Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 298 Bloody Battlefield

No, no.

Perhaps quite the opposite is true; Misaka Tsuchiemon was afraid that Sarutobi Ayoraku would help, so he tricked her into using her once-every-thirty-day cross-channel opportunity.

Furthermore, selling Sarutobi Amuro's swordsmanship expertise might also be to reduce her combat power and make her give up on helping him.

"Damn, these people's ideas are so weird!" Li Zheng was utterly amazed by his own imagination. In the past, he would never have been able to figure out these convoluted things.

"Who cares? Unless I'm really bored, I won't bother with it." Li Zheng scoffed, closed the private message page, and continued with the last two explorations.

However, Li Zheng was also a little curious. He always felt that Misaka Tsuchiemon leaving Sarutobi Ayaka on Channel 995 and asking Li Zheng to take care of her was like entrusting her with a difficult task.

Could it be that what Misaka Tsuchimuro is about to do is very dangerous, and he might die?

What could possibly make him willing to risk his life to do something?

It's impossible for someone to fight against the entire organization single-handedly, like I did.

He must be crazy.

Li Zheng shook his head, finding his own thoughts somewhat laughable. Not everyone is as brainless and stubborn as him, daring to challenge an organization.

"Forget it, forget it, let's not think about things that don't concern me. Let's focus on exploring." Li swiped his card at the door he had chosen, went inside, and immediately released Sakura, who then killed a Gold-level creature in the room that was somewhat excited by the arrival of night.

Sakura has become more skilled now, and her fighting style is becoming simpler and simpler.

The opening move is a ground piercing shot, which knocks the enemy up and throws them off balance.

Then he handed it over to Pink Polly to be beaten to death with a flurry of punches, while he flew in the sky to watch the show.

If you encounter a thick-skinned opponent, just follow up with a few ground piercing shots; it's simple and easy.

It's just a pity for Pink Poring, which went from being a plaything to a henchman, but judging from its appearance, it seems to be enjoying it.

He is just like Ah Q, who was exploited by landlords and rich people.

When Li Zheng finished his exploration for the day without any incident and was about to use the method the doctor had taught him to train his mental strength, another private message notification popped up.

This time, it was Xiao Siyuan.

"Are you free now? I have a job, I need to run a dungeon with fewer than 100 players."

Instantly, Li Zheng's previously tired spirits suddenly became excited again, "Are there still people exploring Channel 879 this late?"

Li Zheng is eagerly anticipating what full administrator privileges will be like after successfully completing the channel management job change quest, which is just one dungeon away from completion.

“I’m wondering about that too,” Xiao Siyuan replied. “This kid is quite special. He’s ranked at the very bottom of channel 879. It seems like he’s been lying in his residence since the start of the game. But the terminal added a 48-hour limit, so he only started moving when he couldn’t delay any longer, and that’s when he ran into the dungeon.”

"..." Li Zheng was speechless: "No way? Feng Shan and I went through so much trouble to make this pocket watch, and he... uh... he couldn't have even scraped together the cost of the pocket watch?"

"Hehe, that's why it's called lying flat," Xiao Siyuan replied in a private message as a portal opened not far in front of Li Zheng.

"To dare to lie down in the Matrix, such a god-like person, I want to see for myself." Li Zheng excitedly led Xiao Ying through the portal.

This is a very ordinary room, where four other players have already gathered.

Li Zheng looked over and found that the strength of these people varied. The strongest one had all four attributes at the Black Iron 3+ limit, but he was missing his left arm and right leg, which greatly reduced his combat power rating, placing him only in the top 200 on the channel 879 combat power list.

There are also two whose physiques only partially reach the Iron 2+ limit, but their weapons are decent, each possessing a Silver-level firearm, and their combat power ranks in the top 200.

The last one is really something else. Not only is his physique less than Iron 1+, but he also doesn't have any weapons. He's just an ordinary person who just entered the Matrix.

Li Zheng glanced at his name, which was "Zhao Yu".

The other three players, who were originally sitting together exchanging pleasantries, all stood up to greet Li Zheng when he arrived, including the disabled player.

Only Zhao Yu lay not far from the group. If it weren't for the bulge on his chest and the occasional twitching of his fingers, Li Zheng would have almost thought it was a corpse.

"This isn't lying down, it's 'giving up'!" Li Zheng complained. "This is clearly 'playing dumb'!"

Upon approaching, even without seeing Zhao Yu's face directly, Li Zheng could sense a deep sense of dejection emanating from him. If Old Pu hadn't given no strange hints, and if Zhao Yu hadn't been weak enough, Li Zheng would have thought the other had also been infected by the ancient technology.

The negative manifestation is the kind of contagious feeling of dejection.

"Hey, get up and start your dungeon run." Li Zheng went over and gently kicked him twice.

This person probably hasn't showered for over ten days. If you get close, you can smell a pungent odor emanating from him, also known as the smell of stale oil.

My hair was greasy and matted into messy clumps. The dead skin on my face, which hadn't been washed in a long time, had dried into patches of black mud. The cracked areas were red and swollen, so it was probably inflamed.

The most outrageous thing is that this person could actually resist rubbing away the tiny bit of eye boogers in the corner of his eye; it's simply incredible.

When Li Zheng spoke to him, he only slightly opened and closed his nostrils as a response, and then stopped moving.

Suppressing his nausea, Li Zheng wanted to call him a couple more times, but the three players waiting nearby came over and said, "Don't worry about him, we've all tried, and he still can't be bothered to say a word."

"He didn't even turn over. I really don't understand how he could stand being so dirty."

“I’m a disabled person, but I live with more dignity than him!”

"If Dr. Xiao hadn't said that you, Boss, would be leading the team this time, I would have left just now."

"Yes."

"Yes."

The three players chatted amongst themselves, their tone revealing no attempt to conceal their disgust for Zhao Yu.

It's rare for someone to be so disliked upon first meeting someone.

“We can’t leave him alone,” Li Zheng said. “He’s the one who discovered the instance. If he doesn’t go in, the instance can’t be opened at all.”

To be precise, the dungeon requires a five-person team; it cannot be started if even one person is missing.

However, Zhao Yu is the initiator of the instance, so he has to be the first to enter.

"Here's what we'll do. You two can easily drag him to the door, then push him inside. After that, you don't need to worry about him." Li Zheng saw that the dungeon door was already open, which meant that Zhao Yu had gotten up earlier, but then lay down again.

"Ah, this..." The two players looked at each other, both seeing rejection in each other's eyes.

"Hehe." The disabled player suddenly laughed: "For the first time, I feel that being disabled isn't so bad, at least I won't have to deal with this kind of thing."

This statement has a touch of finding joy in hardship, and this mindset alone makes him a thousand times better than Zhao Yu.

Li Zheng asked him, "I remember the terminal repaired a group of disabled people, didn't it? How come you..."

"Sigh!" The player sighed, "What bad luck! I wasn't paying attention during a battle the other day and got ambushed by a wandering monster. Since I became disabled in the Matrix, the terminal doesn't care."

"It's alright, Lao Xiao can do human body modification. We can have him attach bionic limbs for you later," Li Zheng reassured him.

In fact, Li Zheng also had a human body modification platform, but it wasn't as good as Xiao Siyuan's.

Moreover, Lao Xiao had previously mentioned wanting to research human body modification technology, and he didn't want to destroy the existing samples.

"I know about this; Dr. Xiao mentioned it to me," the player said, spreading one hand. "That's why I'm here to gather materials, isn't it?"

“Let’s go then.” Li Zheng nodded slightly and said to the other two players, “What are you standing there for? Drag him over there, it’s just a few steps.”

"Okay... okay."

The two players never expected that, despite coming here to relax, they would end up being the ones doing the work first.

With a pained expression, they dragged Zhao Yu to the door and together pushed him through the light barrier, finally beginning their dungeon run.

Li Zheng followed closely behind and entered. The moment the light curtain disappeared, he smelled a strong smell of gunpowder.

[Crimson Battlefield, Exploration Progress: 0%]

(End of this chapter)