Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 267

Chapter 267: The Final Countdown?

Let me see where these two hundred Blood Crystals have gone.

After clicking the confirm button, Lin Jiayao, leaning against the bed, opened her eyes, looked at the cracked LCD TV screen in front of her, and quietly waited for the Research Lab’s feedback on the evolution.

After waiting for a few seconds, there was still no response, as if it had ended after clicking “Yes”.

Just as the time reached ten seconds, Lin Jiayao finally felt her body begin to change.

Originally, Lin Jiayao could still hear the crackling of the bonfire in the courtyard, the whispers of her sister and Kisaragi Mika, and the faint buzzing of flying insects’ wings.

But just now, all these sounds disappeared from Lin Jiayao’s ears.

Even the cracked black screen of the LCD TV in front of her began to infinitely magnify, until Lin Jiayao could only see a deep, profound blackness.

In the next second, Lin Jiayao’s vision switched to one of the green fluorescent bugs, quietly watching the people in the ash area returning to the residential area in groups, and she could even hear their laughter and banter.

Unlike Goldie’s uncontrollable switching before, although this vision switching was still a bit sluggish, it gradually became smoother as the number of switches increased.

There was no bell, no hammering, no pain, no epiphany… Lin Jiayao’s mind was like a fish trapped in a black swamp, struggling to swim forward, and as she swam, the black swamp in front of her gradually turned into a brilliant, colorful water source, and the resistance blocking her swimming disappeared with each flick of her tail.

This was a real transformation and evolution that she could feel… much greater than the changes and touches brought by any previous “warm current”.

Lin Jiayao slowly raised her right hand and held it in front of her. This feeling of evolution still enveloped Lin Jiayao, and even the Huayibai bracelet on her hand seemed to sense something and vibrated slightly.

“Hiss…”

Lin Jiayao caught the faint sound of a snake flicking its tongue. She slowly turned her head to the left and looked at the little blue serpent resting on the insect chair.

At this moment, the blue serpent’s upper body was raised high, its whole body emitting a faint blue light, and the bone wings on its back were fully spread as if it had encountered an enemy, seemingly frightened.

She could hear sounds now.

Her B-rank sister and Kisaragi Mika outside didn’t change at all. It was the A-ranks, Huayibai and the Blue Serpent, who were particularly sensitive to the changes in Lin Jiayao’s mental state.

Lin Jiayao put down her right hand, raised her left hand, and reached towards the little blue serpent coiled on the insect chair on her left.

She wanted the Blue Serpent to come to her hand, touch her forehead, and communicate about why it was so afraid.

But she didn’t know what she had become in the Blue Serpent’s eyes.

The Blue Serpent’s eyes widened, its upper body erect as if its fur had stood on end. Even its main body, far away in the South China Sea, stopped laying eggs, the entire snake frozen.

What was going on?

In just the time it took for a nap, what had the human girl in front of it done?

In the Blue Serpent’s vision, the ordinary human girl, who originally just had an ordinary aura, at most storing some blood crystal liquid in her body and able to use some evolutionary abilities, had undergone an earth-shattering change in her aura in just a few seconds.

In terms of shock, if the Blue Serpent had to make an analogy—

It was like encountering an ordinary zombie on the road, the kind it wouldn’t even bother looking at before crushing, and then, after blinking a few times, finding that the zombie had hundreds of pairs of wings on its back.

Yes, it was that shocking.

In front of the little blue serpent, the girl who extended her left hand towards it, her calm and deep black eyes staring at it, made it have no doubt that as long as it made any rebellious move, the other party could directly drag its mind into the “swamp” with her evolutionary abilities.

It had seen the girl in front of it use many of the abilities of that golden-haired zombie that descended from the sky, including but not limited to bone spurs and mycelium.

It was certain that the abilities that the golden-haired zombie had, the girl in front of it could also use.

This terrifying mental pressure, as if it had encountered a higher life form, almost making it kneel, was something the Blue Serpent hadn’t felt for a long time since evolving to A-rank.

It was like the emperor of all blood crystals.

Under such circumstances, the Blue Serpent didn’t dare to make any extra moves. After tentatively probing forward, it retracted its bone wings, crawled onto the bed, coiled itself around the girl’s hand, and placed its head slightly above her thumb, so that she could easily pinch it.

Don’t move, don’t move.

But just as the Blue Serpent did all this, in the next blink, the girl in front of it no longer had the previous aura and looked like an ordinary blood crystal again, unremarkable.

The pressure it felt just now seemed to be just its illusion, making the Blue Serpent stunned again.

An illusion?

No… it couldn’t be an illusion, it couldn’t be just me who felt it…

Huayibai, the girl’s daughter, also had the same reaction just now.

It wasn’t an illusion, it was concealment.

This girl had been hiding her strength all along… hiding it so well that the Blue Serpent hadn’t noticed since they met, only treating her as a candidate for laying eggs together.

This way, it could indeed explain why she could summon that golden-haired zombie from the sky…

Lin Jiayao held the seemingly frozen little blue serpent in her hand, lifted it, and touched her forehead.

After the blue light lit up, Lin Jiayao asked:

“What did you see just now?”

Nothing, I didn’t see anything, I didn’t hear anything.
Even if you showed me a hundred pairs… fifty… ten pairs of wings, I wouldn’t say anything!

The little blue serpent directly curled up into a ball in Lin Jiayao’s hand, saying the most cowardly words in the toughest tone.

“Hmm?” Lin Jiayao shook the Blue Serpent coiled in her hand, and after finding that it really didn’t want to talk, she put her hand on the bed.

The moment it touched the bed, the Blue Serpent released Lin Jiayao’s hand, quickly darted to the insect chair, curled up into a small snake ball, poked its head out through the gaps in its body, and secretly observed Lin Jiayao.

She was even a little worried that it would tie itself into a knot.

“Buzz…”

Unable to get an answer from the little blue serpent, Lin Jiayao directly turned her gaze to her right wrist, to the small Huayibai bracelet that was constantly vibrating like a vibrating massager.

After gently tapping the bracelet, the originally round bracelet began to twist and slowly mimicked Huayibai’s appearance, only the size was about the same as Lin Jiayao’s palm.

Huayibai actively used her head, climbed down and rubbed against Lin Jiayao’s palm, then opened her arms and jumped directly onto Lin Jiayao’s stomach, crawling towards her face along her flat stomach and slightly undulating chest.

Seeing her struggling to climb, Lin Jiayao directly reached out, pinched the back of her clothes, and placed the little Huayibai directly on her shoulder, wanting to hear what she had to say.

“Mommy~ Mommy~” Huayibai jumped and shouted loudly into Lin Jiayao’s ear in a small, mouse-like voice, “Mommy is so amazing~”

“What did you feel?” Lin Jiayao asked.

Although she didn’t know why the Blue Serpent didn’t want to talk, Lin Jiayao knew that Huayibai would definitely tell her everything she felt.

“Huayibai doesn’t know either…” Huayibai, hugging Lin Jiayao’s neck, shook her little head and said, “I just felt that Mommy suddenly became so powerful, even more powerful than Huayibai, but while Huayibai was still happy for Mommy, it disappeared again.”

Felt that she suddenly became stronger?

Lin Jiayao suddenly understood the Blue Serpent’s reaction just now.

The Blue Serpent wasn’t as familiar with her as Huayibai. Seeing her suddenly become stronger, the Blue Serpent’s first thought must have been caution, to avoid angering her.

But Huayibai was different. In Huayibai’s eyes, she was everything. Her becoming stronger made Huayibai feel very happy. Their emotions were completely different.

Becoming stronger… was it?

Lin Jiayao didn’t expect that the evolution of her spirit would bring such a big change, but indeed, just in terms of mental power, she had already far surpassed the B-rank Goldie, who relied on mental power to survive.

For blood crystals that didn’t specialize in mental power, Lin Jiayao’s current mental power was genuinely A-rank.

Was purple Spirit already this strong…?

The end point of evolution wasn’t just purple, there was still gold above purple, recognized by the system.

Golden evolution was currently the strongest.

If it was golden Spirit… would it be enough to rival the unseen S-rank zombies?

If you were to ask Lin Jiayao now what she felt before and after the Spirit evolution, she couldn’t give a definite answer.

She could only say that the abilities and logins that she previously considered mentally taxing now seemed insignificant.

For example, even if she let her sister and Kisaragi Mika enter the Worm’s Eye training ground to train at the same time, the mental consumption wouldn’t be as fast as Lin Jiayao’s recovery speed.

Now Lin Jiayao finally fully understood how outrageous the percentage recovery of [Library Lv.2] was.

The further she went, the greater the changes brought by the buildings in the Hideout…

She only regretted that she didn’t have enough Blood Crystals to directly max out all the buildings in the Hideout at once.

But according to the increasing number of Blood Crystals required for upgrades, Lin Jiayao began to feel that she couldn’t max out all the buildings.

Because there weren’t enough Blood Crystals.

The number of Blood Crystals she could collect was limited. Before the Blood Crystal issue was resolved, Lin Jiayao had to carefully choose her next upgrade and couldn’t just blindly max everything out like before.

Speaking of which, after the Spirit evolution, were there any other unlocked upgrades in the Hideout?

Before checking, let’s ask Huayibai about her situation first.

“Huayibai, how long until you reach Goldie?” Lin Jiayao put her hand on her shoulder, fiddling with the little Huayibai with her fingers, and asked.

“About an hour until I reach Golden Mommy~”

Huayibai hugged Lin Jiayao’s fingers with her hands and feet like she had seen a new, big toy, her eyes narrowed happily.

“Okay, be careful on the way, and call me when you arrive.” Lin Jiayao nodded.

There was still an hour left, and Lin Jiayao could make some preparations in advance.

Ignoring Huayibai, who was treating her palm like a small mountain to climb, Lin Jiayao opened the Hideout again, looked inside, and searched for changes.

The exclamation marks had indeed increased… The improvement in her Spirit had unlocked upgrades for some buildings again.

Lin Jiayao began to check them one by one.

Crystal Detector… Control Center?

Lin Jiayao’s gaze was immediately attracted by the Control Center in the middle.

The Control Center could be upgraded?

This was the most important part of the Hideout, and Lin Jiayao had just upgraded it not long ago, and only used Descend once. How could it be upgraded so soon?

[Control Center Lv.5]
[Description: Death cooldown time reduced to ten minutes, evolution time for zombies below B-rank reduced to ten minutes; Descend cooldown time reduced to twelve hours; unlocks an additional “Simulator” slot, no cooldown, but with a huge mental burden.]
[Simulator: Collect evolutions and blood crystals in the new mode.]
[Materials required: 500 Blood Crystals]
[Construction time: 24 hours]

Holy shit, robbery!

Five hundred Blood Crystals? She could create an A-rank with that, why not just rob her?!

And what exactly was this new Simulator slot? The description wasn’t as clear as “Descend”. Just this simple sentence, and it wanted her to invest five hundred Blood Crystals?

Had the system finally gone crazy?

“System?” Lin Jiayao directly called out to the system in her mind. It had been a long time since she last called the system.

[Present.]

“What do you mean? This Simulator?”

[A new login slot, the system reserves the right of final interpretation.]

“A riddle?” Lin Jiayao’s voice turned cold, obviously displeased with the system’s cryptic answer.

[The system can assure you that the upgrade and construction of the Hideout will definitely not be a loss, fair and honest.]

Perhaps because of Lin Jiayao’s tone, the system replied faster this time.

Forget it…

Five hundred Blood Crystals, this was a huge number, not something Lin Jiayao could consider now.

Even if she stopped Goldie’s evolution and used up all her Blood Crystals, she still couldn’t get five hundred. She might have to execute another Eyeball Cube to get enough.

Let’s look at the others…

Lin Jiayao’s gaze shifted to the Crystal Detector. This time, the system had obviously learned its lesson, and when Lin Jiayao’s gaze moved over, detailed information immediately popped up.

[Crystal Detector Lv.2]
[Description: Detects the current blood crystal reserves on the planet, and automatically calculates the global blood crystal consumption rate and the final countdown to perfect evolution.]
[Materials required: Free]
[Construction time: None]

Global blood crystal consumption rate? Perfect evolution? Final countdown?

Free…?

Free was the most expensive.

But the system’s description did make Lin Jiayao very interested in this upgrade.