Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 433 Shocking! An 8,000-word chapter!

"He got a little too cocky and almost forgot to take down the blueprints for Diana's android!"

Li Zheng wiped his forehead in frustration, deciding that he must be moderate in showing off in the future and not go too far.

……

At least don't get too caught up in the role!
After putting away the tool that contained the battle doll blueprints, Li Zheng looked at Jonathan, who was lying on the ground with his limbs separated and only a human stick remaining, and revealed a gentle, pretentious smile.

Jonathan stared in terror at Li Zheng, who had just vanished and was now reappearing: "Please, please, don't... don't kill me! I know I was wrong, give me a chance!"

He tried to crawl backward, but his limbs were severed by the red light that Li Zheng had released in the instant he appeared, leaving him unable to move or use any tools.

Li Zheng walked forward as if he hadn't heard anything, and took off the badge from Jonathan's chest. Blood mist flashed on the foreigner's body.

"Look at you, how disappointing, you're even a red name." Li Zheng shook his head with feigned regret.

"Gulp! If... if I weren't a red name, would you let me go?" Jonathan swallowed hard, his throat bulging as he spoke.

“Of course…” Li Zheng said gently, “Actually, even if you have a red name, I might not necessarily kill you. It all depends on whether you know what’s good for you.”

Upon hearing this, Jonathan instantly understood: "I know what's good for me! Of course I know what's good for me!"

Nodding frantically, he began operating the legion's warehouse, rummaging through its contents.

Fearing that Li Zheng might get impatient, he immediately took out the best batch of materials from the legion's warehouse.

It actually has five extraordinary power cores!

Lee watched Jonathan's actions expressionlessly until he released the last iron ingot, at which point he slowly nodded.

"You are very good!"

Jonathan was overjoyed upon hearing this, his eyes shining with hope: "You mean, you'll let me go?"

“Of course…” Li Zheng raised his right foot and crushed the foreigner’s head with a hard stomp: “No!”

Humans are really strange creatures. You've already teamed up with others to attack me, yet you still expect me to spare your life?
Why?

And...you're too easy to fool, aren't you?

This is such an old and tired trope, it's been overused in movies and TV shows, hasn't it?

Why would you still fall for it?
Li Zheng bent down to pick up the identity card and casually put all the materials Jonathan had released into the capsule.

Five extraordinary power cores can recharge the space pirates five times, which means...

Although Li Zheng had used the Star Pirate technique three times, the things Jonathan contributed were enough for him to teleport 250 more times!

Rounding it up, that's 250 lives!

"Robbery is indeed the fastest way to get rich. No wonder you all teamed up to rob me." Li Zheng sighed, took out the Star Pirate, and tried to activate it again.

This is why he still has a moral bottom line; otherwise, if a player like Lin Fan had his current strength and status, the entire matrix would be doomed.

The moment the teleportation ended, Li Zheng instinctively tilted his head to dodge an iron fist that was aimed at his head.

He countered with a punch, striking his opponent in the face, a burst of electricity flashing.

Li Zheng's current physique is comparable to that of a berserker demon incarnate; this punch could unleash at least thirty years of internal energy.

“Not bad, you didn’t run away or give up, but instead thought of killing me.” Li Zheng withdrew his fist and looked at the man who looked about forty-four or forty-five years old not far away.

Jess pushed up his glasses: "Run? Where can you run to? The entire Matrix is ​​full of players; we'll be exposed eventually. It's better to eliminate you and prevent future trouble!"

"Deal with me?" Li Zheng smiled as he looked at the young man, whose central nervous system had been severely damaged and who was still unsteady on his feet. "With him?"

“Of course not.” Jess’s glasses flashed white. “John is just one of them. You can turn around and look behind you.”

With Li Zheng's strength, he wasn't afraid of others playing dirty tricks on him, so he turned his head away openly.

Behind him stood nearly fifty soldiers, both men and women, whose bodies had been modified into mechanical limbs. They raised their arms indifferently, seemingly charging some kind of energy weapon.

"Just this scrap metal?" Li Zheng asked jokingly.

“Killing you is enough,” Jess said coldly. “Fire! (Volley!)”

Nourishing ~
The sound of energy being channeled rang out in unison. Li Zheng didn't even look at them. With his back to the forty-nine fully modified warriors who had just been counted, he grabbed the soldier named John and casually shoved him behind him.

boom!
Wow!

John knocked down three fully modified warriors. The massive impact caused their mechanical limbs to break off, exposing the energy-conducting pipe-like components inside. The leaking energy, accompanied by electric sparks, emitted a dazzling light.

The remaining forty-six fully modified warriors each had a metal plate opened in the center of their ninety-two palms, revealing the dark muzzles hidden within. Bluish-white energy condensed at the muzzles, gradually emitting a dazzling light.

huh~
The silent energy beams, almost forming a continuous stream, struck Li Zheng's back, causing his radiance to surge.

"It's done!" Jess clenched his fist, feeling exhilarated.

Li Zheng is praised as if he were a god descended from heaven, but in reality he is nothing more than an egomaniac!

A volley of fire from forty-six fully modified warriors would be devastating, even for a Star-level life form!
Let's see if you, Li Zheng, will die this time...

"That's it?"

The two words, spoken softly, reached Jess's ears like a thunderclap in spring, leaving his mind buzzing.

"He...he's still alive?!"

"Are you thinking, he's actually not dead?" Li Zheng walked out of the burst of light step by step with his hands behind his back. A circular shield had appeared beside him without him noticing.

All the attacks from those energy weapons were blocked by the shield and could not get close to Li Zheng at all!
The TJP-type ion shield is an incredibly powerful shield belt capable of defending against all ranged attacks with physical presence!
The downside is that this belt is only platinum-grade, and to withstand so many diamond-grade weapons, its energy consumption is like a dam bursting.

In such a short time, Li Zheng had already used up ten platinum-level power cores. His hands, which were behind his back, were used to conceal the operation of taking out the power cores.

Furthermore, because he was charging and activating simultaneously, he was putting an excessive strain on the belt, so he also had to consume some materials to continuously repair it.

"Impossible! Impossible!" Jess retreated in horror, as if he had witnessed something beyond his comprehension.

"An attack that could severely injure even a Star-level life form, how come you're unharmed? Why... could it be that you've obtained Star-level armor?"

"How is this possible? We, the elite legions, have only just come into contact with transcendent life forms, and you, a single player, are so far ahead of us?"

"This unscientific!!!"

Jess felt like his worldview was about to collapse. He simulated the power of a salvo of that magnitude countless times and was certain that no superhuman could withstand it.

Even Star Glory, which is one level higher than Extraordinary, is very likely to suffer severe damage.

It was this confidence that gave him the idea and plan to kill Li Zheng.

However, reality gave him a resounding slap in the face!

His prediction was wrong!

Li Zheng is even stronger than he imagined!
Li Zheng suddenly frowned, beckoned with his finger and released the Bloodthirsty Demon Blade. A flash of blood light appeared, and all the mechanical arms of the fully modified warriors were severed, with perfectly smooth cuts.

Having lost the energy circuit in their mechanical arms, the energy attacks were forcibly stopped. The mechanical warriors, without receiving new orders, stood still, waiting blankly.

"Damn it, I can't keep pretending anymore, my belt is almost ruined!" Li Zheng touched the belt discreetly; it was very hot, almost burning his hand.

The demonic blade severed all the mechanical arms, flew to Li Zheng's side, spun around merrily, and hovered in mid-air, trembling happily as if it were laughing.

"This...this sword!" Jess suddenly stared at the demonic sword with fervor. "Does this sword actually have its own consciousness? How is that possible? This is incredible!"

"If I can crack this technology and bring it back to Earth, as long as I have a weapon similar to this knife, I can rule the whole world from home!"

"Let me examine this! Let me examine this knife!"

Jess's unusual behavior made Li Zheng frown deeply.

"Is he faking it? Or... is he really insane?"

Jess lunged at the Bloodthirsty Blade, muttering maniacally, "This blade... let me examine it..."

"No! This knife is the one I developed! It's my invention! Hahahaha... Hahahaha..."

"I want to apply for a patent!"

"Nobody can take it from me!"

"This is my invention!"

"I invented a cold weapon with self-awareness!"

"I am the world's number one scientific researcher!"

"My invention... little darling... don't run away... come to Daddy... Daddy will take you to rule the world!"

"Haha...hahahaha...come here, little baby!"

With his fanatical gaze and eccentric behavior, Li Zheng couldn't tell for a moment whether the man was genuinely stupid or just pretending.

However, whether it's true or false doesn't matter; Li Zheng didn't care about that anyway.

After glancing at the prompt given by the Eye of Preys, he went over and restrained Jess to prevent him from running around.

He raised two fingers of his right hand and forcefully inserted them into the back of Jess's left head, prying out a round chip the size of a coin.

Beneath the chip, there is a very fragile thread connecting to the nervous system. Li Zheng and others have been working until now to help Lao Pu find the path of this thread.

Holding the silk thread, Li Zheng used the demonic blade to slowly slice open Jess's back and remove him completely.

During this time, Jess seemed to have really gone mad, muttering to himself, and he didn't utter a single scream even when the back was being opened.

After the complete chip was removed, Jess was no longer of any use. Li Zheng pressed him for answers, trying to extract all the resources from the White Eagle Legion, but he failed.

Left with no other option, Li Zheng had to call Pink Polly to kill all fifty-one Bald Eagle members, including Jess.

When Pink Poring pierced the last player's head, Pink Poring suddenly convulsed, and despite not feeling pain, it showed a pained expression.

I have good news and bad news for you. Which do you want to hear first?

Li Zheng subconsciously glanced at the information panel of the Eye of Preys, only to be met with a riddle. He was immediately annoyed: "How many times have I told you, don't play such low-level tricks!"

Okay, first, the good news. Your lackey's lackey... is getting a promotion.

[The bad news is, your lackey's upgrade requirement is to kill enough other races.]

What a perplexing race! They're inherently kind, yet their upgrade requirements demand killing.

This... is actually an upgrade?

And this setting of killing other races of creatures feels a bit like accumulating experience points.
Once you have enough experience points, you can level up?

Li Zheng carefully recalled that although Pink Poring had participated in many battles since it became entangled with Sakura, it seemed that not many creatures had actually died at its hands.

No wonder I've never seen it upgrade its rank; it turns out there's this requirement.

Pink Polly is showing increasing pain, and the pink color in her body is gradually intensifying, turning into a deep red.

A short while later, the facial features that were still vaguely visible completely merged into Pink Polly's own body and disappeared.

As the color deepened, the temperature of Pink Polly's body surface also continued to rise. Even Li Zheng could clearly feel the intense heat and had to put on an extreme layer of insulation for himself.

“Polly…”

With a final, painful groan, Pink Polly fell silent.

[Upgrading... It should be finished in about half an hour. If you don't mind, you can do other things among these corpses.]

For example, there's a pretty girl over there, and Lao Pu's advice is to eat it while it's hot...

Screw you!

Li Zheng rolled his eyes and walked to Xiao Ying's side. The little one had been dragged by him to teleport while she was asleep and hadn't woken up yet.

I don't know what effect that so-called bloodline had on it, or why it suddenly became so sleepy.

The previous explanation given by the Demon Blade was that being sleepy was innate to the Blood-Patterned Black Dragon clan; they liked to sleep when they had nothing to do and would only wake up when faced with life-threatening danger.

This kind of nature is just too damn silly. Li Zheng doesn't want Xiao Ying to be labeled a lazybones on top of being a foodie.

"Old Pu, can you detect Xiaoying's current condition?" Li Zheng thought for a while, but still couldn't suppress his worry.

[For this kind of thing, you should check the little guy's panel. If the panel doesn't show any abnormalities, then this situation is normal and there's no need to worry.]

panel?

I've seen Sakura's stats before.

I opened it when I first woke up, and it showed that everything was normal...

Li Zheng casually flipped through the pet's attributes again, and this time, he found a line of small text at the bottom of the panel.

The pet is currently asleep due to unforeseen circumstances.

Okay, the terminal is unreliable too. Anyone with eyes could see that Sakura was asleep, right?

The question is, could this dormancy be indefinite?

Well, overthinking won't solve anything. Fortunately, the little guy isn't in any danger. With Pink Polly around, moving around with him won't be a problem.

Li Zheng released the capsule residence, went inside and merged all the identity cards, and the residence successfully expanded by more than 300 meters.

"Xiao said that we should expand our living area as much as possible before entering the outer city. I wonder if this is enough?" Li Zheng wondered to himself.

The ceiling height, which was already somewhat low due to the layered renovation, has now been expanded again to nearly ten meters per floor, wasting a lot of space at the top. The only advantage of such a high ceiling is that Sakura won't easily bump her head when she flies.

The little guy is now fast asleep...

Li Zheng shook his head, took the prop that recorded the combat doll blueprints, folded it to reveal a USB flash drive interface, and plugged it into the "computer".

Before this study session, Li Zheng glanced at the corner of the drawing and indeed saw a diagram that Zhan Zhouzhou had drawn before.

It was so inconspicuous that Li Zheng wouldn't have paid any attention to it if Ye Kai hadn't reminded him.

Flipping through the pictures and text, Li Zheng could only look at the design drawings of the combat dolls because he couldn't understand the language. The various lines were distorted, and Li Zheng's head was spinning.

"It's hard to imagine how those tech-savvy guys could possibly accept this..."

Clicking the "Learn" button directly converts the blueprints to the crafting panel, and Li Zheng begins to examine the materials needed for the combat doll.

"I have most of the usual stuff, except... damn it, this thing actually needs a memory release device?" Li Zheng sighed.

Not only the memory release device, but the combat doll also needs a gradeless material called "Autonomous Learning (Harmony) Core", which is the most difficult to obtain.

Li Zheng has seen many rare materials before, but this is the one thing he has never even seen before.

"Huh? That's right!"

Li Zheng remembered something and contacted Joanna: "Is that ninja robot still around? Sell it to me!"

Player-crafted items can also be dismantled. If you're lucky, that attack probably didn't damage the core components!

"Yes, I'll send it to you." Joanna sent the two pieces of the female ninja to Li Zheng directly.

Li Zheng calculated that sending Joanna twenty hovercraft thrusters, while not as valuable as the damaged combat doll, would be enough to compensate for Joanna and her team's combat shortcomings.

"Thank you!" Joanna received the levitation thruster and, without refusing, sent a short message, presumably indicating that she was still busy on her end.

Li Zheng extracted two pieces of combat dolls from the trading hall. The state of the separated corpses looked somewhat eerie, and Li Zheng even had the illusion that he was buying and selling corpses.

After putting the head back in place, Li Zheng tried to silently recite the instructions.

[Disassemble the intelligent humanoid (fighter type) to obtain: Memory Releaser (Ninja Assassination Technique) +1, Self-Learning/Harmony/Core +1, ...]

"It's done!"

Li Zheng, who was intently watching the breakdown page, saw the two most crucial pieces of information and clenched his fist inwardly.

As expected, the two materials were undamaged and were indeed separated.

Next…

“Make it!”

Below the blueprints for the combat doll, Li Zheng found the mounting function, inserted an AI core and a personality releaser, and confirmed the creation.

Soon, a character creation panel appeared in front of Li Zheng.

"For a profession like ninja, it's definitely better to choose a woman." Li Zheng started working on the character creation panel.

A moment later, a short-haired, oval-faced female AI android appeared in front of me.

"From now on, your name will be Fukada Yui, and you'll be mainly responsible for security inside the residence!" Li Zheng casually made up a job, which was essentially creating a slightly capable and pretty young lady.

"Yes!" Fukada Yui nodded mechanically, her eyes glazed over, and turned to go on patrol.

"Wait!" Li Zheng called out to her again, "Put this outfit on!"

He tossed over a black leather jacket he'd just gotten from the trading hall, the kind with a long zipper connecting the front.

"Yes!"

Yui Fukada held the clothes in her hands for a while and then understood how to wear them.

Watching her put on her leather jacket on her own, Li Zheng nodded in satisfaction: "As expected. Attaching an AI core to you was a good idea. Combined with the learning aid and personality release device, you might become the first truly intelligent humanoid under my command."

"Yes!" Fukada Yui zipped up her leather jacket and, barefoot, followed Li Zheng's orders to take charge of security duties inside the residence—patrolling.

There's really nothing to patrol; Li Zheng just doesn't want another model robot standing around in his residence.

"I wonder to what extent the intelligent humanoid can be improved after it gains learning capabilities?" Li Zheng looked at the combat humanoid No. 1 that he had personally sculpted, which inherited some of the appearance and figure of Teacher Yongmei and Teacher Bodo, and thought of the two blood-red robots that possessed true biological consciousness.

The two blood-red robots were relatively crudely constructed, but their brains were surprisingly advanced in technology. Li was wondering if Fukada Yui might one day grow to have intelligence comparable to that of Yi Si and Kuro.

Or... how about we just give them a new body?
After thinking it over, Li Zheng put the idea aside for the time being.

At least we have to wait until he can communicate with Is and the others and get their consent, otherwise it would be too inhumane.

After searching the trading hall, he obtained two daggers and handed them to Fukada Yui. Li Zheng did not give her any specific instructions.

However, after touching the dagger, she only paused slightly before inserting it into the hooks on both sides of her leather jacket.

"Its learning ability is very strong!" Li Zheng wanted to test just how smart the intelligent humanoid he had created on a whim really was, so he went to the trading hall to change out of a pair of black strappy high heels.

When Fukada Yui received it, she paused slightly before sitting down and putting it on.

At the same time, Li Zheng secretly pulled out two daggers and handed them to Fukada Yui after she stood up again.

This time, she didn't hesitate after getting the dagger and inserted it directly into the hook.

"You remember something just because you did it once?" Li Zheng pondered. Seeing that he had no further instructions, Fukada Yui walked away unsteadily in her high heels.

At first, she had difficulty maintaining her balance, but after getting a little more used to it, Yui Fukada got used to walking in high heels and very intelligently adjusted her center of gravity.

Gradually, she developed a seductive and alluring charm, becoming incredibly sexy and captivating.

Unfortunately, her gaze was too rigid, and she still couldn't escape the category of an intelligent humanoid.

"Not bad. It would be even better if we added another mounting slot. We could hang a tech gadget on it, and wouldn't that be the perfect partner that all men dream of?"

Li Zheng, resting his chin on his hand, was already considering how to expand the mounting slots and make money with "Perfect Companion".

With hundreds of millions of male otaku in the matrix, there are plenty of people willing to spend money on such a perfect partner, so Li Zheng isn't worried about not making enough profit.

"It's a pity. This matter may have to wait until we go to the outer city, where the channels for obtaining items are likely to be more numerous and stable than in the Matrix."

Whether it's the AI ​​core, the personality releaser, the memory releaser, or the learning (harmony) core, these materials are all quite rare, and Li Zheng doesn't dare to guarantee that he can gather another set before entering the outer city.

Li Zheng studied the learning ability of the combat doll for a while, then gradually lost interest and took out the circular chip he had extracted from Jess's brain.

Holding this chip in my hand, there were no attribute displays; even the Eye of Preys could only show a prompt like "[A technological product extracted from a player's body]".

Not to mention how to use it.

"An item without attributes?" Li Zheng remembered that he seemed to have obtained something similar before.

"Those two illustrations that look like black USB drives!"

Since the Eye of Preys became an ability, Li Zheng has never touched a compendium again; he had long since forgotten about it.

Only when I see something without attributes again do I start to recall those memories.

Could those illustrated USB drives also come from outside the Matrix game?

Who would be able to gather information about these creatures outside the Matrix?

and also……

Why is this USB drive in the matrix?

In an instant, various thoughts appeared in Li Zheng's mind. He vaguely felt that he had grasped some key information, but he lacked other intelligence to connect them.

There's too much fragmented information, and it's impossible to connect the dots. No matter how much you think about it, you can't get to the point.

Looking at the chip in his hand, Li Zheng finally decided to hand it over to a professional to handle, and then traded it to Xiao Siyuan, explaining the chip's origin to him.

Perhaps Old Xiao could use this chip to free up the large number of chip warriors of the Bald Eagle, or directly seize control of them and take over from Jess.

After the transaction was completed, Li Zheng stopped interfering. He inspected his residence, drank some medicine to improve his physique, and finished eating the few Flame Flowers that had grown and the accumulated Fire-type Gold-grade Fruits.

The explosive power has been upgraded to Lv6 and is just one round of Flame Branch maturation away from reaching the maximum level. It should be maxed out by tomorrow morning at the latest.

Li Zheng plans to put some of the extra Flame Flowers into the Legion's warehouse as a benefit, giving them to the members of the Qidian Legion at a low price based on points.

However, silver-grade fruits have a higher probability of side effects, so they need to be paired with some gold-grade fire-type fruits.

"Oh right, I've been busy since I woke up today and forgot to check what kind of buff the Legion has."

Perfect timing! Now that he had some free time, Li Zheng opened the Legion Rankings to take a look.

The new rankings are placed together with the combat power rankings; you can see them by simply dragging them.

【Top 1: Starting Point】

【Top 2: Kunlun】

【Top 3: Genesis】

【Top 4: Jiutian】

Top 5: Bald Eagle

【Top 6: Polar Bear】

【Top 7: Knights of the Round Table】

【Top 8: Deep Blue】

【Top 9: Penglai】

【Top 10: Takamagahara】

Without a doubt, the Qidian Legion occupied the top spot on the leaderboard and received the best buff.

10% bonus loot gained during exploration.

From first to tenth, the percentage increase decreases by one for each place the ranking drops.

To Li Zheng's surprise, the legion "Penglai" created by Liu Jiale and Xu Ying was ranked ninth, far surpassing the Muddy Country organization Takamagahara.

Li Zheng didn't recognize the "Deep Blue" organization ranked eighth, nor had he heard of them before, but their ranking at eighth showed that they were quite powerful.

At least one expert in this legion is on par with Liu Jiale in terms of strength.

"what?"

When Li Zheng scanned the levels of the Kunlun and other legions, he was shocked to find that most of them had reached Lv2. His eyes widened in disbelief: "Holy crap! Are you guys cheating?"

A first-level legion has 500 members, and it takes 20,000 military merits to upgrade to a second-level legion.

Each legion member can only gain 10 military merits if they use all 10 exploration attempts each day. In other words, a level 1 legion can only get a maximum of 5,000 military merits a day, which is still 15,000 points short!
Liu Qishao received a private message from Li Zheng and quickly replied: "Don't you know that when a player leaves a legion, their military merits are reset to zero, but they remain in the legion?"

And this operation?
"So you used this method to max out four days' worth of military merits in one day?" Li Zheng was astonished. As expected of a player, they love to exploit loopholes, even creating them where none exist!
"Yes, it's a pity you found out too late. The terminal has already fixed the bug. From now on, if you want to get ahead of others, you can only rely on spatial leap props to jump between rooms." Liu Qishao's tone was somewhat regretful, as if he was blaming the terminal for fixing the bug too quickly.

Thankfully, the terminal was repaired quickly enough!

Otherwise, it wouldn't be difficult for you to accumulate enough military merits from all potential members and get 500,000 in a day, right?
However, exploration also takes time. Li Zheng estimated that it would take at least two hours for all 500 members of the first-level legion to rotate once.

In other words, Liu Qishao and his team were probably busy accumulating military merits and kicking and recruiting members early in the morning. It must have been tough on the legion leaders and deputy leaders, who had to perform such mechanical and tedious tasks all day long. They probably won't want to touch the legion functions for a long time to come.

"Hey Lao Liu, have you thought about something?" Li Zheng thought for a moment and asked, "Won't your actions disrupt tomorrow's legion rankings?"

The legion rankings are updated daily, and they are based on the highest-tier creatures killed by players in each legion who did not leave the legion the previous day.

Such a drastic overhaul of military merits could potentially disrupt the leaderboard refresh the following day.

"I don't know about others, but Kunlun has been keeping track all day that no member who killed the highest-ranking creature has left the legion," Liu Qi said with a hint of pride.

Don't be fooled by the fact that Kunlun has relatively few military merits among the second-tier legions on the leaderboard; they will definitely be able to maintain their ranking tomorrow!

Li Zheng said with a hint of sourness, "Heh, so what if it's a legion of two thousand? We're still number one at the starting line!"

He can't even imagine what kind of chaos those players from the original 879 channel have become now.

Everyone else in the rankings is already a level two legion, but I'm still starting at level one. It feels like they're determined not to let them join.

Actually, Li Zheng misunderstood. The players in the original 879 channel not only did not complain, but even advised Xiao Siyuan not to follow suit when he discovered the other legions' shady tactics.

As Li Zheng said, if the first batch of members recruited new players and they were forced to leave just because of the legion upgrade, even if they were brought back later, it would leave some people with some resentment.

Conversely, these new players explore more slowly, and even if Qidian Legion wanted to follow suit, they didn't have the resources...

Others' first wave of members might only need two or three hours to complete ten explorations today.

This new batch of players at the starting point may need six or even eight hours.

What do we have to compare ourselves to others with?
If you followed the trend back then, the bug might have been fixed before you even reached level two legion.

"We don't really care. We'd be happy with second place. Who dares to dream of first? Anyway, I'm busy!"

Liu Qi stopped responding to Li Zheng's private messages, probably because the Legion or Joanna needed to contact him.

"Polly!"

Just then, Pink Poring's upgrade time ended, and its signature bark echoed outside its dwelling.

Li Zheng opened the door to his residence and, upon seeing Pink Polly's current appearance, exclaimed in surprise, "Holy crap, this is outrageous..."

(End of this chapter)