Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Four: System Compensation?
“Pervert.”
These two short words contained Lin Jiayao’s sharp comment on her sister’s behavior.
Getting up early in the morning and then using push-ups as a cover to secretly kiss her sister almost five hundred times, no matter how you thought about it, it was like a pervert.
Seeing her sister, whose cheeks were still slightly red from just waking up, looking at her with strange eyes, Lin Xiwan’s smile couldn’t be maintained.
“Hey, hey, hey, I was just kidding, I really only kissed you just now.”
Lin Xiwan said, quickly retracting her left hand that was supporting her sister’s head, and fell to her sister’s side, looking at her sideways and continuing to explain:
“I was just teasing you, don’t take it seriously…”
Originally, Lin Xiwan just had a sudden whim, wanting to prank her sister and make her relax.
Shortly after she woke up, she maintained this plank position until more than an hour later, when her sister woke up, she quickly implemented her prank plan.
Although the plan seemed to be successful, the consequence was likely that her sister would always mistakenly think that she was a pervert who liked to secretly kiss her sister while she was asleep.
What kind of NTR, she even dared to secretly kiss her while she was sleeping now, she didn’t even dare to think about what she would do in the future.
This wouldn’t do… she couldn’t let her sister misunderstand her like this…
Thinking this way, Lin Xiwan said those words just now to prove her innocence, and told her what she had been doing since she got up until now.
As she spoke, Lin Xiwan, who was lying on her side, saw her sister, who was also lying on her side in front of her, looking at her with changed eyes.
From the eyes of “looking at a pervert”, it gradually changed to some kind of indescribable, suspected “looking at a fool” eyes.
There was a hint of pity in it.
“So, in order to prank me as soon as I woke up, you’ve been holding this position for more than an hour?”
Lin Jiayao asked while propping herself up with her left elbow and looking at her sister.
Her tone was full of concern, and she even raised her right hand and touched her sister’s forehead.
It seemed that she suspected that her sister had a fever and burned her brain, otherwise ordinary people wouldn’t think of doing this.
“Otherwise?” Lin Xiwan replied immediately.
This matter-of-fact look made Lin Jiayao not know how to refute for a moment.
“Isn’t it boring…” Lin Jiayao complained helplessly.
“It’s not boring,” Lin Xiwan sat up, helped her sister sit up, hugged her sister and swayed, saying, “How can it be boring to keep watching you sleep~”
“So cheesy…” Lin Jiayao broke free from her sister’s embrace, thought for a moment, and said, “Sister, can you get me a new set of clothes? I’ve been wearing this dress all day yesterday.”
“OK! Wait for me~”
After her sister made an “OK” gesture to her, she directly turned over and got out of bed, and rushed out of the villa with a “thump thump thump”.
Looking at her sister rushing out excitedly, Lin Jiayao was almost certain that her sister must have prepared several special sets of clothes for her…
“Sigh…” Lin Jiayao smiled and shook her head, then looked at the retain evolution interface.
She sent her sister away not only because she wanted to change her clothes, but also because she wanted to deal with the system information.
One “retain evolution” message, one “loot box compensation” message.
Lin Jiayao knew the retain evolution clearly, it was No. 5 that had just extracted.
What Lin Jiayao was mainly curious about was the loot box compensation. This was the first time she had encountered system compensation, and she didn’t know what the system would give.
However, Lin Jiayao still suppressed the urge to look at the compensation first, and turned to look at the retain evolution interface.
[Please retain your evolution]
[1. [Turbine Heart Pump Lv.1 (Purple): Evolves your heart into a giant heart that can be driven by blood crystals, which can store a large amount of blood crystal fluid and accelerate the transportation of stored blood crystals to any part of the body.]]
[2. [Divine Skin Armor Lv.1 (Gold): After injecting blood crystal fluid, your skin gains extraordinary defensive power. The defense efficiency is determined by the evolution level and the total amount of blood crystals injected.]]
[3. [Perfect Self-Healing Lv.Max (Gold): An advanced version based on Mutated Self-Healing Lv.1, giving your body fluids and body unparalleled healing and recovery abilities, and consuming your own blood crystals to achieve cellular-level self-healing.]]
Turbine Heart Pump?
Was this why No. 5’s heart would glow and make a loud buzzing sound every time she activated Crystal Vibration Pressure or other evolutionary abilities?
It seemed to be a very good skill that could directly strengthen herself.
But according to Lin Jiayao’s interpretation of the skill description, there were also many hidden problems.
Turning into a “giant heart” that “can be driven by blood crystals”.
Could it still move without blood crystals?
How big was “giant”?
As big as No. 5’s heart?
It was estimated that one heart would burst Lin Jiayao’s body.
This evolution was definitely a very cost-effective evolution for blood crystals with huge bodies.
But for Lin Jiayao, choosing this evolution might even compress her own strength.
Moreover, the most crucial point was.
Lin Jiayao currently had very few Blood Crystals, and she might not be able to maintain the operation of this heart.
As for the other two golden evolutions, there was no need to think about them.
They were all old friends.
When No. 5 zombie had just evolved to B-rank, Lin Jiayao had encountered them after logging out and extracting.
Then there was no need to hesitate, Lin Jiayao directly chose the second one, Lv.1 [Divine Skin Armor].
She already had [Crystal Vibration Pressure], an excellent attack method for blood crystals, and the cunning evolution [Bone Manipulator]. Now Lin Jiayao was lacking such a defensive evolution.
This way, she could truly achieve being strong in single combat, having high AOE damage, and being able to withstand attacks.
It was a rogue play style.
As long as she didn’t encounter a battle where she was completely crushed, Lin Jiayao, who had these evolutions, could fight.
After choosing Divine Skin Armor, the tingling sensation throughout her body made Lin Jiayao couldn’t help but close her eyes.
“Huff…”
After exhaling softly, Lin Jiayao raised her hands and looked at her palms.
Divine Skin Armor did not change her skin in any way—at least not without injecting blood crystals.
In order to test the difference between the manifestation of this retained evolution on her body and the manifestation on No. 5, Lin Jiayao injected a small amount of blood crystals stored in her body into the skin of her palm.
“Crack—”
After a few crisp cracking sounds, the skin on Lin Jiayao’s palm quickly became translucent, and then condensed into a thin layer of crystals like amethyst.
But there were small cracks on these two crystal pieces on her palm, and she could even see her blood vessels and flesh through the translucent crystal skin.
“Ding—”
Lin Jiayao clapped her hands together, and the mutated Divine Skin Armor made a crisp sound when they collided.
Although the amount of blood crystals injected was not much, only about 10g, the defense was already very strong.
She pinched it slightly with her hand, and the cracks on the amethyst skin did not expand. These cracks were probably caused by insufficient blood crystals.
It consumed quite a lot of blood crystals… but the advantage was that as long as the reaction was fast enough, she could only use Divine Skin Armor on the attacked area for targeted defense.
Currently, she didn’t have anything with strong attack power to test the defense, so Lin Jiayao put the test aside for now.
“Crack—”
As Lin Jiayao’s mind moved slightly, the crystal skin on her palm began to slowly melt and returned to her body.
But Lin Jiayao’s palm left a few bloody wounds, and even began to bleed.
Slightly clenching her fist, Lin Jiayao frowned slightly.
This ability… if the amount of blood crystals injected was small and the armor was not fully formed, it would even damage her original skin?
It seemed that today’s training ground had a training goal, which was to train the use of this [Divine Skin Armor] to a natural state.
If every evolution was like this, spending a lot of Blood Crystals on special training in the system training ground… Lin Jiayao probably understood why the system could use A4, which was still C-rank, to “go in and out seven times” at the Voodoo Cult headquarters.
Of course, the combat skills used by the system hosting must be more perfect than the natural state she trained.
During the time Lin Jiayao was thinking, with [Mutated Self-Healing], her palm had stopped bleeding, and the wounds on her palm had already begun to slowly heal.
Seeing that there was nothing serious, Lin Jiayao ignored her palm.
Now this little pain from the tear on her palm was nothing to Lin Jiayao.
After seeing the prompt to open the Hideout, Lin Jiayao looked at the location of the [Zombie Loot Box].
Now the Zombie Loot Box did not have the familiar red number “1” in the upper right corner, but had become a “🧧”.
Looking at the “🧧” with a strong sense of deja vu, Lin Jiayao took a deep breath and held back what she wanted to say.
Forget it, she would comment after seeing it.
With this thought, Lin Jiayao clicked on the Zombie Loot Box and looked at the interface inside.
It was still an ordinary Biter on the interface, but judging from its physical condition, it seemed to be not optimistic.
Twisted hands and feet, everted nails, cheeks with almost no flesh, ribs piercing the chest, covered in blood and mud…
Even if it suddenly died after she received the compensation, Lin Jiayao would not be surprised.
Originally, the Zombie Loot Box could directly receive rewards by opening the box, but this time it was compensation. After opening the box, in addition to seeing the Biter zombie, she could also see a small prompt box.
[Do you want to receive your system compensation?]
“Yes.”
Lin Jiayao didn’t want to try “no”, but directly chose to receive.
[Please receive your compensation]
[1. [Blood Crystal Box Lv.1 (Red): Provides a 4×4 blood crystal box that can hold 20×20 blood crystals.]]
[2. [Weapon Box Lv.1 (Red): Provides a 4×6 weapon box that can hold 20×20 weapons.]]
[3. [Item Storage Box Lv.1 (Red): Provides a 3×3 item storage box that can hold 15×15 of any item. The time and temperature inside the storage box are constant.]]
[4. [Safehouse Lv.3 (Red): Upgrades your 3×3 Safehouse to 4×4.]]
[5. Blood Crystal x10]
A long list of red options appeared in front of Lin Jiayao, but before Lin Jiayao could subconsciously choose, these options all disappeared.
“Huh?”
The compensation disappeared?
No, it didn’t.
Lin Jiayao quickly opened her warehouse to confirm, and found that the five rewards just now, even including the Blood Crystals, were all neatly placed in the warehouse.
Plus the thirteen Blood Crystals that Lin Jiayao originally had, her total number of Blood Crystals now reached twenty-three.
After trying to move these Blood Crystals into the [Blood Crystal Box], a lot of space was freed up in the warehouse again.
Good guy… so the compensation was not a choice of five, but all of them?
If the system was a game before the apocalypse, Lin Jiayao would definitely play it.
It was rare to see such a generous compensation. In comparison, the so-called “compensation” of other games was basically stingy, and it seemed very reluctant to give.
[This is the system’s own mistake, it is only right to compensate the host more.]
It seemed that the system heard Lin Jiayao’s inner praise, and came out to praise itself very timely.
“Can the Item Storage Box store corpses?” Lin Jiayao asked directly when the system’s text interface popped up.
Now the system could still boast calmly, Lin Jiayao could only say that the compensation was not enough.
When she found a way to stably make the system compensate, she would see if the system could still be so calm.
[Yes]
This time, the system didn’t dare to say more. After popping up a box with only one Chinese character in front of Lin Jiayao, it instantly disappeared, leaving only her consciousness in front of the warehouse.
“Okay…”
The system’s ten Blood Crystals compensation came at the right time. Lin Jiayao’s little green bugs had just found all the things needed for the [Rest Area], and now only Blood Crystals were missing.
If she could choose to build [Rest Area Lv.1] before her sister’s training, it could probably be built at the same time as [Control Center Lv.3] six hours later.
The six hours in between could be used to train various abilities in the [Training Grounds]. While the system helped her train, she could help her sister train in the outside world.
After the training, the two Hideout creations would also be completed, and Lin Jiayao could try to log into two B-rank zombies in one day.
She could just try the new function of the [Control Center], dual-line operation.
After Lin Jiayao arranged today’s matters, she heard hurried footsteps outside.
“Yao!!!”
Before the door opened, Lin Jiayao heard her sister’s excited call.
“Boom—!”
The door was directly bumped open by her sister. Lin Jiayao looked in the direction of the door and was slightly stunned.
Her sister, standing at the door, was holding a large white enamel cup full of soil.
And on this black, moist soil still covered with some ash, a small, emerald green seedling emerged.
This was…
A lettuce seedling?
Two days?!
