Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 190 The Poli Tribe

"Two tigers love to dance."

"Eh!"

"Little rabbit, be a good boy and pull up the carrot."

"Hey!"

"I learned to walk by following the little ducks; childhood is the most beautiful gift."

"..."

Looking at the chaotic scene before him, Li Zheng had only one thought in his mind: I regret it, let me go back!
These are a group of soft, squishy creatures, most of them pale blue and translucent, with no single, accurate appearance, and all sorts of bizarre shapes.

The remaining ones are pink and translucent, humming a lullaby in a bizarre tone, clearly providing background music for another chaotic group.

The music above is what Li Zheng imagined based on the rhythm. Since he couldn't understand the language of these creatures at all, he was quite impressed with himself for being able to imagine such a complete piece of music...

How come I never realized I was so bored before?

The creatures were not surprised by Li Zheng's arrival, and didn't even bother to pay attention to him.

Dozens of light blue creatures wriggled and twisted in their respective areas, their movements quite bizarre.

Li Zheng also saw several muscular men among them, with wheel-shaped patterns on their arms, their expressions both lustful and lewd, making hip-thrusting movements.

Blue Porley/Pink Porley

Rank: Iron to Platinum
Description: The Poring race distinguishes gender by color, believing that light blue represents males and pink represents females.

In fact, they reproduce asexually, and each individual can produce new Poli.

Ability: Mimicry

Weakness: True strength depends on the transformation of the mimicry, and its upper limit is extremely difficult to increase.

Old Pu: The Porings are a peace-loving race, skilled in singing and dancing, and are considered neutral beings.

Moreover, its characteristics are extremely strange; when killed, it only leaves behind a cup of ordinary water, so its hunting value is basically negligible.

You can try communicating with them; maybe you can persuade... cough, I mean, take one of them with you.

“Polly, mimicry, only water after death, asexual reproduction…” Li Zheng pointed out the key points one by one, then after a two-second silence, he angrily exclaimed, “Isn’t this just a slime?!”

It turns out that the so-called "cute little thing" is actually the most cannon fodder in various games.

If he had known it would be like this, why would he have bothered making the trip here?
In other games, killing slimes drops coins, but in the Matrix, killing Porings only drops water!
Even if I were to disregard humanity and slaughter all the Poli tribe members present, the value of that would be less than going to a hot spring!

At least there's a golden crop over there, besides water!
On the other hand, apart from a few small ponds, this room only has a bare mud floor!
What does this environment have to do with a "farm"?
Just then, a Rampolis, seemingly exhausted from wriggling, found the nearest pond and put its paws in.

Immediately afterwards, Lamborghini's physique visibly grew larger.

The water level in the pond gradually decreased.

It was empty in no time.

Li Zheng took a closer look and discovered that clear water was gushing out from the bottom of the pond, and the lowered water level was gradually rising and recovering.

"An underground spring?" Li Zheng glanced at Lao Pu, but didn't see the prompt.

Looking up, the Rampoli walked to the muddy ground not far from the pond, and its burly body suddenly softened, turning into a cute little round ball.

duang, duang~

Lampoli swayed like a jelly a few times, then suddenly jumped up and slammed to the ground.

Snapped!
Lampoli's actions shattered him, like a giant jelly falling to the ground and being stomped on.

Just when Li Zheng thought it was suicidal.

The "jelly" fragments wriggled together and merged on their own.

Once all the fragments were fully integrated, two smaller Lamborghinis appeared on the spot.

Even more bizarrely, one of them turned pink in just three seconds. Li Zheng stared in disbelief: "This...is this like a man splitting himself in two, with one half turning into a woman?"

What an amazing turn of events!

Do slimes reproduce like this?
"Huh? Wait!"

Li Zheng keenly noticed something.

If this is how the Poli tribe reproduces...

Does that mean that there was probably only one Poring in this room at the beginning?

The reason it has such a large number now is entirely due to its own gradual self-split.
True immortality?
As long as there is one individual in the Poli tribe, can it develop into a race on its own?
This is way more awesome than "Give me a girl and I can create a race"!

Moreover, Li Zheng had checked and found that apart from the pond and the land, there were no other food resources available for biological consumption in the entire room.

This suggests that the Poli tribe does not even need to eat; they can survive indefinitely simply by regularly replenishing their water levels.
At this point, the two little Poli, one blue and one pink, each found a pond, drained the water, and quickly grew to the average size.

Li Zheng noticed that the pink Poli was probably newly "born" and clumsily brought in some mud from the bottom of the pool when it was drinking water.

These muddy impurities mixed in with Pink Polly's translucent body were quite jarring to look at.

But it was completely unaware of this, and separated from Rampoli, jumping into their respective groups to begin its silly life.

Apart from the fact that one Pink Poring appeared, it was as if nothing had happened here.

The music is bizarre, the dance is bizarre...

Li Zheng couldn't stand it anymore. Although taking away one Poring was equivalent to taking away an entire Poring army, he had no intention of taking a single Poring with him.

He doesn't want to watch this kind of cringe-worthy dance every day.

"Sakura, let's go!"

Li Zheng called out, but received no response.

Turning my head, I saw the little guy holding the Earth Dragon Crystal Core, mingling with a group of Rampori, twisting and turning to the rhythm, having a great time.

Li Zheng was speechless. He went over, grabbed Xiaoying's tail, and forcibly dragged her away.

"Let's just consider this exploration as an opportunity to see yet another race in the Matrix."

Given the Poli's silly nature, even if there were a group of them among the players in the past, probably very few would have been able to enter the outer city.

Even those who reach the finish line are few and far between.

Unless someone is so foolish as to tame one and take it to the finish line.

Li Zheng grabbed some clean water and, dragging Xiao Ying along, prepared to leave.

There are some materials behind the door; you can choose this spot if you're lacking power cores.

There's a research data table behind the door; you can choose to study the blueprints here.

There's a "treasure chest" behind the door. Be careful of the traps in the room; don't step on them.

There are two bronze-level creatures behind the door. They pose very little threat and are of very little value. Choosing to enter is not recommended.

There are two players behind the door, one of whom is the Bloodthirsty One.

After all five doors had been explored, Li Zheng looked at the top door and his eyes darkened slightly.

"Luckily, we've run into a red-named player. This is the place."

He decisively chose to swipe his card, and after the door opened, Li Zheng flew inside with Xiao Ying.

Just as the light curtain membrane dissipated, Li Zheng caught a whistling sound.

"Short-distance leap!"

He decisively activated the Eye Demon Boots' teleportation ability, moving two meters horizontally to dodge the opponent's attack and avoid being killed at the door.

Turning his head to look at the attacker, Li Zheng's lips twitched a few times, and he thrust his sword straight forward!
(End of this chapter)