Chapter 172: Extraction Failed p2
Lin Jiayao slowly stretched her body on the bed, trying to lie down and relax, lifted the quilt that was originally covering her, and opened the system’s login interface.
[No.1: [Mask] (Available)]
[No.2: 🌐 (Available)]
[No.3: [Goldie] (Available)]
[No.4: [A4] (Available)]
[No.5: [Unnamed] (Available)]
[No.6: 🌐 (Available)]
[No.7: 🌐 (Available)]
[No.8: 🌐 (Available)]
There were still four zombie slots, which were enough for Lin Jiayao to investigate Survivor’s Light thoroughly.
Lin Jiayao naturally began to log in according to the order, and her consciousness directly selected the No. 2 zombie slot.
Although the No. 2 slot often had zombies die, and wherever it went, there would be disasters, Lin Jiayao was not superstitious, it was just bad luck.
After Lin Jiayao selected the No. 2 slot, a familiar light blue virtual map popped up in front of Lin Jiayao, which recorded all the available locations.
Lin Jiayao’s consciousness swept across the large area of the ocean that could not be logged into, and stopped on the area of China. When she focused her consciousness on Donghai City, she was slightly stunned.
No… available zombies?
Survivor’s Light, which was displayed as a gray area on the light blue virtual map, was particularly conspicuous on the map.
It looked like Survivor’s Light had eliminated all the zombies and completed the city-wide zombie cleanup like Chongyu City – but this was impossible.
Because the zombies in Survivor’s Light were Huayibai’s secondary individuals, Blood Orb Mycelium, and they had already achieved symbiosis with most of the people in Survivor’s Light, and could not be completely eliminated.
There was only one possibility.
The sea…
When Jiang Chun came to Chongyu City before, Lin Jiayao had already briefly described the situation by the sea and asked her to pay attention.
But it had only been a day since Jiang Chun went back, and Survivor’s Light was completely annihilated?
Even just now, Lin Jiayao was still thinking about asking Jiang Chun to share the information they had about the seaside…
It seemed that after Jiang Chun left Survivor’s Light, Donghai City encountered high-level zombies from the deep sea. It was possible that the zombie invasion had already begun when Jiang Chun and Lin Jiayao were talking yesterday.
As if it had been planned, just waiting for Jiang Chun to leave…
For a moment, different emotions surged in Lin Jiayao’s heart. The first thing she thought of was not Jiang Chun’s firm expression, but her sister’s expectation and worry.
Slowly opening her eyes, the virtual map faintly faded in front of Lin Jiayao, and an extremely strong sense of crisis and helplessness once again surged in Lin Jiayao’s heart.
From the initial loss of contact with her sister, to the subsequent escape, and now… every time Lin Jiayao thought she had gained a firm foothold, the escalating apocalypse would always make her fall into anxiety again and again.
It was as if the disaster, no, as if the entire apocalypse was chasing her.
It seemed that the moment the system was activated, a kind of life-or-death “race” had begun. Lin Jiayao didn’t even know who her opponent was or what its purpose was.
She wanted to figure all of this out, both the system and the apocalypse.
“Ding—”
A familiar system prompt sounded, and Lin Jiayao saw the originally extinguished and dim Survivor’s Light light up.
As if trying to catch a fleeting meteor, Lin Jiayao quickly chose to log in, and her consciousness quickly blurred.
“Caw—”
“Caw—”
“Whoosh—”
Before Lin Jiayao could open her eyes, she first felt the wind around her and the strange cry like a human’s broken voice.
Opening her eyes, Lin Jiayao quickly observed the surroundings.
This was…
In the sky?
“Whoosh—”
Almost subconsciously flapping her arms, Lin Jiayao, who had flown over zombie birds when logging into Kun City before, skillfully flapped her wings.
Around Lin Jiayao, there were zombie crows almost identical to her. The flock of crows swept towards the accumulated water below the city like a storm.
The gloomy sky, the drizzling raindrops, the submerged dead city, and the scarlet “noodles” wandering under the water surface…
The zombie crows were diving downwards one after another, plunging into the water, and feasting on the red “noodles” inside.
[Inherited same type evolutions: [Hemophagy Lv.1], [Blood Crystal Vision Lv.1], [Robust Lv.3]]
The new zombie crow inherited some of the same type evolutions from Lin Jiayao’s body, and its abilities were enhanced.
These two abilities were considered advanced replacements for the zombie crow’s abilities. The main abilities were still blood seeking and tracking.
Bypassing the noisy flock of crows, Lin Jiayao didn’t even care where the Extraction Point was, but began to circle around the city.
Blood Crystal Vision.
Lin Jiayao, who activated Blood Crystal Vision, her decaying crow eyes quickly turned black, leaving only a slightly glowing pupil flickering.
Looking around, she couldn’t see any blood crystals in the entire Survivor’s Light… no, there was one.
In a park far away, Lin Jiayao discovered a powerful blood crystal, at least B-rank, but its aura was extremely weak.
Even a D-rank giant crow with the same ability was flying towards the blood crystal in the park with a strange roar, and Lin Jiayao also followed closely behind the strange crow.
Their flying speed was extremely fast. In less than half a minute, they had already begun to fold their wings and swooped down towards the place with blood crystal flesh and blood like cannonballs.
At this time, Lin Jiayao also folded her wings and turned off the vision-affecting Blood Crystal Vision.
She saw a dump truck with a huge truck bed on the top of the slope in the park. The dump truck was filled with countless human remains, and blood flowed down the gaps in the truck bed.
And on top of the pile of corpses, there was a bag wrapped in waterproof cloth, and she didn’t know what was inside.
Half a bottle of something was exposed at the opening of the bag, allowing Lin Jiayao to instantly make a judgment.
It was the truck that Survivor’s Light used to carry the seeds.
“Whoosh—”
A red light flashed in Lin Jiayao’s eyes, and the giant zombie crow in front of her spread its wings with a strange cry and swooped straight towards the driver’s cab.
But before its claws could tear through the roof, something faster, without even bothering to spread its wings, slammed diagonally into the giant zombie crow like a suicidal cannonball.
“Rip—”
“Screech—”
The zombie crow in front never dreamed—oh, zombies don’t dream—never expected that behind it, a member of the same kind with the same pheromones would attack it in such a suicidal manner.
Lin Jiayao’s sharp beak pierced through the zombie crow’s chest, and after spraying a trail of blood on the roof of the car in the air, she carried the zombie crow and flew over the roof and guardrail, straight into the forest park below.
“Boom—”
After a loud noise, Lin Jiayao’s consciousness was instantly dragged back to her body, staring blankly at the options in front of her.
[Extraction Failed]
[Please retain your evolution]
[1. [Flight Lv.1 (Gray): Allows you to master the flight skills of Chordata Aves.]]
[2. [Claw Attack Lv.1 (Gray): Strengthens your claws, allowing you to perform a quick claw attack.]]
[3. [Scavenger Lv.1 (Blue): Strengthens your stomach, improves digestion, and allows you to obtain additional nutrients from rotten food.]]
Lin Jiayao chose Flight, and did not choose Scavenger, which seemed to have a higher level, because she had already planned to build the [Nutrition Department], and choosing this skill would overlap.
The reason why she chose Flight was because at least Lin Jiayao could draw inferences when controlling flying insects and use these skills.
Before the evolution effect disappeared from her body, Lin Jiayao opened the login interface again, ignored the No. 2 unlucky slot, which had entered a three-hour cooldown, and directly selected No. 6.
And the location was naturally still Donghai City.
“Splash—”
“Caw—”
Lin Jiayao emerged from the water, still holding some red “noodles” in her mouth.
It was only now that she discovered what these noodle-like things were.
They were horsehair worms that had grown to an exaggerated length, and she didn’t know where they were connected… There were even small round eyes covered with incomplete scales on these horsehair worms, looking extremely strange.
Of course, there was also a section of these things hanging from her mouth.
“Caw—”
Shaking off the worms in her mouth and ignoring the identical evolution inheritance interface prompted by the system, Lin Jiayao shook her wet wings, creating a gust of wind, and flew up, towards the place just now.
The advantage of having many login slots was that even if she died once, there were still many opportunities to try.
She glided in the air and quickly arrived at the wetland forest park just now, and saw the large dump truck again.
“Whoosh—”
Flapping her wings and landing next to the truck, Lin Jiayao saw the open fuel tank on one side of the dump truck, the scattered lighter, and the cigarette butt that hadn’t burned out on the ground.
Lin Jiayao folded her wings, walked to the driver’s seat of the dump truck in a strange posture, and saw the scene inside.
The familiar fiery red hair, the pale and blood-stained body, the swollen legs, and the right arm with only a bone stump left.
At this time, Jiang Chun was lying sideways on the center console of the vehicle, in a deep coma.
Above the center console, there was also a twisted and deformed car radio. The extremely deformed radio was still emitting chaotic noise, as if it would disconnect at any time.
The tragic scene in front of her, and the broken corpses in the truck bed behind her, had already made Lin Jiayao roughly understand what had happened…
Looking at the twisted and deformed car radio, Lin Jiayao also knew that Jiang Chun must have heard the content on the radio, because the blood-stained tear marks on her eyes had not yet dried.
It had only been less than ten minutes since Huayibai finished the broadcast.
This time, she came in a hurry, and Lin Jiayao didn’t put any spare Blood Crystals in the Safehouse. After thinking for a while, Lin Jiayao took a few steps back and took off, starting to search for blood crystals in the accumulated water in the city.
Soon, Lin Jiayao collected about 100g of Blood Crystal fragments. She carried the Blood Crystal fragments and returned to the car, holding the Blood Crystal fragments in her mouth and sticking them to Jiang Chun’s still unhealed broken arm.
Jiang Chun, who was in a coma, trembled violently, her consciousness seemingly being invaded by immense pain – a double torture of mind and body.
“Don’t… leave… me…”
It seemed that the Blood Crystals made her recover a little, and she opened her dry lips and murmured these words.
Sorry.
Lin Jiayao slowly raised her claw and turned the knob of the radio, which had not yet been deformed, to a silent channel, no longer playing the Voodoo radio station.
Lin Jiayao slowly retreated, flapped her wings and flew high, then landed on a tree in the distance, silently staring at the vehicle.
After giving the command “guard”, Lin Jiayao switched her consciousness and returned to her body.
“Phew…” Slowly exhaling, Lin Jiayao felt a little breathless.
She didn’t intend to extract the crow, but let it guard until Jiang Chun woke up.
She didn’t wake Jiang Chun up, nor did she try to take her away from here. Choosing life or death was Jiang Chun’s own right. Lin Jiayao wasn’t so holy as to persuade people to live.
After all, if it weren’t for her sister, Lin Jiayao might have long since stopped wanting to stay in this suffocating world.
Lin Jiayao, whose consciousness had returned to her body, silently entered the training ground and began to try to simulate the huge “sea urchin” she saw in the waters of Guangnan Province, trying to deconstruct it and cause damage.
She didn’t know how long it took, but there was finally movement from the crow’s perspective. It was a noisy radio sound and an unfamiliar broadcast.
Lin Jiayao and Jiang Chun almost listened to the broadcast together until it ended.
East Beijing Joint Camp…
In Lin Jiayao’s vision, Jiang Chun, with a numb expression, dragged her crippled body and struggled to get up, picked up a military shovel about the length of her arm with her left hand, found an open space, and started digging the soil one shovel at a time.
This process was interrupted several times by coma due to the small shovel and Jiang Chun’s excessive blood loss.
Digging, dragging corpses, refueling, pouring oil, lighting cigarettes…
As three cigarettes fell into the pit, the flames illuminated the dark park, and Lin Jiayao’s consciousness also dissipated in Donghai City along with the flames in the night.
[Extraction Failed]
