Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 708 Competition
"Marrow Cleansing Pill..."

Li Zheng repeated the name of the pill several times and exclaimed, "No wonder it's called the Marrow Cleansing Pill. After taking a full dose, it really can transform you and cleanse your marrow. It's just like the Marrow Cleansing Pill in the novel!"

But he knew in his heart that this was just a unique effect of the medicine, just like how taking medicine can cure a cold, which is in accordance with common sense.

"A novel?" Miriel asked curiously. "What is a novel? Is it like the legends and tales of the strange and unusual that circulate in our tribe?"

“…I guess so,” Li Zheng said.

Just then, someone knocked on the door. He went over and opened the door to the rented room, only to find Zhan Zhouzhou standing outside.

"You've come." Li Zheng wasn't surprised at all. He had taken the other person to the Wrathful Sin Domain before, so there was no doubt that he could return safely.

Zhan Zhouzhou rolled her eyes at him: "You're such a hands-off boss, living a comfortable life here."

Hundreds of thousands of members of the three races and three hundred players from Water Blue Star entered the outer city. Li Zheng hardly paid any attention to them; Zhan Zhouzhou and Lu Li handled all the arrangements for them.

"Hehe." Li Zheng chuckled and stepped aside, saying, "Come in and talk."

As Zhan Zhouzhou entered the house, he heard Xiaoying shout, "Ah, bad woman! Daddy, get her out of here! She's a bad woman!"

Li Zheng scolded, "Xiao Ying, don't talk nonsense. Call her Aunt Zhouzhou."

"No!" Sakura turned her head away, displeased, "She used to bully Daddy, she's a bad woman!"

"Hey, the little one holds a grudge even more than you do." Zhan Zhouzhou couldn't help but laugh, taking out a string of snacks resembling candied hawthorns from the capsule, placing it in front of Xiaoying, and gently shaking it.

Sakura's nostrils twitched; the aroma of the snacks made her mouth water, and her small eyes were fixed on the skewer of snacks, her pupils almost reaching her temples.

Zhan Zhouzhou whispered seductively, "Little one, do you want some? Call me Auntie and I'll give it to you."

"I won't eat... *slurp* I won't eat bad women's food!" Sakura almost drooled before she could finish her sentence, stubbornly refusing.

"Really?" Zhan Zhouzhou held the snack under her nose and took a deep, blissful sniff. "These snacks smell so good, I wonder what they taste like? I really want to try them!"

"Gulp." Sakura swallowed hard, barely resisting the temptation.

"Are you really not going to eat it?" Zhan Zhouzhou said regretfully, "If you don't want it, then I'll just have to eat it myself."

Her red lips parted slightly, and her pearly white teeth bit into a bright red fruit, gently tearing it off and making a crisp crunching sound as she chewed.

"Mmm!" Zhan Zhouzhou exclaimed, her eyes wide, "So tender and juicy, it's delicious!"

She deliberately made noise while eating in front of Sakura, making Sakura's mouth water uncontrollably, with saliva overflowing from the corners of her mouth.

Xiaoying burst into tears, tears streaming down her face, and complained to Li Zheng, "Daddy, that bad woman bullied me!"

Li Zheng gave her a bad idea: "Why don't you just call her 'Auntie'? It won't hurt you to call her nicely, and you'll get some good food in return. Isn't that great?"

"No!" Sakura cried, wiping her drool. "I don't want to call that bad woman 'Auntie'!"

"It's okay," Li Zheng said with a mischievous smile. "Just coax her first, trick her into giving you some good food, and then call her a bad woman after you've eaten, right?"

Yes!

Xiaoying's eyes lit up, and she smiled sweetly at Zhan Zhouzhou, "Auntie Zhouzhou~"

That call was both sweet and cloying, and Sakura, after transforming, was very cute, chubby from being raised by Li Zheng, which directly hit Zhan Zhouzhou's sweet spot.

Even knowing that Xiaoying had listened to Li Zheng's bad intentions, she happily took out two more skewers of snacks and stuffed them into Xiaoying's hands: "Good girl!"

These snacks were specially prepared for the little one on the way here. She ate one just now to tease her.

As the saying goes, "He who eats another's food is bound to be lenient," and with two strings of snacks in hand, Xiaoying was too embarrassed to call anyone a bad woman. She sat on the edge of the bed, swinging her bare feet, happily savoring the snacks. Seeing that she was done, Zhan Zhouzhou turned to Li Zheng and got down to business: "I just went to the Gravity Research Institute and rented a gravity chamber. I heard from someone named Feng Yue that you were here, so I came to find you. I heard you can now move freely in an environment with eighteen times the normal gravity?"

"Did Feng Yue tell you that too?" Li Zheng raised an eyebrow. Feng Yue had accompanied him to Block 4 before and had heard Zhan Zhouzhou's name from him, so Li Zheng wasn't surprised that Feng Yue told Zhan Zhouzhou that he lived here.

But revealing your training progress is a bit...

“I asked him,” Zhan Zhouzhou said. “He initially refused to tell me, but I told him that I was his master and that I had the right to know about his progress, and then he told me.”

Li Zheng: "???"

It turns out she only told the truth after being pressed for details...

and many more!

"Master? What master?" Li Zheng asked in surprise, "When did you become my master?"

Zhan Zhouzhou raised an eyebrow and sneered, "Have you forgotten that you learned my Zhan family's swordsmanship?"

"Bullshit!" Li Zheng retorted angrily, "I traded something for you, and I refused your offer to take me as your disciple! How can you casually proclaim that you are my master?"

"Good lad, your temper's gotten worse lately, looks like your skills' improved quite a bit, huh?" Zhan Zhouzhou raised his chin and forcefully poked the doorway with his thumb: "Come on, let's find a place to spar!"

"Let's have a match then!" Li Zheng's strength had indeed improved recently, and he was exceptionally confident. He immediately agreed: "Let's go to the Gravity Research Institute and have a match in front of Feng Yue and the others. If you lose, you'll explain to them that you lied to them and that you're not my master at all!"

"Okay!" Zhan Zhouzhou readily agreed, then asked, "What if you lose?"

Li Zheng said, "If I lose, you can call me grandmaster instead of my master!"

"A word is settled!"

With that, Zhan Zhouzhou turned and walked towards the door, her demeanor menacing.

"Just wait to lose!"

Li Zheng followed, equally eager for battle.

"Um..." Miriel brought a few portions of freshly made breakfast to the table and asked from behind, "Aren't you going to eat something before you fight?"

The two stopped in their tracks at the same time: "Then let's finish eating before we have our competition!"

They sat down, picked up their bowls, stared at each other like fighting cocks, and began slurping their breakfast.

"Sakura, come and eat," Miriel called out.

"Coming!" Sakura responded and ran to the dining table in a flash, the two candied hawthorn-like snacks barely filling the gaps between her teeth.

They finished breakfast amidst the tension, and without even wiping their mouths, they headed straight for the gravity research institute.

Once inside the gravity field, Zhan Zhouzhou suddenly said, "Mental power is not allowed in this competition. Whoever uses it will immediately lose!"

Li Zheng: "!!! Holy crap, you old bastard, why didn't you say so earlier?"

Who bans their opponent's strongest fighting style before a match even begins?

Do you think this is a ranked match?

"Alright!" Li Zheng immediately said, "Then you're not allowed to use your genetic abilities. If you do, you'll lose!"

Zhan Zhouzhou: "..."

(End of this chapter)