Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 556 The Origin of Sakura's One-Fiftieth
"Entering a long slumber is the final hurdle for my Blood-Patterned Black Dragon clan before reaching adulthood," the receptionist explained to Li Zheng with a somewhat reluctant tone. "Generally speaking, before entering a slumber, our clan returns to our ancestral land to find a safe place to rest, to avoid any accidents during the slumber. However, I see this person beside you..."

She scrutinized Sakura several times, then said, somewhat speechless, "This is the first time I've encountered a member of my clan who can still open their mouth and eat while in a deep sleep..."

Li Zheng was taken aback. He looked down at Sakura and noticed that some soy milk had been left on her lips during breakfast. The Red Porings hadn't wiped it clean for her, and it had dried completely, leaving behind a few grayish-white mottled powders.

"You mean the Blood-Striped Black Dragon clan doesn't eat when they're in slumber?"

"...To be precise, our clan takes in enough nutrients before entering slumber to sustain us until the slumber ends," the receptionist replied. "For safety reasons, our clan is most averse to being disturbed during slumber, so...uh..."

"So what?" Li Zheng pressed.

"So the one next to you has been unable to settle down and enter a deep sleep, which is why the progress is so slow." The receptionist replied, "Normally, our clan only needs about thirty days to get through the slumber period. If the one next to you continues like this, it may not be able to finish the slumber for three hundred days."

Three hundred days?
so long?
Li Zheng frowned: "But I heard from others that there is a way to end this so-called dormant state early in the Blood-Patterned Black Dragon Ancestral Land?"

Upon hearing this, the receptionist suddenly asked a seemingly unrelated question: "Do you know Xiao?"

Li Zheng was slightly taken aback: "How did you know?"

"Of course I know." The receptionist shook her head: "Because what you just said was something I used to fool that silly kid. No one but him would say something like that."

"Um..." Li Zheng pondered for a moment and asked, "So, if he has any means to find the ancestral land of the Blood-Patterned Black Dragon Clan, it must be from you, right?"

“That’s right.” The receptionist did not deny it: “That guy did me a favor before, and I promised to help him with a few things within my capabilities.”

"No wonder!"

Li Zheng nodded. No wonder he had stuck to his price when Xiao offered him a pass to the Blood-Patterned Black Dragon Ancestral Land.

It turns out that for him, this kind of 'product' was also limited in quantity.

Xiao probably didn't expect that after Li Zheng refused to make a deal with him, he would encounter this receptionist from the Blood-Patterned Black Dragon Clan in the vast sea of ​​people on the second day after entering the outer city.

The most outrageous thing is that one of the five teleportation scrolls that Li Zheng initially possessed led directly to this place.

However, by sheer coincidence, Zhan Zhouzhou took it and used it.

If only the two of them had switched places back then...

Li Zheng was able to see her yesterday.

Therefore, life is unpredictable, and anything can happen.

If Xiao knew about this, he would probably be furious.

"Well..." Li Zheng rarely showed an embarrassed expression, and touched his bald head: "I have a favor to ask..."

"Do you want me to take her back to our ancestral home so she can spend her dormant period in peace?" The receptionist saw right through Li Zheng's thoughts.

“That’s right.” Li Zheng nodded and said, “Being by my side inevitably means she’s constantly on the go and can’t find peace, which greatly affects her slumber, so…”

"Actually, you just need to find a place to settle down and give her an absolutely quiet and undisturbed environment, and she will naturally wake up after thirty days," the receptionist said calmly. "There's no need to make a special trip to the ancestral land."

"Find a place to settle down?" Li Zheng smiled wryly: "I'd like to, but I have important things to do right now, so I can't settle down in one place."

As long as the hidden dangers to his mental strength remain unresolved, Li Zheng cannot have peace of mind. He feels insecure every moment, fearing that his mental strength might burst at any time.

“Taking her to our ancestral home is not out of the question,” the receptionist said after a moment’s thought. “But I have one condition.”

“Go ahead,” Li Zheng said immediately. “As long as it can help Xiaoying get through her dormant period smoothly, I can consider any conditions.”

"is it?"

The receptionist spoke slowly: "I want you to give her her freedom, are you willing to do that?"

"Give her her freedom? You mean to remove Xiaoying from my care?" Li Zheng cautiously hesitated to agree immediately, instead asking, "And after she's released? Will you help her secure a free agent status in the outer city?"

If the other party meant to transfer Xiaoying's status from his pet to her name, then Li Zheng would never agree to that.

“Of course,” the receptionist said. “It’s not a difficult thing for me. She will have her own independent inscription card and become a true resident of the outer city.”

As a public official, it is indeed not difficult to use back channels to obtain a resident status for someone outside the city.

It can be said that the reason why the Blood-Patterned Black Dragon Clan allowed her to enter the outer city was so that future members of the Blood-Patterned Black Dragon Clan could have a legal identity in the outer city.

To secure her current position, the Blood-Patterned Black Dragon Clan consumed a considerable amount of rare resources, some of which were hard to find even in the outer city.

Li Zheng thought for nearly three minutes before finally making up his mind to trust the receptionist in front of him, who was from the same clan as Sakura.

However, he also took the opportunity to ask for more help: "Since you can help me get legal citizenship in the outer city, could you please get a few more? I have a few friends who need it..."

As he spoke, he pushed Miriel forward and also released Kuro and Is.

Receptionist: "...You seem to have some misunderstanding. Even if I wanted to obtain legal citizenship in an outer city, it would cost me a considerable amount. If this little black dragon beside you weren't of my kind, I would never have made that kind of promise."

The implication is that either Li Zheng should bear the cost of using connections himself, or he should take back his shameless request.

With a glimmer of hope, Li Zheng asked, "How much does it cost to acquire an outer city identity?" "Ten thousand," the receptionist replied, "in red crystal coins."

Ten thousand red crystals!

Converted to white crystal coins, that's...

Li Zheng silently calculated in his mind, then raised his hand and put the bewildered Kuro and Is back into the capsule: "Sorry to bother you."

Ultimately, Sakura, who had been by Li Zheng's side since the first day she entered the Matrix, was separated from her status as a pet and handed over to her fellow members of the same race.

“Thirty days later, after her dormant period ends, I will personally bring her back.” The receptionist led Sakura, who was tightly wrapped up by the Red Porings, and said to Li Zheng, “After that, you can come back to find her at any time. Whether she is willing to continue to stay by your side then will be up to her own choice.”

"Ah."

Li Zheng glanced at Xiaoying a few more times.

Li Zheng hadn't noticed Xiao Ying's presence around him before, but now that the little one was suddenly leaving, he naturally felt a deep sense of reluctance.

"After you two follow Sakura to the ancestral land, protect her while not disturbing her like before, understand..."

Li Zheng, still worried, repeatedly gave instructions to the two red Porings, fearing that the two silly creatures would ruin Sakura's slumber.

“Polly…”

Whether the two red Porings understood or not, they stretched their heads and popped out from the left and right sides of Sakura's cheeks, barking excitedly.

“You don’t need to worry too much,” the receptionist said. “Our ancestral land is protected by strict rules that prohibit disturbing any slumbering clansmen. Generally speaking, she will not encounter any danger.”

Although there have been instances of mischievous newborn black dragons unknowingly wandering into the slumbering grounds of other black dragons and disturbing them, there has never been a truly life-threatening danger.

“You don’t understand…” Li Zheng’s eyes were complicated. Was he worried about the other black dragons?

What he's worried about are those two silly Red Pollys!

Who knows if, after they go to the Blood-Patterned Black Dragon Ancestral Land, they'll still be clinging to Sakura and dragging her around everywhere, just like they are now?

Unfortunately, these two idiots wouldn't listen to his orders and ignored his instructions to get them off Sakura.

Considering the bond between Xiaoying and the two dogs, Li Zheng couldn't be too forceful. He could only let them walk with Xiaoying and pray in his heart that they wouldn't cause trouble.

After listening to Li Zheng's explanation, the receptionist said, "Don't worry, I'll have someone keep an eye on things; nothing will go wrong."

"Well... thank you so much." Li Zheng was extremely grateful.

"Don't thank me yet, I'm helping you for a reason." The receptionist waved her hand, revealing a snow-white arm from under her hood, but her fingernails were extremely long and thin, about five or six centimeters long, like dragon claws.

Li Zheng was taken aback: "After your Black Dragon clan passes through its dormant period, will it undergo another transformation?"

He then realized that the receptionist was much slimmer than Sakura, and there was no indication that a dragon was hiding under her hood.

“There will indeed be a transformation.” The receptionist seemed to know what Li Zheng wanted to ask and said directly, “However, what kind of abilities you will gain after the transformation is not fixed. The reason I became like this…”

As she spoke, the receptionist flicked her hood back, revealing her true face.

Hidden beneath the hood was an unparalleled beauty, remarkably similar to an Earthling, except for a pair of pale golden vertical pupils and two small dragon horns peeking out from her smooth hair, which proved her identity.

"The reason I became like this after falling into a deep sleep is because I was influenced by a friend during my childhood. He said that this appearance best matched his aesthetic."

Li Zheng stared blankly at the stunning beauty before him, a sudden thought striking him. He asked, "Have you... given your genes to someone else?"

"That's true." The receptionist pulled her hood back up to hide her face. "But that happened many years ago."

This is just ridiculous!

Li Zheng inwardly cursed, never expecting that the blood-patterned black dragon he had casually encountered was actually the source of the black dragon gene in Xiao Ying's body.

That is to say...

Sakura is actually one-fiftieth a clone of the blood-patterned black dragon in front of her.
and many more!

Li Zheng suddenly thought of something and looked at Miriel with a surprised expression.

Sakura also has one-fiftieth of the Succubus Queen's genes in her body, so could it be from Miriel's mother?

This makes Miriel's background quite intriguing!

Could the Succubus Queen's goal in sending Miriel to the outer city be a large-scale reality show like "Where Are We Going, Dad?"?

The sheer volume of information received in a short period of time caught Li Zheng completely off guard, leaving him breathless.

This is just too ridiculous!

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Miriel asked Li Zheng, bewildered.

(End of this chapter)