Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 451 Fengshan? Just an ordinary person! (4K)

[Event Announcement: Due to the outstanding performance of some players in this "Challenge Mutants" event, exceeding the task requirements, the final rewards for the event have been increased.]

The team with the highest kill count will have each member receive a Star-level finished item at the end of the event.

Available types: Weapons, Armor, Miscellaneous.

The team ranked second in kills will each receive a random extraordinary item/material at the end of the event.

The team ranked third in kills will have each member randomly receive a three-day power boost buff at the end of the event.

[If any teams have the same score in the above rankings, the team with the highest successful challenge number will be ranked.]

[Note: The first major entertainment event of this game, a fishing competition, will begin the day after this event concludes.]

The "Fishing Competition" will be open to participants in guilds. Registration will begin at 8:00 AM on the day the event starts. Guild leaders and deputy leaders can submit their registrations.

Registration will last for two hours, officially ending at 10:00 AM.

[The fishing competition officially began after registration closed.]

[This fishing competition will last for 24 hours. During this period, all player ID cards will be locked, and all exploration and teleportation activities will be prohibited from 0:00 AM onwards. (The cards will unlock again at 10:00 AM the following day, after which normal exploration will resume.)]

[This fishing competition is a recreational activity. In theory, there is no danger to the lives of any participants. Please feel free to register and participate.]

[For detailed rules and regulations, please visit the event page after the event begins.]

……

The unexpected announcement has once again sparked widespread discussion on the world channel.

"Holy crap! Boss Li Zheng is awesome! (voice cracks) Even the terminal gives our boss face, directly upgrading the quality of the final event reward!!"

"Shit! If we had known the rewards were this generous, we should have tried to participate in the event back then!"

"My old friend, what are you daydreaming about in broad daylight? Didn't you see that Li Zheng practically swept all the points in this event? Even if you participate, do you think you can beat them?"

"A newbie player watching the drama unfold..."

"Adding another melon-eating comment!"

"Any player who tried to challenge the mutants when the event started knows how difficult this event is. There's no need for you to regret it; you'll only regret it if you really put in the effort."

"I'm a newbie and I don't understand. Is this event really that difficult? Can someone knowledgeable please explain it to me?"

"Answer the question? Isn't there one last mutant left? You can form a team and challenge it to find out."

"Newcomers, don't listen to him. We tried the weakest mutant, number 43, back then. It was at least at the diamond level!"

"The weakest are all diamonds? The newbie is trembling with fear, wondering what the strongest are."

"Perhaps the very pinnacle of the extraordinary? I think that's about it. Otherwise, even if it were stronger, Li Zheng might not be able to defeat it, right?"

"The very top of the extraordinary? Are you out of your mind? Didn't you see that the first place reward was upgraded to Star Glory? That means the strongest mutant is at least at the Star Glory level!"

"Star Glory? I mostly encounter Silver and Gold monsters these days. How many tiers higher is Star Glory than me?"

"Not many, only four or five major ranks."

"It's only four major ranks higher than Gold. Gold is three ranks higher than Iron, and I reached that in less than five days. Does that mean I'll be able to handle Star-level in another seven or eight days?"

"You're so cute. I'm one of the first veteran players, and I'm only at the Platinum level now. I'd have to fight tooth and nail against Diamond-level creatures!"

"Noob! I'm a diamond!"

"You're amazing! I'm extraordinary!"

"Terrible! I'm a Star Glory!"

"Noob! I'm better than Star Glory! By the way, what's the next level above Star Glory? I need to show off, waiting online."

"Bandit! Li Zheng is a bandit! The Matrix game has already been patented in our country. The rewards he received from participating in the event should be handed over to our players!"

"Park Sang-yoon? Just by looking at the style of this name, you can tell it's from the old universe country. The whole universe belongs to your country, so why don't we see you settling down on other planets?"

"What kind of 'cosmic nation'? It's basically a stolen nation, okay? The whole world knows that people who steal other people's traditions are obsessed with stealing."

"Everyone, please calm down! We, the players from France, call for world peace and peaceful gaming!"

"But we in France also think there's nothing wrong with the claim that our fellow countrymen are addicted to theft."

"This player from Yue, please do not impersonate a citizen of France using your country's name, so as to avoid causing international disputes, thank you."

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Li Zheng glanced at the world channel for a while, then glared angrily at Feng Shan: "Feng, you still say you're not the matrix terminal's favorite son?"

Twice, "words became law"—the moment an opinion was expressed, the matrix terminal issued a related adjustment announcement.

The last time could be considered a coincidence, but it's too much of a coincidence to have it happen twice in a row.
"This... I'll ask my old man. He must be having an affair with the Matrix Terminal!" Feng Shan's expression was still blank. He had only mentioned it casually, so why was the Matrix Terminal cooperating with him like this?

Is it...

Am I really the terminal's favorite son?

Actually, the terminal is my mom?
“Mr. Feng Qiwu, as your son, I have a very serious question for you.” Feng Shan sent his father a private message, asking, “Tell me honestly, is the Matrix Terminal my mother?”

Twice in a row!
The timing of the two announcements was so coincidental that even Fengshan himself began to have some doubts.

Along with him, questioning the meaning of life, was Fengshan's father, 'Feng Qiwu'.

Seeing the outrageous private message from his son, he was so angry that he almost had a stroke at his age.

After a moment of calm, the burly middle-aged man erupted in anger and blurted out, "It's your mother!"

"It really is?!"

Fengshan was shocked. The old man had kept this good thing from him all along. How could he be so dishonest!

Upon seeing Feng Shan's three-word reply, Feng Qiwu clutched his heart and gasped for breath: "Get lost!"

Oh dear, my heart hurts, and my head hurts too. How could I have such a stupid son?
If Feng Shan didn't look almost exactly like him when he was young, Feng Qiwu would have seriously doubted that Feng Shan was his biological son.

No, no, this brat is making me angry the very first time he's contacted me. I'll blacklist him and let things cool down.

Feng Qiwu casually gave his own son a permanent blacklist ban, and will probably only release him when he's in a better mood.

"Why is this old man using blacklists and banning people too?"

Feng Shan closed the private chat page with a look of melancholy, and looked at Li Zheng with resentment: "I'm starting to suspect that you're my dad's son, otherwise why do you always use blacklists to ban people?"

"Ugh……"

Li Zheng sighed deeply with a complicated expression, then raised his hand and patted Feng Shan's shoulder forcefully: "Now that things have come to this, I won't hide it from you anymore. Actually, I... your father and I are twin brothers from different fathers and mothers. According to seniority, you should call me uncle."

Fengshan: "???"

These are twin brothers from different fathers and mothers!
I was just doing this as a joke, and you're trying to take advantage of me with this ethically questionable joke?

Zhan Zhouzhou smiled and said, "Serves you right for calling Lu Li 'nephew' every day."

"Is this what they call 'those who take advantage of others will eventually be taken advantage of'?" Fengshan complained with a dark face.

"Alright, enough joking around." Li Zheng became serious and analyzed, "Actually, it's quite reasonable for the terminal to suddenly release an announcement about upgraded rewards this time." Since the terminal has created an event for players to choose to participate in, the rewards and difficulty must be matched.

Otherwise, what if no one participates when other events start after this one ends?
If you want the horse to run, you have to let it eat grass.

Even when a donkey is pulling a millstone, a carrot is hung in front of it.

If you want Qidian authors to update more frequently, you should vote for them with more monthly tickets and give them more money as a reward.

It's the same principle...

This is a matter of subjective initiative.

"I guess the terminal didn't initially expect anyone to be able to wipe out this event within seven days?" Yan Guang said. "That's why the reward given back then was extraordinary level?"

Lin Fengjiao thought for a moment and said softly, "Maybe the terminal didn't expect someone to be so foolish as to accept mismatched rewards and do high-risk work..."

Everyone: "..."

Indeed, when the difficulty level didn't match up at the beginning, the team discussed whether to give up on the subsequent challenges.

However, considering the potential dangers posed by these mutants, they agreed to continue challenging the event dungeon with Li Zheng.

At the time, everyone was just thinking about killing as many as possible to minimize the potential risks.

Who knew that as I played, I would be about to beat the game without even realizing it?
"Since the terminal has already increased the rewards, let's finish off the last mutant as soon as possible." Li Zheng looked at his remaining Force; his condition was still good enough for him to go through another high-intensity battle.

Nishaxi, who is being challenged this time, is not particularly outstanding in combat ability.

However, her bizarre invisibility ability and anti-psychic power methods were too strange, which just happened to counter the strengths of Zhan Zhouzhou and Li Zheng, making the fight somewhat difficult.

In fact, if Fanny Shaxi lacked even one more skill, Li Zheng felt she might not be as good as Shenwei.

“There’s no rush. I’ve just had a stroke of good luck and gained some insights into swordsmanship. Give me some time to organize them,” Zhan Zhouzhou suggested. “Half an hour at most. I’ll contact you after half an hour, no matter what.”

Li Zheng opened his mouth as if to ask something, but in the end he didn't, and just nodded in agreement: "Okay."

"Then I'll go back first."

Zhan Zhouzhou took out the event ticket and left the event instance.

After she left, Fengshan said what Li Zheng had just wanted to say: "Zhan Zhouzhou's style is getting more and more outrageous. Did you see those last two moves clearly?"

"That's sword energy, right? And it's the kind you can see with the naked eye!"

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes just now, I wouldn't have believed that such a fantastical thing exists in this world."

Outrageous?

Fantasy?

That's absolutely outrageous, and absolutely fantastical!

But upon closer reflection, Li Zheng felt as if he had seen similar moves before.

[Friendly reminder: Little succubus, may all whips return to their source.]

The text displayed before him snapped Li Zheng out of his reverie. He turned to look at Miriel, who was sitting to the side, bored because she couldn't understand what others were saying.

The "sword energy" that Zhan Zhouzhou unleashed at the end was indeed very similar to the "Return of Ten Thousand Whips" technique that Miriel had mastered.

The difference is that although the Ten Thousand Whip Returns to Origin technique has tens of thousands of whip shadows, only ten of them can be converted into real attacks.

Although Zhan Zhouzhou's "sword energy" is not numerous, only five can be released at a time, each one is a real attack.

Li Zheng remembered that Miriel had previously explained the principle of "Ten Thousand Whips Return to Their Origin," which was actually about using mental power to simulate countless whip shadows, and then using some techniques to turn the illusory shadows into physical entities.

Did Zhan Zhouzhou generate mental power during the battle just now?

After all, her perception ability is extremely strong, which is very similar to mental power.

Perhaps she was already on the verge of developing her mental power, but Nishaxi's final mental attack just happened to break her shackles and release her mental power.
The more Li Zheng thought about it, the more convinced he became that this was the truth, and he felt a surge of excitement.

If one can unleash such an attack by reaching the level of mastery in a certain martial art and combining it with mental power, then if one further improves their swordsmanship skills, can they also achieve the same result?

With a single slash, the sky and the ground were filled with the light of blades.
Even if it's not powerful enough, gua sha can still kill the target, right?

It's exciting to think about!

Li Zheng quickly realized what was happening.

With his unparalleled martial arts talent, how could he possibly advance his swordsmanship to the next level?
Ha ha……

It’s as difficult as climbing to the sky!

But it's not impossible.

A glint flashed in Li Zheng's eyes. He had previously wondered where the martial arts skills contained in the "Memory Releaser - Fighter" that came out of the treasure chest came from.

Ever since he learned that many different races had come to the Matrix, he understood that there must be experienced players in the outer city who specialized in this area.

Maybe……

There are veteran players in the outer city who make a living by selling abilities such as "Martial Arts Proficiency".
Anyway, you can relearn the mastery skills recorded by the memory releaser. Isn't that how Sarutobi Amuro works?
With this in mind, Li Zheng calmed down. He had one more thing to do after going to the outer city: find a way to obtain a high-level martial arts mastery!
"It's alright, what's so fantastical about it?" Li Zheng said nonchalantly, "Does the existence of Matrix Games mean it's not fantastical?"

"Hmm..." Feng Shan shrank back, "You're right!"

"But... sword energy!~"

"So handsome!"

Fengshan has already planned to find someone to systematically learn some boxing techniques. Since the beginning of the game, his progress in mastering boxing techniques has been stuck at 81%, and he still hasn't been able to figure it out.

Stimulated by Zhan Zhouzhou's "sword energy," his mind finally became active.

Since sword practitioners can unleash sword energy, it's quite normal for fist practitioners to be able to generate 'fist wind' or 'fist energy', right?

Li Zheng rolled his eyes, preemptively throwing cold water on the idea: "You don't actually think this kind of thing can be accomplished overnight, do you?"

"Zhan Zhouzhou has immersed himself in swordsmanship for more than ten years to achieve his current level of skill!"

"Moreover, as far as I know, to reach this level, one not only needs to be proficient in martial arts, but also needs some more difficult-to-obtain abilities to assist in achieving it."

"you……"

Li Zheng glanced at Fengshan a few times: "It's still a long way off!"

When Zhan Zhouzhou stood in front of Li Zheng, he was like a sharp sword, exuding a cold and sharp aura.

Looking back now, that must have been a manifestation of Zhan Zhouzhou's nascent spiritual power.

As for Fengshan?

Ha ha……

Just an ordinary person!
……

Ps①: The world chat content consists of messages from different players. It's just that the newbies are focused on the same things, so they're connected. It's assumed that they don't have that many megaphones to use yet.

I'm not writing down specific names and channel numbers mainly because I'm worried you'll accuse me of spamming...

P.S.: I'm really not just posting fluff!!!

(End of this chapter)