Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 454 Another failure to reach 10,000 words per day! Next time, I'll definitely do it! (4.4K)

"No matter who dies first, you're not going to survive!"

Zhan Zhouzhou's hand holding the sword did not tremble at all; it was as steady as Mount Tai. He was determined to fight to the death to kill Yi Qi.

"Naive! So what if you can completely shatter my heart?" Iki's claws suddenly increased in speed. "I am immortal!"

His words were somewhat of a cover-up.

From Feng Shan's two unexpected shots to Li Zheng and Zhan Zhouzhou's current target, both were aimed at his heart, where the Twisted Magic Crystal was hidden.

Their actions, so focused on a specific objective, were as if the three of them had suddenly discovered their fatal weakness.

However, considering that the Twisted Crystal would forcibly return to his chest cavity when he transformed, it wasn't entirely unexpected that his opponent could see it.

That's why he didn't transform into an infected form at the very beginning of the battle, in order to conceal the exact location of the Twisted Magic Crystal.

The key question is, are these people targeting the heart, or the twisted magic crystal inside the heart?

At this moment, Li Zheng suddenly shouted, "Yi Qi, don't you want this house anymore?"

He brandished a knife, pointing it at Nisha Creek's house next door, as if he were ready to demolish the house at the slightest provocation.

Sure enough, upon hearing this, Yi Qi changed direction from her claws that were reaching for Zhan Zhouzhou's heart, intercepting the Purple Lightning Sword, and shouted, "You dare!"

"Do you think I dare?!"

Without saying a word, Li Zheng drew his sword, which was imbued with flames, and the forty-meter-long flaming sword reappeared. He raised his hand and slashed at the house.

"You're asking for it!!!"

Yi Qi's eyes almost popped out of their sockets. With a loud thud, she stomped down and twisted herself into a pretzel shape around her waist in an extremely contorted and bizarre way, lunging at Li Zheng and kicking him with her leg.

"So fast!!"

Li Zheng dared not be careless. He turned around to defend, holding the Bloodthirsty Demon Blade in front of him. The flames transformed into icy cold air, seamlessly connecting, attempting to affect Yi Qi with the low temperature and reduce his attack speed.

when!
puff!
Li Zheng was kicked by Yi Qi and flew back seven or eight meters. His arms almost lost all feeling and he felt a tightness in his chest.

The abdominal injury from the previous kick was aggravated again, causing his blood to surge and rush down his throat to his mouth, drawing a thin, bright red line down the corner of his mouth.

Li Zheng was not surprised by Yi Qi's reaction, after all, just a few seconds ago, he had risked his life to become like this for the sake of this house.

It's easy to imagine how important this house was to Iki.

Sensation returned quickly to both arms, but the throbbing pain caused Li Zheng to frown slightly, indicating that both arms had varying degrees of bone damage.

But it was all worth it.

On the other side, Zhan Zhouzhou seized the opportunity and decisively used the "short-range jump" feature of the Eye Demon Boots to instantly appear behind Yi Qi, and the Purple Extreme Lightning Sword completely pierced through the opponent's heart.

The tip of the Purple Lightning Sword pierced through Yi Qi's body, flashing with electricity and charring the flesh and blood from his wound.

At the same time, it caused a violent impact on the twisted magic crystal inside his heart, further aggravating the damage.

"I am... immortal!!"

Yi Qi slammed her palm into her chest, blasting the Purple Lightning Sword out of her body, and roared furiously.

"Keep deceiving yourself." Li Zheng landed on the ground, relieving the discomfort in his arms, and sneered.

Zhan Zhouzhou's sword strike was very accurate, piercing directly through the distorted magic crystal. The terrifying energy contained within instantly dissipated, forming a black and purple misty domain around him.

"I will not die!!!"

Iki's arms jerked violently, and the mist instantly expanded, almost forming a pitch-black cocoon.

A strong, negative, and distorted emotion emanated from the black mist.

pain!

despair!

Hatred!

greedy!

anger!
sad!

If all emotions had a physical form, they would affect all intelligent life forms around them.

Zhan Zhouzhou was too close; he only came into contact with a little bit of the dark purple mist, and his body began to show some abnormal symptoms, with four slender, snow-white sharp teeth growing out of his mouth.

Her eyes became glazed over, as if bewitched, and a hint of bloodlust appeared in her beautiful pupils.

However, on her arm, the flesh was rapidly decaying, emitting a nauseating stench. Her extraordinary physique deteriorated during this process, and in the blink of an eye, it became diamond-level.

"Little knife, suck him dry!"

Li Zheng raised his hand and threw out the Demon Blade Thirst, placing all his hopes on this piece of equipment.

'Yahoo~'

The Demon Blade Thirst cheered, dragging a long trail of bloody light as it plunged headlong into the mist.

Immediately, a vortex appeared in the center of the dark purple mist, forcefully drawing back the dissipating distorted energy.

An even more powerful and violent aura emanated from the bottom of that vortex.

Zhan Zhouzhou's dazed eyes trembled, her mind suddenly returned, her expression changed drastically, and she stumbled backward more than ten meters before stopping, looking at the dark purple mist with great alarm.

This strange black mist of energy can affect a person's mind simply by touching it, without even needing to inhale it.
Zhan Zhouzhou had a gut feeling that if Li Zheng hadn't thrown the knife over and gathered the dissipating black mist energy, he might have turned into a monster similar to a mutant before long!

"I...am...not...dying..."

In the black mist, Iki, who was not completely dead, let out a final, feeble cry.

Phew~!

The dissipating black mist suddenly contracted and vanished without a trace, revealing Iki, who had been sucked dry like a corpse.

At his heart, a black and red demonic blade sank to its hilt, gurgling as it sucked up the last bit of twisted energy.

That powerful and violent aura actually emanated from the Demon Blade Thirst!
Suddenly, Iki's bulging eyes moved, and she looked at the still intact house not far away, her eyes filled with deep longing.

"Home... Nisha Creek..."

As the voice gradually weakened, Iki's corpse suddenly split open from the middle, and a blinding bloody light shot into the sky!

'The King's Demon Blade reigns supreme! From this day forward, no one can restrain this demon blade!'

An extremely arrogant thought was transmitted to the minds of everyone present. Fengshan and the others, who had regained their senses after Iki's death, all looked over, still not understanding what was going on.

"What... what just happened to me?!"

Yan Guang quickly lowered her left arm. Unconsciously, she opened all the magazines and aimed at Lin Fengjiao, almost giving her teammates two rounds of fire.

While puzzled, Yan Guang glanced strangely at the walking Miriel. Just now, when she woke up, it seemed that the pet that Li Zhengxin had just acquired was blocking the way between her and Lin Fengjiao.
"It seems like we're all being controlled by something. I've only just regained consciousness myself."

Lin Fengjiao was equally relieved. Her eye, produced by ancient technology, was also charging up. If it were to emit full load of rays, even diamond-level creatures would suffer severe damage!
Not to mention that Yan Guang's physique only reached the Gold 5+ limit due to insufficient blood materials.

One beam of light could definitely pierce her forehead!

"That knife!"

Following the chilling aura, Yan Guang looked up and saw the black and red demonic blade hanging in the sky, extremely violent, its aura no weaker than that of the number one mutant: "Isn't that blade Li Zheng's? How did it suddenly become like this?"

"Could it be that Old Li has raised a BOSS?"

Feng Shan, carrying the Vulcan cannon, quickly ran to Yan Guang's side, already holding the event tickets in his hand. If things went wrong, he would take Yan Guang and leave first.

This encounter with Mutant Number One truly taught him a lesson. Feng Shan never imagined that the Matrix possessed the ability to manipulate others' consciousness!
This kind of unpredictable tactic really terrified him.

Death is not scary; what is scary is dying without knowing why, without even having the chance or the thought to fight back.

At this moment, the terminal has already issued an announcement that Li Zheng's team has killed the first mutant. They just need to leave the event instance to receive the reward.

The Bloodthirsty Demon Blade flew through the air, overjoyed.

After absorbing the blood of dozens of mutants and three twisted magic crystals of relatively low purity, its power finally returned to the king level.

Although it is still far from its peak, there is almost nothing in the entire matrix that can survive a single blow from it!
From now on, as long as it remains within the matrix, it will never again be held by anyone else like it did before!
It's impossible!

This!
It is the dignity of a king-level demonic blade!
That's the confidence behind a king-level demonic blade!
Yes……

"Come back!"

Li Zheng's deep voice rang out.

'Alright!'

The Demon Blade Thirst subconsciously withdrew its aura and obediently flew back to Li Zheng's side, hovering cautiously.

Well, except for the master!

"If you keep acting so high-profile, I'll teach you a lesson!" Li Zheng glared at the Demon Blade and reprimanded him sternly.

"Yes, yes, Master is right to teach me a lesson, Dao Dao understands~" The Bloodthirsty Demon Blade circled around Li Zheng a few times, its blade trembling slightly.

"You... Pfft!~~"

Li Zheng was about to say a few more words of reprimand when he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, his face turning deathly pale.

"Li Zheng!"

'stop!'

Zhan Zhouzhou rushed forward but was stopped by the Bloodthirsty Demon Blade. The blade, gleaming with cold light, seemed to be entwined with tens of thousands of wronged souls, exuding an astonishing killing intent!
"you……"

Zhan Zhouzhou was filled with surprise and doubt. She had only seen Li Zheng suddenly vomit blood and wanted to go forward to check on him, but she did not expect that the knife would stop her.

'You have residual twisted energy within you; you cannot approach your master!'

After the Demon Blade Thirst was restored to the King level, its thoughts could now be transmitted into the hearts of others.

However, it is quite difficult. If the other party is on guard and determined to resist, this means of transmitting thoughts will be blocked.

In the past, after each of its 'masters' died, it would use this ability to bewitch new targets and make them its tools.

"Distorted energy? Is it that black mist from before?"

Zhan Zhouzhou raised her hand and touched the four sharp teeth protruding from her lips. Even though Yi Qi had been killed, these four teeth had not returned to their original state.

At this moment, Zhan Zhouzhou suddenly realized something was wrong. She pulled up her sleeve to check and found that large patches of purplish-red spots had appeared on her arm. When she touched them, the areas covered by the spots did not look like living flesh and blood at all, but rather like a piece of pork that had been left out for too long!
With a slight increase in pressure, Zhan Zhouzhou had an intuition that if she kept digging, the piece of flesh would detach from her arm.

"That black mist is really so strange?"

Zhan Zhouzhou removed her fingers, and the once elastic flesh now resembled a piece of clay, with deep fingerprints imprinted where her fingers had pressed.

How could I have gotten infected like this from just a brief contact?
How do those mutants manage to maintain their human form?
"The entire population of Radiation Island County has only produced forty-three mutants that can be incorporated into the terminal's activities, which shows that not every mutant can generate twisted energy."

Li Zheng's voice came through, sounding somewhat weak.

Zhan Zhouzhou looked at him with concern: "Are you alright?"

"It's nothing, I just didn't expect that guy to kick my intestines and stomach like that. I'll get some medical supplies from Lao Xiao later, and after a couple of bloody bowel movements, I'll be fine." Li Zheng turned to Demon Blade and asked, "Can you deal with the residual twisted energy on her body?"

"Theoretically, it's possible, but the method is a bit painful." The demonic blade hovered between the two, determined not to let Li Zheng take another step forward.

"Try?"

Li Zheng looked at Zhan Zhouzhou.

If a martial artist cannot tolerate even the slightest pain, then all those years of training have been in vain.

Zhan Zhouzhou nodded gently: "Come on!"

Having received an affirmative reply, Li Zhengcai gestured to the Bloodthirsty Demon Blade, signaling it to begin its performance.

The Demon Blade Thirst for Blood approached Zhan Zhouzhou's arm, blade facing downwards, slowly descending towards the purplish-red patch.

The blade was still five millimeters away from her skin when its sharp edge had already sliced ​​through her flesh, leaving a not-too-deep wound.

Dark purple blood dripped slowly from the wound, as thick as if it had been thickened with starch.

"It doesn't hurt at all, I can't feel anything." Zhan Zhouzhou felt that the piece of flesh on her arm might have become dead flesh, and unless it was dug out, she shouldn't feel any pain.

'This is just the beginning, what's the rush?' The demonic blade trembled slightly, then suddenly transformed into a streak of blood-red light, slashing continuously around Zhan Zhouzhou.

Sizzle sizzle~
In the blink of an eye, Zhan Zhouzhou had more than forty small wounds on her body. Her clothes were torn, and every wound was oozing foul-smelling, purplish-black blood, which was quite horrifying.

That's about it.

The Demon Blade, having prepared itself, hovered in front of Zhan Zhouzhou and forcefully spun its blade.

'I'll inhale!'

The flow of foul blood from the forty-odd wounds suddenly accelerated, turning into thin threads that connected to the tentacle-like patterns on the back of the demonic blade. Strands of faint, black, transparent energy were drawn out of Zhan Zhouzhou's body along these threads.

This process was much slower than the Demon Blade absorbing the energy of the Twisted Magic Crystal. It knew that Zhan Zhouzhou was its master's teammate and had a good relationship with him, so it couldn't be too reckless and did the job more carefully.

About three minutes later, all forty-odd thin lines of filthy blood returned to their bright red color, and the Bloodthirsty Demon Blade reluctantly stopped.

This woman is of average strength, but the blood in her body is unusually sweet.

If it weren't for the presence of its master, the Bloodthirsty Demon Blade would probably have already killed the person and drained their blood.

'Alright, now you just need to take good care of yourself.'

Fearing it wouldn't be able to resist the temptation, the demonic blade quickly flew back behind Li Zheng and stayed obediently. Only by its master's side could it suppress its blood-drinking urge.

Previous owners couldn't do this; only Li Zheng could.

The bloodthirst reaction of the Demon Blade has a professional term in humans: "Stockholm Syndrome".

"Tsk..."

Zhan Zhouzhou frowned. The filthy blood and the twisted energy remaining in her body had been completely removed. Although the purplish-red spots on her body had not yet faded, the pain had returned.

More than forty small wounds all over his body, each one not very painful, but extremely torturous...

Li Zheng noticed that Zhan Zhouzhou's physical attributes, which had been lowered, did not recover even after the distorted energy was removed; they remained at the top of the diamond level.

"It seems that the effects of distorted energy on the body are at their root," Li Zheng thought.

Previously, after the Demon Blade absorbed the Twisted Demon Crystal from the Divine Might, it was said that distorted energy could harm people, and it seems it wasn't lying to itself about that.

Li Zheng took out a bottle of black liquid he had obtained from Xiao Siyuan and handed it to Zhan Zhouzhou, saying, "Sprinkle some on the wound later; it will speed up the healing process."

"Need not."

A similar bottle appeared in Zhan Zhouzhou's hand, the cap even modified into a nozzle, spraying water mist onto the wound. "I have one."

Li Zheng looked at the nozzle-type bottle cap in the other person's hand, then at his own, and immediately felt resentful.

Why didn't I think of changing the bottle cap to this type?

It's so convenient to use when applying it externally!

(End of this chapter)