Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 259

Chapter 259: Clever Huayibai

“Hmm? Is it going to rain?”

Lin Xiwan, holding her sister, turned towards the open curtains.

Just now, the French windows, which had been bathed in sunlight, were suddenly covered by a large shadow.

This kind of weather wasn’t uncommon. The weather in Kun City was very unpredictable, and sudden changes like this, with rain coming out of nowhere, happened frequently.

But this time, it seemed a little different.

As the sky outside darkened, a small, short-haired girl in an elementary school uniform stumbled into the room and hid under the bed.

As if she had seen something terrifying and desperately needed to hide in the darkness under the bed.

The Black Stem Fungus hadn’t acted like this before…

Something must be happening.

Lin Xiwan looked outside, frowning slightly, and held her sister a little tighter.

Before Lin Xiwan could decide to go out and investigate, the weather outside suddenly changed again.

Sunlight streamed in again, as if whatever had blocked the sun had moved away.

This was the first time Lin Xiwan had encountered such a situation.

“Thump—”

A heavy thud came from the direction of the villa’s main entrance, which made Lin Xiwan alert.

Because this wasn’t the first time something had fallen. About five minutes ago, something had also fallen from the sky.

But because she was with her sister, Lin Xiwan didn’t go out to check.

But this time, the sound of the fall was at the door, and there were even footsteps coming from the door.

“Tap, tap, tap…”

The footsteps crossed the courtyard, the entrance hall, and the corridor, and after passing through the living room, they walked towards the room.

A human?

An enemy? Or one of their own?

A zombie controlled by Yaoyao?

Instantly, many possibilities flashed through Lin Xiwan’s mind, but to be safe, she first put down her sister in her arms.

She quickly placed her sister on the bed and wrapped her in the quilt.

Then, she pushed herself up, slid off the bed, and looked towards the door.

The footsteps were coming towards this room.

As the footsteps approached, Lin Xiwan clenched her fists.

The veins in her arms bulged, and a large amount of blood crystal liquid gathered in her blood vessels, ready to transform into black blood and burst out.

“Knock, knock, knock—”

A light, polite knock came from the door, followed by the sound of the doorknob turning.

“Creak—”

The wooden door was pushed open, and the metal parts where the wooden door connected to the door frame made a harsh sound, which instantly brought Lin Xiwan’s focus to the highest level.

The door was slowly pushed open, and Lin Xiwan saw the somewhat dreamy figure appearing at the door.

It was a beautiful girl wearing a silver-gray pleated skirt. Her white top couldn’t conceal her perfect figure.

Her smooth, pure white hair gently swayed with her movements, and the long hair on both sides was pulled back and tied together behind her head.

She was a beautiful girl who looked very dignified and quiet, and her red pupils seemed to be always filled with a faint smile.

“Long time no see, Sister Xi.” The girl at the door put her hands in front of her, closed her eyes and bowed slightly, then looked up again, looking at Lin Xiwan with a smile.

“Uh…” Lin Xiwan blinked, and the strength she had accumulated in her arms dissipated most of it. She thought for a long time, but couldn’t remember where she had seen such a beautiful white-haired girl before the apocalypse or after it.

She just felt familiar, especially the color of her clothes, eyes, and hair, which were almost identical to Huayibai’s.

But she couldn’t be Huayibai, because although Huayibai was also very polite, she wasn’t so…

She didn’t seem so intelligent.

“Who are you?” Lin Xiwan chose to give up recalling and asked directly.

“Um… Sister Xi, wait a minute.” The girl at the door covered her mouth and chuckled, put her hand on the doorknob again, and closed the door again.

After a few seconds, the door was pushed open again, the wooden door hitting the wall with a “bang”, and a small white figure rushed in.

“Sister Xi!” The childish voice shouted, pouncing towards the bed.

Lin Xiwan subconsciously raised her hand and grabbed the back of the figure’s collar, lifting it up.

“Huayi… Huayibai?”

Lin Xiwan looked at the small, cute figure she was easily lifting, who was looking at her with a silly smile, and her voice stuttered a little.

Familiar clothes, familiar hair, familiar innocent smile… this must be Huayibai.

She didn’t know what her sister experienced in her “dream”, but Lin Xiwan had seen Huayibai shatter and disappear with her own eyes.

She even thought for a moment that her sister had failed, especially when her sister’s breathing suddenly became rapid when she leaned against her, which almost made Lin Xiwan collapse.

It wasn’t until her sister’s breathing gradually calmed down and she seemed to have fallen asleep that Lin Xiwan was slightly relieved.

Nothing was more frightening than what had just happened.

It wasn’t until Huayibai’s sudden appearance that the somewhat confused Lin Xiwan calmed down.

“What’s going on, Huayibai… why did you become so big just now? No… why did your body shatter before? What happened over there? How is Ayao now…”

After putting Huayibai, whom she was holding, on the bed, Lin Xiwan couldn’t control her emotions and asked all the worries in her heart in one breath.

Although Huayibai had appeared, her sister was still in a coma.

“Don’t worry, let’s talk about things one by one…” Huayibai raised her hand and patted Lin Xiwan’s shoulder, but her eyes were fixed on Lin Jiayao on the bed and hadn’t moved since she was put on the bed.

In the remaining time, Huayibai told Lin Xiwan everything she still remembered.

Including the fact that she had spent eighteen years with Lin Jiayao in the dream world, she told Lin Xiwan everything.

After learning that her sister was fine and was only in a temporary coma due to mental exhaustion, the stone in Lin Xiwan’s heart finally fell.

“You’ve worked hard…” Lin Xiwan, sitting by the bed, reached out and gently rubbed Lin Jiayao’s head, then looked at Huayibai and asked, “Huayibai, are you… already A-rank now?”

“A-rank?” Huayibai, sitting on the bed, put her hands on the bed and replied, “Sort of.”

“Sort of?” Hearing this description, Lin Xiwan was also a little confused.

This was also Lin Xiwan’s first time seeing the legendary A-rank, but just from her feelings… it didn’t seem that special?

The blood crystal content wasn’t very large, and her body didn’t have any mutations. Except for seeming a little smarter, she was almost identical to Huayibai before.

Could it be because Huayibai didn’t show any aggressiveness?

Soon, Lin Xiwan’s question was answered.

“During the evolution, I failed a few times and consumed a lot of energy,” Huayibai explained, “Plus rushing back to see Sister Xi and Sister Yao, I also consumed a lot of energy.”

“Now the blood crystal content left in my body might not even be comparable to a B-rank.”

After hearing Huayibai’s explanation, Lin Xiwan suddenly realized.

Simply put, Huayibai’s current state was like having completely consumed all the stored and newly obtained blood crystal liquid after evolution, lacking replenishment.

After Huayibai fully replenished, she might be able to recover all her A-rank strength.

It was equivalent to having an empty mana bar.

“Oh…” Lin Xiwan nodded, then asked with some confusion, “Why don’t you call Yao ‘Mommy’ anymore? In those eighteen years inside, were you sisters?”

Lin Xiwan’s tone and expression were very calm when she asked this question, but Huayibai still heard the different emotions in it.

Huayibai smiled and said:

“No, Sister Xi always wanted me to change my address before, so I changed it.”

“Inside, Mommy is still Mommy.”

“Raising Huayibai from this small,” Huayibai said, raising her right hand high, “to this tall!”

Raising Huayibai from a baby to this big…? So her sister had been raising a child inside for eighteen years???

Lin Xiwan suddenly realized something, her breath hitched, and she blurted out: “Who’s the father?”

“What father?” Huayibai blinked and said as if it was a matter of course, “Huayibai was planted from the ground by Mommy.”

After being stunned for a second, Lin Xiwan understood what Huayibai meant and slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

Even in a dream, Lin Xiwan didn’t want to see such a “terrifying” scene.

“So Yaoyao raised you from a baby to eighteen years old in her dream? Was that your eighteen-year-old appearance just now?” Lin Xiwan asked curiously.

“Yes.” Huayibai nodded.

“You’ve grown up a lot…” Lin Xiwan recalled Huayibai’s quiet and well-behaved appearance just now and sighed, “I really couldn’t recognize you at all… By the way!”

Suddenly, Lin Xiwan seemed to have thought of something, and her eyes lit up.

“What did Yao look like in her dream, eighteen years later?” Lin Xiwan blinked and looked at Huayibai expectantly.

Imagining her sister’s indifferent personality and calm face, Lin Xiwan seemed to imagine a handsome “sister” with light makeup, sunglasses, and a black windbreaker.

Just thinking about it, she felt that it must be the “lesbian heartthrob” described by those fujoshi before the apocalypse. (TN: Fujoshi are female fans of BL, or “Boys’ Love”)

“Mommy?” Huayibai shook her head and said, “Mommy’s appearance hasn’t changed at all.”

“Oh…” Lin Xiwan’s tone was a little disappointed. If her sister had really grown up inside, Huayibai could definitely simulate her sister’s appearance for Lin Xiwan to see.

But if not, it didn’t matter. If her sister’s grown-up appearance really appeared, Lin Xiwan was afraid that she wouldn’t want to take her eyes off her all day long – although it was almost like this now.

“By the way.”

Suddenly, Huayibai, sitting on the bed, clapped her hands and looked at Lin Xiwan, saying:

“Just now, when I came back, I seemed to see a horde on the way.”

“A horde?” Lin Xiwan blinked.

“It’s already at the gate of Kun City.”

“Ah?!”

“And that Awakened from Japan, the one Mommy asked to come over, has also arrived at the gate of Kun City…”

“Ah this… ah this…” Lin Xiwan immediately sat up straight, obviously wanting to leave, to deal with the horde, and by the way, bring back the Awakened that her sister wanted to bring over.

But her sister hadn’t woken up yet, and Lin Xiwan obviously couldn’t leave while her sister was still unconscious. She was suddenly caught in this dilemma.

If there was no other way, she could only carry her sister on her back…

Just as Lin Xiwan was preparing to find something to carry her sister on her back like before, Huayibai spoke again.

“Sister Xi, you go and help first,” Huayibai said with an innocent smile, patting her small chest, “Huayibai will take care of Mommy!”

“Huayibai…” Lin Xiwan was originally a little worried, but then she thought, Huayibai had already reached A-rank now. If even Huayibai couldn’t solve the crisis, then adding her wouldn’t make much difference.

And, through the conversation just now and the confirmation of some previous details, Lin Xiwan had basically determined that the Huayibai in front of her was the real Huayibai, not some other blood crystal pretending to be her.

With Huayibai watching over her sister, Lin Xiwan felt more at ease.

“Okay, Huayibai, you wait for me here, I’ll be back as soon as possible.” Lin Xiwan reached out, rubbed Huayibai’s head, and then rushed out of the room, running towards the ash area.

Watching Lin Xiwan’s figure disappear and her footsteps getting further and further away, Huayibai, sitting on the bed, slowly moved her gaze from the window to Lin Jiayao on the bed.

Mommy…

Huayibai slowly opened the quilt covering Lin Jiayao and stared blankly at Lin Jiayao, who was sleeping soundly on the bed.

Although only three hours had passed in reality, Huayibai had spent a full eighteen years in the overlapping dream.

During these eighteen years, Huayibai had no memories of the outside world at all. All her memories were newly created by Lin Jiayao and Huayibai in the dream.

In other words, the Huayibai in the dream had truly lived as Lin Jiayao’s daughter for eighteen years.

When Huayibai finally obtained some memory fragments, she finally regained consciousness, sent Mommy out, and protected Mommy’s mental safety.

Huayibai didn’t want to recall the suffering during the evolution process, it was a true mental and physical hell.

But when the evolution was successful, and she returned to reality, when the dream memories and real memories completely merged, Huayibai’s heart was filled with an endless longing.

It was as if she hadn’t seen Lin Jiayao for more than ten years… In fact, from a mental perspective, she really hadn’t been in contact with Lin Jiayao for eighteen years.

Huayibai slowly moved her body, and her entire body, originally small, stretched and became the size of a young girl as before.

Now it seemed that Lin Jiayao had become the smaller one.

“Mommy…” Huayibai buried her face in Lin Jiayao’s chest, inhaling the familiar scent and gently rubbing against her, her heart filled with a sense of security.

She had finally hugged Mommy again.

Huayibai was like a kitten who hadn’t seen its owner for a long time. Her face rubbed from Lin Jiayao’s chest to her neck, then to her cheek. Finally, her body shrank again, and she lay in Lin Jiayao’s arms, curled up, and closed her eyes peacefully.