Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 181p1

Chapter 181: B-Rank Sister p1

“Eh?”

Weren’t they just talking about evolution? Why had they skipped straight to taking off clothes?

Had she been sleepwalking too?

While Lin Xiwan was still in a daze, Lin Jiayao had already reached out and grasped a tree root emerging from the ground. The root, about the thickness of a finger, slowly pierced into the back of Lin Jiayao’s right hand. The blood vessels in her right hand gradually emitted a green fluorescence, indicating that she had fully connected to the vascular network and gained complete control.

“Rumble…”

With a slight tremor and muffled sound, a large amount of nutrient solution was transported here from elsewhere. Numerous roots emerged from the soil, coiling around the remaining corpses on the ground and dragging them underground. The vines on the surrounding building-trees were rapidly growing, completely enveloping the “arena” and intertwining to seal the top.

Soon, a huge enclosed space formed, wrapped in vines, illuminated only by the faint, fluorescent green sap.

“Whoosh—”

The vine bag in Lin Xiwan’s hand suddenly loosened, and a large number of Blood Crystals were dragged into the ground by several entwined roots, causing her to instinctively drop the bag. In reality, the Blood Crystals hadn’t been dragged underground, but transferred into Lin Jiayao’s Blood Crystal Box.

Ninety Blood Crystals now rested neatly inside, the total remaining after deducting the three Huayibai had consumed during transport and the eight given to the Northern Alliance.

More than enough to make a B-rank.

Lin Jiayao quickly took out ten Blood Crystals and exchanged them for Blood Crystal Serum at the [Medical Station]. She would exchange ten for now and see the effect. After all, exchanging for Blood Crystal Serum was a guaranteed profit.

While exchanging for the serum, Lin Jiayao also manipulated the newly grown vines to weave half a vine cocoon in front of her, just large enough for a person to squat inside. Once the opening was sealed, it would become a real cocoon.

After doing all this, Lin Jiayao looked at her sister again, only to find her still standing there motionless, seemingly at a loss.

“Hmm?” Lin Jiayao blinked at her sister, a little confused. “Sister?”

“Ah? Oh…”

Lin Xiwan finally snapped back to reality after being called by her sister.

Seeing her sister’s busy preparations, taking off her clothes must be a serious matter…

Lin Xiwan took a deep breath, no longer hesitating. She quickly took off her clothes, walked to the giant “bowl”, turned to her sister, and asked, “Should I go in?”

“Yes.”

After receiving confirmation, Lin Xiwan stepped into the vine cocoon. Standing inside, she crossed her arms and looked at her sister, waiting for further instructions.

Because the vine cocoon was only half-formed, it only reached slightly above Lin Xiwan’s knees. Fortunately, the space was relatively enclosed, and her sister was the only one present, so she didn’t feel too embarrassed.

Under Lin Xiwan’s gaze, her sister’s wheelchair was dragged towards the vine cocoon by the vines and stopped right in front of it. Several vines wrapped around the wheels, securing it in place.

“Sit down,” Lin Jiayao said softly, looking at her sister, who looked a little uncomfortable standing there.

“Oh…”

Lin Xiwan slowly sat down inside the cocoon. The half-cocoon just covered her body, leaving only her head and shoulders exposed. However, sitting like this with her knees hugged, Lin Xiwan could only look up at her sister.

“Can you still feel your body’s need for Blood Crystals?” Lin Jiayao asked, looking at her sister.

“Yes, I can.”

“Good.”

After this brief exchange, Lin Jiayao took out a bag of Blood Crystal Serum from the warehouse.

In Lin Xiwan’s perspective, her sister’s hand seemed to blink, and then a strange bag of faintly glowing, fluorescent red liquid appeared.

Before she could even wonder where it came from, she felt the pure blood crystal aura emanating from within.

“Gulp…”

Unconsciously swallowing, Lin Xiwan watched as her sister tore open a corner of the bag and poured the contents onto her.

“Ah…”

Lin Xiwan’s body trembled involuntarily.

The scarlet blood crystal liquid, like glowing blood, was rapidly absorbed upon contact with her skin, leaving a burning sensation. It felt like being doused with scalding hot water, but it wasn’t painful, rather, it evoked a primal craving and a sense of satisfaction.

This feeling was familiar. It reminded Lin Xiwan of the time they were trapped in the residential complex by the Voodoo Cult. While half-conscious, she seemed to have felt this sensation through her sister’s lips and tongue. Of course, Lin Xiwan didn’t know that it wasn’t a tongue she had felt, but a mass of mycelium that had extended down her throat and injected directly into her heart.

“I think I’ve used this stuff before… Yao…” To distract herself from the strange, burning satisfaction, Lin Xiwan casually started a conversation.

“Yes, I used it on you before.” Lin Jiayao nodded, carefully observing her sister’s physical condition.

The Blood Crystal Serum was being absorbed efficiently. Even the drops that trickled down from her collarbone were absorbed before reaching her torso.

It seemed like she was in good condition.

After completely tearing open the bag and pouring every last drop of the serum onto her sister, the final few drops were no longer absorbed but slid down her smooth skin to the bottom of the cocoon, pooling in a small puddle where Lin Xiwan sat.

Including the three Blood Crystals her sister had absorbed earlier, was this her limit?

There were several ways to continue.

Create a wound, allowing the blood crystal liquid to increase the capacity and quality of blood crystals in the body while repairing the wound.

Release abilities until exhaustion, and then increase the capacity and quality of blood crystals in the body while devouring blood crystals to recover.

A combination of the two would be combat. That’s why many Awakened evolved during or after battles.

But continuous fighting was incredibly mentally taxing and unsustainable. Her mind would give out first.

Was there a faster way?

Actually, there was.

An unremarkable blue evolution that Lin Jiayao had used, but not frequently.

Symbiotic Link.

This evolution had been used a few times, to transfer energy to her sister for recovery or healing, but it had rarely been used since.

This ability, obtained from the Blood Orb Mycelium, which shared the same origin as Huayibai, Lin Jiayao had seen its advanced version in Huayibai.

It wasn’t just for transferring energy; it could also instantly devour a person as if they were melting.

Its description—

[Symbiotic Link Lv.1 (Blue): The split mycelium can connect to other host bodies, absorbing or transmitting a small amount of nutrients.]

—It didn’t just transmit, it also absorbed.

Lin Jiayao could act like an external blood circulation machine, extracting energy from her sister’s body while simultaneously injecting energy into it.

“Wait a moment, Sister.”

Lin Jiayao tossed aside the empty bag. It dissolved upon hitting the ground, seeping into the earth and disappearing without a trace.

“Okay.” Lin Xiwan nodded, leaning against the vine wall of the cocoon and waiting patiently.

She trusted her sister completely and wouldn’t question anything she asked her to do. Even if her sister asked her to stab herself in the heart with a knife right now, she would do it.

After asking her sister to wait, Lin Jiayao entered the Training Grounds, ignoring even the notification that No. 7 had successfully extracted.

Inside the training ground, where time flowed several times slower than the outside world, Lin Jiayao simulated everything from the outside world at a 1:1 scale.

Compared to other Awakened evolutions, Lin Jiayao had an ability that no one else could match, an ability that could be called “prescience”.

That was the simulation of the Training Grounds.

Lin Jiayao could create a 1:1 scene inside, simulate every step she was about to take, and find the most correct path.

This method could not only be used to simulate battles, but also to simulate her sister’s evolution.

This was the safest method, which could avoid any unexpected situations.

“Phew…”

Lin Jiayao looked at the simulated sister in the Training Grounds and activated 100% sensory simulation.

This was to avoid even the slightest deviation from reality.

Under Lin Jiayao’s control, the vine cocoon, which could originally only accommodate one person, slowly expanded in front of her, reaching a size that could accommodate two people.

At the same time, another cocoon of almost the same size was woven and formed beside Lin Jiayao, containing 50 bags of opened Blood Crystal Serum.

With a snap of her fingers, Lin Jiayao’s clothes also disappeared. She sat inside the vine cocoon, facing her sister.

Lin Jiayao slowly extended her left arm, which slowly twisted and deformed, becoming a thick, tentacle-like mycelium arm wrapped in mycelium.

Her right hand underwent the same transformation.

Then, Lin Jiayao stretched out her left hand, and the mycelium on her left hand quickly pierced a hole in the simulated sister’s chest at the heart, connecting to her heart.

Her right hand split, one part slowly extending and piercing into the vine cocoon filled with Blood Crystal Serum.

The other part also inserted itself into the heart, forming three connection points.

Extracting nutrients from her sister’s body, extracting Blood Crystal Serum, re-injecting blood crystal liquid and nutrients, forming a cycle to slowly increase the amount of blood crystal liquid and the total amount in her sister’s body.

As for Lin Jiayao herself, she acted as a blood pump with a self-purification function, similar to an extracorporeal circulation machine.

With [Hemophagy], Lin Jiayao could even judge her sister’s current state through the blood in her body. She was simply a human-shaped extracorporeal circulation machine.

If this really worked, Lin Jiayao could even directly boost a weakest E-rank Awakened to B-rank with Blood Crystals… Evolution would no longer be a difficult task.

In order to perfectly simulate the real situation outside and avoid any mistakes, Lin Jiayao also activated the emotional simulation of the virtual sister.

The virtual Lin Xiwan slowly opened her eyes and saw her sister close in front of her, her left arm piercing into her chest, and her eyes widened in shock.

“Yao… Yao?”

“It’s starting.” Although she knew that the sister in front of her was virtual, Lin Jiayao still reminded her.

“Huh? Okay… hiss—”

“Shing—”

Before the virtual sister could finish speaking, she gasped sharply, as if enduring some unbearable pain.

The blood crystals and nutrients in her body were being rapidly extracted by Lin Jiayao, and her skin visibly shriveled, her face pale.

If this continued, the unresisting virtual sister would be sucked dry in no time.

On the other hand, Lin Jiayao’s right hand also began to simultaneously absorb the blood crystal liquid contained in the other vine cocoon, and then, through the remaining tube, injected the blood crystal liquid and the blood crystal liquid and nutrients originally in Lin Xiwan’s body back into Lin Xiwan’s heart at a 5:5 ratio.

The blood crystal liquid and nutrients in Lin Xiwan’s body were rapidly being replaced, and her body and blood vessels began to contract and expand rhythmically.

In each cycle, the total amount of blood crystals in Lin Xiwan’s body would increase, and her aura would become stronger and stronger.

It seemed that it might really work.

But the virtual sister’s expression seemed to be in pain. The veins on her forehead bulged, sweat poured down like rain, and her hands weakly hugged Lin Jiayao in front of her, as if hugging a lifesaver.

Just when almost half of the Blood Crystal Serum in the vine cocoon had been extracted.

The virtual sister, who had been burying her face in Lin Jiayao’s shoulder, suddenly said weakly: “Yao… it hurts…”

“Crack—”

As soon as she finished speaking, with a crisp sound, the heart in the virtual sister’s body suddenly ruptured, and her skin quickly turned red, oozing blood and blood crystal liquid.

The precipitated blood crystal liquid and blood quickly turned into blood crystal fragments, piling up half of the vine cocoon.

And the virtual sister’s breathing also stopped, her body falling backwards limply, bleeding from her seven orifices, a gruesome sight.

Seeing this scene, Lin Jiayao’s heart skipped a beat, her mind went blank, and only a slight ringing remained in her ears.

Soon, Lin Jiayao reacted. This was the virtual world of the training ground, not reality.

She quickly adjusted her mentality, and the blood-covered virtual sister in front of her disappeared, replaced by a brand new cocoon not far away, and a brand new virtual sister.

It didn’t work… was it because the ratio of blood crystal liquid was wrong?

Or… would any evolution fail?

There were indeed some people who, as they became stronger, would gradually approach the direction of zombies, and their sanity would gradually disappear.

Not everyone was suitable for maintaining sanity during evolution. Blood crystals themselves were also selecting the optimal evolutionary solution.

“Phew…”

Lin Jiayao slowly exhaled.

It seemed that she had to try various methods.

“Snap—”

Lin Jiayao snapped her fingers, and countless vine cocoons appeared in the open space in front of her. Each cocoon contained a virtual self and a virtual sister, repeating the process of her evolution failure just now.

The Lin Jiayao in each cocoon would adjust the nutrient solution and Blood Crystal Serum, and even the speed of circulation, to different degrees, looking for the optimal solution.

It was like using the system’s computing power to brute-force the blood crystal evolution.

And at the same time, in several other places in the training ground, more than ten identical venues were also simulated according to Lin Jiayao’s thoughts.

However, those venues were not filled with vine cocoons and people like this one, but the original “arena” structure.

In those venues, time flowed rapidly, and the virtual sisters inside were fighting with various monsters, then recovering, devouring blood crystals, repeating the evolution process of ordinary Awakened.

Battle → devour → recover → battle.

Everything in the training ground was rapidly simulated at double speed. These virtual creations that did not involve Lin Jiayao’s main body consciousness could be simulated by the system at double speed.

For example, Lin Jiayao could place an apple and let this simulated apple quickly rot under the system’s acceleration.

But Lin Jiayao couldn’t speed up her own thinking inside, she herself would not be affected by the system’s acceleration.

“Crack—”
“Boom—”

Everything in the training ground was being rapidly simulated by the system’s enormous computing power, brute-forcing the “algorithm” of blood crystals.

And Lin Jiayao was also carefully sensing the surroundings, to see if there were any B-rank lifeforms appearing.

If there were, it would mean that one of the ratios or methods was effective. She would simulate the successful method hundreds of times, and if it had a 100% success rate, she could let her sister try it in reality.

She wouldn’t gamble with her sister’s life.

Everything around her was proceeding at double speed, but Lin Jiayao could only see the flesh and blood exploding inside the vine cocoons and the rapid, distorted crying.

And in the other training grounds, more than ten identical training grounds, one virtual sister died due to a mistake in battle, and the rest had fast-forwarded to the last step of devouring a large amount of Blood Crystals.

But whether it was devouring Blood Crystals or Blood Crystal Serum, only two situations occurred at the last moment.

The virtual sisters who devoured the more stable Blood Crystal Serum uncontrollably precipitated Blood Crystals all over their bodies and died.

And the sisters who devoured the unstable Blood Crystals began to look ferocious, their aura rising, and their eyes completely covered by blood red.

They all failed.

Lin Jiayao, in the system training ground, slowly opened her mouth.

She couldn’t believe the situation in front of her, and even couldn’t accept it.

Even the most common method, which stretched the evolution time to the longest, the battle evolution, her sister failed…

“System, what’s going on?”

Lin Jiayao asked the air in front of her in the training ground.

She knew that the system definitely knew what the answer was, and she just wanted to test if the system would speak.

[This is just a simple screening of genes by blood crystals.]

[Perhaps the blood crystal thinks that her evolutionary genes can only exert their most perfect form and become a B-rank blood crystal when she loses her mind.]

Screening… evolution?

Blood crystals were screening genes?

Whether sanity existed or not only depended on whether the ability or evolutionary genes were suitable for having sanity?

Evolution wasn’t random?

Were blood crystals a preset program?

Countless mysteries surged in Lin Jiayao’s heart. She had thought about the origin of blood crystals and the root of the blood crystal rain many times, but the things revealed now were far more complicated than she had imagined.

According to the information revealed by the system just now, it made Lin Jiayao feel that the earth was more like a… petri dish.

A giant planet petri dish.

“So the earth is just a petri dish?” Lin Jiayao took the opportunity to ask while the system was willing to talk.

But this time, the system did not give her any reply, only leaving the previous sentence that seemed like a reminder but also like a casual remark.

Sigh…