Chapter 281: Mobile Oasis p1
After selecting the evolution, Lin Jiayao leaned back in the insect chair and waited for the evolution to finish.
A familiar yet strange warm current surged from her heart, spreading throughout her body. She felt an uncontrollable itch in her throat.
“Cough, cough, cough…”
Even [Hunting Rhythm] couldn’t suppress the urge to cough violently. Lin Jiayao clutched her chest, her body wracked with coughs.
It felt like something was trying to claw its way out of her throat.
She raised her hand to cover her mouth and felt a slippery liquid, as if she had coughed up blood.
Slowly, the coughing subsided. Lin Jiayao lowered her head, her shoulders trembling slightly, and slowly moved her hand, raising it to examine it.
The slippery liquid wasn’t just blood, but a purplish-red, viscous blanket coated with blood.
It dripped from her delicate, white hand, wriggling as it fell to the ground.
A wave of nausea washed over Lin Jiayao, but she forcibly suppressed it.
“Ha… ha…”
After a long while, the nausea subsided, and Lin Jiayao finally took a deep breath.
Her voice was completely hoarse. The blood in her body surged towards her throat, repairing the damage.
Wiping the sticky blanket from her hand, Lin Jiayao took a deep breath, controlled the insect chair to a nearby puddle, and, transforming one of its legs into a bowl-like shape, scooped up some water and brought it to her mouth.
After rinsing her mouth, Lin Jiayao assessed the changes in her body.
This was indeed the Worm Ancestor’s ability, but the way it manifested was disgusting, forcing her to produce it internally and then… regurgitate it.
It was a good thing she had the Blood Orb Fungus. Otherwise, every time she used this ability, she would be spitting up this sticky blanket like a zombie vomiting acid.
Lin Jiayao raised her hand, and countless mycelium threads, drawing blood crystal liquid from her body, emerged, forming a mycelium blanket beneath the insect chair.
The insect chair’s legs then bent, and it settled onto the blanket, connecting to it.
Right, Huayibai.
Lin Jiayao remembered Huayibai was still in her pocket. Reaching for her, she found it empty.
Looking around, she saw the little blue serpent, which had slithered five meters away, its tail coiled around Huayibai, who was looking at her curiously.
It seemed that the Blue Serpent, sensing something amiss during her coughing fit, had taken Huayibai and retreated.
“Huayibai, wait for Mommy over there.” Lin Jiayao said softly, looking in Huayibai’s direction.
“Okay, Mommy!” Because of the distance, Huayibai had to shout for Lin Jiayao to hear her.
It was just as well that the Blue Serpent had taken Huayibai away; it saved Lin Jiayao the trouble of finding a safe place for her.
She wasn’t sure why, but the Blue Serpent now seemed to react to any unusual movement from her like a startled bird.
It hadn’t been like this before.
As she pondered this, Lin Jiayao spread a small mycelium blanket beneath her.
The tubular filaments within the blood-red mycelium, which transported blood crystal liquid and nutrients, began to fill with a purplish-red liquid.
The entire surface of the mycelium blanket also became a mottled purple-red, as if infected with some terrifying virus.
The viscous liquid only flowed within the nutrient channels, but the entire blanket now had the properties of the sticky blanket.
This was a new evolution, a fusion of the mycelium blanket and the sticky blanket. Although it still looked terrifying, it wasn’t as disgusting as the sticky blanket released by the Worm Ancestor.
These thin, deep purple, vessel-like filaments slowly climbed up Lin Jiayao’s mycelium chair, covering it completely, transforming the originally red, fleshy chair into one with countless purple veins.
It looked even more like some kind of horrifying, fused insect.
But as the new mycelium blanket fully formed, Lin Jiayao felt a sense of mental tranquility.
She could feel the mycelium and blood within her becoming more active, and the soreness in her throat from the coughing fit quickly subsided.
Especially her mental power. She could feel it rapidly recovering, enhanced by the new mycelium blanket and the percentage increase from [Library Lv.2].
It was estimated that in less than two hours, the exhaustion from logging into the A-rank and the previous battle while controlling Goldie would be completely gone.
This wasn’t just a minor improvement to Lin Jiayao’s mental recovery—because she could now log in while sitting on the new mycelium blanket, accelerating her recovery while logged in.
If nothing unexpected happened, she could now seamlessly log into A-ranks.
As long as she wanted, she could now descend Goldie to Myanmar for a sweep, without needing to wait for her mental recovery.
She really hadn’t chosen wrongly; this was a good evolution.
Lin Jiayao clenched her hands, feeling the increased strength, and let out a sigh of relief.
She looked towards Huayibai and the little blue serpent and found them both staring intently at the new mycelium blanket beneath her. Sensing her gaze, they both looked up at her.
Their synchronized movements showed their curiosity about the mycelium blanket.
After a moment of thought, Lin Jiayao beckoned to the little blue serpent and Huayibai. “Come here.”
The Blue Serpent, seemingly eager to approach, coiled around Huayibai and crawled towards the mycelium blanket. Soon, it reached the blanket and placed Huayibai on it.
“Hiss—”
The little Blue Serpent, sensing something, flicked its tongue, its tail twitching, then quickly coiled its body into a ball.
It had fallen asleep.
And its body glowed faintly. With each breath-like pulse, bright blue spheres emerged from its tail, flickering before shattering into tiny snakes the size of a finger, which then burrowed back into the little blue serpent’s body.
It seemed to be laying eggs.
And Huayibai lay on the mycelium blanket, a look of surprise on her face as she experienced its effects.
Soon, Huayibai began rolling around on the blanket, seemingly enjoying the sensation.
After rolling around for a while, a pair of small wings sprouted from Huayibai’s back. She flapped them, flew to Lin Jiayao’s leg, clung to it, and lay down on the insect chair formed by the new mycelium, looking very content and happy.
It seemed that not only she, but any creature on the mycelium blanket could also enjoy similar enhancements, making it suitable for large-scale deployment.
Of course, this enhancement was controllable. Otherwise, when Lin Jiayao controlled Goldie to fall onto the sticky blanket before, if there had been an enhancement, her mental power wouldn’t have been so depleted.
As Huayibai settled down for a nap on the insect chair, the little Blue Serpent, at some point, had also climbed onto the chair, seemingly drawn to the small wings on Huayibai’s back.
But after Huayibai’s wings disappeared, it found a spot on the chair, curled up beside Lin Jiayao’s leg, next to Huayibai.
It really didn’t treat itself as an outsider.
Lin Jiayao controlled the mycelium beneath the insect chair to retract, merging back into the chair.
The insect chair’s form, with the influx of more mycelium, became thicker and wider. The bone spurs became sturdier, and the seat and backrest became more encompassing, like a modified racing bucket seat.
The four bone spur legs slowly straightened. The enhancement hadn’t disappeared. The insect chair carried Lin Jiayao forward a few steps, and she didn’t feel anything unusual.
Lin Jiayao felt like she was sitting on a mobile oasis, her mental and physical strength constantly recovering.
The only downside was that it continuously consumed a small amount of Blood Crystals, and it couldn’t replenish them.
But this small consumption was nothing compared to its benefits—the mental recovery.
Lin Jiayao looked at the eighteen Blood Crystals in the Blood Crystal Box, took out three, exchanged them for Blood Crystal Serum, and drank it directly, replenishing the blood crystal liquid in her body.
These three bags would last her a long time.
Compared to Lin Jiayao’s other zombies, Lin Jiayao’s main body was basically always in energy-saving mode, with almost no major consumption.
After moving the insect chair to a sunnier spot, Lin Jiayao basked in the sun and opened the login interface.
[Global Blood Crystal Total: 6,139,143]
In these past eight hours, the global Blood Crystal total had decreased by almost 100… Most of it was probably consumed during the battle between the Worm Ancestor and Goldie.
Looking at the consumed Blood Crystals, the joy of sitting on the mobile oasis diminished.
Fortunately, the Worm Ancestor was now under her control, and there wouldn’t be such a large consumption of Blood Crystals in the future… Lin Jiayao comforted herself.
There was no time to lose, she had to quickly descend Goldie and clear the path to Myanmar.
Through the green fluorescent bugs’ vision, Lin Jiayao saw that the camp’s convoy had assembled. These vehicles were brought by the people from Wangxi City and other camps who had come to seek refuge.
There was also a minibus in the middle of the convoy, which seemed to be the one from the original Panlong Camp convoy. Now people were removing the seats inside, seemingly preparing to use the minibus as a transport vehicle.
After all, after removing the seats, its carrying capacity was quite large.
As for gasoline, there was no need to worry. When Huayibai transported the Voodoo supplies before, she also transported a large amount of gasoline, all pulled by Huayibai using Sprinters, one car at a time.
Oh no, according to Huayibai, it was called driving, not pulling.
But now Huayibai also knew what driving meant. Recalling the ignorant Huayibai before, it felt like more than ten years had passed.
Lin Jiayao gently placed her palm on Huayibai’s body, gently rubbing her head with her fingers to shield her from the sun, and closed her eyes.
Lin Jiayao chose Goldie again, then chose the No. 9 Descend mode, which had already cooled down, and finally chose to descend to Mandalay, the central city of Myanmar.
The moment she made her choice, the warmth of the sun on Lin Jiayao’s body instantly disappeared, replaced by a strong wind. She slowly opened her eyes and saw the clouds and herself falling from the sky.
After breaking through the last layer of clouds, Lin Jiayao saw the city below and a red-roofed palace directly below her, seemingly an ancient imperial palace.
As she continued to fall, Lin Jiayao’s body began to glow with a golden light, and then the number of these light spots rapidly increased, enveloping Lin Jiayao and dragging a long “ribbon of light” behind her.
These “ribbons of light” were newly created white-gold flying insects.
Even under the bright sun, this golden streamer was still exceptionally dazzling in the sky. Anyone who saw it would definitely be captivated.
At the same time, inside the imperial palace below, many people put down their work and looked up at the platinum meteor in the sky.
It wasn’t until they confirmed that the meteor was falling towards them that some of the crowd began to panic.
A man in army green clothes took off the old Type 56 automatic rifle from his back, waved the triangular bayonet at the front of the rifle at the people who wanted to leave, and finally raised his gun and fired several shots into the sky.
“Da da da—”
“Quiet! Quiet!”
After shouting a few times, the thin, dark-skinned man pointed his gun at the crowd in the poppy field and roared: “I’ll say it again, if I come back and see that even one person is missing, everyone will be whipped ten times!”
After making this threat, the man casually kicked a thin man who was a little closer to him.
“Cough, cough…”
The thin man who was kicked rolled on the ground a few times, coughing up blood while clenching his fists.
Seeing that no one was causing trouble, the thin man with the gun turned and ran towards the main hall.
When he arrived at the main hall, he found that many people in army green military uniforms were already standing there, talking to the man in the wide robe sitting on the throne, who was extremely fat, nearly six hundred pounds:
“Wu Da, there’s a platinum meteor in the sky!”
“Wu Da, it’s about to fall!”
“Wu Da…”
These armed men spoke one after another, seemingly trying their best to gain favor with the fat man.
“Bang—”
The fat man, called Wu Da, turned sideways and abruptly slapped the table beside him, and the hall instantly became quiet.
“What… so noisy…” Wu Da’s mouth twitched, as if suppressing his anger.
He moved his stout body, got down from the specially made giant chair, and slowly walked down the steps of the main hall, heading outside.
And under his original seat, there was a thin man, completely naked and almost crushed, it seemed that the man called Wu Da had been sitting on him.
Wu Da slowly walked to the outside of the hall, casually grabbed a handful of pink pills handed over by someone beside him and swallowed them, then took a huge rolled cigarette and put it in his mouth.
After lighting it, he took a deep puff of the “cigarette” in his mouth, exhaled a cloud of bluish-white smoke, and slowly looked up.
His facial features were basically squeezed together by the fat on his face. He squinted slightly, studying the white light in the sky.
Whatever it was, he wasn’t afraid.
He was the strongest in this land, capturing humans and forming an army to clear zombies in Myanmar.
Under his terrifying rule, almost all the people in Myanmar had been forcibly gathered in this palace, and everyone was serving him.
Because he was the only B-rank Awakened in this land, and there were also quite a few other D-rank Awakened, but as soon as they evolved to C-rank, they would be directly killed by him.
The man who was just crushed to death by him, his internal organs and bones a mess, was an Awakened who had just been promoted to C-rank.
At this time, Wu Da slowly narrowed his eyes and looked at the light spot in the sky with confusion.
It was too far away, and he couldn’t tell what this platinum streamer was.
But when it was one or two kilometers above him, this huge light spot suddenly dispersed, and countless green light spots flew out from the platinum light spot, almost filling the entire sky in a semicircular array.
Seeing this, the eyeballs squeezed into Wu Da’s face also slowly widened, and he seemed to realize something.
This thing coming from the sky wasn’t a meteorite, but an ability user or a zombie.
“Raise your guns!” Wu Da shook the fat on his face and quickly ordered.
Everyone raised their guns and aimed at the sky.
Under their nervous gazes, the most central, brilliant golden light spot seemed to have locked onto a target and was rapidly descending towards them.
They had been discovered.
Wu Da was about to order them to fire, but soon, he saw clearly what was flying down.
It seemed to be a young girl, about twelve or thirteen years old.
She was wearing a white dress and a black windbreaker, which made her skin look even more delicate, and her brilliant golden hair shone under the sunlight, as if she was surrounded by a holy white light.
Especially the beige belt at her waist, even though it was covered by the wide windbreaker, he could still sense her slender waist.
She looked like an angel… no, combined with the two pairs of thin insect wings behind her, she looked more like an elf from legends.
Was there really such a beautiful person in this world?
After a brief moment of shock, the girl had already landed in front of the hall. The girl slowly raised her head, glanced at the crowd, looked at Wu Da, and asked calmly:
“Who is the leader?”
After hearing the familiar and fluent Burmese, Wu Da’s eyes instantly lit up.
A foreign girl from Myanmar? Such a beautiful foreign girl, why hadn’t the army caught her after so many years?
But she was in Myanmar, which meant… she was at most C-rank!
Was she a little sweetheart who had just been promoted and came to seek “revenge” from him? After all, he had slaughtered all the male foreigners in Myanmar.
