Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 682 Sakura Returns
What exactly is going on?

Li Zheng was completely bewildered. From the moment the vampire queen appeared, things seemed to take a strange turn.

The Black Dragon Clan Ancestor and the Vampire Queen sat in the seats of honor, barely exchanging a word, simply enjoying the delicious fruit on the table.

Li Zheng was curious and wanted to try it, but he had no appetite because he was preoccupied with his own thoughts.

The eerie atmosphere lasted for about twenty minutes before two people walked into the cabin, breaking the silence.

One of them was Yan Yi, who had just left, and the other was a beautiful little girl of seven or eight years old. She looked somewhat like Mo Li, with pale skin, gray hair, and golden vertical pupils in the center of her eyes. A long, thin, and flexible tail swayed behind her.

The little girl was wearing a bright red dress. When she saw Li Zheng, she excitedly opened her mouth wide, revealing several hollow, sharp teeth: "Daddy!"

The bright red dress swayed, and two round little heads peeked out from her shoulders, cheerfully calling out "Polii Polli" to Li Zheng.

"Xiaoying?" Li Zheng looked at the little girl, almost unable to believe it.

Sakura's appearance is a fusion of features from several races.

Hollow fangs are a characteristic of vampires, the tail on her back is a characteristic of succubi, and she should also have a pair of blood-patterned black dragon wings that she has folded up and not unfolded.

In addition, the gray hair and golden vertical pupils should correspond to two other races.

Ignoring the many people present, Xiaoying jumped up like a swallow returning to its nest and threw herself into Li Zheng's arms, rubbing her little head against him: "Daddy, you've finally come to pick me up."

"Poring! Poring Poring!" Two red Porings stretched their necks and rubbed against Li Zheng's face twice.

Li Zheng patted the red Pollys and asked, "Have you been misbehaving here?"

"Poring?" The two red Porings seemed to realize something, hesitated for a moment, and then shook their heads repeatedly: "Poring! Poring!"

"..." Li Zheng's smile froze.

Sure enough, the worst thing happened. These two Red Pollys were far more mentally challenged than Danfeng. It was impossible to get them to behave themselves.

I actually dared to hope that they could take good care of Sakura and keep her from sleeping. Now it seems I was really out of my mind.

Yan Yi said quietly from behind Xiao Ying, "We didn't cause any major disasters, but we caused quite a few minor ones."

"Eek!" Sakura cried out, "I didn't! I'm innocent! I've been a good girl, I've been sleeping the whole time!"

"Polii!" The red Porings nodded vigorously, echoing Sakura's sentiments.

“Yes, you slept very soundly,” Yan Yi said from behind her. “But these two little ones are not so well-behaved. Every day at mealtimes they take you around to secretly eat other people’s food.”

Sakura's pale face regained a bit of color: "That's because I was hungry. You guys weren't giving me food, so Poring Poring was taking care of me!"

"Not feeding her? Is that even possible?!" Li Zheng frowned, looked at Mo Li, and questioned, "Is this what you meant by someone taking good care of her?"

Mo Li was also puzzled: "Really? Before I left, I specifically told her to prepare three meals a day for her."

She asked Yan Yi, "Didn't you do as instructed?"

Yan Yi said speechlessly, "We prepared everything, and even prepared enough food for three adult black dragons for each meal, but she seems to be never full. As soon as I left, she was brought out of the slumbering land by Poringpoli..."

"Crunch, smack, smack! You guys are so stingy! You never feed me enough. Poring Poring is afraid I'll starve, so crunch, smack, smack! You can only bring me out to find something to eat!" Sakura had somehow gotten a fruit from the table and was sitting in Li Zheng's lap, eating it with her mouth full of juice. "Poring Poring!" A red Poring nodded vigorously, looking quite self-righteous.

The other red Poring was serving Sakura, wiping the juice off her face.

"The appetite of three adult black dragons!" Mo Li exclaimed. "Even I can't eat that much... Well, I mean, that's still quite a lot. How could I not be full?"

The Black Dragon Clan's ancestor listened to their conversation with a kind and benevolent expression, and chuckled, "Like mother, like daughter. Mo Li, you bear the main responsibility for Xiao Ying's big appetite."

"???" Mo Li was immediately startled and stood up from his seat: "Ancestor, what did you just say? She is my daughter?"

She pointed at Sakura in disbelief: "I...you can't say things like that, I'm not in my egg-laying period yet!"

“Strictly speaking, you’re not Sakura’s mother,” Li Zheng said. “After all, she was created using your genes; she’s a clone of you.”

"A clone?" Sakura looked up curiously and asked, "Daddy, what's a clone? Is it tasty?"

"You can't eat it." Li Zheng affectionately pinched her little nose: "You little foodie, all you ever do is eat. I was worried you'd turn into a chubby little girl when you woke up."

"Ouch!" Sakura angrily raised her little fist: "Sakura isn't a chubby girl!"

"What...what exactly is going on?" Mo Li frowned, filled with fear and unease. She felt as if many fragments of memories were surfacing in her mind, but they were too chaotic to grasp the key points for a moment: "My memories have been unlocked?"

"Someone took some blood and bone marrow from me many years ago..."

“Li Zheng…”

"Li Zheng?"

She caught the name in her memory, turned sharply to look at Li Zheng, pointed at him and said, "It's the gene you took from me!"

"not me!"

"not him."

Li Zheng and the vampire queen spoke at the same time.

The Vampire Queen said, "It was another Li Zheng who took the genes from us. Besides your Blood-Patterned Black Dragon Clan, there were also the Vampire Clan, the Pain Clan, the Destruction Clan, and... the Succubus Clan. Xiaoying is a clone cultivated from the genes of all five clans, but she awakened your Black Dragon Clan's genes first. After you met her, you sent her back."

The Black Dragon Clan ancestor continued, "Our clan has never had any members who have been separated from their clan. From the day you brought her back, I knew he had succeeded. He truly used the genes of our five clans to cultivate a species with unlimited potential!"

“Not five races.” Li Zheng said calmly, “Xiao Ying has genes from fifty different races in her body, some strong and some weak, which is very complicated.”

"That's right!"

At this moment, a strong female voice came from outside the wooden house. Everyone inside looked out and saw two female aliens with gray hair walk in.

The two were of different ages, one older and one younger. The older one was burly with strong facial features, resembling a man.

His voice is also neutral when he speaks, making it difficult to distinguish unless you listen carefully.

She led the pretty young girl beside her into the hall and said, "If we simply use the genes of our five races, we can only create a monster that multiplies infinitely and has no mind. Only by using the genes of other compatible races to harmonize them can we have a slim chance of success."

(End of this chapter)