Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 290 Yu Xiaoyu Takes the Blame (Part 2)

"Mutant No. 38 has several fatal weaknesses. I hope Major Liu will inform the Hidden Dragon Army squad members in advance so that they can pay close attention and seize any opportunities."

Inside the Kunlun discussion group, the report was not yet finished, and Liu Qishao was carefully looking at the intelligence information sent by others.

"First of all, the number 38 mutant has a major advantage. It is similar to an insect, with thin wings on its back and extremely fast flight speed. Combined with its forepaws that can cut through gold like mud, it is easy to be caught off guard and fall into a trap."

"The soldiers sent to explore almost fell victim to this move, but fortunately they reacted in time and escaped unharmed."

“There are ways to counter it. On the second trip to the activity room number 38, I had several warriors bring a lot of shields. We found that heavy shields were particularly effective against the number 38 mutant. Even a gold-level heavy shield could block two frontal attacks.”

"Most importantly, the second batch of soldiers brought back news that once the No. 38 mutant takes to the air, it is not as agile as it is on the ground. If we can build defensive fortifications around it, it may allow the soldiers to fight in an absolutely safe environment."

Major General Liu forwarded all the intelligence without missing a single piece: "Thank you for your hard work, soldiers. I'll have the cooks prepare some good meals and send them over later."

"Thank you on behalf of my comrades, Major Liu." The reporter left the discussion group.

Liu Qishao thought for a moment and then contacted someone via private message: "Have the logistics department send some heavy shields to the Hidden Dragon Squad, which is heading to activity number thirty-eight. It would be best if they were of gold quality or higher."

During the event, you can store and retrieve items from the capsules, but you cannot release your dwelling. Otherwise, you can use the capsule dwelling to build temporary defensive fortifications, which are much more useful than shields.

The logistics department received the order and replied that it would take some time to prepare, so the Hidden Dragon Squad's entry into cell number 38 was postponed a little.

……

Tanaka Shinji's flight speed was so fast it was unbelievable, and Li Zheng and the other two couldn't catch up, causing them to feel somewhat panicked.

Feng Shan, in particular, despite his constant complaints about Yan Guang, was the one most worried about Yan Guang's safety at this crucial moment, and shouted loudly, "Get out of the way! Try your best to get out of the way!"

Given Tanaka Shinji's incredible speed, it won't be easy for Enko and the others, who lack the ability to accelerate, to break free.

Just then, Li Zheng shouted the order: "Xiao Ying, use ground spikes!"

Actually, even without Li Zheng's reminder, Sakura's combat talent would have been enough to know how to deal with this situation.

However, it remained inactive, causing others to subconsciously overlook it.

Sakura lightly flapped her wings, hovering in the air, her gaze fixed on Shinji Tanaka, who was almost a line in line, waiting for something.

Sakura finally made a move when Shinji Tanaka crossed a certain line.

Suddenly, it stared intently at Tanaka Shinji, and the ground began to tremble the next second—a sign that the earth-piercing attack was about to begin.

Rumble~
The ground ridges rose up, eight of them forming a circle that precisely trapped Tanaka Shinji.

Shinji Tanaka didn't have time to slow down and crashed headfirst into a stone pillar directly in front of him, bleeding profusely from his head.

Its skull seemed to have mutated to be extremely thick to adapt to such an impact, and the impact at such a speed did not kill it.

"Well done!" Li Zheng praised, then flew at full speed to the top of the circle formed by the earth's ridges. Looking down, he saw Tanaka Shinji taking off.

"You still want to come out?" Li Zheng frowned and lunged forward, sword in hand, aiming straight for Tanaka Shinji's insect-like compound eyes.

During the flight, Shinji Tanaka's transformations did not stop; at this point, a layer of shiny, oily bone had appeared on his body, providing exceptional defense.

Unfortunately, it encountered Li Zheng, whose weapon was of a very high grade and whose own strength was not to be underestimated. This layer of bone armor was as fragile as paper in front of Li Zheng and was easily pierced by the sheathed sword.

After losing one of his compound eyes, Shinji Tanaka instinctively wanted to retreat and hide, but he was restricted by the terrain created by Sakura. Like a caged bird, he could not fly away and could only struggle to defend and dodge.

Li Zheng, occupying the high ground, struck successfully but did not rashly pursue the attack. Instead, he maneuvered around the enemy from his vantage point.

As Tanaka Shinji tried to break free, Li Zheng pressed him from above, preventing him from escaping the terrain.

The stalemate didn't last long before Zhan Zhouzhou arrived. He ran up the stone pillar as if walking on flat ground, leaped down, brandished his Purple Lightning Longsword, and charged forward.

Fengshan followed closely behind, also leaping into the "valley" to join forces with Zhan Zhouzhou to deal with Tanaka Shinji.

Li Zheng remained in the air to keep watch, preventing Tanaka Shinji from escaping.

Under the combined attack of Zhan Zhouzhou and Tanaka Shinji, and with the advantage of the terrain, dense cracks appeared on the bony armor on his body, as if it would shatter at any moment.

……

"Major Liu, the shields are ready. We'll send them to the Hidden Dragon Squad now." Kunlun Logistics Department sent a confirmation message to Liu Qishao.

"Okay, thanks for your hard work." Liu Qishao sent a message to the ready Hidden Dragon Squad: "Let's go!"

"Received!" The captain of the Hidden Dragon Squad had been waiting for this order for a long time.

However, just as he took out his event ticket and was about to teleport, an announcement suddenly appeared on the world channel, stopping him from doing so.

[Congratulations to player "Li Zheng" for leading his team to successfully kill the mutated creature number 38 in the event. Kill points +2.]

This announcement stunned not only the people of Kunlun, but also other organizations that were paying attention to the kills.

Didn't we agree that each one would be stronger than the last?

How come this guy named Li Zheng led his team to kill two in a row?
Was the intelligence incorrect?

Should I form a team and participate?
Kunlun, on the other hand, was thinking: Had someone beaten them to it? Could it be that the intelligence that Kunlun's team had gathered had been leaked to them?

Logically speaking, the Kunlun group should be the ones who know the most about most of the mutant information right now.

Where did Li Zheng and his group of casual players get the confidence to participate in the event and get kills continuously?

Aren't they afraid of getting hurt?

Do they not need treatment and rest after they are injured?

The Hidden Dragon Squad leader sent a message to Liu Qishao: "Sir, what do we do now? Should we go straight to Number Thirty-Seven and try to get the first move out of his way?"

Liu Qishao snapped out of his daze: "No rush. The soldiers who went to number 37 haven't returned yet. We don't have enough detailed information about this mutant. Let's wait a bit longer."

Liu Qishao felt that Li Zheng's ability to kill two mutated figures in a short period of time must have involved some element of luck.

It's impossible that Kunlun's well-trained warriors are no match for a few "commoners," right?

The current scoreline is like three heroes fighting Lü Bu.

A general with a name and a title was utterly defeated by a group of heroes...

Where can anyone seek justice from this?

Less than two minutes later, the soldiers who had gone to gather intelligence from the thirty-seven mutants finally returned.

This time, they made the most of the time, letting the Hidden Dragon Squad quickly understand the characteristics of Mutant Number Thirty-Seven before lingering and entering directly.

Meanwhile, after a short rest, Li Zheng and his group discovered that their energy expenditure was actually less than when they dealt with the mutated creature number thirty-nine.

Li Zheng immediately made a decision, striking while the iron was hot, and went to cell number thirty-seven to get more kill points.

Yan Guang and Feng Shan glanced at their remaining exploration attempts simultaneously; they each had only two left.

Fengshan said, "Let's try two more times. We'll run out of exploration attempts after that, so we'll have to wait until tomorrow."

Yan Guang said dejectedly, "Every time the terminal is going to cause trouble, it's at noon, catching us completely off guard. If we had known there would be an event, we would have slowed down our exploration."

Li Zheng took out the tickets and glanced at the two of them: "You two don't have many attempts, and the others probably don't either, so there won't be much difference between you two."

He knew, of course, that these two hadn't explored much, so his original plan was to try one more time or two more, then stop and wait for the exploration opportunities to refresh tomorrow. "Let's go, hurry!" Triggering the ticket, Li Zheng left the event instance.

Now that he knew someone was using the mutants to weaken them, how could Li Zheng let it go?

Of course, I'd like to hitch a ride!

Within a minute, the team regrouped and teleported into instance number thirty-seven.

This time, the mutants they encountered were highly defensive and cumbersome.

In Li Zheng's eyes, this kind of enemy was actually the easiest to kill.

In order to save time, Li Zheng had Xiaoying use the same trick as before to trap the mutant as soon as they entered the dungeon.

Then everyone rushed forward and engaged in close combat at the bottom of the pit, while Lin Fengjiao and Yan Guang stood on top of the stone pillars and fired downwards.

The battle lasted five minutes, and the final blow still belonged to Zhan Zhouzhou.

When the news of the capture of mutant number 37 spread, Kunlun remained silent.

In particular, the Hidden Dragon Squad watched as the mutants were on the verge of death under repeated bombardments, only to have someone else get there first.

Not to mention how uncomfortable I feel.

Perhaps only Li Zheng and his team could compare to the mentality they had when they missed out on Ito Miho's kill points.

What upset Kunlun the most was that not only did he fail to gain kill points, but he also wasted a lot of high-level shells.

Of course, Yan Guang also felt this deeply...

Liu Qishao took a deep breath and asked in the discussion group, "Have any of the other soldiers who participated in the activity returned?"

Someone replied, "Sir, not yet!"

"Hmm." Liu Qishao thought for a moment: "Send them a message, tell them to withdraw all their information and temporarily refrain from participating in the event."

Being robbed once could be considered a coincidence, but being robbed twice is very suspicious.

Liu Qishao strongly suspected that someone in the organization had a problem with their thinking and had betrayed the results of the exploration in Kunlun.

of course……

This is indeed true.

The only difference is that the person betrayed wasn't Li Zheng, but people from other organizations.

Every group has its bad apples.

It's normal for some people within Kunlun to be greedy for personal gain, and for other organizations to obtain some "insignificant" intelligence at some cost.

"Sir, if we stop now, those injured mutants might take the opportunity to recover, and all our efforts over the past hour will be wasted." The subordinate tried to persuade Liu Qishao not to act impulsively.

"How could I not know?" Liu Qishao looked up at the sky.
Although Kunlun did get some points in this event held by the terminal, they were distributed among several ordinary soldier squads, and the average score was only one point.

But Li Zheng's group of scattered soldiers actually scored a whopping 6 kill points!
A full six times!
To catch up with them, Kunlun would need to complete three more event dungeons, and the losses involved would be staggering.

After Liu Qishao gave the order, the warriors who were still in the event instance logged out one after another.

Because some of the mutants had already been injured by the teams that came before, the teams that entered the event later faced much less pressure and had more time to check their private messages.

After stopping at Kunlun, Liu Qi waited for nearly half an hour, but no new announcement was released on the world channel.

This situation is similar to Li Zheng's team waiting for them to bring out intelligence from the event instance before participating in it in a targeted manner.

This also confirmed Liu Qishao's conjecture: Li Zheng's team was able to kill mutants one after another because someone in Kunlun had sold them intelligence!
Liu Qishao opened his subordinate's private messages: "Go check which people in the organization have had the most contact with Li Zheng and his group, and who have a good relationship with them."

"Yes, sir!" The subordinate received the order and began a thorough investigation.
On the other side, Li Zheng and the others sat together, while Feng Shan and Yan Guang stared at him, speechless.

Fengshan said with dissatisfaction, "Why do you always mess up at crucial moments? Don't you even check how many exploration opportunities you have left when you're exploring?"

Li Zheng touched his nose and thought to himself: You know what, I don't usually watch much. Anyway, with Lao Pu around, if I can't get in the door, it means I've used up my chance.

That's right, Li Zheng has unknowingly used up all of his initial exploration opportunities for today!

My kill score for the event stopped at 6 points, so I'll have to wait until tomorrow's update to continue the challenge.

The moment he stopped, it was Yu Xiaoyu who suffered the most.

……

"Sir, the investigation is complete." The subordinate reported with a somewhat awkward expression.

Liu Qishao asked, "So fast? Who is it?"

"Yes... it's your cousin, Yu Xiaoyu."

Liu Qishao was instantly astonished: "Who?! Xiaoyu? How did she get involved with Li Zheng and the others?"

"It's not Li Zheng, it's his teammate Feng Shan."

Liu Qishao frowned: "Fengshan? This name... why does it sound so familiar?"

After thinking it over carefully, Liu Qishao finally remembered the blind date his cousin had been thinking about before he entered the Matrix.

Damn it!

Is this girl bewitched by good looks?
Why do you leak all sorts of information?

He recalled that not long ago Yu Xiaoyu had provided the live footage of Li Zheng and his team killing the 39th mutant. No wonder there were so many eulogies about Fengshan. Wasn't that her lover?

At this moment, Liu Qishao didn't even know what expression he should wear, so he could only smile bitterly.

……

Li Zheng and the others left the instance. Feng Shan and Yan Guang had just returned to their original room when they saw Yu Xiaoyu sitting there angrily, her cheeks puffed up like a hamster's.

Feng Shan nudged Yan Guang with his elbow: "What's wrong with her? Did you make her angry?"

Yan Guang was also puzzled: "No, everything was fine just now."

When Yu Xiaoyu saw them return, she stood up and stepped forward, saying, "Brother Fengshan, I'm leaving now."

Upon hearing this, Feng Shan was slightly taken aback: "Go? Where to?"

“Back to… Kunlun.” Yu Xiaoyu lowered her head, feeling dejected. She didn’t know why her cousin had suddenly ordered her to go back, and even sent her a jump device that could bypass the 30-day teleportation limit.

To prevent Yu Xiaoyu from disrupting Kunlun's hunting plan, Liu Qishao had no choice but to send her back to personally oversee the operation.

"Why...why are they leaving all of a sudden?" Feng Shan didn't know why he suddenly panicked. Before this, he had really wanted to get rid of these two girls.

"I don't know why, but I can't disobey the orders from above," Yu Xiaoyu said. "Brother Fengshan, after I leave, you must protect yourself and make sure Sister Yanguang doesn't get there first."

She took out the vibrating device, her eyes brimming with tears: "Brother Fengshan, you must give me your first time!"

"..." Feng Shan was silent for two seconds, then roared, "Get out of here!"

As usual, it's a few hundred words longer than when it was first published, as compensation. This time it took a few hours.
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