Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Nine: Desperately Short of Blood Crystals
After clicking on the Hideout, almost every building inside was flashing with an exclamation mark, and there were also several virtual buildings showing that they could be built.
After glancing around, Lin Jiayao directly focused her attention on the most central 【Control Center】.
In Lin Jiayao’s view, only the 【Control Center】 and the 【Training Grounds】 could truly increase Lin Jiayao’s strength and speed of improvement.
【Control Center Lv.3 (Not Built)】
【Introduction: Unlocks two additional login slots; evolution and death cooldown times are halved; optimizes consciousness switching, allowing simple commands to be issued before switching, and monitoring both views simultaneously】
【Construction Materials Required: Blood Crystal X50】
Farewell.
After seeing the fifty blood crystals required for construction, Lin Jiayao directly closed the upgrade interface of the Control Center.
Two more slots, death and evolution time halved… Six hours halved would be three hours, which meant that if she randomly got a bad zombie, Lin Jiayao could choose not to extract and wait three hours for the next random zombie.
And it also optimized the mode of switching consciousness, which was very practical for Lin Jiayao.
Before, when Lin Jiayao switched consciousness, her other self or the zombie would be in a “hanging” state, not even system-hosted.
But now, if she built the Lv.3 Control Center, Lin Jiayao could see both screens at the same time and issue commands at any time to make adjustments.
This avoided the situation where the other side had a situation and could not be controlled in time when switching consciousness.
But it was too expensive…
Just like the Zombie Loot Box, these creations that could substantially enhance Lin Jiayao’s ability improvement speed were very expensive.
50 blood crystals, how many Hive Zombies would she have to kill… Lin Jiayao was already thinking about when to log into Goldie quickly to earn a fortune.
“Huff…” Lin Jiayao slowly exhaled, letting herself stop thinking about blood crystals.
She might as well look at other creations and see what they needed to upgrade…
Lin Jiayao thought so, and at the same time opened the construction interface of other Hideout buildings.
【Rest Area Lv.1 (Not Built)】
【Introduction: Increases your stamina recovery speed by 10%】
【Construction Materials Required: Blood Crystal X10, Zombie Brain X10, Game Console X2, Graphics Card X1, Firewood X10】
【Library Lv.1 (Not Built)】
【Introduction: Increases your mental recovery speed by 10%】
【Construction Materials Required: Blood Crystal X10, Sofa X1, Various Books X100, Candle X1】
【Nutrition Department Lv.1 (Not Built)】
【Introduction: The host provides raw materials, and the system processes them into nutritious food, which can increase the stamina recovery rate of food and has a certain mental recovery effect】
【Construction Materials Required: Blood Crystal X20, Workbench Lv.2】
【Training Grounds Lv.2 (Not Built)】
【Introduction: The time flow in the training space is further reduced, and you can spend blood crystals to train offline to inherit skills and combat memories】
【Construction Materials Required: Blood Crystal X50】
In addition to the 【Medical Station】, 【Workbench】 and 【Warehouse】 that could be upgraded originally, Lin Jiayao carefully looked at all the new buildable structures.
Not to mention anything else, the 【Training Grounds】, which could improve strength, was as expensive as the 【Control Center】, but they were both necessary to build.
Offline training! What concept was that?
As long as she paid blood crystals, Lin Jiayao could even practice while sleeping, even when fighting, walking, or even eating, she would always be in an offline training state.
And finally, those accumulated combat skills and muscle memory would be directly inherited by Lin Jiayao’s main body.
Wow…
If she could really build the Lv.2 Training Grounds, Lin Jiayao’s combat strength and combat experience would be raised to a terrifying level.
The 【Library】 and 【Rest Area】 were very good creations, equivalent to giving Lin Jiayao a passive or BUFF for rapid recovery.
As for those materials, they were not too difficult to collect, and they could even be collected in Kun City in two days.
Finally, there was that Nutrition Department…
Could it process food ingredients into food?
She wondered if the food problem could be solved with this…
But in any case, she had to find a way to unlock 【Training Grounds Lv.2】 and 【Control Center Lv.2】 first.
Her own strength was the most important. After ensuring her own safety, Lin Jiayao would consider others—of course, her sister and Huayibai were exceptions.
Even Huayibai, Lin Jiayao now regarded her as family. After so many battles, Huayibai’s pure and kind nature had also made Lin Jiayao feel sufficiently at ease.
From the moment after that battle, when she saw Huayibai curling up in pain, Lin Jiayao truly regarded Huayibai as her family.
“Eh? Is this a shopping mall?”
Suddenly, her sister’s puzzled voice pulled Lin Jiayao’s consciousness back from the Hideout.
Lin Jiayao, whose chin was resting on her sister’s shoulder, turned her head and looked in the direction her sister was pointing, and saw a building-tree growing against a building.
This building was originally a complex building, a typical building with the upper floors rented out for offices and the first to sixth floors used as a shopping center.
Now, the entire first floor area of the building was blocked by thick tree roots, but you could vaguely see the signs and transparent glass inside through the tree roots and moss.
“Shopping mall?” Lin Jiayao looked at her sister and asked with some doubt.
“Don’t you need to change your clothes?” Lin Xiwan said, holding her sister’s butt with one hand, and reaching into the hole in her sister’s clothes with her left hand, poking her sister’s armpit.
“Okay.” Lin Jiayao nodded and continued to rest her head on her sister’s shoulder, seeming not very interested in clothes.
“There is a small pool nearby. Let’s go there to wash our faces and then go in and search!”
Unlike Lin Jiayao’s calmness, Lin Xiwan, who thought of helping her sister choose clothes, was now particularly motivated.
Which girl wouldn’t want a soft and beautiful life-sized doll to dress up as she pleased?
At this time, Lin Jiayao re-entered the Hideout and looked at the location of the Zombie Loot Box.
She was distracted by her sister’s call just now, and almost forgot to collect the rewards in the Zombie Loot Box.
This time, the zombie extraction time reached an unprecedented 12 hours. Although she didn’t see what kind of zombie it was, Lin Jiayao was still looking forward to what rewards there would be.
Maybe she could directly collect 50 blood crystals in one wave. She already had 20 now.
And didn’t she see that her sister seemed to have brought some back? If she was a little short, she would just ask her sister for some.
Her sister had not mentioned those blood crystals, probably waiting for her to ask for them.
She just didn’t know what her sister was planning.
After opening the Zombie Loot Box, Lin Jiayao saw only a flash of golden light, and then she saw her reward.
【330ml Canned Coca-Cola x1】
Lin Jiayao: “…”
This was what the system brought out after 12 hours of extraction?
Lin Jiayao looked at that bottle of Coca-Cola, and her whole person was a little unwell.
She spent 2 blood crystals and brought back a bottle of Coke?
She couldn’t breathe.
Lin Jiayao took a deep breath, resisted the urge to curse at the system, and looked at the system’s evolution retention interface.
Now Lin Jiayao had been put down by her sister and was sitting by the pool. Lin Jiayao washed her face with water while looking at the loaded evolutions that could be retained.
「Please keep your evolution」
「1、【Bioelectric Field Lv.1 (Purple): Can release a bioelectric field in water to sense other creatures in the electric field】」
「2、【Cnidocyte Lv.1 (Blue): Can generate stinging cells on your skin, causing neuromuscular complex toxin attacks】」
「3、【Thunderstorm Crystal Lv.1 (Gold): Enables the blood crystals in your body to store lightning, absorb lightning to store, or consume blood crystals to create lightning, which can be released through the bioelectric field】」
Store… electrical energy?
Through other evolutions, and the description of the first evolution, it was not difficult to see that this was a deep-sea creature… maybe even a jellyfish.
But it actually had the ability to control electricity?
Lin Jiayao thought of Wu Hejun, who was flashing with blood-red electric light and had already cooled down.
Was it the same ability?
Unfortunately, this ability to store electrical energy actually required a prerequisite ability to be released…
But there was no way. Even if it required a prerequisite ability to be released, Lin Jiayao had to choose it again.
Because this was an ability opened from the Zombie Loot Box, she didn’t know how long it would take to encounter it next time. After all, it was not a zombie she logged into, which could be kept for the next login to obtain.
Just like the abilities on A4 that had not yet been obtained, Lin Jiayao could obtain them through multiple logins, but this deep-sea electric zombie could not.
As for how to release it… According to the description, it could make the blood crystal fluid or blood crystal nucleus in the body store electrical energy.
If it could be stored, then the release was very simple.
Lin Jiayao could even let these blood crystal fluids be infused into the mycelium tentacles and extend out, forming a lightning whip.
There were always more solutions than difficulties, she chose it.
It was just a pity that this was a zombie in the sea.
Otherwise, Lin Jiayao would definitely let A4 catch a few back to generate electricity.
No, it should be Mask to catch them. Skeletal zombies should not be so afraid of lightning.
Today’s mental recovery was not bad. It was time to find time to log into Mask to check the evolution.
After choosing the golden 【Thunderstorm Crystal】, Lin Jiayao felt a tingling sensation all over her body.
This feeling was not only reverberating in Lin Jiayao’s body, but also conducted static electricity to the surroundings through the vines and moist moss.
“Hiss—”
Her sister, who was washing her face nearby, suddenly shrank her foot, as if she had been shocked by electricity, and Huayibai, who was nearby and had wet herself, was shaking her hair left and right, also shivered all over.
“What’s going on? Is there a power leak?” Lin Xiwan looked at the ground and patted the green moss on the soles of her feet.
Lin Xiwan was not wearing shoes, and she really felt the weak electric shock just now, it couldn’t be wrong.
“I released it,” Lin Jiayao raised her hand and said with some apology, “New ability.”
“Another new ability?” Hearing her sister’s words, Lin Xiwan widened her eyes, a little unbelievable.
She just slept and took a walk, and her sister got a new ability in her dream?
Cheating?
Where did she buy the cheat?
Instantly, Lin Xiwan felt a sense of crisis.
Damn it, if she continued to be so idle, her sister would leave her far behind.
No, she had to find a way to quickly improve her strength.
She didn’t want to have to shrink into her sister’s arms when she encountered a battle in the future… uh… that didn’t seem bad either?
Cough cough…
She couldn’t always be protected by her sister, at least she had to reach the point where she wouldn’t be a burden to her sister.
Now that there were sufficient blood crystals and a safe place, it was time to train herself devilishly.
Lin Xiwan made up her mind that after helping her sister choose clothes, she would start devil training! Train until her whole body could not move.
At this time, Lin Jiayao, who had dealt with the Hideout matters, did not continue to invest blood crystals in the Zombie Loot Box, but only invested a few dozen grams of blood crystals.
Next, every creation in the Hideout required a lot of blood crystals. She had to save carefully and could not be as extravagant as before.
After Lin Jiayao invested the blood crystals, her sister also finished washing her face.
Then Lin Jiayao created a disposable mycelium vine wheelchair again, and let her sister directly push her towards the direction of the shopping mall.
At the same time, Lin Jiayao also had some doubts about her legs.
Why had she obtained so many abilities, and even had the super passive Hunting Rhythm that adjusted her physical and mental state, but still couldn’t feel the existence of her legs?
They were clearly involved in her body’s blood circulation, but Lin Jiayao couldn’t even feel them, as if her legs didn’t exist.
There was a… very difficult to describe sense of separation.
“Crack, crack—”
Under Lin Jiayao’s control, the building-trees and vines that originally blocked the entrance of the shopping mall slowly moved to one side, making a huge noise, and squeezing out a road that could accommodate a wheelchair.
But soon, Lin Jiayao did not continue to dwell on this matter.
As long as she wanted to stand up, she could stand up at any time by creating a composite exoskeleton formed by mycelium and bone spurs, it was just a bit of a waste of blood crystals. If there was no battle, there was no need.
It was better to move with bone spurs, which was labor-saving and flexible, but it was a bit like a human-shaped spider.
“Eh…”
After entering the shopping mall, Lin Xiwan pushed her sister straight to the children’s clothing store, but unfortunately, the clothes inside were already tattered.
This made Lin Xiwan sigh.
And most of the shops were either covered with vines or covered with moss, and there were many dried corpses of humans and zombies hanging on the top and vines… It was really not very beautiful.
Pushing her sister from the upper floors, the original elevator could also allow the wheelchair to pass well under the paving of the vines.
“Sister Xi! There!” Huayibai seemed to notice something and pointed to a flowery white place.
It was a women’s clothing store covered with white mycelium. Because of the white mycelium mass, there were few vines and moss there, and the things inside were not eroded much.
“Go!” After discovering the target, Lin Xiwan pushed her sister and ran towards the women’s clothing store.
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