Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day-Chapter 912 - 643: Sin Domain (Part 3 of Part 2)

"Cat, have you met that person?" One of them asked the shadow across from him, while bringing a piece of stewed meat to his mouth.

"Yes." Cat had a pair of claw daggers by his feet, vigilant as he frequently turned his head to scan the surroundings, guarding against twisted creatures emerging from the darkness to launch a sneak attack on them.

"How did it go?" The previous person asked again after a while.

Cat turned his head, seemingly staring at him: "Dog, haven't you always been skeptical of prophecies? Why the sudden interest today?"

By Dog's feet leaned a large bone club, its origin unknown, with a grayish sheen and a surface full of dents—clear evidence of many battles fought.

He stroked the bone club: "It's said that feline races are naturally curious. Spending so much time with you, it's inevitable that curiosity rubs off on me, so I'm asking. Also, my name's Ken, not Dog; call me Dog again and I'll smash your fish-filling brain!"

Cat sneered, stroking the claw daggers at his feet: "You can try and see if I castrate you first or you smash my skull!"

Dog became immediately furious, throwing down his food and grabbing the bone club beside him: "You think I won't dare?"

Cat also grabbed the claw daggers, confronting him: "Bring it on!"

"Bring it on!" Dog stood his ground.

"Bring it on!"

"Bring it on!"

"Bring it on!"

"..." 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

The two were like fighting roosters, going back and forth with no one making the first move, while the other three couldn't stand watching them anymore. One of them spoke up: "Can you two calm down? You act like enemies every time you meet..."

"Aren't cats and dogs natural enemies?" another teased from the side: "Every time they shout, yet neither dares to act, it's dull indeed."

The third person instigated: "I bet they still won't fight; Mouse, why don't you take them both on?"

"Bring it on!"

"Bring it on!"

Hearing this, Cat and Dog instinctively turned their heads and shouted, their fighting spirit instantly multiplying, as if Mouse saying that united them.

"Double team?" Mouse shrank his neck: "I can't handle it, can't handle it; they'll tear apart this frail body of mine!"

"Then shut up!" Cat, still simmering with anger, glared at him and Dog, tossed the claw daggers aside, and sat back down: "An interesting thing happened when I contacted that person a few days ago."

Dog also returned to his seat, the bone club still leaning as before by his feet. He picked up the food he had thrown earlier, dusting off the dirt and swallowed it whole, speaking as he ate: "What interesting thing?"

Cat looked at Dog with disdain, extremely disgusted by his earlier actions: "You won't spare even a piece of meat? You actually picked it up and ate it again, isn't that filthy?"

"What do you know?" Dog was indifferent: "Have you ever been starving? Have you tried surviving three months eating only roots and bark? Have you eaten stones to stave off hunger? If you have, you'd know how precious food is."

"But you threw it on the ground." Cat muttered quietly.

"Cat, in this regard, you're not as good as Dog," the earlier mediator remarked: "Out in the wilderness, a sudden situation can arise anytime; what Dog did was right; in sudden combat, who has the leisure to find a container to set food down? It's correct to grab your weapon and fight as swiftly as possible."

"Ole Bull, why do you always side with Dog?" Cat grumbled discontentedly: "Of course, I know that's the correct approach..."

It's just habitual to snap back.

"Forget it, don't distract, I have something to say here!" He shifted the topic, continuing the previous conversation: "Remember the Twisted Magic Crystal we traded from that wilderness person earlier?"

Ole Bull nodded: "I remember; the captain asked you to take it to the Magic Crystal Store for purification. What, is there a problem with it?"

"Problem?" Cat sneered: "More than just a problem! The hidden evil thought aura within those two Magic Crystals almost made me a criminal of the Outer City!"

"Isn't Twisted Magic Crystals inherently full of evil thought aura?" Dog found himself bewildered, looking at Ole Bull: "Hasn't it always been like this?"

Ole Bull shook his head: "Cat's not talking about the natural evil thought aura, but tampered ones."

"Exactly!" Cat nodded: "You know about those Optimist Race in the city; when prepared, they can eliminate the evil thought aura inside Magic Crystals, but once it starts infecting a target, they're very afraid."

At that moment, the Magic Crystal almost infected the Optimist Race I often sought, and it was that guy who intervened to resolve the issue."

"That guy?" Ole Bull was shocked: "The prophecy didn't mention the target was of the Optimist Race, did it? How did he resolve the problem?"

"With Spiritual Power!" Cat recalled the situation, taking a breath and said: "He used sheer Spiritual Power to obliterate the leaked evil thought aura on the spot!"

"Impossible!" Mouse exclaimed: "How powerful would the Spiritual Power have to be to achieve that? Even our leader isn't that strong, right?"

"No, the leader can do it," the remaining person said: "Our leader's Spiritual Power ranks within the top hundred in the Outer City; eliminating evil thought aura in some White Magic Crystals is doable."

Cat glanced at him, saying: "But that guy eliminated the evil thought aura in a Red Magic Crystal! It's exponentially more intense than in a White Magic Crystal!"

For Li Zheng, the seemingly "weak" evil thought aura in the Red Magic Crystal, which could almost be ignored, was an extremely troublesome thing in others' eyes.

Pausing his speech, he added: "And it had been tampered with!"