Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 217p1

Chapter 217: Preparing to Log In p1

“Close Your Mouth.”

Lin Jiayao smiled and rubbed Huayibai’s head. Seeing the obedient Huayibai always brought a smile to her face.

Lin Jiayao picked up the supplement she had prepared for Huayibai and placed it in her arms, watching as the little girl cradled the bottle and made adorable, nonsensical noises.

She shifted slightly, getting more comfortable against the headboard, and then closed her eyes.

Lin Jiayao spent a few minutes in the training ground, simulating Huayibai’s devouring of the Living Weapon to estimate the time it would take.

Since she wasn’t running multiple simulations or battles, not taking up too much of the system’s processing power, the more than ten hours of simulated devouring only took a few minutes in the outside world.

Based on the time that had passed, it would be about the same time her Spirit upgrade finished researching in the [Research Lab] that Huayibai would completely disable the Living Weapon.

She only needed to check on the still-unconscious Giant Blue Serpent before then. There was still plenty of time.

Having undergone a mental power boost and planted a small patch of brain-computer towers, Lin Jiayao was fully capable of another B-rank login.

But to be safe, she decided to conserve her mental energy, in case she needed it for an emergency login later.

She wasn’t completely idle during this time.

Having consumed a large amount of Blood Crystals planting the brain-computer towers and upgrading her Spirit, Lin Jiayao felt she couldn’t afford to be wasteful.

She could log into No. 2 in India or No. 7 in northern China and use the Blood Crystal Serum to accumulate more Blood Crystals.

But first, she needed to check on her sister. After all, the integration of the new camp might cause friction with the original residents of the ash area. If her sister couldn’t handle it, she would have to help.

Thinking this, Lin Jiayao started switching through the little green bugs’ viewpoints, searching for her sister.

…

Kun City, outskirts of the ash area. Although it was night, many people still held torches, their figures moving in the flickering light.

This torchlight illumination didn’t last long. With the rumble of a diesel generator, two large searchlights blazed to life, illuminating most of the ash area’s farmland and everyone present.

“Buzz…”
“Turn down the lights, just one is enough.”

Wan Zi, standing in the center of the crowd, spoke into her walkie-talkie.

Soon, only one searchlight remained on, its beam focused on the crowd.

Seeing the light finally adjusted, Wan Zi breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the group of people resting and eating at the edge of the ash area.

They seemed to have traveled a long distance. Both the Awakened and the ordinary people were emaciated, looking like famine victims.

The second-in-command—the former second-in-command of the Panlong Camp, as everyone had become accustomed to calling him—was negotiating with a female Awakened from the group.

They had been talking for about ten minutes. A while later, the second-in-command walked over to Wan Zi, holding something in his hand.

“Wanzi, it seems they were rescued by the people from the ‘Oasis Area’…”

The second-in-command explained the group’s situation as he handed Wan Zi the corpse of an insect.

Wan Zi examined the insect corpse as she listened to the second-in-command’s explanation. She recognized it immediately as one of the green fireflies that often flitted through the Oasis Area.

Since Wan Zi and her people also had a designated area in the Oasis Area, they were used to these glowing little bugs. They had even become a symbol of the Oasis Area.

After quickly hearing the second-in-command’s brief explanation, Wan Zi gave her instructions:

“Okay… I understand. Have someone pick some vegetables and make some vegetable soup for them. I’ll make arrangements later.”

The land in the ash area, perhaps because it had been repeatedly transformed by the native building-trees, had become exceptionally suitable for farming.

Coupled with the irrigation from the tree sap, the growth cycle of loose-leaf lettuce, originally about 60 days, was now only two weeks.

And after Dr. Ning Xiaoxiao, from the camp, experimented with different ratios of tree sap, water, and fertilizer, she discovered that a mixture of tree sap was even more beneficial for plant growth. This mixture not only reduced sap consumption but also accelerated growth.

Most incredibly, after using the remaining functional equipment from the Plant Research Institute, Ning Xiaoxiao discovered that the “tree sap” would remain within the plants, continuing to promote growth. Even when the plants matured, a substantial amount of sap would remain, entering the human body but remaining undigested.

Using an undamaged drying oven, Ning Xiaoxiao dried the collected feces and, without even using a mass spectrometer, was able to separate the tree sap simply through the drying process.

Therefore, the lettuce only absorbed a small amount of sap, with most of the nutrients returning to the soil, only a small portion retained within the plant.

Theoretically, after they started eating the lettuce, they wouldn’t need to extract sap for a long time, and they could maintain the planting cycle with just human waste and fertilizer.

It could be said that the ash area was now completely self-sufficient, no, not just self-sufficient, even comparable to the specialized lettuce greenhouses before the apocalypse.

During the planting process, Ning Xiaoxiao had also designated a separate area for another cultivation method: soilless cultivation, using only tree sap as a nutrient solution.

This method was also quite fast, though it consumed more than soil-based cultivation. The advantage was that every lettuce reached top quality without fertilizer, each head plump and appealing.

This soilless lettuce was intended for the Oasis Area, a gesture of gratitude from the people of the ash area.

Wan Zi’s thoughts returned to the people before her.

According to the current food production in the ash area, supporting more people wasn’t a problem. It just increased the management difficulty, but it was also a challenge she welcomed.

A large pot was already set up and a fire lit. Wan Zi walked towards the group at the edge of the ash area.

“Hello, I’m Wan Zi, the temporary administrator of the ash area.” Wan Zi walked to the female Awakened who had been talking with the second-in-command and extended her hand.

“Hello, I’m Chu Yuxun, from Wangxi, like them.” The emaciated Chu Yuxun quickly stood up and shook Wan Zi’s hand with both of hers.

Compared to the terrifying Awakened who rescued them, the people of the “ash area” seemed much friendlier, and the whole area was filled with the fragrance of vegetables and earth, which was reassuring.

Although it was called the “ash area,” Chu Yuxun had glimpsed the whole area when the lights were turned on. It was lush and golden, not at all what she associated with “ash.”

“Yes, I just heard everything from the second-in-command. Welcome to the ash area.” After shaking Chu Yuxun’s hand firmly and welcoming her, Wan Zi continued, “Could you tell me more about how you were rescued?”

Wan Zi had her reasons for asking this.

She wasn’t sure if the people from the Oasis Area would bring more people to the ash area. She couldn’t make arrangements on the fly every time; it was too inefficient.

If she sensed that the Oasis Area intended to rescue more people, she could make plans in advance, designate a transit area, and even expand the ash area outwards.

These things had to be thought out before the “leaders” requested them, otherwise, there would be no point in having her as the administrator. Anyone could do it.

Although Wan Zi always called herself “temporary,” she took her role very seriously.

Chu Yuxun, without thinking too much, recounted everything that happened from their rescue and awakening to what they saw afterwards.

As Wan Zi listened, she was constantly surprised.

Although she knew the people from the Oasis Area were powerful, she had never seen them in action.

After hearing the description, she realized she might have underestimated them.

Clearing an entire city of zombies in a short time, to the point where no one could even find a single one.

Controlling the monster that had been oppressing the people of Wangxi City and making it work for them.

Creating rows of giant flesh-and-blood towers made of brains…

Each piece of news was more shocking than the last. And judging by Chu Yuxun’s description of the Oasis Area people’s appearance, it must have been the Lin sisters who did all this.

She knew the Lin sisters were not ordinary. The older sister’s aura was terrifying and unconcealed, but the younger sister’s aura was always restrained, making her seem harmless.

But Wan Zi’s intuition told her that the younger sister was the more formidable one… controlling zombies was probably her doing.

Controlling a B-rank zombie… What kind of concept was that? Even a normal C-rank Awakened would struggle to control a C-rank zombie!

Knowing that the younger Lin sister could control a B-rank zombie, Wan Zi instantly recalled a scene from a rainy night.

That terrifying zombie, streaking across the sky like a meteor, instantly solving their problem when the camp was in despair…

Could it have also been controlled by that younger sister, Lin Jiayao?

It seemed like the only explanation.

Thinking of this, the Oasis Area seemed even more mysterious, and the debt they owed the sisters seemed to have doubled.

“Phew…”

No more thinking.

Since the sisters chose to trust her and let her manage the ash area, she had to repay them with 200% effort. This was the only thing Wan Zi could do now.

After comforting the other party and preparing to arrange accommodation for the newcomers, there was some commotion behind her.

“What’s wrong?” Wan Zi took out her walkie-talkie and asked, but she quickly saw what was happening herself.

The crowd parted, and a tall figure slowly walked from among them, raising her right hand in greeting.

“Sister Wanzi,” Lin Xiwan walked through the path created by the crowd, waved at Wan Zi, and said indifferently, “I’m here to take a look.”

Perhaps because there were too many people staring, Lin Xiwan’s expression was stiff, and it only softened slightly after seeing someone she knew.

But compared to before in Yangzhou City, Lin Xiwan’s expression towards strangers was no longer as cold.

Her sister’s gentleness and the gradual establishment of the camp she envisioned had melted away much of Lin Xiwan’s cold defenses against others in the apocalypse, and most of the time, Lin Xiwan had completely returned to her cheerful pre-apocalyptic nature.

It was just that she hadn’t adapted to being stared at by so many people, but as long as the camp continued to develop like this, she would eventually adapt.

“Xiwan,” Wan Zi nodded in greeting, stepped aside, and said, “Everyone is here, do you have any other arrangements?”

“Oh? They’re already here?” Lin Xiwan stood beside Wan Zi and looked at the survivors in front of her.

It seemed that these survivors had packed up and left shortly after their discussion and arrived in Kun City directly that night.

After seeing Lin Xiwan’s arrival, many survivors, who were originally sitting and resting while holding vegetable soup, all stood up, supporting each other, and looked at Lin Xiwan with expressions of respect, gratitude, or fear.

But regardless of their expressions or eyes, their respect was certain, after all, Lin Xiwan was their savior.

Now, everyone, whether newcomers or original residents of the ash area, respectfully looked at Lin Xiwan, and for a moment, the night was so quiet that only the occasional flapping of the green bugs’ wings could be heard.

They all seemed to be waiting for Lin Xiwan to speak, not daring to interrupt.

Suddenly being stared at by so many people, Lin Xiwan’s heart instantly filled with nervousness, even more pressure than when she was fighting the B-rank Black Stem Fungus.