Chapter 270: I’m Awesome! A Genius!
Huayibai, at a loss due to Lin Jiayao’s sudden unresponsiveness, looked at the little snake in front of her.
Sister Blue Serpent was a senior, after all; maybe she had a solution?
“Sister Blue Serpent, Mommy’s clone, she…”
Without any reservation, Huayibai explained the details of Lin Jiayao’s evolution to the Blue Serpent.
After hearing this, the Blue Serpent tilted its head and was silent for a moment.
Evolution failed?
No, that was unlikely.
With A-rank flesh and blood and such a large amount of Blood Crystals… and most importantly, the powerful mental power of the black-haired human girl before her… the possibility of evolution failure was practically zero.
Could it be that even this much Blood Crystal wasn’t enough?
The Blue Serpent looked at Huayibai and spoke again.
Give, more, Blood Crystal, try?
Looking at Mommy, who still had her eyes closed and didn’t respond to her calls, Huayibai looked at Sister Blue Serpent again and nodded. “Okay!”
Then, Huayibai controlled her body in America, slowly approaching her evolving Mommy.
The smoke and dust hadn’t yet settled, and the road was covered with black, hole-ridden tentacles. Huayibai didn’t dare touch Mommy’s body.
If her touch somehow caused Mommy’s clone to go berserk, then, forget helping Mommy, she herself might be in danger.
To avoid touching the tentacles on the road, Huayibai thought for a moment, and the mycelium on her back began to wriggle.
The translucent, blood-red mycelium condensed into two pairs of large wings of different sizes behind her. With a light leap, Huayibai’s body was lifted into the air by the powerful gusts generated by the huge wings.
While flying, she slightly reduced her size to conserve Blood Crystals and make it easier to maneuver.
Soon, Huayibai, flapping her wings, arrived above the deep purple eyeball.
She raised her right hand and released a large amount of the Blood Crystal Liquid stored within her body.
This Blood Crystal Liquid had already turned into Blood Crystal fragments as it fell, and then they hit the eyeball one by one. Huayibai was ready to flap her wings and escape at any moment.
However, these Blood Crystal fragments were not absorbed by the eyeball.
Huayibai even lowered her altitude, letting the Blood Crystal Liquid drip directly onto the deep purple eyeball, but it still didn’t react.
Finally, Huayibai even risked using her mycelium to mimic a syringe, injecting the Blood Crystal Liquid directly into the eyeball, but soon, the liquid was expelled as if rejected.
Huayibai felt a sense of disappointment, but she couldn’t explain the feeling.
Controlling her body in Kun City, she looked at the Blue Serpent, her expression on the verge of tears. “No reaction… Sister Blue Serpent, the Blood Crystals and Blood Crystal Liquid, neither dripping nor injecting them worked…”
Huayibai recounted everything she had just done to the Blue Serpent, leaving out no detail.
After hearing Huayibai’s account, the Blue Serpent lowered its head and closed its eyes, as if in deep thought.
After a while, the Blue Serpent raised its head, a heavy look in its eyes, and murmured,
Even, wings, no use…?
It seemed puzzled that the wings couldn’t awaken Lin Jiayao’s clone.
It thought to itself, if it saw wings, it would definitely wake up and discuss egg-laying experiences with the other party.
The answer was obvious. Lin Jiayao’s clone, indifferent to the sight of wings, must not have seen them!
Her mind must be in some kind of dormant state, unable to respond to any external stimuli.
The Blue Serpent, believing it had found the answer, nodded slightly and looked at Huayibai again.
Make, bigger, wings, try.
Under the Blue Serpent’s brilliant guidance, Huayibai tried for almost ten minutes, but still couldn’t wake Mommy up.
Even the usually scatterbrained Huayibai began to realize something was wrong.
“Sister Blue Serpent, I’ve already made eighty-eight pairs of wings… are you sure this will work?”
One hundred!
The Blue Serpent’s tail perked up excitedly, firmly increasing the number of wings.
But now, Huayibai in America had become a bloated, fleshy ball, covered in wings, a terrifying and grotesque sight, devoid of any beauty.
“No more.” Little Huayibai shook her head, certain that Sister Blue Serpent was completely unreliable.
Oh.
The Blue Serpent’s tail drooped; it seemed disappointed.
It’s okay, I, help you, ask.
The Blue Serpent didn’t overthink it. Since its method didn’t work, it would ask someone who might have a better idea.
“Okay.” Huayibai nodded rapidly, waiting for the Blue Serpent’s answer.
Evolution was still a bit of a mystery to Huayibai—except for the latter half, her entire evolution process had been guided step by step by Mommy, so she didn’t have much practical experience.
The Blue Serpent, its consciousness controlling its body near the Eyeball Cube, slowly raised its head.
Eyeball.
“What is it?” A small, pink-haired girl phantom projected before the Blue Serpent’s head, a pair of small, black wings fluttering at her waist.
It’s like this…
The Blue Serpent explained Lin Jiayao’s clone’s evolution problem to the Eyeball Cube.
But unlike Huayibai, it didn’t reveal everything, omitting the fact that Lin Jiayao’s main body was also unconscious.
An A-rank, no matter how weak it seemed, was still an A-rank. Basic precautions were necessary; otherwise, it might trip you up without you even realizing it.
Even if the other party had wings.
Although the Blue Serpent couldn’t lie in this way of communicating, it could still conceal some facts.
The pink-haired girl phantom lowered her head, frowning, seemingly deep in thought.
After a while, the pink-haired girl looked up at the giant Blue Serpent head.
“I’m not sure about this situation either… could it be lacking some kind of impetus?” The pink-haired phantom girl frowned and murmured, “I don’t remember much about my own evolution. I just kept devouring everything around me until I swallowed something soft, and then I calmed down…”
Is that so? I don’t remember. The Blue Serpent recalled its own evolution. It seemed like it had just eaten too much, laid an egg, and then woke up as an A-rank.
“Since it’s a clone, you could try using the flesh and blood of other clones or the main body.” The pink-haired Eyeball Cube offered a seemingly reasonable suggestion.
Wait, let me confirm something.
The Blue Serpent, controlling its clone in Kun City, looked up at the tiny Huayibai staring at it.
Your mommy, is she, the same species, as you?
The little blue serpent’s tail lifted and curled into a question mark above its head.
“What are you talking about, Sister Blue Serpent?” Huayibai pouted, a little unhappy. “Of course! Otherwise, why would she be my mommy?”
“Mommy’s true form is very beautiful, much redder than Huayibai’s… but only Huayibai can see it.” Even at this tense moment, Huayibai didn’t forget to declare her ownership of Mommy.
Okay.
The Blue Serpent nodded.
As long as they were the same species.
And… this fungal blood crystal could actually re-evolve from a clone?
The golden-haired, human female clone it saw before also seemed to have similar fungal abilities.
No wonder… it all made sense now.
Perhaps the main body’s blood was needed to activate the clone’s continued evolution.
That high-level fungus, the one who had taken on the form of a human girl and called herself Lin Jiayao, definitely wouldn’t make such a low-level mistake.
Blood.
The Blue Serpent reminded her.
Did you, forget, blood?
“Blood?” Huayibai tilted her little head, confused. “Huayibai already used Blood Crystal Serum…”
Main body’s, blood.
The little blue serpent pointed its tail towards Lin Jiayao. It had seen Lin Jiayao send Huayibai off.
Now, both the little blue serpent and the tiny Huayibai were sitting on Lin Jiayao’s lap. Huayibai looked up at Mommy and remembered.
Before Mommy left, she seemed to have given her a syringe containing Mommy’s blood…
So it wasn’t for her, but for evolution?!
Huayibai’s eyes widened, looking at the Blue Serpent in front of her in disbelief, as if she had an epiphany, but also didn’t want to face it.
Drank it?
The Blue Serpent seemed to see through Huayibai’s emotions and asked.
“Yes…” Huayibai lowered her head, ashamed, tracing circles on Lin Jiayao’s thigh with her toe. “Drank half…”
Mainly, Huayibai didn’t know that this was something Mommy gave her for evolution. She thought Mommy, as before, had left this blood for her to drink…
Half…
Should, be, no problem.
Inject, try?
“Okay.” Huayibai nodded.
If Lin Jiayao could see this scene now, she would stop these two “geniuses” without hesitation.
That syringe of her blood was for Huayibai to use on the road, not for Goldie at all!
But now, Huayibai, unaware of the truth, was already controlling her body beside Goldie in America, flapping her wings and standing above the deep purple eyeball.
Standing on the eyeball felt no different from standing on glass, just slightly softer.
Huayibai reached into her stomach and took out the syringe with half of the blood left.
“Sorry, Mommy… Huayibai will never eat random things again…” Huayibai muttered apologies as she knelt on the eyeball, aiming the syringe at it.
Without hesitation, Huayibai injected the blood into the eyeball.
This time, the injected liquid wasn’t rejected by the giant eyeball, but was quickly absorbed.
Did it work?
Did she need to go back and draw more blood from Mommy?
“Rumble…”
The previously still eyeball began to tremble violently, even more so than before.
Huayibai was so scared that she flapped her wings and flew to the roof of a tall building in the distance, biting her lip and nervously watching the golden Mommy, which had become a giant eyeball.
“Come on, little Golden Mommy…” Huayibai clenched her fists, cheering for the small, soft Mommy clone.
She didn’t know that the blood she injected, following the Blue Serpent’s advice, seemed to have caused a “small” problem for Mommy.
…
Lin Jiayao’s consciousness was trapped in a dark mental space, unable to access the system interface.
Before her was the Eyeball Monster, like a black flower bearing fruit, emitting a faint, deep purple light in this pure black space.
The evolution was proceeding even more smoothly than Lin Jiayao had imagined.
Goldie’s body, after expanding, had formed a perfect “cocoon,” or “fruit,” just like in the previous dream simulation.
Although there was no visible change on the outside, a powerful body was slowly gestating within this “cocoon.”
Lin Jiayao could even see a brand new life forming inside the purple eyeball shell.
Sensing the power of this body, Lin Jiayao breathed a sigh of relief.
It seemed that she would soon have an A-rank combatant, and the process wasn’t as difficult as she had imagined.
This was partly thanks to the Eyeball Cube. After this evolution, if there were any Blood Crystals left, she would give some to the Eyeball Cube.
The amount didn’t matter, it was the thought that counted. After all, the Eyeball Cube had been forced to help her so many times.
In the void, Lin Jiayao watched as the deep purple shell gradually faded, and a pale golden, terrifying object within slowly revealed itself.
It was a sharp, prismatic crystal, with a pale golden eyeball with purple patterns slowly rotating in the center. The golden tentacles around the eyeball swayed gently, looking holy and beautiful.
Turning to the back, the back of the eyeball didn’t look so technological and holy.
Black holes covered the entire eyeball, the scarlet pupil as if dripping blood in the center, and countless black tentacles danced wildly around the eyeball. Just looking at this terrifying eyeball gave one an urge to go mad.
Lin Jiayao was certain that if this eyeball was brought to the time before the apocalypse, even if she said it was some kind of ancient Cthulhu deity revived, everyone would believe it without hesitation.
Lin Jiayao was quite satisfied with this form, powerful, crazy, yet also possessing a holy and elegant side.
Like a saint who moonlighted as a succubus.
But just as the eyeball turned again, something went wrong with the outermost deep purple shell.
A trace of crimson blood was suddenly injected into the top of the outermost purple eyeball.
Then, this blood wasn’t rejected, but directly drilled towards the eyeball in the center.
After the terrifying double-sided eyeball absorbed this blood, Lin Jiayao felt a tearing sensation in her mind and began to feel immense pain in her body.
And the eyeball in the center of the prismatic crystal also began to distort, twisting towards a human-like form along with the prismatic crystal.
uh oh