Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day-Chapter 794 - 556 Zhan Zhouzhou’s Mission and... Li Zheng?!
"It's nothing, just suddenly remembered something." Li Zheng turned his head unnaturally.
He didn't know why he felt guilty.
"I'm going back to the ancestral land for about three days, and I need you to fill in for me as a receptionist during that time until I return." The receptionist took out a small hexagonal badge and handed it to Li Zheng.
"This is..."
He took the badge, and virtual text flashed on it: Temporary position handover completed, do not leave your duties during the filling period!
Li Zheng: "..."
Wow, this is way too high-tech!
The moment I got it in my hand, it transferred...without the slightest hesitation.
"It seems my schedule for the next three days is set." Li Zheng gave Mirel a wry smile, indicating that the shopping trip he promised earlier would have to be postponed or canceled.
Mirel didn't mind, nodding thoughtfully: "Then see if you can grant me access to the inscription card. Just hand me the card, and I can go shopping alone."
"..." Li Zheng took out the inscription card and studied it for a while, discovering that there really was an authorization option.
With a blank expression, he said to Mirel, "I can't authorize it for someone else."
Mirel matched his stare parallelly, flapping the wings behind her, and replied with a blank face, "Do you think I'm an idiot?"
"... Ahahaha..." Li Zheng laughed awkwardly a few times and handed the inscription card to Mirel, "Spend it wisely."
"Do I look like someone who doesn't understand?" Mirel rolled her eyes, grabbed the inscription card, and flew away.
Watching Mirel's back, the Blood Patterned Black Dragon receptionist said to Li Zheng with a puzzled expression, "You're different from anyone else I've met."
"Different how?"
"You're too good to your pet," the receptionist said. "I've never seen a player give a pet such freedom; you're the first."
"Really?" Li Zheng was slightly stunned, then smiled, "Maybe, in a while, you'll see more people like me."
"For them, pets are more of a companion, like a partner or family member, rather than a disposable life."
Perhaps due to being influenced by a lot of online novels, Li Zheng knew that most Blue Star players with pets valued them highly, with some even considering them more important than family, preferring to face danger alone to ensure their pet's safety.
Quietly gazing at Li Zheng, the receptionist found that he didn't seem to be lying, sighed, and said, "It's this little one's fortune to follow you. I now feel that when she finishes her dormancy stage, she might actively seek you out to stay by your side."
In the Blood Patterned Black Dragon clan, this was the highest positive evaluation they could give outsiders!
Li Zheng smiled calmly, "Little Sakura has her own choices, and as her companion, I will unconditionally support her!"
At this moment, a subtle change appeared in the receptionist's calm eyes hidden under the hood. The look in her eyes softened several times over, seeming to finally gain a trace of recognition for Li Zheng.
"I'm called Mo Li, what's your name?" Mo Li proactively asked about Li Zheng's identity, revealing her true name.
"I'm Li Zheng."
"Li Zheng?"
"Yes, how come?"
"Nothing..." Mo Li's tone carried a hint of confusion as if she had heard a similar name somewhere before but couldn't remember where.
Shaking her head, she took hold of Little Sakura and walked towards the teleportation gate. Before leaving, she said to Li Zheng, "You can understand the general duties of a receptionist through the public service badge. Normally, no one dares to mess with public servants in the outer city... But if they do, bear with it for a few days until I come back to settle the score for you."
"Alright." Li Zheng nodded, watching as Mo Li led Little Sakura to disappear at the teleportation gate.
For a moment, his heart felt as if a piece was missing, empty.
Since Little Sakura entered her dormancy stage, her presence had become weak, but she had been by his side from the first day in the Matrix, and Li Zheng still couldn't quite let go.
"It's only a month to their ancestral land; there shouldn't be any mishaps... right..."
Li Zheng recalled the novels he used to read, with this kind of plot often heralding endless troubles.
He was someone who disliked trouble.
"It shouldn't..."
He muttered to himself, looking down to examine the so-called public service badge.
[Public Role: Teleportation Gate Receptionist]
[Duties: Greet all lifeforms entering and exiting the teleportation gate (number: 902) and facilitate their travel.]
[Old Pu: Basically, you're a doorman. You just open the path for those people to different directions... Wait, are you imagining weird scenarios involving elevators, uniforms, females, malfunctions...?]
Li Zheng: "..."
If you put it like that, the duties of a teleportation gate receptionist are indeed crystal clear.
Looking around, the passersby were in a rush, and none were using the teleportation gate.
Li Zheng sighed; in this world, no one wanted to go to the Wilderness willingly, and the district teleportation required a fee, making the teleportation gate receptionist a rather idle position...
Utterly bored, he decided to take out some different styles of tables and chairs he had stored in a capsule and set them up in front of the teleportation gate, brewed a pot of tea, and calmly sipped in the gaze of all the pedestrians.
In fact, filling in as the teleportation gate receptionist suited Li Zheng just fine, as it allowed him to wait for the expected return of Zhan Zhouzhou, who was already on a mission in the Wilderness.
...
Wilderness, Code: B7712485344
This was Zhan Zhouzhou's mission objective area, a low-resource zone inhabited by only a few types of Desolate Beasts, with not even a single mine.
Thus, besides those on a mission, no humans were usually spotted here, only Desolate Beasts.
"Tusks of three 'pureblood red skin pigs'?"
Zhan Zhouzhou, holding the Purple Extreme Sword, stood in the cold wind, her expression changing unpredictably, as if ready to PK someone.
In her capsule lay no less than a dozen pairs of red skin pig tusks, which should have completed the mission.
But there's where the problem lay.
She hadn't looked closely when taking the mission, only noting that a task not requiring even 'Basic Level' strength offered a reward of 100,000 White Crystal Coins, so she took it casually.
The task required 'pureblood' red skin pig tusks!
Emphasis on 'pureblood'!
"Damn it, how was I supposed to know how pure a bloodline counts as 'pureblood'?" Zhan Zhouzhou gritted her teeth in anger, dismissing the Purple Extreme Sword from her hand, then activated the thruster on her back to fly boldly into the sky without care for alarming the surrounding Desolate Beasts.
"And the mission didn't even describe how pureblood red skin pigs differ from regular ones. Should I slaughter every red skin pig in the area?!"
Right now, Zhan Zhouzhou's mood was just foul!
Absolutely foul!
Though she still had one chance today to forfeit the mission without penalty, she had already accepted it and had been busy in the mission target area for half a day. Returning like this would only make her feel worse.
Zhan Zhouzhou was naturally tenacious, which sometimes resulted in stubborn behavior...
Especially when she perceived 'sunk costs' on a matter she found 'challenging', this trait became more pronounced.
Now, she was stuck in a cognitive loop where abandoning the mission would make her reluctant to give up the previous 'sunk costs', but not abandoning...
The result might be endlessly continuing the mission.
"Since the terminal recognizes the mission as valid, it must be doable in this area. If killing ten red skin pigs isn't enough, I'll kill a hundred! A thousand!"
"Until the mission's needs are met..."
"Hmm?"
Flying with the thruster while searching for red skin pigs, Zhan Zhouzhou was suddenly surprised when she noticed signs of battle in the right front.
Damn it!
Is there someone else fighting over this crappy task?!
The thought flared in Zhan Zhouzhou's mind as her anger rose, preparing to go 'steal the monster'.
However, as she approached and was about to get close to the opponent, Zhan Zhouzhou's face suddenly changed. Her right hand made a virtual grip mid-air, swinging rapidly with five slashes to the front.
Clink!
Clink!
...
Clink!
Five consecutive crisp collision sounds, with five waves bursting out from the seemingly empty air, then quietly dissipating.
"Such powerful spiritual power!"
Zhan Zhouzhou's slanted eyes focused, staring in surprise at the figure on the ground holding a dark red short blade and wearing a blood-colored hood: "Li Zheng?!"
