Category: Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Eight: Keep an Eye on Mommy p2

“Huff…”

Until he could no longer see the crowd behind him, the leader slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

There was no turning back. Next, he just needed to wait quietly for the result.

Three modified jeeps were driving in an orderly manner, lined up in a row, driving on the highway towards the black ruins.

Even from such a long distance, they could still seem to smell the strong smell of smoke and feel the rise in temperature.

Now it was not only the leader, but even the breathing of others was about to stop.

When they passed the toll station, they saw that the vines at the toll booth and the ashes in front had a gap of several hundred meters wide, and you couldn’t see the end at a glance.

Near the place where the plants were broken, there was a car that was deformed by the high temperature and almost buried by ashes.

“That car…” There was no road ahead. After careful consideration, the boss ordered, “Second, drive to that car and have a look.”

Although that car was buried by ashes, it was also the only surviving object in the nearby “firebreak”. Maybe they could find something there.

When they parked the car near that car, the subordinates used their hands to dig away the ashes, and finally saw the full picture of this car.

Although it was blackened by ashes, you could still see the countless scratches on the car body, and the paint was basically gone. You would be very impressed once you saw such a car.

“It’s this car, boss…” The man called Second, looking at the deformed car in front of him, murmured.

Most of the supplies in the car were scorched, but there were no corpses in the car…

Then after the battle, where did those people, or that organization, go?

Did they leave after the battle?

The boss suddenly thought of this possibility.

If they left after the battle, could they set up camp in this city…

“What are you… doing?”

When they were looking at each other around the car, a cold female voice came from the pile of ashes in the distance.

The moment he heard this voice, the hair on Second’s back stood up.

It was this voice! The woman sitting in the driver’s seat!

She survived this battle… She was also a B-rank!

A B-rank powerhouse…

“She… she was the one driving… boss…” Second looked in the direction of the voice, looking at the woman standing in the ruins, intact, but carrying a tattered travel bag in her hand.

The woman held a huge backpack in her left hand. Through the holes in the tattered backpack, you could see the blood crystals inside.

And on the strap of the backpack, there were two charred corpses hanging… It seemed to be the corpses that could remain intact in the terrifying fire.

Even though they had become corpses and precipitated blood crystals, the residual blood crystal fluctuations on the corpses still made them, who were also Awakened, tremble with fear.

“You… hello…” The boss raised his hands high, walked out of the crowd, and explained loudly to the woman carrying the terrifying corpses, “I am the boss of the camp that encountered you before… Maybe there may be some misunderstandings between us, but I can explain.”

The boss didn’t know that the unfathomable, low-key and restrained “B-rank” Awakened not far away was more nervous than them at this time.

Lin Xiwan’s hand holding the backpack tightened. She never expected that when she was scavenging the remaining or precipitated blood crystals nearby, she would encounter a team of Awakened.

Eight Awakened came down from the three cars, the lowest one was D-rank, and there were even two C-ranks. If they really fought, Lin Xiwan might not be able to run.

Damn… Could it be that they found out that she had cheated them out of water last time, so they came after her? It shouldn’t be, right? There were also a lot of remaining Voodoo supplies?

At worst, she would give them the burned car… Anyway, Lin Xiwan had checked, and there was nothing of value inside.

No matter what, she would not give up the spoils in her hands… This was to be brought to her sister. She had practiced countless times in her heart the scene of her sister’s eyes shining brightly when she took these blood crystals to her sister.

If the blood crystals were snatched away by others, it would be equivalent to snatching away her sister’s expectant expression.

How could she let others snatch it away!

Just when Lin Xiwan was observing the other party’s movements, ready to use her muscle-type Awakened speed to rush back to the building-tree to find Huayibai, the other party’s performance was a little beyond Lin Xiwan’s expectations.

“We have no malice. We didn’t deliberately drive the convoy to follow you before… It’s just that the journey is dangerous. We were just thinking that it would be good to have a car to open the way in front…”

Seeing that the atmosphere was becoming more and more tense, the camp leader quickly continued to explain:

“We didn’t know that your vehicle was going to Kun City to perform such a difficult task… We are very impressed that you beheaded the three B-ranks of the Voodoo Cult and made them fall apart—the Voodoo Cult has harmed us very badly.”

“So we came here this time to apologize and bring you the Voodoo supplies that you temporarily stored with us last time.”

The word temporary storage was very interesting. It would not make the other party feel uncomfortable, nor would it make their side appear too humble.

This not only explained their intentions, but also explained part of the motivation why they had been following…

First, they recognized the other party’s battle and showed their position, and then said that they were just bringing the things that the other party temporarily stored here.

His attitude could be said to be impeccable. As long as it was not deliberately making things difficult, they should also be able to see his sincerity.

Lin Xiwan was also a little puzzled at first, but after seeing the two corpses in her hand, she came to her senses a little.

The other party was definitely not here to settle accounts.

Her sister had told her that the news that three B-ranks had died in Kun City had spread. As long as they were not fools, they would not come to make trouble at this time.

If they were not here to make trouble, and they came like this, and brought these cars of supplies, then the purpose was very clear.

Lin Xiwan herself had been a camp person, knew the operation mode of most camps, and also knew what the camp leaders were generally thinking.

They were generally thinking about how to keep the camp going. Now that they came to the door, it was very likely that they were seeking an alliance.

She had just talked about this with her sister last night, but it was only one night before the first camp that might be seeking refuge came.

This was too fast…

So fast that Lin Xiwan hadn’t made any preparations.

She had planned to live happily with her sister in the uninhabited “primitive forest” for a month or two…

No matter what, this matter was considered a major event and had to be discussed with her sister. She definitely couldn’t make the decision alone.

First, let’s ask about the other party’s intentions… They might not be here to seek refuge.

“Going in this direction… are you going out of the country?”

Yun Province was already the most border of China. Continuing in this direction, except for the desert in the northwest, it was the unknown land of foreign countries.

The desert did not have the conditions to support the entire camp, and there might be different mutated zombies, and the danger was unknown.

From this point of view, if the other party wanted to survive, going out of the country was a more reasonable plan.

After hearing Lin Xiwan’s question, the man with his arms raised in front of him smiled bitterly:

“Yes… we are preparing to go out of the country. The supplies we brought do not support the convoy to cross the mountains and rivers to return. If we don’t find a suitable place to live nearby, we should go out of the country to find a way to survive.”

Although the expression on his face was bitter, the man’s heart was full of hope.

It was better if the other party didn’t ask. If the other party started to ask about the survival problems of their camp… then there was a good chance.

“Actually, I have a presumptuous request,” The leader of the Panlong Camp raised his head and looked in the direction of the woman, asking, “Can our camp join your organization…”

“We are a peaceful camp. We have never done anything like robbery or annexation. Although there are many ordinary people in our camp, they are very skilled in using firearms, and there are also skilled car repair workers…”

The man quickly listed the advantages of his camp in front of Lin Xiwan like a resume. Finally, he stated his request.

“Assign tasks to our Awakened, and we can also complete them… As long as we can give the other camp people a full meal.”

After saying so much, it still couldn’t get away from so many mouths to feed.

The establishment mode of the camps was similar. A small number of Awakened formed the upper level, each Awakened trained and led a team of combat personnel to form an exploration team, and then supported their respective families.

As long as one combatant died, someone had to make up for it, or the “idle personnel” had to be reduced.

If the combat personnel were lost but the “idle personnel” were not reduced in time, there would be more and more non-combat personnel, and the food brought back by each exploration team would also be in short supply, forming a vicious circle.

Therefore, for the healthy development of non-self-sufficient camps, most camps adopted this model.

Although it was cruel, necessary sacrifices were also for the better operation of the camp and to allow other people to live.

What the leader said just now was to prove to the other party that he was still a camp in a “virtuous circle”. The combat personnel and idle personnel were maintained in a good proportion, and the value created by their combat personnel could support the idle personnel.

After the man finished speaking, the other Awakened couldn’t help holding their breath.

They knew that the next answer from the woman opposite would determine the fate of their entire camp.

Whether their camp would continue to drift in the future, or even go overseas, or stay in the country and live a stable life, depended on what the woman in front of them said.

Looking at the pairs of expectant eyes, Lin Xiwan, who was cold-faced but warm-hearted, also began to struggle in her heart.

After a long while, she slowly exhaled and said:

“Sigh… you wait here for a while, I will go and ask, and give you an answer later.”

After Lin Xiwan left these words, she directly carried the backpack, dragged the corpses hanging on the backpack, and walked towards the city wrapped in greenery in the depths of the ruins.

At that moment, Lin Xiwan’s back looked tall in the eyes of these people.

“Second Brother… her meaning is…”

“She is this,” Second Brother slowly raised his thumb and looked at the Awakened who asked, “A very good person.”

“Yeah, sigh…” The boss also slowly breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a little weak all over, and smiled, “Looking at her sighing, if she wants to keep us, she may have to argue with the top management for a long time.”

“That means there is a chance for us to join?!”

“Shh… It’s not a foregone conclusion yet. It still depends on the meaning of the top management of this organization…” The person called Second Brother, who was the Awakened who gave Lin Xiwan water at the beginning, said with a smile, “From the time they gave away a carload of Voodoo supplies, I knew they were good people.”

“Yeah… It depends on whether she can persuade the top management…”

“I hope so…”

“Xiao Wu, go and inform everyone and let them all come and wait.”

“Okay, boss!”

The woman did not directly refuse, which made everyone present breathe a sigh of relief, and the atmosphere was no longer so depressing.

There were still many good people in the world…

……

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Eight: Keep an Eye on Mommy p1

“Whoosh—”

Soft light shone on Lin Xiwan’s face. Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and then she opened her eyes.

After exhaling gently, Lin Xiwan breathed in an incredibly fresh “grass” smell.

It was a smell of earth mixed with a bit of moisture and sunshine, which made people feel refreshed and happy.

This was the second sleep in Kun City. Every time she woke up, Lin Xiwan felt that Kun City was really suitable for living.

Lin Xiwan slowly looked at her sister in her arms. At this time, her sister was closing her eyes and looked like she was sleeping soundly.

Why could she tell that she was sleeping soundly?

Because drool was flowing from the corner of her mouth!

“How old are you…” Lin Xiwan gently wiped the drool from the corner of her sister’s mouth with her finger and said with a smile.

She naturally didn’t know that this was because her sister couldn’t control the opening and closing of her mouth after fainting, and coupled with the fact that she was lying on her side, she couldn’t control the drool from flowing down.

It made it seem like she really dreamed of something delicious.

Lin Xiwan gently laid her sister’s body flat, let her rest her head on the soft pillow stacked with vines, and then looked at the next bed, but did not see Huayibai’s figure.

Where was Huayibai?

Seeing that her sister was breathing steadily and still sleeping peacefully, Lin Xiwan quietly got out of bed, did not put on her shoes, and walked directly out of the dormitory.

The ground was basically covered with vines or moss, and there were no sharp objects. Walking barefoot would actually be more comfortable.

Most importantly, the sisters’ shoes had been torn to pieces in one battle after another, and they were basically no longer in the shape of shoes. It was better to go barefoot.

After walking out of the dormitory, Lin Xiwan saw a white figure sitting in front of a big tree not far away, not knowing what she was doing.

“Huayi…”

Just as she was about to call Huayibai, she suddenly remembered that her sister was still sleeping. Lin Xiwan quickly stopped her voice and slowly walked behind Huayibai.

“Good morning, Sister Xi.” Hearing the footsteps behind her, Huayibai leaned her waist back, tilted her head up, and called out sweetly.

But Huayibai, who was sitting, leaned back a little too far and fell straight backwards. Fortunately, Lin Xiwan stretched her calf forward in time, so that Huayibai could lean on it.

“Morning,” Looking at Huayibai’s cute appearance, Lin Xiwan asked with a smile, “What are you doing?”

“Huayibai is making friends!” Huayibai, who was sitting on the ground, moved her little butt slightly, turned her body halfway, and showed Lin Xiwan the things on her skirt.

“This is…”

At this time, Huayibai was sitting on the ground with her legs slightly apart. Her little skirt was propped up between her legs to form a small cloth platform.

On the skirt, there was a large white object that looked like a white cauliflower at first glance, placed in the middle of Huayibai’s skirt.

“Hiss…” Lin Xiwan took a slight breath. She could recognize what these things were. Many of them were covered on the vines and building-trees, but it was indeed a bit creepy to see them up close.

“What is this… white lump?” Lin Xiwan bent her knees slightly, supported her knee with her left hand, and pointed to the thing placed in the middle of Huayibai’s skirt with her right finger and asked.

“It’s Little Black,” Huayibai stretched out her chubby little hand, touched the white lump, and explained, “It’s a friend Huayibai just met.”

“Why is it called Little Black? Isn’t it white?” Lin Xiwan asked curiously.

“Where is it white?” Huayibai seemed a little puzzled. She picked up the white cauliflower and held it in front of Lin Xiwan, saying, “Sister Xi, look, it’s black!”

After getting closer, Lin Xiwan noticed that this was not a cauliflower.

These were tiny mushrooms with white mycelium. You almost had to use a magnifying glass to see clearly that they were strands of mycelium supporting the translucent cap on top, and there was indeed a small black dot in the center of the cap.

“It said it has lived here for a long time. It usually drinks water and occasionally draws a little sap. When there is a fire, it uses a part of its body to extinguish the fire.”

As Huayibai explained, a small part of “Little Black’s” body began to demonstrate.

Its translucent cap, like a water droplet, quickly withered, and the black dot in the middle that absorbed nutrients quickly expanded, and then burst with a very small “pop” sound, spraying out a large number of white spores.

It seemed that the white powder that Lin Xiwan had encountered before when there was a fire, falling from the sky like moths to a flame, was this guy called “Little Black” by Huayibai.

But more than that, what surprised Lin Xiwan was how Huayibai communicated with such a small mass of non-humanoid mycelium?

Lin Xiwan directly asked Huayibai this question.

“Well… it’s just…” Hearing Lin Xiwan’s question, Huayibai gestured with her hands, seeming a little embarrassed.

She didn’t know how to communicate these topics with humans who didn’t have spores. Logically speaking, those with Mommy’s small spores should know these things by nature.

Seeing Huayibai’s embarrassment, Lin Xiwan no longer dwelled over this question. She rubbed Huayibai’s head, told her not to stay too far away from her sister, and then got up and left the dormitory.

While her sister hadn’t woken up, she wanted to see if the car abandoned on the edge of the city before the battle had been burned.

If it hadn’t been burned, there were still some survival supplies such as food, napkins, and clothes inside. She could bring the car back while her sister hadn’t gotten up.

Although Kun City was good, it was too “natural”. It still needed to be artificially modified to make some areas more suitable for human survival.

“Pitter-patter…”

Just when Lin Xiwan was slightly exercising her muscles and preparing to run towards the place where she entered the city before, she heard the sound of small shoes stepping on the vines behind her.

Turning her head to look, Lin Xiwan saw Huayibai holding that cluster of mycelium, and holding something in her hand, running towards Lin Xiwan.

“Sister Xi!” After running to Lin Xiwan, Huayibai raised her head, holding that cluster of mycelium in her right hand like holding a doll, and stretched out her left hand towards Lin Xiwan.

“This is a gift from a new friend to Sister Xi.”

In Huayibai’s hand was a small wreath woven from thin vines. There were small white flowers made of white mycelium on the wreath, and there were some thin blood-red flower buds in the center of the small white flowers, looking small and lovely.

“For me?” Lin Xiwan looked at the bracelet in Huayibai’s hand with some surprise, smiled and took it, and put it on without hesitation, “Thank you, Huayibai.”

After the desperate joint battle that night, Lin Xiwan’s trust in Huayibai had obviously risen to a higher level, and naturally she would not suspect that Huayibai would harm her.

After putting the wreath on her right hand, Lin Xiwan smiled and waved her hand, told her to take good care of her sister, and then jumped directly, flashing and moving between the vines.

Seeing that Lin Xiwan put on the bracelet before leaving, Huayibai nodded slowly.

That bracelet had no special effect, and it was not a gift from the “new friend” to Lin Xiwan, but something Huayibai made on the spot by pulling a few vines.

The shape of the vine bracelet and the white flowers were all to make the flower buds composed of Huayibai’s blood-red mycelium in the middle not so strange.

Mommy valued and liked Sister Xi very much. While Mommy was sleeping, Huayibai had to protect Sister Xi well.

Simple Huayibai’s thoughts were very simple. She just wanted to protect Mommy and Mommy’s “personal assets”. In Huayibai’s view, Sister Xi was also a part of Mommy’s “personal assets”.

With Huayibai’s mycelium by her side, even if Sister Xi encountered any danger, Huayibai could notify Mommy immediately and arrive immediately.

After Lin Xiwan ran away, Huayibai casually threw the “new friend” in her hand to the ground.

“Sister Xi told me to keep an eye on Mommy, you play by yourself.” After saying that, Huayibai couldn’t wait to take small steps and ran towards the direction of the bedroom.

Huayibai would definitely live up to Sister Xi’s instructions and protect Mommy in all aspects!

……

Guangkun Highway, 20 kilometers away from the Kunzhou Expressway entrance, a convoy was stationed here.

A large pot was set up in the middle of the convoy. The canned cabbage soup in the middle of the pot had already boiled, but it seemed that no one was in the mood to serve a bowl.

Everyone was staring at the leader of the convoy, and the leader was looking at a radio in front of him, puffing on a hookah.

“Boss…” A middle-aged man couldn’t help it anymore and asked, “Are we… still going?”

If Lin Xiwan was on the scene, she would definitely recognize who that man was.

It was the person who thought that their car had overturned a Voodoo Cult convoy that day, and then sold several boxes of pure water to them in exchange for the right to scavenge.

At this time, this Panlong Square convoy that had been following them was also about to reach the entrance of the Kunzhou toll station, but at this time they stopped in front of Kun City and did not dare to move forward.

Because just before they were about to reach Kun City, they saw thick smoke and ashes covering almost the sky in the early morning, which seemed to have been burning all night.

And when they stopped in doubt to rest, they heard the news that the leader of the Voodoo Cult and another B-rank had been beheaded in Kun City.

This news made them drop their jaws.

Originally, they thought they were just following a few powerful C-rank Awakened, using them to open the way in front, so that their convoy could safely reach a place to stay.

But they never expected that they were not following three angels opening the way, but three Yama Kings.

They could only be thankful that the camp had not shown any hostility to those three from beginning to end.

This highway went straight, and it must be to Kun City, which meant that the three beautiful girls in that car had entered Kun City before the battle broke out.

And the towering smoke they saw from afar might be the ruins after their battle.

Now you radio told them that the three B-ranks of the Voodoo Cult were all killed in Kun City?

“Gulp—”

The leading man thought of this, licked his lips that were a little pale due to nervousness.

It seemed that they had underestimated the strength of those women… They were not three B-ranks, but three combatants who obeyed the organization’s orders to participate in the battle…

They might have discovered the following of the Panlong Camp long ago, and they might have just been kind and did not stop it.

The fresh tire marks of the tires crushing the moss on the road ahead reminded the camp leader that the tire marks did come from the car they were tracking.

Recalling the cold eyes of the woman in the driver’s seat before, he still felt a little chill in his heart.

“Or… should I go and apologize?” The man who had just asked the leader said tremblingly, “And return the things to them…”

“Maybe they didn’t even notice us… Maybe we are nothing in their eyes, we can just take a detour to other places…”

“Yeah, yeah, we don’t need to get involved in the struggles of these big organizations…”

“Detour? Where do we detour? We will be out of the country if we go further… Or do you want to go to the desert in the west? There are already few resources…”

“Quiet down.” The leader of the Panlong Camp slowly took a breath and said in a deep voice, “No matter what, this is our fault. Prepare later and take out all the spoils of last time. I will go and apologize.”

“You alone?”

“Idiot, can I drive three cars alone?”

“Oh oh…”

It was not feasible to return the same way. Counting the losses and food consumption along the way, and the few remaining searchable materials in Fuyun City, at least half of the people in their convoy would starve to death if they returned the same way.

Not to mention the various unexpected situations that might occur on the road… If it weren’t for the car opening the way before, they would have suffered if they encountered a group of zombie birds on the road.

But they had another way to go.

That was to use the name of apology to tentatively request to join that organization…

They had been listening to the phone radio last night. At least from the negotiations on the radio, the mysterious organization that destroyed the Voodoo Cult was not a cold-blooded organization that would not help those in need.

Just from the fact that they were broadcasting with the voices of girls or young women, you could feel that the organization wanted to announce to the outside world that they were harmless and released goodwill.

After all, the voices of girls and young women were the easiest to make people lower their guard.

Coupled with the attitude of those women after encountering their convoy the previous two times, it also made the leader think that he could gamble.

The worst result was that the other party would not accept ordinary people, only Awakened. If this result really occurred…

He could only lead the team out of the country and find a way to survive abroad.

He didn’t need to join an organization that would abandon ordinary people and let them fend for themselves. He would not abandon the people in his camp.

In the apocalypse where humanity was lost, being able to maintain a camp, without courage and sincerity to the people in the camp, would have been killed by a hidden gun long ago.

“Load the car. Those who are willing to go with me, get in the car yourself.”

After the leader finished speaking, he used the can body of the can to scoop a spoonful of canned cabbage soup from the pot, blew it slightly, drank it all, then put down the can, put away the hookah, and walked towards the car loaded with the Voodoo Cult’s supplies.

The remaining people who were standing in a circle looked at the city that was almost half ashes in the distance, remained silent for a while, and then some people began to follow the leader’s footsteps.

Soon, all the Voodoo Cult’s supplies were cleaned up and packed. They drove three cars, slowly bypassed the crowd, and drove towards Kun City.

The leader of the Panlong Camp was making a big gamble—gambling on the “benevolence” of the other party’s organization.

Although the feeling of handing over fate to others was not good, if he gambled correctly, the whole camp would have no worries about food and clothing.

If he gambled wrong, he would only lose three cars of supplies that did not belong to them.

As for the probability that this organization was cruel, it was not high, because Survivor’s Light was willing to trade with them. An organization that could be endorsed by Survivor’s Light could not be a chaotic and heartless organization.

“Remember not to talk too much later. The more you say, the more mistakes you make, and the more you do, the more mistakes you make. Let me speak alone. When the time comes, if they want goods, we will unload the goods. If they want the car, we will get out of the car directly. No conflicts are allowed, understand?”

“Understood, boss, but…”

“No buts. If we win this gamble, we will be rich and noble. If we lose, we will go abroad to fight…”

“No, boss, look in the rearview mirror…”

At this time, the boss sitting in the passenger seat, who was so nervous that his back was all wet, looked in the direction of the rearview mirror.

Because the road was full of moss and vines, they drove slowly.

And in the rearview mirror, you could see that the men, women, old and young of the camp had all stood up and followed behind the convoy on foot.

They all wanted to go voluntarily, but there were no empty seats in the car, so they could only follow on foot.

The leader looked at the rearview mirror that had been scratched to the point of being almost invisible, his eyes were slightly hot, he suddenly opened the car door, stuck his head out.

“Are you stupid? So many people are following? Others will think we are going to fight them! Go back and sit down!”

Under his scolding, the crowd following the three cars slowly stopped and stood in place to see them off.

 

 

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Seven: A4’s Delicacy p2

As long as they hadn’t reached C-rank, the attacks of most Awakened were not as powerful as rifles, so rifles were a very important combat resource for the camp. Ability plus gun fighting was basically the standard configuration of every low-level Awakened.

But when these bullets hit the bone plates of that zombie, there were sparks of metal friction, and they couldn’t penetrate the armor at all.

And the bullets that hit the head and gonads of the shrimp zombie, although they exploded blood flowers, seemed to have no effect on the shrimp zombie.

Although the attack had no effect, their attack had obviously angered the shrimp zombie.

The shrimp zombie did not roar or howl, and even its legs were holding those eggs flowing with poisonous blood… It used its two large pincers to support its body and quickly swung towards Wan Zi.

When a huge zombie with no weaknesses found was rushing towards you, it was impossible to say that you were not afraid.

But Wan Zi couldn’t retreat. If she retreated, no one behind her could withstand the zombie in front of her.

If she retreated further, behind her were the old, weak, women, and children of the camp.

“Get behind me!!!”

Wan Zi, who rarely spoke loudly, was a little out of tune. She raised her hands and inserted them into the ground. The sand and soil infused with adhesive rushed up from the ground, forming a sand and soil cage to isolate the shrimp zombie inside.

“Boom—”

The shrimp zombie hit the pillar and made a huge shaking sound, but fortunately, Wan Zi’s pillar blocked the zombie.

Huff… fortunately it was blocked…

“Open—!”

Just when Wan Zi was about to take advantage of the victory and let others shoot, suddenly, the shrimp zombie in the sand and soil cage opened its curled abdomen covered with giant eggs.

After the abdomen was opened, Wan Zi saw that in the middle of the dense round eggs on the shrimp zombie’s abdomen, there was a round giant mouth.

And in the center of the giant mouth, there was a slightly glowing round insect egg.

“Wanzi! Be careful!”

“Pfft—”

With a disgusting squirting sound, the shrimp zombie, supporting its body with its giant claws, bit the insect egg in its mouth with its round mouth on its abdomen.

The viscous insect blood and venom sprayed towards Wan Zi at a speed that Wan Zi did not expect.

But a D-rank Awakened with muscle evolution next to her reacted faster than Wan Zi.

He rushed directly in front of Wan Zi, opened his arms, and took this venom spray for Wan Zi. His entire front was corroded by the venom and made sizzling sounds.

But even though he blocked it like this, a few drops of venom still passed him and dripped onto Wan Zi’s arm, melting through her clothes, corroding her flesh and blood, and leaving a deep wound visible to the bone.

Excruciating pain.

Not only in her hand, but also in front of her, her subordinate was gradually dissolving before her eyes.

Wan Zi felt that her brain was burning, but the anger was quickly extinguished by the heavy rain and the shrimp zombie in front of her that put another egg into its mouth again.

She had to stay calm… No matter how angry she was, she had to stay rational at this time… She was carrying not only her own life…

She absolutely couldn’t let this zombie run to the camp below along the water… Fortunately, it was discovered early, and there was still a chance to lure it away…

“Pfft—”

Pink gel shot out from Wan Zi’s hand and wrapped the fallen subordinate’s whole body. Although she didn’t know if this could save his life, at least it could prevent his flesh from being corroded by the venom.

“Damn it!”

Picking up the uncorroded rifle on the ground, Wan Zi rushed towards the cage of sand pillars.

“Dada-dada—”

Even when running and shooting, her marksmanship accurately hit the insect egg in the center of the zombie’s abdominal mouth. After the insect egg was blown up, the zombie had to reload its poisonous eggs.

Throwing away the rifle that had run out of bullets, Wan Zi had already rushed to the sand pillar, and her hands slammed into the sand pillar.

“Ch—”

A huge amount of gel connected all these sand pillars together, looking like the cage was filled with dripping glue.

The zombie struggled frantically in the gel, and these gels couldn’t stop it for long.

“Drink ah—!”

After imprisoning the shrimp zombie, Wan Zi’s bloody hands slammed into the mud in front of the cage. A huge mud pillar stabbed out diagonally, lifting the huge gel cage into the air.

Try to use this method to push this B zombie to a place far away from the camp before her blood crystals were exhausted…

No matter what…

“Boom—”
“Whoosh—”

Suddenly, just when Wan Zi was thinking about how to kill this tricky thing, a rumbling sound suddenly sounded from behind in the distance.

No… this sound seemed to have sounded before, but it was too far away, and coupled with the heavy rain, people thought it was thunder.

Wasn’t it thunder?!

Before Wan Zi could turn around to look, a blood-red stream of light, like a meteor, fell directly from the sky and slammed into the sand and soil cage that Wan Zi had just lifted.

“Rumble—”

The sand and soil cage, which had not flown far, was directly pressed to the ground by the red stream of light, making a huge vibration sound. Mud and stones even splashed onto Wan Zi’s face.

“Rumble—”

A bolt of lightning struck in the distance, making a loud explosion. And the flash brought by this thunder also allowed Wan Zi to see more directly what the red stream of light in front of her was.

This was…

In the white light of the lightning, Wan Zi saw a figure with long golden hair, holding the terrifying head of the shrimp zombie with one hand in the rain.

It was a… woman?

And she was a beautiful woman with a slender body and a very beautiful and well-proportioned figure.

But what the “beauty” was doing at this time was enough to make people dumbfounded.

Her left foot stepped on the ground, her right foot stepped on the tail fin of the shrimp zombie, her right hand was raised high, her right hand was covered with a blood-red, black giant claw that was unknown whether it was flesh or something, and she was firmly grasping the shrimp’s head.

And the position where she was standing was exactly the blind spot of the two huge shrimp pincers—in the “arms” of the shrimp zombie.

Maybe the shrimp zombie itself didn’t expect that someone would directly send themselves to its mouth.

The shrimp zombie, which didn’t have much intelligence, its abdominal mouthparts wriggled directly, and with a “pop” sound, it bit the poisonous egg in its mouth.

“Be careful!”

“Pfft—”

Wan Zi was still too late to shout.

The venom sprayed on the woman’s body, emitting bursts of white smoke… but it didn’t even burn through her body!

What the hell was this person?!

Soon, the golden-haired “woman” proved to Wan Zi with her actions again that she was really not a human.

Seemingly curious about the structure of the poisonous egg, the woman’s free left hand stretched out directly and forcibly pulled out a fist-sized insect egg from the shrimp zombie’s abdomen.

Then, under everyone’s gaze, she directly… put the insect egg… into her mouth.

Without even chewing, the insect egg was swallowed whole. In less than a second, the muscles of the woman’s whole body began to wriggle as if they were alive.

Under Wan Zi’s horrified gaze, the woman slowly opened her mouth to the shrimp zombie in front of her.

“Pfft—”

A black insect egg with a similar structure was ejected from the woman’s mouth and hit the shrimp zombie’s mouthparts and exploded. Then black blood splashed, and the shrimp zombie’s body was quickly corroded by the black blood.

The golden-haired woman shook her head slightly, seemingly not very satisfied with this ability.

This… this… this woman… used an ability similar to that of the shrimp zombie?

No… this was not a human… this must be a human-shaped zombie!

All the actions of the golden-haired “woman” violated everyone’s common sense. Soon, under the watchful eyes of everyone, the giant claw in the woman’s hand clenched tightly, directly crushing the entire head of the shrimp zombie!

“Pop—”

The bursting brain matter splashed everywhere, but soon seemed to be attracted, and poured into the woman’s body. If you looked closely, you could see that it was black and red mycelium that was pulling the splashed debris into the woman’s body.

Under this rapid devouring, besides a small amount of black blood, only two shining blood crystals were left on the ground.

The golden-haired “woman” lowered her right hand, which had turned into a black giant claw, and pinched the two blood crystals with the tip of her claw. Then, the blood crystals disappeared out of thin air in her hand.

“Boom—”

Without any eye contact, or even a word, the monster-like woman bent her knees slightly and directly leaped to the top of the mountain with a long jump that ordinary people could not understand.

Then, on the top of the mountain, another booming sound of jumping sounded again, and the golden-haired woman’s body turned into a stream of light, dragging a blood-thread-like “tail wing”, and gliding towards the distance.

What the hell…

What happened?

The surroundings fell into silence. Wan Zi stared blankly at the sky, countless question marks flashing in her mind.

But the mountainside that had calmed down and the continuous heavy rain finally brought Wan Zi back to her senses.

“Damn it! Don’t stand there! Carry the wounded down! Quick, quick, quick!!!”

B-rank, absolutely the legendary B-rank! It was just unclear whether it was a zombie or a human… Looking at the ability, it didn’t seem like a human, but it didn’t attack them, so it didn’t seem like a zombie…

Since the other party didn’t trouble her, that was a good thing… Instead of dwelling on this, it was better to quickly carry the wounded down for rescue.

The wounded were quickly carried down the mountain for treatment under the command, and the golden-haired figure, the blood-red stream of light, and the scarlet tail wing left a deep impression and a deep sense of powerlessness on everyone present.

It was as if in front of that terrifying blood crystal entity, they were all insects, and their lives would be destroyed in an instant…

Too terrifying… B-rank…

Unlike the people in the Qingzhou University Camp, there was the person of that blood-red stream of light.

At this time, Lin Jiayao was gliding towards the next C-rank zombie, smacking her lips in the air, as if she was reminiscing about something, completely not thinking about what happened just now.

After swallowing the insect egg just now, A4 also obtained a similar ability, but it was basically useless.

It was not needed to deal with the weak, and it could not be used to deal with the strong. It was quite useless for the B-rank A4.

What made Lin Jiayao more gratified was that A4’s sense of taste seemed to have evolved to B-rank and could block some disgusting tastes.

It was also possible that A4’s definition of delicious was different.

Just like just now, she directly swallowed the insect egg without feeling any disgust, and it was even sour and a little appetizing.

Of course, this was also related to Lin Jiayao’s strong psychological quality.

As someone who had eaten raw Lurkers and swallowed raw Biters, Hunters, and Sprinters, and even enjoyed unlimited refills in her “mind”, swallowing a poisonous egg raw really didn’t have any psychological pressure on her.

Maybe under the influence of 【Hunting Rhythm】, she did these things like instinct, without causing any psychological discomfort or nausea, and she was in a very good state.

Leaving aside the ability, in terms of the taste and texture of various zombies, Lin Jiayao should be considered an expert.

People had seen people being chased and bitten by zombies, but others had definitely not seen people chasing and biting zombies.

In the next two hours, Lin Jiayao hunted seven C-rank zombies and obtained more than fourteen blood crystals.

She arrived at the Extraction Point half an hour early with the blood crystals, and planned to quickly collect a wave of Zombie Loot Boxes after going out, quickly check if there was anything new in the Hideout, and what needed to be upgraded, and then go to sleep to replenish her energy.

It should be around nine or ten o’clock in the evening outside, and she could still rest for a long time.

But just after she extracted, put the blood crystals into the Warehouse in the settlement space, and just clicked the button to leave the settlement interface, her eyes went black and she fainted.

Before fainting, Lin Jiayao sighed slowly in her heart.

Sure enough, her mental power was still not enough…

After seeing Mask tomorrow, she would go to Goldie’s place to “harvest” and see if she could evolve Goldie.

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Seven: A4’s Delicacy p1

After closing her eyes in her sister’s arms, Lin Jiayao switched her consciousness again and came to A4’s body.

The extraction had not yet been completed. It had been delayed a bit just now, and the remaining extraction time was about two and a half hours.

However, what happened just now was somewhat meaningful, both for the sisters and for other survivors.

If the transaction with Survivor’s Light was successful, they could share information and develop together.

They could even use Chongyu City as a transit point to establish a triangular trade route of Donghai City → Chongyu City → Kun City. They only needed to teach Survivor’s Light the method of cultivating “airplanes”(giant insects) used by the Voodoo Cult, which was not a secret that couldn’t be told anyway.

If this route was really cleared successfully, the sisters would not have to worry about blood crystals and supplies, and it would benefit not only Survivor’s Light, but also all the survivors within the radiation range of this large triangular trade.

This could give some camps with increasingly scarce supplies a little breathing room.

As for how to open up this road, it was not a problem that Lin Jiayao needed to consider, but something that Survivor’s Light should consider.

“Huff…” Lin Jiayao slowly exhaled.

Taking advantage of the remaining two and a half hours, Lin Jiayao planned to spend two hours slaughtering all the high-level zombies in Qingzhou City and collecting some blood crystals.

After experiencing the system-hosted surgery, consuming blood crystals during the operation, and then giving Huayibai some blood crystals to replenish energy, Lin Jiayao only had six blood crystals left.

She had to work hard to collect more blood crystals.

Speaking of collecting blood crystals, Lin Jiayao had another good place in mind.

That was America, Wisconsin, where Goldie was located.

She had a map of all the Hive Zombie areas there, and the largest Hive Zombie had already been slaughtered by her and Huayibai. What she needed to do next was to take Huayibai and slaughter them all.

That was a rich place…

But she also needed to find time to ask Jiang Chun through the radio where there were more high-level zombies. She still had a vacant No. 6 slot. Now that she was settled, she could choose a good place to log in, just like scratching a lottery ticket.

Now, even if she scratched out an A-rank zombie and fell into a coma for a few days, she believed that her sister could take good care of her.

Gradually, the world highly summarized by threads in Lin Jiayao’s eyes was re-dyed with color, and Lin Jiayao exited the super-sensory state.

Lin Jiayao had marked all the places with C-rank zombies. There were no B-rank zombies in Qingzhou City, and there was no suspense in this hunt.

But what surprised Lin Jiayao a little was that behind the Qingzhou University Camp… there was actually a hidden C-rank zombie, and it was one she had never seen before.

But judging from its appearance, it seemed to be a water-dwelling type.

Anyway, she had to clear out all the C-rank zombies in this city. Might as well start with the zombie behind the Qingzhou University Camp.

After all, the leader of this camp, Wan Zi, sold her and her sister a car and a carload of supplies at a low price when she and her sister needed help, and did not take advantage of the situation.

Not to mention the free use of camp facilities she provided, the car alone was enough for Lin Jiayao to remember this favor.

Without that car, Lin Xiwan would not have been able to reach Kun City before Wu Hejun found them. If she couldn’t reach Kun City, there would be no subsequent events, and there would be no stable living environment now.

Lin Jiayao was used to exploiting zombies and a certain system, and didn’t like owing favors. She just took this opportunity to repay it.

She raised her right hand, slowly brushed her smooth blonde hair on her right shoulder behind her, and took a deep breath.

“Boom—”

She manipulated A4’s body to jump directly in place, shattering the asphalt on the ground, and directly leaped over the bridge, landing steadily on the ground.

【Extracting: 7.9】

When she reached the middle of the bridge, the extraction icon flashed for 0.1 seconds, and then disappeared because of Lin Jiayao’s rapid passage.

As long as she left the Extraction Point before the countdown ended, Lin Jiayao could still move freely. If she arrived at the Extraction Point again before the extraction time was up, she could still successfully extract.

“Boom—”

With another jump, Lin Jiayao’s figure turned into a blood-red stream of light, rapidly approaching the Qingzhou University Camp.

……

“Sister Wanzi, why didn’t you tell her clearly about the situation of our camp?”

“Yeah, we have to find a new foothold quickly. The water here is too toxic, and we can’t grow crops. We can’t stay here anymore…”

“You guys should say less. Sister Wanzi must have thought more than you…”

In the broadcasting room on the second floor of the administrative building, a group of low-level Awakened were surrounding Wan Zi, offering advice.

Just here, they witnessed the process of Wan Zi talking with the leader of another “big organization”.

The other party obviously had a friendship with the Qingzhou University Camp, and they had also taught all the unique skills of planting crops after the apocalypse that they knew. In their opinion, it was not unreasonable to make a request for help.

After all, they had also helped the other party.

“Sigh…” Hearing the discussions of others, Wan Zi slowly sighed.

Hearing the sigh, the others stopped whispering and looked in Wan Zi’s direction.

“Do you really think that an organization that can survive for so long in the apocalypse without hearing about the need for material exchange will lack the ability to be self-sufficient?”

Hearing Wan Zi’s question, the others also fell silent.

Indeed, they didn’t even know the name of the other party’s organization and where the camp was, and they hadn’t even heard any radio or camp mention it for so many years.

You know, even the Qingzhou University Camp, in the past, needed to regularly exchange vegetables with the nearby Fuzhou Cannery Camp for some meat cans to obtain meat.

If a camp or organization didn’t even need to exchange with other camps, they could only think of two.

One was the former Voodoo Cult, and the other was the former Survivor’s Light.

Both of these organizations could produce everything from canned food to vegetables and grains. The only difference was that the Voodoo Cult preferred to rob others rather than produce their own.

Now, one of these two organizations had its lair destroyed, and the other was severely damaged and had not yet recovered. The organization where the Lin sisters were located should be the largest organization in the south now.

Would such an organization lack food? What a joke. Didn’t you hear that Survivor’s Light had to beg them to buy seeds?

“Then what do they mean…”

If they didn’t lack anything, there must be a reason why they specifically contacted the Qingzhou University Camp.

“Is it… recruitment?” A young man said hesitantly, “Was the conversation just now an ‘interview’?”

“Hmm…” Wan Zi pondered for a while, then shook her head, “I don’t know… but I don’t rule it out.”

“Sigh… Instead of thinking about these unrealistic things, let’s think about how to solve the water source problem… Have you found the source of the poison?”

“No, they are still investigating the back mountain. Now they should have reached Tianjing Lake.”

Tianjing Lake was a low-lying area on the mountainside of the back mountain, a small lake formed by the convergence of rain and dew. The stream flowing from the mountain to the campus was drawn from this lake.

If the source of the poison could not be found, it was very likely to be in the lake.

Finding the source of the poison and transferring or destroying the poison was the only chance they had to save the water.

“Rumble—”

While they were discussing, a loud noise suddenly came from the back mountain, and the whole building felt a slight shaking.

“What’s going on?!”

“Something happened on the back mountain!”

“Quick! Quick to help!”

“Can you contact them?!”

“No! No response to the call!”

Through the rain curtain, Wan Zi could see fire and thick smoke rising from the back mountain… This was obviously the movement caused by the C-rank Awakened who led the team.

The situation she least wanted to encounter appeared… The Voodoo Cult, had left a back hand…

She had to rush over to support them.

The Awakened in the administrative building didn’t even have time to put on raincoats. They braved the heavy rain and drove quickly towards the back mountain.

When they reached the foot of the mountain, the vehicles could no longer continue. They climbed up the muddy ground, and Wan Zi was naturally the one rushing in front.

“Boom—”

Another violent explosion came, followed by a rolling mudslide… The mountain could not withstand such a violent explosion, and it slid down under the scouring of the heavy rain.

“Damn…”

Wan Zi, who had always been calm, couldn’t help but curse at the sight of the rolling mountain torrent.

“Hold on!”

Wan Zi only had time to shout this sentence in the heavy rain. She had already knelt on the ground, and her right hand with blood crystal veins flashing inserted into the ground.

“Crack—”

A five-meter-high semicircular giant wall made of sand and soil blocked in front of everyone.

The rolling mud and water mixed with boulders smashed into the sand and stone shield, breaking the outer shell of the sand and stone shield, revealing the soft pink colloid inside.

It was these glue-like pink liquids that bonded these sands and stones to form a shield, not directly controlling these inorganic substances.

This mudslide came quickly and stopped quickly. Until she felt that nothing was impacting the shield, Wan Zi slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

The sand and soil wall bonded by the pink adhesive blocked a large amount of mud and rocks, creating a survival zone for the people behind.

Thanks to this mudslide, the trees and gullies blocking the road in front were basically buried, leaving a muddy road.

“Quick!”

After confirming that the mudslide would not fall again, Wan Zi led the team to rush up again.

With the road paved by the mudslide, they quickly rushed to Tianjing Lake on the mountainside and saw a large area of pits and devastation beside the lake.

Several investigators led by C-ranks were lying in the rain, their lives and deaths unknown. And the huge creature standing in the middle of these bodies, preparing to enjoy, was a…

It was difficult for Wan Zi to describe its appearance, but according to experience, it was a shrimp.

It was a monster with a white translucent shell almost five meters long. The huge head, which occupied almost half of its body, was not protected by a shell, but exposed the black brain and pink, granular gonads inside.

A sharp spike with serrations on the top gleamed coldly under the moonlight. On the huge black double pincers, there were still some human limbs and blood, which were constantly being washed away by the rain.

And its segmented, slightly arched and curled body was wrapped in a large mass of dense green eggs.

These fist-sized eggs also had some red crystals flashing inside, like a large mass of huge eyes staring at people.

What the hell… was this monster!!!

Wan Zi was almost scared to retreat, but she still stood firm.

This was definitely not a native mutated zombie of Qingzhou City… It came from somewhere else!!!

It was very likely that it was brought by the Voodoo Cult, and then raised in the lake water as a low-level zombie to prevent poison when besieging the camp.

But before the Voodoo Cult left, the frantic Voodoo Cult also left a few blood crystals to help it evolve, in order to completely destroy the camp.

Even if the Voodoo Cult was gone… these people’s hearts were still vicious.

It wasn’t that the Voodoo Cult made these people vicious, but that in the apocalypse, these twisted people gathered together… and became more and more crazy in the atmosphere of the Voodoo Cult.

Now even if the Voodoo Cult was gone, their spirits might not return to normal—they were used to being crazy, used to killing, used to being wild.

“A bunch of self-defeating lunatics!” Wan Zi cursed, waved her right fist and shouted, “What are you waiting for! Shoot!!!”

“Dada-dada—”
“Bang—bang—bang—”

The combat personnel behind Wan Zi began to shoot with the guns in their hands.

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Six: Perfect Hunt p3

Lin Jiayao encouragingly patted Huayibai’s head lightly, signaling her to continue.

Then, Huayibai continued:

“Then she stopped for a long time. I don’t know if the line was disconnected. Later, she connected again and told me that she didn’t want to find my mother, but the leader of the organization behind me.”

When Huayibai said this, she pursed her lips and said angrily, “She seemed to not understand human language. Huayibai had already said that Huayibai had no organization and no superior, but she still didn’t understand.”

“But Huayibai remembered what Mommy said, don’t get angry easily, so Huayibai held back, Huayibai used ’empathy’!”

“Yes,” Lin Jiayao nodded, indicating that she was listening carefully, and at the same time continued to stimulate Huayibai’s desire to talk, “What did you say?”

“Don’t you have a mother?” Huayibai said proudly.

“Hiss—”

Lin Xiwan and Lin Jiayao inhaled sharply at the same time. Lin Xiwan put her bent right index finger under her nose in a thinking pose, and Lin Jiayao touched her upper lip with her left hand. Both of them coincidentally covered their mouths.

It would be impolite to laugh out loud.

Huayibai didn’t know why her mother was smiling. In her thinking, what she said was indeed said after empathy.

Huayibai had already said that Huayibai only listened to Mommy, but you still don’t understand. Don’t you have a mother?

Of course, Huayibai was just asking, and didn’t mean to scold anyone.

But her words didn’t sound so friendly to others.

After a long time, there was a reply from Survivor’s Light. Unexpectedly, Jiang Chun directly apologized to Huayibai.

“Although I don’t know where I offended you, please listen to what I have to say… The seeds your organization has are very important to us, to humanity…”

Then, Jiang Chun, in this radio conversation, told everyone listening to the radio the truth about the decline of Survivor’s Light, and the changes and breakthroughs that Survivor’s Light had been making during this time.

As expected, most of the people listening, including the people in the Qingzhou University Camp, were moved by this description.

Struggling for many years in the apocalypse made them more able to empathize with the experience of Survivor’s Light—the raging of an unknown “virus”, struggling to find a way out, and making necessary changes.

At the same time, Jiang Chun also confessed the current situation of Donghai City and Survivor’s Light.

The vast majority of people had been infected. Fortunately, most people could rely on solar electrostatic collars to prevent the mycelium from spreading to the brain.

Only a small number of Awakened and ordinary people had the ability to be immune to mycelium. Every time, they had to be completely disinfected and even undergo enemas and induced vomiting before they were allowed to leave Donghai City to carry out search missions or clear zombies.

This was to prevent zombie spores from being spread by the bodies of the traveling personnel.

Jiang Chun absolutely did not allow her people to become carriers of zombie spore dispersal. She might have made mistakes before when she didn’t know, but after realizing it, she couldn’t make them again.

Moreover, Donghai City was becoming more and more restless. The most significant change was that Chongming Island had been swallowed by the sea due to unexplained vibrations. The unknown creatures in the sea seemed to be starting to attack the mainland.

After describing the predicament and the confusion of the organization’s personnel here, after hearing this radio conversation, Jiang Chun had a way to keep the organization’s people enthusiastic.

Obtain seeds, plant them, make emergency relief food, and after high-temperature and electrostatic sterilization and packaging, the remaining immune Awakened would carry these supplies to rescue any camps around that needed food.

Although they could no longer set their sights on clearing the zombies in the entire China, as long as they could help the people around them and continue to let Survivor’s Light operate, it would not cause the half-human, half-fungal “survivors” of Survivor’s Light to collapse.

Jiang Chun made a request to Huayibai, which was to use blood crystals to exchange for some uncontaminated seeds.

Survivor’s Light had already conducted experiments. The spores and mycelium that infected Survivor’s Light were all the same species, and this species only infected flesh and blood creatures, and did not infect plants, which meant that it would not affect planting.

As long as the canned food was sterilized by static electricity after it was produced, it would not carry any living spores.

Survivor’s Light, after experiencing a series of changes, had changed its positioning from a “lighthouse” to an “oasis”. They wanted to use their technical reserves and factories to help others by providing food aid.

And this was why Lin Jiayao later heard Huayibai say that she had to ask her mother before she could decide.

This transaction had to be confirmed by Huayibai after asking her mother before it could proceed.

After listening to Huayibai’s narration, Lin Xiwan looked at Lin Jiayao, and Lin Jiayao also looked at her sister. The two looked at each other.

“Our location here… seems to be exposed?”

“Yes.” Lin Jiayao nodded, but didn’t seem surprised.

“Aren’t you worried?” Lin Xiwan asked her sister in a low voice.

“Worried about what?” Lin Jiayao blinked and asked back.

As long as it was a defensive battle in Kun City, Lin Jiayao could exert B-rank strength, and there was also Huayibai, who was also B-rank, supporting her. Even A4 was approaching. Lin Jiayao couldn’t find a reason to be nervous.

Moreover, Lin Jiayao knew her sister very well.

The further into the apocalypse, the more resources would become depleted, and there would be more and more camp help messages on the radio.

And Kun City, which was very rich in resources, was only enjoyed by the two sisters Lin Xiwan and Lin Jiayao, plus Huayibai. Lin Jiayao didn’t believe that her sister, who was extremely humanitarian, wouldn’t have the idea of rescuing others after being idle for a long time.

Just like when her sister was a D-rank in the resort camp, she still thought about Survivor’s Light, which was like a lighthouse at that time. Her personality was like this and would not change easily.

So Lin Jiayao had already made plans before entering Kun City that this place might become a new large camp, and her sister would become the new leader.

Now, it was just that the plan might be a little ahead of schedule. Originally, Lin Jiayao wanted to stay here for a while longer, use her body and resources to nourish her sister, and let her sister rise to B-rank before talking about it.

Of course, it wasn’t that fast now. It was just a simple transaction request.

But judging from the heavy rain in Qingzhou City… Kun City might soon welcome the first batch of “refugees”.

But fortunately, Lin Jiayao’s impression of the Qingzhou University Camp was still relatively good. Except for their liking to spread rumors and some false information, everything else was pretty good.

Most importantly, there were a group of people who knew how to farm, and they were self-sufficient after the apocalypse.

If they were absorbed, the sisters wouldn’t have to do the farming themselves.

She had to divide an area in advance that only she, her sister, and Huayibai could enter. Lin Jiayao still cared about this kind of private space. If she and her sister were so intimate all the time and were seen by others, who knows what kind of misunderstandings would arise.

It was clearly just a pure sisterly relationship.

“Agree to her request. Let her send people to pick them up. They don’t need to come to Kun City. Let them pick them up at the Voodoo Cult camp.”

Huayibai could now mimic a huge flying insect and could complete long-distance material transportation tasks.

She only needed to transport the things to Chongyu and let them pick them up. This way, they wouldn’t go too far in terms of distance, and it could also let them know that the Voodoo Cult was really destroyed, and she could also spend some more time with her sister without being disturbed…

Oh, it was three people, there was also Huayibai.

As for those blood crystals, just let Huayibai digest them herself, as if Huayibai was earning pocket money for herself by transporting goods.

After truly experiencing the battle between B-ranks and understanding the limits of her abilities, Lin Jiayao was no longer timid about various things.

Even if her sister really wanted to establish a camp, she could be behind her sister and give her all her support… As long as her sister was happy, everything was worth it.

“Eh…”

While Huayibai closed her eyes to contact them, Lin Xiwan hugged her sister again and sighed, sticking to her sister’s cheek, “I thought you would refuse… after all, it was not easy to find this quiet place.”

Lin Jiayao also leaned her body back on her sister in a more relaxed manner, smiled and said:

“Anyway, later on, sister, you will also accept others into Kun Province for refuge… This can be considered as making early contact with the outside world.”

“Eh? No way… I…” Lin Xiwan still wanted to be stubborn, but looking at her sister’s beautiful eyes with a faint smile, she couldn’t say the tough words, and could only sigh, “That’s true.”

“Don’t sigh,” Lin Jiayao leaned back, her head resting on her sister’s shoulder, raised her chin, and said softly in her sister’s ear, “Whatever sister wants to do, I will support you.”

“Hmph… you’re so sweet…” Lin Xiwan felt the warm breath on her earlobe, and hearing her sister’s words, her heart warmed, and she hummed.

“Okay… I’m going to sleep if there’s nothing else…”

Seeing that Huayibai was communicating normally, Lin Jiayao tilted her head and fell asleep again.

My zombie hasn’t extracted yet… and I can also listen to whether Huayibai has said anything wrong through A4.

Lin Jiayao was considering correcting Huayibai in the future, so that she would say less words with “Mom” to avoid any unnecessary misunderstandings.

And Lin Xiwan, seeing her sister suddenly fall asleep, also knew that her sister was now in a dream, controlling the zombie.

She hugged her sister and carefully lay down, for fear of waking up or hurting her precious sister.

Recalling what her sister said, the corners of Lin Xiwan’s mouth couldn’t help but curl up slightly again.

They could both feel each other’s kindness and care for each other. They were each other’s irreplaceable “treasure” and “oasis” in the apocalypse.

Yes, as long as they were together, it was fine…

Lin Xiwan smelled her sister’s hair fragrance, slowly closed her eyes, and waited hopefully for the arrival of the next day.

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Six: Perfect Hunt p2

Custom Waypoint?

The Hideout had been fully upgraded?

Could everything inside be upgraded?

It seemed that not only her mental power and evolution, but the evolution of the loggable zombies was also counted in the unlocking conditions of the Hideout.

This meant that Lin Jiayao could try to evolve the 【Control Center】 again, making the login cooldown and evolution time shorter, and gaining more slots.

In an instant, Lin Jiayao felt a pain in her liver.

It felt like a game developer constantly giving you “fatigue potions” and rewards, but your liver couldn’t keep up.

In any case, she should first control A4 to successfully extract, and then think about the Hideout.

Thinking this, Lin Jiayao looked at the locations of the four Extraction Points again.

None of these Extraction Point locations were close, and except for the Beijiang Bridge Extraction Point to the north, the other three Extraction Points had already left Fuzhou City.

Zhujiang Bridge was in Yangzhou City, Yuejiang Bridge was in Qingzhou City, and Lion Head Mountain Extraction Point was in Chongshan City.

According to the method of judging danger by distance, Yangzhou City to the east was the closest and most dangerous, and Chongshan City to the south was second.

Yangzhou City… was now judged by the system to be the most dangerous place?

These two dangerous places were, without exception, close to the sea, while Qingzhou City to the west and the direction to the north were relatively far from the sea.

Coupled with the continuous heavy rain, Lin Jiayao had a bad feeling.

Why was it raining again…

The continuous heavy rain was definitely not normal. Even a typhoon couldn’t last this long, and the rain had already stopped when Lin Jiayao and her sister left Fuzhou City before.

This rain was not a natural disaster, but most likely some kind of phenomenon.

A phenomenon that Lin Jiayao had not yet explored… and it was probably related to the sea.

Should she go to the seaside?

Lin Jiayao thought for a moment and gave up the idea of letting A4 take the risk.

Although A4 was already B-rank, Lin Jiayao had felt the shaking from the bottom of the sea from a long distance when she was in Dongying… That was not a strength that an ordinary B-rank could resist.

The ocean, which occupies about 71% of the Blue Star, breeds zombies that are far more terrifying than land zombies…

Exclude the seaside. Lin Jiayao still needed to keep A4 to constantly harvest evolutions from it. She couldn’t let it go to the seaside and die.

As for whether to go north or west, Lin Jiayao chose to go west.

Now that she could choose the Extraction Point herself, she would let A4 try to go in the direction of Kun Province, so they could support each other.

Uh… referring to A4 being able to support Lin Jiayao’s main body.

A4 could rush over a thousand kilometers in one day, so a mere 90 kilometers was naturally nothing.

Therefore, Lin Jiayao wasn’t in a hurry to retreat immediately. Instead, she briefly activated the wide-area super-sense and searched for stronger mutated zombies in Fuzhou City.

At this time, there were no traces of Awakened or ordinary people in Fuzhou City. It was a veritable ghost city.

Soon, Lin Jiayao marked all the C-rank mutated zombies and started running towards the Hunter closest to her.

“Thump—”
“Thump—”

Lin Jiayao’s figure kept jumping between the buildings, and soon arrived outside a bathhouse a kilometer away.

“Clang—”

Her figure flashed in the air, accurately smashing through a huge piece of glass, and landed in a room in the bathhouse. She swept a whip kick at a three-meter-tall Hunter that was crouched over a Biter corpse

“Roar—”

The C-rank Hunter only had time to let out an angry roar. Before it could see who the attacker was, it was pierced through the heart by a black sword.

The blood-red tendrils attached to the sword frantically decomposed and devoured this large Hunter. The tendrils quickly wrapped its entire body and “melted” into the sword.

The energy in it was then quickly transmitted to Lin Jiayao’s body through the tendrils connected to the sword.

Precise positioning, fast hunting, efficient devouring. Lin Jiayao was like a killing machine without emotion, repeating this set of killing actions.

She was replenishing the energy consumed by verifying some of her abilities just now, to avoid encountering any danger on the road.

There were countless treasures on every B-rank zombie waiting for Lin Jiayao to obtain one by one. She couldn’t let these B-rank zombies die in her hands. She had to be cautious.

A black and red figure was rapidly killing in Fuzhou City under the night. Later, in order to increase the recovery speed, she didn’t let go of any mutated zombies along the way. Finally, after half an hour, she recovered her body to almost peak level.

Although her body had recovered, Lin Jiayao’s mental power definitely couldn’t support her to play with instant building slicing again. The most important thing now was to get to the vicinity of the Extraction Point first.

If she “Lost” the logged-in zombie not because of battle or accident, but because she didn’t reach the Extraction Point, that would be the most infuriating thing.

After feeling that her body had almost recovered, Lin Jiayao aimed at the direction of the Yuejiang Bridge Extraction Point and rushed straight over.

“Boom—”

When her speed increased to near the apex, Lin Jiayao stomped on the ground fiercely. With a sound of the ground exploding, her body flew upwards diagonally like a cannonball.

“Whoosh—”

The fierce wind and rain swept past Lin Jiayao’s ears. In the air, the flesh of her lower torso gradually began to shrink until only the flesh tightly clinging to the bones remained.

And the armor plates on her wings, scapula, and the wing-like tendril nets began to emerge, supporting her like a hang glider and gliding forward.

She streaked across the night sky in a blood-red stream of light, gliding forward in a parabola for several kilometers.

“Boom—!”

Then, when she was about to fall to the ground, her legs began to swell and fill with energy again. She stomped on the ground fiercely, crushing a large area of the road again, and bounced out.

And this bounce made her speed so fast that it was almost blurry to the human eye. A blood-red thread nearly ten meters long was also pulled out from the tail of her tendril wings, as if the tendrils at the tail couldn’t keep up with her speed.

Under such extreme speed jumping and running, she was rapidly approaching the direction of the Yuejiang Bridge Extraction Point in Qingzhou City.

It was imaginable how terrifying the damage would be if she pounced on an enemy at this speed.

It seemed that A4 was constantly evolving towards the perfect hunter, efficient.

Now Lin Jiayao understood what Huayibai meant by the blonde mommy “flying away” and “couldn’t be caught up with”.

If the system was in control, the system could calculate the most suitable force and the most perfect landing point, which could indeed create an effect of “flying”.

But if Lin Jiayao trained more in the Training Grounds and developed muscle memory and conditioned reflexes, she should also be able to achieve that level.

But that was all for later.

In this state of high-speed “flying”, Lin Jiayao approached the Extraction Point at a speed faster than she had imagined.

Until Lin Jiayao used a large number of bone spikes to “emergency brake” on the road in front of the Extraction Point, creating a “brake track” nearly fifty meters long that looked like it had been plowed, she steadily stopped in front of the Extraction Point located on the bridge.

After seeing the Extraction Point, Lin Jiayao didn’t feel relaxed, but frowned.

The river in front of her… Was the water level rising a little too exaggeratedly?

The river was surging in an abnormally fierce manner. With the help of the heavy rain, it had already submerged the riverside path below the slope.

Although there was still a long way to go before it submerged the road and the bridge, it was not difficult to suspect that if the heavy rain continued like this, the water level would rise sooner or later.

This reminded Lin Jiayao of Yangzhou City before she left. Due to its proximity to the sea and the unprecedentedly strong typhoon, the water level had already submerged the road before Lin Jiayao left.

Although she didn’t know what the situation in Yangzhou City was now, judging from the intensity of the heavy rain around, the situation should not be optimistic.

Lin Jiayao looked at her extraction time. There were still about three hours left, thanks to A4’s ability to run.

Anyway, whether she extracted early or late, the mental consumption was about the same. Thinking that she had already reached the Extraction Point and could earn a little, Lin Jiayao activated the wide-area super-sense.

Most of Qingzhou City turned into countless threads in Lin Jiayao’s eyes. Her vision could almost penetrate all the threads and detect all the blood crystals inside.

Not surprisingly, in addition to the roaring zombies, there were many survivors wandering around in Qingzhou City. She even heard the sound of a camp, and Lin Jiayao could even hear their conversations.

It should be the Qingzhou University Camp.

Not surprisingly, this super-sense ability was definitely a fusion of Blood Crystal Vision and Bone Spike Lurker’s evolved version. Lin Jiayao wondered if she could choose this evolution.

Although the consumption was a bit high, it was really useful.

Coupled with Lin Jiayao’s own 【Hemophagy】 talent, she could almost achieve true “full map perspective” and “full map pursuit”.

Lin Jiayao slowly calmed down and began to carefully identify the large amount of information transmitted to her ears, locating the zombies with higher evolution levels.

But soon, a different piece of information was captured by Lin Jiayao.

“Ah this… buzz… but I have to ask my Mommy… buzz…”

This sound should have been quickly buried in the information flow, but because the voice was too familiar, Lin Jiayao still found it.

Through the ultra-long-distance vision, Lin Jiayao could see that this was a small silver thread woven object making the sound. There were a circle of humans standing around this instrument.

This was… a radio?

Huayibai?

Hadn’t she already written down those planting methods and ended the call?

Why was she still chatting on the radio?

Lin Jiayao quickly switched her consciousness, returned to her main body, and opened her eyes.

As soon as she opened her eyes, she could only see darkness, and even breathing was a little difficult.

Of course, this wasn’t because she was injured or sick, but just because of some external factors.

She slowly raised her head and looked in the direction of Huayibai on the next bed.

Unexpectedly, Huayibai was also sitting cross-legged on the bed, looking innocently in Lin Jiayao’s direction, her hands nervously pinching her white stockings.

Like a child who had done something wrong and was waiting for punishment.

In order not to disturb her sister’s rest, Lin Jiayao and Huayibai exchanged thoughts using a small strand of mycelium(tendrils) buried in each other’s bodies.

“What’s wrong?” Lin Jiayao asked silently, looking in Huayibai’s direction.

“I… don’t know…” Huayibai was so nervous that she even forgot to speak with the mycelium and spoke directly in a trembling voice.

Although Huayibai’s voice was very soft, it was still captured by the sleeping Lin Xiwan.

Lin Xiwan was very relaxed now and sleeping soundly, but the high alertness brought about by the long escape was still maintained.

The moment she woke up, Lin Xiwan subconsciously hugged her sister to her chest with her left hand, and then quickly propped herself up with her right hand, also bringing Lin Jiayao to sit up.

After protecting her sister in her arms, Lin Xiwan opened her eyes and looked around in a daze.

“Hmm?” Seeing that there was nothing wrong around, Lin Xiwan breathed a sigh of relief. She hugged her sister and leaned against the wall, then rubbed her eyes with her freed right hand.

“Ha… what’s wrong? Why are you all awake?” Lin Xiwan yawned and looked at her sister and Huayibai sitting in the hazy moonlight.

“There seems to be something going on with Huayibai…” Lin Jiayao said directly, as there was no need to hide these things from her sister, “But I don’t know what happened. I have to ask Huayibai.”

“Something going on?”

Hearing this, Lin Xiwan was a little confused.

They were very safe here. Even if someone came, the building-trees would resist first. There shouldn’t be any danger.

But hearing her sister say this, Lin Xiwan still loosened her legs that were clamping her sister, helped her sister adjust to a more comfortable sitting position, let her lean on herself, and then Lin Xiwan rested her chin on her sister’s shoulder, the two of them cheek to cheek, and looked at Huayibai together.

Under the gaze of the two, Huayibai, under great pressure, pursed her lips and said weakly:

“When I was about to end the call, a voice said ‘request to interrupt’, and then started talking to itself.”

“Someone you know?” Lin Jiayao asked.

Lin Xiwan knew that Huayibai wouldn’t talk to a stranger for no reason. It was very likely that it was someone Huayibai knew before.

“Yes.” Huayibai nodded at her mother, and said with a crying face, “It’s Aunt Jiang, she used to give me candy…”

“Aunt Jiang?” Lin Xiwan was confused.

And Lin Jiayao, after recalling for a moment, asked, “Is it from Survivor’s Light?”

Huayibai evolved from Survivor’s Light. If she had any acquaintances, it could only be people from Survivor’s Light.

A woman, surnamed Jiang, without a doubt, it was Jiang Chun, the red-haired big sister who played the speaker in the ten-thousand-person speech that Lin Jiayao took Huayibai to listen to that day.

As for why Huayibai had the memory of Jiang Chun giving her candy, it was also easy to explain.

Huayibai’s memory didn’t come out of thin air. Like other mycelia, she would devour the host’s memory.

When Huayibai was still an ordinary mycelium, she had already occupied a human body. Then, by chance, she gained her own thinking ability, but she instinctively still thought she was the original “Huayibai”.

According to when Lin Jiayao intervened in Survivor’s Light, before the B-rank Awakened Gu Wangran self-destructed to warn the world, Huayibai’s identity seemed to be the little granddaughter adopted by the B-rank Awakened in the apocalypse.

But… why would someone from Survivor’s Light suddenly contact Huayibai?

Did they hear her voice? Recognize Huayibai?

Lin Jiayao guessed, but she didn’t directly ask Huayibai. Instead, she beckoned to Huayibai.

“Hmm?” Huayibai was a little puzzled by her mother’s action, but she still obediently moved towards her mother and climbed onto her mother’s bed.

After Lin Jiayao’s hand could reach Huayibai, she reached out and rubbed Huayibai’s head, smiling and comforting her:

“It’s okay, take your time.”

Lin Jiayao’s attitude seemed to give Huayibai great courage, and Huayibai was no longer so cautious.

While enjoying her mother’s touch, she said:

“Aunt Jiang… as soon as she spoke, she asked if Huayibai’s organization was in the seed bank, and then said something like, if it wasn’t in the seed bank, there wouldn’t be so many kinds of seeds…”

“It seems that when Huayibai was talking to that Aunt Wan Zi, she was guessed to be in which place… but neither Aunt Wan Zi nor Aunt Jiang said this place.”

“Hmm…” Lin Jiayao rubbed Huayibai’s head and comforted her, “It’s okay. Survivor’s Light had pioneers who came to Kun Province before. Their understanding of this place is no less than ours. It’s normal to guess.”

While Lin Jiayao and Huayibai were communicating, Lin Xiwan, who was holding her sister, slowly widened her eyes.

Survivor’s Light? They… were still alive?

And Survivor’s Light’s B-rank Awakened Jiang Chun was still alive!

This was definitely good news for the survivors of China, at least much better than the people of the bottomless Voodoo Cult surviving.

Lin Xiwan also wanted to know the situation of Survivor’s Light. She couldn’t help holding her breath at this time, her sleepiness completely gone, and she listened carefully to the conversation between the two.

“What did she say after that?” Lin Jiayao saw that Huayibai was not afraid, so she continued to ask.

“Well… she said she wanted to talk to my superior, and asked me to report it. Then I told her that I didn’t have a superior, but I had a mother.”

Lin Xiwan and Lin Jiayao took a deep breath at the same time, but they still suppressed the urge to complain.

It could only be said that this way of thinking was very Huayibai.

 

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Six: Perfect Hunt p1

“No.1: 【Mask】 (Available) (Estimated Reset 51:41)”
“No.2: 【Building-Tree Guardian】 (Available)”
“No.3: 【Goldie】 (Available)”
“No.4: 【A4】 (Available)”
“No.5: 【Unnamed】 (Available)”
“No.6: 🌐 (Available)”

At this moment, Lin Jiayao, lying on the vine bed, was burying her face in her sister’s chest.

And her own legs, as usual, were tightly clamped by her sister.

After finding the most comfortable position, Lin Jiayao opened the login interface and saw the status of the zombies she could currently log into.

Mask would be back in Xin City in about an hour. Although this speed was not as fast as A4’s, it was still quite fast.

It was just that Lin Jiayao couldn’t imagine how Mask was running. What had it become after evolving?

However, Lin Jiayao didn’t want to waste an hour waiting just to see Mask. Right now, there was another B-rank zombie, A4, waiting for her “inspection”.

Lin Jiayao reached out, her finger tapping on A4, and her consciousness slowly sank into darkness.

“Whoosh—”
“Hah—”
“Whoosh—”
“Thump—”

Lin Jiayao’s consciousness had just transferred. Before she could even open her eyes, she heard a cacophony of hundreds of thousands of noises exploding in her ears.

But this sensation didn’t bring Lin Jiayao any discomfort. Before she could do anything, she had already adapted to this state of heightened senses.

This was the effect of A4’s original golden evolution, 【Hunting Rhythm】, which could always keep Lin Jiayao in the optimal hunting state, with top-notch self-regulation ability.

She slowly clenched her fists. It still felt like human fists… but the energy contained within was different from before.

She still didn’t open her eyes, simply feeling the wind around her and her own strength, and then subconsciously comparing it to her other B-rank zombie, No. 5.

In terms of agility and speed, it was definitely a complete victory over No. 5.

But in terms of strength and defense, Lin Jiayao, who had controlled many zombies, could tell from experience that A4 in its current state was far inferior to No. 5.

“Hiss—”

Lin Jiayao slowly took a breath and opened her eyes.

In Lin Jiayao’s eyes, everything around her had lost its original color. Whether it was tall buildings, zombies, or even the flowing wind, they all had different colors and shapes in Lin Jiayao’s eyes.

This should be the advanced version of Blood Crystal Vision.

The previous Blood Crystal Vision had a very large limitation. It could only see the location of blood crystals, but it wouldn’t show any obstacles.

So, at the beginning, A4, which hadn’t evolved Hunting Rhythm, just relied on instinct, bumping into walls like a fool.

Now, the buildings in her eyes had become grids composed of brown threads, and the zombies staying in the buildings were also outlined by blood-red threads.

Blue threads of rain were dripping, gray wind was “flowing”, and Lin Jiayao finally understood what the restless buzzing in her ears at the beginning was.

It was the sound of zombies walking or breathing.

Lin Jiayao slowly lowered her head and looked at her hands.

Golden threads formed her hands. As her fists clenched tightly, two huge, sharp blades hooked by golden threads burst out violently from her arms.

“Buzz—”

This time, it wasn’t the curved blades of the previous C-rank, but slender, sharp swords that looked like elongated triangles.

After the golden threads hooked into the shape of sharp swords, they didn’t stabilize within the blade, but uncontrollably spread golden threads around.

When these threads fell on the brown threads representing the building or the blue threads representing the rain, they would directly cut these threads and grids without any hindrance.

This was just one of A4’s several forms, a relatively simple attack form.

“Swish—”

Standing on the roof, Lin Jiayao, aimed at a corner of a building ten meters away, and flicked her right arm upwards.

The golden threads burst out with a whooshing sound, directly cutting the brown threads representing the building in half. The cut was so smooth that there wasn’t a single extra piece of rubble. This corner of the building directly slid down along the cut and fell towards the bottom.

Such a fierce attack power…

“Hiss—”
“Crack, crack—”

Lin Jiayao slowly exhaled, and her whole body began to twist and mutate.

Since she was going to test it, she might as well try A4’s strongest form.

“Chila—”

The blades that originally only extended from the arms to the back of the hands also broke through the flesh at the elbows, forming a curved blade behind the elbows.

From her shoulders and deltoid muscles, elongated armor plates, also expressed with golden threads, spread out, constantly covering downwards from the shoulders.

Like a set of armor, the important parts of Lin Jiayao’s exterior were quickly covered by solid armor plates, while her legs were broken and bent.

Her originally straight legs became two curved arcs covered by exoskeletons, looking like the legs of a Hunter, but more elegant and agile.

“Crack—”

And from her back, from the gaps in the armor and the spaces in the shoulder armor, streams of blood-red tendrils sprayed out, forming two wings like a cloak, expressed as red threads.

In this super-sensory thread perspective, Lin Jiayao could very intuitively feel the changes in her body.

If she had to find a creature similar to her current form… Lin Jiayao felt it was more like a Starcraft Protoss “Zealot” with a more slender and streamlined armor.

Or perhaps a “Kai’Sa”(League of Legends) with biological armor that was more aggressive and bloodthirsty?

After the armor was completely covered, Lin Jiayao slowly held her breath.

In her eyes, all the threads quickly faded, and that extraordinary perception was also rapidly detaching. Starting from afar, the world returned to a hazy gray color.

Dark clouds completely covered the dusk sky, and heavy rain poured down. All the threads disappeared without a trace. All that remained in Lin Jiayao’s ears was the pattering of rain.

Naturally, the golden threads on Lin Jiayao’s body also completely disappeared, replaced by a set of black armor plates with blood-red threads and terrifying, pulsating tendrils.

Except for the waist and joints that needed a lot of movement, most of her body was covered with this layer of black biological armor plates. The connections of the armor were blood-red tendrils used to transmit energy.

And the wings behind her were red tendril nets filled with energy, two tendril nets fluttering behind her, like wings or a cloak.

This mode was A4’s most balanced form. Besides this, Lin Jiayao knew of another berserk form that was extremely damaging to herself, and a speed form that enhanced the wings to pursue ultimate speed.

It was like an Ultraman transformation.

But it was undeniable that A4, after evolving to B-rank, could hunt in the city or any terrain with its super-senses and extremely strong physical qualities, becoming a veritable king of hunters.

If nothing unexpected happened, A4 would still be Lin Jiayao’s strongest zombie in terms of individual combat capability.

Lin Jiayao took a deep breath and looked down at the building a hundred meters below.

She was still standing on the roof of the previous building.

She might as well use this building to test A4’s attack power.

A scarlet light flashed in Lin Jiayao’s crimson pupils, and the super-sensory state that transformed everything in the world into threads covered the surroundings again.

But this time, this super-sensory state didn’t spread as wide as before, but only covered a radius of a hundred meters around Lin Jiayao.

In this fixed-point super-sensory state, Lin Jiayao felt her mental power rapidly draining. The building beneath her feet was already completely wrapped in brown and other colored threads.

Even the raindrops, symbolized by blue threads, falling from the sky began to slow down, almost to a standstill.

Of course, this wasn’t time stopping.

It was that Lin Jiayao’s thinking was accelerated in the fixed-point super-sensory state.

“Whoosh—”

In this slow-motion state, Lin Jiayao’s movements were not greatly affected.

As she waved her arms, the elongated water droplets touched by the golden thread swords were cut in half, and the threads shattered and exploded in slow motion.

Lin Jiayao’s body had already traced a golden-red intersecting thread, and she stomped down fiercely. The originally stable brown threads of the building began to collapse, and Lin Jiayao’s body also fell in slow motion.

“Ch—”

The flesh on her abdomen, not covered by armor, everted, and two bone spikes constructed of white threads ejected, hooking her body and moving it towards the outer wall, breaking free from the influence of the slow-motion fall.

“Chichichi—”
“Kakakaka—”

For a moment, only the sounds of bone spikes bursting could be heard. Lin Jiayao’s body flashed and moved between the buildings, reaching the first floor in less than half a minute.

But this was only the half-minute that Lin Jiayao perceived. In the world at normal speed, the speed of the raindrops falling was almost the same as her falling speed.

“Thump—”

Lin Jiayao landed heavily in front of the building, shattering the ground, and asphalt and stones splashed.

At this moment, Lin Jiayao turned off the extremely energy-consuming fixed-point super-sensory state.

“Crack—”
“Kakakaka—”
“Swish—”

Behind Lin Jiayao, a buzzing sound that seemed to be the superposition of hundreds of slashes sounded, and streaks of blood-red blade light flashed from top to bottom of the entire building.

Even at the end, there were several circular cutting blade lights on the outer wall of the building, as if someone had drawn a blade and slashed in the center of the building.

“Pitter-patter—”
“Rumble—”

This wasn’t thunder, but the sound of rain shattering into smaller water droplets hitting the ground, and the rumbling and cracking of the tall building.

In just a few seconds, Lin Jiayao, controlling A4, directly chopped a whole building into pieces like cutting tofu with a random knife!

“Boom—”

As if to add to the excitement, a thunderclap exploded not far away. Accompanied by the sound of thunder and lightning, the building, which had been broken into dozens of pieces, collapsed.

And Lin Jiayao, with a few backflips and rolls, moved away from the center of the collapsing rubble.

“Huff… huff…”

Lin Jiayao was breathing heavily, and the swords and armor on her body could no longer be maintained and retracted directly.

Waves of dizziness enveloped Lin Jiayao, but they still couldn’t stop the excitement in Lin Jiayao’s heart.

Such swift and fierce attack methods, such powerful individual combat capabilities, just hitting a “target” could make Lin Jiayao feel the exhilarating thrill of battle.

This was a feeling that No. 5’s crushing power, ultimate defense, and the powerful blood crystal pressure released through the vascular network couldn’t bring.

If No. 5 relied on its size and huge blood crystal reserves, relying on ultimate defense and Debuff (blood crystal pressure) for ultimate crushing.

Then A4, No. 4, was all about ultimate speed and ultimate flashiness.

Who wouldn’t like such a flashy and powerful evolution?

Of course, facing large-sized and group targets, A4 was not invincible, and even seemed a little weak.

Like the building in front of her, and the brain hive queen that Goldie encountered before, No. 5 could probably flatten them with a single blood crystal pressure, but A4 couldn’t do it so easily.

Even Wu Hejun’s electromagnetic cannon(railgun), with larger “projectiles”, could easily smash a building.

It could only be said that each had their own specialty. If it was against small and medium-sized single targets, No. 5 wouldn’t kill as fast as A4.

One was ultimate group attack, the other was ultimate single-target hunting. Lin Jiayao was starting to look forward to what kind of surprise the B-rank Mask would bring her.

The building over there was still collapsing, and dust was flying everywhere. After the excitement passed, Lin Jiayao began to look for an Extraction Point.

She had been having too much fun and almost forgot to extract.

When Lin Jiayao saw the Extraction Point, she was stunned.

“Extraction Time 3:51:22”
【Zhujiang Bridge Interchange Extraction Point: 37.9km】
【Yuejiang Bridge Extraction Point: 92km】
【Lion Head Mountain Extraction Point: 56.3km】
【Beijiang Bridge Extraction Point: 94.4km】

Four Extraction Points?

Was she seeing correctly?

And they were in four different directions: east, south, west, and north.

The time required for extraction was 4 hours for each, but the distance of each Extraction Point varied greatly.

Through so many extractions, Lin Jiayao had long understood a rule.

Excluding the factor of the zombie itself being crippled, under the same time, the shorter the extraction distance, the greater the probability of encountering danger on the way to the Extraction Point.

“System, why are there 4 Extraction Points this time?”

Lin Jiayao still had plenty of time to choose, so she asked the system in her heart.

“Has the host not looked at the Hideout?”

Uh… she really hadn’t.

After stuffing two blood crystals into the Zombie Loot Box, Lin Jiayao hadn’t opened the Hideout today, so naturally, she hadn’t noticed the changes in the Hideout.

“Three of the host’s logged-in zombies have reached B-rank. The Hideout automatically upgraded. All buildings have reached an upgradeable state, and a new building, 【Custom Waypoint】, has been gifted.”

“【Custom Waypoint Lv.1: Gives you more Extraction Points, and you can choose one of them to extract from. It also marks the specific name of the Extraction Point】”

…

 

Chapter 135: Radio Communication

“Hello? Hello? Can anyone hear me?”

A simple call on the radio reached the Qingzhou University camp, where order was slowly being restored and attempts were being made to purify the water supply. Anyone else listening on that frequency would have heard the exchange clearly.

“Hello? Hello?… Kzzt…”

A middle-aged man with a prosthetic left leg sat in the radio room, staring at the device, a flicker of surprise in his eyes.

He’d been a soldier before the apocalypse, having lost his leg in a car accident years earlier. Even with his military training, surviving the apocalypse with a disability had been… challenging, to say the least.

His survival, until he’d found refuge in the Qingzhou University camp, had been mostly a matter of luck.

Because of his pre-apocalypse hobby of amateur radio operation, Wan Zi had given him the task of managing the camp’s radio communications—a cushy job, basically just sitting around.

He felt like they’d kept him out of pity, giving him this… unessential task.

He had requested to be transferred to the farming team, but Wan Zi had insisted that no one else knew how to operate the radio equipment. So, he’d been stuck here for years.

They said the radio was the best way to communicate in the apocalypse, but ironically, most people who knew how to use one were dead.

Besides occasionally broadcasting Wan Zi’s recruitment messages, he also regularly scanned different frequencies.

And today, on the previously silent Voodoo Cult channel, he’d heard a rather… unprofessional call.

No, not unprofessional, it sounded like someone who had just learned how to use a radio.

“CQ, CQ, CQ, this is BG7YD, your signal is 59, please respond.”

He tried contacting them again on the same frequency, but there was no response.

After patiently waiting for a minute, just as he was about to try again, a voice came through.

“I hear… kzzt… you!”

Even through the static, the little girl’s excited voice was clear.

The man took a deep breath, deciding to abandon his professional jargon and adopt a more… child-friendly approach.

“Hello? Little friend, can you hear me? If so, please respond.”

“Kzzt… I heat… kzzt… …you…”

Heat… ?

He paused, confused, then, based on the first word, guessed she meant “I hear you.”

With the static and the intermittent signal, understanding a complete sentence was difficult; that’s why he’d used standard radio protocol initially.

Before he could figure out how to respond, the little girl asked, “Where… kzzt… are you, Uncle…?”

A direct question about his location.

Although her tone was polite, he frowned slightly.

Both the Voodoo Cult and Survivor’s Light used amateur radio frequencies, easily intercepted by anyone with a receiver.

Answering her question would be like broadcasting the Qingzhou University Camp’s location to any remaining Voodoo Cult members listening on that channel.

That could bring trouble; he couldn’t risk it.

Instead of answering, he tried to ascertain her purpose.

“Hello? Your signal is weak,” he said, pressing the transmit button. “What is it you need?”

He took a sip of water from a nearby cup, his nerves slightly on edge.

Whatever her reason, he couldn’t reveal the camp’s location.

This time, the response was quick.

“Kzzt… I’m looking for… kzzt… wait… oh…”

“I’m looking for Sister Wanzi at the Qingzhou University Camp.”

“Pfft—”

The man nearly choked on his water.

He hadn’t expected this, that she was actually looking for this camp.

Well, now everyone listening knew there was a camp at Qingzhou University.

They were famous now.

This was beyond his authority now.

He picked up the walkie-talkie.

“Wan Zi, this is Yang Dan. Do you copy? Over.”

After a while, Wan Zi’s tired voice came through.

“What is it, Brother Yang?”

She addressed him respectfully, both due to his age and his military background.

Yang Dan, hearing the exhaustion in her voice, sighed softly. “The stream…”

“It’s no use, the Voodoo Cult has a blood-poison Awakened, the entire stream is contaminated.”

“This…”

He sighed again.

The entire stream… that meant they had to dig a new channel from the mountaintop and remove the contaminated section.

A massive undertaking… there were no glaciers in southern China, the water came from mountain streams fed by mist and rain.

Even before the apocalypse, with heavy machinery and a professional team, it would take at least two weeks; now, relying solely on manual labor, it would take at least two months.

And their food supplies wouldn’t last a month.

Their self-sufficient days… were over.

A wave of despair washed over him.

The little girl’s voice on the radio reminded him of his current task.

“Wan Zi, are you free to come to the radio room? Someone’s looking for you… on the Voodoo Cult channel…”

“What is it? Wait… someone’s looking for me on the Voodoo Cult channel?!”

Her voice was filled with surprise. She’d just heard from a young man’s radio that the Voodoo Cult had been destroyed.

They’d all assumed it was the work of the Lin sisters’ organization.

And now, someone specifically asking for her? This confirmed that the voice on the radio earlier had indeed been Little Sister Lin.

“Tell her to wait, I’ll be right there.”

He could hear her rapid footsteps through the walkie-talkie; she was hurrying.

He put down the walkie-talkie and spoke into the radio. “This is the Qingzhou University Camp, our leader, Wan Zi, will be here shortly. Please stand by. Over.”

Since their location was no longer a secret, he didn’t bother hiding it.

Across Guangdong Province and throughout southern China, those listening to the Voodoo Cult’s frequency were puzzled.

Donghai City, inside the Donghai City Broadcasting Station, a woman with a strange black ring around her neck sat in front of the radio equipment.

Hearing the conversation, she frowned slightly and then, extending her right hand, which was slightly swollen from the fungal tendrils beneath her skin, pressed the transmit button.

“Captain Long, there’s activity on the former Voodoo Cult channel. You can hear it on a regular radio. It seems to be communication with a camp leader.”

After a while, a tired voice replied.

“Kzzt… I understand, I’ll go listen…”

Inside a luxurious hotel in Donghai City, Bu Xiaolong, holding a walkie-talkie, his face etched with exhaustion, walked out.

He’d lost track of how many days he’d been awake, snatching only a few minutes of sleep whenever he could.

But thanks to his tireless efforts, the Symbiosis Project was finally making progress.

They had tried countless methods to deal with the pervasive fungal infection, now deeply rooted within many of them.

And the test subjects were volunteers who had learned of their high spore counts and had agreed to participate in the experiments.

They hadn’t found a way to completely eradicate the fungus. Some people’s organs were even composed of fungal tissue; removing it would kill them.

But the experiments weren’t entirely fruitless.

They had discovered that both fire and electricity could repel the tendrils and even inhibit their growth.

Based on this, Jiang Chun, the new leader of the Awakened, had proposed a bold plan.

The Symbiosis Project.

And the project’s testing ground was this hotel, its spacious lobby ideal for setting up equipment and storing materials, protected from the elements and well-ventilated.

They were producing simple black collars. These collars, when charged, emitted a low-level electrical current that prevented the fungus from reaching the brain.

Even some of the tendrils that had already reached the brain had retreated.

As long as the fungus didn’t reach the brain, contained within the body by the collar, even if it replaced all their organs, their consciousness would remain intact.

As long as the solar-powered collars remained charged, they could maintain a symbiotic relationship with the fungus.

These collars, seemingly a restriction, were actually a liberation.

They had discovered that the fungus enhanced their physical capabilities, even ordinary people no longer feeling as tired after prolonged physical labor.

Their strength, speed, and blood crystal absorption rate had all increased… They could even enhance themselves by absorbing blood crystals, strengthening the fungus within.

In a way, it was a form of evolution.

Those like Bu Xiaolong, naturally immune to spores and the fungus, hadn’t benefited from this.

The improved, solar-powered collars had been distributed to about a third of the infected. In another week, Survivor’s Light could officially declare the crisis over.

But because of the fungus, they would likely remain semi-isolated.

Any interaction with the outside world, or allowing outsiders in, would risk spreading the infection. So, except for those with natural immunity, no one was allowed to leave the city.

This was a decision they had all voted on; they didn’t want to be responsible for infecting others.

Although self-sufficient, many still felt a sense of loss.

What had been their original purpose in coming here?

Besides those who had been in Donghai City from the start, everyone else, Awakened or not, had come here hoping to make a difference, to contribute.

But now, trapped by the fungus… their light seemed to have dimmed.

If they couldn’t resolve this, even with the Symbiosis Project, their ideals would eventually erode, and Survivor’s Light would change.

Bu Xiaolong, now the captain of the combat unit, looked at the high-frequency radio with its makeshift antenna, handed to him by a subordinate.

The conversation coming from the radio caught his attention.

He had heard about the Voodoo Cult’s destruction, but Survivor’s Light hadn’t made an official announcement yet; it seemed their leader, Jiang Chun, wasn’t certain of its authenticity.

But this conversation… might change their minds.

Ignoring the fact that it was the Voodoo Cult’s channel, it sounded like an ordinary conversation.

A little girl asking about how to plant certain types of seeds, and several others taking turns answering her questions.

Nothing unusual.

Except… this was the apocalypse.

Most crops had been destroyed by the blood crystal infection, either becoming blood crystal entities themselves or mutated.

The few self-sufficient camps and Survivor’s Light were cultivating crops with… minor contamination, still a long-term risk.

The conversation was ending. A camp leader, seemingly nicknamed “Wanzi,” was asking about the “sisters.” The vague reference confused everyone except those involved in the conversation.

So far, Bu Xiaolong hadn’t noticed anything suspicious.

But then, during a lull in the conversation, a new voice, a mature woman’s.

“Requesting to join the conversation.”

The moment he heard her voice, a familiar image, a woman with short red hair, flashed through his mind.

“Senior Jiang Chun?”

When had the leader gone to the broadcasting station? And contacted the Voodoo Cult channel?

Before anyone on the radio could answer, Jiang Chun spoke again.

“Are you from a botanical research institute? Or a settlement near a seed bank?”

Bu Xiaolong instantly understood.

They’d been talking about… too many kinds of seeds.

As if they had access to a vast variety, choosing the most suitable ones for a high-temperature, high-humidity environment.

In other words… an excessive abundance.

Most people just planted whatever they could find. Who had the luxury of being picky?

There was only one explanation: those using the Voodoo Cult’s frequency had access to a vast number of seeds, they likely occupied a seed bank or a botanical research institute.

And seed banks and botanical research institutes… that meant… Kun City in Yun Province.

If this were a game of Werewolf, they had just revealed their roles.

“Who are you?”

Huayibai, dangling its feet in the Voodoo Cult’s radio station, hearing the familiar voice, pressed the transmit button and asked.

Meanwhile, back in the dormitory, the two sisters, having eaten their fill, lay on a vine-woven bed, sleepiness overcoming them despite it being only afternoon.

Lin Xiwan wanted to cuddle her sister and sleep, while Lin Jiayao was thinking about logging in.

A4, the fastest, almost flying, zombie, was already available, less than 24 hours after its last login.

This meant it had reached its extraction point in Fuzhou City, while Mask was still on its way to Xin City.

This was a good opportunity to check on A4’s B-rank evolution.

Unbeknownst to her, the conversation she’d thought was over was about to escalate dramatically, thanks to Huayibai.

Chapter 134: Hello, Hello?

“Is this it?”

Lin Xiwan leaned closer, confirming the inscription on the stone stele.

This was where the seed bank was located? It looked just like any other vine-covered area.

“I don’t think so. It should be further inside,” Lin Jiayao said, her memory of the aerial view not matching their current surroundings.

This was just a botanical research institute, not the seed bank itself.

Nearing their destination, they slowed their pace.

After Lin Jiayao created another vine wheelchair, Lin Xiwan pushed her towards the institute, Huayibai trailing behind them, its eyes wide with curiosity, looking at the surrounding buildings.

Through the grimy windows, they could see scientific equipment inside, and even a large library.

But the equipment was either covered in moss and fungus, or pierced by vines, clearly unusable without extensive repairs.

They continued further into the institute and reached the entrance to a botanical garden.

Peering through the ticket booth, they saw the garden’s interior.

The familiar sight of overgrown building-trees and vines, and on the ground, the withered remains of other plants.

Walking along the perimeter, Lin Xiwan sighed softly.

“It seems… all the plants in the botanical garden are dead.”

“Mm…” Lin Jiayao nodded. “They probably couldn’t compete with the mutated building-trees and vines.”

Except for the building-trees, the vines, and a few types of fungus, most of the other plants had been eliminated.

This disheartened them slightly.

It suggested that the seed bank might also have been destroyed.

But they couldn’t blame the building-trees and vines; it was just a matter of survival, of competing for resources, a natural instinct.

They continued walking, crossing a street, and then they saw it: a university.

They didn’t even need to read the name – Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences – the vibrant pink blossoms at the entrance confirmed its location.

“It’s inside there,” Lin Jiayao said, pointing towards the flower-covered entrance.

“This…?” Lin Xiwan slowed down, looking at her sister. “Can we even go in?”

“It’s fine, let’s go,” Lin Jiayao said. She could sense the familiar flow of energy from the Vascular Network; it was safe.

And even with Bone Spike Lurker activated, she hadn’t detected any movement within.

Lin Xiwan pushed the wheelchair towards the entrance.

To their surprise, perhaps because it was on the outskirts of Kun City, the building-trees and vines here were less dense, giving other plants a chance to thrive.

Although she didn’t recognize most of the flowers, perhaps even new, mutated species, the vibrant colors were a welcome sight.

They explored the vine-covered university, searching for the seed bank.

They knew it was somewhere within the university grounds, but not the exact location.

Nearing their destination, their pace slowed, a comfortable silence between them, neither mentioning their purpose.

Then they saw it, a building that stood out among the others.

Although it covered a large area, it was only four stories tall, seemingly unremarkable.

But it was covered in various plants, some even bearing fruit, the bunches of orange grapes hanging from the vines covering the glass doors particularly noticeable.

“Are those… grapes?” Lin Xiwan murmured, her gaze fixed on the strange fruit.

“Maybe…?” Lin Jiayao wasn’t sure either. “Let’s go inside and check. These mutated fruits… we don’t know if they’re poisonous.”

“Okay.” Even if her sister hadn’t suggested it, Lin Xiwan wouldn’t have eaten anything from outside, no matter how tempting.

Any fruit that survived in the apocalypse was suspect.

Carefully avoiding the thorny vines, Lin Xiwan pushed her sister through the entrance.

Inside, rows of toppled display cases, their glass shattered long ago, the contents scattered and decayed.

“Are these… it?” Lin Xiwan asked, looking at the small bottles and jars filled with withered seeds, a pang of disappointment.

Almost all kinds of seeds had been stored here, only a few, nourished by the vines, had sprouted; the rest were dead.

Shattered glass everywhere, as if the seed bank had been ransacked, not just by nature, but also by humans.

It was a well-known location; it would have been looted countless times in the past five years.

She looked up, took a deep breath, and then looked down at her sister.

Several desiccated corpses in lab coats hung from the vines above, along with others in different attire.

Many of them clutched intact glass vials, but the seeds inside were blackened, lifeless.

Lin Xiwan had lost hope; finding edible seeds in this ransacked seed bank seemed impossible.

But then she noticed her sister’s fingernail tapping rhythmically on the vine armrest of the wheelchair.

She knew her sister was using her ability and didn’t interrupt.

Perhaps… her sister could find something the others had missed?

There were four floors; even if it had been looted before the building-trees and vines took over, there might still be something left.

Lin Jiayao was using the vibrations from Bone Spike Lurker to map the building’s interior.

The complex environment and the sound-dampening vines made it difficult; after several attempts, she finally had a rough layout in her mind.

This is…

She opened her eyes and looked down at the floor.

The familiar beige tiles, some cracked and broken, pushed aside by vines and other plants.

The floor looked normal, but beneath it…

“Over there, Sister,” she said, pointing.

“What is it? Did you find something?” Lin Xiwan asked as she pushed the wheelchair in the direction her sister indicated.

“Yes,” Lin Jiayao nodded. “And it seems… intact.”

Intact?

An underground storage area?

Lin Xiwan quickened her pace, Huayibai hurrying to keep up.

Following her sister’s directions, she reached an elevator lobby.

But the elevator was long out of service, its entrance covered in moss. They had to take the stairs.

The stairwell door was gone, the entire space filled with dangling vines.

And hanging from the vines… countless desiccated corpses, almost filling the stairwell.

“Ugh…”

Even Lin Xiwan, used to the horrors of the apocalypse, found the sight unsettling.

They would have to crawl over the bodies to descend.

But the vines… they were connected to the Vascular Network.

Lin Jiayao touched one of the vines, and the others, as if coming alive, shifted, carrying the corpses upwards and sideways, clearing a path.

The stairs weren’t wheelchair-accessible, so Lin Xiwan lifted her sister.

This time, not a princess carry, but facing her, her left arm supporting Lin Jiayao’s bottom, her head resting against Lin Xiwan’s chest.

“Don’t look if you’re scared,” she said softly, stroking her sister’s head.

No matter how powerful her sister’s abilities, to Lin Xiwan, she was still her frail little sister, in need of protection.

Then, she took Huayibai’s hand with her right hand. “Hold onto Sister’s hand if you’re scared.”

Even she found this corpse-filled stairwell creepy.

Holding her sister and Huayibai’s hand, Lin Xiwan carefully descended the stairs to the basement level.

As they descended, the darkness deepened, and Lin Xiwan’s steps faltered.

The basement below was pitch black. Even her enhanced vision couldn’t penetrate the darkness.

But before she could ask her sister, she saw the vines below begin to glow, a faint, eerie green light, as if infused with energy.

Lin Jiayao, using Vascular Network, was channeling energy into the vines.

Although the green light was unsettling, it illuminated the way.

Reaching the basement level, they left the stairwell, and the space opened up.

A large, open area with various rooms: sorting rooms, counting rooms, even an x-ray inspection room. Many doors had their nameplates missing; their original purpose unknown.

And even more corpses than in the stairwell, the green light making the scene even more gruesome.

But at the edge of the corridor was a large, open space, a massive, broken wooden door.

And behind the broken wooden door was a large metal door, a metal plate welded onto it with the words “Main Drying Room.”

The highest concentration of corpses was here, piled up in front of the metal door. Lin Xiwan had to carefully step over them to reach it.

The scene unnerved her.

It seemed they had been fleeing from something, trapped at this last door, unable to open it even in their final moments.

She tried the handle; the door wouldn’t budge.

But she knew she could break it down.

“What’s inside, Yao?” she asked softly, her voice barely a whisper in the green light.

“A large drying room… and four massive cold storage units, larger than my detection range… each about thirteen meters high,” Lin Jiayao said, lifting her head from her sister’s chest.

“Four… such large cold storage units?” Lin Xiwan was surprised. She hadn’t expected such a large space down here.

Although the cold storage units, without power, would no longer be cold, such a large, dry, undisturbed seed vault… there had to be viable seeds remaining.

Even the vines hadn’t been able to penetrate the sealed doors. Even in their final moments, the researchers hadn’t opened this last door.

If they could get inside… they could survive on the edible seeds, at least for a while.

But why hadn’t they opened it? Even outsiders had reached this point; those inside would have had ample opportunity to access the vault.

They knew better than anyone the purpose of a seed bank.

It wasn’t for short-term survival, but for the long-term preservation of species, a backup for when plants or animals went extinct, a chance for those genes to flourish again.

And now… she was about to open this door.

“Hoo…” Lin Xiwan felt the weight of the moment, the potential within. She took a deep breath and clenched her right fist. “Yao, Yibai, cover your ears.”

She took a glowing vine, wrapped it around her fist, a makeshift green gauntlet.

Then, holding her breath, she felt her heart pound, blood crystal tendrils extending from her heart and into her right fist.

“Break!”

“Thump, thump, thump—”

She punched the metal door repeatedly, the vines shattering, sap spraying, reabsorbed by the other vines, each blow leaving a blood-red, glowing dent.

And a second later, the dents exploded outwards, like precisely placed charges, ripping the door from its hinges, taking a chunk of the wall with it.

Beyond the dust cloud, a vast, open space, free of vines, like a warehouse.

Several large doors in the corners, four leading to cold storage units, one to a drying room.

Lin Xiwan, still carrying her sister, took Huayibai’s hand, and walked towards the nearest cold storage door.

The door, seemingly unlocked due to the power outage, swung open easily with a gentle push.

Stepping inside, she saw a sight that made her gasp.

Even Lin Jiayao, who had seen the layout through Bone Spike Lurker, was impressed by the scale of it.

Rows upon rows of fifteen-meter-tall blue storage shelves, filled with glass jars and stoppered bottles of seeds.

The vibrant colors within the jars suggested they were still viable.

And below, on the floor, tracks for robotic arms – before the apocalypse, this place had been fully automated.

“So… so many…”

Lin Xiwan whispered, awestruck.

This was, after all, Asia’s largest seed bank, funded by a major nation. This scale… wasn’t surprising.

Huayibai also stared, its eyes wide.

So… much… yummy food…

To Huayibai, these were just jars of different flavored snacks. It could almost taste them, its mouth watering.

“Slurp—”

It looked at Mommy, who was pointing towards a section filled with jars of rice, wheat, and fruit tree seeds.

Quite high up. After confirming the location with her sister, Lin Xiwan put her down, jumped, and carefully climbed the sturdy shelves.

Reaching the designated shelves, she carefully retrieved a few jars and then returned to the entrance.

Since she was carrying her sister, she handed the jars to Huayibai.

“Xiao Yibai, can you hold these? Let’s find a place to stay for the night.”

Having found the seeds, the location now marked, they could return anytime; Lin Xiwan felt a surge of hope, already imagining their future.

The only problem was that neither she nor her sister knew how to farm. They would need to find food before they could grow their own.

And she was hungry now. After finding a place to sleep and storing their belongings, she would take her sister to find something to eat.

Water was plentiful here, but food… they might have to try their luck inside the building-trees.

Before leaving, Lin Jiayao had Lin Xiwan stop at the broken entrance.

After her sister used her vines to carry the corpses and debris, concealing the doorway, making it look like there had never been an entrance there, they left the basement and returned to the ground floor.

Leaving the seed bank, they walked towards a nearby dormitory building they had seen earlier. They could probably find a clean room to rest there.

And luckily, since the building-trees and vines here had established themselves early, most of the building’s contents hadn’t been looted.

Inside the dormitory, however, Lin Xiwan found something unexpected.

A whole, unopened ham.

Still in its plastic packaging, seemingly forgotten.

Although covered in mold, after peeling away the hardened outer layer, the savory scent of the meat filled the air.

The large ham provided a much-needed, and delicious, meal. After eating their fill, they looked at the seeds, a new worry surfacing.

Although Lin Jiayao had access to countless memories, none of them had any knowledge of farming.

She’d even asked Huayibai, but it had also shaken its head; the memories absorbed by the Blood Orb Fungus were fragmented; unless she consumed a large number of people with specific expertise, it was unlikely to be helpful.

Then, Lin Xiwan had an idea.

“Should we… ask someone on the radio?” she asked, looking at her sister.

“The radio?” Lin Jiayao blinked.

“Yes,” Lin Xiwan nodded. “If the broadcasting station in Kun City is still intact, we can contact someone, maybe even Sister Wanzi in Guangdong. They would definitely know how to farm… oh, wait, no electricity… sigh…”

Her plan had been simple: announce the Voodoo Cult’s demise and contact Sister Wanzi’s camp.

If they were still alive, they would surely be willing to share their knowledge of farming. But without electricity…

“Ask on the radio…” Lin Jiayao murmured, then, “Okay, I’ll try.”

“Huh?” Lin Xiwan looked at her sister in surprise. “You… have access to a radio station?”

“Yes, one of Huayibai’s clones is at the Voodoo Cult’s headquarters, it can use their radio.”

“Oh… wait… the headquarters? It’s… gone? Already?”

“There are no more B-ranks there. Huayibai could easily take it,” Lin Jiayao said casually.

“Wow… Xiao Yibai is so powerful,” Lin Xiwan said, glancing at Huayibai, impressed.

A B-rank’s power was beyond her comprehension. Although not offensively oriented, Huayibai’s ability to create clones and deploy them anywhere was incredibly useful.

“Then I’ll have Huayibai contact the Qingzhou University camp and see if they’re still there. If they are, we can ask them about farming,” Lin Jiayao said.

“Okay,” Lin Xiwan nodded.

They both looked at Huayibai.

“Yibai, try broadcasting a general call, see if anyone responds.”

“Okay!” Huayibai nodded and closed its eyes.

…

Somewhere, a little girl, kneeling on a chair in a radio station, spoke into a microphone.

And across southern China, from Donghai City to Guangdong Province, a childish voice echoed from countless radios.

“Hello? Hello? Can anyone hear me?”

Chapter 133: A Promise Between Sisters

“Huff… huff…”

Lin Xiwan’s face was flushed, her lips pressed tightly together, her breathing heavy, as if trying to suppress something. Her arms were spread wide, gripping the edges of the vine-scoop. Her grip tightened, the vines crumbling under the pressure, water spilling out.

The dripping water momentarily distracted her. She looked down, only a hazy mist visible below.

At this height, the ground was obscured, the mist making it seem like they were floating among the clouds.

She wanted to talk to Huayibai, to distract herself, but Huayibai was lying limply at the bottom of the pool, its body swaying gently with the water, its limbs like jelly, as if boneless. If not for the occasional bubbles escaping its lips, Lin Xiwan would have thought something was wrong.

“Swish—”

Her sister’s hands emerged from the water.

Lin Xiwan instinctively reached out, supporting her sister’s waist and lifting her out of the water.

“Gasp—”

Lin Jiayao inhaled deeply, then took a few more breaths.

She couldn’t hold her breath for long yet, unless she used a tendril as a snorkel… but that seemed unnecessary and… strange.

After settling onto her sister’s lap, Lin Jiayao looked up and paused.

Her sister was leaning back against the vines, her head resting against the edge, her eyes closed, seemingly enjoying the sun.

Following her gaze, Lin Jiayao felt the warmth of the sun on her face.

Only the upper part of the scoop received direct sunlight; the lower part, shaded by the vines and the mist, was cooler.

Huayibai, however, seemed to enjoy the cool shade, its feelings of contentment and relaxation transmitted to Lin Jiayao through their connection.

“Does it hurt?” Lin Xiwan asked softly, her ears still red, her voice slightly hoarse, wanting to know if her sister was alright.

“Hmm? Oh… no, it doesn’t hurt,” Lin Xiwan replied, her mind slightly hazy, her sister’s voice echoing faintly.

“Then I’ll continue?” Lin Jiayao looked at her sister’s upper body; the healed skin was smooth and unblemished, no visible scars.

“Huh?” Lin Xiwan, her head still resting against the vines, looked at her sister, confused.

There was more?

After a moment, she nodded reluctantly. “Mm…”

“Really doesn’t hurt?” Seeing her sister’s expression, Lin Jiayao wasn’t convinced. If it did hurt, she could add a bit of numbing blood; a small amount shouldn’t affect her sister too much, not as an Awakened.

“It doesn’t hurt,” Lin Xiwan said, avoiding her sister’s gaze.

It didn’t hurt, but it was… itchy.

An unbearable itching, and the sensation varied depending on where her sister touched her.

A different kind of itch for every spot.

But she had endured it so far; she was developing a tolerance.

The rest should be easier.

Lin Jiayao, seeing her sister’s averted gaze, her eyes narrowed slightly.

“Maybe I should add a bit of neurotoxin then, just to be safe. It won’t hurt, just a slight tingling sensation,” she said.

By now, she was certain her sister was just being brave; she must still be feeling some pain.

“Gurgle—”

As she submerged herself, before she could even open her eyes underwater, she was suddenly lifted out of the water.

“No, no neurotoxin! It really doesn’t hurt!” Lin Xiwan said quickly.

Lin Jiayao, pushing her wet hair back, looked at her sister, puzzled.

Her sister’s expression… was that panic?

She seemed genuinely afraid of the neurotoxin.

Lin Xiwan was terrified of the neurotoxin.

The itching was already unbearable; adding numbness… she wasn’t sure she could handle it.

“Oh.” Lin Jiayao nodded and was about to submerge herself again when she realized her sister was still holding her.

“Really don’t need it?”

“Really.”

“Promise?”

“I promise.”

“Okay…”

After several reassurances, finally convinced her sister wouldn’t use the neurotoxin, Lin Xiwan carefully lowered her back into the water.

“Form is emptiness, emptiness is form…” she muttered, her eyes closed, steeling herself.

Like being at the dentist, hearing the drill whirring, never knowing when the next jolt of pain would come.

Her heightened senses amplified every sound, every ripple in the water as her sister moved.

Even the light touch of her sister’s hands on her thighs as she adjusted her position sent shivers down her spine.

She couldn’t help herself and peeked down.

Through the gap between… well, let’s just say her natural endowments, she could clearly see her sister’s face.

The sunlight, filtering through the water, reflected off her sister’s skin, making her seem almost… luminous.

A beautiful girl, bathing in the sunlight, a captivating sight.

But the location of her sister’s tongue… was… compromising.

Her inner thigh!

Even though she had been expecting it, bracing herself, she still couldn’t suppress a shudder as her sister’s tongue touched her, her legs instinctively clamping shut.

It wasn’t intentional, a purely involuntary reaction.

And her sister’s head was now… trapped…

Thankfully, she’d eased her grip in time, her C-rank strength not fully unleashed; otherwise… well, it could have been messy.

“Gurgle, gurgle—”

Lin Jiayao, startled by the sudden pressure, choked, the air escaping her lungs, forcing her to surface for air.

“Cough… sorry, it was an accident… won’t happen again…” Lin Xiwan said, seeing her sister’s slightly annoyed expression.

Lin Jiayao, seeing her sister apologize, didn’t say anything more and took a deep breath, submerging herself again.

She saw that her sister, to prevent another… accident, had placed her hands in the water, one on each knee, her legs slightly apart.

A… suggestive position.

But Lin Jiayao didn’t dwell on it, her eyes focusing on the next set of stitches.

She was also inspecting the system’s handiwork, ready to complain if she found any scars.

Time passed, even Huayibai, blissfully floating in the water, eventually surfaced.

Opening its eyes, it saw a strange sight.

What is Mommy doing?

It blinked, confused, scratching its head.

Is it something yummy?

It tilted its head, observing its Mommy’s actions, not daring to interrupt.

Finally, it understood.

Mommy is eating something yummy!

It could clearly see Mommy’s tongue licking those thin, thread-like things, seemingly… collecting them.

Yibai can do that too!

It swam over and tapped Mommy’s shoulder.

Mommy looked at it, a questioning look in her eyes.

Huayibai proudly puffed out its chest and pointed at the few remaining tendrils on Lin Xiwan’s thigh, offering its assistance.

But Mommy just shook her head and pushed it away.

“Huh?”

Confused, it didn’t understand.

Wouldn’t it be faster with two people working together?

It could even share some of its own tendrils with Mommy; they could do that.

But it quickly dismissed the thought.

Pushing off the soft vines with its small feet, it stood up, creating a splash.

“Yibai…”

Lin Xiwan, noticing it had surfaced, greeted it weakly.

“Sister Xi!”

Under Lin Xiwan’s persistent tutelage, although Huayibai hadn’t changed its way of addressing Lin Jiayao, it had finally learned to call her sister “Sister Xi.”

But it noticed that Sister Xi didn’t look well.

“Sister Xi, are you… okay?” it asked, concerned, taking a few steps towards her.

“I’m fine…” Lin Xiwan raised a hand dismissively.

But before she could finish, a sudden sharp intake of breath, as her sister’s fingers brushed against a particularly… sensitive… spot.

“Hmm?” Huayibai blinked.

Was Sister Xi really okay?

“Are you… done…?” Lin Xiwan asked, changing the subject.

“Yes!” Huayibai nodded.

It had let every tendril within its body absorb the water infused with its Mommy’s essence. It felt wonderful, revitalized.

And this place… it felt like home. The climate was perfect, the other fungi here docile and friendly.

“Sister Xi, I want to go… somewhere… I’ll be back soon.” Perhaps wanting to analyze the local fungi, to surprise its Mommy with a gift, Huayibai decided to find a fungal colony and study it.

“Be careful… and come back soon…”

Knowing Huayibai was a B-rank Awakened, Lin Xiwan wasn’t too worried about its safety.

And right now, she was slightly distracted.

“Mommy, I’ll be back soon~”

Huayibai called out to its submerged Mommy, and receiving no response, repeated it, this time underwater.

“Gurgle, gurgle…”

Although the words were muffled, Lin Jiayao understood, nodded, and then continued working.

Almost done. She wanted to finish quickly.

Her tongue was numb, almost to the point of cramping.

Having received permission from both parents, Huayibai climbed out of the vine-scoop, onto the platform, grabbed its dress, and put it on.

As it did, a pair of thin, white stockings and a pair of fungus-formed shoes materialized on its feet.

Dressed, Huayibai looked down at the mist below and jumped, its flexible body easily handling the impact, landing without injury, just a slight ripple as its form solidified.

Shortly after Huayibai left, Lin Jiayao’s arm emerged from the water, waving slightly.

Seeing her sister didn’t seem to notice, she pulled herself out, using her sister’s shoulder for support.

“Hoo… Done,” she said, sitting on her sister’s lap, her chest heaving from holding her breath underwater; she hadn’t yet evolved the ability to breathe underwater.

There had been a water-breathing evolution earlier, but she hadn’t chosen it.

Initially, because she’d been mostly inland, and it seemed unnecessary.

But now she realized these abilities had… hidden benefits.

For example, [Shallow Water Breathing Lv.1], although seemingly just about breathing underwater, would also enhance her lung capacity and stamina.

I have to consider these hidden benefits when choosing evolutions.

While thinking about this, she looked at her sister and paused.

Her sister’s arms were still spread wide, resting on the vines, but her eyes were unfocused, her lips slightly parted.

Like a broken doll.

“Sister?”

She’d never seen her sister like this. Hesitantly, she reached out and touched her cheek.

“Sister?”

She called out again, and her sister finally seemed to “reboot”.

“Fell asleep?” Lin Jiayao asked casually, splashing water on her sister’s face, cleaning the grime.

“Ah… mm… yes, I fell asleep,” Lin Xiwan said, her voice slightly drowsy, her sister’s soft voice having pulled her back.

She’d said “asleep,” and it was… sort of true… her soul had left her body, ascended to somewhere…

She’d never experienced anything like that before.

But she had completed the task without making any… unnecessary noises, her willpower rivaling that of Guan Yu undergoing surgery without anesthesia.

Seeing that her sister’s expression was normal, she relaxed, sliding slightly lower into the water.

“Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle…”

She didn’t play around any further but quickly finished cleaning both of them, then carried her sister to the vine platform and sat her down.

Then, taking their clothes, she rinsed them in the vine-scoop.

Without any detergent, it was just a quick rinse, removing the visible dirt, ash, and bloodstains.

After rinsing their clothes, the water in the scoop was now murky, mostly blood.

“Splash—”

Lin Jiayao, using her abilities, opened a small hole in the bottom of the vine-scoop, draining the dirty water.

Although dirty to them, to the building-trees and their vines, this was nutrient-rich fertilizer.

After hanging their clothes on some sunlit vines to dry, Lin Xiwan returned to her sister’s side.

They sat there in comfortable silence, watching their clothes swaying gently in the breeze, the sun warm on their faces.

After a while, Lin Xiwan sighed softly and smiled. “It’s been so long since I’ve felt this… relaxed.”

“Yes,” Lin Jiayao agreed.

It had been so long…

Perhaps the most relaxed she’d felt in the five years since the apocalypse began.

No worries about survival, no arduous exploration missions, no impending disasters, no relentless pursuers…

No fighting, no blood, no separation, just the two of them, enjoying the peace and quiet, the warmth of the sun, the lush greenery surrounding them.

And no one, besides Huayibai, would disturb them. They were alone in this city, the only sentient beings, as far as they knew.

Sitting there, naked, amidst the greenery, they were like… Eve and… Second Eve… in the Garden of Eden.

No Adam; there were no men here.

Lin Jiayao could create one from fungal tendrils, but it would be just a hollow shell, and she had no desire to create… that.

It was completely unnecessary.

Lin Xiwan, sitting on the vines, her legs dangling over the edge, the mist and the intertwined vines below creating a dreamlike landscape, looked at her sister.

“Is there any… food here…?” She took her sister’s hand.

“Food?” Lin Jiayao thought for a moment, then shook her head.

Although she had been here before, during a battle, she didn’t remember the details.

Whether there was food here… she wasn’t sure.

But she did remember seeing a place, on the other side of the city, untouched by the fire, its pink blossoms a stark contrast to the surrounding greenery.

A large sign, covered in thorns, with the words – Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

According to the information she’d gathered in Survivor’s Light, the largest germplasm resource bank in China was located within this institute.

They might find preserved seeds there… if it hadn’t been destroyed.

She told her sister about this, and Lin Xiwan’s eyes lit up.

“That’s… the place Survivor’s Light was planning to go to?” she asked, squeezing her sister’s hand excitedly. “Should we… go there… after our clothes are dry?”

“Okay,” Lin Jiayao nodded.

Even if her sister hadn’t suggested it, she would have gone there anyway.

And she could guess her sister’s reasoning.

She had always admired Survivor’s Light. Even though it had fallen, as long as it wasn’t officially declared dead, there was still… hope.

After all, she had listened to their broadcasts for almost four years.

Although their broadcasts were now just warnings, no one knew the true situation there; as long as the radio station was still active, there was still a glimmer of hope.

Knowing the seed bank hadn’t been destroyed made Lin Xiwan even more excited. “Hopefully, it’s still intact… I remember seeing a lot of agricultural universities near there when I was filling out my university applications. Maybe…”

“Oh, right, university applications… that’s what you do after the gaokao, you choose your preferred universities based on your scores… I don’t think I ever explained that to you, haha…”

Lin Jiayao smiled faintly, listening to her sister’s excited ramblings.

It was like… back in the resort camp, after a long exploration, her sister would tell her everything she’d seen and heard, pouring out all the things she’d kept bottled up.

“Yao.”

Lin Xiwan suddenly stopped talking and looked at her sister, her expression serious.

“What is it?”

“If… if we find wheat seeds there, or other seeds… let’s settle down here, okay?”

Although she was phrasing it as a question, the longing in her eyes was clear.

She wanted to find a safe place, a permanent home, for her, her sister, and Yibai. Even a simple life of farming and gardening would be better than constantly fighting for survival.

And this place seemed perfect.

No other humans, just a vast network of plants, and her sister could even control them.

If they could become self-sufficient here… it would be a true haven, a place where they could live in peace, forever.

“Okay,” Lin Jiayao said with a smile, readily agreeing.

A permanent home… that wasn’t a bad idea.

Staying in Kun City would be much safer than constantly traveling.

And with the system, she didn’t need to travel to find zombies and evolve; she just needed to log in and extract.

Distance was meaningless.

She could just live here with her sister, log in daily, exhaust her mental strength, and then sleep, her power steadily increasing.

Without any unforeseen circumstances, she could even reach the legendary A-rank in this peaceful environment.

And as for Japan… that shouldn’t affect them here. And there hadn’t been any news from the north, which was a good sign. And the smaller neighboring countries, with their lower population densities, were unlikely to produce any truly powerful mutated zombies.

Safe and sound.

Hearing her sister’s agreement, Lin Xiwan beamed, like a groom hearing “I do,” and kissed her sister’s cheek.

“So cheesy…” Lin Jiayao gently pushed her away, but her sister, exaggerating, fell backwards.

And her hand, still holding Lin Jiayao’s, pulled her down with her.

They lay there, side-by-side, their legs dangling over the edge of the platform, and laughed.

Suddenly, Lin Xiwan remembered something. “Where’s Huayibai? It hasn’t come back yet?”

She had been so engrossed in her conversation with her sister that she’d forgotten about the little girl.

Lin Jiayao activated Bone Spike Lurker.

“It’s nearby, don’t worry, it’s safe.”

Huayibai seemed to be crouching beside a building-tree, talking to… the white fungus growing on it?

“Good…”

They lay there, chatting, and as the sun rose higher, Lin Xiwan moved them to a shaded area.

Soon, their clothes were almost dry. After helping her sister dress, Lin Xiwan also put on her clothes.

Placing her sister back in the wheelchair, they descended, the vines gently lowering them.

Back on the ground, they saw Huayibai, still crouching near a building-tree.

Beneath the canopy, the sunlight wasn’t as intense, the air damp and cool.

Their hair was still slightly damp; it would probably take a while to dry completely in this humidity.

Lin Xiwan pushed the wheelchair towards Huayibai.

“It’s okay… your abilities are too weak, I won’t hurt you… oh… that little green one is stronger, I’ll talk to it next time…”

Huayibai, seemingly talking to a small white mushroom on the tree’s roots, stopped as they approached.

“I’ll talk to you later. Mommy is here.”

It stood up, smoothed its skirt, and turned, looking at Lin Xiwan and Lin Jiayao.

“Sister Xi! Mommy!”

It ran and hugged Lin Jiayao. Mommy, freshly bathed, smelled even better now.

Even among all the different fungi here, Mommy’s scent was the best.

“Don’t rub against me, be good…”

After petting Huayibai, Lin Jiayao looked at her sister and then pointed.

“It’s… over there.”

“Okay.” Lin Xiwan nodded, also petting Huayibai’s now dry, fluffy hair.

Pushing her sister’s wheelchair, she followed Lin Jiayao’s directions towards the seed bank.

It was quite far, and their current pace was slow; they might not reach the Institute of Botany until nightfall.

So they changed their mode of transport; Lin Jiayao abandoned the wheelchair and let her sister carry her, Huayibai clinging to her back, the three of them running now, much faster.

Finally, before sunset, they saw a different color, a pink hue amidst the greenery, and a stone stele they hadn’t seen before.

“Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences…”

Lin Xiwan read the inscription aloud and exchanged glances with her sister.

They had arrived. The largest seed bank in Asia.