Chapter One Hundred and Forty-One: A-rank?! Intelligence?! p2
After getting closer, Lin Jiayao finally saw clearly what the mass of things lying on the sand and gravel at the bottom of the water was.
Those were black spikes, swaying at the bottom of the water. These spikes almost covered the entire bottom of the canyon… at least four to five hundred meters wide!
The large blank area that Lin Jiayao detected just now was this “creature” that was shaking like a sea urchin’s spikes.
And its bottom was bottomless. In Lin Jiayao’s Bone Spike Lurker, a large vacuum area was formed.
This was… a skeletal zombie from the sea?
What the hell was this thing? A sea urchin? Or something else mutated?
Soon, with Lin Jiayao’s arrival, those spikes also moved.
“Dada-dada—”
Those spikes tapped each other quickly at the bottom of the sea, seeming to be probing what was approaching.
Lin Jiayao could feel a wave of water pushing in her direction, but soon, this feeling disappeared.
And the countless bone spurs lying on the sand also stopped.
“Boom boom boom…”
Suddenly, the bottom of the water vibrated, and there was a muffled thunder.
And the spikes at the bottom of the sea slowly cracked with the vibration. In the canyon, a canyon formed by black spike clusters cracked again.
Countless gravel and seawater were sucked into the huge mouth with a vortex, and even Lin Jiayao’s huge body of hundreds of meters of bone ray was irresistibly sucked.
Just when Lin Jiayao was about to “abandon the armor” and escape, her body stopped struggling as she approached the rift.
Because she could see that she was getting closer and closer to the Extraction Point.
The Extraction Point… was in that black, terrifying mouth.
Seeing the gravel and seawater forming a waterfall at the bottom of the water, Lin Jiayao hesitated for a while, and then accelerated towards the huge mouth.
No matter what was inside, she only had this way to go.
“Swish—”
After rushing into the giant mouth, Lin Jiayao, along with the waterfall, plunged into the depths of the black cave. She didn’t know how long she fell before she slammed into a soft, huge platform.
At the bottom of the platform, countless tiny tentacles were tearing at her bones and blood threads, but soon, a viscous liquid filled this entire area, and she could feel that her body, which had just been gnawed, was recovering quickly.
Where was this place…
The inside of a giant beast?
【Extracting: 7.1】
The countdown for extraction had already begun, but at the same time, Lin Jiayao also found that she could use Bone Spike Lurker to detect everything around her after entering here.
“Dada—”
The bone spurs on Lin Jiayao’s body quickly tapped on the soft platform on the ground, and everything within a radius of ten kilometers was quickly formed in Lin Jiayao’s mind.
She saw where she was.
This was a huge nest composed of chambers, and the place where she fell was one of the larger chambers.
Almost every soft chamber was soaked with countless nutrient solutions, just like the one Lin Jiayao was soaking in now.
And continuing to explore deeper, Lin Jiayao found that this nest full of dense chambers could not be detected to the end…
“Gurgle… gurgle gurgle?”
Suddenly, a strange bubble sound caught Lin Jiayao’s attention.
In the last 3 seconds before extraction, Lin Jiayao simulated the place where the sound came from through Bone Spike Lurker.
It was a huge, slowly opening earthy yellow eyeball below countless chambers. There were several crystals with a diameter of 30 meters wandering in the turbid vitreous body.
And at this time, these crystals were all aligned in Lin Jiayao’s direction, and their sight seemed to pass through layers of barriers and look at Lin Jiayao.
“Gurgle? Gurgle?”
Countless huge bubbles rose from the holes below its eyeballs, creating regular sounds. These sounds were also detected by Lin Jiayao in the last second.
This was…
This couldn’t be…
Trying to communicate with me?
When Lin Jiayao had this doubtful thought in her heart, the system countdown ended, and her consciousness quickly withdrew from this weird and terrifying space.
Even after the extraction, Lin Jiayao’s mind was still numb. She felt a wave of dizziness only after storing the thirty-odd blood crystals from the pouch in her Warehouse and leaving the settlement space.
“Hoo… hoo… hoo…”
Lin Jiayao, whose consciousness returned to her body, was breathing heavily, her whole body was like being drenched in water, full of sweat, and she quickly propped up her body and sat up.
At this time, Lin Jiayao had a feeling that she was alive.
An eyeball was as big as a zombie ray… What kind of terrifying and huge existence was this deep-sea monster…
And looking at the dense chambers born on its body, and the various blood crystals nourished in the chambers, and the rhythmic bubble sound at the end…
It was hard for Lin Jiayao not to suspect that this was an intelligent, and even trying to build a social system… intelligent zombie?
Was it A-rank?
Whether it was A-rank or not, the fear it brought her was definitely not comparable to B-rank.
“Huff…”
Under the effect of Hunting Rhythm, Lin Jiayao’s breathing quickly adjusted, and even the feeling of dizziness gradually dissipated, replaced by weakness in her limbs.
At least she didn’t faint directly.
The submerged city, the terrifying rift valley, and the terrifying underwater zombie lurking at the mouth of the sea, buried in the ground, whose size was unknown…
These apocalyptic scenes kept flashing back in Lin Jiayao’s mind, making her heart, which had been at ease, half cold.
She tried to dispel the image of that terrifying giant eye from her mind and stop thinking about these things.
After brushing the sweat-soaked hair from her forehead, Lin Jiayao noticed another object beside her.
Turning her head to look, she saw Huayibai, who didn’t need sleep, lying flat beside her, holding a red little quilt woven with mycelium in both hands, looking at her blankly.
“Mommy? You sweated a lot…”
Huayibai called out, startled by Lin Jiayao’s sudden movement.
“It’s okay…” Lin Jiayao reached out and patted Huayibai’s head, barely squeezing out a smile, “I’m fine.”
At this time, Huayibai seemed to have thought of something, and quickly sat up, raised the small quilt woven with mycelium, and wiped Lin Jiayao’s neck
“Huayibai will help Mommy wipe the sweat.” Huayibai wiped while observing Mommy’s expression changes.
If Mommy didn’t let her wipe, she would put her hand down immediately.
But Mommy didn’t object to her helping her wipe the sweat, and even closed her eyes directly, which made Huayibai excited.
Because the mycelium quilt was also Huayibai’s body.
On the surface, it looked like Huayibai was holding a mycelium quilt and wiping Lin Jiayao’s body.
But in Huayibai’s feeling, this was the same as using her tongue to lick the sweat on Mommy’s body.
While wiping, Huayibai’s small mouth had uncontrollably opened at some point, and her pink tongue stuck out, like a puppy dissipating heat.
At this time, Lin Jiayao did not pay attention to Huayibai’s current state.
Now she was closing her eyes tightly, checking the evolutions that could be retained.
No matter what was at the bottom of the sea, no matter whether that terrifying creature would threaten her, there was only one way to solve it and protect everything now.
Become stronger, become stronger.
As long as she could be strong enough to smash that underwater creature with one punch, there would not be so many worries.
「Please keep your evolution」
「1、【Ghost Swimmer Lv.1 (Gold): Allows your bones to perfectly integrate into any bones, and can hide your aura】」
「2、【Bone Manipulator Lv.3 (Gold): Can achieve off-body control of bones and use all their abilities; can connect your own bones with other creatures, share energy, and synchronize thinking】」
「3、【Bone Crystal Thread Lv.1 (Gold): Can generate threads around bones to store highly concentrated blood crystals; can convert highly concentrated blood crystal fluid into crystal hormones through threads and inject them into bones, greatly enhancing the strength of the injected person】」
Lin Jiayao’s consciousness swept back and forth among these three evolutions, and finally chose 2.
After all, this was an ability used by the main body.
The first evolution, Lin Jiayao had used it when logging into Mask, this was the skill that could swim freely in the bones of the zombie ray.
It was useful, it was indeed very strong. If she could drill into the opponent’s bones, she could directly torture the opponent to suicide.
But it was useless, it was actually quite useless… because this could only be regarded as a “civil war” divine skill.
It could have a miraculous effect against large-headed and skeletal zombies and Awakened like the zombie ray, but if it was against the previous flame awakening or lightning awakening… it would be a little powerless.
Especially against boneless ones like Huayibai, this skill directly became useless.
And the reason for not choosing 3 was because Lin Jiayao had a substitute for 3.
【Liquid Blood Crystal Veins Lv.1】 and 【Mutated Self-Healing Lv.1】 added together could achieve a similar lower-level substitute effect, and there was no need to specifically choose a strong one.
As for 2, it might be of great help to Lin Jiayao.
After Bone Manipulator was promoted to Lv.3, it would not cause damage to the manipulator’s bones. Choosing 2 might allow her to stand up.
Even if she couldn’t stand up, she could also use this talent to combine with her sister, maybe she could burst out with even stronger power.
As for how to combine, Lin Jiayao hadn’t figured it out yet, but it was always more useful than the other two evolutions.
After choosing Lv.3 Bone Manipulator, Lin Jiayao slowly opened her eyes.
After evolving to level 3, Lin Jiayao could clearly feel that her understanding of zombie control had undergone a qualitative leap.
Even if Lin Jiayao just raised her hand slightly and shot out a bone needle, as long as it pierced into the zombie’s body, Lin Jiayao could quickly remotely carry out destructive control on it.
Off-body control would still damage the bones, but if the bones were connected, it would not damage the bones.
Then wouldn’t it…
Lin Jiayao ignored Huayibai, who was helping her wipe her face with a blanket, and slowly lifted her long skirt, revealing her straight and slender legs.
“Ch…”
A bone spur slowly drilled out of Lin Jiayao’s arm, and according to Lin Jiayao’s wishes, it directly pierced her skin and connected to the direction of the pelvis.
……No response?
Or was it just that she was not yet proficient in this evolution?
She could find her sister to poke her and try, to see if it was her problem or the bone spur’s problem.
“Okay, no need to wipe,” Lin Jiayao blocked Huayibai with her left hand and asked, “Where’s your Sister Xi?”
“Eh? Ah.” Huayibai drilled countless mycelia out of her mouth, swallowed the blanket directly into her body, and did not waste a drop. After that, she closed her eyes and felt it.
Now a part of Huayibai’s body was still on standby on Lin Xiwan’s bracelet, so it was easy to locate Lin Xiwan’s location.
“Sister Xi seems to be… going upstairs… Oh, she jumped off the building again… um… she’s…”
Lin Xiwan, who was always exercising, made Huayibai not know how to describe her state.
“It’s okay, just take me there.” Lin Jiayao put her hand on Huayibai and nodded to her.
Huayibai also quickly understood Lin Jiayao’s meaning. She took a deep breath, and white skirts bled countless mycelia from the bottom of the skirt like blood.
The mycelium formed a much smaller flapping-wing flying insect and wrapped Lin Jiayao in it.
Then, Huayibai, who had turned into a flapping-wing flying insect with mycelium, carried her mother and crawled out of the villa, and then vibrated her wings in the open space.
She had to use Goldie to harvest all the blood crystals in Wisconsin quickly, and she had to get the evolution of Mask and A4 as soon as possible.
Lin Jiayao, who was in Huayibai’s body, opened the Hideout, and then clicked on 【Training Grounds Lv.2】, directly invested 50 blood crystals, and began to build.
12 hours of construction time…
When the level 2 training ground was built, she could strengthen herself tirelessly.
Lin Xiwan’s current location was not very far away. Soon, Huayibai carried Lin Jiayao and approached a square center surrounded by building-trees.
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