Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 204

Chapter 204: Wave After Wave

The towering “human pillar” in the center of the lake, and the countless unconscious humans clinging to it with only a breath of life left…

Seven or eight clones of her sister charged toward her, their faces twisted in fury, their near-perfect replicas of flesh closing in…

Her real sister, leaning against a decorative rock beside her, injecting strange needles into her body…

Honestly, seeing those sister clones charging towards her, Lin Xiwan was completely stunned.

Is this heaven? Lin Xiwan repeatedly questioned herself.

She hadn’t even been this stunned the first time she saw her own clone, but now her mind had completely shut down.

It wasn’t until the first clone sister crashed into her arms, weakly biting at her neck with its pearly white teeth, that Lin Xiwan finally snapped back to reality.

Although it posed no threat to her, it was indeed an enemy, just wearing her sister’s face.

But looking at the faces of these “sisters,” Lin Xiwan really didn’t know how to attack.

At this time, Lin Jiayao, beside her, had successfully catalyzed the first batch of brain worms. The flying insects vibrated their wings and flew towards the tall fleshy pillar in the center of the lake.

To accelerate the production of brain worms and the mass production of Blood Crystal Synergist, Lin Jiayao injected herself with needles of Blood Crystal Combat Stimulant as if they were free.

If she didn’t hurry, the stupid fungal zombie, after reacting, would probably start creating more of her sister’s clones again. She had to hurry before it did…

As Lin Jiayao thought this, she subconsciously glanced at her sister and froze.

Her sister was frantically trying to push away the “Lin Jiayaos” clinging to her, like a newbie Awakened in the early days of the apocalypse being attacked by baby zombies, unable to fight back but wanting to get the monsters off her.

The clones’ attacks—pulling clothes, pulling hair, biting arms, biting necks—were completely painless and harmless to Lin Xiwan. They were in a strange stalemate.

Seemingly noticing Lin Jiayao’s gaze, Lin Xiwan looked at her sister with pleading eyes.

Lin Jiayao could understand her sister’s feelings.

Take herself as an example.

From her initial shock and hesitation to touch the “virtual sister” in the training ground, to later being able to casually attack, and then to feeling no fluctuation in her heart even when seeing rows of her sister’s corpses…

These all required a lot of experience to desensitize herself. Not everyone could immediately resolve to kill a clone of a loved one, especially her more emotional sister.

It just so happened that using her own body to hatch brain worms was too slow. She just needed these blood crystals, which had no resistance, as cocoons for mass breeding.

Taking another bag of Blood Crystal Serum and swallowing it, Lin Jiayao placed her right hand on the cobblestone floor.

A large amount of red mycelium spread from her hand into the ground, then moved around Lin Xiwan, and drilled into the skin of those clones.

It looked like they were strung together with thin red threads, similar to the Flesh Pillar Tree in the center of the lake.

After all the clones were restrained by Lin Jiayao, Lin Xiwan was finally able to “escape” from the embrace of heaven and move to Lin Jiayao’s side with her tattered clothes.

“That was so scary…” Lin Xiwan said, with a few bite marks on her neck, her voice still trembling with fear.

It seemed that she would rather fight three of her own clones at the same time than fight a clone of her sister, even though the latter was much easier to deal with.

“It’s okay, you’ll get used to it.” Lin Jiayao casually comforted her.

Lin Jiayao’s words were not baseless. There were many blood crystals and evolutions that could simulate appearances. She would encounter this kind of clone that could mimic loved ones again in the future.

It was understandable that she couldn’t bring herself to attack the first time she encountered it, but if she still couldn’t attack next time, then Lin Jiayao would have to implement some mandatory corrective measures for her sister.

For example, specifically using mycelium to create some of her own clones to fight with her sister.

“Gurgle—”

The clones connected by Lin Jiayao’s mycelium all had their faces twisted.

Terrifying pustules swelled up on their bodies, which began to distort and deform.

This terrifying scene, witnessed by Lin Xiwan, instantly extinguished any remaining illusions of “heaven” and made her realize that these were just monsters.

Their bodies continued to swell amidst the pustules, until finally, their organs and internal organs were crushed and ruptured, and they lost their vital signs.

After losing their vital signs, these cloned bodies did not precipitate Blood Crystals, but were absorbed by the pustules and blood cocoons inside their bodies.

The clones’ bodies continuously contracted and turned black, shrinking into the black bark-like material seen before, and these black “barks” were covered with densely packed red blood cocoons of various sizes.

The blood cocoons pulsed on these “barks” and “branches”, absorbing nutrients and gestating life.

Soon, the naked clones that were originally on the open space all turned into “stick figures” covered with blood tumors, their deaths extremely gruesome.

It was like a branch covered with apple snail eggs… no, a more accurate description would be red lychees spread all over the ground.

Lin Jiayao watched the clones that looked exactly like her die tragically with an expressionless face, without any fluctuation in her heart.

But Lin Xiwan, who was seeing this scene for the first time, had already grabbed Lin Jiayao’s arm with her hand. Although she didn’t say anything, her tightly gripping arm revealed the panic in her heart.

Lin Jiayao really wanted to remind her sister that the arm she was holding had also been covered with these eggs just now, but to avoid stimulating her sister, she still held back.

Indeed, seeing more didn’t necessarily improve one’s mental fortitude, one still had to experience it.

For example, cockroaches. If you could eat one cockroach after another without changing your expression, then no matter how many cockroaches flew onto your face, you wouldn’t be afraid.

The same was true for zombies.

Of course, Lin Jiayao wouldn’t be so crazy as to make her sister eat zombies like her. Fear was human nature, as long as it didn’t affect the battle, it was fine.

“Gurgle—”

A sticky gurgling sound came from the yellow follicles on top of the fleshy pillar in the center of the lake. Looking up, she could indeed see new clones gestating.

At this time, Lin Jiayao’s first batch of brain worms, carrying Blood Crystal Synergist, had also reached the bottom of the fleshy pillar and were drilling towards the center, past the dried corpses and black stems below that had been sucked dry.

“Gurgle—”
“Goo—”

After the brain worms drilled in, it could be clearly felt that the entire huge Flesh Pillar Tree shook slightly, as if it had been attacked.

These were brain worms created by the golden evolution of Hive Zombies from tens of thousands of kilometers away. Hive Zombies with strong mental power were definitely one of the natural enemies of fungal zombies.

After the brain worms drilled into its body, they began to rapidly extract its mental power.

As if to protect itself, the entire Flesh Pillar Tree began to tremble, and the large amount of Blood Crystals in the lake were devoured and absorbed by it. The top of the Flesh Pillar Tree, wrapped in black stems, began to continuously produce orange-yellow “fruits”.

“Sister, destroy the eggs on its top.” Lin Jiayao said quickly to her sister.

“Okay.” Lin Xiwan, who was nervously watching Lin Jiayao’s actions and didn’t dare to disturb her, immediately got up and charged towards the Flesh Pillar Tree after hearing Lin Jiayao’s words.

Just destroying the eggs on its top shouldn’t cause any harm to the humans and Awakened it controlled.

And destroying part of its body could also interfere with its mental control, so her sister only needed to destroy those eggs before they formed and hatched.

“Stop…” Lin Jiayao tried to give the Flesh Pillar Tree a command, but it continued to tremble without any reaction.

“Shing—”

Lin Jiayao directly took out three Blood Crystal Combat Stimulants with her right hand, held them between her fingers, inserted them into her neck, and pressed the injection button. The three stimulants were instantly emptied, and Lin Jiayao’s eyeballs seemed to be dyed with a layer of blood red.

“Break—”
“Crack—”

The blood cocoons on the “deadwood” burst open, and golden flying insects emerged from inside, vibrating their wings and revealing their soft, black and white abdomens.

A large number of brain worms took off from the “deadwood”. After being stained with the Blood Crystal Synergist released by Lin Jiayao, they swarmed towards the Flesh Pillar Tree.

And Lin Jiayao, after injecting herself with two bags of Blood Crystal Serum at the same time, took out the last three Blood Crystal Combat Stimulants.

“Shing, shing, shing—”

The three needles were inserted into her heart at the same time, the syringes instantly emptied, and the stimulants directly penetrated her clothes and flesh, reaching Lin Jiayao’s heart.

Cooperating with the continuously drilling brain worms, Lin Jiayao opened her blood-red eyes and stared at the twisting Flesh Pillar Tree.

“Crack—”

High above, a huge black claw crushed a giant egg, and the pain made the Flesh Pillar Tree twist frantically.

Taking advantage of this moment of weakness in its mental power, Lin Jiayao slowly said:

“Stop—!”

Instantly, the tree trunk, which had been twisting and trembling like an insect’s abdomen, stopped, and even the follicles on its top that were still transmitting energy stopped transmitting energy.

The entire Flesh Pillar Tree, as if it had lost its soul, stopped on the spot, without any other movements.

It worked…

By using drugs and injections like a hormone warrior, Lin Jiayao directly controlled a B-rank fungal zombie with two golden evolutions and her sister’s attack harassment!

Lin Jiayao controlled the bone spur exoskeleton to support her body and slowly stood up, looking up at the tall human pillar standing in the center of the lake, and the faint blood crystal glow emanating from the dirty lake water under the human pillar.

It really worked…

She retracted the mycelium connecting her clones in her palm.

After losing the continuous supply of mycelium, those drained, bark-like black bodies shattered on the spot, like ashes blown away by the wind.

Lin Xiwan, noticing the change, also jumped down from high above and landed steadily beside Lin Jiayao.

“What’s wrong with it? It seems to have completely stopped moving…” Lin Xiwan looked at her sister curiously.

Just now, after sensing something unusual, she immediately stopped and returned to her sister’s side, thinking that something unexpected had happened.

But looking at her sister’s expression, it didn’t seem like the plan had failed.

“I’ve already controlled it.” Lin Jiayao told her sister the result concisely.

“Just controlled it?” Lin Xiwan blinked, glancing at the Flesh Pillar Tree in surprise.

Such a large B-rank zombie… was just controlled like this? Was it with those insects?

Knowing that the danger was gone, Lin Xiwan was slightly relieved.

She didn’t continue to dwell on the huge Flesh Pillar Worm, but stood in front of Lin Jiayao, blocking her sister’s view.

She supported her sister’s shoulder with her left hand, gently stroked the area around her eyes with her right hand, and asked with some distress:

“Your eyes are so red… what’s wrong? Are they uncomfortable?”

Compared to the gains after the battle, Lin Xiwan was more worried about her sister’s bloodshot eyes.

“It’s okay… it’s just that the effects of the medicine haven’t worn off yet, I injected too much at once,” Lin Jiayao raised her hand and rubbed her eyes, not finding any discomfort, “There are no side effects.”

“That’s good…” Lin Xiwan stood beside Lin Jiayao, held her hand, and looked at the huge fleshy pillar in front of them together.

Actually, Lin Xiwan had long had the idea of holding her sister’s hand and walking together like this, and today, she finally had the opportunity – although it might only be temporary.

“Those people… can they still live?” Lin Xiwan’s eyes couldn’t help but be drawn to the humans who were either naked or in tattered clothes.

They were all pierced through their mouths and out their backs by black stems, connected head to tail, and had been hanging there for who knows how long.

Although they still had vital signs, if this state was really lifted, they might not be able to survive, and it was a fate worse than death to keep hanging there like this.

If she couldn’t save them, Lin Xiwan wanted to at least let them die a little more peacefully.

“They can be put down, but they might not live… I’ll try.” Lin Jiayao could tell from their weak heartbeats and breathing that their organs should still be intact.

It was just that they might look emaciated due to long-term lack of nutrition and coma, as if they would die at any moment.

After the Blood Crystal Synergist was completely absorbed by the fungal zombie, there was no need for Lin Jiayao to speak anymore, she could just give commands with her mind.

To be safe, Lin Jiayao added the word “a few” to the command “release humans”, to avoid them all dying in the lake after being released at once.

After Lin Jiayao gave the command, the huge B-rank fungal zombie began to wriggle. The black stems entangled with humans on its body began to loosen, bending and drooping one by one, like weeping willows, sending the black stems to the shore.

“Tsss—”

The fine villi on the black stems wriggled slightly, slowly moving the people from the middle of the black stems to the ends, and then pulling the black stems out of their bodies.

This process was quite grotesque. Lin Jiayao only glanced at it and then focused her attention on the Blood Crystals at the bottom of the lake, calculating how many she could get.

And Lin Xiwan, slightly frowning, couldn’t continue to watch, and lowered her head, focusing her attention on her sister, pinching and pressing here and there, checking if there were any hidden injuries on her body.

They seemed to be still alive…

Through the complete images and sounds transmitted by Bone Spike Lurker, Lin Jiayao could feel their slowly recovering breathing and heartbeat.

It seemed that after leaving the connection of the black stems, some of the means of controlling them also disappeared.

Some of the Awakened with stronger physiques had already begun to show signs of waking up.

Yes… they could live, that was good.

Thinking this way, Lin Jiayao’s scarlet eyes looked at the Flesh Pillar Tree again and conveyed a command to it.

“Release the humans, all of them.”

“Boom—”

A roar suddenly sounded, and Lin Jiayao quickly looked around. This sudden vigilance also made her sister instantly become vigilant.

“What’s wrong?”

Her sister’s voice came from beside her ear.

What happened?

Soon, Lin Jiayao realized that the roar didn’t come from here, but from the logged-in zombie – No. 5 was still carrying out the search command.

Lin Jiayao’s attention shifted to the screen in the upper left corner. Through No. 5’s vision, she could just see a missile with a tail flame getting bigger and bigger in No. 5’s eyes.

Attacked by survivors?

Fortunately, the battle here was over…

“Sister, you deal with the things here, I’ll be with you, just distracting myself a little.” Lin Jiayao quickly handed over the authority to deal with this group of people here to her sister.

And after giving the system a command to let her body follow her sister, she directly switched her consciousness to No. 5.

……

“Whoosh—”

The missile in the distance was getting bigger and bigger in front of her eyes. Lin Jiayao, controlling No. 5, quickly raised her hand and blocked it in front of her face.

Purple crystalline substances spread from her palm and covered the skin. She clenched her fist as the missile approached.

“Boom—!”

The missile exploded in her palm, fire, smoke, and fragments erupting between her fingers. She felt a slight numbness in her palm.

Looking down, her chest had also been hit by a missile just now. The originally purple, tough skin was slightly blackened, but her defense wasn’t broken.

After glancing around, Lin Jiayao quickly locked onto a group of people in the mountain viewing platform. Lin Jiayao saw that they not only had handheld rocket launchers, but also several armored vehicles.

They looked like American standard equipment… were they found at the US military base in Japan?

“Please wait—”

Lin Jiayao raised her left hand horizontally in front of her and put her right index finger vertically against her left palm. No. 5’s deep voice reached several kilometers away.

Through No. 5’s extremely strong vision, she could see that those people were clearly stunned, and then looked around, seemingly at a loss.

It seemed that they had never encountered a zombie that could make gestures and talk.

Such sophisticated equipment… it looked like the organizations that escaped from Tokyo. Most of them hadn’t seen the evolved “Ino God”, and many hadn’t even seen the original big flying pig Ino God. It was normal for them to attack directly upon seeing her.

Let’s try to communicate first.

Lin Jiayao didn’t try to walk forward, so as not to trigger their stress reaction. She just stood there, maintaining this gesture, and said:

“I want to talk to your leader.”

Lin Jiayao’s Japanese was standard and clear, sounding like a local broadcaster, which wouldn’t make people doubt her “local” identity.

Some high-level Awakened had already begun to react. Lin Jiayao was not a zombie, but a controlled object of some Awakened.

After about two or three minutes, a yellow armored Hummer drove down from the mountain, stepped on the accelerator, and stopped by Lin Jiayao’s feet.

Soon, a man in a black jacket, with a mohawk and tattoos on his face, jumped out of the car.

He jumped directly onto the car, put his hands in his pockets, looked up at Lin Jiayao, who was much taller than him, and shouted:

“My name is Higashida, I’ve seen you before, Ino, if you have anything to say, just tell me.”

Then, he paused for a moment and shouted again:

“Sorry, two of my subordinates haven’t seen you before and fired two missiles without authorization. I can compensate you with two Blood Crystals. I just hope you won’t blame them.”

It was Higashida, the executive. He had personally seen Ino stand up and run towards the seaside when he was looking for Igarashi before.

He was even assigned to the seaside, standing guard with the motionless “Ino God” for several days, braving the huge waves.

But in the end, the organization determined that Tokyo was no longer habitable. In order to preserve their strength, they took all the supplies they could carry, brought all the usable weapons, and directly retreated.

After all, after being by the seaside for so long, they didn’t even see the enemy’s shadow. They weren’t going to die for a natural phenomenon like a tsunami.

Later, not long after they retreated, Mount Fuji erupted and a violent earthquake occurred. When they came back to their senses from the panic, the direction of Tokyo was already covered in thick smoke.

Even now, Tokyo was still filled with volcanic ash and completely uninhabitable.

“It’s okay.” Lin Jiayao slowly shook her head, then sat down cross-legged, crushing a large area of low-rise buildings and kicking up dust.

“Whoosh—”

She waved her hand slightly, and the hurricane dispersed the dust. Lin Jiayao looked at Higashida, who was covering his mouth and coughing below, and said:

“You have no way out.”

At least these organizations seemed to be able to communicate, and Lin Jiayao wanted to try communicating with them.

“Yeah, after all, we’re living in the mountains.” Higashida shrugged and said, “How are your ‘believers’? Are they still in Tokyo? Is it still habitable there?”

“They have evacuated.” After answering the other party’s question, Lin Jiayao continued her narration, “You might have misunderstood me.”

“Maybe it’s because my current body is too big, and it’s not easy to express my tone – what I said just now was a statement, not a question.”

“You have no way out.”

Lin Jiayao’s words made Higashida’s eyelids twitch. Not only him, but also several people from the joint organizations in the distance heard Lin Jiayao’s words.

“The earthquake and tsunami were caused by two A-rank seabed zombies fighting in the Chiba Prefecture sea area.”

Lin Jiayao slowly said:

“They fought fiercely for the right to land in Japan, and just the aftermath of the battle almost destroyed the entire Tokyo.”

“Now, the outcome has been decided. One A-rank zombie is dormant in the Chiba Prefecture sea area, and its clone is suppressing another zombie that is not completely dead at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.”

“Either join me and destroy them while they are seriously injured.”

“Or wait for them to devour each other and fully recover, and then flatten this island nation.”

“Choose.”

Lin Jiayao calmly looked at the tiny, uncertain humans below, waiting for his, their reply.