Chapter 501: New Host?
But to access the laboratory, she needed a minimum energy level of ninety percent. With how slow her energy recovery rate was, it would take years to open the laboratory.
While Du Beiye was lost in thought, Jiao Lizhi observed her expression from the rearview mirror. She felt that someone was watching her since she met her in the cafeteria yesterday.
The feeling was similar to the energy wave she felt in the farmland area. While she couldn’t pinpoint the source of the energy wave, she was sure that it had something to do with Du Beiye.
They were occupied by their own thoughts, and no one was talking along the journey. After the road was fixed by Xun Che’s soldiers, it only took two hours to reach the city center.
After they came out of the car, Jiao Lizhi stored the SUV in her space. The moment she used her space, Krayan suddenly said, "Host, I detected Gaia’s signal coming from the target!"
As soon as she heard this, Du Beiye asked in surprise, "Krayan, are you sure Gaia is with her?"
"Host, I’m one hundred percent sure."
"Can you contact Gaia?" she asked.
Krayan went silent for a while before it replied, "Host, I can’t contact Gaia. From the signal we received just now, Gaia should be in its sleeping mode."
"The probability that Gaia suffered damage during the space jump was twenty percent, and the probability of Gaia lacking energy was seventy-five percent. The probability that Gaia was under the new host’s control was five percent."
Du Beiye glanced at Jiao Lizhi for a moment before she averted her gaze after hearing the information. Now that they had finally found Gaia’s location, she needed to find a way to contact Gaia and learn what had happened to her sister.
For now, she could only keep an eye on Jiao Lizhi and decide what to do later depending on the situation. In the worst case, she might have to use Krayan to extract Gaia from the new host’s brain.
Judging by how Shrotam interacted with the new host, she might have to fight against him if she extracted Gaia. So unless necessary, she didn’t want to do that.
Not knowing that someone was planning to take away her space, Jiao Lizhi recalled the information from her past life while observing the situation and said, "Brother Yan, the hospital is five kilometers away. There might be mutant or zombie animals in this area."
Jin Xuyan nodded and said, "Be careful."
Before they even walked for half an hour, they heard the roars of zombies from the hospital direction.
The outer area of the city center was clear of zombies, but the aura from that roar carried the pressure of a level-five zombie. It seemed that zombies in the area had gathered near the hospital.
Both Jiao Lizhi and Jin Xuyan unsheathed their longsword and dagger, while Du Beiye pulled out a B-rank dagger from her belt.
They walked for ten minutes when a zombie suddenly leaped down from a building’s rooftop and threw several fireballs at them.
Noticing the attack, Jiao Lizhi sent her energy to her dagger. In less than a second, the dagger turned into an ice scythe.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
With a swing of her scythe, several water blades flew toward the fireballs and exploded upon contact. The water blades turned into vapor and hindered their sight.
"Roar!"
Hearing the roar, she turned her body and swung her ice scythe.
CLANG!
Her attack was blocked by the zombie’s claws. Before the zombie could react, she narrowed her eyes, and the ice scythe turned into countless ice needles that pierced the zombie’s body and froze its joints and black blood.
Holding her dagger, she dashed toward the zombie and aimed it at the zombie’s forehead.
Stab!
With the zombie being frozen from the inside out, its movement was slowed down and failed to block her attack. In less than five minutes, Jiao Lizhi had killed a level-two zombie.
After the second rain, the number of zombies increased. But with cannibalism within the zombies, the number of zombies was reduced by five percent in just a few days.
At the same time, with more supplies of crystal cores, the speed of the zombies advancing to a higher level was faster than humans or mutants. This was also the main concern of the leaders.
A high-level zombie could destroy a base alone, let alone several of them. If they didn’t solve this problem as soon as possible, the danger they faced in the future would be more than what they could think of.
Just after Jiao Lizhi took a crystal core from the zombie’s head, a group of level-two zombies attacked them. Seeing this, Jin Xuyan bent his knees and leaped into the air.
With a flip of his body, he kicked the nearest zombie while at the same time swinging his longsword.
Duagh!
The black fire blade flew toward the zombie in front of him at a fast speed. But before the fire blade could hit the zombie, an ice shield appeared in front of it, blocking the attack.
Boom!
Narrowing his eyes, Jin Xuyan landed on the ground and leaped to the side. The next moment, a metal spear and a boulder hit his previous location.
Boom! Crack!
A deep pit appeared on the ground while cracks spread across the road.
Looking at the damaged road, Jiao Lizhi sighed and said, "It will take a long time to fix the road."
After she said this, she joined her fiancé and fought against the zombies.
Standing ten meters away from them, Du Beiye stared at Jiao Lizhi and muttered, "Krayan, is it possible for two people to have a similar fighting style and both own Gaia?"
"The probability of that happening is one in a hundred million."
"So, the possibility of her being my sister is almost one hundred percent," she concluded.
"Yes."
When she received Krayan’s confirmation, the corner of Du Beiye’s lips lifted.
Even though she didn’t know why her sister no longer looked the same, she was delighted to learn that her sister was still alive. The other matters were not as important as that!
With a great mood, she dashed toward Jiao Lizhi and joined her to harvest the crystal cores.