Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 685 Performance of Contract
"Isn't there a better way?" Li Zheng asked in disappointment, putting away the inscription card with a furrowed brow.

After stalling over this trivial matter for so long, both the gray-haired woman and the vampire queen grew impatient: "Give me a straight answer. Are you willing to keep your promise? If you want to go back on your word, you can do so by removing the genes from that little guy's body and returning him to my clan."

The vampire queen pointed at Sakura, her face cold and stern.

Li Zheng immediately said, "No!"

Putting aside whether those genes can be removed, even if they could, he wouldn't dare to do it. Who knows if Sakura would turn into a monster that multiplies infinitely after losing a few genes?

"This won't do, that won't do either." The gray-haired woman frowned. "Are you trying to get something for nothing from us?"

"This..." Li Zhengyu stammered, "Absolutely not!"

"Ahem," said the Black Dragon Clan Ancestor, "Let me say something fair. We had an agreement between us beforehand..."

Before he could continue, Li Zheng immediately interrupted, "Grand Ancestor, there's no need to say more. I agree."

That's utter nonsense. Anyone who says, "Let me say something fair," never utters a single truly fair word afterward.

Instead of dragging it out any longer, I might as well agree now. At most, I can keep my distance from them and avoid too much contact in the future.

“Very well.” The three clan leaders’ expressions softened slightly, and the vampire queen said, “Since you have agreed to keep your promise, then let’s hold the wedding today as well. I propose that Feng Lai be the first wife, and the rest can be divided among yourselves.”

"Pah!" The gray-haired woman immediately retorted, "Why should your girl be the first wife? Do you look down on my Suffering Clan? My An'an is virtuous and kind, she should be the first wife!"

Virtuous and kind?

Li Zheng recalled the only sentence that the gray-haired girl named An'an had ever said to him, and no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't think that she was particularly virtuous or kind.

The Black Dragon Clan's ancestor also refused to back down, saying, "I believe that status should be determined by strength. Now that the new members of the four clans are here, Mo Li is the strongest and should be ranked first."

"Pah!" The gray-haired woman stepped forward and grabbed the black dragon clan ancestor's knee-length beard, cursing, "Last time your black dragon clan members encountered danger on their journey, have you forgotten who came to your rescue and saved the lives of two black dragons?"

Upon hearing this, the vampire queen immediately sneered and slammed her hand on the table, saying, "Gray-haired brat, I've tolerated you for a long time. Now you want to play the trick of repaying kindness? Have you forgotten that three years ago, when your family was in danger, it was I who stepped in to save them!"

The Black Dragon Clan ancestor, his beard and hair pulled, winced in pain. He pried the gray-haired woman's hand away and began to speak of the Black Dragon Clan's contributions: "Your two clans live in remote areas with scarce resources. Don't forget who usually provides you with supplies!"

Only the mountains where the Black Dragon Clan lives have vegetation in this Gobi Desert.

The supplies are relatively abundant, and the Pain Clan and the Blood Clan usually buy some crops from here to improve their diet.

But if he hadn't brought it up, it would have been fine. But once he did, the vampire queen and the gray-haired woman glared at him: "You old codger, how dare you say that? Back then, someone took advantage of their age. Our three races discovered this oasis mountain range at the same time, but some shameless old thing, being a bit older, forcibly took it over!"

“Yes!” the gray-haired woman said firmly, “Nowadays, the strength and foundation of my clan are no weaker than that of your Black Dragon Clan. Why don’t we take this opportunity to redefine our territory!”

"Wait a minute!" she suddenly realized. "We're almost inside the outer city, why are we redividing the territory?"

The vampire queen said, "I've heard that the outer city districts are divided into different areas. This time, our two clans will divide the best areas equally, and the Black Dragon Clan will live in the more remote areas!"

“Good! That’s how it should be!” the gray-haired woman agreed.

“That’s not appropriate…” the Black Dragon Clan ancestor retorted.

The vampire queen and the gray-haired woman stood on the same side, refuting the Black Dragon Clan ancestor's rebuttal. These three beings, whose combined lifespan was unknown, seemed to suddenly unleash all the pent-up opinions they had held for so long, arguing until their faces were red. Li Zheng ignored them, stood up, and led Xiao Ying to the four women opposite him, each with a different appearance and demeanor: "Let them argue, we'll talk. Everything has its order. Miriel was with me first, and we've already consummated our marriage. She should be the eldest sister; you shouldn't have any objections, right?"

"I don't care." The gray-haired girl, An'an, shrugged. "My great-grandmother said that you will be my man in the future, and that I should eat, live, and sleep with you from now on. What others do is none of my business."

This means she doesn't care who's older or younger, but don't expect her to have any respect for that so-called "bigger" status either.

"Hmph!" Dan Fenglai turned her head away from Li Zheng and snorted, "Anyway, I'm just temporarily making do with you. I'll leave sooner or later. Whether I'm the big boss or the small boss, I don't care."

Mo Li's reaction was completely different from theirs: "I'll just treat it as a new job. As long as you pay me enough, I'll do whatever you say."

Unlike the three elders, these younger people were surprisingly easy to talk to. Except for Danfeng, who was a bit difficult to deal with, the others all seemed to have a go-with-the-flow attitude.

“If that’s the case, then it’s easier.” Li Zheng took out the inscription card again, explained the current situation to the terminal, and asked him what he could do to get the three races to move into the outer city.

Terminal: "Isn't your Block 4 still empty? You can count how many people there are in total, and I'll prepare some teleportation disks for them to stay in your Block 4. However, the teleportation disks will cost 10,000 white crystal coins each. If you can't afford it, you'll have to give me an IOU."

"I'll write an IOU?" Li Zheng glanced at the three elders who were still arguing, then went over to stop them: "Gentlemen, please wait a moment before you start arguing. There are some things I need you to resolve..."

"what's up?"

"There's been some progress on the matter of the three clans moving to the outer city, but... it costs money." Li Zheng scratched his head and said, "A lot of money."

"Money?" The vampire queen waved her hand dismissively and asked with an air of extravagance, "How much do you want?"

Li Zheng held up one finger: "Ten thousand white crystal coins for each clansman."

"Only ten thousand white crystal coins?" The gray-haired woman laughed. "That's only one red crystal coin. Even if my clansmen are poor, they can still come up with one or two red crystal coins to pay for it."

"How many people do you have?" Li Zheng asked, thinking that the three clans had multiplied here for many years and their population should be quite large.

The vampire queen said, "My clan has a population of about 300,000."

Gray-haired woman: "Four hundred thousand."

The Black Dragon Clan Ancestor: "Our clan has not had an easy time of reproduction, and there are only about 150,000 of us."

"..." Li Zheng calculated that he needed more than 800,000 red crystal coins in total. Although he had a lot of purple magic crystals, Miriel absorbed magic crystal energy slowly and hadn't emptied many yet. So, it was indeed not enough.

However, he was fine. The expenses of this migration should have been covered by the three tribes themselves. What did it have to do with him?
He said, "There aren't many of us. The three of you should go and gather the tribesmen first. We can leave the wilderness today."

"What?" The three leaders were all taken aback: "So fast?"

They had thought that migrating the entire clan would be an extremely difficult task, and they never imagined that Li Zheng could solve it so quickly. For a moment, they all felt that it was somewhat unreal.

"It's not fast. Distributing nearly 900,000 teleportation disks will take quite a while, so everyone should hurry up," Li Zheng urged. "But before that, we have one more thing to do."

The Black Dragon Clan's ancestor's snow-white beard and hair trembled as he instantly understood: "The bridal chamber, is it? I'll have someone prepare it right away!"

Li Zheng: "...???"

(End of this chapter)