Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 203p1

Chapter 203: Hee Hee Sister… p1

“Yao, what do we do? Do we keep running?”

Lin Xiwan’s chest heaved slightly. It was clear she had exerted a lot of energy, especially after taking a direct hit from a B-rank Awakened’s full-power attack.

Before Lin Jiayao could respond, Lin Xiwan sensed a threat from afar and instinctively thrust her arm forward.

“Bang—”

A speeding piece of rubble exploded as Lin Xiwan punched it, the fragments scattering like shrapnel.

Damn, it had even learned to throw rocks as a ranged attack.

Lin Jiayao watched as her sister faced the oncoming black blood fist, her mind racing.

Run? She wasn’t A4; how could she outrun it? And Huayibai couldn’t simultaneously escape the pursuit at sea and control her clone here.

Even if Huayibai abandoned her clone in Donghai City, it would only give the A-rank in Japan more time to recover.

These were not acceptable options for Lin Jiayao.

Besides, did they really need to run?

Lin Jiayao’s initial thought of retreating was simply the safest option, considering Huayibai’s mission.

But now, cornered and with no room to maneuver, fighting was also an option.

Lin Jiayao was now certain that the being lurking in the depths of Wangxi City was a B-rank fungal zombie.

This meant that even if she went all-in with her Blood Crystals, as long as she killed it, it would be a net gain.

“Boom—!”

A terrifying crash echoed from the distance, debris even flying to where Lin Jiayao was.

This shocking impact of two equally matched, close-combat Awakened clashing head-on was something that other battles of pure strength couldn’t compare to.

Lin Jiayao leaned down and whispered something in Huayibai’s ear.

Huayibai, who had been lying there quietly, slowly opened her eyes, nodded at Lin Jiayao, then hugged her, her form shifting and twisting, transforming into a white mycelium scarf around Lin Jiayao’s neck.

This way, there was no need to worry about Huayibai’s body being left behind and vulnerable.

A bag of Blood Crystal Serum appeared in Lin Jiayao’s hand. She tore it open and drank it all in one gulp.

“Tsss—”

As the Blood Crystal Serum entered her body, it was rapidly consumed. The skin on the back of her neck began to tear, and bone spurs extended down her back, beneath her clothes.

When these bone spurs reached her leg joints, they split, forming two curved bone spurs that clamped tightly around the top and bottom of each joint, creating movable openings.

Finally, the bone spurs reached her feet, forming flat bone claws the same size as her feet.

Having practiced with this system-learned “exoskeleton” in the training ground, Lin Jiayao quickly got the hang of it.

She exerted force with the bone spurs, pushing herself up, and jumped twice in place.

“Crack—”

The bone spurs made a sound like dry twigs snapping as she jumped. Aside from the continuous consumption of Blood Crystals, there were no other issues.

As for how it felt to use, it was similar to when Mask ran with just its head—a familiar sensation for Lin Jiayao.

After connecting the bone spurs to her legs and joints with blood-red mycelium and setting a limit for how far they could extend, there was no need to worry about the bone spur exoskeleton twisting her legs into pretzels with excessive movement.

From afar, it looked as if her muscles and bones were exposed, a stark and frightening contrast against the white skin of her thighs.

The battle on her sister’s side had also ended. Lin Jiayao quickly controlled the bone exoskeleton and ran towards her sister, Huayibai, the white scarf, still around her neck.

“Crack—crack—crack—”

Hearing the strange running sound, Lin Xiwan, who had been half-kneeling on the ground, catching her breath and waiting for her body to recover before returning, instantly turned around, almost throwing a punch.

But when she saw clearly who was running towards her, she abruptly stopped her fist, her eyes widening.

Yao is running towards me, and then jumping into my arms—Lin Xiwan had imagined this scene countless times.

But actually seeing her sister running still stunned her, momentarily making her forget the danger she was in.

Lin Jiayao slid to a stop beside her crouching sister, kicking up a cloud of dust. Four bags of Blood Crystal Serum appeared in her hands.

“Sister, we can’t outrun it. Let’s go kill it.” Lin Jiayao explained her plan while tearing open a bag and squeezing the Blood Crystal Serum into her sister’s mouth.

“Mmm… gulp…” Lin Xiwan, about to say something, swallowed the serum instead.

Lin Xiwan had seen her sister use these bags of blood crystal liquid during her previous promotion, so she wasn’t surprised.

Her attention was still completely focused on her sister’s legs.

While being fed the serum, she glanced at her sister’s legs and reached out to touch them.

“Mmm?”

She made a questioning sound, and although it was muffled, Lin Jiayao understood what her sister wanted to ask.

“It’s an exoskeleton made of bone and mycelium. My legs still can’t move.” Lin Jiayao explained.

A flicker of disappointment crossed Lin Xiwan’s eyes, but it was quickly replaced by a smile as she continued to stroke her sister’s legs.

Guessing her sister’s thoughts, Lin Jiayao shook her head and said, “Using it normally also consumes Blood Crystals, so I can’t use it often.”

Maintaining this delicate exoskeleton didn’t put much strain on Lin Jiayao’s mental power, but the consumption rate of almost 100g of Blood Crystals per hour was not something she could afford for everyday use.

“Mmm…” Lin Xiwan nodded, took her hand off her sister’s leg, and rubbed her sister’s head, seemingly in comfort.

She had genuinely thought her sister’s legs had healed and was happy for her, but unfortunately, it wasn’t the case.

Because this battle ended relatively quickly, by the time Lin Xiwan finished absorbing the four bags of Blood Crystal Serum, the next B-rank Awakened hadn’t even arrived yet.

This gave them a brief respite.

Looking at the twenty Blood Crystals left in the warehouse, Lin Jiayao directly exchanged them all for Blood Crystal Serum.

Even a lion uses its full strength to catch a rabbit, let alone when facing a B-rank fungal zombie.

“Roar—”

Another shrill roar echoed from the distance. The two sisters looked up simultaneously and saw a flayed, one-eyed zombie rushing towards them from the corner of the street.

Unlike the previous humanoid forms, this bloody figure was clearly a zombie, only its height and build similar to Lin Xiwan’s.

This seemed to be the most blood crystal-efficient form after adjustments.

Although its appearance was similar to a low-level Biter, the B-rank pressure it exuded was undeniable.

“It’s okay, it only mimicked part of my abilities. I already know how to deal with it…” Lin Xiwan, having just replenished her Blood Crystal Serum, stood up, lifted a nearby wrecked car, and hurled it towards the zombie at the street corner.

Lin Jiayao didn’t continue watching the battle, but quickly ran to the large pit created by her sister when she killed those clones earlier and picked up the Blood Crystals precipitated from the shriveled flesh and blood.

That fungal zombie used Blood Crystals for two things when creating clones.

One was for creating the body, and the other was for storage within the body.

The Blood Crystals stored inside the body could support the clone’s use of evolutions, while the Blood Crystals used to create the body would be extracted from the flesh when it died from exhaustion.

“Two…” Lin Jiayao put the two Blood Crystals into the warehouse, converting them into Blood Crystal Serum, and sighed softly.

It really compressed the Blood Crystals used for forging the body to the extreme. No wonder it had high attack but low defense.

Returning to where her sister had smashed the second clone, Lin Jiayao also found two Blood Crystals there and converted them into Blood Crystal Serum.

When she reached the third flayed zombie clone that her sister had killed, she only found one Blood Crystal.

Lin Jiayao took them all, exchanging these five Blood Crystals for Blood Crystal Serum. Now Lin Jiayao had 25 bags of Blood Crystal Serum.

Definitely enough for the battle’s consumption.

She could only be thankful that Wangxi City itself didn’t have any B-rank Awakened, otherwise, they might have to face two different types of B-rank clones attacking at the same time, which would be extremely stressful.

It cloned her sister in such a short time, and was still creating them one after another, at an increasing speed…

Could it be that there were different fleshy chambers inside or outside its body, each gestating clones at different stages?

If the number of its cloning chambers remained unchanged, if she could interfere with it, perhaps she could make it produce fewer B-rank clones of her sister…

“Sister, we have to hurry.” Before the next clone arrived, Lin Jiayao jumped onto her sister’s back, her legs clamping around her sister’s waist.

If her legs could hold on tight, then her sister wouldn’t have to use one hand to support her, which would make movement more convenient.

“Okay.”

Lin Xiwan nodded, carried her sister on her back, jumped onto the roof, and quickly ran towards the path where the clone came from.

After abandoning the Building-Tree Guardian and the scattered supplies, their movement speed increased significantly.

Soon, they ran head-on into a terrifying skinless clone. This time, it didn’t even seem to have vocal cords cloned.

“Wait.” Lin Jiayao stopped her sister who was about to attack, jumped off her sister’s back, and tore open a bag of Blood Crystal Serum. “Let me do it, you help me block the black blood.”

“But…” Although the attack wasn’t continuous, it was a B-rank’s full-powered attack! This time, Lin Xiwan hesitated about her sister’s decision.