Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 246

Chapter 246: The Blue Serpent’s Ability

The dark seabed was filled with blue light, countless blue serpents swimming forward.

Directly ahead of the serpents was a massive black shell, most of it embedded in the seabed.

Countless spikes protruded from the exposed surface of the shell, which stretched for thousands of meters, seemingly endless.

This was the black, spiky seabed “land” that Lin Jiayao had first seen while controlling Mask.

This was an A-rank blood crystal that had almost completely abandoned swimming and most forms of movement. Its immense size made it a veritable underwater fortress, and even the Blue Serpent hadn’t seen its true form buried beneath the seabed.

From the “chamber” opened in the massive black shell, large seabed zombies and smaller black spiky balls continuously emerged.

These spiky balls attached themselves to the seabed zombies, which then charged towards the swarm of blue serpents.

But the blue serpents didn’t seem surprised by these attacks. They had encountered this before and knew something about the enemy’s abilities.

The serpents parted, creating a large opening in the center of the swarm. Countless Bone-Winged Blue Serpents linked head to tail, forming a giant circle within the opening.

“Buzz——”

Just like the previous acceleration, this giant circle was enveloped in blue energy, continuously compressing as the blue serpents rapidly spun.

“Boom—”

A zombie swordfish, covered in spiky balls, charged directly into the glowing blue circular “gate,” then froze, motionless, before the compressed sphere.

Not just this Swordfish Zombie, but every zombie fish that entered the blue serpent’s hoop froze in place, unable to move.

This scene was identical to when the blue serpent and Lin Jiayao were suspended before the golden eyeball.

And this compressed blue sphere was the same size as the eyeball, practically a recolored replica.

The remaining serpents bypassed the blue gate, their bone blades flashing as they mercilessly slaughtered the immobilized zombies, devouring them.

Having expended a significant portion of their number to create the blue sphere, the advancing serpent swarm was noticeably smaller.

Even after killing the last spiky ball, the Blue Serpent didn’t dispel the blue sphere, but had the serpents circling it slowly push it towards the “thorn field.”

The Blue Serpent wasn’t confident it could defeat the enemy, as the abilities it copied consumed far more energy than for their original users.

Most importantly, it couldn’t retain previously copied abilities—it learned one and forgot another.

The main attack method of this Sea Urchin was its various “offspring.”

These “offspring” were monsters created by the Sea Urchin after extracting the genes of various blood crystals from the seabed…

Fortunately, the most threatening “offspring” had been dealt with, but her benefactor probably couldn’t hold on much longer. It had to act quickly.

Fighting this kind of heavily armored creature was a war of attrition… The Blue Serpent was prepared for a week-long siege.

If it couldn’t win, it would take its benefactor’s clone and flee.

“Gurgle…”

Billowing black smoke and a large number of bubbles erupted in the distance, like an underwater volcanic eruption.

The massive A-rank’s body slowly split open, as if something was gestating within.

Here they came, the new offspring.

This scent…

Countless blue serpents coiled together, forming a kilometer-long giant serpent, and lunged towards the slowly opening fissure.

The remaining blue serpent forces swam to the flanks and dove towards the seabed, burrowing into the earth, seemingly intending to attack the enemy’s main body from below.

Suddenly, one blue serpent paused mid-swim and looked back.

What was going on? It could sense its clone left with the benefactor again?

Had that offspring been dealt with so quickly?

Wasn’t she a B-rank?

Finished?

“It’s done. The offspring was indeed troublesome. Wait a moment, I’m dealing with the corpse…”

The Blue Serpent was stunned.

This wasn’t just “done.” Its original plan was for the benefactor, with her strong mental power, to stall the offspring.

But before it could even deal with the other offspring, she had already killed the first one?

How?

Although the Blue Serpent was filled with questions, it no longer considered the clone as insignificant in battle.

She was indeed worthy.

Its main body is below. Find a way to break through the outer shell and enter.

The Blue Serpent sent this message to the other side.

Although it didn’t have much hope, what if… she could actually do it?

Lin Jiayao, receiving the message, mentally replied to the little blue serpent on her forehead: “Okay.”

Lin Jiayao looked at the giant corpse before her.

Most of the eyeball had been absorbed, only a small portion remained, floating on the sea surface.

But her body had fully recovered, now covered in mycelium tubes for storing Blood Crystals. Absorbing any more would cause her to burst.

And no matter how much more she absorbed, this descended body would eventually disappear.

She truly couldn’t take anything with her.

Helplessly, Lin Jiayao extended a few mycelium tendrils from her waist, wrapped them around the small portion of the eyeball, and, dragging this large chunk of A-rank flesh and blood, sped towards the location newly marked by the Blue Serpent.

Since she could devour and replenish at any time, Lin Jiayao didn’t conserve Blood Crystals. All the thrusters were open, propelling her forward at full speed.

The closer she got, the more familiar the scene before her seemed.

It was here that Mask, following a large group of seabed zombies, had been sucked into this massive black shell and completed its extraction.

“Boom—”

A powerful shockwave came from the distance, almost flipping Lin Jiayao over in the sea.

Fortunately, the vector thrusters adjusted in time, stabilizing her.

In the distance, several kilometers away, a giant blue serpent was entwined with a black, unknown creature, seemingly a huge, one-eyed mermaid.

The sand and gravel remaining on the Sea Urchin were swept away by the underwater shockwave, creating an underwater sandstorm, revealing more of the giant creature’s main body.

Seeing that the battle was about to reach her, she quickly followed the direction of the hoops and rushed towards the seabed.

“Thump—”

Lin Jiayao landed on the A-rank’s shell, immediately recognizing the familiar feeling.

It was similar to the Living Weapon, but with even stronger defenses… It likely also had adaptive armor.

The first strike had to be at full power. Otherwise, once the enemy adapted, it would be even harder to break through.

“Click—”

The bones in Lin Jiayao’s hands transformed and fused, twisting into two large, white cannons, along with the mycelium.

“Tsss—”

Countless bone spurs extended from Lin Jiayao’s back, bracing against the black carapace behind her, fixing her body in a position that could withstand a greater impact.

Lin Jiayao raised her “hand cannons,” aiming diagonally at the carapace below.

Countless vertical pupils, all focused on her target, split open in the mycelium within the barrels.

Annihilation Pupils.

“Buzz——”

The Annihilation Pupils within the barrels rapidly drew Blood Crystal Liquid from Lin Jiayao’s body, while Lin Jiayao simultaneously drew energy from the offspring corpse she was dragging.

The cannons in her hands grew hotter, the surrounding seawater boiling.

Under this reckless extraction and infusion, even the white bone cannons with black patterns on Lin Jiayao’s hands glowed with a scorching red light.

“Boom—”

The black scales on Lin Jiayao’s back opened fully, and terrifying red flames erupted, propelling her body forward uncontrollably.

But by now, the cannons in her hands were also sufficiently preheated.

“Boom—!”

Two beams of destructive red light erupted from the cannons, instantly striking the black armor below.

The immense recoil was offset by Lin Jiayao’s bone spurs and the black scales ejecting flames. The force from both sides crushed the bones in Lin Jiayao’s body, and her skin cracked and bled.

“Thump—”

The destructive beams collided with the black armor, and a shockwave, even more powerful than the one from the Blue Serpent’s battle, rapidly spread from the impact point.

It was as if it wanted to split the sea in two.

Even the Blue Serpent fighting in the distance paused, turning its head towards this side in shock.

And the offspring it was fighting, in the moment of the Blue Serpent’s astonishment, frantically severed one of its own hands, breaking free from the Blue Serpent’s restraints, and rushed towards the destruction beam.

It was panicking…

The Blue Serpent quickly reacted. The attack of that terrifying humanoid zombie came from the A-rank it had fought before.

With just a glance, the giant eyeball formed by the blue serpents behind it dispersed, and under the giant serpent’s control, they lined up in the shape of an oval vertical pupil.

“Boom—”

A terrifying red beam erupted from the giant eye formed by multiple blue serpents and struck the offspring rushing towards Lin Jiayao.

“Woo—”

The terrifying destruction beam directly pierced through the head of the giant, one-eyed mermaid.

Although it could withstand physical combat, it couldn’t withstand a destruction beam released by an A-rank at all, and was directly blasted apart from top to bottom, its body parts scattering.

And the final point of impact of the beam was where Lin Jiayao’s destruction beam was aimed.

Under the combined force of the two destruction beams, the already crumbling black carapace rapidly dissolved, and the beams directly penetrated inside, causing a violent explosion.

“Woo—”

The light from Lin Jiayao’s side weakened first, the black scale jet ports and bone cannons on her hands shattering into ashes, and the skin near the nozzles and muzzles suffered large-area burns.

The beam from the Blue Serpent’s side also instantly stopped, and a large number of blue serpents, like arrows leaving the bowstring, rushed towards the opening and swarmed inside.

At this time, Lin Jiayao, both mentally and physically, had suffered greatly, and she was only able to hold on by hooking her bone spurs onto the carapace fragments, preventing herself from being swept away by the water current.

Her hands and feet were trembling, the blood crystal liquid in her body almost completely drained, and even the burns on her body couldn’t be healed.

As for the large chunk of eyeball flesh she had been dragging behind, she had long since devoured it.

Lin Jiayao had anticipated consuming a lot of Blood Crystals, but she didn’t expect it to be so difficult.

Even with the Blue Serpent’s help, she could only barely open a four-meter-wide hole.

At this point, she finally understood why she couldn’t simulate the Blue Serpent’s ability in the training ground.

Its ability was to copy other people’s abilities… If she didn’t see it in person, there was no way to simulate it in the training ground.

Thank you for your ability, I’ll take it from here.

The Blue Serpent’s voice appeared in Lin Jiayao’s mind, making Lin Jiayao slightly relieved.

It worked…

She had to quickly recover…

Lin Jiayao broke off a swaying bone spur behind her and used it as a crutch, limping towards the hole.

“Rumble—”

As Lin Jiayao slowly moved forward, perhaps because of the large number of blue serpents swarming in, the entire sea surface and seabed began to shake violently.

This A-rank was about to emerge.

And the nearly four-meter-wide hole that had been blasted open was now only two meters wide – it was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This four-meter-wide hole might be big for Lin Jiayao, but for the giant creature under her feet, it was just a scratch.

There was no time to waste.

Lin Jiayao reached out and grabbed a blue serpent that was about to swim into the hole.

The blue serpent looked back at Lin Jiayao with some confusion, and then heard Lin Jiayao’s voice.

“Take me in.”

The blue serpent didn’t waste any time. After hearing Lin Jiayao’s words, it wrapped its tail around Lin Jiayao, had the blue serpents in front make way, and directly took Lin Jiayao into the hole.

She had entered the body of this giant blood crystal.

This body is just a larger “offspring”. We have to quickly find its main body inside.

“Main body?”

If I find it, I will mark it… I will continue to use the laser to open the hole later. It might go berserk, be careful.

The offspring might be wandering in the chamber searching for intruders, be careful.

After giving Lin Jiayao these instructions, the Blue Serpent released Lin Jiayao and directly drilled into a flesh and blood passage.

And the wound behind it healed immediately. Lin Jiayao’s surroundings fell into darkness, only the flesh and blood “wellhead” in front of her waiting for her.

First… let’s recover…

Lin Jiayao gasped and half-knelt down, lowered her head and touched the twisted flesh and blood, opened her mouth, and a large amount of mycelium spewed out.