Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 252

Chapter 252: Kun City’s A4

“What is this?” Lin Xiwan asked curiously, looking at the strange umbrella in her sister’s hand.

“Sister, help me light a fire, I want to try it out.”

“Okay.”

While her sister went back to the villa to find materials for a fire, Lin Jiayao examined the umbrella closely.

The white, fluffy umbrella canopy felt like soft velvet. Opening it revealed a contrasting, blood-red mycelium lining.

These mycelia, twining around the black umbrella ribs, extended all the way to the handle, like the umbrella’s blood vessels.

She also had Blood Orb Mycelium; she could test it for Huayibai.

Lin Jiayao gripped the handle, her finger resting on the trigger, and slowly squeezed.

Red mycelium extended from the handle, connecting to Lin Jiayao’s palm and drawing blood crystal liquid from her body.

As the blood crystal liquid was injected, the entire umbrella pulsed with life, the mycelium “blood vessels” throbbing, transmitting energy.

Under Lin Jiayao’s control, the open umbrella closed. She held it like a rifle, aiming it, and pulled the trigger again.

“Tsss—”

Lin Jiayao felt a slight drain from her body. The blood crystal liquid, after passing through a pump-like organ, was ejected through the hollow umbrella handle, firing a red “bullet” from the tip.

“Thwack—”

The bullet struck the wall of the opposite villa, piercing it before rapidly expanding, embedding itself.

The ejected mycelium, carrying spores, quickly burrowed into the wall… Lin Jiayao was at least a hundred meters away from the wall, and this clearly wasn’t the limit of its range.

So it had a ranged infection capability. With specially made bullets, its penetration power could be even greater.

Lin Xiwan, not far away, had already started a bonfire in the open space, using the remaining charcoal and firewood.

Soon, she ran back to Lin Jiayao, holding a burning stick.

“Here.” Lin Xiwan held the torch towards Lin Jiayao.

Lin Jiayao handed her the umbrella. The flames licked at the canopy, but caused no damage, not even a scorch mark.

She extended a bone spur from her fingernail and pierced the canopy forcefully, but it didn’t leave a scratch.

After a moment of thought, Lin Jiayao entered the training ground, simulated the umbrella in her hand, and summoned an A4.

A4 had both fire and piercing abilities, a perfect test subject.

Inside the training ground, Lin Jiayao had A4 test the open white umbrella with various attacks, including corrosion, fire, lightning, and piercing, all with good results.

It could withstand B-rank flames and bone spur piercing for a considerable amount of time. Its only weakness was its projectile speed.

Against A4’s black scale armor and skin, it could only penetrate and infect by hitting weak points like the eyes.

And the speed of the projectiles was also an issue. Even without activating Super-Sensory Hunt, A4 could easily dodge them simply by running.

However, the umbrella could fire continuously, and even had a shotgun mode with a slightly longer reload time, increasing its coverage.

It was definitely stronger than Huayibai’s current attack methods—currently, Huayibai’s only attack method was mimicry, and the mimicked creatures were weaker than the originals.

Fireproofing plus a ranged attack, this was enough for Huayibai for now. If she had new materials or ideas later, she could always upgrade the umbrella with the Workbench.

Lin Jiayao exited the training ground. Lin Xiwan didn’t even notice her sister spacing out; she just thought her sister had held the umbrella over the fire for a few seconds longer.

“It’s done,” Lin Jiayao retracted her hand and closed the umbrella.

“Okay.”

Lin Xiwan put out the torch, returned to the bonfire and extinguished it, then walked back to Lin Jiayao and asked, “This is for Huayibai, right?”

“Yes,” Lin Jiayao nodded.

“Then what about yours?” Lin Xiwan asked. “Aren’t you going to make a weapon for yourself? There are still so many materials.”

“No need,” Lin Jiayao shook her head and explained, “My abilities don’t really need these.”

Having inherited the Reactive Armor evolution, Lin Jiayao could create various suitable “weapons” with Perfect Form, all perfectly suited to her abilities and body.

So, there was no need for an additional weapon.

“Okay… then what are you going to do next?” Lin Xiwan took off her gloves, put them in her pocket, sat down next to her sister, and squeezed her hand.

Although the gloves felt comfortable, they were still no match for the real thing.

“What to do…”

Lin Jiayao seriously considered the question, and an answer came to mind.

Practice all her combat skills in the training ground, and then practice controlling large swarms of insects. By the time she finished, A4 should have arrived.

“Let’s sleep,” Lin Jiayao said.

“Sleep again?”

Lin Xiwan was always worried when she heard her sister wanted to sleep. She rubbed her sister’s shoulders and asked, “Didn’t you just sleep for a long time… You’ve been sleeping almost constantly these past few days.”

“If you don’t rest, you’ll faint again like before…”

Her sister still seemed worried.

After all, these past few days, Lin Jiayao had dealt with Japan, then India, then America, and then directly challenged the A-rank outside Yangzhou City…

She had even personally left Kun City to kill a B-rank.

She had been constantly working, without a single break. Even the strongest person would be exhausted.

But what Lin Xiwan didn’t know was that although Lin Jiayao had been working non-stop during this time,

Lin Jiayao’s mental power was also constantly evolving. This consumption basically couldn’t keep up with her recovery speed.

To reassure her sister, Lin Jiayao could only say, “It’s okay, this time I’m really sleeping, the kind where you rest.”

“Really?”

“Really.”

“Okay…”

Lin Xiwan nodded, picked up Lin Jiayao again, and walked towards the villa.

And the Black Stem Fungus, which had been hiding behind a chair because of the bonfire before, after seeing the two leave, also trotted after Lin Xiwan’s long legs.

After they entered the villa, the Black Stem Fungus continued to squat outside the vine curtains.

After Lin Jiayao sat on the bed, she lifted the quilt and placed the umbrella beside Huayibai.

As soon as Huayibai woke up, she would see this umbrella.

She should like it.

“Has Huayibai become smaller?” Lin Xiwan looked at Huayibai under the quilt and asked with some confusion.

Indeed… Huayibai seemed to be even smaller than before.

Now she looked like a little girl who had just started elementary school, her face even rounder.

Lin Jiayao knew that this was definitely not just her apparent age becoming younger.

This meant that Huayibai’s body was shrinking again… If it continued, she might not even be able to maintain this small size.

Was it because the devouring over there was still ongoing?

What stage had Huayibai reached?

“She has become smaller… it’s okay, I can go and pick her up later.”

After the descended A4 delivered the things to her, the Blue Serpent should also be almost dragging the ship to the coast of China.

Lin Jiayao could directly log into a zombie on the shore and let the Blue Serpent quickly bring Huayibai back to her.

All of this had to wait until the descended A4 finished delivering the things… After the descended A4 logged out, a lot of backlogged matters would come to Lin Jiayao.

The time spent training in the training ground was considered a relaxation period before the storm.

After telling her sister to wake her up if anything happened, Lin Jiayao lay down on the bed, closed her eyes, and entered the training ground.

In the training ground, Lin Jiayao retrained almost all her abilities and skills, and spent several hours practicing the Annihilation Pupils, her currently most powerful evolution.

In the remaining time, Lin Jiayao, who had already gone through all her abilities, began the actual combat session in the training ground.

Once she started actual combat, the required computing power increased, and the time flow in the training ground also began to speed up.

After only seven or eight hours of combat, Lin Jiayao saw a familiar city entwined with vines in the consciousness switching interface in the upper left corner.

The descended A4 had already seen Kun City.

This meant that at least seven hours had passed in the outside world.

Lin Jiayao exited the training ground, switched her consciousness, and regained control of the descended A4.

After confirming that the two large eyeballs on her back were still intact, Lin Jiayao ran straight towards Kun City.

At the same time, Lin Jiayao’s main body also made preparations in advance, connecting to the vascular network to prevent the descended A4 from triggering the vascular network’s counterattack.

To avoid alarming the people in the ash area, Lin Jiayao sensed the remaining blood crystal liquid in A4’s body.

Feeling that it was enough, she directly formed several black scale armor pieces on her back and waist.

The black scales ejected blazing red flames, propelling Lin Jiayao rapidly into the air.

After rising to a height of about three hundred meters, she adjusted the nozzles and, like an air-to-ground missile, streaked towards the villa area with a tail flame.

Most people only heard a muffled thunderclap, and then saw a flame flying towards the Oasis Area, and then there was no movement.

This did surprise some Awakened, because they knew that it wasn’t a real missile.

And, this momentum, this flame, it must be a B-rank Awakened.

Was it an enemy attack?

After a while, they didn’t hear any movement inside, so they assumed it was the mysterious powerhouse inside the Oasis Area.

“B-rank Lin Xiwan, B-rank Huayibai… the one controlling the trees in this city is at least a B-rank, the one who created the brains before must also be a B-rank, and there’s also the B-rank black monster encountered by that team before, plus this current fire-using one…”

Wan Zi stared blankly at the disappearing tail flame in the blue sky and murmured: “How many B-ranks are there in there…”

It felt like all the B-ranks in China had been stuffed into Kun City.

Lin Jiayao didn’t know what the people in the ash area were thinking. She used this method to travel, which was at least better than running directly on land, at least it wouldn’t cause a commotion.

“Boom!”

Just as she was about to crash into the villa, Lin Jiayao reignited the flames, using the thrust of the flame ejection to reduce her falling speed, and finally landed steadily on the grass.

It was better not to make such a violent landing at home, she was afraid that one landing would destroy the house.

“Swish—”

A figure rushed out from the vine curtains on the side, quickly blocking in front of the house, her chest heaving rapidly, seemingly having just been startled awake.

“Sister.”

Lin Jiayao raised her right hand in greeting while letting the black scale armor on her body fade away.

Her calling her sister obviously stunned her sister.

Lin Xiwan looked at the tall beauty in front of her, about 1.78 meters tall, a little taller than herself, opened her mouth slightly, and was a little surprised.

Lin Jiayao switched her consciousness and shouted in the room: “Sister, that’s me controlling it.”

After hearing her sister’s reply from the room, Lin Xiwan was slightly relieved, but the shock and curiosity in her heart did not subside at all.

She had always heard her sister talk about controlling zombies in her dreams, but this was the first time she had seen the real thing, and it seemed that besides its scarlet eyes, there was nothing zombie-like about it.

Of course, there was still one thing that was similar to a zombie, which was its tattered clothes, almost burned to only a few strips of cloth.

Seemingly noticing Lin Xiwan’s gaze, Lin Jiayao’s body surged with mycelium, using the mycelium to push open the originally tattered clothes and create a set of black hoodies and sweatpants for herself.

“Does it look good?” Lin Jiayao, controlling the descended A4, asked slowly.

Lin Xiwan looked away, looked into A4’s eyes, and said, “It feels… not as good as my sister.”

Lin Jiayao rolled her eyes at her sister, then carried the two eyeballs and walked towards the room.

The Black Stem Fungus squatting by the vine curtains, after seeing A4 walking towards it, seemed a little scared, picked up a piece of the vine curtain, and covered one of its eyes with it.

And its other eye was still secretly observing this strange and unfamiliar big mushroom in front of it.

Now big mushrooms could walk and speak human language?

Was it an outdated version?

Was it not included in the evolution?

The Black Stem Fungus seemed to be in a state of self-doubt.

Lin Jiayao, controlling the descended A4, placed the eyeballs beside her main body.

At the same time, she switched her consciousness, let her main body put the eyeballs into the Item Storage Box, and then opened the Nutrition Department, starting to make the eyeballs into cans.

Lin Jiayao realized that this ability to make cans was actually to make it easier for her to put things into the Safehouse for “smuggling”, which was indeed very useful.

The items had been delivered, it was time to check on Huayibai’s situation.

If Huayibai was fine, then there were many things Lin Jiayao could do.

Log into No. 7 to contact the north…

Log into Goldie to swallow eyeballs…

Log into A4 to pry some A-rank corpses from the estuary… oh, it wasn’t dead yet, borrow some flesh and blood to devour…

She could even wait for the Descend cooldown to end, descend A4 or Goldie to see what was going on with that A-rank in India, see if she could communicate, and if not, she could also get an idea of the other party’s abilities to avoid being caught off guard.

Next, she just needed to have the descended A4 commit suicide.

But… the descended A4 still had a small amount of blood crystal liquid left in its body, about 20%. It seemed a bit wasteful to just “log out” like this.

After all, the things inside the descended body, even if taken out, wouldn’t turn into Blood Crystals, and the same was true for flesh and blood.

Lin Jiayao slowly raised her head and looked at her sister, who was standing beside her, curiously looking at the scene in front of her.

“Want to spar?” Lin Jiayao, controlling the descended A4, said to her sister.

A4, almost the peak existence among B-rank single zombies, might be able to give her sister a lot of practical combat experience.