Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 272

Chapter 272: Little Golden Angel

America, Illinois, Chicago.

Amidst the chaotic ruins, a giant, pale purple sphere stood tall. Its lower half was covered by a black hive, like carapace, and its base was a writhing mass of multicolored tentacles.

A golden human figure floated in the center of the sphere, like a vertical pupil.

“Crack—”

A thin crack appeared on the surface of the pale purple sphere.

This crack seemed to disrupt the sphere’s internal balance, and a large amount of dark blood churned within, engulfing the golden figure.

On a distant rooftop, a small, white figure, which had been standing motionless, suddenly opened its eyes at the sound of the crack.

Its scarlet pupils, watching the changes in the giant eyeball, first showed a hint of confusion, but quickly, the confusion turned into excitement.

“Mommy?”

It whispered, and two pairs of thin, blood-red wings unfolded behind it, fluttering in the wind high above the buildings, as if ready to take flight.

But then, the little white figure’s ahoge twitched slightly, and it slowly retracted its wings.

Just now, when it saw the pitch-black giant eyeball, it felt a sense of being watched.

No, “watched” wasn’t the right word.

It was “locked on.”

The moment it stood up and looked at the eyeball, it was “locked on” by something, as if its every move, even its internal structure, was being dissected and exposed.

Like being in a sealed space filled with surveillance cameras, with several emotionless lenses staring at you from every angle.

It had never experienced this feeling before.

This small figure, frozen on the rooftop, was Huayibai, who had been waiting for Goldie’s evolution to complete.

Now, Huayibai only dared to peek over the edge of the rooftop railing, watching the distant eyeball from afar.

Even some of the mycelium closer to the eyeball had been retracted by Huayibai, giving the giant eyeball ample space.

As she watched, another crack appeared on the now-black eyeball.

But this time, the crack wasn’t as thin as before, but a huge golden fissure, almost a quarter of the black eyeball’s size.

“Rumble…”

The tentacles buried in the rubble around the giant eyeball slowly rose and curled inwards.

Like a black Lycoris radiata flower closing its petals, they tightly enveloped the black eyeball, leaving no gaps.

The moment the last gap closed, the feeling of being “locked on” vanished from Huayibai, as if it had never existed.

Although this feeling was gone, Huayibai could no longer observe any changes inside, and she gradually became anxious.

Inside, hidden from Huayibai’s view, the changes within the eyeball continued.

The golden fissure was expanding. This form of evolution was seven or eight parts similar to Lin Jiayao’s simulation in the Eyeball Cube’s dream world.

Numerous tentacles tightly pressed against the eyeball’s outer shell, preventing the golden nutrient solution flowing from the fissure from leaking out.

Finally, after the number of cracks reached a critical point, the entire eyeball began to change drastically.

The outer shell of the giant, pale purple eyeball, like glass, began to collapse inwards, the fragments being sucked into the darkness within.

Even this darkness itself was contracting towards the center, quickly shrinking from forty meters to ten, and it was still shrinking.

This inward contraction had also occurred during Huayibai’s evolution. This was the final reshaping.

Compared to the unstable shocks and massive blood crystal liquid waste during Huayibai’s evolution, Goldie’s evolution this time seemed much more orderly.

Soon, everything was devoured, leaving only a black sphere three meters in diameter.

This sphere, completely exposed, spun rapidly in the center of the converging tentacles, like a vortex.

Soon, the devouring of the eyeball spread to the surrounding tentacles.

One tentacle after another rapidly withered, both the pale golden tentacles for storing blood crystal liquid and the black hive tentacles, all reduced to dry “branches,” only their outer layers remaining.

And after absorbing this final bit of energy, the black sphere expanded again.

“Boom—”

The rapidly spinning black sphere, after expanding to five meters, exploded. The black shockwave from the explosion instantly reached a hundred meters away, like a black atomic bomb detonating.

But this explosion only lasted for an instant. In the next second, like rewinding a film, the expanding black shockwave rapidly retracted before reaching Huayibai, condensing back into a black sphere.

Only this time, the black sphere was no longer spinning.

A black sphere, two meters in diameter, floated silently in the open space.

The shockwave just now had flattened the surrounding area within a hundred meters, not even a single piece of rubble remaining.

This black sphere, silently suspended in the wasteland, was slowly cracking and dissipating, revealing the extraordinary life gestating within.

The black sphere began to collapse from the bottom. When it had shrunk to about fifty centimeters, it finally revealed what was inside.

A pair of small, white feet.

As the black fragments continued to fall and dissipate, slender calves, straight thighs, a flat lower abdomen, a slender waist… gradually emerged.

It looked like the figure of a normal little girl.

And compared to Goldie’s previous somewhat underdeveloped physique, her figure after evolution was now more perfect and well-proportioned, as if sculpted according to perfect ratios.

When the black sphere shrunk to just above her waist, the figure’s hair also gradually emerged.

Unlike the previous dull gold, Goldie’s hair was now a brilliant, pure gold, with a luminous white sheen, exuding an indescribable “divine” aura, even a sense of untouchable fragility.

Even under the bright midday sun, this golden hair made everything around it seem dim, like a permanent highlight on a dark canvas.

“Crack—”

The remaining half of the sphere shattered with a loud bang, and the girl, no longer supported, fell towards the ground.

“Thump—”

She landed steadily, her magnificent hair cascading down, obscuring her face. She slowly raised her head and looked towards a small head peeking from the rooftop of a distant building.

She looked like an angel who had strayed into the mortal world, her beautiful face and body slowly revealed as she lifted her head.

If there were any onlookers, they might have this illusion. But Huayibai, who was being watched, didn’t think so.

The moment she was seen by the strange humanoid creature below, Huayibai’s mind buzzed, and a cacophony of noise and every word that had ever made her uncomfortable and afraid echoed in her ears.

What she saw in her eyes was not the vast, barren plain and the beautiful girl, but a reflection of a terrifying red sea of fire.

Countless figures were hanging upside down in the sea of fire, most of them Lin Jiayao, burned beyond recognition, and a smaller number were charred red umbrella cap mushrooms—herself.

It was a true roasted mushroom hell.

But at this moment, Huayibai found that the wings behind her were spreading uncontrollably.

She could only watch as she unsteadily landed on the wall and jumped towards the burning flames, her two pairs of blood wings like those of a fighter jet, helping her glide towards the center of the sea of fire.

She could even feel the burning pain of the flames, the smell of burning flesh and the sensation of her skin melting, but she was powerless to change anything.

Just as the fear and despair in her heart and the frantic whispers in her ears reached their peak, she was about to fall face-first into the center of the fire.

At this moment, her wings involuntarily flapped, slowing her descent, and then, she crashed into a cold but soft embrace.

The moment she was held, the whispers in Huayibai’s ears disappeared, the terrifying fire around her was instantly extinguished, and the previously hanging figures and mushrooms vanished.

The surrounding area was once again an open space bathed in sunlight, as if nothing had happened.

She… she was saved?

Feeling the cool, smooth embrace, Huayibai slowly raised her head and looked into a pair of emerald green eyes.

No, not a pair, but one green pupil and one almost pure gold pupil.

The green pupil seemed to be Goldie’s original eye color, and the gold in her right eye was very likely from the absorbed golden eyeball.

Lin Jiayao, holding Huayibai in her arms, quickly organized her thoughts.

Now her mind and power were in a highly charged state, and she needed some time to adjust, to retract the released energy and aura.

She had sensed Huayibai’s fear and mental fluctuations from afar and just wanted Huayibai to be a little closer to her. Unexpectedly, Huayibai seemed to understand and flew directly over.

Now, looking at Huayibai’s expression, she was still a little panicked, her scarlet pupils trembling slightly, as if she had been greatly frightened by something.

While organizing her chaotic thoughts and getting used to Goldie’s newly acquired abilities and the changes in her body, Lin Jiayao slowly raised her right hand and looked at her pale, slender fingers.

Indeed… she had become humanoid.

However, Lin Jiayao, who had gradually become familiar with Goldie’s abilities, knew that the current Goldie wasn’t completely humanoid.

Rather than saying she had transformed into a human, it was more like she had transformed into a more “energy-saving” “standby” mode.

Because Lin Jiayao sensed the existence of another, more aggressive form, but because Huayibai was present and might also be affected, she didn’t try to reveal that form.

Even if her form didn’t change, the current Goldie was no longer the small eyeball in a human skin suit from her B-rank stage.

Lin Jiayao stared at her palm, and a golden sphere slowly condensed. A flying insect, like a firefly, with a glowing golden tail, slowly rose from her palm.

The entire flying insect was triangular and streamlined, with razor-sharp elytra, a triangular head with a metallic sheen, and bone spur claws with tiny chainsaws.

This was a flying insect that combined the characteristics of all flying insects and had evolved again.

Even the time for the insects to transform between forms was saved, and a single flying insect now possessed the abilities of all flying insects.

And as she unleashed her second form, the abilities and appearance of these flying insects would also change drastically.

If she had to make a rough classification,

The golden human form was more inclined towards “building nests”, “scavenging”, and “reproduction”.

The black form was more inclined towards mental attacks and destruction.

If this current golden human form symbolized “storage”, then the other black form symbolized “release”.

Just judging from the evolutionary abilities, it seemed very similar to the eyeball form inside the prismatic crystal she saw before.

It was also a golden eyeball and a black eyeball, but the initial form combined the two.

Now, after being influenced by her blood, the original single form had been divided into two… This was definitely a weakening.

After all, her main body wasn’t a traditional mental-type or hive-type blood crystal, and her genes were definitely a negative addition to Goldie’s evolution.

There might be some hidden benefits that hadn’t been discovered yet, but at least for now, losing the combined black and gold eyeball form was a weakening.

What a pity.

Lin Jiayao thought of the double-sided eyeball with tentacles and sighed slightly in her heart.

She glanced at the surrounding Extraction Points. The distances were all very close, and there was still more than an hour left until extraction time. Lin Jiayao wasn’t in a hurry, but planned to find a place to test her abilities.

After all, because of the system’s computing power limitations, the training ground couldn’t simulate A-ranks now, and Lin Jiayao couldn’t simulate Goldie in the training ground for practice, so she could only try it herself on the spot.

Let Huayibai stay in a more distant place first, otherwise, Lin Jiayao, who wasn’t very skilled yet, was afraid of accidentally injuring Huayibai.

Lin Jiayao refocused her gaze on Huayibai’s face, only to find that Huayibai no longer looked panicked, but had narrowed her eyes and was clinging to her.

Seeing her gaze, Huayibai slightly opened her narrowed eyes, hugged Lin Jiayao, and asked, “Mommy, do you want clothes?

Huayibai can make many, many clothes~”