Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 103 This woman's demolition skills are no less than mine

Twenty minutes later, Li Zheng slowly woke up, and the first thing he regained was his hearing.

The voices of Zhan Zhouzhou and others could be heard nearby, chattering indistinctly.

"Hmm? Why do I feel so tired all over?"

Li Zheng tried to open his eyes, but his eyelids were too heavy. He tried to speak, but he couldn't open his mouth.

However, his hearing was recovering rapidly, and he soon understood what others were saying.

"This kid is in pretty good physical condition, how come he collapsed from exhaustion?" This was Xiao Siyuan.

Li Zheng felt someone measuring and gesturing with their hand over the wound on his chest.

Xiao Siyuan's voice continued: "Look, I didn't use any medical equipment, and in just twenty minutes, his deep, bone-revealing wound has healed by more than half."

"This level of physical fitness can't be considered bad, can it?"

My senses gradually returned, and the pain in my chest became clearer.

Li Zheng was in so much pain that he wanted to frown, and even his eyebrows felt like they weighed a hundred pounds.

"Sigh... Why is Lao Xiao so stingy with me? He won't even let me use any medical supplies?" Li Zheng thought angrily. "At least give me some hemostatic spray."

Liu Jiale, standing to the side, seemed a little surprised: "When you were first injured, you lost a lot of blood. With such a big wound, if the bleeding hadn't stopped, you would have been in the ICU in about ten minutes, right?"

But... it seems the bleeding stopped on its own as soon as he collapsed.

"Oh, so there's no need for hemostatic spray." Li Zheng suddenly realized.

They distribute spoils according to merit; the more and more valuable the props Xiao Siyuan used, the more spoils he would receive in the end.

Of course, people aren't stupid; they can tell what kind of medicine or tool to use in different situations. They won't give you a platinum-level tool for a small wound.

The reason Xiao Siyuan is mentioned later is mainly because in the previous instance, he mentioned that medical specialization can improve the healing effect of items.

Furthermore, Xiao Siyuan is not that kind of person.

But why can't I move?
I feel so heavy, and every muscle is so tired.

"Strictly speaking, his bleeding was less than what an average woman would experience in a week, so he shouldn't have been unconscious for so long."

Furthermore, upon examination, I found that all my muscles were stiff, especially in my lower back and surrounding areas. The muscles couldn't relax, resembling the symptoms of a muscle cramp.

"He was physically exhausted, and his body triggered a protective mechanism, forcing him to rest and recover his strength," Zhan Zhouzhou explained. "Think back carefully, when Li Zheng slashed off the BOSS's two arm bones, he was already exhausted."

The ability to later cut into the artificial human's skull was something that could only be achieved by pushing one's body to its limits.

When an ordinary person uses a knife to chop something, they must raise the knife, just like he did at the beginning, and then unleash a burst of force, giving the knife a brief period of charging up power during the chopping process.

But he did it differently. After severing two arm bones, he didn't raise the knife; he simply pressed it down with brute force.

It's like placing a knife flat on a bone, without any preparation, and relying entirely on the body's strength to break the bone.

Clearly, his marksmanship was so-so, but his control over force was still at a very, very...emmm, basic level.

Li Zheng could tell that Zhan Zhouzhou had initially intended to call him a "newbie" or "trash."

"Unfortunately, I lack education, but I can get by with just one 'awesome' phrase." This is Liu Jiale, who, like Li Zheng, clearly belongs to the "basic" category.

"When will he wake up? Are we going to wait here forever? Maybe I should go and break down those things first, and then send him his share later." This was Ye Yuan's voice, sounding somewhat impatient.

Zhan Zhouzhou hesitated for a moment, but finally said, "Let's wait a little longer."

If you can't sit still, you can wander around the rest of the hall and see if you can find anything new.

"Huh? Still shopping?"
"I'm so bored I've dug up that broken statue and all the mechanisms from earlier!" Ye Yuan exclaimed dramatically. "If I keep wandering around, I'm afraid I might just tear this whole hall down!"

"It's a good thing you're not old enough to get married yet," Xiao Siyuan said with a sigh. "Otherwise, when you go to sweep the graves with your husband, wouldn't you be so bored that you dig up their ancestral graves?" "No way," Ye Yuan said with a very certain tone. "Digging up ancestral graves is completely pointless, more boring than just spacing out."

Everyone: "Huh!?!?!"

Your matter-of-fact tone is truly chilling upon closer examination.

The astonishment of the crowd did not last long.

Because Li Zheng "woke up".

The sense of control over his body came suddenly, and the first thing Li Zheng saw after opening his eyes was a somewhat bald head.

Oh, this is Zhan Zhouzhou's head.

Some hair roots have clearly grown, but it still looks very bald at first glance.

"You're awake." Zhan Zhouzhou didn't seem surprised at all when she saw him open his eyes.

"Ah."

Li Zheng gave a faint hum, then struggled to prop up his still somewhat limp body.

Where is the BOSS?

"Look," Zhan Zhouzhou gestured with his lips, "standing over there."

Li Zheng looked in that direction and saw a five-meter-tall black skeleton with a black knife clipped to its head, raising a severed arm, remaining motionless in the position it had just used to knock him away.

"This..." Li Zheng was speechless.

Did I realize that the last blow I suffered was just the BOSS's dying counterattack?
"Yeah, you killed it with that last strike." Zhan Zhouzhou rolled her eyes and said, "So, what were you thinking?"

Knowing full well that the opponent's weakness is its eyes, instead of looking for an opportunity to attack them, you choose to use that knife to slash at them?

"Ha, you think I don't know?"

Li Zheng said with a wry smile, "I don't have much genetic energy to begin with, and I only have enough for one strike. If we can't kill it in one go, we'll have to drag it out for another ten minutes."

The characteristic of ice and fire attachment is that the larger the object it attaches to, the greater the Force consumption. (Bullets are a special case and cannot be compared.)
In fact, Li Zheng's original idea was to try to finish off the BOSS with the more threatening black knife. If that failed, he would take out the titanium alloy spear and stab it into the android's eye.

At that point, regardless of whether the skull contains mechanical parts or a brain, we can just crush it.

But when he was about to draw his knife, he remembered the important point.

That means the titanium alloy spear is only silver-grade. Without its own genetic ability attached, it's questionable whether it can break through the opponent's eye defenses.

So, I might as well take a gamble while the black blade is imbued with its power.

Even if we fail, there's still Zhan Zhouzhou, who's even more skilled.

Moreover, his strike could at least sever two of the android's arms, right?

Unfortunately, he guessed the beginning correctly, but overlooked the ending.

The android's final, desperate counterattack caused Li Zheng considerable trouble.

"At least the outcome is good now, isn't it?"

Li Zheng, supported by Xiao Siyuan, got up, turned around and looked around the hall.

"Good heavens!" He was stunned by the scene in the hall and gave Ye Yuan a thumbs up. "I don't know if you've ever dug up ancestral graves, but your demolition skills are no less than mine."

I won't watch the next Tomb Raider movie without you.

(End of this chapter)