Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 305

Chapter 305: Genetic Optimization

Zhijing City, city center, Zhangsankou Interchange.

Lin Jiayao sat in the insect chair, quietly waiting amidst the urban ruins.

Scattered before her were numerous fungal tubes filled with blood, and several conspicuous thermoses.

These containers held the blood of various Awakened, and Blood Crystal fragments had already begun to condense in several of the B-rank blood samples.

A4 was rushing towards her at top speed, less than ten kilometers away.

Lin Jiayao, who had her eyes slightly closed, slowly opened them and looked towards a bright red dot in the distant sky.

She could see A4 now.

Lin Jiayao opened the system interface, entered the Medical Station, and began exchanging the Blood Crystals she had on hand for Blood Crystal Serum.

Soon, Lin Jiayao’s warehouse was neatly filled.

Now, Lin Jiayao had exactly three hundred bags of Blood Crystal Serum and one hundred and twenty Blood Crystals left in her warehouse.

These three hundred bags were intended for A4’s evolution, and the remaining one hundred and twenty were kept as a reserve.

If there weren’t enough Blood Crystals for the evolution, she could directly exchange the reserve Blood Crystals for Blood Crystal Serum for A4 to use.

Just as Lin Jiayao finished exchanging for the Blood Crystal Serum, a loud thud echoed, and numerous cracks appeared on the surface of the overpass.

A tall, blonde figure walked towards Lin Jiayao.

It was A4.

Simultaneously controlling two perspectives didn’t bother Lin Jiayao.

She had long since adapted to this multi-perspective vision through controlling the insect swarm, and in the previous training ground simulations, Lin Jiayao had also practiced controlling different zombies simultaneously for combat.

A4’s extraction point was in a small garden less than a hundred meters away from the overpass. It was very close, and if anything happened, Lin Jiayao could directly send A4 to the extraction point.

After controlling A4 to stand before her, Lin Jiayao focused her attention on the scattered fungal tubes on the ground.

Under Lin Jiayao’s control, the fungal tubes filled with blood began to wriggle like worms, moving to A4’s feet.

Soon, these fungal tubes grew fine mycelium, which, following A4’s shoes, burrowed into its pants and climbed up A4’s body.

Some of the fungal tubes that had already reached its body extended needles from their tips, piercing A4’s unguarded flesh and injecting blood into A4’s body.

Soon, A4’s body was covered with densely packed fungal worms, continuously injecting liquids into it.

And some of the worms that had finished injecting earlier crawled back into Lin Jiayao’s body and merged with it.

Switching to A4’s consciousness, Lin Jiayao could feel a large number of different evolutionary genes colliding within its body, all converging towards its heart.

It was this collision of a large number of evolutionary genes that caused A4’s body temperature to rise sharply.

Even Lin Jiayao’s fungal clone, clinging to A4, could feel its unusual body temperature.

Fortunately, Lin Jiayao had already developed a strong resistance to normal temperatures. Even boiling point was nothing to Lin Jiayao.

Although she could still feel the burning pain, it wouldn’t actually injure her.

Soon, not only did A4’s body temperature become a problem, but under this massive collision and devouring of genes, A4’s skin began to decay extensively.

A4’s entire body was like a melting blood-person. In just a few seconds, the clothes it mimicked and its original skin had completely dissolved and disappeared.

Was the injected dose too high at once?

Quickly, Lin Jiayao used mycelium to create a fungal blood-person, half her size, and began transporting Blood Crystal Serum from her side to A4.

Bag after bag of Blood Crystal Serum was poured onto A4’s body.

The moment this Blood Crystal Serum touched A4’s decaying skin and muscles, it was quickly absorbed, as if it had just evaporated.

Helplessly, Lin Jiayao created two more small fungal blood-people for carrying and began taking turns pouring Blood Crystal Serum onto A4.

Lin Jiayao could experience all of this through A4’s perspective.

This continuous injection of blood didn’t give A4 any new abilities, but continuously optimized and fused its existing abilities.

This optimization and fusion required a large amount of blood crystals, and the ones being consumed were precisely the Blood Crystal Serum Lin Jiayao was pouring onto A4.

Lin Jiayao felt like she was continuously pouring water onto a red-hot iron pot, and no matter how much she poured, the temperature of the iron pot didn’t decrease at all.

No, pouring water into a red-hot iron pot would at least produce steam.

Pouring Blood Crystal Serum onto A4, nothing could be seen, as if it had evaporated into thin air.

Bag after bag of Blood Crystal Serum disappeared, making Lin Jiayao feel a pang of heartache.

She originally thought that she would no longer feel distressed by the decrease in Blood Crystals, but now she realized that it wasn’t that she had become indifferent, but that she hadn’t burned enough Blood Crystals before.

After about half an hour, A4’s body temperature finally slowly decreased, and those chaotic genes in A4’s body were perfectly integrated.

After another bag of Blood Crystal Serum was poured on, A4’s skin and muscles began to slowly recover.

Soon, A4, naked and with intact skin, reappeared before Lin Jiayao.

From its appearance, A4 didn’t seem to have changed at all.

Lin Jiayao directly switched her consciousness and controlled A4 to clench its fists.

After truly switching her consciousness to A4’s main body, Lin Jiayao finally felt the changes.

Originally, when controlling A4, every time she used an ability, the evolutionary ability would only emerge after she had the thought.

But now, all the evolutionary abilities in its body were like instincts. Lin Jiayao didn’t even need to deliberately release them. With just a raise of her hand, the evolutionary abilities in her body would automatically make the most reasonable response.

If she obtained new abilities in the future, she wouldn’t even need to train and could use them instinctively.

Did this mean that the small flaws in the original evolutionary genes had all been optimized?

And she had only used a small portion of the blood.

If controlling A4 before was like controlling a slightly rusty, giant, and precise war machine,

With countless buttons inside, each corresponding to an ability,

Then now, after the first round of genetic supplementation and optimization, the rusty parts on A4, this “war machine”, had been cleaned, and lubricating oil had been applied. All the control buttons had also been integrated into an intelligent panel.

Simply put, it was smoother than eating Dove chocolate. (TN: A reference to a Chinese advertisement for Dove chocolate)

This round of optimization probably consumed fifty-seven bags of Lin Jiayao’s Blood Crystal Serum. Although it was painful, it was still within the acceptable range.

After confirming that A4’s body was fine, Lin Jiayao began to inject more new blood into A4.

The effect of the second round of injections was much lower than the first round.

Many tubes of blood were instantly absorbed as soon as they were injected into A4’s body, mostly repeated genes or those eliminated by A4’s instincts.

Soon, all the C-rank and D-rank blood was injected by Lin Jiayao, and the skin dissolving situation from before did not reappear.

The small amount left uninjected was the B-rank and A-rank blood.

Lin Jiayao, controlling A4, bent down, picked up a thermos, and unscrewed the cap.

Inside was dark red blood, with quite a few Blood Crystal fragments floating in it, looking like a glass of watermelon juice with ice.

Lin Jiayao lifted the thermos and drank all the B-rank blood inside in one gulp.

At the same time, Lin Jiayao also controlled the remaining fungal tubes containing B-rank blood and injected the blood into A4’s body.

This time, A4’s body changed again.

As if air had been injected into its body, bumps began to appear on A4’s skin.

Its entire zombie body, as if mutating, quickly swelled to twice its original size.

And Lin Jiayao also quickly poured Blood Crystal Serum onto A4.

Under the large amount of Blood Crystal Serum, this mutation was quickly suppressed.

Those bumps did not swell to the point of bursting, but slowly began to subside.

Switching consciousness to A4’s body, she could feel countless forces colliding inside.

Its bones withstood these impacts, but its muscles and internal organs were constantly being torn and then reorganized.

Each time the muscles regenerated, they became tougher, and the amount of Blood Crystals they could store also began to increase continuously.

Just as Lin Jiayao thought that the bumps on A4’s body would slowly subside like this, suddenly, with a “boom”, A4’s arm exploded.

Countless flesh and blood mixed with mycelium sprayed out, even splashing onto Lin Jiayao’s face.

This explosion was like a chain reaction, and A4’s body, which had originally suppressed its swelling, became even more distorted.

“Boom—”
“Gurgle—”

After another loud explosion, A4’s flesh and blood were scattered all over the overpass.

And where A4 originally stood, only a mass of twisted flesh and blood remained, without any trace of a human form.

Even the black bones had been blown apart.

But even with only a mass of flesh and blood left, A4 was still not dead.

The blood that splattered from the explosion began to wriggle towards A4’s body, gathering on the twisted, black and red flesh and blood.

The mass of flesh and blood in the center of the road pulsed like a giant heart.

And Lin Jiayao was still controlling the fungal blood-person to continuously transport Blood Crystal Serum to that heart.

It didn’t matter that A4’s appearance had changed. Lin Jiayao could feel that all its evolutionary abilities were being enhanced, and it had even fused some new evolutionary abilities.

And A4’s vital signs were very stable, and Lin Jiayao could still easily control it, so there was no danger.

But in a short time, A4 should not be able to mimic a human form again. The amount of blood crystal liquid it had absorbed had already greatly exceeded the limit its body could handle.

But it didn’t matter, because what Lin Jiayao wanted was to increase the amount of Blood Crystals A4’s body could store.

This was a necessary prerequisite for evolving to A-rank.

After confirming again that A4’s life was stable, Lin Jiayao looked at the last two tubes of blood.

One was light blue, and the other had already completely developed into mycelium.

At this time, the Blue Serpent and Huayibai, lying on the insect chair, were no longer sleepy.

They sat on Lin Jiayao’s left and right sides, staring at all this even more nervously than Lin Jiayao.

After all, such an explosive scene wasn’t something they could see every day.

Lin Jiayao controlled the fungal tube containing the blue blood, crawled to A4’s neck, and directly injected the blue blood into the most vulnerable part of its neck.

From the moment the injection was completed until Lin Jiayao withdrew the fungal tube, A4, which had already turned into twisted flesh and blood, didn’t react at all.

But slowly, a light blue, fluorescent blood flow spread along A4’s messy blood vessels.

“Crack—”

A4’s body, which had just barely coalesced, exploded again with a crisp sound.

But this time, there was no splatter of flesh and blood. The exploded flesh and blood turned into twisted sarcomas, like blood-red slimes with blue blood vessels, and fused back together.

It was a bit like the Blue Serpent laying eggs.

After pouring a few more bags of Blood Crystal Serum onto A4, Lin Jiayao placed Huayibai’s fungus on the sarcoma.

“Huayibai, give up the control of that clone.” Lin Jiayao didn’t forget to remind Huayibai softly.

Although A4 was still in the process of evolving, Huayibai was a genuine A-rank, and her fungus might take over and directly devour A4.

“Okay.” Huayibai nodded, and soon, the mycelium clinging to the A4 sarcoma slowly lost its activity and was dragged into A4’s body bit by bit by the mycelium extending from A4.

It was like throwing an effervescent tablet into soda water. After Huayibai’s fungus joined, the flesh and blood representing A4 boiled again.

Its originally round surface became uneven, and countless mycelium threads, like earthworms, continuously drilled outwards and covered the sarcoma.

Lin Jiayao could feel that A4’s devouring ability had been greatly enhanced after Huayibai’s fungus joined.

Lin Jiayao created another batch of fungal blood-people and began to speed up the transportation of Blood Crystal Serum.

Just as Lin Jiayao’s Blood Crystal Serum was down to the last few bags, the flesh and blood representing A4 had already swelled to the point of almost collapsing the overpass.

But this huge body, like a small building, could no longer absorb any more Blood Crystal Serum.

Still a little short…

The Blood Crystal Serum sprinkled on A4 flowed down its body and was no longer absorbed.

Lin Jiayao looked at the huge sarcoma in front of her, a little troubled.

At this time, where could she find new genes for A4, preferably A-rank genes?

The Eyeball Cube?

It mainly enhanced mental power and wouldn’t bring much change to A4.

Did she need to get some blood from the Worm Ancestor or Goldie?

Or…

Lin Jiayao raised her hand and looked at her arm. Through the delicate skin on her arm, she could vaguely see the blood vessels underneath.

It seemed… she hadn’t added her own blood yet.

Would her own blood work?

It seemed to have worked for Goldie…

A sharp bone spur slowly emerged from the back of Lin Jiayao’s left hand, aiming at her right wrist.

Let’s try it.

The bone spur pierced Lin Jiayao’s skin.