Chapter 266: Level 6 Spirit
“Huayibai understands~”
Huayibai replied, hopping over the pile of Blood Crystal Serum and trotting to Lin Jiayao’s side.
Because Lin Jiayao was sitting rather high in the insect chair, Huayibai’s head only reached her knees. Huayibai could only jump up and poke Lin Jiayao’s hand.
Lin Jiayao bent the insect chair’s legs, lowering herself, and reached out to rub Huayibai’s head.
“Mommy, if you miss Huayibai, just talk to her,” Huayibai took Lin Jiayao’s left hand and placed it on the bracelet on Lin Jiayao’s right wrist, saying with a smile, “Huayibai can hear you~”
This was the bracelet Huayibai had given Lin Jiayao before, made from A-rank mycelium, essentially a Huayibai clone.
“I know.” Lin Jiayao turned her hand over and gently squeezed Huayibai’s soft hand.
Unknowingly, she, who had been constantly figuring out how to protect and help Huayibai evolve, had now become the one being protected.
It could be considered a return on her investment.
Of course, Lin Jiayao wouldn’t become complacent just because Huayibai had become stronger. Only strength in her own hands could truly reassure her.
As long as Goldie could successfully evolve, she would have a controllable A-rank, a top-tier combatant that could be deployed anywhere in the world.
Then, Lin Jiayao could finally relax.
Lin Jiayao watched as Huayibai packed the things she had given her into a mycelium bag.
One hundred and thirty bags of Blood Crystal Serum filled a large travel bag, which was even taller than Huayibai.
Finally, Huayibai stuffed the syringe Lin Jiayao made into her stomach.
This habit of storing important things in her stomach hadn’t changed since Lin Jiayao first met Huayibai.
“Mommy, Huayibai is leaving now.” Huayibai easily hoisted the bag, which was taller than her, onto her back, held the umbrella Lin Jiayao gave her, turned her head, and looked at Lin Jiayao.
Looking at Huayibai, although she knew Huayibai’s clone was still on her wrist, she still felt a pang of worry and reluctance, like sending her daughter off on a long journey.
“Come here.” Lin Jiayao beckoned to Huayibai, and Huayibai obediently ran to Lin Jiayao and stood still.
Lin Jiayao cupped Huayibai’s face in her hands, gently kissed her forehead, and then patted her head.
“Be careful on the way.”
“Okay!” Huayibai nodded and ran out of the courtyard to the wider road.
Huayibai slightly bent her knees, and the translucent red mycelium on her back began to spread towards the bag. After connecting to the bag, the mycelium glowed crimson.
“Remember to go to the coast of Guangnan Province and get the Blood Crystals from the Blue Serpent before heading to America.” Lin Jiayao couldn’t help but add a reminder.
“I know, Mommy~” Huayibai waved at Lin Jiayao, blew her a kiss, and two pairs of large, blood-red wings unfurled behind her.
“Boom—”
With a powerful flap of her wings, she leaped into the air, her legs propelling her upwards, leaving a cracked crater in the asphalt road.
Huayibai’s body shot into the air like a cannonball, then exploded, transforming into the four-winged serpent dragon she had seen before, and soared into the distance.
At least her takeoff was now just like A4’s.
As expected of her daughter.
Lin Jiayao watched the giant red figure disappear into the distance, until it was no longer even a speck against the blood-red sunset, before turning away.
Lin Jiayao looked down at the jade-like mycelium bracelet on her right wrist and gave it a slight shake.
The bracelet vibrated slightly in response.
After gently stroking the bracelet with her left index finger, Lin Jiayao looked towards the edge of the street.
Just now, through the green bugs’ vision, she had seen her sister running towards her at top speed, followed by a flying Kisaragi Mika.
It seemed they had noticed Huayibai’s flight and hurried back.
“Thump—”
With a muffled sound, Lin Xiwan landed lightly in the courtyard—compared to A4’s landings, this was indeed light—and immediately saw Lin Jiayao sitting there.
“Yao? What’s going on? What was that just now?” Lin Xiwan asked, seeing that her sister was fine.
Kisaragi Mika also landed in the courtyard, curiously watching the two sisters interact.
She was curious about everything in Kun City. The way of life here was so different from what she had seen in Tokyo.
The concept of self-sufficiency simply didn’t exist in Tokyo.
“Nothing, just sent Huayibai to get some Blood Crystals, and also to help one of my zombies evolve.” Lin Jiayao had nothing to hide from her sister.
“Huayibai left again?” Lin Xiwan was taken aback. She thought Huayibai would stay longer.
After all, from Lin Xiwan’s perspective, Huayibai had just returned not long ago, and they hadn’t even had a proper meal together.
This was too rushed.
“Yes, it’s urgent, and it’s a long journey, so she had to leave early.” Lin Jiayao nodded.
Lin Xiwan nodded, looking at the strange insect chair her sister was sitting on, but her gaze was quickly drawn to a small blue snake head poking out from behind her sister.
“What’s this…?” Lin Xiwan blinked, wondering what new creature her sister had brought back.
Her sister always brought back strange things, which would eventually turn into cute girls.
Like the Black Stem Fungus, even Huayibai had first met her sister as a zombie.
This blue snake, couldn’t it also be something her sister brought back that would eventually turn into a cute girl?
“This is the Blue Serpent I told you about before, the A-rank one,” Lin Jiayao pinched the little blue serpent behind its head, pulled it out from behind her back, and, looking at Kisaragi Mika, explained, “The one that helped you come to China.”
“Oh—!” Kisaragi Mika instantly recognized the translucent serpent body and exclaimed in surprise, “I remember it being very, very big.”
“A-rank?” Lin Xiwan looked at the Blue Serpent, blinked, and felt a little numb.
She had just met the first A-rank in her life a few hours ago, which was Huayibai.
She hadn’t expected to see another A-rank after just a few hours – this was something she couldn’t have imagined before.
Were A-ranks so “worthless” now? Why were so many suddenly appearing?
“It’ll stay with us for a while, for easier communication,” Lin Jiayao explained, “Huayibai calls it Sister Blue Serpent, you can just call it Blue Serpent.”
Lin Xiwan: “Hello, Blue Serpent, I’m Lin Xiwan, Lin Jiayao’s older sister.”
Kisaragi Mika: “Sister Blue Serpent, nice to formally meet you, I’m Kisaragi Mika.”
Compared to Lin Xiwan, Kisaragi Mika was more respectful, even bowing deeply as she introduced herself.
After all, it was the Blue Serpent that dragged those Japanese people from the island nation all the way to the mainland, so it was also their savior.
Lin Jiayao didn’t waste any time and briefly talked with her sister, learning about her sister’s follow-up plans and arrangements for Kisaragi Mika.
Her sister planned to have Kisaragi Mika, as an Awakened of the Oasis Area, lead the first team to Quzhou City in the northeast for a simple patrol and exploration.
And Lin Xiwan herself would lead another team to explore the Chuzhou Autonomous Prefecture in the west, at least clearing out the dangers in the surrounding cities first.
A team led by a B-rank, sweeping small cities, should be as easy as a primary school field trip.
Although Lin Jiayao wasn’t worried, she still took off the bracelet Huayibai gave her and gently patted it.
The bracelet, originally two bundles of mycelium twisted into a spiral, separated into two individual rings after Lin Jiayao patted it.
Huayibai had planned this from the beginning, knowing that Lin Jiayao would give one to Lin Xiwan.
Lin Jiayao gave one of the bracelets to Lin Xiwan and told her not to take it off, and to call Huayibai if she encountered any danger.
Huayibai had given Lin Xiwan a mycelium wreath before, which had disintegrated because of the evolution. Now it was equivalent to giving her a new one.
As for Kisaragi Mika, Lin Jiayao made a mycelium bracelet clone of herself and gave it to her. To avoid seeming like she was showing favoritism, she specifically mimicked the appearance of a translucent mycelium ring, identical to her own.
Kisaragi Mika was naturally very excited to receive the bracelet. After carefully taking the bracelet with both hands, she rolled up the sleeve of her miko outfit and put it on.
After making all the safety arrangements, Lin Jiayao bid farewell to her sister and Kisaragi Mika and returned to her room, lying down on the bed.
Next, she might have to lie here for several, even more than ten, hours.
There were still a few hours left until Huayibai arrived in America and the Research Lab finished researching Spirit. She could still log into Mask and try to push it to the verge of evolution.
And collect some Blood Crystals by the way.
To ensure Huayibai’s mission went smoothly, Lin Jiayao exchanged almost all her Blood Crystals for Blood Crystal Serum and gave them to Huayibai.
Only thirty-five Blood Crystals were left in the Blood Crystal Box as a means of self-preservation, and the entire warehouse and Blood Crystal Box seemed a bit empty.
It was indeed a bit tight.
If she wasn’t lucky enough to hunt a B-rank zombie, Lin Jiayao might not be able to fill the Safehouse with Blood Crystals next time she logged in.
After all, she still had to keep at least thirty Blood Crystals for self-preservation, she couldn’t leave her main body without any Blood Crystals.
After confirming that everything was normal, Lin Jiayao opened the login interface and checked the blood crystal distribution map.
After comparing it with the location where Mask extracted, Lin Jiayao found that the blood crystal concentration in the north was slightly higher.
Anyway, the crisis by the sea had been resolved, and those seabed creatures that had already landed were scattered. Lin Jiayao, with the Extraction Point and extraction restrictions, couldn’t kill them all, so she could only try to deal with the areas with higher blood crystal concentrations.
It was a bit of a pity that Lin Jiayao, controlling Mask to run towards the Extraction Point in the north, arrived at Fucheng, where the blood crystal concentration was relatively higher than the surrounding areas, but didn’t find the possible B-rank zombie.
After searching for almost three or four hours, Lin Jiayao only got eight Blood Crystals, and that was with Bone Spike Lurker.
Without detection methods, she wouldn’t even be able to get eight Blood Crystals.
Without B-ranks and deep-sea zombies, this amount of Blood Crystals was indeed considered normal.
Helplessly, Lin Jiayao could only control Mask, carry these eight Blood Crystals, and return to the Extraction Point, waiting for extraction.
[Extracting: 7.7]
After waiting for the extraction time to finish, Lin Jiayao casually put all eight Blood Crystals from the Safehouse into the Blood Crystal Box, closed the settlement interface, the whole process taking less than a second.
[Please retain your evolution.]
[1. [Bone Spike Lurker Lv.Max (White): …]]
Mask’s golden evolutions had basically been all taken by Lin Jiayao, and only the max level white and blue evolutions were left, and the purple evolution didn’t appear this time.
There was nothing to hesitate about with these white evolutions. Lin Jiayao casually chose Bone Spike Lurker Max.
As a detection ability, this ability’s consumption should be the lowest, so it wasn’t a loss to choose it.
This evolution didn’t bring Lin Jiayao any feeling, not even a warm current, basically no feedback.
But these were all unimportant. The most important thing now was to prepare her mind for [Spirit Lv.6 (Purple)].
The timing should be about right.
After choosing the evolution, Lin Jiayao directly opened the system panel and entered the Hideout.
As soon as she clicked on the Hideout with the exclamation mark, two prompts popped up in front of Lin Jiayao.
[System Notification: [Zombie Loot Box Lv.2] construction complete.]
[System Notification: The [Research Lab] has new research results.]
Lin Jiayao closed these two system prompts.
She could temporarily ignore the Lv.2 Zombie Loot Box, because she didn’t have any extra Blood Crystals to invest in the loot box now.
If she really wanted to invest, she would wait until Goldie’s evolution was complete.
Goldie was the real Blood Crystal earning machine. Without Goldie, especially now that she couldn’t log into Goldie, Lin Jiayao’s speed of earning Blood Crystals had dropped significantly.
After all, Goldie was Lin Jiayao’s No. 1 money-making god. Her first pot of gold came from Goldie.
Lin Jiayao’s gaze moved from the Zombie Loot Box and landed on the Research Lab.
Click.
[Claim evolution [Spirit Lv.6 (Purple)]?]
Lin Jiayao didn’t hesitate and clicked Yes.
