Chapter 227: Spirit Research p2
Soon, Lin Jiayao swam to the other side, rushed out of the Ganges, stood on the steps, and turned to look at the zombies that followed.
“Thump—”
As soon as a zombie climbed up, its head was exploded by Lin Jiayao with an iron bar. She quickly retreated and dodged the splashing brain matter, her eyes narrowing slightly.
This wouldn’t do either. One or two was fine, but if the zombies kept coming up, she would eventually be stained with their blood.
Lin Jiayao’s gaze shifted to the slightly blurry cross-river bridge in the distance.
She could try going there.
Anyway, she had inherited [Bone Hardening Lv.Max], and could withstand rifle fire as long as it wasn’t too many shots. She raised her hands in advance. If Sharma was still alive, she would probably notice her unusual behavior.
After all, what kind of zombie would give a French military salute?
After pulling out the pistol tucked in her ribs, Lin Jiayao ran straight towards the bridge.
But as the bridge got closer and closer, Lin Jiayao felt something was wrong.
The gunshots seemed to have stopped.
When Lin Jiayao got within a kilometer, she saw the chaos on the bridge. People seemed to have given up resisting and were running towards the other side of the bridge in a panic.
What was going on? Even a B-rank couldn’t suppress these zombies? Impossible, right?
It wasn’t until Lin Jiayao almost reached the bottom of the bridge that she saw clearly what was going on.
It turned out that Water Monkey zombies had already crossed from the bottom of the river and launched a sneak attack on the other side, and the bridge was caught in a pincer attack.
A cloud of black mist was particularly conspicuous on the bridge. The black mist quickly strangled several zombies that climbed onto the bridge and roared at the people on the bridge: “Retreat! Quickly! Go get the cars!”
Lin Jiayao seized the opportunity, raised her gun, rested it on her left arm, and fired a shot in Sharma’s direction.
Sharma, who was anxiously standing at the bridgehead, her pupils constricted in an instant, and adrenaline surged, as if she felt a great threat from behind.
“Clang—”
A pistol bullet grazed her scalp, hit the steel cable of the bridge, and sparked.
She quickly turned around and saw a zombie with pale skin and only bones left on its hands, looking at her, calmly raising both arms.
A zombie with human-like gestures…
Where was the controller? She… she didn’t see the controller…
That mysterious person from the trade?!
Sharma’s eyes instantly lit up, as if she had found a lifesaver. Black mist surged from her body, and she rushed directly to Lin Jiayao’s side.
“Tsss—”
After landing beside Lin Jiayao, she threw a black mist ripple backwards.
A cloud of black mist spread backwards in a semicircle, directly cutting the zombies chasing after them in half.
“Miss Sharma, what happened here?” Lin Jiayao asked in a hoarse voice.
The zombie beside her spoke, and this calm tone immediately reminded Sharma of the long-haired zombie. As if she had found hope, she turned and said to the zombie in front of her:
“Help them, please, if you are willing to help, I’ll do anything!” Sharma pleaded quickly.
The blood crystals in her body were almost completely consumed, and the mutated zombies were still coming endlessly.
Sharma didn’t dare to hunt zombies in close combat at all and could only use the more energy-consuming Black Mist evolution for long-range attacks, but she was almost at her limit.
Now seeing Lin Jiayao, she directly placed all her hope on the mysterious person in front of her.
She could control zombies from such a long distance, her strength was definitely B-rank. If she helped, she could help the people in her camp escape.
That’s what Sharma thought.
But to her despair, the zombie in front of her shook its head.
“My main body is not here, I can’t help.” Lin Jiayao shook her head and said regretfully.
Of course, even if her main body was nearby, Lin Jiayao wouldn’t help. It was too dangerous. She and Sharma were just acquaintances, there was no need to get involved in this mess.
She would only advise Sharma to run away quickly.
And this login, her main purpose was to figure out what happened here, not to be a savior.
“You can have your main body come over!” Sharma seemed a little frantic, and she shouted, “After this is over, you can even have my life!”
It seemed that she really wanted to protect her all-female camp.
“My main body is in China.” Lin Jiayao said helplessly.
“You’re lying! How is that possible! Damn it! Bastard! Just say you don’t want to help!” Sharma cursed and was about to turn around and leave, but a skeletal arm rested on her shoulder.
“If you can tell me what happened here,” Lin Jiayao looked at Sharma and said slowly, “I can give you a bag of Blood Crystal Serum.”
This could also be considered as a gift for the previous two transactions. Although Lin Jiayao couldn’t help, she didn’t want to see so many people die helplessly in front of her.
The gunshots over there were still continuing, but for the sake of that bag of Blood Crystal Serum, Sharma suppressed her anger and quickly recounted what she saw.
“Hurry up!” After speaking, Sharma quickly extended her right hand.
Lin Jiayao didn’t waste any time and directly handed a bag of Blood Crystal Serum to Sharma, then watched as Sharma swallowed the Blood Crystal Serum and returned to the battlefield to cover the retreat.
In Lin Jiayao’s vision, she could see a super fat zombie, estimated to be nearly 600 pounds, rushing towards the crowd on the bridge, its body fat and fluids almost bursting its skin.
“BOOM—!”
After an armor-piercing bullet pierced its skin, the entire fat zombie exploded, and purplish blood and flesh splashed everywhere, infecting everyone who was splashed.
This scene made Lin Jiayao raise her eyebrows slightly… she had never seen such a scene before.
Lin Jiayao checked her magazine and, seeing that there were still bullets left, turned around and looked behind her.
The zombies behind her had already crossed the Ganges and were rushing towards her.
It was impossible to go back to the login location and extract now, and after knowing the truth, there was no need to continue controlling this body.
It was just right to use this remaining time to test whether her logged-in zombie could resist this kind of corrosive infection.
Lin Jiayao raised the iron bar in her left hand, abruptly inserted it into her right eye, and stirred it vigorously. Dark red liquid and white pus gushed out from her eye socket.
“Shing—”
“Shing—”
After forcefully poking a few more times with the iron bar, Lin Jiayao finally smashed her skull.
She raised the pistol, inserted it into her right eye socket, threw away the rusty iron bar stained with eyeball and blood, and walked towards the corrupted zombies.
“Crack—”
The first zombie that rushed over had its neck twisted by Lin Jiayao with one hand, and purplish blood gushed out, splashing onto Lin Jiayao’s body.
She felt a painful sensation of being invaded by something, her bones as if they were being corroded by concentrated sulfuric acid.
At the same time, her mind gradually became excited under this stimulation, and she forcefully pulled the muscles of her mouth, revealing a creepy smile.
The limitations of one-handed operation were still too great.
After killing a few zombies, Lin Jiayao was pounced on by the zombies behind her, and her neck was bitten.
Lin Jiayao endured the pain, took out the pistol from the hole in her head, wiped it on the pus and blood on the zombie in front of her, then turned the muzzle and inserted it into her eyeball again.
“Bang—!”
Lin Jiayao pulled the trigger. The moment she pulled the trigger, the pistol disappeared from her hand and was placed in the Safehouse, leaving only a bullet without a barrel as guidance, spinning and blasting into her skull.
“Crack—”
The spinning bullet passed through the hole in her head and shattered all her brain matter and nerves, but it couldn’t penetrate the max-level Bone Hardening bones.
A large amount of brain matter gushed out from Lin Jiayao’s eyeball, and she gradually lost consciousness.
[Extraction Failed]
Lin Jiayao, whose consciousness had returned, abruptly opened her eyes, subconsciously raised her hand and covered her right eye, and her rapidly beating heart instantly calmed down.
It was [Hunting Rhythm] leading [Spirit] and [Turbine Heart Pump] to work together, suppressing all of Lin Jiayao’s negative conditions and keeping her body in its best state.
Although she had died many times, Lin Jiayao was trying this method of death for the first time. Now recalling it, she still felt a lingering fear.
However, compared to simply dying once, what Lin Jiayao was more worried about was the information Sharma told her.
The huge sarcoma with an aura far exceeding B-rank… the super-infected person who could infect both zombies and humans.
Although Lin Jiayao didn’t see the true situation of that zombie, seeing Sharma’s disheveled appearance, she could more or less guess something.
If this infection spread quickly…
If it could infect seabed zombies…
Wouldn’t India really cultivate an A-rank through this breeding of gu? (TN: Gu are venomous creatures in Chinese folklore, often used in witchcraft)
Lin Jiayao rubbed the center of her brow with the knuckle of her right index finger.
The current situation far exceeded her expectations. She originally thought that there were no more threats on land and she only needed to focus on the things in the sea, but now the reality told her that it wasn’t so simple.
She put some of the infected blood on the pistol in the Safehouse. When she logged into A4 later, she could study this blood.
“Sigh…”
Lin Jiayao sighed.
One wave after another, there was really no moment of peace.
If this continued, without Lin Jiayao, sooner or later, only one person would be left.
Lin Jiayao looked up and glanced at the Research Lab in the system interface. The Spirit research would be completed in half an hour.
Now she was quietly waiting for the [Spirit] research in the Research Lab to be completed.
Half an hour later, it would be time to witness a miracle.