Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 397 Feng Shan: "Damn lucky guy!"

"We pushed the mutant number to 16 in one go today, which made quite a splash on the world channel."

After Li Zheng and his companion, along with a pet, sat down, Feng Shan said, "I also saw someone say they wanted to become your disciple."

Although the system's announcement on the world channel only stated that Li Zheng led his team to kill the mutant numbered XX.

But all the players in the matrix had no doubt about one thing.

That means Li Zheng is definitely the main fighting force in the team...

Fengshan expressed envy, jealousy, and resentment at this treatment, his tone tinged with bitterness.

Judging from his usual fighting style, he is actually a show-off, but now he has become a supporting character, and his appearances in the announcements are just incidental.

"Become an apprentice?" Li Zheng smiled indifferently: "It would be better to ask Lady Zhan for this than to ask me. I'm just a Muggle, and my fighting skills depend entirely on my equipment."

His words, meant to be modest, were interpreted by his four teammates as boasting about eating durian.

Fengshan gritted his teeth and cursed angrily, "Damn lucky emperor!"

Yan Guang patted him on the shoulder and comforted him, "Don't be discouraged. You're lucky too. Ever since I explored with you, all the items we found those few days were things I could use."

"You're my lucky star! Mua~" Yan Guang said, and kissed Feng Shan's face, making Feng Shan's old face turn red, as if it had been burned.

Li Zheng felt somewhat emotional about this matter.

Despite acquiring many useful items, Yan Guang's actual combat strength is difficult to improve.

It's just that her robotic arm is such a huge consumer of consumables, often throwing out hundreds of missiles at a time; even mountains of gold and silver couldn't withstand her wasteful spending.

Therefore, her exploration with Fengshan was, overall, a huge disadvantage for her.

Whether it's for Fengshan or for her.

The two had initially separated to explore their new relationship after a falling out, but not long after, they not only reconciled but also secretly took their relationship a step further behind Yu Xiaoyu's back.

That night, he even borrowed a compass from Ye Kai, and now they're hanging out together again.

Li Zheng, being an outsider, couldn't offer any advice and could only let them develop on their own.

“Actually, you can just treat his words as Versailles.” Zhan Zhouzhou said with a light laugh, “You should all know that I went to the training room with Li Zheng and we sparred there.”

"Ah, I heard about this from Lu Li. Old Li barely won by half a move." Yan Guang recalled hearing about this before.

"That's it."

Zhan Zhouzhou spread his hands in a helpless gesture: "Even I, who have practiced martial arts for many years, was defeated by him in a one-on-one fight. Do you still believe his nonsense that he relies entirely on equipment in battle?"

“That’s not how it works,” Li Zheng retorted. “You were still using the gravity necklace back then, so my victory would have been unfair.”

Zhan Zhouzhou leaned back slightly, crossed her arms in front of her chest and lifted them upwards: "In a friendly spar, a win is a win, there's no such thing as an unfair victory. When I lost, I said I hadn't broken the necklace's restriction, but that was just stubbornness."

If we really fought... I couldn't beat you. Neither that sparring match nor now.

Li Zheng's gaze was drawn to Zhan Zhouzhou, but he quickly realized something was wrong and turned back to stare at the mysterious declaration.

Zhan Zhouzhou was taken aback when she saw this, but she realized what was happening and put her hand down.

To be honest, Li Zheng really admired Zhan Zhouzhou.

Since acquiring the Gravity Amplification Necklace, she has already activated five times the gravity, and it seems that it hasn't affected her daily life at all.

Especially the parts most susceptible to gravity, remain as firm as ever.

It's worth mentioning that Zhan Zhouzhou has never broken free from gravity restrictions and gone all out since participating in the event. Therefore, Li Zheng is unsure whether he could defeat Zhan Zhouzhou in a full-force sparring match.

Unless the two of them fight right now, but that's obviously not the right occasion.

The Bloodthirsty Demon Blade was still feasting on the woodlice mutant. Li Zheng had to wait until it had completely devoured all the blood before he could leave the activity area. He still had ten exploration opportunities from the Mysterious Declaration to use that night.

"By the way, is your live-streamed teaching program still running?" Li Zheng realized that he hadn't practiced swordsmanship for several days and was planning to find an opportunity to attend a class.

"It's running, and we'll be doing a live stream every other day." Zhan Zhouzhou sighed softly, "It's a pity that fewer and fewer people are coming to watch the live streams to learn. There used to be more than three thousand people, but now there are less than two thousand people still sticking with it."

Some of those who stopped coming halfway through found the sword training too arduous and gave up.

Others perished during their exploration.

Most of them never came out after entering the instance.

Nowadays, the highest player mortality rate is no longer in daily exploration, but in dungeons.

“Everyone has their own ambitions. Let those who are unwilling to learn be.” Li Zheng drew lines on the ground with his finger, leaving streaks of blue and white ice crystals. “Didn’t you say yourself that you only seek to have a clear conscience?”

"Hmm." Zhan Zhouzhou nodded: "However, the rest of the people are not bad. Almost everyone has mastered swordsmanship. More than 20 of them have better aptitude than others and are already trying to become swordsmanship specialists. I estimate that we will have the results tonight."

"Isn't that great? It has improved the combat capabilities of two thousand men. That's a great achievement!" Li Zheng praised, but then suddenly remembered something, and his expression turned somewhat grim.

"What's wrong?" Zhan Zhouzhou asked curiously.

"You mean... nearly two thousand people, starting from scratch, have all achieved mastery of swordsmanship, and some have even begun to strive for specialization?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

"Damn it...!" Li Zheng looked up at a 45-degree angle, forcing his tears back: "There's one thing you're absolutely right about."

"what's up?"

"I freaking... I really don't have any talent for martial arts!"

Li Zheng was overcome with grief. He remembered that the live streaming function had only been open for a short time, but all the players watching the tutorials were more talented than him.

Looking back on the few skills and specialties I've acquired, two-thirds of them were obtained through crooked means. I only have one swordsmanship skill, which I mastered after nearly ten days of crazy, arduous practice!

Comparing the two, a judgment is made.

Li Zheng is definitely not cut out for martial arts. As for those so-called "fighter" abilities, who knows when he'll be able to master them if he trains on his own...

At this moment, Fengshan remembered something and asked Li Zhengdao, "You told us last time that you wanted some things besides the rewards for winning the trading event. Now that we have such a big lead in points, can you tell us what those things are?"

“Yes, Fengshan and I have already traded the items ahead of time. We should at least know what they are, right?” Yan Guang said. “At least now that we know, we can be mentally prepared when we get the items and trade them.”

Li Zheng had also considered whether or not to tell others about the outer city entrance ticket.

The initial decision to keep it a secret was based on the belief that the fewer people who knew about this thing, the better.

But then I thought, even if I keep it a secret now, it will be exposed on the day the event ends.

It's better to say it now to avoid future conflicts.

“Actually…” Li Zheng was about to speak when he suddenly received a private message, interrupting him from what he was about to say.

"Excuse me, let me check a private message first." Li Zheng saw that the private message was from Liu Qishao, and decided to see what the other party wanted to talk to him about.

(End of this chapter)