Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 558 The Corpse Is Breathing

"No, you're not Li Zheng!"

Zhan Zhouzhou frowned and asked in a cold voice, "Who exactly are you?"

The person on the ground...

Do not!
Or rather, that life form looked remarkably similar to Li Zheng, except that the skin on its head exposed from the flipped-up hood was bluish-purple, and its snake-like vertical pupils showed no emotion.

"Language...Identify...Loading..."

The mechanical voice emanating from the hooded man was strangely eerie to the ear.

Zhan Zhouzhou was 100% certain that it was a living, breathing being, but the other party's reaction was like that of a rigid machine.

"Mission...obstacles...clear..."

“Strength…measurement…threat…”

"Plan...Level 1...Activated..."

"Energy...consumption...80%..."

"Effect...mental...annihilation..."

As each word came out of the other person's mouth, Zhan Zhouzhou's ominous premonition grew stronger.

She wanted to get closer and see who it was through the Eye of Preer, but suddenly her heart tightened and her vision went black.

She has gone blind!

"Oops!"

Not only my eyesight, but even my hearing was being rapidly eroded from my senses. The sound of the wind became distant and ethereal, as if it might disappear at any moment.

The other party's methods were even more bizarre than those he had encountered during the Matrix era, and they could even directly affect his five senses.

He mobilized his mental energy, instinctively wanting to unleash his sword energy in the direction he remembered, but discovered something even more terrifying.

"My spiritual energy is actually dissipating?!"

Zhan Zhouzhou was now completely panicked.

The spiritual power she had cultivated through diligent sword practice every day was inexplicably dissipated by a guy who suddenly appeared.
It feels like you've spent twenty years kneading dough, only to have someone casually throw it into water and wash it away, leaving not even the gluten behind!
Forget about 'gluten', even the diluted 'wheat water' is disappearing into thin air!
"How could my mental power be controlled by someone else?!" Zhan Zhouzhou was both angry and unwilling. She couldn't accept the feeling that her life and death were out of her control.

"I can't just sit here and wait to die, I have to find a way to fight back!"

Zhan Zhouzhou quickly thought it over and decided not to stop. She took off the necklace around her neck, freeing herself from the constraints she had placed on herself, and went into full swing.

"No matter how you did it, once I kill you, the state will naturally end, right?"

With a cold expression, Zhan Zhouzhou, unable to see, simply closed her eyes.

Unable to see the target, he tried to locate it using his mental power, but found that his mental power was dissipating and difficult to control. He immediately gave up and turned to other senses instead.

Zhan Zhouzhou tried her best to calm herself down. Years of sword practice had given her a calm and composed demeanor, and her ability to utilize her senses was far superior to that of ordinary people.

As hearing gradually disappeared, he stopped caring about what he could hear.

At this moment, Zhan Zhouzhou focused all his attention on the Purple Extreme Sword in his hand, which was flashing with intense purple lightning.

The sense of smell has been taken away.

Zhan Zhouzhou remained unmoved.

Touch is also deprived.

Zhan Zhouzhou remained motionless.

Her spiritual power flickered like a candle in the wind, threatening to go out at any moment, yet she remained motionless.

She was left to float in mid-air, dragged by the thrusters, her face bluish-purple, like a corpse that had just died.

“Threat…reassessed…”

"Warning...warning...warning..."

"High energy ahead... Warning..." "Source... Direction... Unknown..."

"Plan...retreat...confirmed..."

The hooded man merely glanced at Zhan Zhouzhou, and his entire demeanor instantly aged decades, becoming utterly listless and drained of energy.

At this point, any ordinary player could probably kill him.

However, Zhan Zhouzhou, who was the most threatening person present, had fallen into a 'shutdown' state, but kept issuing repeated danger warnings.

"Warning...warning...warning..."

The old, hunched body turned to run away, but as soon as it lifted its foot, a ray of light pierced its chest from behind, and its indifferent eyes instantly lost all their luster.

"police……"

The warning abruptly stopped.

Pfft!
The body fell to the ground, dying swiftly and decisively, without any hesitation.

huh~
The light shifted and hovered in front of the corpse, revealing that it was actually the Purple Extreme Sword Body that Zhan Zhouzhou had been holding all along!

After hovering above the corpse for a moment, a blood-red glow suddenly emerged from the corpse, enveloping the sword. The sword seemed to be nourished by a powerful tonic, shining brightly!
A moment later, the crimson glow was completely absorbed, and the sword returned to Zhan Zhouzhou's palm, falling into silence.

After a long silence of half an hour, a glimmer of life suddenly appeared on Zhan Zhouzhou's ashen face, as she stubbornly and slowly absorbed something from the surrounding air.

……

"Sigh~"

"Huh!~"

Exhaling a breath of stale air, Zhan Zhouzhou opened her eyes and carefully checked that she was not injured before she had time to feel any fear.

"wilderness……"

"No wonder the residents of the outer city dare not venture out so easily; it turns out it's this dangerous..."

Her beautiful eyes concealed a deep sense of lingering fear. Before coming to the wilderness, she had been looking down on the residents of the outer city, who dared not even take on the slightest potential danger.

It wasn't until it happened to me that I realized some dangers are silent and extremely strange. I was almost killed by some unknown guy who appeared out of nowhere using some strange method!
However, every cloud has a silver lining, and he also benefited from the misfortune, creating yet another new unique ability.

Zhan Zhouzhou silently sensed that after entering the outer city, she lost the support of the data panel, but as an ability she created herself, she knew its function better than anyone else.

The reason she was able to kill the hooded man in the end was mainly due to her accumulated knowledge and understanding of the sword. In the last moment before her spiritual power was about to dissipate, she comprehended a move called "Entrusting Emotions to the Sword".

If this were in the past, when data was still quantifiable, this capability would likely have the following attribute description:
[Entrusting emotions to the sword]

[This allows for remote control of a weapon by imbuing it with one's spiritual energy, becoming one with the weapon. If the weapon is destroyed, the spiritual energy is damaged based on the degree of shock.]

Because this is an ability that Zhan Zhouzhou figured out on his own, there is no precise rank or level classification. The specific effects and strength are improved according to the corresponding requirements.

even……

This doesn't belong to 'genetic ability', but is a higher level, a 'mental ability' that even Li Zheng has not formally mastered!
"If I hadn't preserved the last bit of my spiritual light, I might have become an idiot or a vegetable due to the complete dissipation of my spiritual power?" Zhan Zhouzhou thought for a moment, then came to the corpse and lifted the hood that had covered his face when he fell, revealing a face that was at least 70% similar to Li Zheng's.

"Why does this guy look so much like Li Zheng?" Zhan Zhouzhou used the Eye of Preer to try to identify the identity of the corpse in front of him, but saw a string of garbled and invalid information.

"what?"

Upon seeing this, Zhan Zhouzhou exclaimed in surprise, as she had encountered this situation before!
At that time, she was still in the Matrix. During her daily exploration, she entered a tomb-shaped room. Apart from a long-dehydrated corpse, she couldn't find anything else in the room.

With the intention that a thief should not leave empty-handed, Zhan Zhouzhou dug the corpse out of the coffin where it was laid to rest.

The moment the body was seen, the Eye of Prey gave the information that was exactly what was in front of him: a string of meaningless gibberish!
Zhan Zhouzhou lowered her eyelids slightly, hesitated for a moment, and then took something out of the capsule.

It was a corpse wrapped in layers of linen bandages, its eye sockets sunken and shriveled, clearly indicating that it had been dead for some time.

However, upon contact with the outside air, the corpse's chest heaved almost imperceptibly.

it.

Breathing!
(End of this chapter)