Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Six: Blood Crystal “Farm”
“In the future, if you encounter strangers who attack you first, you should fight back directly without asking me, understand?” Lin Jiayao gently rubbed the back of Huayibai’s head with Goldie’s tentacles and explained softly, “This is called self-defense.”
“Um… yes…” Huayibai, in Lin Jiayao’s arms, narrowed her eyes slightly, and the giant hand of mycelium behind her pressed down sharply, then slowly dragged back, leaving only a pool of thick blood on the ground.
Lin Jiayao didn’t care about this kind of killing, and she wasn’t interested in investigating whether these people were “good” or “evil”. She came here with her own mission and goals. Anyone who stood in her way would be regarded as an obstacle and directly eliminated.
It wasn’t that she was cold-blooded, but because the other party had hurt Huayibai, and now Lin Jiayao regarded Huayibai as family.
She naturally wouldn’t be soft-hearted towards those who hurt her family.
However, just as Lin Jiayao spread the green flying insects, she saw another convoy in the distance.
Were they together?
“Crack—”
Lin Jiayao’s pupils rotated, and several golden lights shot out from her eyeballs, and instantly stopped in front of the convoy.
“Whoosh—”
Several flying insects with a golden metallic sheen made loud, noisy, even screeching sounds and hovered in front of them, which caused panic in the convoy, the accelerator was stepped on, and the harsh sound of burning tires sounded.
But soon, the convoy seemed to be calmed down by someone, and a woman with her hands raised high came down from the passenger seat of the leading car.
“We have no malice, please don’t hurt us!” The blond woman said with her hands raised high, “It wasn’t us who attacked you just now, our team didn’t do anything, and we don’t know the people in the team in front!”
This wasn’t that they wanted to be “fake teammates”, but they had to say it for self-preservation, and they really didn’t join the battle.
Lin Jiayao, who was controlling the golden flying insects to hover in front of the convoy and had already propped up her body with tentacles, leaned over and looked at Huayibai and asked:
“Did they hit you?”
Before, in the training ground, in order to conquer the human-headed Hive Queen, Lin Jiayao didn’t know how many times she had controlled Goldie to die, so her control of various skills of Goldie naturally improved.
Like the golden flying insects that she couldn’t control completely before, now Lin Jiayao could speed them up while controlling their turns and emergency stops.
This was simply irresistible for those below B-rank who didn’t have strong blood crystal defenses. Unless they were in a tank, they would be “one-insect-headed” when they met.
“No.” Huayibai, who was holding the tentacle next to her, raised her head and looked at Lin Jiayao, shaking her head.
Huayibai was still very honest. If she was hit, she was hit, if she wasn’t, she wasn’t, she wouldn’t fabricate facts.
“Yes.” Lin Jiayao nodded, and those golden flying insects vibrated their wings and flew back behind Lin Jiayao, hanging on her blonde hair and standing by, like golden headdresses.
She did not intend to continue to waste time, because she also recognized that this team seemed to be the team that provided her with information last time. If they were sensible, they would not continue to disturb her.
Lin Jiayao held Huayibai’s small hand with her tentacles, looked around, compared the Hive Zombie occupation map in her mind, chose an Extraction Point with the most Hive Zombies around, and was ready to let Huayibai carry her there.
This time, the extraction time was only two hours. Lin Jiayao had to harvest as many Hive Zombie blood crystals as possible within these two hours.
“Ch—”
With Lin Jiayao’s instructions, the blood-red mycelium blanket under Huayibai slowly contracted and condensed into a giant cocoon, and the things inside the cocoon were quickly taking shape.
Soon, the mycelium cocoon collapsed inward and was completely absorbed.
And the giant insect inside the cocoon also revealed its hideous appearance.
Lin Jiayao wriggled her tentacles, held Huayibai’s hand with her tentacles, and drilled into the empty abdomen from the open armor plates of the giant insect. Then, this black-winged giant insect, like a flapping-wing machine, vibrated its huge wings and lifted its huge body into the air.
Those green flying insects that had been summoned tightly clung to the giant insect, adding green fluorescent bumps to the giant insect, making it look even more terrifying.
The human team below seemed to be shouting something, but Lin Jiayao ignored it and directly let Huayibai control the flying insect and fly towards the next Hive Zombie occupation point.
“Buzz—”
Even inside the giant insect, she could hear the loud noise, but this “model” of flying insect was the fastest kind. In this regard, Lin Jiayao still pursued efficiency.
This kind of flight consumed a lot of Huayibai’s energy. Fortunately, this was Wisconsin. As long as there was a way to kill Hive Zombies, there were enough blood crystals.
Soon, Huayibai carried Lin Jiayao and arrived at the Hive Zombie occupation point closest to the Extraction Point route.
“Buzz—”
“Boom—”
This time, Lin Jiayao did not carefully probe outside, but directly let Huayibai control the flying insect and crash into the center of the Hive Zombie territory.
Such a violent noise immediately disturbed the “Hive Queen” in the territory.
With a loud wail, countless zombies poured out from the buildings, facing the rising sun, and rushed towards Lin Jiayao.
Now with Huayibai here, it was obvious that Lin Jiayao didn’t need to do anything about cleaning up the zombies.
After getting Lin Jiayao’s approval, Huayibai’s original giant insect shell instantly turned into a pool of “blood”, “sprinkled” on the ground.
These things that looked like fluid were actually wriggling mycelium. The mycelium quickly spread a layer of mycelium blanket on the ground and continued to expand outwards.
Every time a zombie was dragged into the mycelium blanket, the zombie would be “sink” like falling into a swamp, wrapped by the mycelium blanket, becoming nutrients for the mycelium blanket to expand faster.
“Boom—”
Soon, this wanton sweep angered the “Hive Queen” in the territory. After it smashed through a wall blocking the alley, it rushed directly to the main road.
It was a “Hive Queen” about the same height as Green Fatty, but unlike Green Fatty, it did not have translucent gelatinous skin and a bloated figure. On the contrary, its body was as slender as a Hunter, wrapped in a black hard shell.
The biggest difference between it and the Hunter was that it did not have giant claws that could be used to tear open prey, nor did it have anti-joint legs that were good at running and jumping.
The biggest difference was that its spine, like a real bee, grew a huge oval “abdomen” connected to the back of the body, and even the color scheme was similar.
The translucent gelatinous skin wrapped the light yellow pus and the snow-white brain connected by the red blood crystal threads inside, a circle of black hive, a circle of translucent gelatinous and brain.
It looked like it was carrying a huge oval cake with layers of cream and chocolate.
Oh, there was also a little strawberry jam in it as a connection and embellishment.
At the moment she saw the zombie, whether it was because of A4’s influence or something, Lin Jiayao subconsciously imagined its taste…
“Huh…”
Lin Jiayao took a slow breath and let herself stop thinking about these things.
Besides, although these Hive Zombies had similar abilities, their forms were different, and they were all ugly in their own way.
They looked very random.
There was a feeling that since they didn’t rely on their bodies to attack, they just grew randomly.
Fortunately, Goldie had evolved Crystal-absorbing Tentacles, and could differentiate into tentacles to store blood crystals, which looked at least not so disgusting.
That Hive Zombie obviously had some low intelligence because it had devoured a large number of brains, probably similar to a two- or three-year-old human child.
After rushing out and seeing the mycelium that almost covered the entire street and the surrounding buildings, it froze in a very human manner.
Although it didn’t have any expressions, its stagnant movements clearly showed that its limited brain capacity couldn’t think about what the scene in front of it was.
So, it simply gave up thinking and began to directly shake the huge “hive” behind it. Several layers of the hive shook out hundreds of pale golden and pale green flying insects.
But before those shaken insects could vibrate their wings, the “Hive Queen”, along with the surrounding insects, were all covered by shadows.
A giant net woven from mycelium fell from between the tall buildings, covering it from above as easily as paper.
It was like magic. After the blood cloth composed of mycelium fell, it directly and gently landed without any hindrance, as if it had not touched anything, and there were no creatures inside.
The blood cloth covering the ground turned into a new mycelium blanket and began to spread further.
And between the mycelium blankets, some “transportation pipelines” almost as thick as an arm gradually began to form, constantly extracting energy back.
Some flesh and blood had precipitated blood crystals in the transport pipes. These slightly glowing blood crystals were transported in the transport pipes, and the blood crystals below could even be seen through the thin skin of the transport pipes.
And Lin Jiayao, who was located in the center of the mycelium blanket, was looking at the front where these transport pipes converged, constantly spitting out small pieces of blood crystals.
Good guy, the efficiency was directly maxed out.
With Lin Jiayao as a “spiritual barrier” to protect Huayibai, facing these Hive Zombies that relied on “sea of corpses” and “sea of insects” tactics was simply a one-sided slaughter.
This was the terror of “invasive species”.
While watching the blood crystals pile up into a small pile in front of her, Lin Jiayao gently scratched Huayibai’s chin with her tentacles.
The feeling of watching the blood crystals continuously gather in front of her… was really stress-relieving.
Relying on Huayibai’s extremely high efficiency, Lin Jiayao quickly harvested the zombies in this area.
It was a pity that Huayibai’s mycelium spread and her own blood crystal capacity had a limit. Whether it was forming a line or a surface, the total amount of mycelium was basically fixed.
When she was surrounding an area of Chongyu City before, Huayibai just used mycelium threads to surround the area, and could not form a surface covering the entire area.
Lin Jiayao had also asked Huayibai. For her, this kind of body division was not unlimited.
Every time she divided, it was equivalent to Huayibai giving birth to herself once, but these mycelia all shared the same consciousness. Every time she divided, the spirit of a single individual would become weaker.
This was why Huayibai was almost controlled by the human-headed Hive Queen in the system’s training ground simulation.
Unfortunately, Lin Jiayao did not have a way to help others increase their mental power now. If there was, she could assign a Huayibai to each of her zombies.
It was equivalent to no matter where she went, as long as she brought nearly fifty blood crystals, she would have an absolutely obedient B-rank combat power.
But thinking about how to improve Huayibai was for later. Lin Jiayao didn’t continue to dwell on this matter, and began to direct Huayibai to constantly change locations, eroding the Hive Queen’s territory around the Extraction Point.
Because there was no existence like the human-headed Hive Queen, even after harvesting nearly five Hive Queen territories, Lin Jiayao only harvested about fifty blood crystals.
Seeing that there were only 10 minutes left before extraction, Lin Jiayao could only resist the urge to continue, and let Huayibai carry her to the Extraction Point.
Wisconsin was like a huge “farmland”, and there was still nearly half of the “land” waiting for Lin Jiayao to harvest.
She just didn’t know if there were any other cities with unique zombie structures like Milwaukee. Maybe she could go to nearby cities to have a look. Maybe there were also Hive Queen strongholds in the cities of Wisconsin.
She had already started to consider whether to put Hive Zombies in other uninhabited cities, let them gather zombies for a period of time, and then go up to harvest, to achieve sustainable blood crystal acquisition.
If Lin Jiayao remembered correctly, below Milwaukee was Chicago, which was also a big city before the apocalypse. After hesitating for a while, Lin Jiayao still decided to avoid the area below.
In densely populated cities, the probability of high-level zombies appearing was also high, and similarly, the probability of high-level Awakened appearing was also high.
In order to avoid possible trouble, Lin Jiayao still decided to sweep the other places in Wisconsin first.
What Lin Jiayao didn’t know was that her slightly cautious decision really helped her avoid some trouble that wasn’t big or small.
【Extracting: 7.3】
Carrying a large number of blood crystals harvested by Huayibai, Lin Jiayao contentedly extracted from Milwaukee.
After slowly opening her eyes, Lin Jiayao saw Huayibai, who was also lying next to her.
But she didn’t see her sister’s figure immediately.
When she turned her eyes and looked next to the library, she saw her sister hanging on the vines on the roof in a strange posture.
Her sister’s hands were grabbing the vines on the left and right sides, clenching them alternately, and supporting her body horizontally.
From the sweat on her body, it could be seen that she seemed to have been secretly exercising for a long time.
Seemingly noticing that her sister was awake, Lin Xiwan quickly shook her legs and pulled the vines to swing.
After swinging for a while, it seemed that she couldn’t resist her sister’s suspicious eyes. Lin Xiwan directly let go of her hands and jumped down, and said with an embarrassed smile:
“Ah ha ha, Yao, you’re awake, I was playing on the swing… Do you want to play?”
Usually, her sister would sleep for at least three hours. Lin Xiwan didn’t expect her to wake up so early this time. Just when she was about to end her exercise and erase the traces, she was caught red-handed.
Looking at her sister who was already squatting in front of her, with dodging eyes and looking a little aggrieved, Lin Jiayao couldn’t bear to say anything more, but just sighed softly.
“I just don’t want you to overwork yourself…” Lin Jiayao said, not disliking the sweat on her sister’s face, and reached out to wipe the sweat from her sister’s forehead.
“If I don’t work hard… how can I stand in front of you and protect you with confidence?” Lin Xiwan grabbed her sister’s hand and kissed it gently, “Don’t worry, Yao, I know my body.”
Just as Lin Jiayao was about to say something, she suddenly looked at Huayibai’s position.
At this time, Huayibai, who was lying down, had opened her eyes at some point, and was staring at her.
Without Huayibai’s reminder, just by using the green flying insects distributed at the border, Lin Jiayao also noticed.
The first batch of people from Qingzhou University Camp who took off were about to land.
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