Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 157 You Deserve It!

Ah! I'm dead!

Ha! I was just pretending!

"Playing dead?" Li Zheng's eyes darkened. He walked up to the headless corpse, pretending to examine the body, and then used his katana to stab Gangban Richu all over from top to bottom.

But nothing happened.

The other person didn't even have the slightest nervous spasm, just like a corpse that had been dead for several days.

At this moment, the headless corpse still retained part of its mutated form, looking like the skin on a toad's back.

Li Zheng glanced at it a few times and felt utterly disgusted.

"He can play dead even without a head. If Old Pu hadn't reminded me, I probably would have thought it was some kind of clone ability." Li Zheng tapped his chin with his fingers, flicking out a flame.

"Just burn it, scatter the ashes, let's see how you play dead then!"

He watched coldly as the flames landed on the headless corpse, and as the fat inside the body was roasted out, the fire grew bigger and bigger.

It quickly escalated into a large fire, engulfing the entire body and burning it.

It was unclear whether the fire had ruptured his nerves or whether Gosaka Hitsumi himself still had consciousness.

Li Zheng saw the other person's corpse twitching wildly in the fire, like a fish that had fallen to the shore, jumping around madly.

The pungent smell of burning filled the air, but Li Zheng stared at the other person without blinking.

The fire hadn't died down by the time Xiao Siyuan arrived using his compass.

"What is this thing? Why does it smell so bad?" Xiao Siyuan asked, pinching his nose.

Li Zheng didn't even turn his head: "It's nothing, just a mud-baked chicken. I'm mud-baking it right now."

Access to the residence has been granted to you. Go there yourself; the injured person is in the bathtub in the bathroom.

Xiao Siyuan asked him, "Aren't you afraid that I'll discover some secrets in your place and then expose them to you?"

"Old Xiao."

Li Zheng finally turned his head and said seriously, "I can distrust anyone. No matter how close Zhan Zhouzhou, Feng Shan, and Yan Guang are, I can still be a little wary of them."

But I believe in you.

Xiao Siyuan asked with a half-smile, "Why? Just because I treated you before?"

"No reason."

Li Zheng turned his head back, still guarding the burning corpse: "You deserve it!"

You deserve it!

These five words, like sharp arrows, pierced Xiao Siyuan's heart.

They have remained at their posts for years, decades, or even longer.

Because of what?
Honor?
Do not!
Because it's worth it!

Because of everything they are protecting.

It is worth protecting.

"Ugh~ It stinks, let's get out of here." Xiao Siyuan suddenly shivered, showed a disgusted expression, and turned to walk away.

The moment he turned around, tears welled up in Old Xiao's eyes as he stared straight ahead, his back ramrod straight.

'Captain, did you hear that? This is the greatest recognition our people can give us!'

……

Upon entering Li Zheng's capsule residence, Xiao Siyuan was struck by the interior space and the several different architectural elements.

"Toilet, bed, cold storage, what is this? My God, a composting room? A stove? Crop culture dishes? A medicine making station?" Xiao Siyuan looked at each place one by one, and suddenly, he felt like crying even more.

This world is so absurd, some people have a bathroom that's comparable to their own home.

They really live in the toilet.

Of course, the most terrifying thing was the several mountains of blood materials, and those small crystal bottles, which almost blinded him.

If Xiao Siyuan didn't usually need the hundreds of power cores next to him, he would have liked to take two of them with him.

"It's infuriating to compare yourself to others. I'm definitely going to charge him for the consultation this time." Xiao Siyuan opened the bathroom door with a frustrated look. "He has a stove, right? Just provide me with all three meals a day from now on, at a really fair price!"

However, upon seeing the figure in the bathtub, even Xiao Siyuan, a well-informed doctor, felt a shiver run down his spine.

"Damn, this is serious!"

Not daring to delay any longer, he quickly stepped forward, pushing aside Xiaoying to give Lin Fengjiao a thorough examination. ...

Li Zheng stood in front of the flames, patiently waiting. He would stay there as long as Gangban Rizhi didn't burn out.

The corpse in front of them hadn't diminished at all since it was burned, and some fleshy buds had even grown on its neck, indicating that the head that Li Zheng had cut off was regenerating.

"Ultimate isolation!"

puff!
puff!
puff!
With each slash, Li Zheng stood in the fire, hacking Gangban Richuan's corpse into several pieces.

Can't you recover?
If cutting one piece doesn't work, cut it in two!

If two pieces don't work, then four!
If you're not satisfied, I can chop it up for you!

During this time, Old Pu also explained why Gosaka Tritium wasn't completely dead yet.

heart!

Due to a certain mutation caused by radiation, Gosaka Tritium's true vital point is different from that of ordinary people.

An ordinary person could be in mortal danger if struck hard anywhere, let alone beheaded.

But the real weakness of Tritium Gosaka is its "heart"!
As long as the heart is not destroyed, even if only a cell nucleus remains, it can be reborn!

The moment Li Zheng received the tip, he pried open Gangsaka Ritsu's left chest, only to find it empty.

It can even move its own heart at will!
It can even leave the body directly!

[Ding-dong: Analysis complete. Continuing to guard the corpse is useless; its heart is not inside the body.]

"Stop with the nonsense, just tell me where its heart is!" Li Zheng raised his twin knives and began chopping at Gangban Richuan's corpse like minced meat.

[Oh ho ho, don't worry, Old Pu has already figured it out. Just follow the arrow.]

The text flashed by, and an arrow appeared on the panel.

Li Zheng looked in the direction indicated, and saw the muddy area where Gangban Richuan had been at the beginning.

"This means... that at the moment of escape, Gangsaka Hittatsu had already hidden his heart? He wanted to wait for me to leave before being reborn?" Li Zheng instantly understood the other party's intention and flew over according to the instructions given by Lao Pu.

Flying over that area, Li Zheng lowered his altitude and indeed found a patch of silt that looked unusual.

There is a slight wriggling below, which is almost unnoticeable if you don't look closely.

"Heh, you little devils, you didn't expect I'd find a way to locate you, did you?" Li Zheng sneered, then suddenly landed and plunged his knife deep into the mud.

When it was pulled out again, a heart was already pierced through the tip of the knife.

Two tiny arms have grown from its heart, making it easier to wriggle in the mud. This is to prevent Li Zheng from staying in the room for too long, so it can find a metal door and sneak away.

Tritium Gosaka's vitality was indeed terrifyingly strong; even though his heart had been pierced, it was still beating.

Before long, the pacing rate decreased and gradually returned to normal.

An identity card appeared on his heart.

"ended."

After carefully putting away his ID card, Li Zheng swung his katana and threw his heart into the mud like trash.

Then a spark pops out, igniting the heart.

He entered the capsule residence without looking back.

"Old Xiao, how is she?"

Xiao Siyuan had just cleaned Lin Fengjiao's body and was carefully applying a yellow powder to her skin.

This is a tissue-regenerating powder, a bronze-level item, generally used for open wounds.

For example, when Fengshan's ankle was ripped apart, Lao Xiao used this kind of prop to cover the wound.

"It's not a very optimistic situation."

Xiao Siyuan shook his head with a serious expression: "If an ordinary person were injured like this, they would have died long ago. This girl has a very strong will to live and has been holding on by sheer willpower until now."

"Can it be saved?"

Xiao Siyuan murmured twice, "I'll do my best!"

……

I want to sing the praises of people like Lao Xiao in this profession!
Even if this book gets banned!

They deserve it!

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