Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 164

Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Four: Berserk Jiayao!

Just as she leaped into the air, Lin Jiayao looked down, a tingling sensation creeping across her scalp. In the twilight-shrouded forest below, a dense swarm of corpses was undergoing grotesque transformations. Each distorted monkey corpse had opened a dozen round eyes. Anyone with trypophobia would have sprouted wings and flown away at the sight.

“Boom—”

As she thought this, A4’s body, under Lin Jiayao’s control, slammed into the area with the highest concentration of mutated monkey corpses like a cannonball. A fiery shockwave of red flames, centered on Lin Jiayao, rapidly spread outwards. The horrifying monkey corpses, facing this terrifying inferno, were ignited without any resistance, instantly reduced to ashes.

If no one intervened, this ring of fire would rapidly spread among the flammable corpses and trees, engulfing the entire mountain range.

Standing in the center of the flames, Lin Jiayao calmly watched as the small, terrifying zombies fearlessly charged towards her, only to be incinerated.

It should be about time…

The fire was spreading rapidly, and these monkey corpse zombies had no ability to resist. If the zombie hiding in Shenfeng Mountain was truly B-rank, it should be using its abilities to stop the fire by now.

“Goo…”

The change came faster than Lin Jiayao expected.

With a tremor accompanying a roar, the horde stopped their suicidal charge into the flames and instead ran in the same direction. If it weren’t for the fact that some of the zombies were still on fire, burning a path as they ran, Lin Jiayao wouldn’t have noticed this change so quickly amidst the flames.

There was movement.

These hordes couldn’t be running away; the concept of escape didn’t exist in a zombie’s mind. Even Hive Zombies with a bit of intelligence were bloodthirsty and fearless of death. They wouldn’t run.

There was only one possibility: the direction they were rushing towards was very likely the location of the B-rank zombie.

Lin Jiayao had already noticed that when the unseen B-rank zombie controlled these monkey corpse zombies, there was a noticeable lag in its commands.

Lin Jiayao, who had used pheromones to control and command zombies, was no stranger to this hesitation.

Obviously, the other party also had a similar control ability like synergistic pheromones, but she didn’t know why the zombies it controlled were so weak.

Lin Jiayao gave up on waiting for the flames to spread and instead started running along with the zombies.

As she ran, the mechanical behavior of the monkey corpse zombies confirmed Lin Jiayao’s thoughts.

They had absolutely no reaction to Lin Jiayao running beside them, completely different from the previous state where they desperately tried to attack her.

Seeing them start running along the mountain path towards the mountainside, Lin Jiayao directly gave up on following behind the large group of zombies, and instead leaped directly over their heads, arriving at the corner of the mountainside in advance.

“Boom—”

Landing, Lin Jiayao shattered the concrete mountain path, cleaved a path through the horde with her dual swords, and entered the corner.

The mountainside after the corner was no longer just a single path, but opened up into a large flat area, probably originally intended as a resting place for hikers.

And on this horde-filled mountainside platform, Lin Jiayao saw the direction the horde was surging towards and took a light breath.

At the bottom of the mountainside platform, against the mountain, was attached a huge sarcoma that Lin Jiayao couldn’t describe with words.

This huge sarcoma was generally round in shape, but its body, like coral, was covered with red and black fleshy pillars and holes. Countless mutated monkey corpses were desperately trying to squeeze into those holes.

The huge flesh-and-blood coral was desperately wriggling the holes on its body so that more zombies could quickly merge into the holes and be devoured by it.

At first glance, it looked like a giant version of a blood-colored lotus seedpod.

But the more it devoured, the more this sarcoma coral didn’t seem to expand or grow larger, and Lin Jiayao quickly noticed this.

Something was wrong. With such a strong devouring ability, even if Huayibai came to hoard, her body would uncontrollably expand rapidly, and it would be impossible to completely store it in her original body.

Unless, the sarcoma coral in front of her was not the main body of this zombie.

No, she couldn’t let this zombie devour without restraint. If it continued to devour like this, Lin Jiayao felt that there would be trouble.

After learning about the vascular network, Lin Jiayao didn’t dare to underestimate this zombie that didn’t look very aggressive. Who knew if it was connected to the backup hidden energy of the entire mountain?

“Boom—” The right fire sword ignited, and she turned around and slashed. The originally wide mountain path was instantly blocked by flames.

Those monkey corpse zombies that were continuously rushing here were burned to ashes before they could even reach Lin Jiayao after passing through the wall of fire.

After cutting off the supply channel of the monkey corpse zombies, Lin Jiayao did not rush towards the sarcoma coral, but raised her arms towards the sarcoma coral from a distance of several hundred meters.

“Crack, crack—”

The black scales on her arms and waist instantly opened, and the triangular crystal covers aimed at the sarcoma coral attached to the mountain.

“Whoosh—”

Flames ignited at the openings of the scales, but these flames only stayed at the nozzles and burned, without forming a visual effect like a flamethrower spraying out.

Lin Jiayao seemed to be trying something new.

Soon, after feeling that the nozzles were preheated, Lin Jiayao clenched her fists.

“Boom—”

Countless round poisonous eggs were suddenly ejected from the flame-spewing scale openings.

And the poisonous eggs were already ignited by the flames when they were ejected.

Dozens of poisonous eggs, dragging burning flames, shot towards the sarcoma coral at high speed, drawing a long, parabolic tail flame in the air.

This volley of poisonous eggs actually created a strong visual impact like a missile volley.

“Thump, thump, thump—”

The poisonous eggs carrying flames exploded after hitting the sarcoma coral, and the venom quickly seeped into the sarcoma coral, while the flames quickly spread on its surface.

After all, the other party was B-rank, and Lin Jiayao still gave it enough respect. She didn’t charge with her sword in the first round, but first tested the other party’s strength with a long-range attack.

It would be better if she could test out the other party’s abilities, but it didn’t matter if she couldn’t. Lin Jiayao didn’t care about this consumption.

The horde behind her was not only a nutritional supplement for the zombie on the other side, but Lin Jiayao could also devour those monkey corpse zombies to recover herself.

“Woo—”

A huge roar sounded from all over the mountain at the same time. Obviously, Lin Jiayao’s burning poisonous eggs had taken effect.

“Rumble…”

After a muffled sound, Lin Jiayao felt that the entire mountainside platform began to shake violently.

And the part of the mountain where the sarcoma coral was attached also loosened in this violent shaking.

Soil and boulders rolled down beside the sarcoma, and several large cracks appeared on the mountain, centered on the sarcoma.

And the sarcoma, which originally only expanded and contracted, began to twist left and right. If you ignored its size of almost ten meters in diameter, it really looked like an octopus emerging from the beach.

But the body it drilled out of the mountain was far from an octopus.

As the mountain continued to collapse, the true size of the B-rank coral sarcoma slowly appeared in the smoke and dust.

Behind it, there were no tentacles or giant monkey torso as Lin Jiayao imagined, but a long, strip-shaped body that had not yet completely emerged from the soil.

It was a “torso” formed by countless small, mouthless monkey corpse zombies holding each other with dozens of pairs of arms.

Countless cylindrical “monkey heads”, each with more than a dozen eyeballs of different sizes, formed its densely protruding back, and those monkey hands formed legs for crawling under the “torso”.

And that ten-meter-long round coral sarcoma was just its head.

Lin Jiayao looked at the sarcoma worm that was still pulling its body out of the mountain, and her brows slowly furrowed.

She admitted that even though she had seen so many disgusting zombies, this zombie, whose torso was formed by countless monkey corpse zombies hugging each other, was definitely among the top in terms of disgust.

Lin Jiayao didn’t have the habit of waiting for the magical girl to finish transforming before attacking. The moment the zombie in front of her gradually revealed its true form, Lin Jiayao’s breathing had completely stopped.

“Crack…”

She slowly bent down and bent her knees, her left arm bent in front, and her forearm, which had already formed a long sword, was held in front of her. The cement on the ground had slightly cracked.

“Boom—”

The power of her legs suddenly exploded, and Lin Jiayao was like a cannonball, flying close to the ground, straight towards the zombie.

When she was fifty meters away from the sarcoma worm, Lin Jiayao’s right sword suddenly slid on the ground, and the force made her body directly leap into the air.

After rising a few meters, the scales on Lin Jiayao’s hands and back suddenly ejected flames, and her body made an almost right-angled turn in the air, accelerating and rushing forward.

“Buzz—”

As the blood-red, sarcoma-like giant face got closer and closer to her, the left sword that had been held in front of her suddenly stabbed forward.

“Shing—”

The tip of the sword, like a hot knife cutting through butter, smoothly cut into the huge sarcoma. At the same time, Lin Jiayao quickly activated Super-Sensory Hunt.

Although in Super-Sensory Hunt, the sarcoma coral in front of her was still like a black hole, absorbing the lines abstracted by super-sense, but at this distance, Lin Jiayao could completely observe the other party directly with her eyes.

What she needed was only the extreme acceleration of thinking brought by Super-Sensory Hunt.

In the world of slowed-down lines, the scales on Lin Jiayao’s left side ejected flames at full power.

The long sword inserted into the sarcoma, under the huge thrust of the flame ejection, quickly moved sideways along with Lin Jiayao’s body.

As the nozzle of the scales slightly turned, Lin Jiayao’s long sword directly circled the round coral in one second, and a huge amount of blood finally erupted from the gap in the sarcoma after a few seconds of delay.

Until Lin Jiayao landed, the flame tail behind her hadn’t even disappeared yet. The extreme overload also made the black scales on Lin Jiayao burn with a dark red light.

“Tsss—”

Several poisonous eggs emerged from each dark red scale opening, and then exploded directly due to the high temperature of the nozzle before being pushed out.

The venom sizzled when it came into contact with the nozzle, emitting bursts of poisonous smoke, quickly cooling the nozzle.

“Woo—”

The wails of the entire Shenfeng Mountain, since Lin Jiayao’s burning poisonous eggs hit this zombie, almost never stopped, and after her attack just now, it directly reached its peak.

Although she had blocked her hearing, these sounds still made Lin Jiayao “hear” clearly through the conduction of bones.

At this time, Lin Jiayao finally noticed something wrong with these sounds… She actually found a rhythm in these noisy but uniform buzzing sounds.

After this rhythm was inadvertently captured by Lin Jiayao, the sound blocking of Hunting Rhythm instantly lost its effect, and she felt like her whole being was dragged into this strange melody.

“Woo—woo…”
“Woo—!”

The roaring sound that originally shook Lin Jiayao’s mind instantly turned into a sound similar to a train whistle.

And the twilight forest in front of Lin Jiayao and the terrifying sarcoma giant worm that was bleeding all over disappeared, replaced by bright sunshine and a speeding roller coaster not far away.

In the distance was an approaching parade float team. The float at the front was a magnificent golden metal sphere shaped like a bird’s nest, reflecting dazzling light.

The crowd following the float team sang and danced, happily waving to the pedestrians around them.

The cheerful music, the cool breeze, the bursts of floral fragrance, and the occasional screams of the crowd, all of this seemed to correspond to a certain scene in Lin Jiayao’s memory.

“Ayao~ I’m here!” A voice came from behind Lin Jiayao.

Looking back, Lin Jiayao saw a girl with naturally curly black hair and a sunny smile on her childish face, waving two almost melted ice cream cones in her hands and running towards Lin Jiayao.

This was… her sister when she was in junior high school, almost high school?

Lin Jiayao tentatively raised her hand and found that her hand had become abnormally small for some reason, and now she seemed to be lying on a chair in the amusement park.

“Sorry, sorry, I just went to see the fire-breathing performance over there… They are so amazing! Ayao, do you want to go and see it together? Ahhh, the ice cream is almost melted, lick it quickly!”

After a drop of ice cream dripped onto the enthusiastic girl’s hand in front of her, she hurriedly stuffed the ice cream into Lin Jiayao’s hand without saying a word.

Looking in the direction of the fire-breathing performance that the girl mentioned just now, it happened to be behind her. Several clowns were holding torches and wine bottles, spitting flames at the surroundings, attracting bursts of cheers.

“Ayao? Why aren’t you eating?”

Looking at the smiling girl with curly hair in front of her, Lin Jiayao’s breathing became rapid.

Was this real?

No… this was fake. Although Lin Jiayao also hoped that everything in front of her was real, and the apocalypse was just a dream, this was ultimately fake…

“Sister…” Looking at her sister’s somewhat childish smile, Lin Jiayao took a deep breath, then forcibly suppressed her emotions, and looked in the direction of the parade float.

At this time, the parade float team was less than 50 meters away from her. Her sister also seemed to notice the arrival of the float and excitedly began to shake Lin Jiayao’s hands.

“Yao! Look! The float! Shall we go and see it?”

“Sorry, sister… I’ll go with you later.”

Lin Jiayao took a slow breath, looked in the direction of the float, slowly stood up, and clenched her fists.

She knew that her abilities would not disappear out of thin air, and the experience of dual wielding swordsmanship was still imprinted in her mind. This was not experience that a little girl a few years older could have.

At this time, the front ends of her hands must still be in the shape of long swords.

Lin Jiayao slowly raised her chubby hands and crossed them in front of her.

She could indeed ignore this beautiful illusion and directly dye this place with blood with her swords. Anyway, she was only cutting zombies.

But Lin Jiayao didn’t want to stain these beautiful memories with the scarlet of the apocalypse.

“System.” Lin Jiayao said softly, calling out.

If this was an illusion, then the system would definitely not be affected.

[I’m here.]

As expected, a text box from the system appeared in front of Lin Jiayao.

The moment the text box popped up, these scenes in her memory instantly collapsed and turned into ashes, and the blood-like dusk once again dyed the earth.

The fire-breathing clowns behind her turned into a wall of fire blocking the road, and the bursts of cheers were just the wails of the monkey corpse zombies burning in the fire.

The golden ball parade float became the terrifying giant worm, and the huge golden ball was its coral sarcoma-like head that was still bleeding.

The floats and the accompanying crowd behind the “float” were naturally the terrifying torso formed by the monkey corpse zombies hugging each other.

“You’re courting death…” Lin Jiayao’s heart was filled with anger for the first time in a long time, and even Hunting Rhythm couldn’t completely suppress this anger.

Considering the battle, Hunting Rhythm slowly released this anger little by little.

Appropriate anger could stimulate a stronger hunting will… that is, the desire to fight.

[Huh? Why is the host insulting the system for no reason?]

Of course, Lin Jiayao’s words were not directed at the system.

But at the B-rank zombie in front of her that almost trampled on her memories.

This kind of mental hallucination attack was useless when Lin Jiayao could call the system.

The ignorant sarcoma worm had already wriggled to a place less than five meters away from Lin Jiayao. It wriggled the holes in its body and squeezed towards Lin Jiayao, as if it wanted to devour her.

Lin Jiayao, who had been crossing the sword blades in her hands in front of her since just now, moved.

“Boom!”

Blood flame ejection!

“Buzz—!”

Flame flash!

An “X”-shaped streamer rushed straight towards the monster’s head, leaving a rising airflow that seemed to distort space along the way.