Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 703 The Qidian Legion Gets Trolled by the Terminal
When Li Zheng left Block 4, the area was deserted and there wasn't a single pedestrian on the street; it was like a ghost town.

Returning here now, I find the streets teeming with people, shouting and laughing, a truly lively scene.

Those were members of the Blood-Striped Black Dragons, the Vampire Clan, and the Painful Clan.

Besides, there were also many people from the Blue Planet among the pedestrians, some of whom Li Zheng had seen before.

"Everyone come quick! Boss Li Zheng is back!" Wang Chaoran spotted Li Zheng immediately and shouted at the top of his lungs, attracting everyone's attention.

Everyone turned to look and saw Li Zheng. Their faces lit up with joy, and they ran around telling each other, "Boss Li Zheng is back!"

"Everyone, come and welcome us!"

"Boss Li Zheng is back! Everyone come quick!"

Xiao Siyuan walked out of a shop on the street and saw Li Zheng standing at the entrance of the teleportation portal. He walked over with a smile on his face, followed closely by Lin Fengjiao, who was covered in bandages, with excitement in her eyes.

“You…” Li Zheng looked at Xiao Siyuan: “When did you arrive in the outer city? Why didn’t anyone notify me?”

Xiao Siyuan stopped in front of Li Zheng and said with a smile, "We just arrived yesterday. There are more than 300 people who entered the outer city this time, all of them are experts from the Qidian Legion."

"What?" Li Zheng was slightly taken aback and quickly asked, "With so many of you coming in, what about those from the matrix who are left behind?"

“They’ll be fine,” Wang Chaoran said. “Ever since you wiped out all those major legions, everyone in the entire Matrix has held our Qidian Legion in high esteem, and no one has dared to attack or assassinate our members at night.”

Xiao Siyuan continued, "As you requested, I strictly regulate the behavior of everyone at Qidian, forbidding them from abusing their power. On the contrary, after we recover, when we encounter people asking for help on the general channel, we will take the initiative to go and rescue them."

"Okay...okay!" Li Zheng said "okay" three times in a row before asking, "Where's Feng Shan? Didn't he come in?"

He had been longing for Fengshan's "lucky charm" buff for many days. If Fengshan could just say "may all your wishes come true" to him every day, he would definitely be able to open the treasure chest and get a lot of good stuff.

“Fengshan is the last pillar of the starting point. This time, he volunteered to stay in the matrix to take care of the other members who couldn’t get in,” Xiao Siyuan explained. “By the way, here’s yours back.”

He raised his hand and released a machine, which was the gene-making station that Li Zheng had temporarily given him.

“Thanks to you for leaving this machine behind, we were able to develop faster and faster later on,” Xiao Siyuan said. “It’s a pity that Jiutian and Kunlun didn’t receive a group mission this time. Otherwise, if Ye Kai and the others had come in, you would have witnessed the great feat Ye Kai has accomplished.”

Leaf Opens...

When Li Zheng heard this name, his pupils contracted slightly for a moment.

Both the Ye siblings and the Chu Xiao siblings are suspected to be transmigrators from Earth, and Li Zheng has always wanted to find an opportunity to have a good talk with them.

Unfortunately, it seems that it will take some more time.

"You just mentioned group missions?" Li Zheng frowned. "Tell me more about it."

"Let's talk as we walk." Xiao Siyuan pointed to the magic crystal shop opened by Li Zheng not far away. At this time, a lot of people had gathered by the roadside, including people from the three races and people from the Blue Star.

Everyone looked at Li Zheng with deep respect.

Except for Danfeng.

She was also in the crowd, but she stared at Li Zheng fiercely like an enemy.

"Miriel, go and call the other sisters over." Li Zheng turned to Miriel and said, "I have something to announce to them."

“Okay.” Miriel responded, went straight over and grabbed Danfeng, ignoring her fierce struggles, and dragged her to find Moli and An’an.

"Let's go, tell me all the things I don't know." Li Zheng and Xiao Siyuan walked through the crowd, under the respectful and grateful gazes of the people, and entered the magic crystal shop. There was a long queue in the magic crystal shop, and Le Jia was almost frantic with work at the counter. Most of the people who came to her to clean their twisted magic crystals were members of the three races. These twisted magic crystals were basically accumulated in the past, and they didn't have a way to clean them. Now that they had come to the outer city, they naturally wanted to make the most of them.

Li Zheng walked over, his mental energy surging as he swept across all the distorted magic crystals, instantly erasing all the remaining evil energy within them.

"Uncle."

A burly man from the Black Dragon Clan asked respectfully, "Did the Ancestor return with you?"

He wasn't the only one concerned about this matter; in fact, everyone in the three clans was worried about their former clan leader and ancestor.

Li Zheng glanced at them and said in a deep voice, "They're not here. You can go out now. There are some things your new clan leader will tell you later."

"Yes."

Hearing such a clear order to leave, the members of the three races who were waiting to cleanse the distorted magic crystal all withdrew.

"Huh?" Le Jia reached out to them, sweating profusely. "You haven't paid your handling fee yet!"

She glanced at Li Zheng, a hint of fear still lingering in her eyes, then bypassed them and chased after him.

Li Zheng shook his head slightly. How could he not see that Le Jia was actually taking the opportunity to escape from this place?

That's good, though, because this way there are no idle people in the shop, and they can be undisturbed.

"A few days ago, the terminal released a group task, which we, Qidian, took on first."

Seeing that most people had left, Xiao Siyuan began to recount the story of how the Qidian Legion had sent a large number of troops into the outer city.

"What are the requirements for the group mission?" Li Zheng asked.

Xiao Siyuan replied, "This mission is very strange. It didn't require us to fight or do anything. It just sent us to a completely dark space and let us live in it for three days. After the three days were up, it sent us to the outer city."

"Oh?" Li Zheng raised an eyebrow and asked, "Such a simple task, why didn't anyone else take it?"

"The terminal only issued the task, requiring 300 people to participate, but did not explain the task details. Liu Qishao and the others were worried that a task requiring so many people to participate at the same time was too dangerous, so they did not dare to accept it," Xiao Siyuan said.

Wang Chaoran added from the side: "Actually, we didn't intend to take it at first. Later, we don't know who in the legion took the mission without permission. We were forced into it and selected some members who were willing to sacrifice themselves to participate in the mission. Unexpectedly, the mission was so easy and we completed it without any danger."

Lin Fengjiao suddenly whispered, "It was...it was my fault for falling down there by accident..."

Everyone looked at her in surprise. She kept her head down and said, "I really accepted the mission by accident... I clicked to check the mission details, but the terminal notified me that I had accepted the mission. I thought I had messed up, so I didn't dare to say anything before."

This doesn't seem like Lin Fengjiao accidentally made a mistake; it's more like she was targeted by a scammer.

Li Zheng's eyes flickered, and he took out the inscription card to contact the terminal: "What do you mean by the group mission you issued?"

The terminal quickly replied: "I'll find you some help, so you won't have to rely on me to solve everything for you."

"..."

It turns out they were just being scammed by the terminal!

Li Zheng sighed inwardly and comforted Lin Fengjiao, "This is not your fault."

(End of this chapter)