Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 288

Chapter 288: A-Rank Goldie

“Boom—”
“Boom—”

Ten thousand meters above, a figure with folded wings plummeted from the sky.

Considering the return trip, Lin Jiayao didn’t have much time left.

The American sun was high in the sky. If Lin Jiayao didn’t find anything within three hours, she would have to return to the Extraction Point.

She was currently controlling Goldie, being carried by a fully charged Huayibai towards a large coastal city.

LA (Los Angeles), the largest city on the west coast of America, with a pre-apocalypse population of over four million, the second largest city in the US.

Although it wasn’t as large as the mega-cities in China with tens of millions of people, it was still the largest city Lin Jiayao had seen on this flight.

But from above, the city seemed lifeless, not the scene of destruction by a giant creature that Lin Jiayao had imagined.

This meant that Lin Jiayao might come up empty-handed and not harvest many Blood Crystals.

But it didn’t matter. Lin Jiayao, having anticipated this possibility, had already made a backup plan.

On the way from the login point to the west, Lin Jiayao had released countless golden flying insects in major cities and towns.

These flying insects, released by Lin Jiayao, exploded in the air like cluster bombs, splitting into countless flying insects of various types to sweep these cities and towns.

Even if Lin Jiayao didn’t find anything in Los Angeles, she could still harvest the insect swarms she had “planted” along the way on her return trip.

According to Lin Jiayao’s estimation, this mad dash of spreading insect swarms had already earned her at least eighty Blood Crystals, and this was without encountering any B-rank zombies.

The scene that Lin Jiayao had envisioned, of cooperating with Huayibai for a large-scale harvest, had already appeared.

It was still somewhat difficult for an ordinary A-rank to wipe out a city, but for the A-rank Goldie, slaughtering a city full of non-A-rank zombies was simply too easy, as if she was born to do this.

During the rapid glide, Lin Jiayao seemed to see something through the green bugs she had deployed in advance, and she said to Huayibai behind her in mid-air: “Huayibai, the seaside.”

Huayibai, who received the command, quickly adjusted her descending posture and glided towards the seaside with Lin Jiayao.

The brain worms that Lin Jiayao had deployed before Goldie reached A-rank had lost contact during the evolution, but she could still sense their location. She just needed to get close enough to reactivate and control the dormant brain worms.

Just now, she sensed that there was a brain worm by the sea. She only needed to get a little closer to reactivate it and learn what had happened here through the memory fragments stored inside.

“Whoosh—”

With a strong gust of wind, Lin Jiayao landed directly on a beach, kicking up a cloud of dust.

And Huayibai behind her, after landing, also returned to her original form, clinging to Lin Jiayao’s back like a koala holding a book.

It wasn’t until Lin Jiayao reached back and patted her little butt that she reluctantly jumped down from Lin Jiayao.

Feeling a faint mental connection, Lin Jiayao walked towards the sea, and soon, she saw a fish-man zombie corpse floating on the sea surface.

She raised her hand, and a golden flying insect flew out from her palm, then exploded into countless crimson flying insects.

These flying insects vibrated their wings, dragged the three-meter-tall corpse floating on the sea to the shore.

Standing in front of this slender corpse, Lin Jiayao controlled the flying insects to dig open its abdomen, and among the mixture of flesh, blood, and brain matter inside, she found a black and white striped flying insect that hadn’t been digested.

Lin Jiayao controlled a crimson flying insect to grab the lost brain worm and directly dipped it into the seawater, washing it a few times before bringing it to her.

She slowly reached out and gently touched the brain worm held by the crimson flying insect with her right index finger.

After a while, the brain worm slowly vibrated its wings and flew towards Lin Jiayao’s palm, directly merging into Lin Jiayao’s body.

Some memory fragments began to flash in Lin Jiayao’s mind.

These memory fragments were very similar to when Lin Jiayao first used the Blood Orb Fungus to parasitize humans.

At that time, it was very difficult for Lin Jiayao to deal with those mental fragments. She had splitting headaches and almost went crazy several times, and sometimes even had a wrong perception of herself.

But for Lin Jiayao now, these mental fragments were nothing, they couldn’t shake her mental power at all, it was like watching a movie, easy and comfortable.

In these memory fragments, Lin Jiayao saw the man parasitized by her brain worm returning to Los Angeles all the way.

Lin Jiayao had already seen these scenes before Goldie evolved to A-rank, so Lin Jiayao directly fast-forwarded and searched for the memory fragments she hadn’t seen before.

When she reached the escape scene, Lin Jiayao paused the fast-forward and carefully watched a few of the fragments.

The Hand of Freedom’s evacuation was very hasty, and they didn’t even bring most of the necessary living supplies.

But the “pursuers” behind them, those seabed zombies, didn’t seem very strong. The strongest mermaid was only C-rank.

But those high-level members of the Hand of Freedom, like they had seen ghosts, fled desperately, and the remaining loose organizations and teams naturally scattered or left in groups.

The most important thing was that the leaders of the Hand of Freedom took all the Blood Crystals with them.

Lin Jiayao had asked someone about the Hand of Freedom before and also learned a lot about the Hand of Freedom through the brain worm.

They were not a united large organization like Survivor’s Light or the Northern Alliance, but more like a mission distribution center.

The high-level members of the Hand of Freedom even acted as a “bank”, storing Blood Crystals for the teams that went on missions, and also providing treatment and other services.

As a “bank”, the Hand of Freedom itself stored a large amount of Blood Crystals, and this time, they even left without taking the Blood Crystals with them.

That didn’t make sense…

The image froze on the scene where the team was separated, and the person parasitized by the brain worm was caught and killed by the fish-man. The brain worm also entered the stomach of the fish-man zombie along with the person’s brain.

To be honest, these images didn’t give Lin Jiayao much information.

Because the person parasitized by the brain worm wasn’t strong enough, he couldn’t come into contact with any particularly secret information, and he didn’t even know why they were running away.

The seabed zombies chasing after them, the highest was only C-rank, and there were B-ranks among the high-level members of the Hand of Freedom. It would be a piece of cake for them to resist these seabed zombies.

Encountering an A-rank… also didn’t make sense. If they encountered an A-rank seabed zombie, there wouldn’t be so many scenes of them escaping. They should have been wiped out the moment they knew there was an A-rank zombie.

It was difficult to guess what kind of mental state they were in when they made the decision to run away without even taking the Blood Crystals.

If they weren’t crazy, then there was only one possibility, someone saw, or “foretold”, something.

Lin Jiayao thought of Wu Hejun and her seemingly unreliable “foresight” ability.

Actually, Lin Jiayao had long dismissed this “foresight” as nonsense. After all, Lin Jiayao’s mental power had already evolved to such an extent, and she hadn’t even touched upon the so-called “foresight”, and she hadn’t even encountered another Awakened with foresight.

If it weren’t for the overly exaggerated reaction of the Hand of Freedom’s high-level members, Lin Jiayao wouldn’t have suddenly thought of this.

Anyway, let’s first take a look at the inventory of the Hand of Freedom’s high-level members.

They didn’t take their Blood Crystals with them… As the largest organization in America, and an organization that existed as a “blood crystal bank”, the Blood Crystals they accumulated must be quite a lot.

If she was lucky, Lin Jiayao could even replenish all the Blood Crystals needed to upgrade the Control Center in one go.

It was just that the city was a bit big, and it was a bit troublesome to search… but it didn’t matter, there was still plenty of time.

Lin Jiayao raised her hand and released a large number of golden flying insects, letting them split into green fluorescent bugs and fly towards the city, starting a large-scale search of all the buildings in the city, not even missing a single basement.

After leaving a small number of crimson insects to devour the fish-man zombie corpse on the beach, Lin Jiayao took Huayibai’s hand and walked away from the beach.

There was still a possibility of danger in the sea, so it was better to keep a safe distance from the sea.

Lin Jiayao leaned against a utility pole, intently watching the vision of each flying insect, afraid of missing any important details.

About twenty minutes later, Lin Jiayao had roughly mapped out the various activity areas of the Hand of Freedom before the invasion, and also found a building that might have been the residence of the Hand of Freedom’s high-level members before the invasion.

The Federal Bank Building.

If the Blood Crystals were stored somewhere, there was no place safer than here, not to mention that there were also B-rank Awakened guarding it, so there was basically no chance of theft.

After controlling the green bugs to conduct a comprehensive search of the Federal Bank Building, Lin Jiayao finally found stacks of safes on a fireproof floor in the middle levels.

They weren’t placed in the underground vault, nor were they placed in a safer place. These safes were placed above, away from the residential area of the B-rank Awakened below.

These might contain what Lin Jiayao was looking for.

While controlling the flying insects to destroy those safes, Lin Jiayao took Huayibai’s hand again and walked towards the Federal Bank Building.

When they reached the bottom of the building, the flying insects had already violently broken all the safes. Lin Jiayao directly controlled the insect wings outside the building, carried Huayibai and flew up, broke the glass outside the building, stood on the fireproof floor, and looked at the messy safes and the Blood Crystals scattered all over the ground.

They really hadn’t been taken away.

It wasn’t a wasted trip after all…

A rare, faint smile appeared on Lin Jiayao’s face, and she controlled the green fluorescent bugs to start counting the Blood Crystals inside.

Sixty… sixty-one… sixty-two… sixty-three…

Finally, the number of Blood Crystals stopped at sixty-three, and Lin Jiayao let out a long sigh of relief.

There were still eighteen in the warehouse, three hundred and forty-one being transported from Myanmar, and sixty-three here… Goldie could still harvest at least eighty Blood Crystals on the way back.

Just over five hundred, as long as she successfully brought these Blood Crystals back during extraction, and after the convoy from Myanmar returned, Lin Jiayao would have five hundred Blood Crystals.

However, after getting enough Blood Crystals, Lin Jiayao’s originally relaxed mood became heavy again.

This was five hundred Blood Crystals… who knew how much effort Lin Jiayao had put in for these five hundred Blood Crystals, and there was also a lot of luck involved.

It was lucky that there was an A-rank in India with extremely strong blood crystal harvesting ability but weak spirit, lucky that Goldie evolved, lucky that the people from the Hand of Freedom didn’t take the Blood Crystals with them when they evacuated…

Of course, it wasn’t all luck. Lin Jiayao had played a role in every step, but some of it even Lin Jiayao herself didn’t realize – for example, the A-rank in India was cultivated by Lin Jiayao when she was trading Blood Crystal Serum.

Lin Jiayao controlled the green fluorescent bugs, collected all the Blood Crystals and piled them together, and then said to Huayibai:

“Help Mommy keep these.”

Letting the green fluorescent bugs carry the Blood Crystals and fly back over two thousand five hundred kilometers, they probably wouldn’t be able to make it before the extraction, so she had to let Huayibai keep them for her.

“Um…” Hearing Lin Jiayao’s words, Huayibai rubbed her flat lower abdomen, her expression seemingly conflicted.

She had already eaten a lot just now, and she could hardly fit any more Blood Crystals in her body.

If she wanted to store Blood Crystals, she definitely couldn’t maintain this small size.

Huayibai could only first make a very large mycelium blanket backpack, almost as tall as a person, and carry it herself.

After storing the Blood Crystals, Lin Jiayao took Huayibai’s hand, stood at the edge of the building, and was about to fly back to the Extraction Point.

Just then, in one of the flying insects’ visions, Lin Jiayao saw a tattered convoy of vehicles, and this convoy also seemed to have discovered the green fluorescent bugs and started to speed away in fright.

They ran?

When the green bugs were sweeping the towns along the way, Lin Jiayao had also encountered many camps, but most of the people in the camps didn’t realize what was happening before the zombies in the city were slaughtered.

Even those who saw the flying insects wouldn’t try to shoot or provoke them, but would usually hide first, puzzled and curious.

Basically, there had never been a situation where they saw the flying insects and directly turned around and ran away in fright.

The Hand of Freedom’s convoy?

Combining it with the Hand of Freedom’s escape route, Lin Jiayao was 80% sure that this was the Hand of Freedom’s convoy.

Should she chase after them?

After hesitating for a while, Lin Jiayao directly controlled all the flying insects in the city to take off and chase after the Hand of Freedom’s convoy.

Lin Jiayao wanted to understand the reason for their escape and fear.

She didn’t like this feeling of not knowing the truth. Now that she had the strength, she naturally wanted to figure everything out.