Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 52 Cat Cafe
Behind this door are some equipment and some food.

There are some creatures behind this door; they pose a moderate threat, and you might find them interesting.

Believe me, there's nothing behind that door, not even air!

After checking all three doors, Li Zheng finally chose the second one and swiped his card.

"Let me see what kind of creature I might be interested in."

If Preys' Eye hadn't mentioned the second half of the sentence, Li Zheng might have chosen to enter through the first door. A room with food would inevitably have a "refrigerator" or a "fish tank".

He happens to have three blueprints that need to be built right now, and dismantling any equipment would be a considerable source of income for him in terms of materials.

However, the second half of the prompt did indeed pique his interest.

Because even he himself doesn't know what kind of creatures he would be interested in.

"Could it be the kind that tastes good?"

Li Zheng walked through the light curtain with anticipation.

He was alert and not attacked immediately after entering the room.

Instead, he only saw a group of harmless kittens.

"This is……"

After seeing the layout of the room, Li Zheng was immediately shocked: "A cat cafe?"

Yes, the room Li Zheng was in at that moment was indeed a small coffee shop.

Although it is not large, it has all the necessary facilities of a coffee shop.

Five sets of egg-yolk yellow tables and chairs, a small bar, and a coffee machine.

There's a small door behind the bar, which looks like the kitchen where desserts are made.

In addition, there were several kittens of different colors.

Some of them were playing and frolicking, some were lazily dozing off, and some were curiously watching Li Zheng, who had wandered in.

His gaze swept over the kittens one by one, and Preys' Eye gave a hint:
[A few ordinary cats; you can pet them here for a while if you want.]

After all, who doesn’t love cute kittens?

However, I still need to remind you to observe carefully.

"Snuggling a cat?"

Li Zheng's lips twitched. "Who has the time for that now?"

In a place like a matrix survival game, how could a few harmless kittens appear?
This situation itself reveals a hint of strangeness.

If you actually go to pet the cat, you'll fall into their trap.

"But he did say something sensible at the end: 'Observe carefully'?"

Ignoring the cats, Li Zheng began to carefully observe the room.

There weren't many things, and the room wasn't big; you could see everything in just a few glances.

Li Zheng checked the front hall and kitchen several times, but he couldn't find even a single trap.

On the contrary, this cat cafe was very clean, with not a trace of flour or anything like that left on the stove.

There were only a few cat bowls in the corner, and the bowls were clean, with no cat food left.

Li Zheng opened the cabinet containing ingredients and tableware and obtained [5KG of flour], [2KG of granulated sugar], [500ml+2 of fresh milk], as well as some molds and seasonings for making desserts.

Apart from the absence of shops and customers, everything seemed normal.

But precisely because of this, Li Zheng felt a strong sense of unease, and after thinking about it, he couldn't find the reason for this unease.

Li Zheng found cat food in the cabinet, grabbed a handful, and went to the front hall to lure a few cats over, feeding them quietly.

"What's wrong?"

Li Zheng was feeding the cats, frowning and deep in thought for a long time, when his gaze finally fell on a white cat rubbing against his trouser leg.

This was a cat whose breed Li Zheng couldn't identify. Its fur was very thick, but because there were too many other cats coming to eat, it couldn't squeeze in, so it rubbed against Li Zheng's trouser leg in a friendly manner.

Seeing him looking at her, the white cat tilted its head back and meowed, trying to please him.

Its white fur was long and soft; after just a few rubs, Li Zheng had a whole leg of cat hair stuck to his pants.

"Hey! You're so weak, you can't even compete with others for food."

Li Zheng was squatting down, within easy reach of petting it. "Here, have some too."

He grabbed a few kibbles of cat food from his hand and offered them to the white cat. The cat sniffed the food twice, then started eating it directly from his palm. "Ha, so good! Not afraid of people at all. If you weren't shedding so much, I'd want to take you home..."

Suddenly, Li Zheng stopped speaking and stood up abruptly, startling the kittens that had come to eat cat food away.

He finally realized what was wrong with this little coffee shop.

"With so many cats here, the room is unusually clean, which means someone or some kind of creature comes here regularly to clean. And..."

Li Zheng looked up and then down, but couldn't find what he was looking for: "A room that's easy to see at a glance, but there's no metal door to explore further?"

Li Zheng turned around and looked behind him. The light curtain unique to metal doors flowed, but it was embedded in a glass door with an aluminum alloy frame.

"Click."

Li Zheng tried to grasp the glass door handle, turned it gently, and easily opened it.

The light curtain moved along with the glass door as it was opened, revealing the street behind it.

"This……"

Li Zheng opened and closed the glass door several times to confirm that the light curtain was integrated with it, and that there were no unusual phenomena behind the door.

Even standing on the other side of the glass door and looking inside, you can clearly see the scene inside the cat cafe, as if the light curtain doesn't exist.

"Doraemon's Anywhere Door?"

This situation reminded Li Zheng of an anime he watched on Earth, where the blue robot cat could pull out a similar door.

Looking up, there was still a metal dome, far above the ground.

Turning around, I saw a modern street with no pedestrians or vehicles, only various shops lining the roadside. Neon signs with shop names were displayed or hung at the shop entrances, above the doors, or on the ground.

"Does this mean that other metal doors, like the one in the cat cafe, might be embedded somewhere in a shop, instead of being found in a room like the previous ones, where you could just follow a fixed direction?"

Li Zheng looked around and complained, "This kind of setting is completely useless to me! The Eye of Preys has marked all the directions where there are metal doors!"

Should we turn left?

Turn right?
Oh, those damn multiple-choice questions!
Why don't you flip a coin first, and then I'll tell you the answer?

Okay, you really have no sense of humor at all.

Go to the left, and you will find two metal doors.

If you turn right, you will also find two metal doors.

Geniuses go to the left, madmen go to the right.

You are neither a genius nor a madman.

But you're an idiot, so I suggest you go to the right.

Li Zheng: "..."

After silently reading through all the prompts, Li Zheng burst out cursing: "You're the idiot! Your whole family is idiots! And you're displaying text, why did you have to write out the censored words? Is it to make you seem cultured? It's a plant!"

After he finished cursing, he had no choice but to turn around and go back into the cat cafe. He went into the kitchen, found some cat food, and added half the amount to each of the cats' bowls.

Only then did he leave the cat cafe, close the door, and turn right.

No way?

Does this mean you're admitting it?
Then,

Be prepared.

Next is...
The real highlight!

As soon as he took a step, the Eye of Preys flashed through a series of prompts.

Li Zheng didn't have time to finish reading it.

Because, suddenly all the doors of the shops on the right side of the street opened.

The next moment, a young woman dressed as a maid and carrying cleaning tools emerged from behind each door.

"WTF? Cosplay? Anime... no, this is pure ecstasy for perverts!"

The Eye of Preys provided information about these targets. After reading it, Li Zheng silently pulled out his pistol—a high-tech version of the Desert Eagle.

Thank you to "Crazy Goldfish" for the 100-point donation. I missed it yesterday, so I'm making up for it today.

Thank you all for your support. I have no way to repay you, so I can only do a somersault to express my gratitude!
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Okay, I've finished my somersaults, time to get back to writing.

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(End of this chapter)