Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 581 Zhan Zhouzhou Returns Severely Injured

"I go!"

Upon seeing who it was, Li Zheng exclaimed in surprise, jumped up from the stool, and rushed to the teleportation portal in three quick steps: "How did you get injured like this?"

Zhan Zhouzhou was covered in blood, with several wounds still bleeding. Excessive blood loss had made her pale and weak: "You...you jinx...you said something about yesterday before you left, but today more than twenty idiots came to ambush me and I almost died outside and couldn't come back."

"Stop babbling, you need to get your injury treated quickly!" Li Zheng rummaged through the capsule, finally managing to find a few low-grade medical supplies: "Damn it! I've been relying on Lao Xiao to treat my injuries, I haven't even collected any medical items above platinum level!"

Li Zheng was at a loss; Zhan Zhouzhou's injuries couldn't be healed quickly with medical tools below platinum level.

So he picked up a bottle of black water and sprayed it on Zhan Zhouzhou, then handed her a bottle as well, telling her to drink it: "Stop the bleeding first, drink the black water to prevent internal injuries from worsening!"

"It's no use." Zhan Zhouzhou held the black water but didn't drink it: "I've tried, it doesn't stop."

Sure enough, after Li Zheng sprayed two bottles of black water, Zhan Zhouzhou's wounds showed no signs of stopping bleeding; on the contrary, the bleeding seemed to accelerate with her movements.

"Damn it!" Li Zheng exclaimed anxiously, "You can't die! I'm waiting for you to escort me to the blacksmith!"

Zhan Zhouzhou is Li Zheng's only protection after he lost his ability to fight. If something happens to him, he will have no sense of security at all.

"Oh, right!" Li Zheng remembered something, gritted his teeth, and threw the empty bottles in his hand towards the most crowded areas on the road: "Wait here, reinforcements will be here soon!"

"Reinforcements?" Zhan Zhouzhou said weakly, "Where are the reinforcements? Can you bring Xiao Siyuan here?"

"Xiao my ass! Old Xiao is probably doing something else right now, how could he come?" Li Zheng helped Zhan Zhouzhou back to the table and sat her down. His eyes kept looking around at the crowd of people who had been alerted. Sure enough, he saw someone staring at them and activating the inscription card, obviously 'calling the police'.

Seeing this, Li Zheng felt a little more at ease. Now he was just afraid that Shen Rui and Xiong Li would cry wolf, otherwise Zhan Zhouzhou's life would definitely be saved!
"I feel a little cold..." Zhan Zhouzhou said weakly, slumped over the table.

"Of course you're cold. You've lost too much blood, how could you not be cold?" Li Zheng had spent a lot of time with Xiao Siyuan and had eventually learned some basic medical knowledge.

"Of course I know it's from blood loss..." Zhan Zhouzhou said weakly but forcefully, "So how long will it take for the reinforcements you called to arrive? I feel like I might not make it..."

Snapped!
Seeing her dazed state, Li Zheng suddenly raised his hand and slapped her across the face, enraging Zhan Zhouzhou: "Damn it! I'm in this state, and you still want to take revenge? Don't you have any humanity?"

Li Zheng nodded in satisfaction: "He still has the energy to curse, he should be able to hold out for a long time."

Zhan Zhouzhou instantly deflated: "This is the first time I've been injured so badly. Once I recover, I'll find out who sent those idiots, and I'll stab them three times and six times!"

"We'll talk about revenge later." Li Zheng saw two figures of very different builds emerge from the crowd: "Reinforcements have arrived."

Shen Rui straightened his clothes, which had been wrinkled by the crowd, and came up to the two of them: "Oh, what happened to you? You're injured like this?"

Li Zheng immediately took out 100 ml of intermediate nutrient solution and quietly handed it over: "Brother Chen, do me a favor and take her to the best doctor here."

"What are you doing?"

Shen Rui raised his voice and shouted, "We are the law enforcement team! We are public officials! Do you know what a public official is? They are public servants! When public servants do things for the people, would they ask for any benefits from you?"

As he spoke, he didn't stop, pushing aside the nutrient solution Li Zheng handed him, and turned to Xiong Li: "Big dummy, take him with you, let's go to Old Niu's place!"

Xiong Li bent down and scooped Zhan Zhouzhou up, placing her on his broad shoulder. He said in a muffled voice, "Old Niu's place is expensive. Why don't we go to Old Snake's?"

Shen Rui turned around and slapped Xiong Li in the crotch: "We're saving lives, not selling organs! Although Old Snake's medical skills are better, he doesn't charge money, he only wants the injured person's organs!"

"Really?" Xiong Li scratched his head in confusion. "Then why didn't he mention this when I went for treatment?"

"That's right!"

Shen Rui said irritably, "Don't you look at your current IQ? Old Snake would have taken your brain!"

dong dong~
Xiong Li looked at his head, and a very solid voice came from inside, saying with great certainty, "Impossible! It's not empty inside!"

"That was a metaphor! A metaphor!! Do you even understand a metaphor? With your fighting prowess and your simple-minded temperament, would Old Snake dare to mention organs to you...?"

As the two walked further and further away, Li Zheng listened to their conversation, feeling relieved but also speechless.

What kind of monsters and demons live in the outer city?

How come even doctors have so many different ways of doing things?
So, all the people I've encountered before were the most normal ones from the outer city?
Compared to them, the Pandaren who had a conflict yesterday over language issues seem far too kind. I'm really worried about whether they'll be able to survive in the outer city...

Oh, so those are remnants of old players?

That's okay...

However, Zhan Zhouzhou's injury this time is a bit strange. How could more than 20 people come to surround her the day after she killed one person yesterday?

Li Zheng stroked his chin and sat back down at the table, lost in thought.

Does that organization have something that allows for precise location tracking?

Or was Zhan Zhouzhou just unlucky, running into another group of petty thieves on a casual outing?

Both are possible, and both are also unlikely...

but……

“There’s a third possibility: what if the people Zhan Zhouzhou met today weren’t the same group as those from yesterday?” Li Zheng thought about it and felt that this was the most plausible explanation.

Based on the information already gathered, it can be known that although Li Zheng's 'predecessors' are numerous, they are all 'consumables' and may even be divided into several factions.

But regardless of which side they're on, they all have one thing in common: every one that dies is one less to lose.

Therefore, Zhan Zhouzhou swiftly eliminated one of them yesterday. It's impossible for the other side to blindly send troops to attack before fully understanding the enemy's strength; that would be tantamount to suicide.

At least, Li Zheng felt that if he, with his IQ which Zhan Zhouzhou had repeatedly criticized, could think of something, his seniors couldn't possibly not have thought of it.

After pondering for a while, an idea popped into Li Zheng's mind: "Could it be that Zhan Zhouzhou encountered one of those red-named players from the outer city today...?"

If we're talking about what he fears most in the outer city, besides those predecessors, it's the red names left behind by previous players.

They are all individually of above-average strength and ruthless in their actions, so it's not impossible that they would temporarily gather together for mutual benefit.

"If that's the case, then today's incident was a misunderstanding."

(End of this chapter)