Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 441 Fengshan, hurry up and wish me all my dreams come true! Waiting online, urgent!
Li Zheng subconsciously summoned the Bloodthirsty Demon Blade from his residence, held it in his hand, and raised his hand to slash at the whip shadow that attacked from the air.

However, as the blade and the whip clashed, he felt his hand go empty; he hadn't struck anything.

"Master, these whip shadows are all fake." The Bloodthirsty Demon Blade trembled, giving a warning.

"Fake?" Li Zheng was slightly taken aback. Just as he was about to sheathe his sword, he felt something brush against his cheek and fly past him.

The next second, the countless whip shadows vanished, and the Bloodthirsty Demon Blade's next words entered Li Zheng's mind: 'Only one whip shadow was real, but it's impossible to distinguish which of the individual blades was real... But it doesn't matter now.'

The demonic blade slipped from its grasp and flew back to its residence as if fleeing, fearing punishment from Li Zheng.

Li Zheng had no time to pay attention to the demonic blade. He raised his hand and touched his face, finding a little bit of powder.

When I looked at my finger, it was just wood shavings!

Where did the sawdust come from?

Li Zheng then looked at the trees that had been shattered by Miriel's "whipping" ability; the origin of the wood chips was self-evident.

"That move is so powerful!" Li Zheng was shocked. The countless whip shadows that filled the sky seemed real to him, but he didn't expect that only one whip shadow was real and the rest were all illusions.

"What's the name of this move? Why isn't it showing up in your panel?" Li Zheng asked Miriel.

“It has no name.” Miriel shook his head: “This is a fighting style that I have recently mastered. Those fake whip shadows are actually illusions created by combining mental power with whip techniques. They look real, but in reality, at most only ten of them can be transformed into real attacks according to my own will and skills.”

Despite having ten whip shadows that could be converted into real attacks, the Bloodthirsty Demon Blade claims there's only one, indicating that Miriel didn't go all out this time.

"Perhaps it's because it wasn't named that it's not showing up on the panel?" Miriel said uncertainly.

That makes sense, though.

After a moment's thought, Li Zheng suggested, "How about we name it 'Return of Ten Thousand Whips to Their Origin'?"

The name doesn't matter; he just wants to test whether this move can be displayed in Miriel's attribute panel after it's named.

"The Return of Ten Thousand Whips to the Source?" Miriel found the name strange, muttered it a couple of times, and then nodded in agreement: "Okay, let's call it The Return of Ten Thousand Whips to the Source."

At that moment, a notification flashed before Li Zheng's eyes from the terminal:

[Through tireless efforts, the pet "Mirel" has mastered the ability "Return of a Thousand Whips"!]

It actually worked!

Li Zheng never expected that a pet's abilities could be acquired in this way.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. Miriel is different from Sakura. Sakura is a genetically created being, and she doesn't have an accurate inheritance of genetic abilities. She can only obtain genetic abilities through external forces.

The principle is similar to how players acquire genetic abilities, except that the items they use are unavailable to players.

Of course, Li Zheng was unsure whether those items would still be usable for Earthlings when their game time expired and they became pets of other races.

Unlike Miriel, who was born in the Abyss of Fallen Angels and had the complete heritage of the succubus race to learn, and was extremely intelligent, she was naturally able to acquire the corresponding abilities through learning and training.

This approach is similar to that of players like Zhan Zhouzhou who follow the "martial arts" path. Of course, Xiaoying can use the same items in principle, but the abilities she develops may not be suitable for her.

Besides these two types of pets, there is another category of pets that Li Zheng also owns.

That's a technologically modified mechanical pet.

That is, Is and Kuro.

They acquire their abilities in different ways, requiring modifications to their machines to obtain the corresponding abilities.

However, these so-called abilities should more accurately be called "weapon systems" mounted on the machine. "Is it displayed on the panel?" Miriel asked, noticing that Li Zheng had been spacing out for a while.

Li Zheng snapped out of his daze, opened the panel, and found that the ability description was almost identical to what Miriel had just described, except that the consumption section was marked with the words "huge consumption".

“It’s displayed.” Li Zheng asked, “Does your move… have significant limitations?”

“Yes.” Miriel didn’t hide anything: “Because those whip shadows are illusions created by mental energy, each use consumes a lot of mental energy. With my current ability, I can only use them at full power twice a day at most.”

twice.

Li Zheng pondered for a moment: "Try it on me again, I want to verify a conjecture."

“Okay.” Miriel did not refuse. As a servant, the first rule was not to refuse the master’s orders.

Li Zheng stretched out his large hand towards the residence and shouted, "Xiao Dao, come here!"

The Bloodthirsty Demon Blade trembled and flew out, landing carefully in Li Zheng's hand.

Li Zheng gripped the hilt of the knife, and after getting ready, he nodded slightly to Miriel: "Alright, let's begin."

Miriel didn't speak, holding the whip in one hand, her little face turning bright red again.

This is a characteristic of her exerting spiritual power, similar to a side effect, indicating that she was actually struggling when she used "Return of Ten Thousand Whips to the Source".

The next instant, ten thousand whip shadows suddenly appeared before Li Zheng's eyes again, densely packed and blotting out the sky.

"Amazing!"

Even seeing this scene for the second time, Li Zheng couldn't help but exclaim in admiration. These whip shadows were so realistic, and each one was different in shape.

To be able to simulate so many different forms of whip shadows, the master of this move must have undergone rigorous training.

He didn't waste any time. Instead of looking with his eyes, he closed them and released his mental energy to cover the sky full of whip shadows.

Suddenly, the surrounding scenery changed.

The whip shadows were no longer as real as they had been at the beginning; instead, they became much more illusory. Only one solid long whip moved back and forth, changing position, among the tens of thousands of whip shadows.

huh~
Suddenly, thousands of whip shadows approached him. Li Zheng raised his hand and used the back of his knife to block the even more solid whip shadow.

puff!
Li Zheng felt the demonic blade block something soft. He opened his eyes and saw that Miriel's long whip was resting on the back of the blade, circling the blade several times before being cut off by the demonic blade's sharp edge.

"Ah! My whip!" Miriel exclaimed, painfully retracting the now-shortened whip. "It was a gift from my mother for my eightieth birthday..."

Eightyth birthday... a present...

Li Zheng's intended apology choked in his throat, finally turning into a sarcastic remark: "Shouldn't the words 'longevity' be added after 'eighty years old'?"

Li Zheng felt a little guilty since he had broken the whip himself, so he asked Miriel for the remaining half and wanted to see if he could fix it using the "repair" function.

The moment he got his hands on the whip, the terminal displayed a message: "[Special damaged weapon detected. Disassemble? High probability of obtaining blueprints.]" This made Li Zheng breathe a sigh of relief, but also made his heart jump.

Judging from this, it's definitely beyond repair, but we can make a new one.

But his luck...

"Fengshan, quickly say 'May all your wishes come true' to me a hundred times! I'm waiting online, it's urgent!"

(End of this chapter)