Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 652 Attacked
Give those who commit bloodshed a chance to repent?

Feng Yue felt that this guide's ideas were a bit too naive.

The brutality of the bloodthirsty people is ingrained in their very bones; it is impossible to change, and they will stop at nothing to achieve it.

Any out-of-town resident who dared to venture into the wilderness and the realm of sin was prepared to be ambushed and killed by the Bloodthirsty Ones.

Every bloodthirsty person is an extremely cruel and dangerous individual. Sometimes they don't even spare their own parents, and they kill without blinking an eye.

Should we give people like this a chance to reform?

Feng Yue found it hard to believe.

"Do you think that the Bloodthirsty Ones only kill each other and contribute nothing to the development of the myriad races?" Li Zheng noticed the strange emotions of this alien named Feng Yue, smiled faintly, and said, "If you think that way, you are very wrong."

“I don’t deny that most of the Bloodthirsty Ones are inhuman bastards… Oh, bastard is a swear word, a really filthy one.”

"But you may not know that the outer city's development, which allows it to acquire Twisted Magic Crystals to further strengthen its mental power even when its mental power cannot break through its limits, was actually established by the Bloodthirsty Ones."

"What?!" Feng Yue exclaimed in surprise, "The Sin Domain was established by the Wilderness People? Are they really that kind?"

The existence of the Sin Domain has benefited countless generations of people in the outer city. The fact that its founder was a ruthless and bloodthirsty wretch in the eyes of the outer city people was too shocking for Feng Yue, since he had never heard anyone mention it before.

Li Zheng thought about it and felt it made sense. The outer city had been developing for countless years, but the Sin Domain was built by those wilderness people who had been abandoned like trash, and they still had to rely on the Sin Domain to continue to improve their strength.

On the one hand, you look down on others and on the other hand, you still enjoy their benefits. No one would have the face to talk about this.

Over time, it's not surprising that the descendants of players from the outer city didn't know about this.

As they walked and talked, Li Zheng asked about the other sin domains. Like the fourth sin domain, each sin domain had a golden light zone formed by the Heavenly Dragon Clan at roughly the same depth, with almost no difference in size.

"In other words, the emotional storm invades the matrix simultaneously through the seven major sin domains, and the sin domains are the battlefields?" Li Zheng thought to himself.

At this moment, Feng Yue suddenly stopped and looked ahead warily.

Li Zheng looked up and saw several hooded figures blocking his way. Beside them lay several other people, their fates unknown.

This time, Preys' Eye did not slack off; it quickly compiled everyone's identity and displayed it before Li Zheng.

After quickly reading it, Li Zheng's eyes turned cold, devoid of any emotion: "I knew you wouldn't give up so easily. So you were waiting for me halfway there."

Those hooded figures were the same guys who had been scared away by the Biao Clan earlier, and lying next to them were indeed several corpses. These were the very same corpses of the people who had recently responded to Li Zheng's call, successfully escaped the golden light zone, and fought alongside the Tianlong Clan in the twisted beast tide.

The group did not travel together when they left. At this time, apart from Li Zheng and Feng Yue, everyone else who was preparing to return to the outer city was already here.

Without any visible movement, the hooded figure floated into the air and landed five meters in front of Li Zheng and his companion.

The person who advised Li Zheng not to leave the golden zone spoke first: "I stopped you and told you not to meddle in other people's business, why didn't you listen?"

"Are you serious about asking me?" Li Zheng asked coldly.

"You don't have to answer, because the dead don't need to leave answers." The other party waved his hand casually, and the people around him stepped forward. Without saying a word, they rushed over with various weapons.

Li Zheng discovered that these people generally disliked using ranged weapons and preferred close-quarters combat.

"Guide, you go first, I'll hold them off for you!" Feng Yue stepped forward, took out two round, moon-shaped ring weapons, and rushed forward to block several hooded men charging towards Li Zheng.

After a period of rest, Feng Yue had already recovered to his peak condition. He was able to fight seven opponents at once without falling behind for a short time. The two rings flew back and forth in his hands, and he wielded them with great skill.

Li Zheng stood there without moving. He knew that with his speed, he definitely couldn't outrun the other side, otherwise those who were ahead of them wouldn't have been wiped out.

"Let's go!" Feng Yue was extremely anxious. He knew his own limitations. Even if he risked his life, he couldn't stop these seven opponents who were not much weaker than him for long, and he would soon be at a disadvantage.

It's only a matter of time before they are defeated and killed.

Li Zheng was their guide, reawakening their dormant and corrupt fighting spirit, and making them unwilling to be mediocre as before.

Therefore, he is willing to do something for the guide at crucial moments, but it is absolutely impossible for him to risk his life.

He could only hold out for a short while, giving the guide some time to escape. Once the time was right, he would break free from his opponent and flee as well.

Unexpectedly, while he was focused on letting the other party run away, the guide seemed to be stunned and stood there motionless.

"If you don't leave, I can't hold on any longer!" Feng Yue shouted, dodging two incoming weapons with a sidestep. He was just a hair's breadth away from having two bloody holes ripped into his body.

From that moment on, he found it increasingly difficult to cope, narrowly dodging incoming weapons time and again, and almost losing his life several times.

Seeing that Li Zheng was still standing there motionless, Feng Yue could no longer hold on. He spun around with his twin wheels, deflecting several weapons, and then leaped up and fled into the distance: "Guide, I have done all I could. Take care of yourself. If you manage to return to the settlement alive, remember to come back to me and retrieve the Twisted Magic Crystal..."

"Heh." The hooded man at the head chuckled twice. "The people from the outer city are truly loyal and righteous. Didn't they abandon their companions and run away when it mattered most?"

Li Zheng tilted his head: "Knowing you're no match for them, why stay here and throw your life away for nothing?"

"Yeah, if you knew you were no match for them, why didn't you run away?" the leader asked with a smile.

Li Zheng frankly said, "Because I know I can't outrun you, so I won't run."

"How will you know you can't escape if you don't try?" the leader said with great interest.

Li Zheng pointed to the corpse not far away: "There's a guy over there. I noticed him before. He's faster than me, and he couldn't escape. How am I supposed to run?"

The leader shook his head and sighed, "Why have they become so pragmatic now?"

"That's because the outcome is still uncertain." A cold mist suddenly appeared beside Li Zheng, condensing the moisture in the air into tiny ice crystals.

The ice crystals combined with each other, gradually turning into countless tiny ice needles.

Sensing the fluctuations in genetic energy, the leader scoffed disdainfully: "You're still using this kind of ability with a fixed upper limit? It seems you're one of the new players who just entered the outer city. If I remember correctly, you've only been in the matrix for a little over a month, right? To clear the matrix and enter the outer city so quickly, I must say your progress is astonishing. Given time, the outer city might have another formidable expert."

"Unfortunately, you're going to die here today." His killing intent was palpable as he raised his hand and pressed down: "Kill him!"

At his command, the seven henchmen charged at Li Zheng again, their voices powerful and their presence overwhelming.

Li Zheng sneered disdainfully: "Where were you all so brave when facing the distorted beast tide just now?"

Then, with a shake of his arms, tens of thousands of fine ice needles shot out like a torrential rain, blotting out the sky and the sun. The seven people had nowhere to hide and were covered in ice needles.

But these people were indeed powerful enough to reach the golden zone; their defenses were incredibly high. The ice needles only pierced their skin before getting stuck in their muscles, making it difficult for them to penetrate further.

"The ice needles were blocked by a twisted creature earlier, and I was already thinking about what to do if I encountered a similar situation again." Lightning wings appeared behind Li Zheng, and he took off and flew backward at a speed almost in line with the speed of the seven powerful figures rushing forward.

At the same time, he pinched his right middle finger and thumb together and rubbed them gently: *snap*!
He snapped his fingers crisply.

Immediately afterwards, the ice needles stuck in the muscles of the seven strongmen crackled and popped, exploding in a chain reaction and leaving them covered in blood.

Their disguises were thus destroyed, revealing their true faces to Li Zheng.

Even though the exploding ice needles obscured some of their features, their general shapes were still recognizable. They were bird-men with gray wings and long, bright yellow, downward-curving beaks.

The US, a race with extremely extreme ideology, is exceptionally adept at exploitation and distorting the truth. When it comes to spreading fallacies, they are virtually unmatched.

In addition to wings, the eagles also have two humanoid arms, which they use to grip weapons, while the wings on their backs provide them with agile mobility and lightning-fast flight speed.

As the ice dust dissipated, a look of surprise appeared on Li Zheng's calm face. From the icy mist formed by the exploding ice needles, seven eagles rushed out without changing their expressions, seemingly oblivious to the pain caused by the numerous wounds all over their bodies.

[Their pain receptors have been blocked, your plan has failed. You'd better think of another way quickly. If you're going to die this time, please gouge out your eyes before you die. I'll find a way to transplant them into someone else, so you can live on with your will. Don't worry, I'll think of you often.]

"Damn it!" Li Zheng cursed inwardly. Not only was Lao Pu unable to help at this time, but he also said discouraging things that affected his mood.

With a determined effort, he used his still-unskilled "Transformation into a Thousand Forms" technique, leaving behind more than twenty lifelike human figures around him.

Faced with so many targets suddenly, Seven Eagles paused slightly before immediately scattering and attacking the nearest figure, slashing them one by one with their weapons.

Li Zheng hid to the side, trying his best to mobilize most of his mental energy that had been shrunk into the dark realm, squeezing out from inside the door to temporarily increase the upper limit of his mental energy.

The feeling of his body swelling and being filled with spiritual energy returned, and Li Zheng couldn't help but groan, attracting the attention of Seven Eagles. He abandoned his other clones and pounced on them.

"Damn it, you forced me to do this!" Li Zheng roared, unleashing his full mental power. An invisible force field emanated from him, pressing down sharply.

boom!
The ground subsidence is like an invisible mountain falling from the sky, making the ground appear smaller.

The Seven Eagles, caught in the middle, felt an extremely exaggerated gravity pressing down on them, suppressing their movements. However, they felt no pain and ignored the groans of their bones as they continued their assault on Li Zheng.

From the moment he encountered the US, Li Zheng began to draw mental energy out of the Dark Realm, but even after so much time, he had not been able to draw even one ten-thousandth of it.

However, how great is his total mental strength?

This immense amount was beyond the reach of the Americans. They managed to push forward a short distance before collapsing completely under the overwhelming mental pressure, lying on the ground unable to get up again.

"Damn it!" Li Zheng felt a slight itch in his philtrum. He reached up and touched it, only to find that his body couldn't withstand the full force of his mental energy at the moment, and his nose started bleeding.

Suddenly feeling a chill pierce the back of his head, Li Zheng didn't have time to think and instantly teleported into another illusion.

Looking back, a familiar figure appeared in the same spot as before.

"Nato!" Li Zheng's eyes darkened slightly. There was still a guy over there who hadn't made a move yet, and his strength was unknown. Now Nato had appeared. Even if he risked his life to deal with the Seven Eagles, the situation hadn't become more optimistic.

"A sharp-witted kid." Nato hoisted the spiked club he had just swung onto his shoulder and spat, "Pretty clever, huh?"

His feet were deeply embedded in the ground, and his physical strength was incredibly high. Even the Seven Eagles couldn't withstand the mental pressure, but he stood firmly and didn't move at all!

"Why are you here?" The leader of the US military, upon seeing Nato, showed no joy but rather some displeasure: "Didn't I send you to chase after the escaped guy? Where is he?"

The one who ran away naturally refers to Feng Yue. When Li Zheng was observing his opponent, he discovered that Na Tuo was hiding nearby. When Feng Yue ran away, he secretly followed him.

“He got away.” Nato said in a deep voice, “We were tricked by that kid. The one who ran towards the settlement area was not him at all, but a combat doll that had taken his place at some point. I caught up with it and smashed it to pieces with two blows. His real body must have gone the opposite way and headed towards the golden area.”

"He went to the Golden Zone?" The leader of the US military twitched. "Sang Biao has hidden injuries, but he is not weak. If he receives the news and comes here, we may not be his match."

He gave Li Zheng a dangerous look and said, "Go all out, finish this quickly, and kill him!"

Nato shrugged: "His teleportation technique is too bizarre; I can't counter it."

"I'll do it." The camouflage clothing on the leader of the eagle suddenly bulged, as if something was about to burst out from behind him.

Bang!
His disguise was blown to pieces, and a pair of enormous wings spread out from behind him, with a wingspan of three zhang (approximately 10 meters) and covered with feathers as sharp as steel blades.

Wow!

The wings fluttered, and the feathers clanged together, producing a jarring sound.

"Damn it, are you cheating?"

Li Zheng instantly understood how the other party intended to deal with him. His pupils contracted sharply, and he turned and ran.

Brush brush brush brush!

The sound of sharp weapons cutting through the air came from behind him, incessant. Li Zheng dared not turn around, pushing the speed of his Demon Thunder Wings to the maximum, unleashing a torrent of genetic force.

"Just accept your death, and I'll give you a quick death." The leader of the eagle destroyed his disguise and clothing, and his voice changed, becoming like the cawing of a crow, grating on one's eardrums.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Li Zheng roared in anger. He did a 360-degree somersault to the side, dodging several steel blade wings. The hairs on the back of his head stood on end. He sensed an extremely sharp aura from those steel blade wings. If he were hit, he would have no chance of survival!
"Why is Feng Yue so slow?" Li Zheng was anxious. The only person who could save him now was the Biao tribesman named Sang Biao. Otherwise, he would have to continue to reveal his trump cards, but that was too dangerous. He might accidentally destroy himself.

All of Feng Yue's previous actions were secretly instigated by Li Zheng.

First, block Seven Eagles to lull them into a false sense of security, making them believe that Feng Yue will fight to the death to protect Li Zheng.

Then, without a word, they immediately took off running, going as far as they could before anyone could react.

At the same time, Feng Yue took it upon himself to use the method of misattribution, turning himself and a combat doll around and fleeing towards the Golden Light Zone, just to find Sang Biao and ask him to come and rescue Li Zheng.

If necessary, we can offer up the Purple Demon Crystal that Li Zheng stored with Feng Yue and ask him to help.

"Didn't this guy claim his race was known for its speed?" Li Zheng looked towards the golden area, but seeing no reinforcements, he was extremely anxious: "Could it be that he entrusted the money to the wrong person and absconded with it?"

Just as he was worrying, two black dots appeared at the edge of the golden zone and approached him at an alarming speed.

Seeing this, Li Zheng was overjoyed: "Brother Feng Yue is indeed trustworthy. I didn't misjudge him!"

The leader of the US also spotted the figure appearing over there. Estimating that the other party would arrive at this speed in less than a minute, he frowned deeply and said, "Kid, consider yourself lucky!"

He glanced at Li Zheng, knowing he couldn't take down this slippery guy in a short time. He gave To a wink, and the two turned and left, ignoring even the seven remaining American subordinates who weren't completely dead, without even glancing at them.

"He survived." Li Zheng's tense nerves had just relaxed when suddenly alarm bells went off in his head, and his temples throbbed wildly: "Danger!"

He instinctively tumbled upwards, feeling a chill on his left knee, followed by excruciating pain.

His knee and lower leg flew off and landed on the ground.

"Humph!"

Seeing that the last sneak attack had failed, the leader of the US snorted coldly and sped away from the area.

If he were cornered by Sang Biao, he wasn't confident he could escape unscathed.

"Master Guide!" Feng Yue saw that Li Zheng was still alive from a distance and was overjoyed. He shouted loudly, "I've brought him here!"

If someone had told Feng Yue half an hour earlier, "You will get very close to the Wild Man and even ask him for help," Feng Yue would have scoffed and thought the other person was belittling his character.

He never imagined that he would one day actually get so close to a ferocious wilderness man, and it was the first time he had ever felt a sense of security from a wilderness man... It's unbelievable!
"He's injured." Sang Biao suddenly sniffed the air, his body suddenly sank down, stomped on the ground, creating a dark, bottomless pit, and his forward leaping speed increased significantly.

(End of this chapter)