Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 273

Chapter 273: Goldie’s Extraction

“Go find me a set of clothes and then stay about ten kilometers away from me.”

Lin Jiayao released Huayibai from her embrace and said, looking at her.

Lin Jiayao wasn’t angry at Huayibai’s suggestion, but she wanted to test Goldie’s abilities.

The clothes Huayibai mimicked were still part of Huayibai’s body. If she stayed close to Goldie, she might be affected when Goldie used its abilities.

To be safe, it was better to wear ordinary clothes.

Asking Huayibai to stay away was also for her own protection.

But perhaps because Goldie’s expression was as difficult to read as Lin Jiayao’s own, Huayibai froze as if struck by lightning after hearing Lin Jiayao’s words.

“Mommy…” Huayibai looked at the little golden mommy, who wasn’t much taller than her, and suddenly felt a sense of unfamiliarity.

Was it because her breasts had become slightly larger?

Mommy with breasts bigger than fists are all fake mommies…

Just as Huayibai was about to retreat with a wronged expression, she saw the little golden mommy raise her hand towards her.

“Wah…” Huayibai was about to say something when her nose was pinched by a small, white hand.

“I’m going to test my abilities later. See if you can find a zombie somewhere else and bring it here,” Lin Jiayao pinched Huayibai’s nose and said calmly, “Don’t overthink it.”

Huayibai’s change in expression was obvious, and Lin Jiayao, eager to test her abilities, immediately realized that her words might have been misinterpreted.

Lin Jiayao wasn’t the type to leave small cracks unrepaired and wait for them to become major problems. After releasing Huayibai’s nose, she placed her hand on Huayibai’s head, gently stroking it, and continued:

“Just leave the things and the zombie within a ten-kilometer radius. I can see you. Go, good girl.”

“Okay!” Feeling the cool, soft hand on her head, Huayibai’s mood instantly brightened, and she nodded vigorously.

Huayibai wasn’t the silly mushroom she used to be and realized she had misunderstood Mommy.

Wanting to quickly complete Mommy’s task, Huayibai didn’t waste any more time. Two pairs of blood wings unfurled from her back, and with a powerful leap, she soared into the sky, leaving a red streak across the sky as she glided towards the distance.

After Huayibai disappeared from sight, Lin Jiayao looked down at her hands.

Asking Huayibai to find a zombie was just a way to distract her and give her something to do.

There were basically no zombies left in Chicago. To find one, she would have to go to the surrounding towns or the motels along the highway. At Huayibai’s speed, without consuming too many Blood Crystals, a round trip would take about half an hour.

This time was enough for Lin Jiayao to figure out all of Goldie’s abilities.

But this experimentation had to be done without excessive consumption.

Since learning that the total number of blood crystals in the world was like a countdown timer, decreasing with every use, Lin Jiayao didn’t dare to let Goldie consume too many Blood Crystals.

She could only use some less energy-consuming evolutionary abilities, saving as much as possible.

Although she didn’t know the specific consumption of each evolutionary ability, Lin Jiayao could vaguely guess that there were at least two evolutionary abilities she couldn’t touch.

If she used them, it would mean she had encountered an equally powerful opponent and had to go all out.

Lin Jiayao slowly raised her hand, and the golden flying insects she summoned earlier took to the air.

Upon reaching a height of nearly a thousand meters, the golden flying insects suddenly exploded, turning into golden light spots that fell.

But during their descent, these light spots transformed into fluorescent green flying insects, rearranging themselves in the air to form a semicircular field of vision covering ten kilometers.

Don’t ask Lin Jiayao why she was using a B-rank evolutionary ability, it was to save Blood Crystals.

When Huayibai returned, sharing the green fluorescent bugs’ vision, she should be able to spot her immediately.

Lin Jiayao took a deep breath and looked up at the sky.

Actually, what she was most curious about was what the other form was like.

She would just try it, for a few seconds.

With Goldie’s evolution, Lin Jiayao’s concept of “Blood Crystals” had gradually changed.

Mainly because of Goldie’s abilities and appearance.

It didn’t seem to fit the term “blood crystal” at all.

When ordinary people saw Blood Crystals, or blood crystals, they would think of words like “crazy”, “slaughter”, “mutation”, “terror”, which made people feel uncomfortable and creepy.

But Goldie herself was almost the complete opposite of these words.

Of course, Lin Jiayao also knew that these negative words were most likely all piled onto Goldie’s other form.

Through observing so many evolutions, Lin Jiayao could roughly divide evolutions into two “factions” from a mental perspective.

Namely, “rationality” and “instinct”.

Like Huayibai, the Blue Serpent, and the Eyeball Cube, these A-ranks that could think independently could be classified as rational.

And the main body of the Living Weapon that chased the Blue Serpent at the beginning completely relied on “instinct” to kill.

Undoubtedly, blood crystals that evolved based on instinct could completely crush almost all rational blood crystals of the same level in battle.

A4 was a good example. Without Lin Jiayao’s login, A4 was a completely inhuman, terrifying, instinctive blood crystal that combined countless evolutions.

Regardless of the specific evolutionary abilities, at least in these two factions, the blood crystals on both sides were clearly distinct.

And through evolution, the “factions” of both sides could even change.

Like the Blue Serpent and the Eyeball Cube, which initially had no rationality and completely relied on instinct to hunt, they only gained rationality after evolving.

The so-called evolution failure that human Awakened often talked about was not actually a failure, but a process of evolution that transformed creatures from the rational faction to the instinctive faction.

Thinking along this line of logic, the specific meaning of the existence of blood crystals seemed worth pondering.

Was it selecting? Selecting a body that could both maintain rationality, possess strong mental capacity, and also have strong combat power and evolutionary potential…

Blood crystals wanted to select a perfect body.

Lin Jiayao even felt that Goldie, after fusing with her blood, was already very close to this step.

Without a better explanation, Lin Jiayao could only temporarily assume that this hypothesis was correct.

If this hypothesis was true, then the existence of the system was quite intriguing.

It neither participated in the blood crystal transformation nor interfered with any of Lin Jiayao’s choices, but only dutifully acted as an assistant, and all its functions were to assist Lin Jiayao.

If she wanted to uncover these secrets, she might really have to, as the system said, save up five hundred Blood Crystals to build the new Control Center.

Perhaps then, all the mysteries would be solved.

Lin Jiayao slowly clenched her fists.

Her brilliant golden hair gradually turned black from the roots.

This blackness, like thick ink poured into clear water, quickly dyed her hair completely black, and even her skin and eyes couldn’t escape this black dyeing.

Several equally pitch-black tentacles emerged from her back, waving wantonly, unable to reflect any light.

She was like a 2D silhouette suddenly appearing in a colorful 3D animation, completely out of place with everything around her, and her body was flickering and twisting unstably.

If the Goldie just now was the most dazzling highlight in this entire area,

Then the current Goldie was definitely a small piece torn from this canvas, revealing the deep darkness behind the canvas.

Lin Jiayao felt a strong desire to kill and devour constantly impacting her mind, forcing her to quickly find a target and attack.

She also saw her reflection in the distant broken glass through the green bugs’ vision – no black, no tentacles, still the same golden-haired little girl.

Enduring all the mental discomfort, Lin Jiayao slowly lowered her head and looked at her hands again.

Her hands were still white and delicate, and could change into different gestures according to her thoughts.

But through the green bugs’ vision, her hands were a mass of constantly twisting black lines, terrifying and horrifying.

Lin Jiayao quickly shut down Goldie’s other form and slowly exhaled.

This form… didn’t change any part of Goldie’s body, and it wasn’t the transformation that Lin Jiayao imagined.

In the reflection of the surrounding glass, Goldie still looked normal, and she looked normal to herself as well.

But in the eyes of other blood crystals, and even in the eyes of the green fluorescent bugs she created, her appearance had undergone a terrifying change, like an indelible shadow.

This might be a form similar to a mental release. Goldie “released” part of her mental power, causing serious mental interference and pollution to other creatures.

Mental pollution and tentacles… Goldie was running towards Cthulhu without looking back.

Just from the short release of mental power just now, Lin Jiayao felt that she had already burned about 100g of Blood Crystals in Goldie’s body. The consumption was so high that it made Lin Jiayao gasp.

It was almost catching up to Annihilation Pupils… well, after all, they were both A-rank abilities, it was normal for the consumption to be similar.

No, if there were three or four more A-rank battles, the Blood Crystals might not be enough. Lin Jiayao had to quickly get five hundred Blood Crystals and evolve the new Control Center.

How to quickly get five hundred Blood Crystals was a challenge Lin Jiayao was currently facing.

Because she felt that she had touched upon some of the things hidden by the system, Lin Jiayao no longer wasted Blood Crystals to try out her abilities, but stayed put, quietly waiting for Huayibai to return while recovering her mental power.

Lin Jiayao still underestimated Huayibai’s efficiency. It wasn’t the half hour she had expected. In just about fifteen minutes, Lin Jiayao’s green bugs saw Huayibai.

At this time, Huayibai was gliding in the air, carrying a small mycelium bag on her back and holding a mycelium rope in her hand.

A black Sprinter zombie, about D-rank, was connected to the other end of the rope. Because she was carrying the zombie, the blood wings behind Huayibai were twice as large as before.

The green bugs quickly lined up in the air, and soon, on Huayibai’s flight path, a green arrow-shaped flight passage was marked out, guiding Huayibai towards Lin Jiayao.

“Thump—”

Huayibai landed lightly in front of Lin Jiayao, flapping her wings.

But the zombie she was carrying wasn’t so lucky. It slammed heavily onto the ground, and the D-rank’s frail body almost died on the spot.

“Mommy~ clothes!” Huayibai released the mycelium rope in her hand, ran to Lin Jiayao, turned around, and presented her back and the backpack to Lin Jiayao.

“Good, you’ve worked hard.” Lin Jiayao opened the backpack and saw a simple set of clothes inside, a white dress that looked a bit like children’s clothing, a small vest, a beige coat, and a brown belt.

It was a strange and unfashionable combination.

Lin Jiayao simply put on the dress and coat, then looked down at the D-rank zombie not far away.

The originally dying Sprinter raised its head and roared. The moment its eyes met Lin Jiayao’s, its eyes instantly became bloodshot and exploded, and it instantly lost its vital signs. Blood flowed out from its eyeballs and seven orifices, slowly condensing into blood crystal liquid.

Too weak…

Lin Jiayao looked away, leaving only a few green bugs to pounce on the corpse and start devouring.

Although it was weak, it was still more than ten grams of Blood Crystals, which couldn’t be wasted.

Anyway, when Goldie started to collect Blood Crystals on a large scale in America, she would definitely encounter more C-rank or even B-rank zombies, so she could use them for experiments later.

“Let’s go.” Lin Jiayao raised her hand, wanting to hold Huayibai’s hand, but found that her hand was blocked by her overly long sleeves.

Just as Lin Jiayao was about to fold up her sleeves, Huayibai didn’t seem to mind and directly held Lin Jiayao’s sleeve, stood beside her, and nodded.

“Okay!”

Goldie was not far from the Extraction Point. Lin Jiayao planned to let Goldie extract directly, and then, based on her mental power consumption, assess when she could log in next time.

Now Lin Jiayao was more looking forward to what evolutions the A-rank Goldie would retain on her main body.

Goldie’s other evolutionary abilities, and even the evolutions of other zombies, Lin Jiayao only had a vague understanding of them.

The textual descriptions on the system’s retain evolution interface could better help Lin Jiayao understand what these abilities were.

Arriving at the Extraction Point a few hundred meters away, Lin Jiayao held Huayibai’s hand and directly stepped inside.

[Extracting: 7.9]