Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 601 Two Plans and Mutual Trust

"I'm alive?"

Li Minshun struggled to open her eyes and found that she was still conscious. She quickly sat up to check if any parts of her body were missing.

"How rare." Wang Xiaoshan curled his lip: "If you were dead, I wouldn't bother saving you."

You can tell who it is just by listening to their tone of voice.

"Did you save me?" Li Minshun stared at Wang Xiaoshan in astonishment. He only remembered that someone pulled him up before he lost consciousness. As for who pulled him up, everyone looked the same and he couldn't tell.

“Although I didn’t really want to do it either.” Wang Xiaoshan shrugged. “The problem is that my hands were acting up, they were faster than my brain and saved you.”

"..."

Li Minshun fell silent after hearing this, and after a long while, she exhaled and said in an unnatural tone, "I... thank you, I owe you my life."

“It’s not that serious.” Wang Xiaoshan shook his head: “Boss Ruizhou said that if you can get out of the dungeon alive, you just need to give me enough reward. ...If I encounter any life-or-death crisis later, and you save my life in return, then our favors will be canceled out.”

“No problem!” Li Minshun stood up from the ground, feeling all the muscles in his body, from his scalp to his toes, protesting strongly. They desperately needed rest to alleviate the damage caused by the previous high-intensity exertion.

However, this kind of pain is just like overexertion. As long as you warm up your muscles, it's easy to adapt to the pain. At most, you'll feel some discomfort while moving around.

"Are you in a good condition to continue?" Li Zheng asked. "If so, let's move on to the next challenge. We've already wasted a lot of time here, so we need to catch up."

“No problem.” Li Minshun nodded immediately. He didn’t want to be a burden, and he could grit his teeth and persevere.

"Okay, then follow me."

Li Zheng led the two of them to the gate they had discovered earlier. Everyone except Li Minshun and Wang Xiaoshan was waiting there.

"woke up?"

When Tchaikov saw them coming, he placed his hands on the door and said, "Then I'll open the door."

"Okay." Li Zheng nodded, then gestured to the others: "Everyone except Tchaikov, activate your third ability and become invisible!"

shuh~
Almost instantly, only Chaikov and Li Zheng remained at the door. Even Li Minshun subconsciously obeyed Li Zheng's order and activated his invisibility ability.

He had just woken up and wasn't even sure what was going on. He was momentarily stunned, wondering, 'Why did I feel so natural when I was carrying out orders?'

Boom!
With a powerful pull of his arms, Tchaikov slowly opened the door, the gap gradually widening as the hinges rattled and creaked.

Uzi~
The moment the door opened, through the crack, everyone could see part of the scene behind the door.

It was a brightly lit hall, with a mechanical body with exaggerated arms standing upright in the center.

The action of opening the door seems to be some kind of command that triggers the mechanical body.

Suddenly, its large electronic eye on its head lit up with a red light, then it started to operate mechanically and looked up at the doorway.

Once the gate was wide enough for one person to pass through, Li Zheng immediately shouted, "Get out of the way, then disappear!"

Tchaikov dodged in response and then disappeared from sight.

Li Zheng himself darted through the crack in the door into the hall and headed straight for the mechanical body.

"What...what is he doing?" Li Minshun exclaimed in surprise, "We have no offensive capabilities, isn't he just throwing his life away by doing this?"

"Shut up!" Tchaikov's voice rang out. "Don't waste time. Proceed with the previously arranged plan!"

"Once we're all inside the hall, we'll each break out of stealth and try to lure that mechanical being. If our plan succeeds, this challenge might be the easiest one yet!"

"Li Minshun, you are the last one, after Wang Xiaoshan. The order must not be messed up!"

"Understand?"

Tchaikov quickly explained the plan.

Li Minshun immediately understood how to proceed with their plan, but he still had some doubts. Taking advantage of the moment when others entered, he asked, "I understand, but what if the plan fails?"

"If the plan fails," Wang Xiaoshan's voice came from in front of him, "then it's up to each of us to rely on our own abilities, and life and death are in the hands of fate!"

After all, this was the best plan they could come up with before seeing the mechanical body in person.

With no time for further conversation, the group filed into the hall, remaining invisible. No one knew if there were any slackers in the group who might have taken advantage of their invisibility to slip away and hide.

At this moment, they had no choice but to trust their teammates.

Li Zheng rushed to the mechanical body and, just as it was fully activated and was about to throw a punch, he stomped his foot to stop his momentum and then ran to his right.

The hall is circular in shape and is very spacious, about the size of ten football fields put together.

Li Zheng ran to the very edge and looked back. Sure enough, the mechanical body had been lured over by him, and its speed was not much slower than his.

boom!
Li Zheng ducked down, and the giant steel fist slammed down on his head, smashing into the wall, sending stones flying everywhere.

"Tchaikov!" Li Zheng shouted, then activated his stealth ability.

"Roger that!" Tchaikov appeared on the opposite side of the hall, raised his arms and shouted, "Iron Lump, Grandpa's here!"

The mechanical body instantly changed targets, ignoring Li Zheng who was only inches away in front of it, and leaped high into the air to attack.

"Success!" Li Zheng breathed a sigh of relief; Tchaikov had not let him down.

Before opening the door, Lao Pu told Li Zheng all the information he could.

He also guided everyone to create this plan through speculation.

The only variable is whether the other people are trustworthy.

As the second relay runner, will Tchaikov disregard his life and death and refuse to break the invisibility when it's time to pass the baton?
This is a real gamble!

It wasn't just the entire team gambling on whether the plan was feasible; Li Zheng was also gambling on whether others would abandon him.

If Li Zheng loses the gamble, he will have no choice but to activate the secondary plan, directly risking an outburst of mental power to delay the mechanical body for a while.

Yes.

The terminal only restricts their physical strength; it offers almost no limitation on their mental abilities.

After all, before Li Zheng appeared, no one in the entire outer city could break through to the initial level of mental power, so even if the terminal wanted to suppress Li Zheng's mental power, it had no way to do so.

After these days of exploration and various attempts, Li Zheng has roughly determined that the strength of his mental power is at the peak of the King level.

As long as you control it properly, you won't break the balance between your mental energy and your body.

With the raw power of a top-tier player, they can absolutely dominate this Challenger dungeon!
Next, it depends on the cooperation of the others.

Li Zheng remained invisible and slowly walked towards the door opposite the hall, while looking around to see if anyone was stealing chickens.

The reason he didn't reveal his true strength was not only to avoid arousing the terminal's suspicion, but also because he wanted to take this opportunity to see if there was anyone in the team suitable for completing other optional tasks.

Fortunately, these teammates were not stupid. When they found that their previous speculations were true, they put aside their personal interests and tried their best to cooperate.

After Tchaikov was caught up by the machine, Carol, who was furthest away from him, also appeared to attract 'hatred', giving Tchaikov ample time to hide.

"You can't run or make any sudden movements while invisible, otherwise the invisibility will instantly expire." Li Zheng moved slowly, step by step, not much faster than his usual stroll.

"According to the design of this challenge, a team needs at least four people to deal with the mechanical beings simultaneously in order to handle them with ease." Li Zheng thought to himself as he walked, while also observing the situation on the field.

"If they work well together, the two of them can also overcome the challenge."

"If an executor assigned to another team is eager to complete other mission conditions and eliminates all players in the first two rounds of mini-challenges, the final result will either be a significant reduction in the rewards for mission four, or the executor will be killed by the machine in this challenge!"

"Not only that, the first two rounds of mini-challenges offer countless opportunities to eliminate players, especially while being chased by the metal ball. The outer city mission executor can kill all teammates with ease."

"So this special room is much more exciting than the ones we've been to before..."

It tests human nature, cultivates players' insight and mutual trust, and includes teamwork elements.

"From cultivating individual abilities to developing awareness of legion warfare, have we started training in small-scale team battle coordination?" Thinking of this, Li Zheng suddenly realized that this challenger mission might also cultivate awareness in some other directions.

"Once the challenge ends, the surviving players will definitely pass on the information that there was a traitor infiltrated during the mission. In the future, when we undertake this kind of mission, everyone will be more vigilant."

"And this vigilance... seems to be applicable to the Seven Sins Domain?"

(End of this chapter)