Chapter 218: Mask Under Attack? p2
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[Please retain your evolution.]
[1. [Wild Growth Lv.1 (Blue): Makes your hair follicles more developed, allowing your hair and body hair to grow infinitely and become tougher.]]
[2. [Fusion Vesicle Lv.1 (Blue): Makes your body secrete a vesicle carrying your own biological genes, which can fuse with the biological components placed inside.]]
[3. [Enhanced Smell Lv.1 (Gray): Enhances your sense of smell, allowing you to distinguish more scents and smell danger from further away.]]
These evolutions again…?
The last time she logged into No. 2, the evolutions given were still the same unlucky ones, leaving Lin Jiayao with no choice but to choose Reproductive Pheromones.
But as Lin Jiayao’s login times increased, she would definitely obtain all these evolutions eventually.
Oh well, whatever, she would just choose them and not use them, just treat it as if she didn’t have them.
Thinking this way, Lin Jiayao directly chose the second evolution, [Fusion Vesicle].
This was the thing used by that so-called Mother Goddess to breed zombies, and the No. 2 Water Monkey was a product of this breeding.
With this ability, as long as she obtained the genes, she could even make people of the same sex reproduce… but Lin Jiayao didn’t have such strange hobbies.
Just treat it as a decoration.
As for the third evolution, Lin Jiayao directly passed.
She already had many detection and tracking methods, and she didn’t want to choose Enhanced Smell so early and torture herself.
After all, many zombies had all kinds of decaying smells, and there were even many corpses near where Lin Jiayao was currently living.
She didn’t want to be able to smell the stench of zombies from time to time while staying in her room. It would make her want to directly block her nose.
After choosing the evolution, without waiting to feel the warm current of the evolution in her body, Lin Jiayao directly threw the Blood Crystals into the Blood Crystal Box and then put the ten bags of Blood Crystal Serum that were previously in the warehouse into the Safehouse.
After checking that there were no omissions, Lin Jiayao reopened the login interface.
This time, she chose to log into No. 7 Gundam.
Besides trading, it was also a good time to learn about the situation in the northern sea and see if Jiang Chun had arrived safely in the north.
After choosing to log in, Lin Jiayao’s perception of her body changed again.
She heard a clattering sound beside her ears, and the steel on her body was also clanging under the impact of raindrops.
Was it raining?
Although Lin Jiayao knew that this should be normal autumn rain, it still inevitably made her think of some unpleasant things.
There seemed to be a small kerosene lamp lighting beside her. Looking up, there was also a large umbrella above her head, seemingly taken from the entrance of a coffee shop and placed here specifically to shield her from the rain.
Lin Jiayao lifted the small kerosene lamp, hung it on the armor in front of her, and then picked up the umbrella and stood up.
“Buzz…”
The crackling sound of a radio came from above. It was estimated that the guards heard the movement and reported it.
Lin Jiayao didn’t move around much, just walked out of the alley, looked around, and checked the Extraction Points.
The nearest one was 2km away, the furthest 3km, still within Jingzhou City. She could choose a location and wander around Jingzhou City.
As for the extraction time, the system only gave her one hour. It seemed that the system also felt that the difficulty of extracting here was too low.
The extraction time wasn’t long, so Lin Jiayao simply didn’t wait in place and walked directly towards the Extraction Point.
She could just extract directly after the conversation, so as not to waste time.
Seeing that she was leaving, the Awakened who was watching her from the rooftop also followed, keeping a distance, without interfering with Lin Jiayao’s actions, just reporting her location at any time.
The reaction here was quite fast. After Lin Jiayao walked about six or seven hundred meters, the roar of a car came from behind.
An army green jeep braked not far from her, and because of tire wear and the slippery road, it skidded a long distance and almost hit Lin Jiayao’s leg.
Soon, a young man she hadn’t seen before got out of the car, wearing a windbreaker, and ran to Lin Jiayao’s feet, shouting:
“Comrade, please wait a moment, Old Li will be here soon, we’ve already sent someone to inform him.”
“Okay, I’ll just walk around.” Lin Jiayao nodded and didn’t stop.
Seeing that Lin Jiayao didn’t stop, the young Awakened couldn’t do anything, so he tightened his windbreaker and followed Lin Jiayao closely.
Lin Jiayao walked along the wide street and soon saw the Extraction Point in the distance – it seemed to be an underground passage, but it wasn’t flooded, the drainage was still working.
Lin Jiayao stopped at the entrance of the passage, holding the umbrella and leaning against the utility pole at the entrance, quietly waiting for the arrival of the person in charge.
After waiting for about ten minutes, an army green armored jeep finally arrived and steadily stopped on the side of the street.
Soon, Li Wei, wearing a Zhongshan suit, opened the car door and walked slowly towards Lin Jiayao with his crutch.
The driver got out of the car and wanted to hold an umbrella for him, but he waved him off. He stood in front of Lin Jiayao in the rain and looked up at her.
“Comrade… I’m sorry, we did pick up Comrade Jiang Chun, but she drove back after waking up halfway…”
Li Wei began to recount the events from beginning to end from the perspective of the north to Lin Jiayao.
In the end, Li Wei didn’t forget to thank Lin Jiayao for the information she provided. That truckload of seeds had safely arrived in the north.
“Oh…” Lin Jiayao nodded.
Went back to save people? This seemed like something Jiang Chun would do. Even though her heart was dead, she would still help those in need, like an instinct engraved in her DNA.
Lin Jiayao couldn’t judge whether this behavior was overly compassionate. She could only say that everyone’s beliefs were different.
“Also, I heard that she wanted to find the survivors of Survivor’s Light who might still be alive… if needed, we will also help.” Finally, Li Wei added.
After all, they had received such a great favor, and it wouldn’t be right if they didn’t do anything in return.
“You can discuss these matters with Jiang Chun after she comes back.” Lin Jiayao shook her head and said, “I’m here for something else this time.”
“Something else?”
Lin Jiayao took out a bag of Blood Crystal Serum from the Safehouse and held it out to Li Wei.
“This is…”
“Blood Crystal Serum,” Lin Jiayao said, “Need any?”
Li Wei had received a batch of blood crystal liquid and needles before and naturally knew how valuable these things were.
“If you have more to offer, comrade, then of course we need it…” Li Wei asked, “But about the specific price…”
“Two Blood Crystals per bag.” Lin Jiayao quoted the price.
“Two?” Li Wei was stunned for a moment.
The price they sold them before was also two, and after trying it, they found that the value of these Blood Crystal Serums was definitely more than two Blood Crystals.
The other party was definitely losing money by selling them this “Blood Crystal Serum” at this price, there was no doubt about it.
The previous “loss” could be explained as a trial, but now that they were officially starting to trade, they were still selling it for two Blood Crystals…
This wasn’t even selling, it wasn’t an equivalent exchange at all.
“Comrade, with all due respect, you are losing money this way. We are willing to exchange these Blood Crystal Serums at the same price.” Li Wei said sincerely.
They were all Awakened struggling to survive in the apocalypse in China. Li Wei didn’t want to take advantage of these compatriots from the south. He would give them as much as they should be given.
Not to mention that because of the pure seeds, the entire north owed these compatriots from the south a great debt of gratitude.
“Two per bag, plus one condition.” Lin Jiayao didn’t hold back and said directly, “All the B-rank zombie corpses you hunt, leave one for me.”
“Corpses?”
“Corpses, from now on.”
“No problem.”
Without much hesitation, Li Wei agreed to this exchange.
Zombie corpses also contained a large amount of blood crystals, but they could not be precipitated normally and were usually used to feed controlled zombies.
The north had a large reserve of high-level zombie corpses, so it was no problem to give away a portion. Just treat it as extra payment for these transactions.
This was a trading result that both sides could accept without any psychological burden.
“I only brought ten bags this time,” Lin Jiayao took out all the Blood Crystal Serums, placed them on the ground, and said, “If you need more, you can tell me now.”
If the other party needed more, Lin Jiayao could just extract once and then bring more over after logging in again.
“For now, let’s just have these… Xiao Li, bring the box from the back.” Li Wei waved towards the driver standing by the car in the distance and shouted.
Then, Li Wei turned his head again and looked at Lin Jiayao, saying:
“Comrade, as for the corpses, we’re currently transporting two on the road. They will probably arrive tomorrow. How can we hand them over to you?”
“If we have to help you transport them, to be honest, it would be irresponsible to the safety of our combatants… There are too many dangers along the way.”
Lin Jiayao shook her head and said:
“No need, just bring them to me, I have a way to take them away.”
“Okay… wait a minute.”
Li Wei took the box handed over by his subordinate, counted it briefly, took out a few Blood Crystals and put them into his pocket, and then handed the box to Lin Jiayao.
“Twenty, they’re all inside.”
Lin Jiayao took the suitcase, weighed it slightly, and then put it into the Safehouse.
Just as she was about to speak and ask about the situation in the northern seas, her body suddenly froze.
At this time, a system prompt flashed before Lin Jiayao’s eyes.
[⚠️Warning: No.1 [Mask] will be attacked in 10 minutes⚠️]
Mask was going to be attacked?
Now Mask was still in Guangnan Province… Could it be that the seabed zombies had already spread there?
Lin Jiayao didn’t feel any heartache about wanting No. 5 [Ino] to die and get compensation before.
But [Mask], as the zombie that had followed her the longest and evolved to B-rank step by step, if it really died, it would be a bit of a loss.
Not to mention that she hadn’t gotten all the golden evolutions from Mask yet.
Ten minutes… was this a result calculated by the system in advance?
While it hadn’t been attacked yet, she could log in in advance to avoid it.
“It was a pleasure doing business with you, let’s talk again next time.”
After leaving these simple words, Lin Jiayao hurriedly lowered her head and entered the underground passage to the Extraction Point, leaving behind a few Northern Alliance Awakened standing in the wind and rain.
