Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 64p1

Chapter 64: Typhoon Night p1

The zombie in front of Lin Jiayao wandered a short distance and then stopped.

Unsure of its intentions, Lin Jiayao also stopped, observing.

After a while, the zombie turned and lumbered back, no longer searching for its attacker.

This…

It seemed all those brains inside its body hadn’t improved its intelligence.

Lin Jiayao even began to doubt if evolving into this type of Hive Zombie actually enhanced mental strength.

As it returned to the corpse, Lin Jiayao crouched down, placed her rifle on the ground, and took out an M67 grenade.

Looking at the round grenade in her hand, she felt a surge of nervousness.

Although she had read about how to use grenades in many military manuals, this was her first time actually using one.

To be safe, she decided to practice.

She had two more grenades anyway; a test run wouldn’t hurt.

While the zombie feasted on the corpse, Lin Jiayao sat cross-legged on the ground, examining the grenade.

She held the grenade and the safety lever in her left hand, pushed open the spring-loaded safety clip, then hooked her right index finger around the ring pull and pulled out the safety pin.

Looking around, there wasn’t a good target, so she threw the grenade towards a few black Sprinters collecting blood crystals on the ground.

“Whoosh—”

As the grenade left her hand, the safety lever sprang off. The round, green grenade spun through the air towards the Sprinters.

It landed on the ground without exploding.

Just as Lin Jiayao thought it was a dud, a few seconds later, it detonated with a loud “BOOM.”

The explosion sent shrapnel flying. The closest black Sprinters were thrown back by the blast.

Shrapnel embedded itself in various parts of their bodies, some even in their heads.

But besides making them look even more mangled, it didn’t seem to cause any significant damage.

Shrapnel propelled by an explosion would incapacitate a human.

But zombies didn’t feel pain; as long as it wasn’t a fatal injury, it didn’t matter.

After the explosion, the surrounding zombies continued searching for blood crystals, still following the Hive Zombie’s commands, oblivious to the detonation.

And the obese Hive Zombie continued to feast on the corpse, simply emitting a buzzing sound, sending a few Sprinters towards the explosion site, seemingly unwilling to investigate itself.

Even among zombies, there were lazy ones?

Having tested the grenade’s power, Lin Jiayao nodded to herself.

Although the fragmentation grenade could only kill a Sprinter at point-blank range, this was enough for her.

A grenade detonating inside that zombie would definitely turn its internal organs into mush.

She took out the second M67, repeated the steps, holding it in her left hand, pin and clip removed, safety lever held down, ready to throw.

With the grenade primed, she picked up her rifle in her right hand and stood up.

She walked directly towards the Hive Zombie, its back to her.

As she approached, the zombie seemed to notice another zombie behind it. It struggled to straighten up, glanced back, and then continued eating.

“Buzz—”

A mental command to leave entered Lin Jiayao’s mind, urging her to turn back.

But she easily resisted the weak mental suggestion, walked up to the zombie, and pressed the rifle against its back.

The silenced barrel sank into its gelatinous skin, even touching a brain inside, the sensation transmitted through the rifle to Lin Jiayao’s hand, making her shudder.

“Buzz—”

The zombie finally sensed something was wrong. The countless black holes on its upper body widened, and swarms of glowing green insects emerged.

It even started to stand.

At that moment, Lin Jiayao pulled the trigger.

“Rat-tat-tat-tat—”

The bullets ripped through its skin. Lin Jiayao adjusted her aim slightly, widening the hole.

“BUZZZZ—”

A piercing buzz resonated in Lin Jiayao’s mind, almost making her drop the grenade.

I can’t wait any longer.

Swarms of emerald green insects, dripping viscous mucus, landed on her face, some even trying to burrow into her eyes.

And the nearby Sprinters, seemingly alerted, turned and charged towards her.

While she could still see, Lin Jiayao dropped the rifle and punched the oozing wound with her left hand, the grenade still clutched in her fist.

“Squish—”

Before the pus could seal the wound, she shoved her hand inside, deep into the viscous fluid, and then released the grenade.

“Click—”

The safety lever sprang off within the mass of brains and pus. A Sprinter lunged at Lin Jiayao, biting down on the back of her neck and shaking its head violently.

But it couldn’t drag her away. Lin Jiayao’s left hand was stuck inside the obese zombie – the wound had closed, sealing her hand within.

Her vision blurred, her eyes being devoured, and she gradually lost control of her body.

She could even feel insects crawling into her ears, gnawing their way towards her brain.

Is this the end?

“BOOM—”

“Splat—”

Lin Jiayao didn’t hear or see anything; she only sensed a massive vibration through Bone Spike Lurker.

She knew the grenade had detonated.

Lin Jiayao stood before the massive Hive Zombie, her left hand trapped in its back.

Compared to the Sprinter behind her and the obese zombie in front, her body was incredibly small.

And insects continued to swarm her, crawling into her eyes, ears, nose, and mouth – a horrifying sight.

A muffled explosion echoed from within the Hive Zombie’s translucent belly.

Its body swelled, the brains inside turned into a yellowish-white mush by the blast.

It now resembled a giant, humanoid bowl of tofu pudding, brain matter and pus churning within.

The Sprinter that had been biting her suddenly stopped and turned away.

And the insects inside her mouth and ears stopped their gnawing, seemingly dead.

The obese zombie collapsed, raising a cloud of dust, Lin Jiayao falling with it.

Its honeycomb-like neck and shoulders detached from its body.

Like a deflated balloon, the zombie’s bloated body spewed its contents, pushing the detached head and shoulders away.

The honeycomb structure had been like a lid, holding the body together. Now, without the lid, the contents spilled out.

Its true form was revealed.

A creature resembling a squid, but not quite like any earthly creature.

A small, atrophied black head served as a mouth, a thick black neck below connecting to a shell-like mantle riddled with holes.

And beneath the mantle were glowing green tentacles, now severed and withering.

Lin Jiayao lay on the ground, unable to move.

But she knew she had survived.

Otherwise, she would be in the consciousness space, not lying here, barely alive.

With her spine severed, she couldn’t control her body.

She mentally retrieved a blood crystal from the safehouse, willed it to appear near her mouth, and then, with great effort, nudged her head and took a bite.

The blood crystal grew warm in her mouth, the heat spreading through her mind, like a burning poker searing her soul.

As she endured the pain, her bones rapidly regenerated. Within minutes, she could move her fingers.

She immediately put the blood crystal back into the safehouse before trying to sit up.

Only after securing her valuables did she feel a sense of safety.

She reached out, her hand brushing against soft, gelatinous skin, and then her new rifle.

But the rifle was coated in hardened mucus; she couldn’t even chamber a round.

She touched her eye sockets; her fingers passed through empty space. Her eyes were gone.

She could only rely on Bone Spike Lurker to detect any other living beings within a hundred meters.

Now, she finally understood the benefit of Lv.3 Bone Spike Lurker; even without eyes, she could “see” the terrain within fifty meters.

Fragile eyes were unreliable.

I should have chosen Lv.3 Bone Spike Lurker…

Not only her eyes, but also her left arm was gone, ripped off in the explosion while trapped inside the obese zombie.

Now, she could only crawl, using her right hand, towards the zombie’s corpse.

She didn’t care how disgusting it was; she couldn’t see, hear, or even properly feel anything.

But after searching for a long time, she couldn’t find anything resembling a blood crystal.

She started circling the corpse, expanding her search.

Soon, she found a different path, softer than the surrounding ground, seemingly paved with viscous fluid.

Was it the mucus from inside the zombie?

Following the trail of mucus, she found a slightly harder, leathery object.

Touching it, she felt honeycomb-like holes, and something small crumbled and fell off.

Was this… the detached head and shoulders of the zombie?

Lin Jiayao searched the surrounding area; she had a feeling the blood crystal was nearby.

Soon, she found a fist-sized, hard object.

Touching it, she felt a warmth, unusually distinct despite her dulled senses.

The blood crystal… I found it.

But… only one?

Such a large zombie, and so highly evolved, why only one blood crystal?

Lin Jiayao, unable to see, didn’t notice that this blood-red crystal was different from the others she had seen.

Within its translucent depths were several thin, glowing green tentacles.

The tentacles moved freely within the crystal, like they were swimming.

Although she couldn’t see, Lin Jiayao could still access the extraction point and time.

Plenty of time, and the extraction point was close.

She decided to get closer before consuming the crystal.

The system’s designated extraction points were always safe, places where she wouldn’t be disturbed, even during long login sessions.

That eight-person team’s equipment was too advanced; she had to be wary of reinforcements.

If they arrived while she was evolving, she would be doomed.

Clutching the warm blood crystal, Lin Jiayao crawled towards the extraction point. Halfway there, she could stand again.

Reaching a spot near the extraction point, she found a place to lean against, a solid surface that felt like either a wall or glass, and sat down.

She put the blood crystal into her mouth.

She wasn’t worried about consuming too much; she knew from her first evolution with Mask that there was a limit to how much a body could absorb at once.

Any excess would remain in her mouth.

As the blood crystal melted in her mouth, a burning sensation spreading through her body, Lin Jiayao lowered her head and fell asleep.

In her sleep, she had a short, strange dream.

Her perspective fragmented into countless small windows, each showing a different location, like multi-boxing in an online game, each account in a different area.

But then, everything went black, and she saw only a single, writhing, glowing green tentacle, viscous mucus dripping from its tip.

Her perspective followed the falling mucus into an endless abyss of darkness.

As darkness consumed everything, a sense of suffocation enveloped her, and she woke up.

Instinctively, she reached up to touch her eyes, wanting to see if they had regenerated.

But her hand froze midway.

Because she saw her hand move.

It was a strange sensation, difficult to describe.

She could rotate her perspective 360 degrees, even seeing her entire body from an external viewpoint.

And in this view, she saw her evolved form… a sight that made her shudder.

Suddenly, Mask seemed pleasing to the eye, the head-spider not so terrifying.

She was still in the little girl’s body.

But her empty eye sockets had changed.

Countless tiny, honeycomb-like holes now covered the insides of her eye sockets, extending to the corners of her eyes, their depths unsettling.

Besides the holes in her eye sockets, her severed neck had also regenerated, the skin now a translucent, gelatinous material, revealing the vertebrae beneath.

The most significant change was her missing left arm.

It had been completely replaced by a mass of glowing green tentacles, moving according to her will.

She could sense that, if she wanted to, she could use these tentacles to connect to brains.

And she now understood the basic abilities of a Hive Zombie.

The honeycomb-like holes in her eye sockets weren’t just for emitting the strange noises and pheromones that controlled other zombies, but also for producing eggs.

These eggs, which she could control, each slightly enhanced her mental strength and processing speed.

But the enhancement was minimal.