Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 174

Chapter 174: Believing in the Light

What was going on? Lin Jiayao had been happily watching from the sidelines, so why was she suddenly being called to fight? She had been listening attentively to their conversation, gleaning information about this organization. She had already learned a lot from the information provided by the girl named Qiu Ruan, such as their post-apocalyptic education system and the organizational structure of the alliance.

Seventeen years old. Five years ago, that age would have placed someone in middle school. The fact that she said she was in high school suggested that this organization had started to reinstate some form of education.

As for the alliance’s structure, Lin Jiayao guessed it was represented by the “Pioneer Teams” they mentioned, united together to create a sort of “urban siphon effect” in the post-apocalyptic world, attracting nearby camps and ordinary people to join.

The development here was definitely better than in the south, as Lin Jiayao hadn’t heard of any troublemakers like the “Voodoo Cult” in this area.

If there hadn’t been a Voodoo Cult in the south, perhaps Gu Wangran, the former leader of Survivor’s Light, would have already led the troops to Kun City, and her sister might have taken Lin Jiayao to join them.

Then all the subsequent agonizing events wouldn’t have happened…

It was just wishful thinking. After all, the emergence of madmen in the apocalypse was more likely than before. Without the constraints of law, the evil in some people’s hearts would be exposed.

And the Voodoo Cult merely provided a platform for those people to do evil and indulge themselves.

Lin Jiayao walked slowly towards the center of the field, under the gaze of the other new Awakened, and stopped in front of the C-rank young man.

By now, Lin Jiayao had completely resisted the girl’s control over her. She came here of her own volition.

The young man in front of her raised his right hand, holding up three fingers. He said, “I’ll count to three, and then we start. If you can make me bleed, you pass.”

A D-rank had to make a C-rank bleed to pass. Without this steel armor, it probably wouldn’t even be able to break through his defense.

“Ambush him! Gundam!” The girl not far behind shouted at Lin Jiayao.

Such a loud ambush?

A righteous backstab, was it?

Lin Jiayao ignored the girl’s shouts. She was here to gather information, not to fight.

She had no interest in helping this little girl slap the face of the coach in front of her. First of all, it wasn’t about who was right or wrong, but doing so was simply stupid.

While the other party was counting down, Lin Jiayao slowly bent down and sat cross-legged in front of the young man, trying to keep her eyes level with his.

She had already tried coughing earlier, and this zombie’s vocal cords were still intact, so she could make sounds.

“Hello, I come from the south, Kun City.” Lin Jiayao slowly extended her right hand with the blade, opened her wide palm, and said in a hoarse voice, “You can call me Lin Jiayao.”

“1…” The young man, having just finished counting down, frowned, looked at the zombie in front of him, then tilted his head and looked at the girl behind the zombie, and asked loudly, “Xiao Chun, what are you doing?”

“Go, Gundam! Hit him!” The girl behind was almost crying anxiously, almost burning her mind to try to control the zombie, but the zombie in front of her remained indifferent.

Xiao Chun’s appearance… didn’t seem like she was acting.

Then if she wasn’t acting…

The south?! Kun City?! So far south?!

It was almost across the entire China!

“You… you you… are you…?” The young man’s voice suddenly stuttered. He knew very well that the other party was probably not pretending.

Because there was no point in pretending.

Moreover, being able to control a zombie across the entire China, what rank must she be?

B-rank?

Impossible, there were several B-rank seniors in the camp, but none of them had this ability.

Could it be… A-rank?

When the alliance divided the levels according to the limit of each blood crystal evolution, they did reserve a few higher levels, but that only existed in theory.

This matter was no longer something the young man could decide on.

Finally, the young man calmed down and slowly said, “Hello, my name is Wang Guohua. Did you come here after hearing the radio request for help?”

Wang Guohua did not dislike the zombie’s rotten palm with blades stuck in it, and extended his right hand to shake it.

This was very likely a historic meeting between the northern and southern organizations, and excitement filled Wang Guohua’s heart. At this time, he didn’t care about personal matters.

“Yes.” Lin Jiayao wanted to nod, but the helmet on her head restricted her movements, so she could only continue to speak, “Take me to your leader, I have something to say.”

“About food.”

Hearing the last sentence, Wang Guohua’s eyes instantly lit up.

He was a C-rank Awakened, and also one of the high-level members of the alliance. He knew very well what the alliance was lacking now.

Clean, uncontaminated food.

Without heating in the north, winter was almost like an ice cellar. Food could only be stored in spring, summer, and autumn, but every winter, many people would still freeze or starve to death.

They could still burn coal for heating, but the food problem couldn’t be delayed, especially since the number of ordinary people inexplicably turning into zombies was increasing recently. The sooner it was solved, the better.

Therefore, this time, the high-level members organized all the B-rank Awakened, and at the cost of one Awakened’s life, they traveled long distances and eliminated those B-rank zombies lurking in the Yellow River.

But what they didn’t expect was that the communication had just been restored, and Wang Guohua hadn’t even warmed his seat in the training ground when the Awakened from the south came directly to them in such an outrageous way.

“Hello, please wait here for a moment, I’ll call the leader right away,” Wang Guohua turned around and shouted to the other people in the venue, “That’s all for today’s training, dismiss, everyone go home!”

Also to protect the other low-level Awakened, Wang Guohua directly ordered them to leave.

Then, Wang Guohua bypassed the zombie in front of him, quickly came to Qiu Ruan, and said quickly, “Quickly go and call Brother Li over, quickly!”

Wang Guohua’s expression was very serious, and even Qiu Ruan realized that something was wrong.

She looked at the zombie in front of her, which she suddenly couldn’t control, and then looked at Wang Guohua in front of her.

“Okay.” Qiu Ruan nodded, then turned and ran away, choosing to directly call the “Brother Li” that the young man mentioned.

She knew that this time, her trial was probably not passed again.

She had clearly prepared for so long…

After running out of the stadium, Qiu Ruan finally couldn’t help but cry aggrievedly while running.

And on the other side, Wang Guohua, who had dispersed everyone in the stadium, moved another stool and placed it in front of the sitting zombie, and stood behind the stool himself.

“Senior Lin, we have already sent someone to invite the leader. Please wait a moment.”

Although he didn’t know the other party’s specific strength, it was definitely stronger than him, so calling her senior was definitely right.

“Okay.”

Lin Jiayao was not in a hurry. There was still a long time before extraction, and she had plenty of time to stay here. This waiting time was nothing.

During the waiting time, Wang Guohua couldn’t hold back anymore and carefully asked Lin Jiayao about the situation in the south.

“Senior… what’s the situation in the south now? It’s just… um… Sichuan Province, my girlfriend was studying music there before the apocalypse, and I haven’t had a chance to go south after the apocalypse…”

Except for the first year of the apocalypse when there was still some contact between the north and the south, this fragile connection was completely cut off from the second year onwards.

There were too many zombies, and the probability of them evolving into high-level zombies was also higher than that of humans. In the early stage, there was basically no possibility of moving between cities. Most people were hiding in different material points, living frugally and waiting for the emergence of Awakened or other armed forces, organizations, and camps.

Under such circumstances, it was almost impossible to find out information about Sichuan Province, which was nearly two thousand kilometers away.

The young man’s question did not receive a reply from Lin Jiayao.

Because Lin Jiayao didn’t know how to respond to this young man with anticipation on his face, it was too troublesome.

She would have to explain to him what the Voodoo Cult was, and then tell him that the Voodoo Cult’s base was in Sichuan Province. It was better for him to ask the leader himself after Lin Jiayao finished talking with their leader.

Seeing that the senior from the south did not reply, the young man also said “sorry” and closed his mouth, quietly waiting for Xiao Ruan to call someone over.

Fortunately, Xiao Ruan was very reliable. Not long after she ran out, she found a patrol team equipped with walkie-talkies and asked the patrol team to call the leader over with the walkie-talkie. The whole process only took three minutes.

“Woo—”

Soon, with the roar of the engine, an off-road vehicle directly drove into the stadium from the larger entrance behind the stadium, drifted and stopped not far away.

And Wang Guohua, who had been standing behind the stool and felt the pressure increasing, quickly jogged towards the vehicle and whispered a few words to a middle-aged man who got out of the car.

Then, after the middle-aged man understood the general situation, he opened the back door of the vehicle and helped a middle-aged man with a crutch, a dignified look on his face, who looked about fifty years old, although his back was hunched but he was nearly two meters tall, get out of the car.

The tall man with the crutch, his left hand holding the crutch trembled slightly, but he still walked to Lin Jiayao as quickly as possible.

“Hello, friend from the south, my name is Li Wei, and I’m temporarily the leader of the joint camp.” The man extended his right hand, with a kind smile on his face, and greeted Lin Jiayao energetically.

“Hello, Lin Jiayao, from Kun City.”

After shaking hands with the other party, Lin Jiayao heard him say directly:

“Since the self-introductions are over, I won’t beat around the bush. May I ask what your purpose is for coming here, friend?”

This tall man named Li Wei obviously heard that the zombie who called herself Lin Jiayao didn’t like to chat, so he got straight to the point and asked about her purpose.

“To understand the situation in the north, and to tell you some information.” Lin Jiayao said straightforwardly.

She also preferred this way of speaking. Lin Jiayao didn’t want to waste time beating around the bush.

“Okay, any questions, I’ll answer them all.” Li Wei walked to the stool in front with his crutch, sat down in front of the cross-legged zombie, and put on a casual posture.

And his subordinates dispersed to each entrance to prevent uninformed people from entering.

However, a girl with red eyes did not leave, but stood not far from the two, staring at Lin Jiayao, and couldn’t be pulled away.

Since the other party was straightforward and didn’t waste time, Lin Jiayao quickly learned about the current situation in the north from Li Wei.

It was similar to what Lin Jiayao had imagined. At first, the north was also a mess, until three and a half years ago, the first B-rank Awakened appeared, which was Li Wei.

Under his call, almost all the camps in the north gathered together and formed a huge alliance.

Although there were many different Pioneer Team factions within the alliance, their ideas were very similar.

That was the revival of civilization.

In these three and a half years, they had cleared all the zombies in Jingzhou and the surrounding areas, and opened schools, but they added pathology, medical care, and agriculture and forestry to general education.

In addition, their power system was also relatively well restored, but it mainly relied on solar power generation. And they also had a very special place, which was a forge established by dozens of former steel factory workers.

With the cooperation of the forge, almost all D-rank control-type Awakened, their zombies, after being reinforced with steel armor, could reach almost C-rank attack and defense.

This was also one of the guarantees that they could remain stable and gradually expand, and even recruit many refugees from neighboring countries.

After understanding the basic situation of the Northern Alliance, Lin Jiayao also briefly described the situation in the south.

Compared to the steady development of the north, the south was a hellish difficulty with constant internal and external troubles. The zombie in front of him recounted all the terrifying things in a calm tone.

When he heard that the largest survivor organization in the south had been destroyed, Li Wei gasped and sighed slightly.

“However, there are still survivors from Survivor’s Light. She has already taken the seeds from Kun City and is heading towards you.” After introducing the general situation in the south, Lin Jiayao began to talk about her purpose and the main point.

“If possible, I hope you can escort her and ensure her survival.”

The last survivor of the large camp, after hearing the radio broadcast, took a truckload of seeds and embarked on a journey of redemption to the north alone…

The man’s originally hunched back slowly straightened. He stood up with his crutch, put down his right hand holding the crutch, and gave a standard military salute to the zombie in front of him.

“Guaranteed to complete the mission.”

This military salute was for the zombie in front of him who brought the precious information, for the survivor who still chose to help others after experiencing despair.

It was also for all those who still believed in the light after experiencing suffering in the south.

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