Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 578 "The enforcement team is here to cause trouble!"

Crack, crackle!

Li Zheng's arm muscles and bones exploded with a series of cracking sounds, and unparalleled strength was poured into the fried dough stick, which collided head-on with Zhan Zhouzhou's fried dough stick with overwhelming force.

Bang!
With a muffled thud, the two fried dough sticks burst open simultaneously, turning into snowflake-like fragments that scattered around the two people.

"Excellent swordsmanship!" Zhan Zhouzhou exclaimed.

Li Zheng then replied, "You're not bad either..."

Only after he finished speaking did he realize that Zhan Zhouzhou was praising the sword technique, and the sword technique belonged to her family... By joining in, wasn't he just echoing Zhan Zhouzhou's praise of the Zhan family's sword technique and ignoring his own efforts?

"How come you suddenly got it?" Zhan Zhouzhou brushed off the last bit of pastry in her hand, her coldness quickly fading and returning to normal. "I remember the last time I saw you use the Swallow Through the Hall, it was much clumsier than this move today."

Li Zheng, maintaining a haughty demeanor, said mysteriously, "People always have to grow up."

"Growth?" Zhan Zhouzhou picked up another fried dough stick and soaked it in the soy milk bowl in front of her, glancing at Li Zheng: "To put it bluntly, I wouldn't be surprised if anyone in the world could master the 'Swallowing Swallow' technique to your level in such a short time, but you are the only exception..."

She took a bite of the fried dough stick that had soaked up soy milk, making smacking noises as she ate, and then uttered the next half of her sentence: "Impossible!"

"Why?" Li Zheng retorted, "Can't I have a sudden enlightenment in a single day?"

"You think you can achieve enlightenment?" Zhan Zhouzhou laughed so hard she almost spat out her food, as if she had heard the funniest joke in the world. "Don't be ridiculous! To be honest, your martial arts talent is worse than a dog's. How can you expect to achieve enlightenment?"

"That's a bit much," Li Zheng said, his face darkening. "You're eating the food I provided, how can you say such awful things?"

"It's a bit of an exaggeration, but in my opinion, your martial arts talent is really..." Zhan Zhouzhou carefully chose her words this time: "utterly terrible! You could say it's the worst I've ever seen, without a doubt!"

"Am I really that bad?" Li Zheng was losing confidence after Zhan Zhouzhou's words. He knew he had poor martial arts talent, but he never thought it would be this bad.

"I'm being so blunt because I consider you a friend." Zhan Zhouzhou said seriously, "Yesterday when I was strolling around the street, I saw some memory release devices for martial arts techniques for sale. Your breakthrough must be thanks to that kind of device, right?"

Li Zheng nodded: "You could say that."

"As expected!" Zhan Zhouzhou's face showed understanding, and then she earnestly advised, "You should use that kind of thing less often, or better yet, not at all! There are no shortcuts in martial arts. What is not yours will never be yours. Even if it can bring you improvement in the short term, how will you walk the path afterward?"

"Don't rush to refute me. I'll just give you one example." Seeing that Li Zheng was about to speak, Zhan Zhouzhou raised her hand to stop him and continued, "Initially, your marksmanship must have come from the memory release device, but how long did it take you to master your marksmanship?"

"One day? Two days?"

"When I met you again, your preferred attack method had become dual-wielding swords and knives. What happened to your spear skills? Why did you give up your main offensive methods?"

"Think about it carefully, isn't it because it can no longer keep up with your fighting pace?"

At this point, Zhan Zhouzhou paused to drink a few sips of soy milk, giving Li Zheng some time to think.

She was right. Ever since Li Zheng received some instruction in swordsmanship, spear fighting had fallen out of favor as his primary offensive method.

While the lack of suitable firearms played a part, the main reason was that the gun skills he had acquired from the memory release device were no longer sufficient to keep up with the pace of later battles.

He had tried to improve his spear skills, but with little success; they were not as effective as the swordsmanship and saber techniques he began practicing later. The reason why swordsmanship could replace spearmanship was twofold: firstly, because Zhan Zhouzhou had personally instructed him, and secondly, because he had learned swordsmanship from scratch, through his own insights.

No matter how obedient other people's children are, they can't be as close as your own children.

"Snoring, snoring. Ha..." Zhan Zhouzhou finished a bowl of soy milk, and while refilling it, asked, "Did you think of something?"

"Hmm." Li Zheng nodded: "There are indeed no shortcuts on the path of martial arts, but... hey? You might as well just drink from the pot yourself, didn't you know to leave some for me?"

Just then, Miriel came over with a pot of tofu pudding, stood by the table for a moment in a daze, and then flew into a rage: "Can't you two respect other people's hard work?"

The little succubus slammed the pot down on the table, pointed at the scattered pieces of fried dough sticks around her, and angrily shouted, "What does this mean? You think my cooking isn't good or to your liking? Even if you have complaints, can't you just say so? Why do you have to waste food?"

Zhan Zhouzhou, no longer as arrogant as before, buried her face in the bowl and pointed guiltily at Li Zheng: "He did it, it has nothing to do with me!"

Slurp, slurp, gulp down the soy milk, trying to eat as much as possible while it lasts, because there might not be any left later.

Seeing that Zhan Zhouzhou had betrayed him immediately, Li Zheng, not to be outdone, pointed at the ostrich with righteous indignation: "You, Zhan Zhouzhou, you're the one who did it, yet you're trying to pin it on me..."

"Do you two think I'm an idiot?" Miriel interrupted Li Zheng's attempt to shirk responsibility, her small fists clenching so tightly they cracked. "You two made such a commotion during your sparring session, I'm not deaf, do you really think I didn't know?!"

"I'm sorry, I was wrong!" Li Zheng's arrogance vanished instantly, and he buried his face in the bowl like a quail, pretending to be an ostrich with Zhan Zhouzhou.

Zhan Zhouzhou chuckled inwardly as she listened to Li Zheng's words of admitting defeat.

This guy can't even take care of his own pet, really...

Eh?
Why do I feel like someone is watching me?
Zhan Zhouzhou looked up from the bowl and saw Miriel staring intently at her with a dark expression, asking, "Don't you have anything to say?"

Zhan Zhouzhou's heart skipped a beat. Considering that she would continue to come over for meals in the future, she immediately backed down: "I was wrong too, but not as wrong as him!"

Li Zheng looked up angrily and pointed at Zhan Zhouzhou: "Damn it, you're a real dog! You were the one who started it!"

"You two, not to mention your second brother, are both at fault!" Miriel said angrily. "I'll let it slide since it's your first offense. But if you mess around with my cooking again, you'll have to cook for yourselves!"

These two people are really too much!

People were diligently making breakfast over there, and these kids were playing around with the food like children, using it as weapons. What kind of behavior is that?

They have absolutely no respect for the hard work and effort others have put in!
"Have a meal!"

Miriel didn't bother to argue, plopped down on the stool, picked up her bowl and chopsticks, and began to eat.

Li Zheng and Zhan Zhouzhou exchanged a glance, made a face at each other, and then silently began to eat.

Two minutes later, Li Zheng suddenly paused and turned to look to his right, where two figures were heading straight for him.

He was immediately alarmed, patted Zhan Zhouzhou on the shoulder and said urgently, "Quick, clean up the area, the law enforcement team is here to cause trouble!"

(End of this chapter)