Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 164 Thank you to "Qiwu Scavenging Dream" for the 20000 points reward!

By the time the third round of attacks ended, everyone except Li Zheng was completely bewildered.

Why does it feel like there are fewer monsters?

During the brief rest period, Zhan Zhouzhou quickly counted the number of three-tailed wolves.

"It is indeed one-sixth less, what happened?"

Not only did she not understand, but Chu Xiao and the others didn't understand either.

During the recovery period, all corpses will be covered by a cloud of dust that appears out of nowhere and quickly dissolve.

Everyone else stared at the missing wolf carcasses, completely baffled.

Why are there fewer prey this time?
With everyone's strength, it's impossible for anyone to be eliminated in the third round, right?
Only Li Zheng ignored the howling three-tailed wolves all over the place and scolded Xiaoying.

"Why do you learn both good and bad things?" He pointed at the little guy's nose. "You're not allowed to kick his groin anymore, understand?"
If you really want to find a weakness, you can gouge out my eyes, punch my Adam's apple, kick my shin, but you're not allowed to hit my groin anymore, understand?

"Ow..."

Sakura felt wronged. "Isn't this all what you taught me?"

He applied what he learned, his movements were standard and there was not a single superfluous action, so why didn't he receive praise, but instead got scolded?
Li Zheng was also helpless. He had just spoken too quickly and blurted it out. Who knew that the little guy only used the previous steps once, but he had a particular fondness for groin stimulation...

It can be said that they completely took the dross and discarded the essence, mastering the things they shouldn't have learned.

Look at this pile of three-tailed wolves, nearly a hundred of them, barely alive. Anyone with so many eggs to practice on would surely become a master.
Looking at the three-tailed wolves howling all over the ground, Li Zheng felt a toothache. This scene... was terrible!

Because the three-tailed wolf was still alive, the nameless dust had no effect on it.

Just then, the fourth round of attack was about to begin. According to the original plan, Sakura should have been substituted off this round to take over with Li Zheng.

"Alright, you won't be of much help in the battle to come. Go find a place to stay and leave the rest to me."

Li Zheng waved his hand, signaling Sakura to step back, and then picked up his weapon to finish off the remaining enemies one by one.

Are we just going to leave these three-tailed wolves alone?
As a fellow male, Li Zheng felt that was too cruel; a short, sharp pain was better than a long, drawn-out one, so he decided to end it as soon as possible.

“…Aww.” Sakura flapped her wings, grabbed the two cheering sticks that Li Zheng had just given her, and flew to a corner of the battlefield.

Just then, the five arcs of electricity overhead disappeared.

The fourth round of attacks begins.

This time, it was an aerial attack on creatures.

Seeing this, Li Zheng felt a little relieved. If the flying monster were placed in the last round, the difficulty of this competition would be too great.

Soon, the first gold-level creature fell out of one of the doors.

Li Zheng glanced up briefly.

It was a very strange creature with a dog's head, a snake's body, eagle's wings, and a fish's tail.

Similar to the previous three rounds, its abdomen was shriveled, clearly indicating that it had also suffered from prolonged hunger and was now starving.

Upon seeing Li Zheng, the Qilin folded its wings and swooped down, spitting out a fireball that hurtled towards Li Zheng.

"Ultimate isolation!"

Li Zheng casually activated his ability and sped up his finishing moves, killing fifteen three-tailed wolves just as the Qilin charged in front of him.

Of these, thirteen were released by others after they killed their prey on the battlefield.

So... the others not only have to face the flying monster, the four-legged creature, but also have to endure ground harassment from two three-tailed wolves.

While Li Zheng was relaxed and easily dealing with the gold-level creature,

The others were genuinely a little flustered.

Chu Xiao was the worst example.

His entire strength lies in his giant transformation, but this ability consumes an enormous amount of energy, and once activated, it requires a continuous flow of Force, making it essentially a one-time strategic ability.

In the first three rounds, he relied on a gold-level melee weapon paired with firearms, which made it relatively easy for him to cope.

However, the monsters that appeared in the fourth round had the ability to fly, making it relatively more difficult for him to deal with them.

In close combat, he's not even as good as Zhan Zhouzhou, let alone Li Zheng.

In terms of firearms shooting skills, he is not as good as Xiao Siyuan and Ye Yuan.

The former had undergone a period of military training, while the latter had long been accompanied by Gatling guns; once they went berserk, their steel torrents would teach people a lesson.

This also resulted in Chu Xiao's abilities being neither particularly good nor particularly bad in close combat or ranged attacks.

Soon, Chu Xiao, who was ranked relatively high on the combat power list, became the first to fall into a disadvantageous position.

In particular, less than ten seconds after the first four-legged creature was released, two more fell from the sky.

In addition, two more three-tailed wolves suddenly emerged from the door in the third round.

In a flurry of activity, he could only unleash a transformation to clear the area.

After he grows to gigantic size, the Qilin and the Three-Tailed Wolf are easily defeated by him.

Taking advantage of the situation, they grabbed the tail of a strange creature and used it as a weapon to smash it wildly, causing blood and flesh to fly everywhere.

In just three seconds, the three monstrous creatures and the two three-tailed wolves were reduced to a pile of mangled flesh.

Seven seconds left...

He spent the time in a daze.

Two minutes later, Chu Xiao appeared in the preparation space with several holes pierced by sharp teeth on his face, his expression grim.

After putting on a set of clothes, Chu Xiao took out disinfectant spray to treat his wounds, feeling increasingly frustrated.

"Who is it? Playing tactics in a friendly match between acquaintances? That's so dirty of them!"

Just then, the system prompted the user to leave the competition room. If the user chose not to leave, the system even thoughtfully provided a spectator mode.

"Watch the game!"

Chu Xiao refused to leave. He wanted to see who was playing such dirty tricks, deliberately not killing the monsters in the third round and leaving them for the fourth round to cause trouble for others.

The next second, four holographic projections appeared in front of him, corresponding to the remaining players.

Looking around, he saw the following scene on Li Zheng's battlefield.

Li Zheng wielded a katana in one hand and a salted fish in the other, his flying vehicle dragging him through the air as he twirled and maneuvered. He charged straight at the scorching fireballs, swiftly cleaving the Qilin to death with a few blows. The salted fish gun continued to sweep across the ground, finishing off the last few three-tailed wolves lying there.

Chu Xiao: "..."

Lie down!

Is Li Zheng cheating?
You can one-shot gold-level monsters, and I admire the quality of your weapon; I was just unlucky and couldn't get one.

But what's with your reckless act of charging straight through the fireball?

Even Ye Kai, sitting in his mecha, had to carefully dodge the high-temperature fireball, yet you charged through it unscathed.
This is way too buggy!

"Terminal, I want to report someone cheating here!"

On the other side, Li Zheng finally killed all the three-tailed wolves on the ground, and could now focus on facing the gold-level four-legged monster.

Suddenly, his heart skipped a beat, and he sensed that something was wrong.

"That's not right. Why are there so few Qilin appearing after fighting for so long?"

Looking at the time, almost nine minutes had passed since the fourth round. Li Zheng remembered clearly that when he placed the first strange-looking door, he released seven monsters.

However, the total number of doors that represented others in killing monsters did not exceed fifteen.

"Was it because I killed too many people so quickly that they couldn't keep up?"

While he was at it, he suddenly noticed the corpses of the three-tailed wolves on the ground, and a bad thought popped into his head.

"Holy crap, did I accidentally release fifteen Silver Monsters into someone else's fold? If that's the case..."

Li Zheng suddenly realized why the others were killing monsters so slowly.

In the preparation hall, Chu Xiao watched as the other three tacitly focused on killing only the golden monsters released by others, while trying their best to cripple the monsters that originally belonged to their own battlefield, avoiding killing them if possible.

Zhan Zhouzhou's side was the most ferocious, with six Qilin lying on the ground, all of them with their wings cut off, losing their ability to fly.

To prevent these strange creatures from wandering around like snakes, Zhan Zhouzhou also cut off half of the bodies of these golden monsters to preserve their vitality as much as possible and prevent them from dying too quickly.

As for the dense fireballs in the arena, they were nothing compared to her family's signature footwork, which she executed to its fullest potential...

Oh, Chu Xiao zoomed in for a closer look and saw that a small part of the hem of his clothes was still burned off.

Ye Kai and Liu Jiale were far less capable. Even with their best efforts, they could only ensure that two of their own men survived. Otherwise, if there were more, the pressure on them while dodging the fireballs would increase significantly.

Chu Xiao scratched his head and sighed, "So this is how the competition room is played!"

After the fourth round, the remaining four players were given a short break.

At this moment, Zhan Zhouzhou still had seven living golden monsters on her side, so even during her rest time, she had to stay active to avoid being hit by fireballs.

Liu Jiale has three more here, and under his conscious guidance, all three are concentrated in one corner of the battlefield. When he rests, he only needs to run to the other side to ignore all the fireballs.

Ye Kai...

He and Chu Xiao were watching the game together in the preparation hall.

This guy messed up in the end and got hit by a fireball. Unfortunately, the ball hit the mech's energy bay, causing damage.

As a result, during the repair, the mech lost focus and got caught in a strange creature, making it difficult to move.

Under the bombardment of those bizarre fireballs left behind, he felt sorry for his mecha and decided to jump out of it to his death.

His defeat occurred during his recovery period...

So after he returned to the preparation hall, he, like Chu Xiao, had to change his clothes, but before that, he also had to treat his burns.

Li Zheng also left behind two gold-level monsters, and his side had the most relaxed period during the rest period.

Sakura and I sat together a short distance away, directly bathed in the fireball...

It wasn't that he didn't want to keep more, but mainly that by the time he realized what was happening, the fourth round of attacks was already halfway through. When he tried to incapacitate these creatures, he accidentally killed a few...

After treating his burns, Ye Kai took out two bottles of juice and watched the battle with Chu Xiao.

After chugging down half a bottle, he sighed, "This final round, let's see who can last the longest, shall we?"

Every fifteen minutes, a platinum-level monster is released every three minutes. Considering the current strength of players, no one can defeat it in such a short time.

What's more, there are a few gold-level creatures that some people deliberately left behind... just waiting to add to the stakes for others at the end.

Chu Xiao asked with great interest, "Who do you think will last until the end this time?"

Ye Kai didn't even hesitate: "It's definitely Zhan Zhouzhou. She had the most Golden Monsters left in the fourth round, so she'll be under less pressure than Li Zheng and the others."

Chu Xiao thought for a moment and then changed the question: "So who do you think will be the first player to be eliminated in the fifth round?"

"It has to be Li Zheng!" Ye Kai pointed at the holographic projection, filled with resentment: "If he doesn't suffer a crushing defeat, I won't be able to let my mind rest!"

He already knew that Li Zheng was behind the Three-Tailed Wolf.

It's important to know that with the sudden appearance of the Three-Tailed Wolf in the fourth round, Ye Kai was under the most pressure, second only to Chu Xiao.

After all, if he doesn't get the final reward here, not only will all the ammunition and materials be wasted, but even the materials he uses to repair the mech will be wasted.

In this fourth round alone, the materials he used were enough for Ye Yuan to make 10,000 Gatling gun rounds.

I originally owed six chapters, paid back a little, and now I still owe seven chapters (I'm sure of it).
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