Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 71 Mechanical Giant!

Everyone looked in the direction from which the sound came, their expressions becoming serious.

"Something's coming. Line up as arranged!"

Li Zheng roared, his shouts drowning out the drum-like footsteps, and stood at the back of the group with Xiao Siyuan, gripping the Desert Eagle tightly in his hand.

Xiao Siyuan listened intently for a moment, then shouted, "About 300 meters away, and at least 15 meters tall! Be careful, they're very fast!"

"Amazing!"

Li Zheng couldn't help but glance at him. He could judge the distance and height of the other person just by listening to their footsteps. No wonder he had served in the army and received training.

Li Zheng didn't know if military training included such a program. If not, it meant the other party might have some unique talent in certain areas.

"Fifteen meters?"

Feng Shan looked up and was shocked to find that the metal passage was only a little over three meters high: "That thing hasn't even reached this side of the passage yet. If it can't get in, won't we have to tear this place down?"

"But this is the Matrix; these walls shouldn't be able to be broken through!"

Yan Guang was slightly puzzled. She had tried several rounds of continuous bombing, but the walls of the entire metal room only showed some inconspicuous deformation. The most severely damaged parts were the useless machines that were set up on the surface.

Feng Shan suddenly turned his head and said, word by word, "Has anyone ever said that the passage we're in is the entire ruins?"

"yes……"

Everyone was taken aback. Ever since entering this place, everyone had assumed that this metal passage was the so-called ancient ruins.

As the group progressed, the exploration progress of the ruins continued to increase slowly, and the metal passage seemed to have no end in sight.

I never imagined that there might be an even wider space outside the passage.

"boom!"

"Bang!"

Two loud bangs occurred almost simultaneously. Li Zheng was horrified to discover that a section at the front of the metal passage had suddenly collapsed, and the entire passage was deformed and seamlessly connected to the ground.

"Grass!"

Li Zheng roared, "That bastard never intended to come in; he just wanted to crush us to death!"

"Zhan Zhouzhou!"

"give it to me."

The girl nodded, then leaped up suddenly, her lightsaber materializing in her hand as she swung it with great force.

"Fuck."

A burst of lightning flashed, and a slit was cut open at the top of the passage.

"Fuck."

"Fuck."

Using the same trick again, Zhan Zhouzhou leaped up one after another, and with two consecutive sword strikes, he widened a gap into a "凵" shape.

The wiring connecting the lights at the top was cut, and the light in this section of the passage dimmed. Li Zheng shouted, "Get out of the way!"

Except for Zhan Zhouzhou, everyone darted to the side a short distance to avoid being directly below.

"Fuck!"

With the final sword strike, a metal roof panel fell in sync with Zhan Zhouzhou's figure.

Boom.

Li Zheng looked up and found that there was light outside. Without thinking twice, he took the lead and jumped up, easily leaping three meters high and passing through the "skylight".

"boom!"

"Bang!"

Li Zheng looked in that direction and saw a mechanical giant nearly 20 meters tall walking slowly along the metal passage, surrounded by countless mechanical mantises flying around it.

There are at least nearly a hundred of them!
By this time, the other party had already spotted him.

A huge, bulb-like single eye appeared on the mechanical giant's face, gazing at him with a very human-like expression.

"Om~"

Without the mechanical giant making any move, countless mechanical mantises, densely surrounding it, swarmed over like locusts.

"Damn! So many!"

The scene made Li Zheng's scalp tingle. Feng Shan was the second to jump up to the "skylight," but because he wasn't strong enough, he couldn't jump out directly and ended up clinging to the edge of the skylight with both hands.

Peeking out, he was so frightened by the overwhelming scene that he let go and fell back into the metal tunnel.

"I'll lure these mechanical mantises away, you guys come out quickly!"

Li Zheng shouted quickly and shrugged his shoulders; Xiao Ying immediately understood.

"嘤嘤!"

Activating rapid flight, Sakura's speed was no slower than those mechanical scythes. After circling in the air, she began firing her earth-type gene ability, 'Flying Rock Bullet,' in rapid succession. Just like when fighting the androids, in this situation, the little one didn't need to aim at all; she could hit any target with her eyes closed.

"Crack!"

The little guy fired like a machine gun, unleashing all its genetic energy in one go, attracting the three mechanical mantises. After that, it just kept flying, kiting the three pursuers.

On the other side, Li Zheng jumped down from the metal passageway and landed in the empty hall. He took off running, his Desert Eagle imbued with fire magic, and began firing.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

Running is not a good time to use normal shooting mode. Li Zheng emptied a magazine in a few seconds, ignoring how many mechanical mantises he hit, and focused on reloading.

With his Bronze++ physical attributes fully utilized, Li Zheng was slightly faster than the Mechanical Mantis, and he wasn't worried about being caught up in the short term.

"As long as I'm not surrounded, I can wear down all the mechanical mantises!"

Li Zheng is very confident about this.

However, there were simply too many mechanical mantises outside the passage, and it was only a matter of time before they were surrounded.

……

Inside the metal passage, Fengshan and the others huddled in the shadows under the "skylight," watching the large number of mechanical mantises flying overhead, their hearts pounding.

With so many of them, even if Zhan Zhouzhou faced them alone, she could easily end up as sashimi if she wasn't careful. She simply didn't dare to jump up at this moment.

"This scene is way too buggy!"

Fengshan and the others whispered among themselves, discussing their strategy after they went outside.

"boom!"

"Bang!"

Loud noises continued behind me, one after another, slow but steady.

This indicates that the creature that crushed the metal passage did not pursue Li Zheng.

"It's alright, it's time for me to step in. Just come out and watch my performance."

Yan Guang patiently waited for the swarm of mechanical mantises to fly over the "skylight," and then spoke in a low voice, "After I go up there, Zhan Zhouzhou will follow and help me cover for me. As for you two..."

She glanced at Feng Shan and Xiao Siyuan and said, "You two just need to be careful, especially the one surnamed Feng. Don't hold me back."

She was desperate for something and now she was targeting Fengshan with ulterior motives, making barbs in almost every conversation with him.

"Virtue!"

Feng Shan ignored her and instead asked Xiao Siyuan beside him, "Old Xiao, how's your marksmanship?"

"I didn't practice often before, but I'm doing okay now."

Xiao Siyuan spoke modestly.

"That's alright. I'll cover you once we get up there. You just need to keep shooting and killing the enemy." Feng Shan glanced at Yan Guang out of the corner of his eye. "Do you think we'd be outdone by a woman?"

"..."

Xiao Siyuan glanced at the two of them and wisely refrained from making a move.

"Ha~"

Yan Guang sneered and kicked Feng Shan with his toe, saying, "Hey Feng, how about we make a bet? We'll bet on who kills more mechanical mantises after we get out of here?"

"No!"

Feng Shan said with an upright expression, "I am mortal enemies with gambling and drugs!"

"Really?!!"

Yan Guang suddenly became excited, his eyes scanning back and forth across the three roads below Fengshan.

"Gudu."

Fengshan swallowed hard under her intense gaze and nervously added, "And Huang!"

"Tch, boring!" Yan Guang muttered in disappointment.

At this moment, Zhan Zhouzhou, who had been watching the skylight, interrupted the two: "That's about right, we can go up now."

"it is good."

Yan Guang put away his playful thoughts, became serious again, and suddenly leaped up, grabbing the edge of the skylight with his silvery-white left arm. With a gentle effort, he threw himself onto it.

"Let's get started. Help Li Zheng resolve these minor issues as quickly as possible. There's still a big one waiting for us to deal with."

Zhan Zhouzhou followed closely behind, landing beside Yan Guang, her lightsaber already poised to strike.

"Then I'll show you the allure of overwhelming firepower." Yan Guang raised his left arm, and square metal plates suddenly flipped up on the silver-white mechanical arm, revealing the dark ammunition magazine underneath.

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