Chapter 199: The Fanatical Maiden p2
Releasing the suppression of Crystal Vibration Pressure, Lin Jiayao watched as Kisaragi Mika turned into a red streamer and quickly flew away.
She should also start looking for No. 5…
But No. 5 wasn’t in the sky, after all, so it was a bit difficult to make some noise that could be noticed by Awakened.
“Thump—thump—thump—”
After leaving a search range for the Awakened, Lin Jiayao switched her consciousness and returned to her body.
Lin Jiayao slowly opened her eyes, and just happened to see the building-tree guard beneath her stop.
The tall building-tree guard stood in front of the highway toll booth, and there was a large line of words in front of the toll booth.
“Welcome to Wangxi”.
They had arrived at Wangxi City.
At this time, the sky was no longer hazy, and the sun was shining on this city, which seemed to have a different evolutionary path from Kun City.
There was no large area of green, but instead, patches of dark yellow, round fruits.
These fruits hung in clusters on the vines entwined between the buildings in the city, looking very much like eyeballs hanging there.
What was this…?
Perhaps only by getting a little closer could she see what was inside.
Lin Jiayao opened her mouth, the flesh and blood inside wriggled, and several bunches of mycelium emerged from her mouth.
These mycelia intertwined in Lin Jiayao’s hands, forming a blood-red mask, which Lin Jiayao handed to her sister.
“Wear this, you won’t inhale other spores.” Lin Jiayao explained, looking at her puzzled sister.
Her sister was not immune to spores, so Lin Jiayao had already left a few spores in her respiratory tract in advance.
Even if there were really spores entering her sister’s body from the respiratory tract or ears, they would be quickly devoured and intercepted by Lin Jiayao’s spores.
When it came to devouring, there was probably nothing better than Blood Orb Mycelium.
But to prevent accidents, it was best to add another layer of protection.
“Okay.” Lin Xiwan nodded, took the fleshy mask, and directly put it on her face. The size was just right to cover her nose and mouth without affecting her breathing.
“Next, we’re going to… Yao, what’s wrong?” Lin Xiwan just opened her mouth to ask something when she suddenly felt her sister in her arms tremble.
“It’s okay, next we’ll just look for the zombie hordes in this area, this place hasn’t been explored yet…” Lin Jiayao was speaking normally, but towards the end, her tone gradually rose, “Don’t lick the mask!”
“Oh…” Lin Xiwan, not knowing what she had done wrong, shrugged and responded in a drawn-out voice.
How did her sister know that she licked her lips inside the mask? She just accidentally licked the mask…
A miscalculation…
Looking at her sister’s innocent look, Lin Jiayao silently sighed in her heart.
She had been distracted by observing the situation on No. 5’s side just now, and for a moment, she actually forgot to remind her sister that the mycelium was part of her body, and she could feel what the mycelium felt.
In this situation, it was obviously better not to tell her sister immediately. Who knew if her sister would occasionally play pranks after knowing this?
After making preparations, Lin Jiayao directly connected to the roots extending from the Building-Tree Guardian and began to manually control its movements.
“Thump—thump—”
“Creak—creak—”
Every step made a heavy sound and the creaking of twisting branches, which would attract the attention of zombies.
Lin Jiayao also told her sister that her purpose this time was not to hunt zombies, but to “infect” them.
Although it sounded outrageous, to infect something that was already infected, but it was indeed the case.
Saying infection was just another way of saying parasitism.
As the Building-Tree Guardian walked towards the city, Lin Jiayao had already moved out of her sister’s arms.
She transformed her fingernails into bone spurs, directly cut her wrist, and then let two bone spurs open the wound to prevent it from healing quickly and keep bleeding.
Lin Jiayao’s blood flowed along the edge of the Building-Tree Guardian, then quickly scabbed over, condensing into a large piece of blood-red flesh on the Building-Tree Guardian.
It looked very similar to the dark yellow “oranges” hanging all over the buildings.
Blood Crystallized Insects.
Lin Jiayao used this ability to fill Kun City with her eyeliner, turning it into a city with pre-apocalypse “Skynet” surveillance. (TN: Skynet is China’s mass surveillance system)
And now, Lin Jiayao was going to use this Blood Crystallized Insect ability to hatch a large number of brain worms for herself.
As for the problem of excessive blood loss, Lin Jiayao didn’t need to consider it. With Blood Crystal Serum and Abnormal Self-Healing, Lin Jiayao could easily replenish her blood.
If there were slightly more C-rank zombies in Wangxi City, the consumed Blood Crystals could be quickly replenished by hunting C-rank zombies.
But what Lin Jiayao was most curious about now was… what exactly were those yellow “fruits”?
Could they really be insect eggs, just like the “red fruits” Lin Jiayao was currently creating?
Disgusting aside, if this was really a city composed of various insects, then Lin Jiayao couldn’t use brain worm parasitism here.
“Yao… will it hurt…?” Lin Xiwan kept staring at the constantly bleeding wound on Lin Jiayao’s hand, her eyes narrowed, as if she was in more pain than Lin Jiayao.
“It doesn’t hurt, my blood has a numbing effect.” Lin Jiayao said casually to reassure her sister.
Of course, her blood couldn’t numb herself, she was even immune to toxins like paralysis.
It was just that these wounds were really too minor for Lin Jiayao. The injuries she suffered during logins were more than ten times more terrifying than these, and her mind had long been incredibly tough.
Lin Jiayao controlled the Building-Tree Guardian and slowly walked towards a large tree with those yellow “oranges” hanging from it.
After getting a little closer, Lin Jiayao saw the fine, crack-like bumps on these “oranges” and the black dots at the bottom of each “orange”.
There was indeed a blood crystal aura…
“Sister, attack that tree and see? Use less force.” Lin Jiayao said to her sister beside her.
Lin Jiayao’s current long-range attack ability was basically only Crystal Vibration Pressure, which consumed too much and made too much noise, so it wasn’t suitable.
Her sister’s ability was just right for testing.
“Okay.”
Lin Xiwan nodded, stood up, jumped off the ten-meter-tall Building-Tree Guardian, and stood in front, casually picking up a stone from the ground and holding it at her waist.
Her sister said to use less force, so she didn’t plan to use her ability, and she didn’t stand on the Building-Tree Guardian to avoid crushing the fragile, smaller C-rank Building-Tree Guardian with her force.
“Whoosh—!”
“Boom—!”
As Lin Xiwan quickly threw her right hand forward, the speed was so fast that it was invisible to the naked eye. The stone made a sharp whooshing sound the moment it left her hand, and it couldn’t withstand the pressure halfway through its flight and exploded with a cracking sound.
The broken stones, like shrapnel from a shotgun, blasted towards the large tree covered with yellow lumps with terrifying momentum.
“Crack, crack, crack—”
The stones, like scattered flowers, hit different directions, exploding a large number of yellow lumps at the same time.
Those yellow, wrinkled lumps, like oranges, sprayed out a large amount of pus-yellow liquid after being exploded.
This liquid splashed onto the ground, making a “sizzling” sound, corroding the ground.
Lin Jiayao and Lin Xiwan both watched the scene of the yellow pus splashing with expressionless faces.
Lin Xiwan was because she had been leading the exploration team out for many years and was basically immune to disgusting zombies, let alone pus or the like.
And Lin Jiayao…
One word, she had tasted it.
After throwing the stone, Lin Xiwan jumped back to her sister’s side and waited for the changes in front of them.
“Crack, crack—”
“Creak—”
As more and more pus oozed out, the entire tree twisted as if it had come alive.
The originally drooping branches and trunk slowly lifted, and its bark opened countless holes, letting out overlapping cries of pain.
It wasn’t until the trunk was completely exposed that Lin Jiayao saw clearly what it was.
It was a zombie embedded in it, with empty eye sockets and no pupils…
The things hanging on it should be…
“Swish—”
All the “oranges” twisted, and their black-dotted bottoms turned towards the Building-Tree Guardian. Scarlet blood threads began to spread from their originally cracked crevices, making the entire “orange” look like a peeled “orange”.
It seemed that every biological zombie or plant zombie, after devouring these zombies and humans, had turned their flesh and blood and torsos into their own torsos.
Was it just an ordinary fusion-type zombie?
“Crack—”
While the Corpse Pillar Tree was still going crazy, Lin Jiayao had already controlled several brain worm cocoons to split open, and drop-shaped golden insects emerged from inside.
After hatching, they slowly vibrated their wings, revealing the chaotic black and white patterns under their golden shells. Their fat, patterned abdomens looked particularly disgusting.
Of course, if someone’s XP was insects, then they would probably think that the insects on its abdomen were silver patterns, which should make them feel better.
These brain worms only had golden shells, and they didn’t have the extreme flying speed of the golden flying insects at all.
They slowly flapped their wings and flew towards the big tree.
“Crack—”
The big tree had already pulled out its roots, which were composed of countless human thighs, and waved the orange-red eyeballs on its branches, moving towards the two sisters.
As for Huayibai, she was still lying beside Lin Jiayao, seriously flying to complete Mommy’s task, and had no time to pay attention to what was happening here.
“So disgusting…” Even Lin Xiwan, who had seen countless zombies, frowned when she saw such a large fusion zombie.
After all, the Corpse Pillar that acted as the trunk was indeed easy to make people feel nauseous.
As the Corpse Pillar moved towards the Building-Tree Guardian step by step, Lin Jiayao’s flying insects had already reached the fleshy pillar.
The insects crawled along the skinny corpses, drilled into the open black mouths, and continuously gnawed inside.
Fortunately, the brain worms didn’t share their vision with Lin Jiayao like the green bugs, so she wouldn’t see anything unpleasant.
“Crack—”
Suddenly, the brain worm seemed to have drilled into something, and the entire Corpse Pillar instantly stopped, then began to shake violently.
The corpses clinging to the outside were shaken off one by one, gradually revealing what was inside.