Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 377 Seven Ways to Die
"Of course, sometimes I'm just too lazy to move, and I only eat something when I'm completely exhausted."

Wei Hai was, after all, a soldier with strong willpower. He tried hard to suppress the lethargy emanating from the depths of his soul and maintain a normal state.

"Although most of the time I'll be fed food and water by someone before that!"

The word "贴" was emphasized, and when Wei Hai said this, he glanced at the soldier standing next to him with a resentful look on his face.

"We were ordered to take him along on the exploration."

"And take care of his daily needs as well."

The two soldiers spoke in unison.

Li Zheng noticed that the two looked nine-tenths alike, except that one of them had a mole in the center of his forehead.

"Twins?" Li Zheng asked instinctively.

"Haha! I won! I knew everyone would ask us that. You'll be the main force on the exploration tomorrow." The soldier named He Huan, with a blood mole, was overjoyed.

He, who didn't have a mole, said with a bitter face, "I thought the big boss would be different, but it turns out he can't escape the common fate."

Li Zheng was slightly taken aback: "You two made a bet with me?"

"Mr. Li, please don't misunderstand," Wei Hai said, trying to smooth things over. "This is just a quirky hobby of the two brothers; they turn all sorts of things in life into little gambles."

In response, Wei Hai stated that he had sufficient authority to speak on the matter.

Because during the time the Ho brothers took care of him, they had made bets on him no less than a hundred times.

Whether he would ask to eat at mealtimes or how much he ate, the He brothers could use it as a basis for betting, and they never hid it from Wei Hai.

Sometimes, Wei Hai would try to sabotage their betting games out of spite, for example... by eating more than the limit they were betting on.

Sometimes Wei Hai even wondered if the He Huan and He Ku brothers were just using a bet as an excuse to trick him into eating.

He later discovered that the two brothers were simply enjoying the thrill of betting...

“We didn’t mean any offense. If Mr. Li is bothered, I apologize on behalf of my brother and me.” He Ku apologized to Li Zheng very sincerely.

"...It's alright." Seeing his sincerity, Li Zheng could only wave his hand to indicate that he didn't mind.

"Haha!" He Huan laughed twice. "I knew Mr. Li would be too magnanimous to hold a grudge against us, right? You're in charge of all three meals tomorrow too!"

He was furious: "(╯°Д°)╯Are you sick? Can't we talk about this privately? Why do we have to say it to their face?"

He Huan scratched his head awkwardly: "(`) I was just afraid you'd renege on the debt later."

"Me? Default on a debt? When have I, as the older brother, ever defaulted on a debt?"

"Haven't you renege on enough debts already?"

“Yes, I can testify to that. He does often default on his debts.” Wei Hai raised his left hand with a helpless expression.

Li Zheng looked at him with pity and said, "It must have been tough living with these two, right?"

Wei Hai shook his head with a bitter smile, looking exhausted: "What joy is there in living, what suffering in dying? I've long been used to it."

Li Zheng comforted him, "It's no use feeling uncomfortable; the hard times are far from over."

Wei Hai: “…”

His situation is different from Zhao Limin's; even with mechanical limbs, he still needs supervision.

Otherwise, he might actually starve or die of thirst.

"I sent people to check on the two missing soldiers, and I got bad news." The captain had been contacting others since earlier and finally got the conclusion. "They... have gone mad, turned into mindless zombies who kill anything that comes their way. The brothers who went to investigate were almost killed by them."

“I had already expected this from the moment you said they lost contact,” Li Zheng sighed. “As far as I know, this change is irreversible. Let the red-named players inside Kunlun go over there and give them a break.”

Upon hearing this news, Li Zheng was probably the one most deeply moved among those present.

After all, he was also infected with "rage". If he hadn't been lucky enough to have a few big shots to guide him, he would have become a killing machine like those two warriors long ago.

"Hmm! Hmm?" The captain nodded subconsciously, agreeing with Li Zheng's opinion, but then realized what he meant and argued, "Kunlun is an upright organization that never does anything like indiscriminately killing innocent people. How could there be red-named players? Please be careful with your words, Mr. Li."

"Let's just pretend it didn't happen." Li Zheng shrugged noncommittally; he didn't believe Kunlun didn't have a number of players with red names.

Even the most upright organizations need groups that do dirty work in secret, only they won't be acknowledged in public.

“If this is the fate of everyone who gets tainted by negative emotions, then what about the ocean…” Zhao Limin realized and looked at Wei Hai.

"I?"

Wei Hai gave a bitter laugh: "My way of dying should be different from theirs."

Rage turns them into killing machines; from a spiritual perspective, they are truly dead.

Laziness, on the other hand, will ultimately lead to physical death.

“The seven deadly sins, seven different negative emotions, all lead to death in the end, only the manner of death is different.” Li Zheng summarized, “Perhaps… the safest ones are pride and greed. Even if these two emotions ferment to the extreme, they are not necessarily fatal, but they will just be disliked.”

If we had to categorize it, what is infected by these two emotions is social death.

"maybe."

Suddenly, Xiao Siyuan's voice came from behind them.

When everyone turned around, they realized that Xiao Siyuan had brought Gou Feng out of the residence at some point.

At this moment, Gou Feng was completely different from before the surgery. His missing limbs had been replaced by streamlined mechanical limbs. With his flesh and blood body combined with a small mechanical limb, he looked as if he had stepped out of Cyberpunk 2077, full of science fiction atmosphere.

Aside from his limbs, the eye socket where Gou Feng's eyeball was missing was filled with a dark green color, and a large amount of code could be vaguely seen flashing within it, as if it were calculating something.

His abdomen was also covered with large areas of metal, separating it from his own flesh and blood. His liver and kidneys were replaced and supplemented with artificial organs, not only restoring their missing functions completely, but also making them even stronger than before.

"Not bad, Young Master Liu is quite generous, actually bringing out so many good things as compensation." Li Zheng saw the functions of Gou Feng's various body parts clearly through the Eye of Preys. They were all of platinum quality, and his overall combat power might be stronger than Yan Guang's!

From this perspective, Liu Qishao can indeed be considered "a man who loves his soldiers like his own children," which explains why others admire him as the chief person in charge of Kunlun.

"Yes... It's a pity that I haven't mastered the technology of installing brain chips yet, so I don't dare to operate on him casually. Otherwise, with a built-in tactical chip connecting and cooperating, these mechanical limbs wouldn't even need a break-in period and could be put into combat directly."

Xiao Siyuan said with some regret.

He could have the medical bed operate autonomously to install a built-in tactical chip in the brain.

However, Gou Feng was an acquaintance of his, and the brain is the most complex organ in the human body, so Xiao Siyuan was somewhat uneasy.

"By the way, I overheard you guys discussing the Seven Deadly Sins earlier?"

"I think arrogance and greed are the easiest ways to die."

"For example, if someone less capable than you were to show off in front of you, Lao Li, and it was that kind of shameless, forced showing off, wouldn't you be unable to resist killing him?"

Li Zheng looked up and considered it very seriously for a moment, then nodded vigorously: "If a stranger dares to do this, and the circumstances are particularly egregious, he will be killed without question."

(End of this chapter)