Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day-Chapter 804 - 566: Difficulty Stabilization Vanguard

"What task is worth you making such a fuss?" Li Zheng held his rice bowl, disdainfully saying, "Can't you be a bit more mature and steady like me?"

Really, how old are you? How can you still get so excited over such a little thing?

Li Zheng had pretty much studied everything in the Task Hall. Unless a privilege task that could take him back to the Matrix appeared, he wasn't interested in those tasks that were troublesome, thankless, and without much reward.

"Tell me, who's the unlucky fool that added an extra zero in the task rewards column that made you so happy?" After expressing his disdain for Zhan Zhouzhou, Li Zheng adopted a demeanor as calm as a mountain in a storm, properly placing a small transparent piece of meat into his mouth and tasting it slowly.

Hmm, Mirel's cooking has improved again, truly worthy of being the little princess of the Enchanting Demon Race.

Uh...

By the way, if the Enchanting Demon Queen finds out her daughter has turned into a little cook here, will she flare up?

"Ah, coming early isn't as good as coming at the right time!" Zhan Zhouzhou sniffed the air, her beautiful eyes lighting up instantly. She sat down next to Li Zheng and reached out her hand, "Quick, give me a set of utensils. I'm starving and can do with a bit of food here."

Li Zheng: "..."

Damn, you really aren't polite at all!

He handed over a bowl and chopsticks, waiting for Zhan Zhouzhou to wolf down several mouthfuls without any manners before adopting a formal tone, as if he'd been in the palace for years, asking, "So, what task did you get?"

"Mmm... mmm~ gulp~" Zhan Zhouzhou swallowed the food in her mouth, took a few bites of millet-cooked rice, and mumbled, "A task to go back to the Matrix for a competition."

"Oh..."

Li Zheng nodded indifferently, and the next second was startled: "Hmm??? What did you say? A task to return to the Matrix??!"

Surprising!

Wasn't it said that tasks in the Matrix are rarely released?

How did she get one on their second day in the Outer City?

Holy cow!

This luck is unbelievable!

"What's all the fuss?" Zhan Zhouzhou rolled her eyes at Li Zheng, disdainfully saying, "When will you be mature and steady like me?"

Li Zheng was speechless. This sounded awfully familiar, almost like he'd said it himself not too long ago?

Is this karma in action?

It's coming too fast.

"Kiss you hard? No way, I'm afraid if I kiss too hard, you'll slash me with a sword."

This made Zhan Zhouzhou pause, "Since when did you become so glib? ...And if you dare make a joke about the words 'glib', believe it or not, I'll really slash you with my sword."

"Why so serious?" Li Zheng said, slightly choking on Zhan the Heroine's words. He was actually planning on joking around with those words. "Just kidding... anyway, tell me about the task. What's the content?"

Back to the main topic, Zhan Zhouzhou recounted the task details to Li Zheng: "It's simple. The Terminal is opening a new special room, recruiting stable difficulty pioneers, requiring Outer City residents with strength not exceeding Star Shining to participate. I went to the Task Hall to submit a task from this morning and saw this task pop up. I snatched two spots immediately."

"Stable difficulty pioneers?" Li Zheng squinted his eyes and commented, "The Terminal gets credit for coming up with such a pun-worthy term… So the Terminal is planning to open a new special room needing Outer City residents to assist in perfecting it? Like being NPCs?"

Li Zheng thought of the previous "Fishing Competition," where Luo Aiman and Xiao apparently took on similar tasks and appeared at the contest scene.

This so-called "stable difficulty pioneer" is probably similar to the merchants then, serving a guiding NPC role to lead the players in the competition?

"Probably." Zhan Zhouzhou nodded. "The task content isn't detailed. It said specific details would be given once the task starts, and this task is kind of... um... how to say it? A pre-opening type. Only when someone in the Outer City triggers the new special room will we who took on the task receive a message to complete it."

These real-time trigger rooms can't have tasks posted only after players trigger them; preparations must be made ahead of time.

So the Terminal released the task now, allowing Outer City residents to be selected in advance, so when the time comes, they can be directly teleported to execute the task.

"Did you just say you grabbed two spots?" Li Zheng inquired.

"Yes, I got one for you too." Zhan Zhouzhou raised her eyebrows and smiled, "How about that? Quite considerate of me, huh? Even with something so good, I thought of you!"

"..." Li Zheng sighed, "Did you forget I'm tied up right now?"

The extra spot can be shared with others. Generally, each person can grab one more spot at most, and if not used within thirty seconds of the task start, the Terminal will forcefully take it back and randomly assign it to another Outer City resident.

"What are you worried about?" Zhan Zhouzhou didn't care, "The task hasn't even started yet, right? You know how big the Matrix is, maybe this task won't be triggered until ten days or eight months later?"

By then, Li Zheng would have regained his freedom and could share a spot, essentially being prepared for a rainy day.

Li Zheng thought for a moment and nodded, "Hope so."

Li Zheng had been through a few rule updates on the Terminal and had grasped some of its patterns.

Since Zhan Zhouzhou had taken this task, it meant the Matrix's Terminal had already announced it.

Moreover, those newly developed special rooms were certainly already installed.

Generally, these new features would be triggered by players within three days.

Even if there's a case where nobody naturally triggers it, the Terminal would do something behind the scenes.

In the Matrix, the location of each room isn't fixed. Li Zheng realized this on the third morning after entering the Matrix, as the room information detected by Prelis' Eye slightly differed from the previous night's scanning.

Of course, the room that's already explored and connected to the player wouldn't change.

As for whether those subsequent connected 'explored' rooms would change after players left them the next day, Li Zheng wasn't sure.

After all, one of the Matrix's rules was not to backtrack, and he wasn't in the mood to waste daily exploration opportunities looping back to check.

"Here, take these three scrolls." Li Zheng took out three Outer City tickets he had stored in his capsule and handed them to Zhan Zhouzhou, "In case I can't make it to the task, you go back alone and find a way to return the tickets to Phoenix Mountain. Tell them they can enter the Outer City anytime."

"Is it the right time?" Zhan Zhouzhou hesitated at first, then said, "I think waiting a bit longer might be better. These two days I've experienced in the Outer City, I've found new players won't find it any easier to live here than in the Matrix. Just earning the first White Crystal Coin would be challenging enough."

If she hadn't killed many Platinum and Diamond-level creatures relying on her advanced strength and the help of Prelis' Eye before entering the Outer City, exchanging materials at the registry for some White Crystal Coins, she wouldn't even have had a place to stay yesterday.

Because of yesterday's embarrassing situation, Zhan Zhouzhou was eager when taking tasks today, accepting one with inflated rewards leading to disgust later by the demands of the "Pureblood Red Pig."

Honestly, finishing that task in half a day was purely due to Zhan Zhouzhou's unrivaled strength among players of her tier, her speed at defeating monsters extraordinarily fast, combined with the advantage of having flying tools.

If it were any lesser-skilled player, completing the Pureblood Red Pig task would take at least two to three days.

Camping overnight in the Wilderness is much more dangerous than in the Matrix!

In the Matrix, wandering monsters are rare, and players have the capsule lodging for protection, typically avoiding reduction due to wandering monsters.

Once in the Outer City, entering the Wilderness, although the capsule lodging can still be deployed, it loses the 'invincible' feature!

Moreover, in the Wilderness, what level of Desolate Beasts appear at night in each area is something not even the oldest players in the Outer City dare confirm with one hundred percent certainty.

Maybe during the day, you're still dealing with Extraordinary-level Desolate Beasts, but at night several Basic-level or higher Desolate Beasts might come along and overrun you...

"Of course, I have my reasons for doing so." Li Zheng wagged the tickets in his hand, "Look closely at the information on these tickets."

Prompted, Zhan Zhouzhou looked closely and exclaimed in surprise: "The destination has changed?!"

"Correct!" Li Zheng raised his chin proudly, "From today, no matter what methods are used to enter the Outer City, all players will gather in Zone Four!"

This was the reward Li Zheng exchanged for by 'selling' himself, benefiting players besides him and Zhan Zhouzhou.