Chapter 176: An Intelligent Species? p2
Lin Jiayao tried to swim quickly, but she still didn’t touch any “walls” other than the “ground”, not even fleshy walls.
And when she filled her eyes with pus and blood, the surroundings were still dazzlingly scarlet.
Unlike the fleshy wall chamber that trapped Mask before, the structure inside this zombie was completely different.
But this situation didn’t last long. Lin Jiayao finally saw a straight, light purple crack almost ten meters high in front of her.
When Lin Jiayao saw the purple crack with her naked eyes, the purple light suddenly spread to both sides like an unfolding fan.
Smooth and regular, like an automatic door before the apocalypse.
It was just that this “automatic door” in front of her seemed a bit too big.
Lin Jiayao didn’t look directly inside, but used the purple light inside to turn her head and look at the way she came.
Behind her was a passage made of flesh and blood and black bones. After she walked to this purple semi-circular gate, it silently closed.
The closing of the flesh and blood passage disturbed the water flow, which was why Lin Jiayao felt that the direction of the water flow had been changing.
Some creature had opened “doors” for her layer by layer, clearing this passage for her.
And the light purple gate in front of her might be the place where the creature behind it wanted her to go.
Intelligent, and not low-level.
This was Lin Jiayao’s first impression.
If it weren’t for the apocalypse, she would even think that everything just now was a highly intelligent alien civilization guiding her into its cabin, not a zombie.
But unfortunately, this was a blood crystal, and a huge one at that. Lin Jiayao could feel the immense pressure without even trying.
As the flesh and blood passage behind her closed one by one, and the black bones clasped together, about to clamp Lin Jiayao, under this invisible pressure, Lin Jiayao slowly walked into the purple gate in front of her.
As soon as she stepped into the gate, Lin Jiayao felt that she was completely surrounded by purple fluorescence, and the fan-shaped gate behind her also closed section by section, like fan bones.
And she finally saw where these purple lights came from.
They were translucent serpents with gelatinous skin, floating with fluorescent purple threads, swimming in a huge, boundless, light red membrane. The blue light refracted through the light red blood membrane, emitting a purple glow.
The reason why Lin Jiayao knew that the tentacles on the serpents inside were blue was because there were a few gaps in the blood membrane, and some tentacles emerged from inside.
These tentacles were exactly the same as the blue tentacles that Lin Jiayao saw dragging her here.
Was it them… that dragged her here?
Why did they drag her here?
And judging from the huge scale here… these serpents emitting blue light seemed to be raised inside the blood membrane by something… and these serpents didn’t look like any species from before the apocalypse.
They seemed to have evolved after the apocalypse.
“Are you calling me?” Lin Jiayao tried to make a sound in the water, but her throat could only make “gurgle” sounds, along with a few bubbles.
At the same time, Lin Jiayao noticed that there were a large number of Blood Crystals scattered here, all over the floor.
Lin Jiayao didn’t care about communication anymore. She quickly squatted down, raised her hand and swept it across the ground, and the Blood Crystals she touched instantly disappeared.
And Lin Jiayao’s 4×4 Safehouse was instantly filled with sixteen Blood Crystals.
Damn, what a profit!
She didn’t know if it was because of the bubbles or because she spoke, or more likely because Lin Jiayao stole the Blood Crystals, the serpents in the huge blood membrane suddenly went into a frenzy.
They spun and churned frantically within the blood membrane, and then suddenly rushed towards the gaps in the blood membrane that were held by the thin blue lines.
This huge blood membrane, almost one hundred meters in size, floating in front of her, shook in this space because of the serpents churning inside, revealing the scene behind it.
Lin Jiayao slowly widened her eyes.
Behind this huge blood membrane, there were countless other blood membranes, densely packed, containing countless serpents…
“Shing—”
Finally, with the efforts of the serpents inside the entire blood membrane, a serpent that had been holding the gap in the blood membrane with its tentacles suddenly drilled out from the slightly torn blood membrane, waving its tentacles all over its body and rushing towards Lin Jiayao’s arms.
“Thump—”
With a sound, the serpent directly hit Lin Jiayao’s fish head, and then its tentacles wrapped around the hand she had just used to touch the Blood Crystals.
At the same time, as the serpent escaped, the entire huge space began to tremble, as if some kind of “mechanism” had been triggered.
Looking at the serpent wrapped around her right hand, but without any harmful actions, Lin Jiayao seemed to understand something.
It wanted her to take it out using the same method she used to take the Blood Crystals.
As if to confirm Lin Jiayao’s guess, the serpent’s tentacles on her hand suddenly tightened around its own head, and with a “crack”, it burst into blue blood mist and died directly in front of Lin Jiayao.
Lin Jiayao didn’t have time to think too much, and directly took out two Blood Crystals from the Safehouse, held them in her hand, and put the dead light blue serpent inside.
Just then, Lin Jiayao felt as if something was falling from above. She instinctively looked up and saw a huge black bone spur, piercing her from top to bottom from the fleshy wall.
“Hiss—”
Because of her tenacious vitality, even after being pierced from head to tail, Lin Jiayao still struggled for a few seconds before dying, feeling all the pain of being pierced through her body.
It wasn’t until she entered the settlement space for a long time, looking at the illusory fish-man zombie with its head pierced and still holding two Blood Crystals in its hand, that Lin Jiayao slowly came back to her senses, put the two Blood Crystals into the Blood Crystal Box, and exited the dark settlement interface.
After her consciousness returned to her body, Lin Jiayao took a deep breath and subconsciously reached up to touch her forehead.
Fortunately, it was intact.
It was okay, her mental power wasn’t consumed much, and the fear of being instantly killed was also quickly adjusted by [Hunting Rhythm]. Lin Jiayao’s expression quickly returned to calm.
Inside an unknown giant creature… a clearly intelligent “cave” structure… the light blue serpents being “farmed”…
Lin Jiayao looked at her Safehouse. The serpent corpse, occupying two slots, was still quietly coiled inside.
She didn’t dare to take it out now, because she wasn’t sure what the intentions of those blue serpents were.
But from their performance, Lin Jiayao could also feel that they possessed a high level of intelligence, and had a means of communicating with a collective consciousness almost without delay.
They seemed to know at a glance that Lin Jiayao could take them out, and that she could only take out dead things.
“System? Besides me, does anyone else know about your existence? Like those blue serpents just now?”
Lin Jiayao knew that the system must have also seen the scene just now, so she asked directly in her mind.
[Remotely storing and retrieving items is not a system exclusive. Many high-level evolutions can do it through different means, but they are not as powerful as this system.]
So they didn’t see through the system?
But…
She still couldn’t take the corpse out here…
She would use Goldie’s body to take out the corpse and study it when she logged into Goldie.
This way, even if those serpents had any conspiracy, they could only harm America, and the blood wouldn’t splash on her.
It had to be said that this seabed login refreshed Lin Jiayao’s understanding of A-rank seabed zombies.
They didn’t seem to be all crazy, killing all the creatures in the sea and then coming to kill those on land. They seemed to have come with some purpose, or were driven to the shore.
As for the specific situation, and whether her plan could still be successfully implemented, she could only start with the serpent corpse that was successfully brought out.
But she could test the abilities of these serpents in advance.
After glancing at her empty login slots, which were all in cooldown, Lin Jiayao turned her attention to the training ground in the Hideout.
She would simulate the serpent there and see if they had the ability to remotely control corpses.
And by the way, see if she could simulate that huge creature on the seabed, after all, she had seen its attack method.
.
.
