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】”
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