Chapter 255: I Will Save Her! p1
“Buzz——”
A streamlined flapping-wing insect, over ten meters long, vibrated its wings at the mouth of the Yangzhou River.
There were many zombies on the coast. After circling over the sea a few times, the flapping-wing insect didn’t seem to find a good landing spot.
This flapping-wing insect was Lin Jiayao’s fungal clone. Although it didn’t have the other abilities of her main body, it did have a small part of the Blood Orb Fungus’ abilities.
It was equivalent to a low-spec version of Huayibai.
Before the descended body arrived in Kun City, Lin Jiayao had already consumed five bags of Blood Crystal Serum to create this mycelium flapping-wing insect.
By the time the flapping-wing insect flew at full speed and arrived in Yangzhou City, Lin Jiayao had only just controlled A4 to set off for less than ten minutes.
It was a race against time.
However, the price of flying at full speed was a huge consumption of Blood Crystals.
Now, the blood crystal content in Lin Jiayao’s flapping-wing insect clone was almost insufficient to maintain its huge body for flight.
Where was it…?
There weren’t many reference points on the sea surface, and the mycelium flapping-wing insect didn’t have any detection methods, not even the simplest Bone Spike Lurker.
Lin Jiayao let A4 automatically navigate, and then concentrated on controlling the mycelium flapping-wing insect to continue circling over the sea.
In order to attract the Blue Serpent’s attention, Lin Jiayao even had the flapping-wing insect fly almost at sea level, but there was still no movement on the sea surface.
Strange… where was the snake? Could it have left? Or had something happened?
The storm and heavy rain by the sea had already stopped, and the originally flooded areas were gradually receding. Everything was becoming calm.
It didn’t look like anything unexpected had happened.
There was a huge wooden board floating on the sea surface, seemingly washed down from the shore by the receding tide.
To save the little remaining blood crystal liquid in her body, Lin Jiayao vibrated her wings and hovered over the wooden board.
Before landing on the wooden board, her body shrank rapidly, and a large amount of mycelium fused together, mimicking a girl with long black hair, wearing a beige, thin windbreaker.
“The Blue Serpent’s detection ability seems to be very weak too… otherwise, it wouldn’t have gotten lost inside the Flesh and Blood Cube.” Lin Jiayao pinched her chin and suddenly thought of a way.
Although this method was a bit outrageous, Lin Jiayao felt that she could give it a try.
Maybe it would attract the Blue Serpent’s attention?
Two slits opened in the windbreaker behind Lin Jiayao, revealing her slender waist and snow-white skin.
Three pairs of thin, black insect wings slowly extended from the slits in the windbreaker. These three pairs of insect wings, taller than Lin Jiayao, spread out behind her.
Lin Jiayao quickly flapped the insect wings, making a buzzing sound.
The Blood Crystals needed to carry a person and fly were different from those needed to lift a ten-meter-long insect.
Lin Jiayao’s body slowly hovered over the wooden board, and then began to fly towards the deep sea.
Lin Jiayao hadn’t flown far when she saw two scarlet lights shining from the bottom of the dark seawater in the distance.
A huge, light blue body quickly surfaced, and after its huge head emerged from the sea surface, it lifted a large amount of seawater, like lifting a curtain.
The seawater flowed back into the sea along its cheeks, like several waterfalls rising out of thin air.
The Blue Serpent’s huge head slowly approached Lin Jiayao’s forehead and gently pressed its snout against her forehead.
Lay eggs?
As expected of the Blue Serpent, every time it saw a blood crystal with wings, it would show the same enthusiasm, and then issue the classic invitation to lay eggs.
She just didn’t know why the Blue Serpent didn’t notice her when she was in the form of a flapping-wing insect just now.
“It’s me, Huayibai’s mommy.” Lin Jiayao said directly, revealing her identity.
Huh?
The Blue Serpent’s snout left Lin Jiayao’s forehead and looked at Lin Jiayao, who was hovering in the air, with some confusion.
It must be full of question marks now, wondering why its savior had so many strange clones and forms.
But it could indeed tell that what the other party said just now was not a lie. This blood crystal in front of it was really Huayibai’s mommy.
And if it looked closely, it would find that the evolutionary abilities of this blood crystal were very similar to Huayibai’s, almost the same origin.
Boss.
The Blue Serpent slowly lowered its head, then raised it again, looked at Lin Jiayao, and asked:
Is there anything you need me to do?
Boss?
When did it start calling her that?
But now wasn’t the time to worry about this. After clarifying her identity, she should worry about Huayibai.
“How is Huayibai now?” Lin Jiayao asked directly.
Huayibai, very safe now, just a little mentally unstable.
“How unstable?”
She has swallowed the remaining corpses, but her consciousness has become blurred, and her body has returned to its initial state. This situation is very bad.
“Bad?”
Lin Jiayao’s heart suddenly lifted, and she quickly asked, “How bad?”
Could it be that Huayibai’s body over there, like her body in Kun City, had started to shrink?
Wings gone.
Lin Jiayao: “…”
Huayibai’s condition was very bad, meaning her wings were gone?
For a moment, Lin Jiayao didn’t know what to say.
She couldn’t even scold the Blue Serpent, because in the Blue Serpent’s eyes, losing wings might be the most terrifying thing. After all, the Blue Serpent’s way of thinking was different from humans, and she couldn’t judge it by human standards.
“Phew…”
After exhaling, Lin Jiayao took another deep breath, looked at the Blue Serpent in front of her, and continued to ask:
“Did Huayibai tell you about Tianzhou Port just now?”
She just asked me when we would reach the shore, and then fell asleep.
As expected…
Huayibai hadn’t even had time to relay Lin Jiayao’s message to the Blue Serpent before falling into a coma-like state.
Next, Lin Jiayao told the Blue Serpent the location and time of arrival, and asked the Blue Serpent to immediately bring Huayibai to the estuary after bringing the ship to a safe place.
Huayibai’s evolution might be very dangerous, and simulation was useless. Lin Jiayao hadn’t saved enough Blood Crystals for a B-rank to evolve to A-rank.
Huayibai had to evolve at the mouth of the Yangzhou River. At least she didn’t have to worry about flesh and blood there, she could absorb the Flesh and Blood Cube, it had a lot of meat.
Understood.
After receiving the information, the Blue Serpent nodded. After asking if there was anything else, the Blue Serpent spread its wings and dived back into the deep sea.
Lin Jiayao landed on the wooden board again, gave up control of this clone, and turned her attention to controlling A4 to start her journey.
The more clones there were, the more mental power was consumed. The function of the mycelium clone was just to transmit information, there was no need to keep it.
After A4 arrived at the mouth of the Yangzhou River, she could just let A4 swallow the mycelium clone to recover Blood Crystals.
Under Lin Jiayao’s active control, A4’s movement speed increased slightly.
The system’s automatic navigation wasn’t about finding the shortest route, but about rushing in a straight line. If it encountered buildings or mountains, it would slightly deviate to avoid them, which could save time, but the system would also choose to directly climb over mountains.
In terms of efficiency, it was definitely not as fast as manual control.
Fifty minutes later, the still-flooded Yangzhou City, where the tide was rapidly receding, appeared in Lin Jiayao’s vision.
After another thirty seconds, Lin Jiayao saw the huge wooden board floating on the sea surface, and the blood crystal clone lying on the wooden board.
“Thump—”
Lin Jiayao, controlling A4, landed heavily on the wooden board, bringing a wave of hot air, and bent down to pick up her blood crystal clone.
Although the blood crystal clone looked exactly like her, Lin Jiayao didn’t hesitate to kill it.
She opened her mouth, and a large amount of mycelium wrapped around the “Lin Jiayao” formed by the mycelium, piercing and crushing the clone’s body bit by bit, and rolling it into her mouth.
However, Lin Jiayao still kept a clump of mycelium that formed an eyeball, put it in her pocket, and fixed it. Maybe it would come in handy sometime.
“Gurgle—”
Lin Jiayao, controlling A4, swallowed herself, quickly recovering the Blood Crystals consumed during the journey.
After swallowing her own clone, the black scales on A4 were still glowing red, and the skin around them, just healed, was burned again.
The black scale ejection was completely overloaded and couldn’t even be retracted.
Lin Jiayao controlled A4 to activate Super-Sensory Hunt, confirmed the location of the Blue Serpent and the Flesh and Blood Cube underwater, and directly jumped towards their location.
“Tsss—”
“Hiss—”
The moment Lin Jiayao entered the water, and the red-hot black scales came into contact with the seawater, the seawater around the black scales boiled, like quenching a weapon, creating a large amount of bubbles and smoke.
By the time Lin Jiayao swam to the Blue Serpent, the black scales behind her were still sizzling, and she didn’t know how long it would take to cool down.
After seeing Lin Jiayao arrive, the Blue Serpent, perhaps because she didn’t have wings, just glanced at Lin Jiayao indifferently, carefully confirmed her appearance, and then slowly separated a small blue serpent to swim to Lin Jiayao.
The little blue serpent pressed its forehead against Lin Jiayao’s head, and an overlapping, illusory voice sounded in Lin Jiayao’s mind.
Boss, you seem different again.
Very similar to the previous clone, but not exactly the same.
The Blue Serpent was probably referring to the difference between the descended A4 and the real A4. It could sense the difference between the two.
“Can you tell the specific difference?” Lin Jiayao asked curiously.
If the Blue Serpent could tell clearly, maybe she could figure out how the descended body came about. After all, Lin Jiayao was already in mid-air when she opened her eyes.
Can’t tell.
The Blue Serpent’s voice sounded a little regretful, as if it really didn’t know the specific difference.
“It’s okay,” Lin Jiayao shook her head and continued to communicate with the Blue Serpent mentally, “What about Huayibai? Is she okay? Is she already on her way back?”
Yes.
The little blue serpent nodded in front of Lin Jiayao and continued:
We’ve traveled about half the distance now, it took a little more than half an hour.
I’ve already set up the acceleration rings in advance, and they can be sent over as quickly as possible.
A little more than half the distance in a little more than half an hour… It seemed that this Blue Serpent had also used its fastest speed.
Then now, Lin Jiayao only needed to wait here for the Blue Serpent to bring Huayibai over.
It was just…
Lin Jiayao noticed the Blue Serpent’s wording.
The Blue Serpent said “they”, who was “they”?
Besides Huayibai, was there someone else being sent over?
“They? Huayibai and who?” Lin Jiayao looked at the Blue Serpent and asked.
A human child, a creature without wings.
The little blue serpent’s tone sounded a bit indifferent, as if creatures without wings couldn’t get its attention.
A human, a child?
After thinking for a moment, Lin Jiayao asked:
“Are her clothes red and white?”
Yes.
Kisaragi Mika… Lin Jiayao immediately knew who it was.
Lin Jiayao originally planned to let Kisaragi Mika stay in the north for a while, and then go over and ask her if she wanted to come over.
After all, Kisaragi Mika’s growth and changes during this time were significant. Maybe after crossing the sea and arriving in the north, her mind would completely mature, and she would no longer rely on the Ino God.
Lin Jiayao was obviously overthinking. Kisaragi Mika actually directly followed the Blue Serpent and Huayibai into the “acceleration gate” just to see the “Saint” of the Ino God sooner.
She touched the mycelium eyeball fixed in her pocket.
Fortunately, she hadn’t swallowed that eyeball, and she didn’t expect it to come in handy so soon.
She could ask the Flesh and Blood Cube for some flesh and blood later, let this mycelium eyeball devour it, and recreate a flapping-wing insect to take Kisaragi Mika back to Kun City.
It was a special chartered flight.
A4 had only logged in for less than an hour, and there were still more than four hours until extraction.
Lin Jiayao directly controlled A4 to drill into the Flesh and Blood Cube, devouring its flesh and blood and replenishing A4’s consumption.
And that eyeball-sized mycelium was also placed by Lin Jiayao in a dug-out blood pit, letting it also devour the Flesh and Blood Cube to recover a little.
After all, this was A-rank flesh and blood, and Lin Jiayao’s main body’s mycelium couldn’t withstand A4’s venom corrosion, so it could only devour slowly.
But just as Lin Jiayao was about to just hang up and devour blood, a golden eyeball emerged from a hole in the flesh.
A phantom girl projection with a mosaic on her face appeared in front of Lin Jiayao and knelt down with a “thump”.
“Woo woo woo, I’ve already taken Lord Blue Serpent to find the Blood Crystals I stored, please don’t eat me anymore, okay…”
It knelt very smoothly and naturally, as if it had spent a Blood Crystal in the “training ground” practicing how to kneel.
“Swallow some, to recover.” Lin Jiayao didn’t stop what she was doing, still elegantly cutting the meat with the chainsaw bone blade.
“Woo woo woo… you can recover inside my body, I’ll squeeze out some juice for you…”
The phantom girl said, looking at the fleshy wall beside her, opening her hand, and a crack opened in the fleshy wall, revealing a slightly smaller chamber inside, which seemed to be just big enough to hold about ten people.
“Bigger.” Lin Jiayao thought of the size of the flapping-wing insect and said to the phantom girl projected by the Flesh and Blood Cube.
“Okay…” The phantom girl clenched her fists, as if exerting force.
And the chamber in front of her, following the girl’s movements, began to continuously expand, and soon expanded to the same size as the chamber where Mask was cultivated before.
Lin Jiayao wasn’t worried that the Flesh and Blood Cube would play any tricks, because its ability to control ordinary zombie blood crystals couldn’t work on her at all.
She had already felt this when she used Mask to extract inside its body before. It couldn’t control Mask at all, only letting Mask see a golden eyeball, and nothing else.
Carrying the mycelium eyeball, Lin Jiayao walked into the huge chamber created by the Flesh and Blood Cube.
Just like when Mask extracted before, after Lin Jiayao entered, the inside began to gradually fill with easily absorbed, thick nutrient solution.