Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day-Chapter 841 - 602: His Eyes Are Interesting

[Ability One: Investigation

Designate a target and inquire about their identity. If successful, eliminate the target.

If it fails, eliminate yourself!

Uses available: 5/5]

[Ability Two: Disguise

Disguise yourself as another identity to block one Investigation skill.

Uses available: 5/5]

[Ability Three: Deceit

When investigated, you can show the investigator a designated identity.

Uses available: 2/2]

The same three universal abilities. From the description, the second challenge task seems to be a competition between several player teams.

As an Outer City Executor dispatched, Li Zheng, much like the previous challenge, has a fourth ability.

[Special Ability: Counter (Exclusive to Executors)

When targeted for investigation and your true identity is uncovered, directly counter the investigator and eliminate them.

Uses available: 3/3]

"The terminal assigned me the identity of a ’Prime Minister’?" Chaikefu expressed confusion after reading the new abilities.

Wang Xiaoshan also announced his identity: "Mine is ’Marquis’."

Li Minshun: "I am the same as Chaikefu, a ’Prime Minister’."

Feng Bujue: "I’m different from you; mine is ’General’."

E’er Batu: "General."

Carol was slightly excited: "My identity is King!"

No matter how you look at it, ’King’ is the highest status in any context, meaning my identity is higher than everyone else’s!

"What about Ruizhou?" Wang Xiaoshan looked at the silent Li Zheng: "What’s your identity?"

"Me?"

Li Zheng looked at the flickering "Thief" word before him, his expression odd: "I’m the same as you, a Marquis."

Based on the exposed identities, this challenge is conducted according to the ranking order "King→Marquis→General→Prime Minister."

The King subdues the Marquis, the Marquis subdues the General, the General subdues the Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister subdues the King.

Participants of each identity can only investigate the player’s lower-ranked identity from other teams, submit the identity to the terminal for determination, and then proceed with the elimination judgment based on the result.

Of course, there are certainly variables among them.

That is Li Zheng playing the ’Thief.’

If the Prime Minister can subdue the King because the Prime Minister’s identity can be understood as a treacherous one, then the ’Thief’s’ identity is simply that of an "outlaw."

In a Thief’s eyes, whether King, Marquis, General, or Prime Minister, they’re all treated equally, capable of being eliminated.

Therefore, the ’Thief’ can investigate anyone and eliminate anyone unconditionally.

Interestingly, the ’Thief’ can also secretly eliminate people within their own team.

After all, being an outlaw, if you can’t turn on your own people, how can you be called an outlaw?

And what restrains the ’Thief’ is, of course, another ’Thief.’

Li Zheng thinks this setup essentially provides Executors a chance to complete [Task Three: Eliminate at least one peer].

Now he feels immense pressure because the terminal has given him a mandatory task: to ensure before the third-round challenge that his team reduces no more than two people.

That means...

His only choice in this challenge is to lead the entire team’s investigation and voting rights, eliminating all opponents right at the start of the game!

However, the terminal has only provided each identity and the restraint sequence; specific rules have not been disclosed. Perhaps the victory conditions are not as stringent as he thought.

After all, there is another round of challenges ahead; it’s unlikely the last team will descend into an internal war...right?

"Let’s go."

Li Zheng saw a Teleportation Gate at the end of the corridor not far from them and reminded everyone: "Listen to my command over there, don’t mess around."

Upon hearing his words, Wang Xiaoshan became excited: "I’ll do anything you say, Ruizhou!"

Chaikefu’s gaze flickered slightly. In the previous mechanical body challenge, guessing the clearing method could be seen as luck, but why does Li Ruizhou still appear confident this time?

Could it be...

He has insider information?

He knew all the challenge tasks even before the instance began?

E’er Batu had similar thoughts, having been watching others in the team throughout, with his silent demeanor just a disguise.

As he thought, his presence was almost zero in the team, never becoming the focus, and others had no desire to communicate with him.

This allowed him to blend into the team, advancing through the instance with success.

Though unclear why, despite finding no anomalies, he still felt uneasy.

He always felt like someone was occasionally watching him.

Yet, every time he sought the source of the gaze, the sensation vanished instantly, as if it was merely an illusion born from his guilty conscience.

The group quickly passed through the Teleportation Gate, entering a foreign hall, arriving on a small platform.

The platform was only spacious enough for the whole team to stand, surrounded by waist-high metal railings, while beyond it lay an endless bottomless Abyss.

There were seven similar platforms in the hall, with figures already standing on some of them.

The number varied.

Li Zheng scanned around. Their left was a full team, all eight present.

Upon noticing Zhan Zhouzhou among them, being protected at the center, he realized they might be playing the same strategy: gaining player trust and fully integrating into the team.

Zhan Zhouzhou also noticed their arrival, glanced over, and upon seeing a blank target in her Prel’s Eye, she momentarily hesitated, then realized it was Li Zheng’s team.

Witnessing Li Zheng slightly shake his head, Zhan Zhouzhou understood the gesture was a signal not to expose their acquaintance and subtly turned back.

Further left from Zhan Zhouzhou’s team was an empty platform, indicating either full elimination or slower progress.

Another empty platform was adjacent to Li Zheng’s right, while the remaining platforms housed five, four, four, and three people, respectively.

The Outer City Executors were in each team, seemingly well-hidden, their identities undiscovered.

After a while, a Teleportation Gate appeared on the platform left of Zhan Zhouzhou’s, through which a line of figures emerged.

Also a seven-member team, missing one player.

Upon noticing this team, Li Zheng surprisingly discovered two familiar faces within!

Yu Xiaoyu and Yuanfei Yuluo!

Zhan Zhouzhou knew them too, momentarily stunned upon seeing their information, before glancing back at Li Zheng.

Li Zheng made no extra movements, turning around just as the team on the platform behind him arrived.

The Teleportation Gate opened, and out jumped two figures.

One leisurely, the other in disarray.

When the gaze locked on the disheveled figure, an interesting piece of information from Prel caught Li Zheng’s attention. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

[Yamamoto (Evil Eye) (7)

Race: Half-person

Gender: Male

...

His eyes are quite interesting; you know him.]