Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 329 Armored Dragon Turtle
Several of the designated transactions all came from Misaka Tsuchiemon, and they were all made of various gold-grade materials, including as many as ten power cores.

"This is..." Li Zheng was stunned for a moment, then realized that the other party had asked him to protect Sarutobi Yura last night.

"Is this payment?" Li Zheng was a little embarrassed to accept it, because he hadn't taken the other party's request seriously at all last night and had hardly paid any attention to what was happening at Sarutobi Uroku's place.

It wasn't until a seller left a comment that Li Zheng realized what was going on.

"Protect Sarutobi Amakuri for a while longer?"

So, you really think you're being used as a bodyguard?
Am I, Li, the kind of person who can be bought off with a little bit of money?

He collected all the materials.

Why not take advantage of this opportunity? These are all valuable resources!
"But then again, why does this kid seem like he's making arrangements for his sister's funeral?" Li Zheng scratched his head. Misaka Tsuchiemon's series of actions made it seem more and more like he was finding a safe place for his sister before he died.

"With that little combat power, why bother with dangerous actions? Wouldn't it be better to just explore the matrix properly?" Li Zheng shook his head, not understanding what Misaka Tsuchiemon was thinking.

However, if one is entrusted with a task, one should be loyal to that task.

Since they've already paid me, I can keep a closer eye on Sarutobi Ayakashi's situation. If they encounter danger, it wouldn't be a big deal to lend a hand.

After putting everything away, we had a quiet lunch with Sakura and continued our exploration for the day.

On his way to probe the metal door, Li Zheng browsed the world channel. Since Liu Qishao made his deal with him, the terminal had only issued two announcements. The mutants numbered 32 and 31 had also been dealt with by Ma Long's team.

Their kill points are now on par with Li Zheng's team. If they can take down the 30th mutant, they will be able to overtake them.

However, almost an hour has passed since they captured the mutant number three, and no new announcement has been made. It is unknown what accident happened to Malone and his team.

Li Zheng stroked his chin, took out the event ticket again, and found that it was still locked and he could not teleport.

"I wonder which number Shenwei has." Li Zheng held the ticket, but was thinking about the purpose of the terminal in starting this event.

If the goal is to use this event to eliminate these mutants through other players, then the developers are overthinking it.

Based on the current strength of the players, they may not even be able to defeat the 29th mutant by the end of the event.

What will become of the remaining mutants after the event ends?
Release them and treat them like ordinary players?

That would be disastrous for ordinary players.

Continue imprisoning them, keeping them as samples for the next operation?

Did the two events have the same content?

Surely the terminal isn't that incompetent?
"If only I could go to Romain Rolland again, maybe I could get some answers from him." Li Zheng shook his head and put away the event ticket.

Two diamond-level creatures are sleeping behind the door. Danger level: High.

Upon receiving a notification, Li Zheng's eyebrows twitched twice: "Two diamonds!"

Moreover, it's a diamond-level creature encountered outside of dungeons!
These past two days, apart from entering dungeons and participating in events, the only challenging things were exploring other areas; for Li Zheng, it was a really boring experience.

Most of the time was wasted on probing for information back and forth. If it weren't for maximizing the benefits of exploration, Li Zheng could have blindly made choices and completed twenty explorations in two hours!

"Looks like I've reached the tipping point where the difficulty of my explorations is about to increase?"

With Li Zheng's current strength, ordinary diamond creatures are no different from toys in front of him.

However, the highest difficulty he encountered in his explorations these past few days was only Platinum.

Perhaps after this, the appearance rate of diamond-level creatures will increase.

"Let's check out the other doors first; this one will remain our first choice." Li Zheng didn't swipe the card rashly; instead, he changed direction and began probing the other doors.

Sure enough, besides this one, there were two other doors leading to rooms containing diamond-level creatures. However, there was only one of each, and the difficulty was relatively low.

There are two more doors remaining on Platinum difficulty, one of which leads to an empty room.

Now, choosing which door to use is much clearer.

Returning to the first detection door, Li Zheng swiped his card, drew his sword from its sheath, and stepped inside with a hint of anticipation.

Unbeknownst to him, Li Zheng was no longer satisfied with the comfortable life of exploration, and instead looked forward to more challenging days.

Challenging powerful creatures gives him a thrilling feeling.

Just like the game mechanics of Monster Hunter, which are clearly a form of torture, so many players are drawn to it. Conquering powerful creatures is a primal instinct etched into human genes.

Especially for men, it's almost as instinctive as the desire to conquer outstanding women.

The light screen in front of him dissipated, revealing a landscape of strangely shaped rocks.

One after another, towering stone pillars rose from the ground. When Li Zheng first saw this scene, he almost thought that the place had been ravaged by an earth dragon.

Armored Dragon Turtle

Grade: Diamond

Description: They are nocturnal and gain strength at night, approaching the extraordinary level.

Features: Incredible defense!
Abilities: Brute force, rolling wheels, earth-shattering explosions, hard shell, ? ? ? ? ?
Weakness: Clumsy.

Old Pu: Why did I feel a sense of familiarity upon seeing them, as if I had seen them somewhere before?

As his gaze swept over the several sharp spikes in the distance, Old Pu suddenly provided a piece of information he had detected: it was one of the two diamond creatures that were sleeping there!

They have blended perfectly into the environment, concealing their presence!
"Familiar?" Li Zheng noticed the word and cautiously approached the other party before he woke up.

After bypassing several massive stone pillars that would take four people to encircle and crossing two fissures in the ground, Li Zheng finally got a clear look at the armored dragon turtle from afar.

It is huddled in a huge shell, with half of its head exposed, resembling a crocodile. Its skin is rough and has a rock-like texture.

Its limbs are like stone pillars, and because they are so thick, even when it is asleep, the armored dragon turtle has to stand there.

The thick limbs give the impression of a power capable of crushing mountains.

The enormous turtle shell is like a rock, and its back is covered with dense, sharp spines, like a sea urchin.

Five of the spikes are particularly conspicuous, twice the size of the others, and are spaced apart from the head to the back, forming a row.

The spike closest to the head tilts forward with a slight curve, like the ram that a giant ship sailing at sea would install.

"The tips of the spikes on the side..." Li Zheng took out the real maze and compared the scratches with the actual ones; they were surprisingly similar.

"Holy crap! Could these be the two monsters that wandered into the room where I was resting last night? What a coincidence!" Li Zheng recalled their route; it shouldn't have overlapped with his own.

"It might be the same creature, but not the same two?" Li Zheng put away the Real Maze and looked at the Armored Dragon Turtle from afar, not wanting to wake it rashly.

What he hates most are the tough, defensive creatures, like the Iron Turtle. He might spend a lot of time trying to break through their defenses, but he still can't manage it. He can only try to find their weaknesses.

Just like a person's throat, heart, genitals, eyes, head, etc. are all fatal weaknesses.

Besides the weaknesses that Old Pu discovered that were relatively easy to exploit, the creatures in the Matrix also have some directly fatal weaknesses.

If you can find it successfully, the difficulty of the battle will be greatly reduced. If you handle it well, you can even kill someone of a higher level without breaking a sweat!

(End of this chapter)