Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 263

Chapter 263: S-rank?

After eliminating the possibilities of leg rings, neck rings, and toe rings, and finally, when tongue rings were mentioned, Huayibai, with a bump on her head, finally gave up on making suggestions and simply made a simple double mycelium bracelet for Lin Jiayao.

The mycelium bracelet Huayibai made now was translucent, with a glassy texture, and faint red mycelium threads were entwined inside.

As long as a little blood or blood crystal liquid was injected into the bracelet, it would activate the bracelet and “summon” a Huayibai.

In other words, it was the same as before, spending Blood Crystals to activate Huayibai’s clone.

“Woo…” The now smaller Huayibai squatted in front of Lin Jiayao, holding her head in her hands, looking very aggrieved.

“Let’s go.” Lin Jiayao controlled the wheelchair to turn around and pushed it forward.

The road surface in Kun City was often covered with vines and moss, so the wheels not only slipped easily, but it was also very bumpy to travel on such uneven roads.

It felt even less comfortable than Mask crawling… Lin Jiayao, who was used to controlling zombies to crawl, fly, and run, suddenly felt a little unaccustomed to the wheelchair.

Especially after living with normal legs for eighteen years in the dream world, now Lin Jiayao felt like she was in a different world, touching the wheelchair, and felt a little unaccustomed.

No, wait.

Thinking of Mask, an idea suddenly popped into Lin Jiayao’s mind.

Huayibai, seeing that Mommy was leaving by herself, immediately stood up, happily ran towards Lin Jiayao, as if she had instantly forgotten about being hit just now.

Before Huayibai arrived, Lin Jiayao controlled the mycelium on the flesh-and-blood wheelchair and connected it to her arm.

After injecting a little more blood crystal liquid into the mycelium clone, the originally thin, tire-shaped mycelium grew much thicker and quickly transformed.

As the wheels transformed, the wheelchair Lin Jiayao was sitting in turned into a chair, but before the chair fell to the ground, several bone spurs propped it up.

Soon, the normal flesh-and-blood wheelchair turned into a “chair insect” with bone spur legs on both sides.

After tentatively controlling the “chair insect” and walking forward for a while, whether it encountered slippery ground or potholes, the bone spur legs could steadily keep the chair on the same level.

Perfect bone spur suspension and mycelium shock absorption.

Most importantly, the moving speed was also significantly faster than the wheels.

Before Huayibai could reach the handles behind the “wheelchair”, Lin Jiayao controlled the “insect chair” and rushed towards the villa with a “click-clack, click-clack”.

Huayibai: “?”

The chair literally grew legs and ran away with Mommy.

“Mommy! Wait for me!”

Because of the large amount of Blood Crystals consumed by the “arms display” just now, Huayibai, who didn’t have much blood crystal left, could only run towards Lin Jiayao with her little legs. After chasing for a while, she was picked up by Lin Jiayao, who had stopped, and placed on the chair.

After returning to the villa area, Lin Jiayao was ready to completely abandon the traditional wheelchair.

Wasn’t the insect chair much more convenient than the wheelchair? After fastening the mycelium seatbelt, she could even climb walls.

And in terms of consumption, the structurally simple insect chair was far less energy-consuming than the complex mycelium bone spur exoskeleton and could be used for long-distance travel.

With the insect chair, she wouldn’t have to rely too much on her sister and Huayibai for her daily movements in the future.

It was a pity that her thinking wasn’t very open-minded at the beginning, and she only thought of this method after she started to dislike the wheelchair recently.

Lin Jiayao glanced at the research in the Research Lab and saw the time on it.

There were still fifteen hours left… about the same as the Descend cooldown time.

After controlling the insect chair and returning to the house, Lin Jiayao first checked on Kisaragi Mika and her sister.

Kisaragi Mika was about to graduate from kindergarten in the dream world now, and her current life was normal, and she had even learned to speak childish Chinese.

And her sister had already experienced a whole round of battles with B-rank zombies in the dream world. The simulated B-rank zombie was the Black Stem Fungus that Lin Xiwan found very troublesome before.

After glancing at the battle results, Lin Jiayao slowly shook her head.

Fighting against this B-rank blood crystal that she had already defeated, the training effect would be much weaker.

Fighting against opponents she had never encountered before in the simulation, finding the correct way to kill them after repeated deaths, this process of death was the fastest way to gain combat experience.

This was the conclusion Lin Jiayao drew from her own experience.

Of course, her sister had never used the “training ground” before and didn’t know these things, which was normal. Lin Jiayao needed to guide her slowly.

It was time to give her sister a little Mask shock.

In the dream world, Lin Xiwan, who was lying beside the Black Stem Fungus’ corpse, panting and covered in wounds, suddenly heard the sound of a giant creature crawling from afar.

“Hmm?” Lin Xiwan struggled to sit up and looked towards the source of the sound with confusion.

She hadn’t simulated any zombies, had she? She was still immersed in post-battle rest.

“Boom—”

A huge Bone Spur Centipede burst out of a building, opened its huge mouth formed by four pairs of crisscrossing giant pincers, waved the scarlet whip tendrils on its forehead, and let out a silent roar at Lin Xiwan.

“Click, clack—”

The giant jaws on its mouth clicked against each other, making a creepy insect chirping sound. Its thick hind legs abruptly jumped, pouncing towards Lin Xiwan.

“Crack—”

Lin Xiwan, who was exhausted in the dream world, had her neck bitten off in one bite, and a brand new, fully recovered Lin Xiwan appeared not far away, her expression clearly a little frightened.

In the training ground, the best way to recover was to change to a new body.

After summoning a Mask that her sister had never seen before, Lin Jiayao exited her sister’s dream space with satisfaction.

One Mask should be enough for her sister to play with for a while. By the time Kisaragi Mika finished high school, her sister should also be able to reach Mask’s second stage – which was to force out Mask’s main body.

By then, it would be just right to stop her sister’s training, let her rest, and by the way, speed up her own mental recovery.

By nighttime, Lin Jiayao’s mental power should have recovered enough to log into a B-rank without any side effects. Lin Jiayao could log into Mask while sleeping at night, help clear out those seabed zombies that had already landed, and collect Blood Crystals by the way.

Or she could log into A4 and re-establish contact with the Blue Serpent and the Eyeball Cube.

If she maxed out the login time of the two B-ranks, it would be almost time for the Research Lab to finish its research.

While waiting for her sister’s simulation to end, Lin Jiayao wasn’t completely idle.

Because she was in a hurry to solve Huayibai’s crisis before, she hadn’t paid attention to the buildings in the Hideout. In fact, many of the creations inside could be upgraded.

“Huayibai, do you want to rest?” Lin Jiayao looked at Huayibai, who was lying in her arms, and asked softly.

“Can Huayibai rest here…?” Huayibai huddled in Lin Jiayao’s arms, looked up, and asked softly.

“Okay.” Lin Jiayao nodded, then controlled the insect chair to crawl out of the room and came to the courtyard.

Bathed in sunlight, Lin Jiayao slowly closed her eyes, and a system interface appeared in front of her.

After skillfully opening the Hideout, Lin Jiayao began to browse the existing buildings inside.

“Rest Area, Library, Nutrition Department…”

Lin Jiayao’s gaze switched between the descriptions of the upgradeable buildings. The Library and Rest Area definitely had to be built first.

These two, one could increase mental recovery speed, and the other could increase Lin Jiayao’s physical recovery speed. These were both solid passive percentage increases, which could make Lin Jiayao’s endurance in various aspects even better.

Compared to active evolutionary abilities, unless they were too strong, passive abilities were definitely better.

Just like [Hunting Rhythm], which had helped Lin Jiayao and A4 a lot, it was a passive evolution.

[Rest Area Lv.2 (Unbuilt)]
[Description: Increases your stamina recovery speed by 20%.]
[Materials required: 20 Blood Crystals]

[Library Lv.2 (Unbuilt)]
[Description: Increases your mental recovery speed by 20%.]
[Materials required: 20 Blood Crystals]

The evolution of the two buildings required a total of forty Blood Crystals, both increasing the recovery speed from 10% to 20%.

Although it was a bit painful, it was still a worthwhile trade.

And this upgrade, unlike when building them, didn’t require things like graphics cards or books, she only needed to submit Blood Crystals, which was quite convenient.

Lin Jiayao glanced at her Blood Crystal Box and warehouse. There were still two hundred and twenty Blood Crystals inside.

Besides evolving these two system creations, she still had one hundred and eighty left.

Lin Jiayao directly chose to build.

The construction time for both [Library Lv.2] and [Rest Area Lv.2] was three hours, which was about the time when the Worm’s Eye control on Kisaragi Mika and her sister would be lifted.

Lin Jiayao didn’t have much desire to build other creations, mainly because they wouldn’t be very helpful to Lin Jiayao at the moment, but there was one exception.

That was the Zombie Loot Box that had been neglected by Lin Jiayao for a long time.

Because of its lack of controllability, the high risk of gambling, and the possibility of getting some strange evolutions, the Zombie Loot Box had been neglected by Lin Jiayao since she could freely log into B-ranks.

After all, Lin Jiayao didn’t want to see a bunch of garbage evolutions appearing in the Zombie Loot Box, and then have to choose one to disgust herself.

But the Lv.2 Zombie Loot Box was different.

[Zombie Loot Box Lv.2 (Unbuilt)]
[Description: Adds a guaranteed reward function, a fast playback function, and a buyout function.]
[[Buyout: Spend 3 times the amount of Blood Crystals consumed for the current zombie to obtain its control and add it to the login slots. The value of A-rank and S-rank is calculated based on the guaranteed total amount.]]
[[Guaranteed Probability: Investing 100g of Blood Crystals increases the probability of C-rank and above zombies by 10%, and guarantees a D-rank or above zombie;
Investing 500g of Blood Crystals increases the probability of a B-rank zombie by 10%, and guarantees a C-rank or above zombie;
Investing 5000g of Blood Crystals guarantees a B-rank zombie;
After investing 5000g or more of Blood Crystals ten times, there is a guaranteed A-rank zombie once;
After investing 5000g or more of Blood Crystals one hundred times, there is a guaranteed S-rank zombie evolution once.]]
[Materials required: 50 Blood Crystals]

In short: 10 Blood Crystals guarantee a B-rank zombie extraction, 100 Blood Crystals guarantee an A-rank zombie extraction.

It was equivalent to buying a chance to draw a B-rank evolution with ten Blood Crystals, and spending a hundred Blood Crystals could get a chance to draw an A-rank evolution.

Of course, even with a B-rank zombie extraction, it was still possible to draw white and blue evolutions – Lin Jiayao had drawn them before.

The explosion rate was very high.

Although a guaranteed mechanism had been added, the Zombie Loot Box was still a gambling creation.

But to be honest, Lin Jiayao was still a little tempted by the guaranteed A-rank and S-rank.

Because there was a buyout mechanism.

Ten Blood Crystals guaranteed a B-rank, and by spending another thirty Blood Crystals, she could directly “buyout” the B-rank zombie into the login slots for permanent login.

It was equivalent to buying a B-rank zombie for forty Blood Crystals.

What kind of concept was this?

Lin Jiayao quickly calculated.

If she didn’t buy out any, after spending ten Blood Crystals ten times to extract ten B-ranks, she would get a guaranteed A-rank.

The total amount for the guaranteed A-rank was calculated as one hundred Blood Crystals, so she only needed to take out another three hundred Blood Crystals to buy out an A-rank zombie…

Four hundred Blood Crystals for an A-rank, wasn’t this much more convenient than evolving herself?

One thousand Blood Crystals could steadily buy an S-rank evolution – although Lin Jiayao didn’t know how many A-ranks she had to kill to get this number, at least there was hope.

Incredibly practical.

And Lin Jiayao glanced at the construction price of Zombie Loot Box Lv.2, which only required fifty Blood Crystals…

She had to say… she was very tempted.

Ten Blood Crystals for a chance to draw a B-rank evolution wasn’t a loss, not to mention that after reaching the guaranteed amount, she could buy out an A-rank, and even an S-rank.

She felt more and more that the system was more terrifying than she had imagined.

Lin Jiayao took a deep breath and directly chose to build.

Blood Crystals -50.

After deducting these fifty Blood Crystals, Lin Jiayao only had one hundred and thirty Blood Crystals left, but this time, Lin Jiayao didn’t feel any heartache at all.

Because this was the first time she had touched the concept of S-rank – this was also the closest she had ever been to S-rank.

Having hope was better than anything. Even if she couldn’t buy it out and could only retain the S-rank evolution… with an S-rank evolution, she would be an S-rank.

It seemed that as long as she had money in the future, she would definitely keep investing in the Zombie Loot Box.

When she reached the ninth time, she would directly save enough Blood Crystals for the buyout and buy the guaranteed A-rank.

Lin Jiayao even vaguely felt that the day when she controlled all the A-ranks in the world was just around the corner.

Soon, Lin Jiayao snapped out of this unrealistic fantasy and looked at the construction time of the Zombie Loot Box Lv.2.

There were still twelve hours left. After it was upgraded, the Research Lab would also have almost finished researching Spirit.

Now Lin Jiayao was just waiting for the Research Lab to finish its construction and then try to evolve Goldie to A-rank.

As a mother, she couldn’t always be suppressed by her daughter.