Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 446 Addicted to Baldness? (5000 words)

"As the saying goes, a day apart feels like three autumns. I haven't seen Shenwei for almost five days. Is it wrong to count it as fifteen years?"

"Good heavens, this sentence can be interpreted like this?" Feng Shan exclaimed, his face flushed. "If my elementary school Chinese teacher knew this, even a Star-level expert wouldn't be able to hold him in his coffin!"

"Shut up my ass! Let that old man handle it! I'll punch him so he'll obediently put his coffin lid back on!" Li Zheng glanced at Feng Shan, then said to the crowd, "Leave Shenwei to me, you all stay out of it."

Feng Shan glanced at the Bloodthirsty Demon Blade that was flying around the group and constantly cutting off its tentacles, and said sullenly, "The way you talk makes it sound like we can just interfere whenever we want."

Li Zheng glanced at him again and said, "I mainly wanted to tell Lady Zhan not to interfere, what are you so smug about?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Zheng drew his sword from its sheath, activated the fire elemental attachment, and charged into the impenetrable encirclement of tentacles with his flaming longsword.

Fengshan's protesting voice came from behind: "What the hell am I so smug about?!"

Zhan Zhouzhou remained calm, holding the Purple Thunder Longsword, and stood in front of the group, intently watching the flying Bloodthirsty Demon Blade, in case any tentacles broke through and attacked them.

Miriel stared at the tentacles with curiosity in her eyes. She wanted to ask what kind of creatures they were, but unfortunately, she couldn't understand the language. Apart from Li Zheng, no one in the group could understand Abyss Language, so asking would be pointless.

However, judging from the situation, Li Zheng seems to have a grudge against these tentacles, so as a servant, he naturally cannot sit idly by.

So she also took off her whip, her small face filled with solemnity, and stood guard alongside Zhan Zhouzhou, protecting everyone.

Zhan Zhouzhou gave her a cold look and nodded to herself. The pets that Li Zheng had tamed seemed to have a strong sense of combat, but unfortunately their strength was a little weak, and their rank was only platinum.

'Polly~'

The Red Porings carried Sakura to the back of the group, then suddenly stretched themselves out, transforming into a huge pale red barrier that covered the area behind them.

Now, the entire small camp was almost completely protected, with one person, one pet, one sword, and two special neutral monsters providing excellent protection.

Lin Fengjiao sat blankly in the small camp, feeling extremely safe. There was no safer place in the entire Matrix world.

Fengshan and Yanguang sat down next to Lin Fengjiao, looking quite helpless.

Being surrounded by so many skilled individuals has led to those who are slightly less skilled becoming the "old, weak, women, and children" who need to be protected.

Feng Shan and Yan Guang exchanged a glance and scratched their heads simultaneously: "This is so awkward..."

On the other side, Li Zheng charged into the encirclement of tentacles with his Fiery Longsword, only to realize that his true strength was actually weaker than he had imagined after losing his demonic weapon.

"It seems that if it weren't for the mysterious person present when I encountered Shenwei last time, I would have been dead already." Li Zheng parried the attacking tentacles with his sword. The scabbard was only of diamond quality, and Li Zheng needed to use all his strength to cut the tentacles off.

However, without the cloaked figure's restraint, Kamui's true projection can unleash its full power without any restraint.

The slippery tentacles that came flying in seemed endless. If Li Zheng just fought honestly like this, he could handle it for a short time.

However, once his strength declines and he is unable to sever the tentacles in one go, the scales of victory will undoubtedly tip in Kamui's favor.

"That's the only way to use it."

Li Zheng's eyes narrowed sharply, the flames wrapped around his longsword surged wildly, and his genetic force poured out like a torrent.

In the blink of an eye, a giant flaming sword over forty meters long appeared in Li Zheng's hand, its intense heat forcing Shenwei to give way.

He swung the Fiery Greatsword in front of him a few times, causing the tentacles to move aside and revealing the true form of the god hidden within the encirclement.

"Got you!"

With a tremor of its wings, Mo Lei's speed increased to level five, flying so fast that it left a trail of blue light in the air.

Approaching Shenwei, Li Zheng wielded his sword with both hands and slashed down, roaring as he swelled up twice in size, transforming into the embodiment of a berserker demon from the abyss.

Empowered by the abilities from the abyss, his strength multiplied, severing countless tentacles that defied the threat of intense heat.

"Die!"

BOOM BOOM BOOM~
The tough tentacles broke apart, and even with the double diamond physique, Li Zheng still felt somewhat strained.

The sheathed sword gradually approached the inner layer of the protective ring of tentacles, and finally, after cutting off the last ring of tentacles, it revealed the child-like body inside.

Kamui stood at the center of the tentacles, his eyes were chaotic, staring directly at Li Zheng, his mouth split open, revealing a terrifying array of sharp teeth.

"Meat!~"

The real projection possessed only strength but lacked a clear consciousness. It uttered indistinct, muddy words from deep within its throat, and its body suddenly sprouted countless tiny holes, revealing a hint of sharpness amidst the pervasive stench.

"Poison needles?" A cold smile curled at the corner of Li Zheng's lips.

How could he possibly forget the methods that almost cost him his life last time?

I've been waiting for you!

Li Zheng waved his hand, unleashing a shower of sparks. His mental energy suddenly surged forth, and the sparks merged into one, resembling a dazzling firework.

"Snapped!"

There was a snap of fingers.

"boom!"

Sparks exploded in clusters. Individual sparks were not very powerful, but when they exploded together, they blasted Kamui's body into a bloody mess.

Li Zheng was protected by extreme isolation and was not afraid of the high temperature. He retreated a distance with the thrust generated by the explosion.

"Meat!!"

Such injuries were naturally not fatal to Kamui. The first wave of poison needles was destroyed by Li Zheng using sparks and explosive power. Kamui instinctively prepared for a second wave. The blurred flesh was torn open, and the densely packed poison needles made people's hearts tremble.

"Flesh my ass!"

Li Zheng once again scattered a swarm of sparks, sending all of these sparks with his mental energy before Shenwei, ready to explode again at any moment.

"Snapped!"

The snap of fingers rang out again.

The second round of explosive attacks destroyed the poison needles that Kamui had prepared once again.

"Come at me again if you dare, let's see how many poison needles are in your body!"

Just in case, Li Zheng activated his Demon Thunder Wings the instant the explosion started, flying to the side to avoid being pierced by the poison needles that hadn't been destroyed.

Although he has an ion shield belt, theoretically he is not afraid of ranged attacks.

However, if the shield belt is subjected to too many high-intensity attacks at once, it may be overloaded and damaged, which would be counterproductive.

With the two waves of poison needles destroyed, Shenwei's rate of producing poison needles was greatly reduced, and no new needle marks appeared on his body.

Li Zheng cautiously flew closer, drew his sword from its sheath, and combined it with a long staff. He struck Shenwei, who was dazed from the explosion, with the staff, sending several broken teeth flying far away.

"I'll fucking make you even fatter!"

Snapped!
"I'll teach you a lesson you gave me last time when you wanted to eat me!"

Snapped!
"I'll teach you a lesson you gave me last time for wanting to eat Sakura!"

Snapped!
……

He cursed and slapped Shenwei with a stick. After a few blows, all of Shenwei's sharp teeth were knocked out, and his foul-smelling blood emitted an unpleasant odor.

The size difference between the two is like an adult beating a primary school student with a stick. If this scene were filmed by the media on Earth, Li Zheng would be trending on social media that very day.

"Let's see if you dare to think about eating people again!"

"Horse riding!"

Li Zheng spat, drew his sword back from its sheath, and prepared to deliver the final blow to Shenwei.

Just then, instinct prompted Kamui to launch his final counterattack.

The countless tentacles extending from its lower body suddenly rolled over, like a raging tidal wave, wrapping around and strangling Li Zheng at the center.

This time, the tentacles didn't even flinch from the intense heat and flames, sizzling as they were burned, without showing the slightest sign of stopping.

Kamui opened his mouth, a fierce glint in his chaotic eyes, and mumbled the word indistinctly: "Meat!!!"

"Meat, my ass, more meat?" Li Zheng glared, wielding his sword with both hands and sweeping it horizontally towards Shenwei's neck.

Unexpectedly, Shenwei suddenly lowered his body, opened his toothless mouth, and bit down on the sword.

"Damn it!" Li Zheng felt his sheathed sword encounter a huge resistance. It had only cut halfway into Shenwei's jaw muscle when it got stuck and could not go any further.

With a thought, the scabbard was put back into the residence, and it was too late for Li Zheng to deliver another blow.

"Fine, killing you with a sword would be too easy for you."

With a slight tremor of its wings, the fifth gear of extreme speed was activated once again. Li Zheng flew low towards the countless tentacles that were swirling and wrapping around him, leaving behind a trail of flames along the way with his mental power.

"Xiao Dao, come pick me up!"

Giving the command to the Demon Blade in his mind, Li Zheng flew to a distance of forty meters and snapped his fingers imperceptibly.

"Snapped!"

This time, it's a real explosion!

boom!
A miniature mushroom cloud rose from the encirclement of tentacles, and a powerful shockwave carrying unparalleled heat swept away the surging tentacles that blotted out the sun. The Bloodthirsty Demon Blade managed to cut a gap in the tentacle network before the shockwave hit, allowing Li Zheng to escape.

"See what I told you?"

As Feng Shan watched the giant fleshy ball made of tentacles being blasted apart by a miniature mushroom cloud, he calmly commented, "I knew Old Li would have to set off fireworks to deal with this mutant in the end. Did I guess right?"

"Show off your skills!" Yan Guang playfully slapped Feng Shan's shoulder hard.

The hard left hand slapped Fengshan until he grimaced: "Can you be a little gentler?"

“That’s not what you said last night.”

"Can that be the same?"

Zhan Zhouzhou stared intently at the direction from which the mushroom cloud was rising, then suddenly said coldly, "Not dead yet."

"what?"

Fengshan and the other man were both taken aback.

"That mutant," Zhan Zhouzhou repeated, "wasn't killed by the explosion."

"No way?!" Feng Shan jumped up from the ground and looked towards the ball of flesh. The shockwave from the explosion was passing right by them, causing everyone's clothes to flutter and rustle.

Yan Guang squinted at the world channel: "There were indeed no announcements of successful kills, and no points were added."

"This should be the first mutant to survive Old Li's explosive power, right?" Feng Shan exclaimed. "Truly worthy of being the third mutant, it is indeed much stronger than the other targets."

That's right, Shenwei wasn't the first mutant Li Zheng and his team challenged today, but the third.

Number five and number four were close to the peak of the Star Glory level, but they were easily defeated by Li Zheng and Zhan Zhouzhou working together.

After Mutant Number Four was killed, Fengshan commented, "There is no mutant that Old Li cannot deal with with one explosion. If there is, it means the flame level is not high enough and two explosions are needed."

As a result, he encountered Kamui, who couldn't be killed by a single blast.

Yan Guang asked, "Should we send a private message to Lao Li to let him know?"

"No need." Zhan Zhouzhou shook his head coldly: "He's already found out."

Li Zheng remained outside the blast radius, letting the spreading flames and shockwaves rush past him, his gaze fixed solemnly on the direction where Shenwei had been.

"Little knife, go in and suck all its blood out."

After a moment's thought, Li Zheng gave the order to the Bloodthirsty Demon Blade.

'Okay!'

The Bloodthirsty Demon Blade had been waiting for this order. It trembled with excitement and emitted a happy buzzing sound. It circled Li Zheng once and flew into the flames.

Soon, a vague thought from the demonic blade reached his mind: 'Master, this guy has turned into a giant ball of flesh, the outside is charred black, but the inside is still raw.'

After absorbing the blood of mutants No. 5 and No. 4 today, the power of the Demon Blade has been restored to some extent.

Previously, Li Zheng could only communicate with it using his mind when he held it.

Now we can receive them even from a distance.

When Li Zheng received the report from the Demon Blade, he couldn't help but recall a story he had read as a child. It was about how ants would huddle together when faced with a fire, protecting all their strength at the innermost part in order to try to survive the fire and ensure the survival of their colony.

'Master, this guy doesn't have much blood in his body; it doesn't seem to survive on blood!'

The demonic blade sent another thought: 'Wait! It's trying to escape!'

"run?"

Li Zheng didn't understand for a moment. Even if Shenwei wanted to escape, where could he escape to?
The event space was completely enclosed, with no tickets available, and entry and exit were not permitted.

'It's afraid of fire! It wants to run outside the flames!' The thoughts transmitted by the demonic blade were getting weaker and weaker, indicating that the distance between it and Li Zheng was getting farther.

Li Zheng glanced at his Gene Force; he had less than sixty points left, making it very easy to maintain his individual limit isolation ability.

However, it falls short in practical use during combat.

The reason Li Zheng didn't go back immediately to finish off the enemy was because he was worried about encountering a counterattack from Shenwei in this situation, which would exhaust his last bit of primal force.

"Then chop it up and let the flames cook it completely!" Li Zheng ordered the demon blade, but received no response.

The command was delayed by a step; the Bloodthirsty Demon Blade was probably still embedded in Shenwei's body, and it had been pulled out of the range where they could communicate with each other by thought.

Without further hesitation, Li Zheng unleashed his physical strength and rushed into the raging flames, running wildly in a straight line.

Maintaining a state of extreme isolation, the flames, while not harming him, still obstructed his vision.

Li Zheng released his spiritual energy, condensing it into a beam that scanned the area ahead in a fan shape like radar.

Just as he was about to escape the sea of ​​fire, Li Zheng finally used his mental power to capture the rolling Shenwei and the Bloodthirsty Demon Blade, which was stuck in its body with only the hilt showing.

"That idiot! Since he knows Kamui doesn't survive on blood, why the hell did he even bother with it?"

Li Zheng cursed inwardly, just as he entered the telepathic communication range. The demonic blade trembled in fright, saying pitifully, "This blade is merely equipment; without its master's command, it cannot act on its own."

Li Zheng: ...

You son of a bitch!!!
Who has equipment like yours and still puts their mind to communicating with other players?

What are you still standing there for?

Seeing the Shenwei brand meatball suddenly accelerate, Li Zheng was so angry he almost jumped up: "Come out and chop the hell out of it!"

'Okay!'

The Bloodthirsty Demon Blade finally received the command and emerged from the Divine Might flesh ball the instant it was out of the range of telepathic communication once again. It slashed out several streaks of bloody light, cutting the Divine Might into several irregular pieces of flesh, which shattered and splattered all over the ground, bubbling away outside the circle of fire.

Li Zheng followed closely behind, sweeping his mental energy across the pieces of Divine Might Fragment, coating them with a layer of flames.

The newly attached flames were somehow different from the flames produced by the previous explosion; they showed signs of incompatibility and were clearly distinct.

Li Zheng had a sudden thought and tried snapping his fingers.

Snapped!
The genetic force subsequently decreased to less than five points.

The pieces of meat exploded and became even more fragmented, quickly charred by the high temperature. The impact of the explosion sent the careless Demon Blade Thirst flying more than ten feet away.

"Should this be over now?" Li Zheng diverted a sliver of his mental energy to stimulate himself, squeezing out twenty points of genetic energy from his waist muscles to sustain his own energy expenditure.

Most of his mental energy was focused on those few pieces of flesh, watching them being completely charred by the high temperature until they were utterly dead.

Congratulations to player "Li Zheng" for leading the team...

The kill notification finally popped up, and Li Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, but his expression became somewhat strange.

"It's over!" The Bloodthirsty Demon Blade cheered and flew back into Li Zheng's hand. It gently vibrated its blade and sent Li Zheng a thought, flattering him, "Master is truly amazing!"

"Flattery won't work!" Li Zheng said sternly, "I'll deal with you later!"

"Waaah, Dao Dao is innocent!" The demonic sword shook its blade, and only after Li Zheng tapped it on the back did it behave.

In the firelight, several vine-like patterns appeared between the blood-red lines on the back of the Bloodthirsty Demon Blade.

Li Zheng was now in a location that spanned the entire area where the explosion had occurred, so he decided to leave and take a long detour before slowly flying back to the small camp where Zhan Zhouzhou and the others were.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw him return unharmed.

They were genuinely worried that Li Zheng would be ambushed when he went back to finish off the attackers, since he had survived an explosion.

In hindsight, that worry was unnecessary.

Li Zheng was much more cunning than them.

"Well done, Lao Li." Feng Shan gave a thumbs up and praised, "This mutant's strength should be at the peak of the Star Glory level, right? He actually managed to take it down by himself."

"With this kind of strength, you should be able to protect yourself once you enter the outer city, right?"

Upon hearing this, two mysterious figures flashed before Li Zheng's eyes. He shook his head with a stern face and said, "Still far from it!"

"The waters outside the city run deep. If I go there with my current strength, I probably won't even be considered a lackey."

The mysterious cloaked figure he encountered after accepting the doctor's mission last time was incredibly powerful, and even now, Li Zheng still feels a chill when he thinks about it.

Such a being, if it wanted to kill me, perhaps just one hand would be enough...

"There are two more mutants left."

Zhan Zhouzhou snapped out of combat alert, her icy demeanor vanishing instantly, returning to her usual "although somewhat aloof, she's still quite approachable" self. She came over and said, "I'll do my best to assist you in the next two battles, trying to minimize the risks."

Li Zheng looked at her seriously, nodded, and said, "Okay."

Zhan Zhouzhou suddenly tilted her head, puzzled: "Your bald look this time... how come it hasn't changed at all?"

"Are you addicted to balding?"

Li Zheng: ? ? ?
(End of this chapter)