Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day-Chapter 834 - 595: "Aren’t You Afraid Li Zheng Will Come After You?
"What is messed up?" Chaikefu calmly said, "Didn't you see that he already reached the other side?"
Everyone looked carefully and found that Li Zheng had landed just within the range of the trap's opposite side. If nothing unexpected happened, this jump was indeed successful.
Bang!
Li Zheng landed steadily, and the massive recoil started from his feet and surged all the way to his waist before he gradually neutralized it.
After calming himself and checking his body, he found no spiritual power disturbances caused by the jump and landing, indicating that he was already capable of a certain intensity of combat.
"Whew, this is probably the best news in days..." Li Zheng sighed with relief. Only when he possessed combat abilities could he truly be at ease.
"It seems that this trap indeed had no other changes." Chaikefu muttered a sentence and turned around to leave.
At Li Zheng's starting point, Chaikefu casually stretched his limbs, then assumed a very professional starting posture, with his hips raised high, eyes fixed ahead.
Three, two, one!
After silently counting to three, Chaikefu darted forward like a cheetah, running with an exceedingly standard posture, clearly someone who has undergone systematic training.
No wonder his preparatory actions were so professional.
With Li Zheng's exemplary performance as a reference, Chaikefu mimicked his predecessor, replicating the process of Li Zheng jumping over the trap.
The difference was that, unlike Li Zheng who had another gravity tool pulling him back before the jump, Chaikefu reached a distance farther than Li Zheng on the other side,
"What is this?" 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖
After everyone had passed the trap, Li Minshun turned to look at Anne's corpse below, his tone complex: "Such a simple challenge, yet a life was lost because of an unexpected mistake... It's just not worth it."
"You sure are good at mocking the dead for a living person." Wang Xiaoshan unabashedly mocked Li Minshun. "Fake concern, who are you trying to fool?"
Perhaps because Li Minshun had previously embarrassed him publicly, Wang Xiaoshan always felt a dislike for him and subconsciously opposed him.
Correspondingly, Li Minshun also had no fondness for Wang Xiaoshan, and neither gave an inch in their verbal skirmishes.
"Sigh..." Feng Bujue sighed deeply, shaking his head helplessly, unwilling to intervene with the two.
In any case, this round didn't grant them combat abilities, so moving their lips shouldn't lead to any issues.
He walked away from Wang Xiaoshan's side and approached Li Zheng and another: "The terminal's task for us is to complete three rounds of challenges, did we just pass the first round?"
"How could it be that simple?" Chaikefu sneered contemptuously, "In my view, this was merely an appetizer. The real challenge hasn't even begun."
"Hmm, I think so too." Li Zheng nodded in agreement.
Having no player faction, he couldn't see the opposing task panel and progress and could only lower his presence, speaking less to hide his traitorous identity.
The argument between Wang Xiaoshan and his companion grew louder, soon testing everyone's patience.
Chaikefu glanced at the two coldly and said to Feng Bujue, "You'd better manage your little brothers, or please turn back the way you came. I don't want them to become a burden when unexpected situations arise on the way ahead."
"I actually think everyone should follow the same path." Li Zheng spoke up at this moment, "The terminal assigned us so many people for a reason. Later, there might be checkpoints requiring teamwork to pass, and having too few people could leave us stunned."
If there weren't task restrictions, Li Zheng would certainly prefer to part ways with these people.
Initially, he thought it was just a typical special room, and at most, being eliminated meant losing a chance for exploration.
Now knowing that death here meant actual death, Li Zheng felt somewhat conflicted.
After all, they bore him no animosity, but to take lives for a single mission seemed rather excessive.
Now he felt a bit lost and didn't know what to do next.
Should he abandon his own principles and go on a killing spree during the third round of challenges?
Or should he maintain his usual stance and avoid harming the innocent?
Regardless of his choice, moving together with everyone was beneficial and harmless to him.
If the group split, who knows what unexpected accidents might cause casualties on the other side.
Being unjustly judged as having failed the task then would be too unfair.
Additionally, Li Zheng wondered if eliminating players who died at his hands would count as kill value?
"What you said makes sense." Chaikefu felt Li Zheng was right, realizing his previous plan to act independently was a bit presumptuous without considering the possibility of checkpoints requiring teamwork.
After pondering for two seconds, Chaikefu made a decision and walked in the direction of Wang Xiaoshan and the other.
Smack!
Smack!
Two crisp slaps startled everyone.
"You... dare to hit me?" Wang Xiaoshan was stunned.
"Listen." Chaikefu disregarded Wang Xiaoshan's resistance, grabbing his collar with both hands and lifting him up, speaking with a faint killing intent: "I don't care who you know, what status you have, and I don't want to care whether you live or die. If I didn't still have use for you now, I'd have thrown you into the trap already!"
"And you!" After threatening Wang Xiaoshan, Chaikefu turned to the watching Li Minshun: "Should I hear you engaging in that kind of meaningless quarrel again, I'll kill both of you!"
Finishing his threat, he turned away under the gaze of the two and walked into the depths of the passage.
Li Zheng silently watched, then followed, walking side by side with Chaikefu at the front.
"That's a neat trick, offending two people at once, directly shifting the conflict." Li Zheng quietly praised, now Xiaoshan and his companion would likely not have the mind to quarrel, as their most disliked person had shifted from each other to Chaikefu.
"You think I did that just to shift the conflict?" Chaikefu laughed disdainfully: "I'm not so bored. If they can't learn their lesson, I really will find a way to kill them!"
Feeling the undisguised killing intent emanating from Chaikefu, the corners of Li Zheng's mouth curled into a smile.
He looked at the personal information provided by Old Pu:
[Name: Marcus D. Monte (3)
Gender:
Race: Human
Strength Rating: Newly Entered Star Shining (Suppressed)
Genetic Ability: ... (Locked)
Weapons and Tools: ... (Locked)]
The number in brackets next to the name indicated that the player with the real name "Marcus" and the alias "Chaikefu" had killed three ordinary players, which meant...
He was a red-namer!
"You've got quite the bloodlust." Li Zheng asked nonchalantly, "Killed before?"
"Hmm." Marcus hummed lightly, not denying it.
Li Zheng inquired again, "Aren't you afraid Li Zheng will come after you? Rumor has it he despises red-namers, and once he knows who they are, it's almost certain death for them."
"Li Zheng?" Marcus sneered, "Not to mention whether he can find me, don't you notice that Starting Point Legion dropped from first to fifth in rank recently? Can't you tell he isn't around anymore?"
"Not around?" Li Zheng feigned surprise, then lowered his voice to ask: "What do you mean by not around? Is he... dead?"
"Some say he went to a place called Outer City, but I don't think so." Marcus seemed keen to recruit 'Li Ruizhou,' willing to divulge a bit: "From what I know, over the past month or so, Li Zheng has provoked several large legions, including Creation of Nihong Country, High Celestial Plain, and the strongest legion of our White-headed Eagle, as well as the Norse Gods.
Although several targeted attacks by large legions ended in failure, Li Zheng's true strength ceiling was exposed clearly during the fishing event."
"I heard that a few legions organized another assassination plan a few days ago, deploying their top experts, and Li Zheng?" Marcus paused here, mockingly saying: "He should be dead by now."
Li Zheng himself, listening to this news, felt a myriad of emotions, unsure of what expression to show to convey his inner thoughts.
Since going off the radar in Matrix, these opponents had started adopting the Ah Q spirit?
Was this kind of self-deception really okay?
