Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 327 Mutual "Betrayal"

Misaka Tsuchimon has become suspicious of Itazumi Ryoma, and he is even considering whether to implicate him as well, so that they can all suffer the retaliation from the Nth Room.

Jiang Bingyao casually browsed through the trading hall but couldn't find any suitable firearms.

Both of them possessed near-platinum-level combat power, and ordinary firearms could not inflict effective damage on them.

However, the price of special weapons of the same or higher tier is beyond what Jiang Bingyao, a poor man, can afford.

Misaka Tsuchimon's eyes darted around. He closed the private chat interface and asked from mid-air, "Ugly freak, why don't you stay peacefully in your country's chat channel and instead come to channel 67 to cause trouble? Aren't you afraid I'll call someone over to deal with you?"

Misaka Tsuchimon was, after all, a minor leader in Takamagahara, even though he didn't have any capable fighters under his command.

However, if he asks the higher-ups in Takamagahara for help, he can still summon two more skilled fighters than himself.

"Afraid?" Jiang Bingyao sneered. "If I were afraid, I wouldn't be here. Mr. Misaka Tsuchimon of Takamagahara."

Misaka Tsuchiemon's eyes twitched; it turned out this man who stole the country knew his identity.

Now he was even more convinced that the Nth Room already knew he was one of the robbers from last night.

Holding a prop discreetly in his hand, Misaka Tsuchiemon probed, "Takamagahara shouldn't have offended your country, right? Why did you come to Channel 67 to wreak havoc?"

"Whether I've offended you or not, you know perfectly well," Jiang Bingyao sneered even more.

The boss said last night that the only organizations in Japan that would dare to take action against the Nth Room are Genesis and Takamagahara.

Regardless of which organization made the move, how could a well-informed junior leader within Takamagahara be completely unaware of it?
However, this ambiguous statement laid the foundation for Misaka Tsuchiemon's suspicion of Itazumi Ryoma, and completely confirmed that he had been betrayed.

Misaka Tsuchimon said with a grim face, "If you came here to find the person who robbed you last night, then you've come to the wrong person."

Upon hearing this, a glint of light flashed in Jiang Bingyao's triangular eyes.

The boss is indeed incredibly resourceful; with just a casual arrangement, he obtained the intelligence.

Misaka Tsuchimon stated directly, "The real mastermind behind your robbery is Ryoma Itazumi of the Genesis Organization; he's on Channel 24."

Since Banquan Longma had already betrayed him, he felt no psychological pressure in betraying him in return.

Banquan Longma!

Upon receiving the name, Jiang Bingyao immediately edited the information and sent it to his boss.

Soon, Cheng Tianpu issued an order, telling Jiang Bingyao to go back first and discuss the matter further.

Because channels 24 and 23 are almost entirely filled with hardcore players, their cohesion is far superior to that of channel 67. For Jiang Bingyao to go alone would be tantamount to suicide.

"Since you're so cooperative, Mr. Misaka, I won't make things difficult for you today. We'll settle this next time!" Jiang Bingyao went along with it, accepted the pen Cheng Tianpu sent him, and left.

Jiang Bingyao arrived suddenly and left just as abruptly, treating Cheng Tianpu's instructions as imperial edicts and never disobeying them.

Misaka Tsuchiemon, with a gloomy face, waited at least five minutes after Jiang Bingyao left before landing.

"Banquan Longma! There's an old saying in the Dragon Kingdom: If you do the first day of the month, don't blame me for doing the fifteenth!" With that, he added Banquan Longma to the blacklist permanently.

After thinking it over, he still felt it was not safe, so he simply used the warp drive he was holding to leave Channel 67.

On the other side, Izazumi Ryoma finally figured out the cause and effect, and then sent a message to Misaka Tsuchiemon to calm Jiang Bingyao down.

However, a notification that he had been blacklisted left him completely bewildered. How did he suddenly get blacklisted?
And what's causing that chilly feeling on my back?

He wanted to teleport over to check the situation, but a teleportation failure message left him bewildered and confused.

What exactly is going on here?
……

Li Zheng was in good form today. He quickly connected four rooms with Xiao Ying, killed one gold-level creature and three platinum-level creatures, and also obtained a refrigerator filled with various meat ingredients.

Whether it was because this channel was not within the player's exploration range, or simply because it had been left for too long, the meat ingredients that Li Zheng obtained from the refrigerator this time all showed signs of spoilage.

Not only does it feel sticky to the touch, but it also has a strange smell.

After Old Pu detected that the meat was no longer suitable for consumption, Li Zheng had no choice but to throw it to Xiao Ying and have her chop it up with wind blades, then dump it all into the composting area.

Li Zheng stroked his chin, feeling that it was necessary to further enhance Xiaoying's abilities. Otherwise, if she continued to use these abilities, she would soon fall behind his progress again and become an observer on the sidelines.

But he had searched the entire trading hall, and the highest level of items suitable for pets was only silver; there wasn't even any gold.

Aside from helping Sakura upgrade her Rock Shot and Wind Blade skills to the maximum level, there was no other help.

In Li Zheng's current view, these two abilities, one Iron and one Silver, are not worth upgrading at all.

“Hmm…” Li Zheng rummaged through the capsule. He remembered that he seemed to have something that he could give to Xiaoying.

"found it!"

He quickly took out a flawed crystal core from the capsule and tossed it to Sakura: "Eat it over the next couple of days, and you might even be able to develop the abilities of an earth dragon."

It was the broken Earth Dragon Crystal Core that had been extracted after the Earth Dragon was killed.

This crystal core is damaged and of a slightly lower grade; there is only a very small chance of gaining new abilities after consuming it.

But its size didn't change at all; Sakura held it in her hands as if it were a basketball.

Finishing all of it would be a huge undertaking.

This also means that Sakura's food quality will be significantly reduced in the next two days.

"Awoo~" The little guy held the crystal core, his face full of bitterness.

In the past, it had to eat these things in order to become stronger and help Li Zheng. But ever since it tasted delicious food, it has been reluctant to eat things that taste mediocre.

However, due to its "ambitious" nature, it does not reject eating crystal cores. As long as Li Zheng takes them out and tells it to eat them, it never refuses.

Li Zheng knew this too, and comforted it: "It's okay, you can eat slowly. You'll get a portion of every meal, just a little less. Consider it a treat."

Upon hearing that the food could be eaten with it, the little guy immediately beamed with joy, hugging the broken crystal core and grinning like a silly goose.

Li Zheng watched as its enormous mouth, comparable to that of a dragon, stretched wildly backward in a bizarre manner, and suddenly realized that Xiao Ying was no longer as cute as she had been when she was a child; she had even developed a somewhat monstrous and ferocious appearance.

Suddenly, ripples appeared not far away, and a figure emerged from them.

Li Zheng frowned as soon as he saw him: "Why are you here?"

(End of this chapter)