Chapter One Hundred and Forty-One: A-rank?! Intelligence?! p1
“Crack, crack—”
“Woo—!”
The zombie ray at the bottom of the huge rift valley was weakly flapping its pectoral fins like a broken robot.
The uncoordinated movements looked like two souls were fighting for control of one body.
And in fact, the struggle within the ray’s body was more intense than imagined.
If one could see through the ray’s skin, one could clearly see that the entire long spine of the ray was covered with blood-red threads.
These threads all emerged from within the bone and were connected to each other on the outside. Every time these threads flashed red, the ray’s body would tremble.
But even so, the ray still maintained its hard bones, resisting the control of the threads.
“Crack—”
Another tooth-aching sound rang out, and a thin crack began to appear on the spine of the zombie ray.
It was also this crack that brought severe pain, making the zombie ray completely crazy.
“Woo————!”
A roar, several times louder than a train whistle, erupted from the ray at the bottom of the immense canyon waters.
Along with the roar, the scales on its whole body opened at the same time, spraying out a large amount of heat and bubbles at the bottom of the water.
The huge thrust formed supported the zombie ray’s body to quickly float towards the surface of the water, and then broke through the water and rushed upwards.
“Woo—!”
After a huge cry, the zombie ray, like a whale emerging from the water, brought up a large amount of water, and the scales did not close in the air, directly smashing onto the water surface with its back facing the water.
“Thump—”
“Splash—”
Just a zombie smashing into the water actually created a sound like a huge battering ram hitting the ground.
“Boom—”
The water splashed upwards like a fountain. Because the scales did not close when it fell, after smashing into the water, under the action of gravity and its own weight, the scales on the back of the zombie ray shattered inch by inch.
Even the internal bones and various internal organs were completely cracked under this suicidal heavy blow, and blood continued to flow out of its body, staining a large area of water red.
And Lin Jiayao, who was inside its body, almost fell apart under this level of impact.
But the zombie ray that entered the water still didn’t stop. After losing its scales, it began to consume blood crystals like it was completely giving up, spraying flames.
It was upside down in the water, spraying flames and crashing into the canyon on one side.
“Rumble—”
Under the impact of this giant zombie, the canyon was shaken violently, and a large number of boulders fell along the canyon and hit the zombie ray.
Its skin and armor were smashed into pits, and even a sharp boulder directly penetrated its relatively soft pectoral fin after removing the armor.
Damn…
The whole skeleton of the zombie ray was almost falling apart, and Lin Jiayao’s controlled Mask was still connected to its spine, and it was also damaged.
No, she had to implement effective control quickly…
No, she had to kill it quickly!
“Ch—”
Lin Jiayao, who was connected to the spine of the ray, began to inject energy into the ray’s spine with all her strength, frantically strengthening its bones.
And Lin Jiayao’s Mask body drilled out from the connection between the spine and the skull. At this time, Mask was like a fish in water in the bones and could enter and exit at will.
“Crack—”
She slammed her arms hard, trying to insert them into the connection between the ray’s spine and skull, but the connection was too tight and the defense was too strong, and Lin Jiayao couldn’t twist its huge head at all.
There was no other way…
Lin Jiayao’s body merged into the huge spine below again, and the body of half a corpse dragging blood threads was like a ghost, swimming in the solid bones.
It was smoother than swimming in water.
This feeling was really familiar…
Lin Jiayao, who was swimming in a “sea” of red and white, sighed in her heart.
It seemed that she had had this kind of time before… Drilling into other people’s bodies and stirring up their brains…
That was really an unbearable memory, even writing it into a novel would be censored and banned.
Soon, Lin Jiayao “swam” all the way along the bone to the ray’s brain.
Compared with its huge body, the ray’s brain was pitifully small, almost only the size of Mask’s body, shrinking inside the thick skull.
Generally speaking, it was difficult for anyone to directly penetrate such a thick skull, which was a bone with at least B-rank defense hardness.
But as long as it was bone, in front of Mask, it was as if it was undefended.
Similarly, boneless zombies like fungal zombies would also be Mask’s nemesis.
Without hesitation, Lin Jiayao directly drilled into the ray’s brain cavity, condensed the bone shape of her hands, and very skillfully twisted the black brain.
“Ch—”
“Patter—”
The brain of the B-rank zombie ray was much harder than other soft human brains and zombie brains, and the sound it made was not so disgusting.
If Lin Jiayao had to use something to describe it, it would be a huge black walnut with holes, a viscous and slippery outer shell, and a little soft.
Why describe it like this?
Because there was really a layer of “kernel” inside its brain’s harder outer layer.
It wasn’t until Lin Jiayao reached in with both hands and completely stirred the inside that Lin Jiayao finally felt that the zombie ray had no movement.
“Huff…” Looking at the dark mass of brain in front of her, Lin Jiayao slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
After looking at the stirred brain in front of her for a few more seconds, Lin Jiayao slowly shook her head.
Forget it.
She was not controlling A4 or Goldie now, there was no need to taste it, the brain had no bonus to Mask.
At this time, the zombie ray, which had lost any movement, began to gradually sink to the bottom of the dark canyon, until it stopped in the darkness where no sound could be heard.
And in this dark space, this seemingly dead zombie ray was undergoing unimaginable changes.
Its outer skin began to peel off layer by layer, and even the scales on the epidermis fell to the bottom of the rift valley one by one.
After those scales fell off, its body skin showed honeycomb-like holes.
It turned out that those “scales” were irregular prismatic armor plates, only the slightly flat side was exposed on the epidermis.
These prismatic armor plates also had a hole connected to the skin for extracting blood and blood crystals. Extracting blood crystals and spraying flames would be carried out in the scales, and opening the scales would directly spray out the flames.
And each irregular scale could have a slight turn in these holes, used to control the direction of the spray.
It was hard to believe that this was something that a deep-sea zombie with no intelligence could evolve… Blood crystals played an important role in evolution.
But at this time, these scales were also gradually falling off because the flesh and blood were peeling off the body. Soon, the blood, flesh, and internal organs of the zombie ray were all peeled off the body, leaving only a complete skeleton wrapped in red blood threads.
This skeleton flickered quietly at the bottom of the water. After a long time, it slowly moved.
With its densely packed bone spurs like fins, and the dorsal and ventral fins at the tail slowly bending, supporting its huge body to stand up obliquely.
The original zombie ray’s appearance was not as aggressive as the devil ray, and it looked more rounded.
But now that it had become a skeleton, it was like an ancient biological fossil, with a strong sense of shock and threat.
Especially its skull, the bone spurs originally growing in the oral cavity, now pierced out like steel needles, even piercing through the skull.
This made its skull look like the head of a skeletal zombie.
The controller of this huge skeleton was Lin Jiayao.
At this time, Lin Jiayao was familiarizing herself with the huge body she was controlling now, and the flapping skeletal fins set off undercurrents in the water.
Finally, after the last bit of the tailbone was connected by blood threads, Lin Jiayao slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
Completely controlled.
This brainless big fish was unexpectedly difficult to deal with, and it was impossible to control it while it was still alive.
In order to control its body, Lin Jiayao had to destroy its brain, melt its flesh and blood, and then completely control it.
But the price was that Lin Jiayao only obtained a whole set of B-rank bones. Because of the size advantage, it had power and defense beyond the general B-rank.
In any case, this was also a qualified body.
As for the blood crystals of this zombie, only about twenty were precipitated, and most of the other blood crystal energy was in the flesh and bones.
This was also why zombies needed to gnaw on flesh and blood. It was too inefficient to only eat blood crystals.
And now, Lin Jiayao naturally did not have that psychological barrier to gnawing on zombie meat.
She had eaten even more disgusting things, what was this?
Besides, Mask had no sense of taste, and didn’t even need to use its mouth to eat, and there was no reason to waste these flesh and blood.
After putting six scales and three large pieces of meat into the Safehouse, Lin Jiayao manipulated the giant ray skeleton body, slowly moved at the bottom of the water, and floated above the pile of flesh and blood floating with black blood.
These scales and meat were to be brought to A4. This flame-spraying ability was quite good, and Lin Jiayao wanted to try if A4 could also evolve this ability.
She had a hunch that if A4 could obtain this ability, its attack form should be optimized a lot.
The blood threads on the bones drooped down one by one, connected to the flesh and blood below, and began to absorb the energy inside.
As for the precipitated blood crystals, Lin Jiayao stored them in a pouch crafted from woven blood threads and jagged bone fragments.
After absorbing the flesh and blood, Lin Jiayao felt that all the previous consumption of Mask had been well replenished, and even made Mask stronger than when it had just evolved.
Lin Jiayao looked at the Extraction Point and the extraction time, and saw that she was only 8km away from the nearest Extraction Point, and the extraction time was only 15 minutes left.
With Lin Jiayao’s current state, within this time, as long as she didn’t encounter other zombies, the extraction should be more than enough.
But if she wanted to go to other Extraction Points, this extraction time would be enough.
Because of the battle, Lin Jiayao was brought to the bottom of the canyon she saw before.
Fortunately, there was an Extraction Point nearby. If there was still only one Extraction Point as before, Mask might have been lost.
Let’s extract quickly…
In order to save time, Lin Jiayao directly used the swimming method to approach the Extraction Point from the bottom of the water.
She was preparing to climb up after getting closer to the Extraction Point, which could save a lot of travel time.
But the more she swam at the bottom of the water, the more Lin Jiayao felt that something was wrong.
This Extraction Point… seemed wrong.
Wasn’t it the Wetland Park Extraction Point in Yangzhou City?
She should have already entered the territory of Yangzhou City, right? Why did it feel that the canyon was getting wider instead.
And this location… If she continued to swim forward, the Extraction Point would only be at the bottom of the water.
Lin Jiayao couldn’t help it. While swimming, her body slowly floated up.
Now the large rift valley was almost completely filled with seawater. Lin Jiayao even saw many steel bars that were like hair to her during the ascent.
There were also buildings that seemed to be able to be swept down with a sweep, and nearly half of them were submerged in water.
Was this still the Yangzhou City she knew…
If Lin Jiayao could make expressions now, her expression must be dumbfounded.
Although she knew before leaving Yangzhou City that the once-in-a-century typhoon would definitely flood Yangzhou City, which had a paralyzed drainage system.
She didn’t expect that this destruction would be so serious.
The city was flooded not only by typhoons, floods, dam breaks, or drainage systems, but most importantly, the rift valley that Lin Jiayao was swimming in now.
This huge crack made the ground on both sides tilt a lot, which was the key to being submerged.
But… how did this big rift valley appear?
It was like a giant who regarded the planet as a cake, and cut a piece here with a cake knife… Besides natural disasters, only A-rank could do this.
At least none of Lin Jiayao’s B-rank zombies could do such a terrifying thing.
Lin Jiayao sighed softly in her heart, mourning for the camps that were still guarding nearby against the rainstorm.
In this hellish scene, let alone people, even land zombie groups could not survive.
And Lin Jiayao had been swimming for so long, but she hadn’t even seen a zombie fish.
You know, this huge canyon, which was originally a river, Lin Jiayao had been here when it was still a river.
At that time, Lin Jiayao also lured a group of corpses to let them jump into the river to feed the fish. At that time, a huge zombie fish ten meters long jumped out, and there were more swimming in the water.
Could it be that they were eaten by the fish from the sea?
No… In that case, there should be sea fish, right?
Why didn’t she even see sea fish?
The only thing that could explain Lin Jiayao’s doubts might be the “territory” problem.
This entire water area might be the territory originally controlled by the zombie ray she was controlling, so other zombie fish would not approach after smelling the smell or pheromones.
Let’s continue to swim towards the Extraction Point… This place is creepy.
Soon, as Lin Jiayao got closer and closer to the Extraction Point, her assumption about “territory” was broken.
As she got closer and closer to the Extraction Point, there were more and more strange fish nearby, and Lin Jiayao found that those fish were approaching her Extraction Point.
Is it really good to have so many zombies at the Extraction Point?
Through Bone Spike Lurker, Lin Jiayao could even see through the vibration that there were some half-human, half-fish species walking in the sand at the bottom of the water.
Fish-headed and human-bodied… looking like the Deep Ones in Cthulhu Mythos, but these zombies with rotten skin must be much more disgusting than the Deep Ones.
“Dada-dada—”
The densely packed bone spurs on Lin Jiayao’s body tapped each other, transmitting some information from farther away to her mind, and the surrounding terrain was also quickly constructed in Lin Jiayao’s mind.
But soon, Lin Jiayao frowned.
Just in front, at the Extraction Point marked by the system, Bone Spike Lurker showed a whole blank in her mind.
It was as if there was a BUG when playing a game, and the texture of a street was not loaded.
No… this was not a BUG…
In the depths of the canyon, something was blocking the detection of Bone Spike Lurker!
Blocking Bone Spike Lurker?
Mask also had a move that could block detection, and it had it when it was C-rank, that was 【Feigned Death Camouflage Lv.1】.
But even Feigned Death Camouflage couldn’t directly make other people’s Bone Spike Lurker appear this kind of distorted picture transmission, right?
If it were normal, Lin Jiayao would definitely turn around and leave when encountering this strange situation, and directly change to another Extraction Point.
But now, the extraction time was only a short five minutes left. In this time, even A4 could not guarantee that it could run directly from one Extraction Point to the next.
In any case… at least that was the Extraction Point determined by the system, which was safe for the system. There was no way.
Less than five hundred meters away from the Extraction Point, Lin Jiayao could finally see a little faint light through the darkness at the bottom of the water.
This was…
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