Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Six: Mutual Devotion p3
In the middle of the night, Lin Xiwan, with the white butterfly on her shoulder, clenched her fists and walked towards the arena step by step.
And Lin Jiayao was in a coma until the sun rose in the early morning before she slowly opened her eyes.
“Beep—”
“Ding—”
“Beep—”
As soon as she opened her eyes and regained a hazy consciousness, Lin Jiayao heard several system prompts ringing in her mind at the same time.
She rubbed her temples, and before she could clear her head and see what the system was prompting, a childish call came from outside the window, with undisguised joy in the call.
“Mommy!”
Looking in the direction of the French window, Lin Jiayao saw Huayibai squatting under the morning light outside the broken French window, so excited that she was almost lying on the glass.
As expected, the French window, which already had a hole, couldn’t withstand Huayibai’s weight and exploded with a “bang”. The glass shattered, and Huayibai’s small body also fell towards the ground full of broken glass.
“Shing—”
But before she fell to the ground, a bunch of mycelium quickly flew towards her, wrapped around Huayibai’s slender waist, and directly dragged her onto the bed.
Originally, Huayibai didn’t intend to avoid the broken glass, as it wouldn’t cause her any harm anyway.
But Mommy’s action of protecting her directly made Huayibai’s eyes sparkle, and she looked at her mommy with satisfaction.
Mommy hugged me…
In Huayibai’s mind, the mycelium tentacles on Mommy were Mommy’s body.
So mycelium wrapping around her waist = Mommy hugging her waist.
Huayibai, win!
While Huayibai was immersed in the happiness of being hugged by Mommy, Lin Jiayao, seeing that Huayibai was not splashed by glass fragments, opened the system panel in front of her.
Her mind was not clear now, it could only be said to be chaotic, but she still remembered what happened before she fell into a coma.
Before she fell asleep, A4 had completed the extraction, and the system had also reminded her, but before she could choose the evolution, she couldn’t hold on anymore.
Besides A4, the zombie in the Zombie Loot Box had also completed the extraction and reminded Lin Jiayao.
These two prompts were within Lin Jiayao’s expectations, but what she didn’t expect was that besides these two prompts, the system actually gave her a third prompt, which also appeared in the login interface.
And this prompt was not a yellow exclamation mark, but a red danger sign.
No matter how much she wanted to check the retain evolution interface, she didn’t have the mood after seeing this red exclamation mark.
Lin Jiayao clicked on the login interface following the red exclamation mark, and found that this red exclamation mark appeared in the No. 1 login slot, which was on Mask.
When Lin Jiayao’s consciousness focused on the red exclamation mark, a system prompt appeared.
[Danger Alert]
[The area where the zombie is located has become extremely dangerous. Please complete an extraction as soon as possible to ensure it leaves the dangerous area.]
[Note: Because the zombie is in a system-designated Extraction Point, it is protected by the system in case of accidents. If the protection fails, the host will be compensated by the system. The compensation for the logged-in zombie being lost at the Extraction Point is – a logged-in zombie of the same strength rating x1 and other system item compensation.]
The location where the zombie was located… had become extremely dangerous?
Mask’s current location was in an unknown underwater building or creature at the mouth of the sea, and it was also possessing a skeletonized zombie ray.
Even this was judged as extremely dangerous, and even the system might not be able to protect it. If she didn’t extract soon, Mask would probably be lost.
Of course, because Mask was extracting at the system-marked Extraction Point, if it was destroyed by a sudden danger, Lin Jiayao would also receive compensation from the system.
The compensation was a random B-rank zombie no weaker than Mask, and the location was also random, as well as Blood Crystals and items similar to the Blood Crystal Box…
Was it worth it? This compensation?
Lin Jiayao couldn’t help but fall into deep thought as she looked at these system warnings.
On the surface, this compensation seemed very tempting, but the problem also appeared on that random zombie.
That random zombie, although it might be stronger than Mask, it was very likely not in China, like Goldie, on the other side of the ocean.
If it was too far away from Lin Jiayao, even a B-rank zombie wouldn’t be of much use to Lin Jiayao.
As for obtaining abilities, Lin Jiayao hadn’t finished getting all the abilities from A4 and the No. 5 purple-skinned giant, and she didn’t need the abilities of new zombies as reinforcements for the time being.
The most important thing was that Lin Jiayao’s purpose in letting Mask extract by the sea was to investigate the threat from the sea and whether it would threaten Kun City inland or even other areas.
If Mask died there inexplicably, then Lin Jiayao would still be clueless about the situation by the sea, let alone make any response.
How could she prepare in advance if she didn’t know anything?
Lin Jiayao had also tried to simulate the huge eyeball on the seabed in the training ground, but it ended in failure. She only simulated an eyeball, without any aggressiveness, and couldn’t test its abilities.
Because Lin Jiayao only simulated the eyeball through Bone Spike Lurker, she hadn’t even seen it with her own eyes.
Mask couldn’t die, its information was very important.
“How much time do I have left?” Lin Jiayao asked the system in her mind.
[Danger warnings usually refer to dangers that will occur within 24 hours.]
Within 24 hours…
Feeling her still tired mind, like a rubber band that had been stretched for too long and had become loose, Lin Jiayao sighed softly.
She didn’t know if she could recover before then… her mental power seemed to be overdrawn.
As the saying goes, since awakening the system, Lin Jiayao had either been fighting or logging in, and hadn’t had a full day of rest. The continuous crises also made it impossible for her to rest, which led to her current mental weakness.
“Mommy… what’s wrong? Are you uncomfortable?” At this time, Huayibai, after hearing the sigh, also came back to her senses from the happiness of being hugged by Mommy, and said to Lin Jiayao, “Huayibai will blow on you…”
Saying that, Huayibai knelt on the bed, straightened her back, and blew on the cold sweat on Lin Jiayao’s neck, puffing out her cheeks.
It was only then that Lin Jiayao realized that she had broken out in a cold sweat at some point.
She could already fight head-on with B-ranks, but her body was still so weak, it was really unreasonable…
Lin Jiayao gently shook her head, a little helpless about her physical condition.
After all, her body’s foundation was too poor, and obtaining evolutions would not strengthen her physique at all. She was still a super unbalanced student.
If it was in a game, it would be like having a lot of skill points, even MP and HP defense were stacked up, but the character level was still 1, and all the basic attributes other than skills, MP, and HP were ridiculously low.
Reaching out her left hand and pinching Huayibai’s lips that were blowing, Lin Jiayao said with a smile: “Okay, it’s okay, I’ll go take a bath later… By the way, where’s Sister Xi?”
As soon as she woke up, Lin Jiayao found that her sister was gone.
Her sister must have seen her pale face and cold sweat while she was sleeping. According to her sister’s personality, she must have gone to the “arena”.
The two sisters were both the kind of people who would desperately push themselves for each other… From another perspective, this could also be considered a kind of mutual devotion.
After observing the situation at the “arena” with the little green bugs’ vision, and seeing that her sister had already collapsed outside the arena to rest, Lin Jiayao sighed slightly.
Sigh…
She really didn’t have the right to say anything about her sister now, because she seemed to be even more desperate.
Temporarily closing the login interface, there were still 24 hours left before making a decision. Lin Jiayao wanted to see if she could recover after building [Library Lv.1].
If she could recover within 24 hours, then she would log into Mask to gather information and extract while recovering.
If she couldn’t recover… then she could only say goodbye to Mask.
Where there’s life, there’s hope. If she lost her life, no matter how hard she tried, it would be useless.
At this time, Huayibai had already informed Lin Xiwan through the bracelet that Mommy had woken up.
In Lin Jiayao’s little green bug’s vision, the exhausted Lin Xiwan struggled to get up from the ground, quickly took off her clothes, and plunged into a clean puddle nearby.
There was a set of clean clothes next to the puddle. It seemed that Lin Xiwan came prepared, not wanting her sister to know that she had secretly trained extra.
But unfortunately, all of this was seen by Lin Jiayao.
Looking at her sister’s hard work, Lin Jiayao felt both distressed and helpless, and could only temporarily suppress her emotions and open the system’s retain evolution interface.
Lin Jiayao first opened the [Zombie Loot Box] and started by choosing from the weaker ones, leaving the stronger A4 evolutions for later.
She only put some Blood Crystal fragments in the Zombie Loot Box this time, so naturally, the probability of getting a high-level zombie was low. It was just a strangely shaped Biter that had successfully extracted.
Judging from the Biter’s clothing, it was probably a zombie from the Middle East. Its belly was bulging, almost bursting its white robe.
Compared with ordinary Biters, it also had the abilities of [Acid Spit] and [Corpse Explosion], more similar to the Corroders in China.
Of course, Lin Jiayao didn’t want to choose either Acid Spit or Corpse Explosion.
One conflicted with her saliva healing ability, and the other only exploded after death, a purely useless skill.
She could only set her sights on the last dispensable [Acid Resistance Enhancement], which was considered as adding a layer of treasure to her defense that might not be used.
This was the limitation of the [Zombie Loot Box]. It was possible to get any garbage evolution from low-level zombies.
After retaining the evolution, Lin Jiayao only felt a heat in her skin. After the retention was over, Lin Jiayao looked at the evolutions retained by A4.