Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 131 Strange Tales (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets)

Before Li Zheng could comfort Xiao Ying, the scenery changed, and they had arrived at their second room of the day.

A chilling wind blew in gusts, its mournful sound like the weeping of wronged souls.

"嘤嘤!"

Upon hearing this voice, Xiaoying closed her eyes tightly in fright, clung to Li Zheng's neck, and trembled violently.

Li Zheng: "???"

The last time we encountered that strange, ghost-like creature called the Smoke Monster, the little guy wasn't this scared. What's going on this time?

Puzzled, Li Zheng put away the ID card, raised his hand and patted Xiaoying's back, trying to soothe her.

At the same time, his eyes scanned his surroundings.

"Another cave room?"

Li Zheng frowned slightly. He noticed that the rooms he had been entering these past few days, besides those with a metallic feel, were predominantly cave-like or karst environments.

This cave is slightly different from the usual ones.

Besides the vast and high space with extremely low visibility, another feature is the jagged rocks on the ground surrounding a dark altar.

"Another altar? Do rooms with wild treasure chests always come with one of these altar structures?"

Li Zheng squinted and gazed into the distance. If it weren't for the fact that the altar was very tall, standing in the dim environment, and that his eyesight had improved significantly since he first entered the Matrix, he would have almost missed it.

Abyss Altar

Old Pu gave a simple information reminder.

"Abyss Altar?"

Looking at the name, Li Zheng thought to himself, "Based on my experience reading novels, this kind of thing is usually used by common villains like those who summon abyssal creatures, right?"
If that's the case, then this premise is incredibly outdated.

While inwardly complaining, Li Zheng calmly tightened his grip on the cutting blade.

Suddenly, he made a lightning-fast move, stabbing the strange rock beside him with his sword.

"Ah! Kata Xiaxia!"

The strange rock, pierced by the cutting edge, let out a scream and then uttered a string of strange syllables.

It retreated quickly and decisively, disappearing from the surrounding strange rocks in the blink of an eye.

"Intelligent beings?"

Li Zheng didn't rush to chase after them; instead, he glanced at the bloodstains on the cutting blade.

It has a deep, eerie dark purple color and a pungent, fishy smell.

"Hmph, if it weren't for Old Pu's hint, anyone else would probably have been successfully ambushed."

Li Zheng sneered and stepped into the cluster of strangely shaped rocks.

Just then, the matrix system suddenly displayed a notification:
[Due to mysterious influences, players may suffer from unknown abilities before leaving this room.]

"Ok?"

Li Zheng paused, stunned for a moment. He hadn't felt anything unusual, so how could he have been affected?
A thought struck him, and he turned to look at Sakura, who was trembling and clinging to him. To his horror, he discovered that the little girl had been covered in a deathly gray color, her face contorted in a grimace, as if she were fighting against something.

"Old Pu, what's going on?"

Li Zheng frowned and asked, trying to understand the reason.

【have no idea.

The information that Lao Pu extracted was very complex, and it would take some time to decipher it.

About... three hours.

Grass!
Let's not wait for the code to be deciphered. Just find that bastard and hack him to death. The effect will naturally disappear.

"Are you sure it can be cancelled?"

Li Zheng spoke up to confirm, and finally received an affirmative answer from Lao Pu.

Absolutely!
The information gleaned from the little guy is linked to that thing; eliminate the source and sever the information connection.

"Row!"

Li Zheng's eyes suddenly changed, becoming extremely cold and stern. In the blink of an eye, the cutting blade in his hand transformed into a long staff.

"Sakura, hurry up, I might not be able to take care of you for a while."

Holding the staff in both hands, Li Zheng gave Xiao Ying a word of advice, and the staff was then covered in flames.

"Hey..."

Sakura responded with difficulty, hugging her arms even tighter with her little paws.

"Old Pu, pinpoint the location of B!"

Li Zheng swept his long staff horizontally, flames surged, directly shattering a piece of strange rock and clearing a small area around it.

[Left, front, ten meters.]

"rush!"

Li Zheng bent his upper body slightly, planted his feet on the ground, and leaped out like a tiger breaking free of its cage.

He swept his flaming staff back and forth, shattering one strange rock after another.

As the saying goes: a spear can pierce a line, while a stick can sweep across a large area.

The killing power of a spear relies more on the spearhead striking the enemy, while clubs are much more brutal. Regardless of the method of use, as long as you swing it with all your might and hit the target, that's enough.

Therefore, many stick techniques can be summarized in one word: smash!

The most obvious example is "Madman's Stick Technique," which almost abandons all fancy techniques and only pursues power and speed.

This type of staff technique is quick to master but has a low skill ceiling, making it difficult to fight against opponents of higher levels.

Because they are easy to learn, there is a saying among the people: "A year for a knife, a month for a stick, and a lifetime for a gun."

This means that it doesn't matter whether you have practiced martial arts or have a martial arts background.

As long as you study diligently and practice hard, even if you practice haphazardly, you can reach a level of proficiency in staff fighting within a month. That's a bit of an exaggeration, but it does illustrate...

Stick fighting is fucking worthless.

Unless you're practicing the staff techniques used by Sun Wukong during his havoc in the Heavenly Palace.

At this moment, Li Zheng swung his long staff, which subtly aligned with the true meaning of this type of staff technique. With each swing, the system would display a message: "Staff technique mastery gained 0.01%".

The ten-meter distance was reached in the blink of an eye. During this time, Li Zheng tried several moves such as swinging, smashing, and stabbing. Combined with the skills provided by the Gun Mastery, he found that the first two moves would definitely increase the mastery acquisition progress by 0.01%.

"Got you!"

Li Zheng looked at the figure draped in a gray and tattered burlap sack that was revealed after the strange rocks in front of him collapsed, a cold smile appeared on his lips, and he raised his stick and smashed it down on the head!

Boom!
Pebbles flew everywhere; this was a strange rock that looked exactly like the one that walked through the abyss!

"Damn it! Old Pu?"

[Three meters ahead!]

Three meters, just a matter of two steps.

Li Zheng locked onto the direction and had just taken a step, before he could even swing his long staff, when he saw a shadow flash past among the strange rocks.

They ran away.

"Shut your mother's mouth, lock it for me!"

Li Zheng cursed loudly and smashed the strange rock next to him with a stick.

[Front right, fifteen meters!
No! To the left front, twenty meters!

No, it's ten meters straight ahead!

Damn it, this guy's playing me!

"Looks like they've discovered you can lock onto it!"

Li Zheng narrowed his eyes: "If that's the case..."

He turned to look at Sakura, his two black, gem-like eyes sparkling with tiny phosphorescent lights.

"This is……"

The gleam in the other person's eyes on the Abyss Walker's Guide!
"Seize the body?"

To be precise, this is called a transfer of will.

Be quick, the little guy can't hold on for long!
I don't have time to crack this transfer; you'll have to rely on yourself!

"You focus all your efforts on exploiting its weaknesses; the rest is none of your concern."

Li Zheng took out a thick-backed black knife from the capsule dwelling and attached it with ice magic.

The long staff was transformed into a katana, imbued with fire element.

One weapon of ice, one weapon of fire, held on either side.

"Can't you hide?"

Li Zheng crossed his arms in front of him, the blue chill and crimson flames mingling together. "I'll plow through the entire strange rock forest where you're hiding, and see where you can hide then!"

The next second, Li Zheng activated the aircraft behind him, which floated off the ground and increased its speed to the limit he could bear, with two weapons swinging wildly around him.

clack clack...

dong dong dong...

One after another, the strange rocks were smashed to pieces. The cave, which was originally the size of two stadiums, was completely plowed up by the frenzied destruction.

When Li Zheng stopped the aircraft and landed, only the tall, black altar remained intact in the entire cave; there was not a single undamaged rock.

At this point, only eight minutes had passed.

Found!

Its weaknesses...

On the altar!

Li Zheng turned to look at the altar, and saw the Abyss Walker, who had nowhere to hide, appear on top of the altar.

Its appearance is roughly the same as in the illustration, except that the tattered burlap sack it wears is pure black.

"Got you!"

Li Zheng revealed a ferocious grin, decisively activating the aircraft behind him, and heading straight for the top of the altar.

……

"Ok?"

Li Zheng suddenly opened his eyes, feeling as if he had been transported to another world.

"Hey."

Sakura stood on his shoulder, looking at him curiously.

"How is this going?"

Li Zheng only remembered that he was flying towards the top of the altar one second, how did he suddenly return to the place where he had just entered the room the next second?
Moreover... judging from Sakura's appearance, she shows no signs of being corrupted at all.

"Old Pu, what's going on?"

……

 ？ ？ ？
Are you devils?

I just paid back one chapter, and when I looked at the monthly votes, I realized I owe another chapter?
After calculating all this back and forth...

Now that Labor Day is over, I don't need to turn on the lights when I get up at night.

Don't ask, it's just a reflection.

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(End of this chapter)