Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day-Chapter 44 - 43 The Nature of Humanity

"Forget it, if it’s gone, it’s gone."

Li Zheng turned indifferently, skirting the edge of the room, looking for the metal door to the next room.

"Raising one is already a hassle, why have a second one?"

Glancing at the little Sakura soundly asleep on the edge of his pocket, bubbles hanging from its nose, Li Zheng suddenly felt that more pets might not be better.

"I don’t expect you to be a helper now, I’ll find a couple of cheering sticks for you. During fights, just cheer and support."

He patted the little creature gently, watching it unconsciously lift its body and hug his finger with a peaceful expression.

Li Zheng smiled indulgently and didn’t pull his finger back, letting it hold on.

...

[Your luck pin is interesting! There are three Armored Boars behind this door. Be ruthless, wipe out this family of three!

The threat level is low.]

Twenty minutes later, Li Zheng found the first metal door, and right off the bat, it was a little surprise.

"It’s still early, no rush to go in. I’ll look for the remaining two doors."

Moving on, another twenty minutes passed, and Li Zheng found a door that was already open, with a red light flashing on the card reader at the entrance.

[The Forest Wild Wolves are here, and so is your little helper, although it’s been turned by the wolf pack, so... I still suggest you go deal with that family of three.]

"..."

Li Zheng looked at the information provided by Prelis’ Eye, silent.

What’s the grudge against pigs?

Why does it keep urging me into that room?

On to the next room!

Another twenty minutes later...

[I’d love to lie because then you’d surely go take down that family of three! Alas, I can’t lie!

There are some devices and blueprints behind this door, but watch out for traps.

Guess who’s the trap nemesis?

Oh ho ho ho!

Anyway, it’s not you!]

"Damn you! You talk more nonsense by the day."

Li Zheng suddenly missed the old detector, though it couldn’t detect the specifics of the room contents, it at least behaved well.

"Devices and blueprints suggest a data table in the room, but even dismantling it wouldn’t yield much material. Better to go take down that family of three..."

Li Zheng suddenly paused, "Damn! I got sidetracked, why am I saying ’take down that family of three’ too?"

Turns out, humans are essentially parrots.

Going back to swipe the card and enter the door.

At the moment he stepped out of the light screen, Li Zheng heard pig sounds from not far away.

At a glance, the room wasn’t a metal one; instead, rocky and gusty winds were blowing.

"Is this... a canyon environment?"

Looking back, the metal door was embedded in a cliff wall, with an opaque light screen flowing incessantly.

Looking up, the cliff’s stone walls grew steeper, wider at the bottom and narrower at the top.

"A bowl-shaped... is it a sinkhole environment?"

Li Zheng withdrew his gaze, turning instead towards the approaching ’family of three’: "No environment matters; first take down... I mean, slaughter the three boars."

Desert Eagle slipped into his hand, and Li Zheng stamped his foot, moving forward proactively.

Three Armored Boars, two larger ones and a smaller.

Originally, when they saw Li Zheng, the two larger boars blocked the front. As Li Zheng quickly closed in, one called towards the rear.

Immediately, the smaller boar turned and ran without looking back.

"They really are a family of three."

Li Zheng furrowed his brows, unfazed, and after reaching effective range, he raised his gun and fired.

Bang!

The gunshot rang, the bullet left the chamber.

Just a Black Iron Level Armored Boar, Li Zheng didn’t even use Ice and Fire Attachment, starting the fight in normal shooting mode.

The Armored Boar lowered its head, the thick stone armor on its forehead was bristling with spikes, and the energy bomb from the Bronze Level Desert Eagle failed to penetrate, only sparking a few flames.

"Such tough armor!"

Li Zheng’s eyes darkened slightly, as his body, having been strengthened, was gradually able to control the Desert Eagle’s recoil.

He lowered his arm, realigned his aim.

"Ice and Fire Attachment - Fire Element!"

Red fire element clung to the muzzle, just as Li Zheng was about to fire, the two boars scraped the ground and charged in thunderously.

The Armored Boars, massive like small mountains, once running, their movements were like two heavy trucks, making the ground quake.

The two Armored Boars lowered their heads to crash, while pale yellow light condensed on the ripped spikes of the armor.

Faintly, the spikes grew longer, sharper, shimmering with a faint metallic luster.

[Don’t doubt it, they have indeed developed Genetic Abilities; otherwise, why else would Armored Boar blood enhance physique?

But for you, it means nothing.

Right?]

Prelis’ Eye gave a hint, and Li Zheng smiled faintly.

"Indeed, it means nothing."

Bang!

A fiery roar, the Magma Bullet shot out of the chamber.

Bang!

Thud, thud, thud!

An Armored Boar was hit, its skull instantly exploded, brain matter splattering everywhere, rolling over ten meters under inertial force before collapsing powerlessly, lifeless.

One shot.

Instant kill!

The death of its companion stimulated the other Armored Boar.

"Roar!"

In a state of rage, the Armored Boar’s eyes turned crimson, its charging speed rising another notch.

With an unstoppable momentum, it vowed to turn Li Zheng into mincemeat in one go.

"A pig is still a pig, can’t adjust their thinking quickly, can’t even adjust during a wild charge; if I just dodge, wouldn’t that be bullying... pig?"

Li Zheng didn’t slow at all, charging towards the Armored Boar.

Just as they were about to collide, he slightly pressed down with his legs, then straightened them fiercely, leaping high.

"Ice and Fire Attachment - Ice Element!"

In mid-air, over the boar’s head, Li Zheng turned and aimed, activating his Genetic Ability, with ice-blue cold air glowing at the muzzle.

"Bang!"

The muzzle lifted up high.

The Ice Cone Missile punched through the air and the skull of the boar, shattering into countless fragments, mincing its brain, and then pouring out from the two nostrils, dripping on the ground.

"Wuu... roar!"

Letting out a muddled, unclear wail, the second Armored Boar wavered a bit, then crashed to the ground.

Clap!

Li Zheng spun several times in the air, landing steadily, the Desert Eagle twirling quickly in his hand, then gripping it fiercely.

"Whew~"

Blowing away the nonexistent gun smoke at the muzzle, Li Zheng suddenly turned his arm and pulled the trigger.

"Bang!"

Thud.

Unbeknownst to him, the smaller Armored Boar had sneaked back, only to die from this shot.

The battle was over.

Li Zheng put away the Desert Eagle, looked up at the sky, lost in thought.

[Are you feeling melancholic?

Go decompose first; you’ll no longer feel melancholic once you’re done.]

Prelis’ Eye gave a hint at this point, its words cold and heartless.

"Melancholic?"

Li Zheng looked at the bodies of the three Armored Boars, nodding in acknowledgment.

"A bit, indeed."

Whether it was the two large boars letting the young one avoid battle before the fight, or the young one returning despite danger, it all softened Li Zheng’s heart slightly.

"Am I being too saintly?"

Li Zheng asked himself quietly, unsure if he was questioning Prelis’ Eye or himself.

"Squeak squeak!"

Little Sakura flew back from a distance, furious.

It had been thrown out when Li Zheng leaped up, and this was its protest.

Reaching out to catch Little Sakura, Li Zheng let it stay in his pocket, as he walked towards the Armored Boars’ bodies.

Starting with the large boars, he began decomposing them one by one.

[Decomposing Armored Boar, you obtained: Armored Boar Blood 250ml, Armored Boar Meat +12, Armored Boar Heart Core +1]

[Decomposing Armored Boar, you obtained...]

[Decomposing Young Armored Boar, you obtained: Armored Boar Blood 100ml, Armored Boar Meat +5, Identity Card +2]

"Identity Card!"

Li Zheng’s eyes narrowed, "There are actually two!"

This meant that at least two players had been killed by the three boars and eventually devoured.

[Now, are you still melancholic?]