Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 132 Grandpa's Here! (Thanks to "Big Eater12138" for the 5000 coins!)
"Old Pu?"

……

"Old Pu??"

……

Li Zheng tried to contact Lao Pu several times, but not a single word popped up in his mind.

"Hmph, no wonder you pose little threat to me. So you've focused all your abilities on illusions?"

Li Zheng smiled coldly, knowing that he had seen through the illusion.

However, the next second, he became distressed again: "What's the use of knowing it's a hallucination? This isn't a dream, where you can wake up the moment you realize something's wrong in a dream."

Looking around, the strange rocks still surrounded me, the light was still dim, and the shadowy black altar still stood in the same place.

The only difference is that the prompt box that Old Pu was showing in front of me has disappeared.

"How do I break free from this illusion that I'm experiencing?"

Li Zheng smiled bitterly. He knew that in reality he was flying towards the top of the altar, and if he didn't get rid of it soon, he might be killed by the Abyss Walker.

"Is pain okay?"

Li Zheng raised his hand and decisively slapped himself hard across the face, but he didn't feel anything at all; it didn't hurt at all.

What about weightlessness?

Li Zheng propelled the aircraft to a high altitude, then suddenly shut it down, experiencing a free fall.

He felt nothing at all until he landed on the ground and crushed several strange rocks.

"嘤嘤......"

Sakura was terrified when she saw him like this. She flapped her wings and flew in front of him, looking at him with a worried expression, "Waaah..."

"I'm fine... uh."

Li Zheng originally wanted to speak to comfort it, but suddenly remembered that he was facing an illusion, so the little cherry blossom in front of him must also be an illusion.

The real Sakura is still suffering outside, and may have already been successfully "possessed".

"Well, there's nothing we can do about that."

With a sigh, Li Zheng climbed out of the pile of rubble, holding two salted fish of different lengths in his hand.

"Try every method."

Silent gunfire erupted as high-speed energy blasts sent surrounding rocks flying.

"invalid."

Ham appears, smash it!

"invalid."

Spear.

"invalid!"

After searching and searching for a long time, Li Zheng realized that he seemed to have no more tools to break the current situation.

"Could the clues to breaking the illusion be right around us, but the light is too dim for me to spot?"

A sudden inspiration struck Li Zheng, leading him to a seemingly foolish solution.

A mysterious declaration appeared in his hand, a blood-red light shone, and the sound of tearing cloth echoed in the air.

"Tear!"

Wherever the blood-red light shone, the illusion was branded open as if by a hot iron, and the opening was still expanding.

"efficient!"

Li Zheng immediately perked up, activated the aircraft, and flew towards the altar carrying the mysterious declaration.

……

"came back!"

Li Zheng's eyes regained their luster, and he still held two weapons in his hands, making the Abyss Walker almost within reach!
"Shakou, look at the knife!"

He raised his twin swords and cleaved them with force.

"Tear!"

Another tearing sound rang out, and the black abyss walker was cleaved into pieces, slowly drifting down from the top of the altar.

……

When Li Zheng opened his eyes again, he felt a tearing pain in his ears and heard Xiao Ying's anxious cries.

“Boo! Boo!”

Before my eyes, the cutting blade stained with purple blood was still there, and the system notification on the matrix terminal had not disappeared.

"This...again?!"

Li Zheng had a terrible headache. He looked at the altar not far away and, sure enough, there was no sign of Lao Pu.

"Tsk, is this ever going to end?" Li Zheng felt not only a headache, but now even his teeth hurt.

Why did I fall into an illusion again after killing that Abyss Walker?
Could it be that the one we just killed was also a fake?

Fantasy within fantasy?
This Abyss Walker is really playing fancy tricks!

Where is it?
Russian nesting dolls?
"Let's test the effect of the Mysterious Declaration again..."

Li Zheng took out the blood-red lantern, intending to repeat his previous trick, but he discovered that in addition to the original blood-red light, two phosphorescent spots, resembling blue-white flames, had appeared at the wick of the Mysterious Declaration Lantern.

"Ok?"

Li Zheng was dumbfounded. Wasn't this the Eye of the Abyss Walker?

Is this because they saw that I broke the illusion with the lantern earlier, and now they're trying to pull a switcheroo right from the start?

Doesn't that mean the Mysterious Declaration is ineffective against this illusion?

"Damn it! This is cheating!"

Li Zheng was furious. His only way to break the deadlock had been countered by the opponent. What was he going to do?
Oh ho ho ho!

Old Pu is indeed unparalleled in wisdom and knowledge! He's finally cracked the weakness of the Abyss Walker...

Walking through the abyss?

It's clear that Old Putin was completely bewildered at that moment.

Not to mention Lao Pu, even Li Zheng was dumbfounded when it suddenly appeared.

"Old Pu?"

Li Zheng probed.

Grandpa's here!

It's confirmed, it's definitely Putin.

"What just happened? Can you explain?" Li Zheng was still confused. Even though he had confirmed that this guy was indeed Lao Pu, his mind was a mess and he had no clue what to do.

"...Could you explain why time has reversed?"

Li Zheng: ...

Old Pu: [...]

Li Zheng: "Unparalleled in wisdom and strategy?"

Old Pu: [...]

Li Zheng: "The most learned person in the world?"

Old Pu: [...]

Li Zheng: "Have you cracked the weakness of Abyss Walking?"

Stop cursing... Old Putin fell for it too!

"Ha ha……"

Li Zheng sneered and let Lao Pu off the hook.

Now he was certain that he had inadvertently found the Abyss Walker's weakness and broken through two layers of illusion.

However, he moved too quickly, and after breaking through the second illusion, he even slashed twice, causing him to think that he had entered another illusion.

Actually...

If he hadn't made those two cuts, he would have figured out what was going on.

"Tsk, it's really simple, this kind of weakness..."

Li Zheng, carrying the mysterious declaration, examined it and walked towards the altar.

As the lantern swayed, two points of phosphorescence flickered inside, like two eyes turning.

He had checked the attributes, and the seal still showed 1/3, without any additional seal being broken after absorbing an Abyss Walker.

Even the other two characteristics remained unchanged; instead, the attribute that originally belonged to the lantern changed.

"Change!"

Li Zheng gave a light rebuke, and with his command, the lights of the mysterious declaration changed.

In an instant, it changed from blood red to blue and white.

It's like carrying a fluorescent lamp.

At the very center of the lamp flame, where the light was originally blue and white phosphorescent, two small blood-red dots of light have appeared.

Like two bloodshot eyes, they swayed gently as the lantern swayed.

Other than that, there are no changes.

As for Sakura, after Li Zheng broke free from the illusion, the little guy was indeed covered in a layer of deathly gray, but as time went by, it was slowly fading away, revealing the dark black short fur underneath.

Whether it was his imagination or not, when Li Zheng looked at Xiao Ying, he always felt that the little girl had grown a body full of steel needles, with a layer of metallic luster flowing through her.

But when you reach out and touch it, it does feel exactly the same as the soft fur.

"It's really weird."

Li Zheng looked at Sakura's panel for a long time but couldn't find anything unusual. In the end, he could only shake his head and think that this was some kind of effect of walking in the abyss on Sakura, but he had interrupted it in the middle, so the effect was only half achieved.

Incomplete abilities will naturally not be displayed in the system panel; you'll have to discover them yourself later.

……

Li Zheng led Sakura to the top of the altar and found the "treasure chest" there, quickly walking forward.

The pitch-black box was etched with blood-red marks, which stretched out in a continuous line, resembling some kind of strange, twisted creature.

Li Zheng had never seen it before, and the encyclopedia scan yielded no results.

Old Pu's hint is: Obsidian Chest.

"Let's open it and take a look!"

Li Zheng kicked open the black box lid, revealing a completely dark interior.

It was wrapped in a black fibrous material.

Only after opening the lid did they see what was actually inside the treasure chest.

Twelve bottles, all filled with ink-like liquid!
Five chapters were updated today, totaling over 12,000 words.

Three chapters will be guaranteed to be updated, and two chapters will be bonus chapters.

Then...

Wasn't yesterday's tally for four chapters?

I'm so naive!
You bunch of bad guys!

These two chapters are just enough to repay the bonus chapters from the increased monthly votes and rewards today!

It means... I still have four chapters to repay!

Why isn't the bonus chapter moving yet?!

(;Д`)
Tonight, depending on how things go, if I'm in good shape, I'll write another chapter. Don't wait any longer, you'll know tomorrow morning whether there's one or not.

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