leave.
But after running a few steps, she turned around and asked, “I have to know your name… Let me introduce myself again, my name is Pamela.”
“Jin.” (Gold)
“Okay, I’ll wait for you, Jin.”
Pamela nodded solemnly, then ran in the direction pointed by the blonde girl. After running a distance, she turned and ran back towards the naval base.
She decided to drive a car after all, running was too silly.
When Pamela drove out of Chicago, she saw a huge red dragon in the sky above Chicago, which was getting further and further away in the rearview mirror.
“Hiss—”
She slammed on the brakes, quickly opened the car window, looked back, and showed a puzzled expression.
Strange… there was nothing there.
Did she see it wrong?
Seeing that the green bug in her hand was still steadily emitting fluorescence, after observing the misty city behind her for a long time, Pamela still followed Jin’s words, got back in the car, and continued driving towards Milwaukee.
Meanwhile, in Chicago.
Lin Jiayao looked at Huayibai, who had put down her things and run over from afar with an excited look, and opened her arms.
But Lin Jiayao overestimated Goldie’s strength and stamina. Under Huayibai’s A-rank pounce, Goldie, whose body was already small, was directly knocked down by Huayibai, who was one centimeter taller than her.
“Mommy~! Mmm~” Huayibai hugged Lin Jiayao tightly, rubbing her face happily against hers, seemingly very happy to see the little golden Mommy clone again.
“Okay, okay…” Lin Jiayao smiled helplessly, reached out and patted Huayibai’s back, then lifted her collar, wanting to lift her up like before.
But because her arms were too short, Lin Jiayao failed. Huayibai wasn’t lifted, but her clothes were almost torn off.
Huayibai continued to rub against her for a few more seconds. After the excitement subsided, she finally rolled off Goldie, and the red mycelium quickly wrapped around her body, turning her into the high school Huayibai.
Huayibai half-knelt beside Lin Jiayao, reached out and picked her up horizontally, holding Lin Jiayao and spinning around a few times.
The difference in size made their roles seem reversed, and Lin Jiayao seemed to be the smaller one.
After indulging in the princess carry, Huayibai put Lin Jiayao down with a smile, then slightly bent down, bumped her forehead against Lin Jiayao’s forehead, and said with a smile: “Mom~ you’re so small~”
In front of Huayibai, who was 1.7 meters tall, whether it was height or figure, Goldie was completely defeated.
“It’s just a clone.” Lin Jiayao said with an expressionless face, then raised her right hand, poked Huayibai’s forehead with her index finger, and pushed her head away. “Don’t mess around, let’s get down to business.”
At this time, Lin Jiayao’s gaze had already fallen on the huge mycelium backpack that Huayibai had just put down.
The rich blood crystal content inside felt like it could almost reach Lin Jiayao’s previous highest inventory.
“Hee hee~ okay.” Huayibai took Lin Jiayao’s hand, swaying it as she walked towards the large bag of Blood Crystals and Blood Crystal Serum, seemingly enjoying holding Lin Jiayao’s hand like this.
The tiny Mommy seemed even cuter!
Huayibai, who aspired to hug all of Mommy’s clones, had already started thinking about where she could hug the new Mommy.
Without guessing what was going on in Huayibai’s mind, Lin Jiayao stood in front of the oversized mycelium bag.
“Buzz—”
A large number of green fluorescent bugs flew towards the mycelium backpack. At the same time, Huayibai also controlled the mycelium backpack to disintegrate, letting this part of her body return to herself.
After the mycelium backpack disintegrated, the originally piled Blood Crystals instantly scattered, including the Blood Crystal Serum, filling an entire backpack.
The green bugs, like tellers, quickly helped Lin Jiayao count the number of Blood Crystals and Blood Crystal Serums, and finally got a number.
241 Blood Crystals, 111 bags of Blood Crystal Serum.
During the journey, Huayibai consumed 19 bags of Blood Crystal Serum.
When she looked at the global blood crystal total before, the Blood Crystals that were constantly decreasing, like a reversing electricity meter, were probably caused by Huayibai’s full-speed flight.
Only the use of A-rank abilities could make the global blood crystal meter reverse. Normal zombies fighting each other, the total amount of blood crystals basically wouldn’t change much.
It was just transferring the blood crystals from one zombie to another.
Lin Jiayao also poured out the twenty-five bags of Blood Crystal Serum in the Safehouse and added them together.
If they were all calculated as 500g of Blood Crystals, then there were 377 Blood Crystals piled up in front of Lin Jiayao.
It had to be said that the Eyeball Cube’s Blood Crystal reserves were quite considerable.
But there was one thing Lin Jiayao didn’t quite understand, why didn’t the Eyeball Cube store the Blood Crystals in its own body, but hide them elsewhere?
If it was discovered by other blood crystals, wouldn’t it all be swallowed?
She would ask about this if she encountered the Eyeball Cube again.
She made a mental note of it.
With so many Blood Crystals in front of her and the ten cans of A-rank eyeball cans in the Safehouse, it should be enough for Goldie to evolve.
Now the only uncertainty was whether the evolution would be successful.
She had simulated evolution many times, and witnessed Huayibai’s evolution once, but this was the first time Lin Jiayao had actually started to evolve to A-rank herself.
She only hoped that the Lv.6 Spirit could make Lin Jiayao’s evolution path smoother.
“Buzz—”
The green fluorescent bugs in the sky quickly dispersed and began to search the entire Chicago.
At the same time, Lin Jiayao also looked up at Huayibai, who was looking at her with a smile, and said, “Do you have enough Blood Crystals in your body now?”
“Yes~” Huayibai nodded.
“Go, drink those Blood Crystal Serums until you’re full.” Lin Jiayao pointed to the Blood Crystal Serum and said, “I saved them for you.”
Huayibai was an important support for Lin Jiayao during evolution, and Lin Jiayao had to ensure that she was at her peak strength.
While Huayibai was devouring, Lin Jiayao quickly investigated the entire Chicago.
At the same time, Lin Jiayao also directed Huayibai, who was devouring the Blood Crystal Serum, to spread her mycelium blanket from the center outwards, covering the entire surrounding area.
This was an evolution “ritual” that was betting almost all her Blood Crystals, and she had to make full preparations.