Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 449 King-Level Demon Blade (4400)

[Under your oppressive presence, Rongrong Rabbit was forcibly taken into the animal pen.]

[Under your oppressive presence, Rongrong Rabbit was forcibly taken into the animal pen...]

【Rongrong Rabbit…】

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More than twenty notifications popped up in a row, and all the Rongrong Rabbits that Miriel had tied up were put into the No. 3 animal pen.

Congratulations! You have acquired your second livestock group, "Rongrong Rabbits." The member list is as follows (click to expand).

The Rongrong Rabbit herd will live in Pen 3. Players will be responsible for the herd's daily diet and proper care. When cubs are born in the herd, there is a chance that a "pet-fitting individual" with excellent potential will appear.

【Place 3: Rongrong Rabbit Group (Herbivorous group, do not feed them carnivorous food.)】
Output: Pet cubs (chance-based), premium rabbit meat, rabbit blood, rabbit pelts, and lucky rabbit feet.

[Note: There are no elite-level or higher individuals in the Banyan Rabbit group. Without a core leader, the group may attack each other. Players are advised to quickly cultivate a core leader to avoid heavy casualties.]

The previous hints were almost identical to those used when taming the Timberwolves, except for the last one, which caught Li Zheng's attention.

"Does a player's herd of beasts really need a leader?"

These are rabbits, not ferocious beasts like wolves or tigers. How can they attack each other over territory?
But this is easy to handle; just leave it to Old Pu to take care of.

Li Zheng turned his head to look around, but the Eye of Preys didn't move at all, not even a single punctuation mark was displayed.

"This..." Li Zheng was stunned for a moment: "With so many rabbits, could it be that there isn't a single elite individual among them?"

On a sudden inspiration, Li Zheng thought of the wolf pack in the forest. Strictly speaking, these rabbits had once been "domesticated" by the wolves.

These creatures, by instinct, will surely nip all risks in the bud.

Therefore, even if there were any elites in the rabbit pack, they were definitely killed by the combined efforts of the wolf pack.

"so troublesome……"

Li Zheng rubbed his forehead and beckoned with his finger: "Xiao Dao, go! Go and cut some grass for me!"

'Okay! ...Huh?'

When Demon Blade Thirst heard Li Zheng call his name, he thought the remaining rabbits were all his, and he was overjoyed.

I never expected Li Zheng to actually have it cut grass?

Go! Cut! Grass!?

It's a demonic sword!
This is a top-tier Star-level weapon; with a little more blood from a powerful individual, it can be restored to the King-level level – an incredibly powerful weapon!
They actually made it cut the lawn?!

Are you kidding me?!

The Demon Blade thirsts for blood; it only drinks blood and doesn't eat vegetables!

Don't go!

Absolutely not going!

"Hurry up, we're in a hurry!" Li Zheng urged impatiently when he saw that it wasn't moving.

'Alright! Just you wait and see!'

The demonic blade shot out with a thud, flying swiftly close to the ground. The knee-high grass was sliced ​​through as if it were air in front of its sharp blade, sweeping away large swaths in a single motion.

"Miriel!"

Li Zheng called out.

"exist!"

The little succubus responded nervously, wondering if she would be asked to move the cut grass.

"It's nothing," Li Zheng said with a smile. "I have to give you credit; you did a great job catching the rabbit!"

"Uh... thank you." Miriel was suspicious. Did this little thing really warrant praise? Could it be some kind of routine?

Why don't you bring it up yourself?

"Um... do you need me to move those grasses?" Miriel asked, pointing towards the direction of the magic sword.

Li Zheng was astonished: "How could a succubus princess do such menial work?"

Miriel's face darkened. She felt that Li Zheng's words had a hidden meaning. Just as she was about to go over and start moving the items, Li Zheng stopped her.

"This is not your place to get involved."

He turned and waved towards the house.

Two household cleaning machines came out shortly afterward.

"go with!"

Two housekeeping robots, one on the left and one on the right, went to both sides of the residence to move the cut grass.

When the magic blade cuts grass, it spreads outwards in circles from the capsule dwelling, so the movement isn't too slow.

Two minutes later, Li Zheng felt it was about time, so he called the Demon Blade back and let it move freely.

This made it extremely happy. The free movement meant that it could feast on the remaining rabbits that it couldn't take with it.
However, just as it was eagerly preparing to go out and work, Li Zheng specifically instructed it: "Remember to leave some alive, and... apart from the blood that flows out, you are not allowed to eat a single bite more, I need it!"

Without the control of the wolf packs, the Rongrong Rabbits might multiply rapidly in this grassland. Li Zheng's plan is simply to reduce their numbers and let the rest develop further, leaving them for future players.

After all, the Rongrong Rabbit is just a neutral creature and doesn't affect Li Zheng's ability to open the door to the next room, so there's no need to kill them all.

He summoned two more household robots and had them follow behind the Demon Blade to move the rabbit corpses, while Li Zheng and Miriel watched from the side.

Miriel said with some surprise, "I thought you would kill all the rabbits here and take them all with you."

Li Zheng glanced sideways slightly: "Is that how you see me?"

“Judging from your style of doing things, you should be that kind of person.” Miriel’s cheeks puffed out slightly. “However, this time you have truly impressed me.”

Li Zheng found it amusing. Only when Miriel spoke in such an old-fashioned manner did he realize that she was actually an eighty-year-old man.

"Actually, there's no such thing as 'seeking benefits' or 'not seeking benefits'," Li Zheng shook his head and said. "If these rabbits were gold-grade or higher, I would definitely not keep any of them, or only keep one or two. Even if I couldn't take the rest with me, I would process them into feed and store them away."

"Is it because it's more valuable?" Miriel asked thoughtfully.

Li Zheng might not be interested in materials from silver-grade creatures. However, gold-grade or higher materials are clearly only different in terms of value.

“No.” Li Zheng shook his head unexpectedly and said seriously, “It’s because of their strength.”

"strength?"

"That's right!"

Li Zheng explained, "Actually, I have done some rough research on the creatures in the matrix and found that the transition from silver to gold is a watershed."

"Before the Silver rank, including Silver-rank creatures, their strength is quite limited, and it is rare for them to have special abilities."

"Even if they existed, it's impossible for them to live together on such a large scale."

At this point, Li Zheng recalled the rock-ice giant tribe, which was clearly an exception.

"But the gold level is different. Starting from this level, the probability of developing special abilities is much higher, and the difference in combat power is like heaven and earth."

"Don't be fooled by the fact that these rabbits were all cowering in their burrows when we killed them. They knew we were too strong, so they didn't even dare to show their heads."

"Do you believe that if a less powerful player were here, and he tried to move just one rabbit, the others would swarm him and kick him to death?" Miriel tried to imagine the scene, but because he was too strong, all he could picture was the rabbits being brutally beaten by him.

I really can't imagine what's so scary about being surrounded and attacked by such weak creatures.

"So you left some survivors with Xiaodao not primarily to ensure the survival of this tribe, but to manage the risks for potential players who might enter this area later?"

"A little bit of both."

Li Zheng nodded slightly: "Channel 879 is practically empty now. According to the rules for the matrix terminal to release new players, the next time, there will likely be a group of people with low strength entering here."

"If those guys who lack basic knowledge of matrix life enter this room, I've already cleared it beforehand, so at least I can help them control the level of danger and prevent them from being killed by these rabbits because of momentary greed."

By the time the next batch of players arrives, Li Zheng should have already gone to the outer city. As the administrator of channel 879, he won't be able to take care of the newcomers anymore. So, he might as well do something now to fulfill his duties as an administrator.

"You've thought quite a lot through." Miriel nodded with an air of maturity, his eyes showing appreciation.

Li Zheng shrugged, said nothing more, turned around and went into his residence. He found a few silver-grade crystal cores and processed them into feed in batches, along with the grass he had brought back.

These crystal cores were originally prepared for Sakura. Her talent allows her to force all abilities to match her own rank, and Li Zheng wanted to quickly give Sakura several abilities.

As a result, Sakura fell into a deep sleep, and these crystal cores were temporarily unusable, which actually made it easier for him to make feed now.

"The pasture grass has a growth period of about five days after planting, and the first round of harvest can only be done then. Moreover, the quantity is actually not much, and it won't take more than a few days." Li Zheng pondered carefully. He estimated that it would take nearly half a month to cultivate the pasture grass to supply the rabbits. He also needed to get more seeds.

Therefore, he needs to produce enough grass feed for the rabbits to eat for at least twenty days.

Even so, he could only achieve this with the help of intermediate culture medium to accelerate the process.

For others, the development period would be at least forty days, which is actually quite slow.

"To be on the safe side, prepare seven or eight meals' worth of feed for cultivating elites, just in case we're unlucky and never get any drops."

Li Zheng frequently adjusted the feed formula and discovered that adding ten crystal nuclei of the same quality with the same effect at once produced the feed with the best cost-effectiveness.

The probability in the attribute has changed from "extremely small" to "low probability".

Actually, he also wanted to just throw a crystal core at a certain rabbit and train it into an elite.

As a result, they didn't even glance at the crystal nuclei, except for the food they were fed...

This is just ridiculous...

Li Zheng tried throwing in some grass, and the rabbits ate it quite happily.

Seeing this scene, Li Zheng felt it was even more fucking ridiculous...

They are all raw materials for feed. Why do you only eat grass and not the crystal nuclei?

Gan!
So hard to take care of!
After producing several batches of feed to cultivate elites, Li Zheng also casually produced several batches of feed to develop various abilities, all categorized from silver to gold grade.

He plans to wait until some of these rabbits develop special abilities, then select two to breed and try. Perhaps he can create a Rongrong Rabbit that is suitable as a combat-type pet.

Compared to the Timberwolves, the Banyan Rabbit is a bit smaller, but it's still about half the size of a Timberwolves, which is quite an exaggerated size.

With a physique like that, it would be a waste not to use him as a henchman.

What's more, they are quite cute and very suitable for female players to adopt.

These adorable yet fierce pets are sure to appeal to many male gamers, not just female gamers. Li Zheng believes they would also be willing to keep one for fun.

Li Zheng even came up with an advertising slogan: "Rabbits are so cute, how can you not... cough, how can you not raise one?"
The only regrettable thing is that the breeding of new varieties may have to be carried out in the outer city.

At that time, Li Zheng will have to find a way to return from the outer city to the matrix to sell these rabbits.

It's quite troublesome, but it's of great significance.

This is likely the first pet trading chain among players, and currently, the number of players who own pets is actually not that large.

Very few individuals in the matrix are suitable to be pets. Li Zheng has already been very lucky to have encountered a few①.

"I wonder if the cats in the cat cafe are still there. I wish I could go there again."

Li Zheng recalled the cat café before he met Luo Aimang in the early stages of the game. Feng Shan had once taken a white cat named Pipi as a pet there. However, at that time, most players could barely take care of themselves, let alone raise a pet that would take up resources. So even if it were put up for sale, not many people would want it.

Not to mention that those are just ordinary cats, which are much more difficult to raise.

Didn't you see that Feng Shan, with his lucky physique, even gave his butt to Yu Xiaoyu?
We simply can't afford to raise them.

The main problem is that ordinary cats and dogs are too weak. If they are fed crystal core items indiscriminately, they may die directly from eating them.

of course.

At this stage, solving this problem is much simpler; the gene serum that Li Zheng has can handle it.

Simply give those cats and dogs some black iron-grade potions to boost their physique to the black iron 5+ limit, then feed them some crystal cores of the same grade to strengthen them. Getting through the most dangerous initial training phase should be relatively easy.

After providing food and water to all the animal pens, Li Zheng prepared to continue his challenge of the event dungeon.

When the Rongrong rabbits saw the feed being put into the trough, they immediately abandoned the grass and jumped or climbed over to eat the feed. Clearly, the product from the compressor was much more tempting than the raw material.

Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the husky and the wolf ate so recklessly.

Li Zheng pondered to himself.

Turning around, I saw the wolves staring at the food trough from a distance, just watching without daring to approach and eat, their movements perfectly synchronized.

The husky's fate had terrified them, and they wouldn't dare touch the feed for a while.

However, a faint green light appeared in the eyes of the four female wolves, as if they were looking forward to something.

The husky next to him was very weak. When Li Zheng came over to check on it, it raised its eyelids with a look of utter despair, and tears immediately streamed down its face as it gasped for breath and cried.

My Mediterranean Husky has never suffered such injustice since it was a puppy!
The female wolf came over with anticipation and tried a few bites of the new food. When she found it was different from what she had eaten before, she looked both disappointed and excited.

Li Zheng checked their information and found that the husky's status bar still showed "exhausted".

The female wolf's status bar displayed three words: "Preparing for pregnancy." ②
Li Zheng gave Mediterranean a 'friendly' smile: "Dog, you'd better pray it works this time, otherwise..."

The husky seemed to understand, letting out a whimper, its cries becoming more urgent.

Just then, Zhan Zhouzhou sent a private message asking, "Have you rested enough? Shall we continue?"

Li Zheng got up and left the animal pen. He went outside and saw that the entire grassland was in a mess, with knife marks everywhere. Four domestic robots were moving the last few rabbits.

The Demon Blade has returned. Its master said to leave some alive, so it didn't kill them all and left about twenty unattended.

After the move was finished, Li Zheng replied to Zhan Zhouzhou: "All done, let's go!"

Take out your event ticket, select the unique Challenge No. 2 icon, and teleport there with all your teammates.

Just as they entered the challenge room for Experiment Two, Demon Blade Thirst suddenly trembled with excitement and sent Li Zheng a series of mental messages:
'Master, this twisted creature's energy is even more concentrated; it must have also condensed a twisted magic crystal!'

Dao Dao had a premonition that if he consumed two more Twisted Magic Crystals of this quality, his rank would increase by another level!

'By then, Dao Dao will be able to regain his king-level strength!'

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P.S. ①: The creatures that Li Zheng encountered that were suitable as pets were: Sakura, Husky, and the cats in the cat cafe.

P.S. ②: This state occurs in all domesticated animals after mating during the preconception period, but it does not mean that pregnancy has been successful.

(End of this chapter)