Chapter 255: I Will Save Her! p2
The moment A4’s body and the eyeball it brought in came into contact with the nutrient solution, they began to frantically devour it.
Although this nutrient solution was not as good as Blood Crystal Serum, it was more convenient than directly devouring flesh and blood.
After her body recovered, the Blue Serpent should also be bringing Huayibai back.
Lin Jiayao let A4’s body absorb here, while her consciousness returned to her main body and opened the training ground.
Although the system clearly stated that A-rank evolution could not be simulated in the training ground, Lin Jiayao still wanted to try it for Huayibai, to see if she could exploit a system bug and “borrow” some computing power for overclocking.
Unfortunately, after trying for more than half an hour inside, Lin Jiayao still couldn’t figure out how to exploit the bug.
There was only one time that was particularly close to success, bypassing the system’s restrictions and letting Huayibai’s body evolve in the training ground.
But soon, it was discovered by the system, and before Huayibai’s body could change, Lin Jiayao was directly kicked out of the training ground.
Just as Lin Jiayao was about to try again, the consciousness switching interface in the upper left corner showed an image.
The nutrient solution in the space where A4 was located was slowly absorbed by the fleshy wall beside it, a crack opened in the flesh again, and a blue serpent drilled in from outside, slithered to Lin Jiayao, and rubbed against A4’s face.
Had it arrived? Huayibai?
Lin Jiayao quickly put aside the idea of going to the training ground to try again, switched her consciousness, and returned to A4’s body.
She controlled A4 to open her eyes and looked at the Blue Serpent in front of her.
I brought it, it’s on the shore.
After the Blue Serpent finished speaking, it directly turned around and slithered towards the hole, seemingly not wanting to stay in this space for a second longer.
It seemed that the previous experience of getting lost in the chamber and being trapped had left a psychological scar on the Blue Serpent.
Lin Jiayao nodded, felt her body, which had already recovered to its peak state, and also walked towards the hole.
And behind her, the flapping-wing insect, which had also recovered, followed.
At this time, the flapping-wing insect had transformed into a human form, and the extra Blood Crystals in its body had transformed into long, narrow mycelium insect wings, dragging behind it like a super long cloak.
When needed, this mycelium clone could devour the energy inside these mycelium wings at any time, returning its body to the form of a flapping-wing insect.
Lin Jiayao, controlling A4’s body, after running out of the hole, black scales appeared on her back, and she ejected flames underwater, rushing towards the shore.
“Boom—”
She broke through the water surface with a huge splash, landed on the shallows by the shore, and the heat from the black scales instantly dried the seawater on her body, and the salt grains slid down her smooth skin, falling back into the seawater under her feet and dissolving.
After shaking off the sea salt on her body, Lin Jiayao ran towards Huayibai.
She didn’t even need to look for Huayibai – a huge mushroom lying horizontally, more than twenty meters long even without the mycelium – it was hard to miss.
Plus the numerous thin mycelia at the bottom, this mushroom was almost a hundred meters long.
But now, this mushroom was lying motionless on the shallows, the large mycelium at its base swaying with the receding tide.
It looked like it was dead.
And beside the giant mushroom, there was also an unconscious girl lying there. She didn’t seem to notice anyone’s arrival, just kept dry heaving, her lips pale and trembling.
“Tap, tap—”
Lin Jiayao walked to Kisaragi Mika’s side and snapped her fingers in front of her face, but Kisaragi Mika didn’t react at all.
She reached out and slightly opened Kisaragi Mika’s eyelids, and saw her somewhat unfocused, seemingly broken pupils.
This child might be beyond saving.
Lin Jiayao turned her head and looked at the Blue Serpent and the human-shaped mycelium clone with dragging wings that had followed her. She was about to have the clone transform into a flapping-wing insect and take Kisaragi Mika back to Kun City.
Lin Jiayao: “…”
Lin Jiayao, turning her head and seeing the Blue Serpent, was speechless.
At this time, although the little blue serpent was crawling, its head wasn’t looking at the road ahead at all, but kept looking at the mycelium clone beside it, occasionally even touching the clone’s forehead with its snout, as if trying to communicate.
Just as the Blue Serpent flicked its tongue, wanting to lick the clone, Lin Jiayao directly switched her consciousness and used her main body to control the clone’s transformation.
“Crack—”
The originally humanoid clone quickly devoured the wings spread behind it like a red carpet and quickly transformed into a small, six-meter-long flapping-wing insect.
Lin Jiayao switched her consciousness back to A4, pinched Kisaragi Mika’s dirty and tattered miko outfit collar with one hand, and lifted her up.
But just as she lifted Kisaragi Mika, the already loose belt on the miko outfit snapped.
“Snap—”
“Whoosh—”
Kisaragi Mika’s body smoothly slid out of the miko outfit and landed on the receding shallows.
Even lying on the shallows like this, Kisaragi Mika still didn’t wake up.
The quality of this outfit wasn’t very good…
Lin Jiayao looked at the naked Kisaragi Mika, who was only wearing a pair of light blue panties with a small white rabbit print, and shook her head.
She picked up Kisaragi Mika in a princess carry, hooked her miko outfit with her foot, and directly threw the miko outfit into the flapping-wing insect’s abdomen.
Lin Jiayao carried Kisaragi Mika, placed her flat on the spread-out miko outfit, thought for a moment, and then had the mycelium flapping-wing insect cover her with a thin layer of mycelium blanket, fixing her body and keeping her warm.
“Buzz—”
The flapping-wing insect carried Kisaragi Mika and took off, returning to Kun City.
After the flapping-wing insect flew away, Lin Jiayao finally had no other distractions and focused on Huayibai.
“Huayibai?” Lin Jiayao walked to Huayibai’s side and reached out to touch her white stem.
The dense and smooth feel was like stroking delicate skin, as if she could squeeze out water with a gentle pinch.
But Huayibai still didn’t respond to Lin Jiayao’s call.
“Blue Serpent, do you know what’s going on?” Lin Jiayao, at a loss, looked at the Blue Serpent and asked.
Not sure.
The Blue Serpent tilted its head slightly and thought for a moment, then its voice sounded in Lin Jiayao’s mind again.
The eyeball seems to know more about mental matters, you can ask it.
Eyeball?
“That A-rank? The one whose main body is like an eyeball Rubik’s Cube?” Lin Jiayao asked.
The Blue Serpent’s head moved up and down, as if mimicking a human nodding.
But with the serpent’s size, shaking its head left and right was fine, but nodding its head looked a bit like kowtowing.
“Help me bring it over.” Lin Jiayao looked at the Blue Serpent and said.
Okay, boss.
Lin Jiayao stayed with Huayibai, waiting for the Blue Serpent to return.
In less than two minutes, the small blue serpent appeared in the distance.
It was crawling on the beach, its tail wrapped around a basketball-sized eyeball, the eyeball rolling on the shallows.
It looked a bit pathetic.
The Blue Serpent quickly crawled to Lin Jiayao and raised the eyeball on its tail to her.
The Blue Serpent shook the golden eyeball, and the originally dim eyeball lit up again.
A faint projection appeared from the eyeball in front of Lin Jiayao, still the illusory girl, but it looked even more blurry.
As if it didn’t have enough energy.
“Hello…” The phantom girl stood trembling in front of Lin Jiayao.
Compared to A4’s height of nearly 1.8 meters, the phantom girl’s projection was almost a head shorter than A4, looking like a lamb standing in front of a wolf king.
“Help me check on her condition.” Lin Jiayao pointed to Huayibai and looked at the eyeball.
“Check on her… condition?”
The phantom girl raised her head, looked at the huge mushroom lying horizontally in front of her, and after being stunned for a while, she asked:
“Didn’t you… call me here to eat me?”
The phantom girl’s voice had a tentative tone, sounding very helpless and humble.
“Don’t talk nonsense, check on her condition.” Lin Jiayao frowned.
Huayibai’s condition was unknown, and there might be accidents at any time. She didn’t want to waste too much time on this kind of nonsense.
“Oh… oh, okay, okay…” The girl’s head nodded repeatedly like a pecking chicken, and the golden eyeball in the Blue Serpent’s tail turned and looked at the mushroom in front of it.
This mushroom…
The brown pupil of the golden eyeball trembled slightly. Soon, the phantom girl standing in front of Lin Jiayao raised her head and looked at Lin Jiayao again.
“She’s in her own mental world, my lord.” The girl looked at Lin Jiayao and said carefully, “It should be her evolutionary stage, but it’s very unstable and might collapse at any time.”
“Evolutionary stage… might collapse at any time? Do you know a lot about the evolution of fungal zombies?” Lin Jiayao’s eyes narrowed slightly, glancing between the golden eyeball and the girl, as if observing something.
“My lord… you called her out to evolve in my illusion before… woo…” Although the phantom girl’s face was full of garbled characters, her tone was enough to make people feel her grievance.
“Oh…” Lin Jiayao nodded and asked, “Then to what extent can you simulate now?”
Hearing Lin Jiayao’s words, the phantom girl almost jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
Soon, the girl’s knees went weak, and with a “thump”, she knelt directly on the water surface in front of Lin Jiayao, and with a “bang”, she voiced herself and kowtowed to Lin Jiayao.
“My lord, please spare me, I’ll die if I simulate again, woo… My body has already been eaten a lot, and now there are so many snakes drilling around inside my body, my mind is almost always…”
The girl cried and complained to Lin Jiayao about her suffering.
It was truly a scene that would make anyone who heard it sad and anyone who saw it cry.
But as long as she thought of the human lives harvested by the zombie wave it caused, anyone with human emotions would not empathize with it.
“When will she wake up?” Lin Jiayao looked at the phantom girl in front of her and directly interrupted her chanting.
“This… I don’t know.” The girl kneeling on the ground looked up at Lin Jiayao and shook her head. “If she can make it through, she’ll make it through. If she can’t… then she’ll be trapped in the spiritual world forever.”
Trapped in the spiritual world forever if she couldn’t make it through?
Lin Jiayao’s eyes narrowed slightly.
Was there such a hurdle in evolution? Why didn’t her sister or her zombies have this feeling when they evolved?
Was it unique to A-rank evolution, or unique to fungal evolution?
“Is there any way to interfere? To increase her chances of success?” Lin Jiayao looked at the eyeball on the Blue Serpent’s tail and asked.
The golden eyeball in front of her, its main ability was related to the mind and illusions. It definitely knew more about the mind than Lin Jiayao, and there might be a way.
Lin Jiayao originally just asked tentatively, but unexpectedly, the phantom girl in front of her began to hesitate.
“Is there a way?” Lin Jiayao looked at the phantom girl and asked.
“There is a way… but in my current weakened state, I can’t use this ability at all.”
The phantom girl looked at Lin Jiayao and continued:
“I can connect my spiritual world to hers, and the two spiritual worlds will merge. I can endure it with her in the double spiritual world…”
“But now, if I collide with her spiritual world, there’s only one possible outcome.”
“My spirit is too strong, and my spiritual world is more complete. If the two worlds collide, and I’m in a weakened state, the two of us will be permanently trapped in the illusory spiritual world, waiting for our bodies to die.”
Listening to the phantom girl’s explanation, Lin Jiayao roughly understood what the Eyeball Cube meant.
Huayibai might be at a critical juncture in her mental evolution, but she was stuck. If she could successfully pass through and complete the mental evolution, then Huayibai might completely reach the threshold of A-rank, or even directly cross it.
But judging from the current situation, the possibility of Huayibai crossing over was not high.
And there was no way to directly “drag” her back from this irreversible state, nor could she use evolutionary abilities to enter and help her.
Because the Eyeball Cube that could enter had been beaten half to death by Lin Jiayao and was basically useless.
After careful consideration, Lin Jiayao looked at the phantom girl who had already moved to the front of the eyeball.
“You will die if you go in yourself, then can you let other mentally sound people go in and help her?” Lin Jiayao asked.
“This… it’s possible, but there’s also a chance of failure.”
The phantom girl said honestly: “If two people’s spiritual worlds merge, then you have to face the combined danger.”
“If your mental power is too strong, during the process of merging spiritual worlds, the other party’s spirit might be directly swallowed…”
The girl’s words made Lin Jiayao fall into deep thought.
She turned her head and looked at the huge mushroom beside her.
Such a terrifying mushroom monster, if she had seen it at the beginning of the apocalypse, she would probably have been scared to death.
But unexpectedly, in just a short time, this “little” mushroom had already formed a deep bond with her – just now, for a moment, Lin Jiayao even wanted to use the method mentioned by the Eyeball Cube to save her.
But there was still danger.
If she failed and her mental power was trapped inside, then her sister would have to face all this alone…
The two A-ranks by the sea without any control, the increasing number of survivors approaching Kun City, the uncontrolled wild vascular network, the berserk Black Stem Fungus, the hundreds of camp people outside waiting to be fed…
Any one of these situations could cause her sister a lot of trouble or even endanger her life. In other words, if she died, her sister would definitely not survive either.
Lin Jiayao clenched her fists, took a deep breath, and then slowly released it.
Let’s try calling Huayibai again, it would be best if she could make it through herself.
Lin Jiayao didn’t call out to the large mushroom lying horizontally in front of her, but directly switched her consciousness.
