Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 255 The Spirit of Craftsmanship
World Channel 0000026 Banquan Longma: "Mr. Li Zheng, my subordinates were ignorant and made some wrong decisions, which have caused you some trouble these past two days. On behalf of the entire Genesis Organization, I would like to express my sincerest apologies to you, and hope that you will be lenient and spare their lives."

If some players still expressed doubts about the clarification messages that were posted on the world channel a moment ago...

Now, Banquan Longma has personally stepped forward to endorse and apologize, confirming that Li Zheng's "rapist" label was indeed falsely accused.

The world chat channel became lively, especially among Chinese players who were on good terms with Li Zheng, who took to the world chat to criticize him.

(The following are messages sent in the world channel. Repeated messages are treated as megaphone-type items.)
Wang Chaoran: "Apologize? You might as well just say you're scared! You want the big boss to forgive you? I'll ask you one question: Why should you?!"

Chen Xiangrong (his best friend): "It's only because our boss is so incredibly powerful that he's scared you bunch of bastards half to death! If our boss wasn't this strong, would you say that? Would you apologize? Would you let him go? Fuck your grandma! Boss, don't let them get away with this, beat the crap out of them!"

Lu Li: "It's here! The famous craftsmanship spirit of the Muddy Kingdom! By the way, don't be a coward! Come on, fight! Damn! Do you think this is a hundred years ago? You think you can just bully the people of the Dragon Kingdom like that?"

Liu Jiale: "Long Guo: I'm standing right in front of you. How much do I look like I used to be?"

Zhan Zhouzhou: "On Earth, we can't do anything to you because of the international situation, but here, if you dare to mess with us, you're doomed!"

Chu Xiao: "We don't like to cause trouble, but we're never afraid of it. An apology can't make up for the damage you've done to Li Zheng's reputation, so we don't accept it!"

Banquan Longma: "Please calm down, everyone. I only just learned the truth about this matter. The reason I contacted Mr. Li is to compensate him for the damage to his reputation. I hope Mr. Li can accept our apology."

Fengshan: "You just accept it like that?"

Yan Guang: "Exactly, you just say you'll accept it and then you accept it?"

Kim Jae-in: "The people of China are so petty. They've already apologized and made amends, yet they're still so relentless."

Ye Kai: "Shut up, you Chinese thief! Are you trying to morally blackmail your mother? No, your country doesn't even have morals, so what gives you the nerve to try and morally blackmail us?"

Ye Yuan: "Brother, they have no shame."

Yu Xiaoyu: "Indeed! Miss Ye Yuan recognizes me. As long as you curse the Chinese thieves, you are my half-sister!"

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The world channel is in chaos; some people are supporting Li Zheng, while others are supporting Itagaki Ryoma.

Some people pretend to be rational and objective in offering advice, but in reality, they are all playing the moral blackmail game.

The most enthusiastic were those from the "Stealing Country" and the "Stars and Stripes" countries; players from both countries were eager for Li Zheng to die.

They were secretly fanning the flames, hoping to escalate the conflict between Li Zheng and Genesis.

Some people even directly used phrases like "Chinese people are like this and that" to try to provoke a conflict between players from the two countries.

Some Chinese players were outraged and responded with their own comments.

It wasn't until Li Zheng spoke on the world channel that the chaos was broken.

Li Zheng: "We're all adults here, so stop with the childish tricks and stop embarrassing yourselves. Your brother is already dead, begging won't help! Not just your brother, but every single one of the remaining participants will die! Even Jesus couldn't save them, I'm telling you!"

A moment later, he posted a second message: "Here I'd like to specifically name a few players from other countries. You're all on the list, and none of you are going to escape! If you want to live, run away as soon as possible, and from now on, keep your tails between your legs."

The players who were named jumped up in protest, saying that they had not participated in the frame-up plot and that Li Zheng and his group wanted to kill them, which was an attempt to implicate innocent people.

Li Zheng continued speaking, presenting all the evidence Lu Li had gathered, exposing the hypocritical mask they were trying to cover up.

Apart from Kim Jae-in, all of these people were the most active in criticizing Lee Jung-shih, and they were the ones who criticized him the most harshly and rudely.

Li Zheng did have some personal motives in wanting to kill them, but they were definitely not innocent!

Neither the initiators nor the followers of cyberbullying are innocent.

Just like all the snowflakes that participate in an avalanche.

The world chat channel became lively again. Li Zheng watched silently for a while and sadly discovered that very few of the players who had cursed him before were now apologizing.

Even though he had unlocked private messaging and allowed everyone to send him private messages, very few people sent him apology messages.

On the contrary, even now, many people are still criticizing him.

The only difference is that the charge has changed to "showing off".

Interestingly, two people asked Li Zheng in private chat if he had any thoughts about joining the organization.

If Li Zheng were willing to join them, he could even receive the highest level of treatment.

Yes, a smaller portion of the daily private exploration data can be submitted.

Li Zhengqi was genuinely amused.

It seems that Li Zheng not only gained no benefit from joining them, but also had to hand over most of his daily explorations, waiting for the so-called "higher-ups" to allocate them.
He has some kind of serious illness!

After blacklisting the two, Li Zheng scrolled through his private messages for a while, but found no offers of help from "Kunlun" and "Jiutian," which Gangmen Pianzuo had mentioned before. These two groups of Chinese players were very mysterious; they hadn't been seen on the world chat, and even though Li Zheng's situation had been making headlines for several days, no one from either organization had made any public statements.

Apart from Yu Xiaoyu, Fengshan's sycophant, Li Zheng knew nothing about them.

This girl from Kunlun has been in contact with Fengshan for many days. She seems to have come for Fengshan personally and has not yet clearly expressed any other purpose.

With only seven people remaining on the list of ten, Li Zheng switched his private messages back to "friend" mode and saw a private message from Zhan Zhouzhou.

“Ma Yan is dead, killed by a platinum-level creature. I avenged her.”

Li Zheng understood the subtext of those words at a glance and replied to inquire about the details.

Logically speaking, Ma Yan should have had a hard time entering the room of a platinum-level creature, especially after the terminal was updated twice, which significantly reduced the difficulty and increased the number of surviving players.

To be fair, Ma Yan was indeed very clever, but it was precisely this cleverness that led to her death.

The moment he saw Zhan Zhouzhou teleport to him, he took off running. While being chased by Zhan Zhouzhou, he was lucky enough to enter an empty room three times in a row.

Ultimately, because Zhan Zhouzhou was frequently in the same room as her, the difficulty of the subsequent rooms increased dramatically, leading her straight into a doomed situation.

Strictly speaking, Ma Yan should be considered to have "committed suicide," because Zhan Zhouzhou didn't say a single word to her from beginning to end, let alone lay a hand on her.

You could say it was her fate.

Actually, if she had just stayed in one more room, Zhan Zhouzhou wouldn't have been able to catch up with her, and they would have had to wait until tomorrow.

After learning the details, Li Zheng exclaimed, "This person's luck is incredible! Should we call him a lucky man or an extremely unlucky one?"

He took out the list, selected one person, and sent him there.

It took some time to kill the players from the United States and Mickey Mouse in the "chase battle".

Besides Kim Jae-in, who had already left 167 via a space-time jump device and whose whereabouts were unknown, the other thief was also easily captured.

This guy's death was rather comical. Li Zheng deliberately missed with his first sword strike, but when he dodged, he ran into the blade and cut off the implant in his nose...

Later, he died in the mouth of the matrix creatures because of his "escape".

In retaliation against these people, Li Zheng wasted many of his regular exploration attempts today, leaving him with only three.

He was also feeling somewhat weary, but he was a man of his word, and he gave these people a chance to apologize.

They failed to seize the opportunity.

Since you refuse to repent, you should be prepared to face retaliation.

At this point, only four people remain on the list.

They are Kim Jae-in, who escaped from the original channel. Lee Jung guesses that he may have run to the Muddy People's side, and plans to go back and slowly look for him.

There were also two other players from the Three Kingdoms game. Li Zheng checked the information sent by Lu Li and found that the two had the same surname and looked similar, so they should be brothers.

Finally, there's Xu Lina, whom even Zhan Zhouzhou spoke in dialect, telling her not to die too quickly.

"Let's go to the Three Kingdoms first. Those two brothers should team up and act together. Maybe we can save one teleportation opportunity from the space pirates."

Target locked, Li Zheng teleported there.

"He's really here."

The two players from the game "Three Kingdoms" had swiped their identity cards in front of the metal door after Li Zheng called them out on the world channel. When they saw a figure suddenly appear in the room, they turned around and plunged into the light screen without thinking.

When Li Zheng arrived at this place, he looked around but couldn't find the two people.

But he noticed there were two open doors and smiled nonchalantly: "The previous few thought the same thing, assuming there were two open doors, and I didn't know which direction you were running in."

"But they're all dead... huh?"

Startled, Li Zheng looked in one direction where there was a patch of waist-high wormwood.

Originally swaying orderly with the breeze that seemed to come from nowhere, one of the leaves suddenly trembled irregularly.

There's someone in the bushes.

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P.S. The next chapter is a bit disgusting, so here's a preview. Be prepared when you read it tomorrow.

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