Chapter 237
Chapter 237: The Evolved Super Virus Infected Host, She Is a Picky Eater
The bloody, rotten stench rushed at her.
Jiang Tea Tea braced the Flame Staff in her hand against the wall, pulling herself and the little girl a fist’s distance apart: “I know I smell good and very tasty. You are not the only one who wants to eat me. I just do not know if you have what it takes to actually eat me.”
As the only tea tree in her family that had ever become a demon, she relied not only on herself but also on luck.
She had mixed well in the Demon Clan, had not been beaten to death and eaten by other Great Demon Stage demons, and even had her own mountain estate. She was not some fool anyone could just crave and then pop into their mouth.
The little girl’s nails suddenly shot out. She grabbed Jiang Tea Tea’s hand and tried to stab into her palm like a creep: “Big sister, you are so fierce, I really like you.”
Reboot liked her.
What a coincidence.
Jiang Tea Tea liked her too.
The zombie virus had evolved to version 2.0, creating an infected person who still had reason, could speak normally, and would even pick the good-tasting zombies to eat.
Someone like her was basically a precious little darling. Who would not like her? People would like her to death.
Jiang Tea Tea curled her lips in a smile: “Little sister, you are so cute. I really like you too. I wonder, what is your name?”
The little girl looked at her smile, her reddened eyes shining with excitement: “Big sister likes me. Big sister will willingly let me eat her.”
“Dad said, cows that grow up listening to the zither are happy, and their meat gets more tender. If big sister willingly lets me eat her, that means you are happily letting me eat you. When big sister is happy, your meat will definitely be more tender than beef.”
“Oh, big sister asked what my name is. Dad did not give me a name, but my dad calls me Reboot!”
Jiang Tea Tea heard this and praised her without holding back: “Reboot, to start everything over from the beginning. It means the start. It is a very nice name.”
Reboot grinned, blood and flesh stuck between her teeth. The zombies from before had not wanted to eat her. They had been eaten by her.
After she tore off their flesh and bit them apart, they had screamed and shouted, and in return she got food that smelled delicious.
It was just that the bodies of the food were too hard. Even with nails that long, she had not been able to pierce their hands.
Jiang Tea Tea flipped her hand over, grabbed the hand Reboot was using to hold hers, and with a crack bent it back and broke it. If this girl thought she could dig her sharp nails into Jiang Tea Tea’s meat, she was dreaming.
She asked with a bright smile: “Reboot, who is your dad? What is his name? Tell me.”
Reboot’s hand was broken, but she seemed to feel no pain. She still grinned: “My dad is my dad. My dad is just called my dad. What, big sister, you want to steal my dad?”
“No no no, Dad only loves me, only likes me. He says I am his only one.”
“Big sister, you smell so good, you are so tasty. After I eat you and go to see Dad, my body will definitely become fragrant too. My dad will like me even more, right?”
So she also knew that she stank. It looked like the virus in her body had really evolved well and had not rotted her brain.
Jiang Tea Tea nodded: “Right, but…”
“There is no but. Just let me eat you.” Reboot cut her off, ignored her broken hand, switched from passive to active, opened her mouth, and lunged for Jiang Tea Tea’s neck.
Jiang Tea Tea flipped the Flame Staff she had braced against the wall, pressed it against Reboot’s neck, and pushed hard. With a bang, Reboot’s back slammed into the wall.
Reboot bit down on nothing. Her upper teeth hit her lower teeth, making her grimace. Her reddened eyes turned bright red with anger: “Big sister, I am going to eat you, I am going to eat you. Let me eat you, let me become nice and fragrant, okay?”
Jiang Tea Tea moved the staff as she wished. With a whoosh, Five-colored Phoenix Flame burst out from the Flame Staff, wrapping around Reboot: “I told you, it depends on your own ability. You do not have the ability, so you can go eat shit!”
Wrapped in the Five-colored Phoenix Flame, Reboot’s voice turned sharp: “Ah, so hot, so hot, Dad, save me, Dad…”
“Big sister, you are so mean, you are so mean. I am going to kill you, I am going to eat you, I will definitely eat you…”
“Ah ah ah, it hurts, it hurts, it is so hot… Dad, save me…”
She screamed and yelled in wild pain as the fire burned her, but she did not call her dad. Instead, she called over Sui Xuan Chu and Cheng Xiao Ting. The two of them stammered: “Sister Tea, w-what are you doing?”
The tip of the Flame Staff in Jiang Tea Tea’s hand was fastened around Reboot’s neck, turning into a collar that locked tightly on her.
The flame light on Reboot’s body disappeared, revealing her face and blood-red eyes. She pressed tightly against the wall, looking weak and pitiful, calling to Sui Xuan Chu and Cheng Xiao Ting: “Big brother, big brother, save me, big brother, save me, big sister wants to kill me, it hurts so much…”
Sui Xuan Chu and Cheng Xiao Ting looked at Reboot, then at Jiang Tea Tea. They gripped the iron rods and iron clubs in their hands and moved to stand on Jiang Tea Tea’s side: “Little girl, it is not that we will not save you. It is that we trust her.”
“As comrades-in-arms, as classmates, as friends, we have to trust each other. Even if she pointed a gun at me, I would still believe a bad guy had appeared behind me, not that she wanted to blow my head off.”
Reboot’s act of being weak and pitiful did not hold. Her eyes turned scarlet and her face twisted ferociously. She bared her teeth at the two of them and panted like a dog.
Sui Xuan Chu and Cheng Xiao Ting jumped in fright and quickly asked: “Sister Tea, what is going on, what is going on? Is this one infected, not infected, or about to be infected?”
Jiang Tea Tea straightened up and gave the Flame Staff a tug.
Reboot was yanked to her feet. She was not very tall, about 1.4 meters, like an eleven or twelve-year-old girl.
Her clear voice rose as she answered Sui Xuan Chu and Cheng Xiao Ting: “This is a Super Virus infection evolved to version 3.0.”
Sui Xuan Chu and Cheng Xiao Ting were stunned.
A Super Virus infection purified to version 3.0?
That meant the viral infection had successfully evolved?
No, they had heard that after being infected with this virus, if the infection succeeded, you would be invulnerable to blades and bullets and be very powerful.
The little girl in front of them did not seem powerful at all. She could not even beat Sister Tea… Pah, Sister Tea was awesome, of course she could not beat her.
When Jiang Tea Tea saw the two of them staring at Reboot with their jaws almost on the floor after hearing what she said, she asked: “Has the signal been restored?”
Sui Xuan Chu and Cheng Xiao Ting snapped back to themselves: “The town signal has not been restored, but our Military Authorities signal is fine.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s voice sank: “Notify Commander in Chief Chong Ming, tell him to call Cheng Yuan. Tell him we caught an upgraded version 3.0. Have him quickly send people to take her away. Maybe they can find the root of the solution to the virus from her.”
Sui Xuan Chu and Cheng Xiao Ting’s eyes lit up. They answered loudly: “Yes!”
Reboot tried to pry open the ring of staff around her neck. As soon as her hand touched it, she was burned by the fire and hurt so much she did not dare touch it again.
She changed from her wild, people-eating look back into that blood-soaked, eyes gradually less red, weak and helpless appearance: “Big sister, it hurts so much. Can you loosen it a little?”
Playing a green tea girl in front of a green tea demon, she had really kicked an iron plate.
Jiang Tea Tea tugged her along toward the outside of the house as she said: “Your neck hurts, and my heart hurts, but there is no choice. To keep you from biting me and eating me, I can only bear the heartache and drag you out.”
Reboot’s green tea girl act was not as good as a real green tea girl. She failed the act, her face instantly twisted ferociously again, and she lunged at Jiang Tea Tea once more.
Jiang Tea Tea did not move at all. When Reboot’s hand was just about to touch her, the Flame Staff suddenly lengthened, and Reboot on the other end of the staff was directly poked away.
Reboot stretched out her arms, making hoarse sounds. The bones in her broken hand had already healed completely. Her nails were extremely long, her hands curling and grabbing.
But she just could not grab Jiang Tea Tea. The staff between them was two meters long, and the fiery light on the staff shimmered as if it were laughing at her.
Jiang Tea Tea slowly walked toward her: “Reboot, stop wasting your strength. You cannot beat me. How about I call your dad over to fight me instead?”
A bloody scratch appeared on Reboot’s delicate pale face. Thick, dark, stinking blood flowed from the wound: “Who said I cannot beat you? I might not be able to eat you now, but just you wait.”
As soon as she finished speaking, a deafening roar burst from her throat, echoing through the whole town.
Some town citizens with weaker levels of supernatural abilities, and some of the Military Authorities people, had their ears briefly ring from the echoing roar.
After Reboot’s roar faded, the town center where Jiang Tea Tea and the others were fell into silence.
Suddenly, a voice from the Military Authorities command post came through her earpiece: “Attention to all personnel in Nisu Town. The number of aberrant beast type infected hosts has increased. They are closing in on the town. The town’s fence and iron walls are not yet fully closed. Please be careful and quickly search for survivors and uninfected people.”
“Also, please do your best to capture infected people. Unless it is absolutely necessary, do not carry out hunts on infected people.”
Unless it was absolutely necessary, they could not hunt them. In other words, if they ran into an emergency, they could.
Jiang Tea Tea replied with a “received,” picked up the staff, and slammed Reboot on the other end of the staff to the ground. She wanted to knock her out and smashed her down several times, but besides looking even more miserable than before, Reboot had nothing else wrong with her.
Sui Xuan Chu and Cheng Xiao Ting finished the communication and got people ready. They ran over, took out special ropes and straps, and started tying Reboot up.
Reboot could not struggle, so she pretended to be pitiful, put on her green tea act, called out big brother and cried about the pain, as pitiful as could be. People who knew she was a Super Virus infected host understood. People who did not would think she was just an ordinary bullied little girl.
She was tied up very firmly and could not struggle at all. Jiang Tea Tea broke off the ring of the Flame Staff that was stuck on her neck and left it on her neck.
Reboot was stuffed into the flying device where Cheng Yuan was. Cheng Xiao Ting and the people from the Imperial Military Headquarters were in charge of escorting her as they flew away from the town.
Not long after the flying device left the town, Jiang Tea Tea and the others, after tying up a few more infected hosts with the people from the Imperial Military Headquarters, heard a beastly roar.
Right after that, large mutated four-horned beasts appeared from all directions outside the town. Each of them was more than ten meters tall, with huge, fat, rotting bodies weighing dozens of tons. Every step they ran and every roar they let out made rotten flesh and pus-filled blood fall to the ground.
Some of them entered the town, some crashed into the town’s isolation iron walls. The ten-meter-high iron wall fence could not stop them at all.
What was more, the iron wall fence was not even fully completed, only one third done. It was directly smashed down and crushed under their feet. Gunshots, the sound of supernatural abilities, and the blasts of artillery fire rose and fell one after another without end…
When everyone thought there were only four-horned beasts, other mutated infected beasts appeared that were smaller than the four-horned beasts: small mutated scaled beasts, cheetahs, white tigers, palm-sized white ants, rats weighing around ten jin, and so on, nearly ten kinds of mutated infected beasts.
Yan Yu looked at the aberrant beasts running toward them and asked Jiang Tea Tea behind her: “Sister Tea, how did so many mutated forms suddenly appear?”
Jiang Tea Tea gripped her Flame Staff and blew up a mutant rat: “It should be that roar just now from that Super Virus infected host version 3.0 little girl that yelled them over!”
Sui Xuan Chu said in shock: “Roommate, what do you mean by that?”
Yan Yu echoed: “Yeah, Sister Tea, what do you mean?”
Jiang Tea Tea stepped on a white ant: “What do I mean? I mean exactly what you are thinking!”
Yan Yu and Sui Xuan Chu spoke at the same time: “Holy shit, no way. That little girl is not a Super Virus infected host version 3.0, she is version 5.0.”
With just one angry roar she could call over infected hosts. If that was not evolution to version 5.0, then it was evolution to version 6.0. It was terrifying.
Jiang Tea Tea reminded them with a smile: “You two should pray to the Beast God right now that she is the only evolved infected host. If there are more of her, it will be a super hard problem to solve.”
Yan Yu and Sui Xuan Chu were speechless.
Right, right. With that one caught and sent away, they were confident they could wipe out all these in front of them.
But if there were more of her, like an infectious disease, Capital Planet would fall, and Zhenlin Empire would suffer heavy damage. Damn, they could not think about it. The more they thought, the more it felt like the country would be destroyed soon.
Jiang Tea Tea signaled to the two of them: “Alright, pull yourselves together. They are all in. We are getting ready to hunt.”
A dark mass of infected beastkind poured into the town. There were still uninfected people and survivors they had found inside the town. They could not just fire an artillery shell and blow everything up to end it.
The army personnel in the squad, besides searching for survivors and tying up infected people, also had to deal with infected beasts. No matter how many people they had and how good their skills were, there would still be times they could not take care of everything.
Jiang Tea Tea rescued several Military Authorities personnel from under the feet of giant four-horned beasts. These things were just like zombies. Unless they were smashed into pieces, even if they were chopped in half, brains split open, hands and feet all cut off, they could still wriggle their bodies and keep looking for living creatures to infect and gnaw on.
As a tree spirit that ate everything, Jiang Tea Tea faced all this rotten flesh and thick, stinking blood. If she had not blocked her sense of smell, she would have thrown up to death.
One infected beast after another was hunted, chopped apart, shot in the head, and split open. The blood in the town soared to the sky, and the stench was unbearable.
To purify the air and make these infected beasts disappear, Jiang Tea Tea used the phoenix fire on the Flame Staff to burn them.
In an instant, Five-colored Phoenix Flame roared up, burning all the hacked-up corpse pieces and blood that had been hunted down.
When the town’s communication monitoring system was finally restored, an uninfected person who had been hiding on the upper floors of a building at home and had not been found posted a video of Jiang Tea Tea burning infected beasts on StarNet, along with a caption questioning: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming said that the Crown Prince and Level S healer Jiang Tea Tea came to Nisu Town to save us. Then why do I see healer Jiang Tea Tea setting fires and burning infected people and uninfected people?”
“Was Commander in Chief Chong Ming lying to us? Was healer Jiang Tea Tea and the Crown Prince’s arrival only a lie to make us willingly wait in place to be burned?”