Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 224

Chapter 224: One More Piece, Please!

Lin Jiayao, controlling Ino, sat beside Huayibai, while the little blue serpent curiously wriggled through the floating mycelium. It occasionally picked up a piece of fallen carapace covered in mycelium, swallowed it, then spat it out, seemingly tasting it.

Strange, never seen before.

Apparently, fully developed fungi were rare in the ocean, and parasitic fungi lacked a suitable environment to thrive. This was the first time the little serpent had encountered such a highly evolved fungus.

There were too many apex predators in the ocean. Even if fungi parasitized lower-level marine creatures, they were usually devoured by higher-level zombies before they could fully develop.

Therefore, fungi in the ocean could survive, but rarely evolved to higher levels, mostly relying on scavenging and reproduction.

The situation on land was different. High-level blood crystals were rare, and even high-level Awakened rarely ate human flesh.

This allowed fungi to silently infect a large number of low-level Awakened, thus continuously evolving.

Your, daughter.
Ate, too much.

Suddenly, the little blue serpent, sensing something, swam back to Lin Jiayao’s forehead and communicated with her.

Ate too much?

What did it mean?

Lin Jiayao moved forward with some confusion and reached out to touch Huayibai in front of her.

Huayibai didn’t respond by wrapping her mycelium around Lin Jiayao’s fingers as usual, but continued to drift.

Lin Jiayao sensed something was wrong.

Had the Huayibai Network’s CPU burned out?

Lin Jiayao quickly switched her consciousness, her main body opened her eyes, and looked at Huayibai beside her.

“Huayibai?” Lin Jiayao pinched her cheek with her right hand and asked.

Lin Jiayao’s action naturally startled her sister on the left. She opened her eyes and looked at Lin Jiayao’s actions, but didn’t interrupt.

After Lin Jiayao shook her for a while, Huayibai slowly opened her eyes, blinked, seemed a little sluggish, and then turned to look at Lin Jiayao.

“Mo…mmy…?”

It was like she was talking to her with a very high latency.

“Give up half of the body in Chongyu City.” Lin Jiayao touched Huayibai’s head and said.

“Oh…”

Huayibai closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them again, this time her eyes were much more lively.

“Don’t devour over there for now,” Lin Jiayao rubbed Huayibai’s head and comforted her, “Keep it as a snack.”

“Okay… then Huayibai will pick it up…”

After seeing Huayibai close her eyes again, Lin Jiayao turned to look at her sister, who was looking at her, and nodded slightly.

“Good luck!” Lin Xiwan held Lin Jiayao’s left hand tightly with her right hand, made a fist with her left hand, and whispered.

“Okay.” Lin Jiayao squeezed her sister’s hand and said, “I just learned how to lay eggs, I’ll show you when I get back.”

After saying that, Lin Jiayao closed her eyes, leaving Lin Xiwan, who was staring wide-eyed, lying there in a daze.

What… did her sister just say?

Lin Xiwan felt like ten thousand alpacas were running through her mind. (TN: A Chinese internet slang expressing disbelief or exasperation)

She really wanted to ask what it meant right then and there, but her sister had already closed her eyes.

Her sister had “fallen asleep”, but Lin Xiwan was now completely awake.

On the other side of the seabed, Huayibai, who had freed up some of her “occupied capacity”, started moving again.

The mycelium that had burrowed into the sand emerged from the surface, accumulating more and more above, slowly condensing into a familiar shape.

The Living Weapon.

The Huayibai version, a red-armored Living Weapon formed by countless stacks of mycelium, had recondensed.

But unlike the Living Weapon, it also had three pairs of translucent, more than twenty-meter-long bone wings covered with a blood membrane on its back.

It was Huayibai’s favorite flying car shape.

When its body was fully formed, it started to move.

The “Living Weapon” moved its thick torso and forcefully pulled out its huge legs, which hadn’t finished devouring but were connected and controlled by mycelium, and tried to crawl.

Huayibai didn’t have as much crawling experience as Lin Jiayao, and the Living Weapon itself didn’t have any experience for Huayibai to absorb.

She controlled the legs and spun around comically in place, as if her six legs were fighting each other.

These six legs were distributed around a circle, which seemed to be quite difficult for Huayibai to control.

Just as Lin Jiayao was about to help Huayibai, the little snake in front of Lin Jiayao’s forehead, staring at Huayibai’s three pairs of wings, spoke.

Your, daughter.
Become, beautiful, already.

Become beautiful?

Lin Jiayao looked at the “Living Weapon” in front of her, which had become even more abstract and terrifying because of the blood-red mycelium blanket and insect wings covering it, and was slightly stunned.

This…

The aesthetics of non-humans were indeed not something that normal humans could understand.

Lin Jiayao went forward and gently patted Huayibai’s leg, signaling her to stop.

Lin Jiayao had a lot of experience with crawling.

When Mask was at D-rank, it was always crawling, and at most, it could even crawl with twenty or thirty bone spurs supporting its head.

Mask after C-rank also had three pairs of bone spur legs, distributed similarly to the Living Weapon, so Lin Jiayao was very familiar with this crawling method.

Huayibai, the Living Weapon in front of her, after seeing Lin Jiayao beside her leg, directly bent her leg, sat down with a “thump”, and opened her arms towards Lin Jiayao.

Although the Living Weapon didn’t have a mouth, from the blood-red lightning vertical pupil of the fungal Living Weapon, Lin Jiayao could almost hear Huayibai’s “I want a hug”.

Looking at the giant monster sitting on the ground in a shy posture, Lin Jiayao’s heart didn’t waver at all. She leaned forward, gently hugged the Living Weapon in front of her, patted its leg, and signaled it to stand up.

“Rumble…”

With a series of rumbles, Huayibai obediently retracted her legs and slowly stood up.

Lin Jiayao stood in front of Huayibai, hugged one of her legs with all her might, slightly bent the joint, and moved it forward.

Then, Lin Jiayao went behind Huayibai, hugged the corresponding leg, and bent it inwards.

Just like this, after moving Huayibai once while holding her legs, Huayibai seemed to have grasped the essentials and began to try moving on her own little by little.

The sand and gravel on the seabed churned because of Huayibai’s movements. After a while, Huayibai could even do difficult movements like turning in place, reversing into a parking space, and jumping left and right.

After Huayibai got a little more familiar with it, Lin Jiayao went forward, stopped Huayibai, who was already having fun, and signaled her to follow.

“Where, place.” Lin Jiayao pinched the little snake and put it on her forehead, asking.

Very close, follow, me.

Although Huayibai might not be able to continue devouring for the time being, Lin Jiayao could still bring some flesh and blood to A4.

Huayibai’s mental power was temporarily insufficient to support her evolving rationally, but A4 was different. A4 had the same terrifying devouring ability as Huayibai, and shared Lin Jiayao’s mental power.

A4’s lower limit was actually Lin Jiayao’s mental power. As long as Lin Jiayao’s mental power was high enough and there were enough Blood Crystals, A4’s devouring path would continue to extend.

Go.

After the little blue serpent said the last word, it was about to swim away quickly, but it was quickly caught by Lin Jiayao’s quick hand, which pinched its tail.

Lin Jiayao dragged the little snake back, put it on her forehead, and said:

“I, here, wait, daughter, bring back, food.”

Wait.

The little blue serpent’s body twisted into a question mark.

The distance from here to the sea area of Chiba Prefecture was at least two hundred kilometers, and the furthest Extraction Point to the south was only sixty kilometers. With four hours of extraction time left, Lin Jiayao might not be able to make a round trip.

Because Ino’s movement speed was not fast, whether on land or in water.

The best way was to wait at the Extraction Point in the south, let Huayibai and the little blue serpent go to the corpse together, and finally ask Huayibai to bring back part of the corpse for Lin Jiayao to bring back to the settlement space during extraction.

After spending about seven or eight minutes explaining to the little blue serpent that she couldn’t move for too long, the little blue serpent finally understood Lin Jiayao’s meaning and agreed to take Huayibai to the corpse.

After all, its intention was to share the spoils with its savior, and it didn’t matter how the process went, as long as the things were delivered.

It was a pity that Lin Jiayao couldn’t personally go to the scene to see the Giant Blue Serpent and simulate it.

After explaining clearly to the little blue serpent, Lin Jiayao switched her consciousness and communicated the details with Huayibai in her body through “team voice chat”.

It was nothing more than following the little blue serpent’s lead and bringing back as many corpses as possible without angering the blue serpent.

Considering that Huayibai might not be very good at reading body language and guessing emotions, Lin Jiayao taught her another simpler method.

That was to take a piece and politely ask if she could have another, take a piece and politely ask if she could have another, until the other party said no.

After instructing Huayibai, Lin Jiayao switched her consciousness back to Ino, took out two bags of Blood Crystal Serum, and gave them to the two “little friends” in front of her as supplements for their journey.

Giving it to the little blue serpent was mainly to improve its impression of her, to prevent it from attacking Huayibai, and giving it to Huayibai was to prevent her from getting jealous.

After all, this little mushroom was quite sensitive about these things.

Waving to the little blue serpent and Huayibai, Lin Jiayao watched as Huayibai followed the blue serpent and left.

Even though she had just mimicked the Living Weapon and learned how to crawl, Huayibai’s crawling speed was much faster than Ino’s. This was the advantage of having more legs and greater strength.

After watching Huayibai and the blue serpent disappear from sight, Lin Jiayao continued to walk towards the shore.

This battle wasn’t without gains, at least Lin Jiayao had chosen the right side.

If she let the A-rank controlling the Living Weapon suck the Blue Serpent dry, that not-so-intelligent A-rank would definitely destroy Japan after swallowing the Giant Blue Serpent.

But now, with the help of the Japanese and Lin Jiayao, the Blue Serpent had broken free from its coma and counter-killed. And the Blue Serpent could communicate, which was equivalent to removing the threat that could destroy the country.

And Lin Jiayao had also obtained A-rank flesh and blood for A4’s evolution in this battle, and Huayibai also got enough flesh and blood to reach the peak of B-rank.

It could be said that this was one of the best outcomes.

Lin Jiayao returned to the shore and saw Kisaragi Mika, who had been waiting for a long time, bent down, extended her hand, and let her jump into her palm.

“Where are we going? Ino~” Kisaragi Mika, who had eaten, drunk, and rested enough, was obviously more energetic.

Now Kisaragi Mika seemed to have abandoned the suffix “-sama” and called her very casually.

“To a place, to wait for someone to bring something back.” Lin Jiayao explained while running towards the Extraction Point to the south, shortening the straight-line distance between herself and Huayibai.

……

“Swish—”
“Thump, thump, thump—”

In the deep sea, which had turned from black to dark blue because of the breaking dawn, a huge creature was speeding along the seabed, closely following the blue light dot in front of it.

After an unknown amount of time, the blue light dot in front gradually slowed down, and even the light on it dimmed a little.

Seeing the light dot in front slowing down, the giant creature behind also gradually slowed down.

This blue light dot was the little blue serpent, and the one behind it was Huayibai, mimicking the Living Weapon.

Gradually, the little blue serpent stopped. It brought the bag of Blood Crystal Serum wrapped around its tail to its face and sniffed it, then swallowed it in one gulp.

But because it hadn’t evolved teeth, the bag of Blood Crystal Serum wasn’t digested or crushed after being swallowed.

The quality of the transparent packaging bag was excellent. Without corrosive stomach acid or sharp objects to pierce it, it was difficult to take out the Blood Crystal Serum inside.

Huayibai also seemed to notice the little blue serpent’s predicament. She extended her hand, and a cluster of mycelium spread from the Living Weapon’s finger and drifted towards the little blue serpent.

When the small cluster of mycelium drifted to the little blue serpent, it mimicked a little girl with white hair wearing a white dress, and a cluster of mycelium extending from inside her skirt connected to the Living Weapon’s finger.

The mimicked Huayibai was also holding a bag of Blood Crystal Serum given by “Purple Mommy” just now.

She floated to the little blue serpent, and after attracting its attention, she held the Blood Crystal Serum up to the little blue serpent, put it to her mouth, and tore open the packaging bag.

While the blood crystal liquid inside was dissipating, Huayibai covered the opening with her mouth and sucked up the Blood Crystal Serum like drinking soda.

“Gurgle, gurgle—”

Huayibai pinched the opening of the blood crystal bag and opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but in the water, everything she wanted to say turned into bubbles. Soon, her lungs were filled with water, and she couldn’t even blow bubbles anymore.

The little blue serpent quickly understood what Huayibai meant. It spat out the Blood Crystal Serum in its stomach, and the Blood Crystal Serum drifted towards Huayibai with the water flow.

Huayibai held her own Blood Crystal Serum and helped tear open the bag of the little blue serpent, then handed it to the little blue serpent in front of her.

The little blue serpent took the bag, took a sip, and its eyes instantly lit up, its eyes wide open on both sides.

This was much easier to eat than corpses, and it was also delicious.

The high-purity blood crystal liquid quickly replenished the little blue serpent’s body, allowing it to quickly recover its energy, and it began to swim forward again.

But unlike before, when it just swam forward with its head down, now the little blue serpent would occasionally look back and wait for Huayibai, as if it had recognized this “friend”.

After about another forty minutes, they finally reached their destination.

At this time, Huayibai, standing in the Living Weapon’s palm, looked at the unprecedented scene in front of her, her mouth wide open, feeling the emotion of “shock”.

Originally, Huayibai thought that she was already big enough now, but the scene in front of her still far exceeded her expectations.

In front of her was a huge, indescribable object, looking like a giant turtle missing half of its body.

Its black carapace was covered with densely packed Living Weapons about the same size as herself, like barnacles attached to the bottom of a ship.

The heads of most of those Living Weapons had been cut off, and the limbs and head of this giant creature were nowhere to be seen.

It wasn’t until the little blue serpent “swished” past her that Huayibai came back to her senses and looked at her new friend.

She saw another huge blue serpent with scales and sharp teeth, sticking its head out from the mass of carapace and flesh, opening its mouth directly, and swallowing the little blue serpent.

It flapped its huge bone wings, used the tips of its bone wings to support its huge torso, stood up, and looked down at the relatively tiny Huayibai.

The giant serpent’s head slowly lowered, and Huayibai, who was already scared silly, just froze there, her mind blank, unable to even think about running away.

It wasn’t until the giant serpent’s head touched the Living Weapon’s forehead that Huayibai shrank back belatedly, but the previous contact had already made Huayibai’s head glow with blue light.

Hello, little one.

The giant blue serpent’s language ability was obviously stronger than that of the single little blue serpent just now, and the voice in her mind was clearer.

This way of communication was also Huayibai’s first encounter. After a while, Huayibai finally learned how to communicate under the guidance of the blue serpent.

“Hello… big sister.” Huayibai’s voice was a little timid. No matter how innocent she was, Huayibai knew that the big guy in front of her was not to be trifled with.

What do you need to take back? Little one.
You can choose anything.

A few little blue serpents emerged from the giant blue serpent’s body and formed a “↘” arrow, pointing to the huge remains below.

“Thank you, sister, I don’t eat.” Huayibai said truthfully, “I want to bring it to Mommy.”

No problem.

The giant blue serpent swung its huge tail, wrapped it around the remains behind it, abruptly contracted and stirred, rolled up a small piece of flesh and blood that was far heavier than Huayibai, and placed it in front of Huayibai.

Looking at the huge piece of flesh and blood in front of her, which was like a small mountain, Huayibai’s mouth opened wide.

She couldn’t carry this, what should she do?

Huayibai began to search in her mind, and soon, she thought of what Mommy taught her.

At this time, she had to ask!

Huayibai took a deep breath of seawater and asked politely in her mind with the loudest voice: “Hello! Can I have another piece, please?”

Of course.

“Hello! Can I have another piece, please?”

No problem.

“Hello! Can I have another piece, please?”

Uh… can you carry it, little one?

“That’s true….. then can I have another piece, please?”

……

Should I just drag the whole thing over to her…?