Chapter 167: A Blank Page of Memories p1
“Please retain your evolution.”
“1, [Perfect Form Lv.1 (Gold): Can evolve into the most suitable offensive and defensive form based on your own evolution.]
“2, [Super-Sensory Hunt Lv.1 (Gold): Consumes mental power and blood crystals, allowing you to enter a wide-area or regional super-sensory state and gain super-sensory vision.]
“3, [Trait Fusion Lv.1 (Gold): Allows your body to be compatible with different blood crystal abilities and evolve in a targeted manner.]
Lin Jiayao knew at a glance that these were all familiar faces.
She had seen the first two during the last extraction, and the third one even earlier, when A4 was still at C-rank.
This [Trait Fusion], which she had at C-rank, seemed similar to [Perfect Form], but the effects were vastly different. [Trait Fusion] granted the ability to fuse the traits of other blood crystals, while [Perfect Form] integrated and adjusted these fused abilities.
It could be said that [Trait Fusion] was a prerequisite evolution for [Perfect Form].
The most crucial point was that Lin Jiayao had already discovered that she didn’t need the [Trait Fusion] evolution at all.
Because of the system’s help, Lin Jiayao basically had the [Trait Fusion] evolution built-in. Any evolutionary ability could be perfectly retained on her.
So, now Lin Jiayao could only choose between the first two.
[Perfect Form]… [Super-Sensory Hunt]…
[Perfect Form] it was.
Super-Sensory Hunt was indeed powerful, but it also required strong mobility. Otherwise, even if her thinking was overloaded, her body still couldn’t keep up with the opponent’s speed, which would be useless.
It would only make her die more clearly, able to clearly see how the opponent tore her apart.
Therefore, Lin Jiayao chose [Perfect Form], which didn’t consume much and could significantly improve her combat ability.
The system was too suitable for Perfect Form.
As Lin Jiayao continued to log in and retain evolutions, her body would have more and more evolutions.
And Perfect Form would integrate these evolutions of Lin Jiayao, allowing her to transform into a new form for battle.
As long as the retained evolutions were more numerous, Perfect Form would definitely be stronger. It was considered a skill with unlimited growth potential.
She didn’t choose it at first because Lin Jiayao urgently needed [Hunting Rhythm] to resist the weakness after logging into B-rank. Now she didn’t have so many concerns.
“[Perfect Form].”
After silently reciting the evolution she wanted to retain in her mind, the system panel in front of her disappeared.
As the system interface disappeared, Lin Jiayao’s body became hotter and hotter.
“Huayibai… go further away…”
Lin Jiayao didn’t know what kind of changes Perfect Form would bring to her, so she directly asked Huayibai to stay away from her first to avoid being accidentally injured.
“Okay, Mommy…”
At this time, Huayibai’s face was full of worry, but she couldn’t disobey Lin Jiayao’s instructions, so she could only retreat to the broken glass window.
“Huh… cough, cough…”
Lin Jiayao, sitting on the bed, coughed violently after a brief period of difficulty breathing. She supported herself on the mattress with her right hand, covered her mouth with her left hand, and her thin shoulders trembled with the coughing.
If you ignored the flesh under her dress that was constantly bulging, she really looked like an ordinary beautiful girl with a pale face on a hospital bed.
“Rip—”
With the sound of tearing fabric, a thin, cicada-wing-like amethyst scimitar cut through the fabric of her clothes from her arm and tightly covered her left hand.
But just after the transformation of her left hand was completed, the change stopped, and even with a crisp “snap”, the thin crystal scimitar that had just spread from her left hand shattered and dissipated.
It was Divine Skin Armor, forming a curved blade like a mantis arm on her left hand, looking like a mantis knife.
But now, after these crystals shattered, her left arm immediately became a bloody mess, and the blood not only dripped onto the hem of her skirt, but also stained the mattress red.
The total amount of blood crystals in Lin Jiayao’s blood crystal veins was only a dozen grams… It couldn’t support Perfect Form to transform once.
And her left hand, which had used Divine Skin Armor, naturally also split open like the first time she used Divine Skin Armor.
Feeling the tearing pain in her left arm, Lin Jiayao frowned slightly.
It wasn’t because of the pain, but because the blood stained the new bed sheets that her sister had brought, and it also flowed onto the mattress.
It seemed that it couldn’t be cleaned. She could only find new mattresses, sheets, and quilts to wash and change.
Fortunately, with the little green bugs helping, Lin Jiayao didn’t need to do it herself.
Now, besides providing vision, the little green bugs were basically used as tool bugs by Lin Jiayao.
Scouting, patrolling, collecting… they could even wash clothes, almost taking care of all the chores.
While waiting for the bleeding on her arm to stop and slowly recover, Lin Jiayao took out a Blood Crystal from the Blood Crystal Box and swallowed it directly, storing it in her blood crystal veins as a backup energy source.
Although the transformation just now was unsuccessful, Lin Jiayao already had a general idea of her transformed form.
She and A4 currently still had many overlapping evolutions, so her transformed form should be similar to A4’s.
It was just that A4’s bone-related abilities were stronger and could condense into blades and claws.
Lin Jiayao’s own bone spurs didn’t have such high strength, so [Perfect Form] used Divine Skin Armor instead.
She even understood the operating principle.
When Divine Skin Armor was injected with blood crystals and spread, she just needed to extend the mycelium to fix the shape and let Divine Skin Armor cover it.
As long as the hardest shield could be shaped, it could also be the sharpest spear. It all depended on the material.
As for the complete transformed form, Lin Jiayao would definitely try it, but not in reality, but in the training ground.
Because transforming in the training ground wouldn’t waste Blood Crystals. Otherwise, wasting so many Blood Crystals for one transformation would be quite distressing.
After looking at the fifteen Blood Crystals left in the Blood Crystal Box, Lin Jiayao turned her gaze to Huayibai.
Lin Jiayao was still thinking about asking Huayibai to change clothes with her and then go find her sister, but she found that Huayibai, who was now standing by the broken window, was staring at her body intently.
No, to be precise, she was staring intently at the blood on her clothes and bed, and her small mouth was slightly open unconsciously, like a child who saw a delicious lollipop while shopping but was too embarrassed to ask her mommy and could only stare at it.
Lin Jiayao raised her hand slightly and waved it, but found that Huayibai didn’t react at all, so she called out helplessly.
“Huayibai?”
Hearing Lin Jiayao’s call, Huayibai trembled, blinked, and looked around.
“Ah? Mommy?” After seeing that Mommy was looking at her, Huayibai, who had just been immersed in her fantasy world, came back to her senses and looked in Lin Jiayao’s direction.
Huayibai’s dazed look made Lin Jiayao both amused and exasperated.
Huayibai could do a great job when asked to do things, but she didn’t always seem so reliable.
“Did you find those Blood Crystals?” Lin Jiayao waved to Huayibai, wanting her to come over and talk about business.
But this time, for some reason, when Lin Jiayao waved, Huayibai only moved towards her little by little, walking very slowly.
This cautious look made Lin Jiayao misunderstand, thinking that she had messed up.
But soon, Huayibai spoke.
“I’ve got them all… They’re flying back here…” Huayibai whispered, “There are a little more than sixty-three…”
“So many?”
Hearing this, Lin Jiayao was a little surprised.
When she fought with that eye monkey zombie, besides the fact that the other party touched her reverse scale and made her a little angry, she basically didn’t feel any threat.
But judging from the amount of Blood Crystals it stored, it shouldn’t be so weak.
Of course, it was also possible that she cheated with the system. Ordinary Awakened would probably find it very difficult to get out of that kind of indistinguishable illusion so quickly.
It was an unexpected harvest.
Lin Jiayao nodded slightly, thinking about how much to give Huayibai after she brought the Blood Crystals back.
But to be honest, Huayibai had done so many things for her, and she seemed to have never given her any other rewards besides Blood Crystals.
She didn’t even know what Huayibai liked. Currently, she only knew that she had recently made a new mushroom friend, and she didn’t know anything else.
Thinking of this, Lin Jiayao felt a little apologetic.
Good heavens, she was employing child labor here…
“Besides Blood Crystals, what other rewards do you want? Huayibai.” Lin Jiayao’s voice softened a little. She reached out and rubbed Huayibai, who was standing by the bed, and said, “Just say what you want.”
Lin Jiayao was quite confident when she said these words.
Besides Blood Crystals and human lives, Lin Jiayao could probably get anything Huayibai wanted.
But after Lin Jiayao’s words reached Huayibai’s ears, Huayibai was stunned.
Mommy’s… reward?
Anything was fine?!
Although she didn’t need to breathe, Huayibai did feel a sense of “lack of oxygen”, which made her mind “buzz” and almost made her lose her balance.
“Really?”
Seemingly in disbelief, Huayibai carefully asked for confirmation.
“Yes.” Lin Jiayao nodded and added with a smile, “Except for people.”
Huayibai could devour zombies, and naturally she could also devour humans. Although Huayibai hadn’t shown much aggressiveness towards humans so far, she still had to be careful.
“Okay!” Huayibai nodded quickly and said quickly, “Huayibai has thought about it!”
“Oh? What do you want?” Lin Jiayao rubbed Huayibai’s face and said, “A doll? Or a new friend?”
“Huayibai wants that! And this! This!” Huayibai said, excitedly reaching over Lin Jiayao’s shoulder and pointing somewhere.
Turning her head to look, she saw what Huayibai was pointing at.
Pillows, sheets, quilt cover.
“Uh…” Lin Jiayao blinked and looked back at Huayibai, “Don’t you have them in your room too?”
“Huayibai doesn’t…” Huayibai withdrew her hand and put it behind her back, whispering, “If not… then a kiss…”
Looking at Huayibai with her head down and her hands behind her back, seemingly a little sad, Lin Jiayao thought about her own pillows, sheets, and quilt cover…
If there was any difference between her bedding and Huayibai’s, then the difference now was that there was her blood on it…
Thinking of Huayibai’s expression just now when she was staring at her body, Lin Jiayao reacted.
Was she looking at the blood dripping from her arm?
Did Huayibai like her blood?
With this doubt, Lin Jiayao slowly raised her left hand.
After this period of time, the wound on her left hand, which had been torn and bleeding just now, had almost recovered.
Except for the skin being a little pale due to blood loss and weakness, there was almost no sign of any wound.
Lin Jiayao’s left hand slightly clenched, the bone spur in the center of her thumb pressed against her index finger, and she forcefully swiped outwards.
Her unprotected index finger was cut open by the bone needle. Lin Jiayao raised her left hand and tentatively extended it to Huayibai.
As Lin Jiayao expected, as if smelling something, Huayibai swept away her previous dejection, suddenly raised her head, and looked at Lin Jiayao’s index finger with bright eyes.
It seemed that she really wanted her blood…
With her current physical condition, it was obviously not suitable to lose a lot of blood.
And, most importantly…
She might have to re-evaluate her relationship with Huayibai.
If Huayibai really had such a big reaction to her blood, then their relationship would be a bit twisted and abnormal – it would become a predator-prey relationship.
If this continued, Lin Jiayao couldn’t guarantee 100% that she wouldn’t be attacked and sucked blood by Huayibai when she was weak one day, posing a threat to her life.
But Huayibai had really helped her too much before, and Lin Jiayao was willing to spend a little effort to verify it.
She wanted to test whether her blood would make Huayibai lose her mind, stop obeying orders, and become blindly bloodthirsty.
If not, then her relationship with Huayibai would remain the same.
If Huayibai lost her mind because of her blood.
Although it would be heartbreaking, Lin Jiayao would not keep Huayibai by her side anymore. She had to ensure her own safety to ensure her sister’s safety.