Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 223 The Lonely Soul

Clang!
Li Zheng drew his longsword, sheathed it, and stared at the strange eye.

The lifelike eyes prove that this is not a toy effect like a "panic box," but a real eye.

Old Pu still didn't give any relevant hints, which gave Li Zheng the illusion that he had entered a certain instance alone.

"The Demonic Avatar has less than twenty seconds left, just in case."

Gripping his longsword tightly, Li Zheng unleashed his full power, charged forward, leaped up, slashed horizontally with his sword, and shouted, "Kill!"

The sword flashed, and the sword technique used by the Demon of Strength was as powerful as thunder and as magnificent as a mountain.

However, the eye reacted quickly, shrinking downwards, and Li Zheng's first sword strike missed.

With his sword strikes momentarily halted, Li Zheng abruptly stepped on the crossbow bolt hole on the side of the coffin, leaping onto top of it and thrusting his longsword downwards!

puff!
“The feel is wrong, this isn’t the reaction of piercing flesh!” Without hesitation, Li Zheng flipped over and kicked the coffin lid.

The force of this kick only slightly shook the coffin lid, revealing the interior.

Flying above, Li Zheng saw the eye hidden in the shadows, peering out cautiously, its gaze revealing anger in a very human-like manner.

"Hmm? No counterattack?"

With a change of expression, Li Zheng ignored the eye, flew to the other end of the coffin, grabbed the protruding part, and pulled it backward with all his might.

Rumble.

This time, the coffin lid moved more than three meters.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, the eye leaped up from the other end, jumped out of the coffin, landed lightly, and ran away.

Now, Li Zhengcai could finally see what the other person looked like.

This eye has no eyelid, is about the size of a fist, and is connected to the back by pink nerves.

When it runs wildly, it uses the branching nerves as its legs, moving back and forth rapidly.

"Still want to run?"

Li Zheng leaped over, easily caught up, and landed in front of it.

Snapped!
It was kicked and knocked over. Its eyes clumsily got up and ran back in a different direction, trying to return to the coffin.

"This... is so weak."

Li Zheng stopped the pursuit and even canceled the subsequent supply of primal force from the Power Demon Avatar, leaving nearly ten seconds.

He watched as the eye flew into the coffin before slowly flying over, the powerful jet of air from the aircraft creating a huge noise in the tomb.

As before, his eyes were hidden under the coffin lid, staring at Li Zheng who was flying in mid-air.

This time, however, his eyes showed panic and unease, tinged with a hint of grievance.

“Such a weak thing shouldn’t be able to suppress Old Pu…” Li Zheng suddenly stopped, staring straight at the inside of the coffin, his expression astonished.

Not far behind that eye, a head that had already turned into a skeleton could be vaguely seen.

The nerve endings of the strange eye were wrapped around the eye socket of the skull.

Based on the size comparison, Li Zheng deduced that the strange eye originally belonged to that head.

For some reason, the eye did not rot along with the corpse.

Li Zheng couldn't understand why, when all the other parts of the dead creature had rotted away, only one eye remained.
evil Dead?

Or is there another reason?

“There’s something else under the skull.” Li Zheng glanced at the eyeball, and the other thing was so frightened that it scurried deeper into the coffin, not daring to show its face.

"Alright, I'll let you off the hook for now."

Holding a lantern in one hand and sheathing his sword, Li Zheng reached under the skull and took something out.

Without thinking, he touched the skull, attempting to dissect it.

Decomposition failed.

Silently recite "receive".

[Invalid action.]

Two consecutive system notifications indicate that the skeleton belongs to the eyeball.

You can't get it unless you kill the other party.

"Forget it, there are only bones left anyway. Even if I bring them over, I can only break them down into bone materials, which are of no use to me. It doesn't matter whether I have them or not."

Abandoning the skeleton, look at what you just took out.

There are two items in total: a wooden token and a piece of parchment.

[Identity Token: Owner: (garbled text)] [Player detected to possess unclaimed token, merge...]

[WARNING! Token version too low to be merged!]

[WARNING! Token version...]

【warn!……】

[The original owner of the unclaimed token was detected to have channel administrator status. The area management transfer certificate is being separated...]

[Separation successful. Obtained: Regional Management Job Change Certificate +1]

The old version token has been revoked.

As the prompts continued to jump, the token in my hand turned into light and disappeared, transforming into a job change certificate.

"The player who has been dead for an unknown period of time, judging from the shape of the skull, is very similar to that of humans on Earth. No wonder their living habits are also similar."

However, judging from some details in the tomb, the level of civilization of this race was relatively low.

Put away the job change certificate and look at another prop—a parchment.

It was called parchment, but it was actually a thin booklet. Li Zheng opened it and glanced at it. The text recorded there was the same as that on the tombstone, and he couldn't understand any of it.

The attributes are even simpler:
Strange Diary
Description: A diary that was preserved by chance, seemingly recording something; it can be read after translation.

"When I see the doctor, I'll see if I can ask him to help with the translation."

After putting away the diary, Li Zheng looked down and saw the eyeball peeking out. When it came into his line of sight, it quickly retreated back into the coffin.

Like a startled rabbit.

After hesitating for a long time, Li Zheng gave up his plan to kill it. Regardless of whether one eyeball could hear, he warned, "Stay here and don't run around."

He planned to swipe his ID card first to confirm whether he could leave.

If you can't leave because of a hostile creature, it's not too late to come back and kill it.

Propelling his aircraft, Li Zheng quickly flew out of the tomb chamber and headed towards the next door indicated by the business card.

Ignoring the information behind the door, they simply swiped their card to open it.

Once the flashing green light was confirmed and the metal door had been successfully opened, Li Zheng finally looked at the detection information provided by Lao Pu.

[There's nothing behind the door. Suggestion... Correction: There's a Platinum-level wandering monster behind the door. It seems to be injured. Take it out!]

"It's back to normal!"

Li Zheng breathed a sigh of relief when Lao Pu came back online.

Actually, Old Pu had already come online as soon as he left the tomb chamber where the coffin was located, but his style was rather rigid.

Li Zheng speculated that this situation might be related to the corpse buried in the tomb.

The opponent's level was simply too high. Even though the corpse had completely decomposed, the remaining power still caused Old Pu to "shut down".

"After getting used to the silly tone, it's really a bit strange to suddenly see this kind of thing."

Shaking its head, it flew back into the tomb, just in time to see the eyeball sneaking to the door, trying to slip out.

Upon seeing Li Zheng return, it was so frightened that it ran away as fast as it could, escaping again under Li Zheng's "chasing".

"Since you're not a hostile creature, I won't make things difficult for you."

“But your condition is far too dangerous, so I’m going to lock you up again.”

Regardless of whether it could understand or not, Li Zheng was too lazy to consider its feelings.

Without further ado, he activated his Demonic Avatar and restored the coffin.

After carefully checking the tomb chamber to make sure nothing was missed, he left the tomb chamber and stuffed the stone door back in.

"Sakura, let's go!"

Call back the two children who were playing nearby, and walk through the opened metal door.

Compared to when Li Zheng came, this room is different except for the lack of some props.

And there's one more lonely soul.

at least,

It now has the concept of "loneliness".

Perhaps one day, another player will come here, release it, and take it away.

Or...

Kill it.

(End of this chapter)