Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day-Chapter 54 - 52: Cat Café

[Behind this door, there are some equipment, some food.]

[Behind this door, there are some creatures, moderate threat level, you might be interested in them.]

[Trust me, behind this door there is absolutely nothing, including air!]

After checking the three doors one by one, Li Zheng finally chose the second one and swiped his card.

"Let me see what kind of creatures I might be interested in?"

If Prelis’ Eye hadn’t mentioned the latter half of the sentence, Li Zheng might have chosen the first door, a room with food is bound to have a "fridge" or "fish tank."

Right now, he has three blueprints waiting to be built, dismantling any equipment would provide him with a considerable amount of material.

However, the latter half of the hint indeed piqued his interest.

Because even he himself didn’t know which creature he would be interested in.

"Could it be the tasty kind?"

Li Zheng walked through the light screen full of anticipation.

He was alert, but he wasn’t attacked immediately after entering the door.

On the contrary, he only saw a group of harmless little kittens.

"This is..."

After seeing the layout of the room clearly, Li Zheng was astonished: "A cat café?"

Yes, the room Li Zheng was in was indeed a small-sized café.

Though small, the café had all the essential facilities.

Five sets of beige tables and chairs, a small bar counter, and a coffee machine.

There was a small door behind the bar counter, probably leading to a kitchen for making desserts.

Besides that, there were several little kittens of various colors.

Some were playing around, some were lazily snoozing, and some were curiously watching Li Zheng intrude.

Prelis’ Eye scanned the kittens one by one and gave a cue:

[A few ordinary cats, if you want, you can enjoy some cat therapy here.

After all, who wouldn’t like cute kittens?

But I must remind you to pay attention though.]

"Cat therapy?"

Li Zheng’s lips twitched, "Who has the leisure for that now?"

In a place like The Matrix Survival Game, to find harmless little kittens?

This situation itself hints at something peculiar.

Better not be lured into a trap by attempting cat therapy.

"But they did finally say something sensible, pay attention?"

Li Zheng ignored the kittens and began closely inspecting the room.

There weren’t many things, the room was small, and scanning back and forth a few times, he could see it all.

He checked the front room and kitchen several times, but Li Zheng couldn’t find even a single trap.

On the contrary, the cat café was very clean, not even a trace of residues like flour on the stove.

Only a few cat bowls in the corner, clean, no cat food left.

Opening the cabinet for ingredients and utensils, Li Zheng acquired [5KG Flour], [2KG Granulated Sugar], [500ml+2 Fresh Milk], and some molds and condiments for making desserts.

Everything seemed normal, except for the absence of shopkeeper and customers.

But because of this, Li Zheng felt a strong sense of incongruity and couldn’t find the reason for it.

Finding cat food in the cabinet, Li Zheng grabbed a handful and lured a few cats to the front room, quietly feeding them.

"What’s wrong here?"

Li Zheng fed the cats, furrowed his brows pondering for a long time before his gaze fell back on a white cat that was rubbing against his pant leg.

This was a breed Li Zheng couldn’t identify, its fur was very thick, but because too many companions came over for the cat food, it couldn’t squeeze in and rubbed his pant leg instead.

Seeing him looking, the white cat meowed, trying to curry favor.

Its long, soft white fur shed onto Li Zheng’s pants after a few rubs.

"Hey! You’re really weak, can’t even compete for food."

Li Zheng was already crouched, reached out and pet it, "Come, I’ll give you some too."

He took a few pieces of cat food in his hand, held them out to the white cat, who sniffed the aroma twice before eating straight from his palm.

"Ha, so obedient, not even afraid of people, if it wasn’t for your shedding, I’d take you with me..."

Suddenly, Li Zheng’s voice cut off, he stood up abruptly, startling the cats that came to eat away.

He finally realized what was off about this tiny café.

"With so many cats here, the room being so clean suggests someone or something comes to clean regularly. And..."

Li Zheng looked up and down, couldn’t find what he was looking for: "A plainly visible room yet no subsequent explorative metal door?"

He turned around to look behind, the light screen unique to metal doors was embedded within an aluminum-framed glass door.

"Click."

Trying to grip the glass door handle, Li Zheng gently twisted it open, easily unlocked.

The light screen moved with the opening of the glass door, revealing the street behind.

"This..."

Li Zheng opened and closed the glass door a few times, confirming the light screen was part of it, and there were no anomalies behind the door.

Even standing on the other side of the glass door looking in, he could see the scene inside the cat café clearly, as if the light screen didn’t exist.

"Doraemon’s magical door?"

The situation reminded Li Zheng of an anime he watched on Earth, where the blue robotic cat had a similar door.

Looking up, the metallic dome remained far above from the ground.

Turning around in all directions, he saw a modern street, no pedestrians, no vehicles, just various shops lining the roadside, neon signs hanging or standing at entrances, with shop names printed on them.

"Does this mean other metal doors might be like this cat café’s, embedded somewhere in a store, instead of being found by going in a fixed direction like before?"

Li Zheng glanced around, complaining, "This setup is totally useless to me! Prelis’ Eye marks out where metal doors are in every direction!"

[Go left?

Go right?

Oh~ Damn multiple-choice questions!

Why not flip a coin, then I’ll tell you the answer?

Alright, you really have no sense of humor.

Going left, you’ll find two metal doors.

Going right, you’ll also find two metal doors.

Geniuses go left, madmen go right.

You aren’t a genius, nor a madman.

But you’re a fool~~, so I suggest you go right.]

Li Zheng: "..."

After silently reading all the hints, Li Zheng furiously cursed, "You’re the fool~~, your whole family are fools~~, and why did you bother writing censored words when displaying text, doesn’t it make you look classy? A kind of plant!"

After venting, he didn’t choose but instead headed back into the cat café, went to the kitchen to gather cat food, and distributed half of it into each cat bowl.

Then he left the cat café, locked the shop door, and turned right.

[Are you admitting it?

Then,

prepare yourself,

now begins,

the real show!]

Taking just one step out, Prelis’ Eye flashed the hints quickly.

Li Zheng didn’t have time to read them all.

Because, suddenly, the shop doors along the right-side street all opened.

Next moment, from every door emerged a young woman in a maid outfit, clutching cleaning tools.

"WTF? Cosplay? Two-dimensional... no, LSP’s ultimate joy!"

Prelis’ Eye provided information about these targets, and after reading, Li Zheng silently pulled out his handgun—Desert Eagle of black-tech edition.