Chapter 226: A-Rank on Land p2
[Extracting: 7.9]
After explaining everything, and telling the little snake and Huayibai to devour the A-rank flesh and blood if they needed it on the way, Lin Jiayao stood inside the Extraction Point.
Watching the extraction countdown begin, she felt slightly relieved.
Although there were some twists and turns, the threat from the sea had finally been temporarily contained, and she saw a glimmer of hope.
She shouldn’t be so unlucky as to have other things happen. Lin Jiayao just needed to continue developing and evolving step by step.
Quietly waiting for the extraction countdown to finish, Lin Jiayao came to the dark settlement space.
Inside the settlement space, there was a pile of scattered Blood Crystals, many pieces of flesh and blood, and a large piece of carapace.
Huayibai’s mycelium was a living organism and wasn’t brought to the extraction space. Lin Jiayao had told Huayibai that she could recycle the mycelium after seeing the Blood Crystals disappear.
Lin Jiayao first moved the Blood Crystals, putting them all into the Blood Crystal Box and the warehouse.
Lin Jiayao had previously disliked the warehouse being too big, but now, Lin Jiayao felt that the warehouse was a bit too small.
Before putting the Blood Crystals into the Safehouse, Lin Jiayao’s warehouse, including the Blood Crystals in the Blood Crystal Box, had already reached one hundred and thirty, and there were even three bags of Blood Crystal Serum left in the Safehouse.
Lin Jiayao quickly put all the Blood Crystals given by the blue serpent into the Blood Crystal Box, and the Blood Crystal Box, which originally only had 200 slots, was instantly filled.
Lin Jiayao had to directly pile the remaining Blood Crystals into the warehouse, until the warehouse, which had been upgraded to four hundred slots, was more than half full.
Looking at the warehouse, which was filled with Blood Crystals except for the boxes like the Blood Crystal Box and the Item Storage Box, Lin Jiayao felt a sense of relief.
Lin Jiayao couldn’t devour an entire A-rank’s worth of flesh and blood, but these Blood Crystals gave Lin Jiayao a great boost of confidence.
With these Blood Crystals, Lin Jiayao was like having a vascular network wherever she went. The backup hidden energy was enough to make any B-rank blood crystal on land envious.
Suddenly, Lin Jiayao understood the importance of the system warehouse.
Blood crystals were nothing more than powerful evolutionary abilities, a strong body, plus the blood crystals stored inside as a driving force, constituting their powerful strength.
Lin Jiayao could easily obtain these evolutions and could also continuously strengthen her body through logins, and her blood crystal reserves, besides her body’s own abilities, also included the warehouse and the Safehouse.
In other words, the storage space provided by the system was actually indirectly enhancing her abilities and endurance, allowing her main body to replenish at any time during battle.
Then, according to this calculation, although her main body’s physical strength was still insufficient, she could definitely be considered a B-rank powerhouse.
For the next Research Lab, Lin Jiayao might have to strengthen the research on physical evolutions to avoid being crushed with a single touch.
After briefly counting her current Blood Crystals, Lin Jiayao calculated that she now had exactly five hundred.
In other words, that little blue serpent had brought her three hundred and seventy Blood Crystals…
Giving away so many Blood Crystals just like that…
After marveling at the little blue serpent’s generosity, Lin Jiayao began to put the flesh and blood into the Item Storage Box.
Fortunately, Lin Jiayao had consciously taken about the same amount, and the previous meat had been made into cans, freeing up space in the storage box. The A-rank flesh and blood Lin Jiayao brought could just fit.
As for that large piece of carapace, Lin Jiayao tried to put it into the warehouse, but because of its shape, she found that it couldn’t be put in at all.
After slightly changing the way the Blood Crystals were placed in the warehouse, no longer arranging them neatly, but consciously making a semicircular space, Lin Jiayao finally managed to put the large piece of carapace inside.
After staying in the settlement space for who knows how long, Lin Jiayao finally finished organizing the warehouse and filled it to the brim.
Looking at the almost full warehouse, Lin Jiayao finally felt comfortable and chose to leave the settlement space.
Opening her eyes, Lin Jiayao felt that her body had been cleaned, she was wearing new clothes, she was placed on the bed, and she was covered with a quilt.
The mattress that had been stained with sweat had been replaced with a large bath towel, and Huayibai was placed beside her.
It seemed that this was her sister’s doing.
Lin Jiayao didn’t get up immediately, but opened the Research Lab and looked at the research progress of Spirit.
Because Huayibai’s devouring was accelerated and ended early, it didn’t end at the same time as the Spirit research.
Now there were about two hours left before the Spirit research could be completed.
During this time, Lin Jiayao could just rest her mind, which was a little exhausted from the continuous logins.
This was probably Lin Jiayao’s most desperate login. She had logged into four B-rank zombies within 24 hours. If it were before, she would have been lying dead on the bed, without any energy to think about anything else.
While there was still some free time, Lin Jiayao planned to first see what evolutions this extraction could bring her.
[Please retain your evolution.]
[[Divine Skin Armor Lv.2 (Gold): The Divine Skin Armor you generate will no longer dissipate due to not continuously injecting blood crystals. It automatically enters dormancy when not under attack and can be hidden under the skin.]]
[[2. Super Vision Lv.1 (Blue): Enhances your eyes, greatly extending their vision range and allowing for precise distance measurement.]]
[[3. Perception Lv.1 (Gray): Enhances the host’s perception of their own body, allowing them to be more sensitive to changes in their body.]]
Without any hesitation, Lin Jiayao directly chose Lv.2 Divine Skin Armor.
The original Lv.1 Divine Skin Armor had to be continuously injected with blood crystals to maintain it, which consumed too much, so it could only be generated before being hit.
And now, the evolved Divine Skin Armor, like Ino’s, could be hidden under the skin at all times and would not be activated before being attacked.
After choosing Lv.2 Divine Skin Armor, Lin Jiayao tentatively generated a small piece of armor on the back of her hand using the remaining blood crystals in her body.
A purple light flashed under the skin on the back of her right hand, then dimmed and completely merged into her skin.
There was no abnormality, and when she touched the back of her hand, it felt like normal skin.
Lin Jiayao extended her left hand, and a bone spur extended from the tip of her index finger, slowly reaching towards the back of her right hand.
When the bone spur pierced the skin, it instantly activated the Divine Skin Armor underneath. The small piece of armor lit up with a purple light, blocking the attack, and the armor seemed to become even smaller.
Okay… this was equivalent to having a shield all over her body. If she was attacked by surprise, even if the attack pierced her skin, it would be blocked by Divine Skin Armor.
Now she didn’t have to worry about being sniped.
Looking at the three remaining bags of Blood Crystal Serum in her Safehouse, Lin Jiayao simply took them all out and drank them.
This amount was just enough to generate a complete layer of Divine Skin Armor all over her body, dormant under her skin, and there was still some blood crystal liquid stored in her blood crystal veins.
This was something that could save her life at critical moments, so it was worth spending.
After taking care of the armor, Lin Jiayao looked around and saw a plate of vegetables wrapped in plastic wrap, a pair of chopsticks, and a note left by her sister on the bedside table.
Vegetables?
Lin Jiayao picked up the note, which had her sister’s delicate handwriting on it.
[Eat breakfast properly, I’m going to check on the camp and then train ^▽^]
[By: Your sister]
It was a simple note from her sister, with only one line of words, and a cute smiling face drawn beside the words.
Lin Jiayao smiled at the note, then put it into the few empty slots in the system warehouse, and then used vines and mycelium to create a wheelchair.
After moving herself onto the wheelchair, Lin Jiayao turned the wheelchair to face the bedside table and tore open the plastic wrap covering the vegetables.
The vegetables had been simply boiled, and there were still small water droplets on the plastic wrap. The vegetables themselves were still slightly warm.
She didn’t know where her sister got the plastic wrap from.
The boiled lettuce, although without any meat, was enough to stimulate her appetite just by its tender green color under the light.
Lin Jiayao, who had just gorged herself on zombies, needed these to relieve her mental “fullness”.
Soon, Lin Jiayao finished the plate of vegetables, drank a few large mouthfuls of mineral water, and then felt slightly full.
These lettuces were probably sent from the camp. Lin Jiayao had also controlled the little green bugs to take a look when she was looking for her sister before, and knew that the vegetables were already ripe, so she wasn’t very surprised.
It could be considered as gradually getting on the right track.
Lin Jiayao’s mood slowly relaxed. She sat there for a while, feeling her mind recover and time pass.
Just as she was about to wake Huayibai up and ask her about the progress in Japan, a system prompt suddenly flashed before Lin Jiayao’s eyes.
[No. 2: [Water Monkey] has died.]
[Do you wish to claim your system compensation?]
Huh?
No. 2 in India died?
Why didn’t the system give a warning in advance?
“Where’s the warning?” Lin Jiayao asked the system directly in her mind.
If there was danger, the system, which didn’t want to give compensation, would definitely give a warning in advance. Why wasn’t there a warning this time?
[If the system judges it to be certain death, it will not give a warning in advance.]
[Do you wish to claim your system compensation?]
Looking at the options in front of her, Lin Jiayao slowly frowned.
India… what happened there?
……
India, New Delhi, Ganges Bridge.
The scorching sun baked the earth, making the already withered land even drier.
The Ganges, like a mud pit, flowed slowly, emitting a suffocating stench under the scorching sun.
People by the bridge were washing, cooking, and…
This scene was originally peaceful and quiet, until a few gunshots broke the peace by the river.
Gunshots?
Gunshots were not strange, the strange thing was that the gunshots were very close. Logically, there shouldn’t be any zombies near the bridge.
Was someone caught killing zombies again?
Just as the people under the bridge were still guessing, inside the largest tent on the bridge, Sharma, who heard the gunshots, instantly sat up from the bed.
Beside her, three or four beautiful women emerged from under the sheets, looking at Sharma with puzzled faces, seemingly not knowing what had happened.
“Isn’t it just ordinary gunshots? Sister Sharma…”
“Yes, Sister Sharma, let’s continue, okay~”
Sharma ignored their calls, stood up naked from the bed, didn’t even bother wiping the strange liquid from her body, and quickly put on her clothes.
It was normal that her women didn’t know the meaning of these rhythmic gunshots. These were the secret codes she had agreed upon with the combat members.
The series of gunshots just now meant an emergency call.
Sharma, after getting dressed, only had time to tie her long hair with a cloth strip before rushing out of the tent.
Sharma, rushing out of the tent, was enveloped in black mist, almost flying across the ground, and rushed straight towards where the gunshots came from.