Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 74 [Ancient Ruins, Exploration Progress: 90%]

Yan Guang took the initiative, raising his silver-white left arm once more. Pieces of metal flipped off his arm, revealing the dark muzzle beneath.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."

She didn't hold back either, launching two rounds of missile attacks right off the bat. Hundreds of miniature missiles, trailing long, thin tails of flame, all crashed into the mechanical giant, exploding into large plumes of fire and thick smoke.

"Da da da~"

Xiao Siyuan raised the M4, aimed at the mechanical giant's face, and with each flick of the flames, sparks flew from the mechanical giant's metal visor.

Just as one magazine was emptied, the flames and smoke from the micro-missiles hitting the mechanical giant dissipated.

Unscathed!

"Well, I'm completely done for now."

Yan Guang shrugged, then his expression suddenly changed, and he dodged to the side.

But the mechanical giant raised its enormous fist, aimed at this spot, and slammed it down.

The enormous mechanical size indicates that the mechanical giant requires a vast number of parts to operate simultaneously in order to power the machine.

This makes its movements slightly slow, but its power is extremely terrifying.

Although the mechanical giant fist is slow, it can compress the air around it, creating a strong fist wind.

"boom!"

Dust billowed up, and Li Zheng raised the Desert Eagle, hesitated for a moment, and then put it down again.

His genetic energy hasn't recovered much yet. If he uses it all up now, he'll end up like Yan Guang, just standing on the sidelines watching the battle, a lazy bum who can only shout "666".

Just then, a figure suddenly flashed past him, rushed to the mechanical giant's fist, leaped up, and nimbly landed on its massive metal arm.

"Zhan Zhouzhou?"

After seeing clearly, Li Zheng was surprised that the other party dared to jump onto the mechanical giant, and that the other party had a very stable sense of balance while running, walking on the smooth and tilted metal arm as if it were flat ground.

Holding the silver-grade lightsaber upside down in one hand, his beautiful eyes were unusually calm, filled with powerful confidence, as he stared at the top of the mechanical giant's head.

"Kakaka..."

The sound of machinery turning rang out, and the mechanical giant's other hand slapped towards Zhan Zhouzhou.

The hand covered an extremely large area, and this time the mechanical giant used its computing core to accurately calculate Zhan Zhouzhou's movement trajectory.

If Zhan Zhouzhou wanted to dodge this palm strike, he would have to stop and turn around right now, or he would definitely be smashed into a pile of minced meat.

"continue!"

Suddenly, a figure darted out from the side, heading straight for the mechanical giant's slapping hand like a cannonball. As it passed Zhan Zhouzhou, it shouted at her as she was about to slow down.

Zhan Zhouzhou glanced at it out of the corner of her eye, nodded slightly, and without stopping, lightning suddenly flashed in her empty hand, condensing into a single-handed longsword wrapped in electric light.

She finally stopped hiding her true abilities and revealed yet another trump card of hers.

Gold-level genetic ability: Lightning Sword.

Lv2!

"I'll buy you some time!"

The man adjusted his posture in mid-air, raising his fist to gather strength.

Li Zheng looked closely, and it was Fengshan!
With a slight shift in his gaze, Li Zheng immediately understood how Feng Shan had managed to use him as a cannonball.

Yan Guang continued throwing things while retracting the silver-white mechanical arm, which possessed astonishing explosive power.

When used for attack, it can take down a small dagger mantis with a single punch.

It's perfectly fine for throwing things away.

"Burst - Eightfold Amplification!"

Feng Shan's eyes were filled with arrogance and ruthlessness. Regardless of whether he could withstand the pressure of the burst of power, he immediately unleashed the maximum power he could currently use, the power of the eighth level of amplification.

"Get back here, you son of a bitch!"

Fengshan roared and punched the mechanical giant's palm.

The force of that punch actually made the hand pause for a moment.

However, Feng Shan himself flew backward at an even faster speed. If he landed at that speed, he would probably be half-dead.

Li Zheng saw that Feng Shan's arm, which had thrown the punch, was limp and flying in the wind, clearly broken into countless pieces.

"Catch him!"

Li Zheng shouted, and Yan Guang reacted instantly, running in the direction Feng Shan flew backward.

"Learn and apply immediately!"

A capsule appeared in Fengshan's intact hand. He pressed it and threw it forcefully in front of him.

"Oh!"

The capsule dwelling unfolds, traces a parabola in the air, and falls to the ground.

Because its dwelling is much heavier than Fengshan's, its flight speed is correspondingly reduced.

"Burst - Fivefold Amplification!"

Fengshan quickly caught up with the capsule's dwelling and, disregarding his heartache, kicked it.

"Tom!"

The capsule flew away at an even faster speed, while Fengshan used the force of that kick to completely reverse his backward momentum.

However, the price was a leg and mouthfuls of blood.

The powerful recoil not only shattered his leg bones but also damaged his internal organs.

"Old Xiao, get ready to rescue them!"

Li Zheng immediately shouted to Xiao Siyuan, who had changed his magazine and was raising his gun to continue firing, "Okay!"

Upon hearing the order, Xiao Siyuan did not hesitate at all, decisively put away his gun, and ran towards the landing point in Fengshan.

……

On the other side, Zhan Zhouzhou also took advantage of the brief time that Feng Shan had bought for her to successfully rush onto the mechanical giant's shoulder.

The mechanical giant slightly turned its head, its huge single eye locking onto Zhan Zhouzhou's figure, and suddenly emitted a faint red light.

The next moment, a laser beam shot out from its eye, aimed directly at Zhan Zhouzhou.

The bald girl, whose original target was the mechanical giant's head, suddenly changed her mind and abandoned her original plan, switching her target.

With her long, sturdy legs taut, the bald girl leaped up, dodging the laser beams, and flew toward the mechanical giant's neck.

While in mid-air, two different longswords danced, transforming into two afterimages of light.

"Fuck."

"Zi la..."

The twin swords slashed back and forth across the mechanical giant's body, leaving deep cuts.

Among them, the silver-level lightsaber had little effect; on the contrary, the damage caused by the electric longsword formed from its own genetic ability was more terrifying.

The forward momentum stopped, and Zhan Zhouzhou began to fall.

Even as she fell from a height of more than ten meters, she showed no sign of panic, her arms flailing about, slashing countless sparks and wounds at the mechanical giant.

As he slashed down her neck, Li Zheng kept staring at her, not even counting how many times Zhan Zhouzhou attacked or how many wounds she inflicted.

"Ok?"

Li Zheng suddenly narrowed his eyes and saw a special glint in the crack that Zhan Zhouzhou had cut into the mechanical giant's heart.

"That texture..."

He thought of a prop, turned around and shouted to Xiao Siyuan, "Old Xiao, throw the M4 over here!"

Yan Guang had already caught Feng Shan, and Xiao Siyuan was giving him emergency treatment. Upon hearing this, Xiao Siyuan didn't even look up, but took out his weapon and handed it to Yan Guang.

"Catch it!"

Yan Guang immediately understood, took the M4 and threw it at Li Zheng.

"Snapped!"

Li Zheng leaped up, caught the M4, turned around, and aimed at the unusual color on the mechanical giant's chest.

"Ice and Fire Attachment - Ice Type!"

After several battles, both large and small, over the past few days, Li Zheng has been able to distinguish the nature of the damage caused by fire and ice abilities when attached to bullets.

Bullets imbued with fire will cause an 'explosion' effect upon hitting a target, increasing attack damage and attack area.

After being coated with ice, the bullets will have a slight 'armor-piercing' property, making it easier to break through those particularly hard defensive shells.

"Da da da……"

The M4 gun spewed fire, and Li Zheng also chose to fire in bursts. The bullets, imbued with ice-type abilities and covered with a layer of ice, were fired at the mechanical giant's heart.

With his Bronze++ level physical attributes combined with his equally fast reflexes, Li Zheng achieved "perfect recoil control," a feat typically only possible in FPS games.

Almost ignoring the recoil, bullet after bullet, emitting a brilliant blue light, struck the mechanical giant's heart.

Finally, a bullet pierced through the obstacles and shattered one of the parts.

"boom!"

A burst of firelight erupted.

The mechanical giant's movements slowed down, and the laser beam in its single eye dimmed and eventually disappeared.

The one-eyed creature glanced at Li Zheng, then, with a hint of human resentment, shrank into a tiny point of light.

Finally, that single point of light flickered once, like a television screen suddenly having its power cut off, and then vanished completely.

One of the metal arms remained in a punching motion, and before it could even retract, the mechanical giant's power core was completely destroyed by this elite team with near-perfect coordination.

After losing its energy supply, the mechanical giant became a metal statue, its pose quite artistic.

"Zheng!"

With a swift horizontal slash, Zhan Zhouzhou's electric sword struck the mechanical giant's leg. With a twist of his wrist, the blade became vertical.

"Kalalala..."

"Zizzizi..."

Amidst a burst of lightning, the lightning sword slashed a huge, gruesome gash across the mechanical giant's body, stretching wildly as Zhan Zhouzhou fell.

She herself used the friction to stop her fall, and as she approached the ground, she dissipated her genetic abilities, and the electric sword disappeared.

"Clap."

It landed lightly.

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[Ancient Ruins, 90% Exploration Complete]

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There was originally one more chapter, but after finishing it, I wasn't satisfied with it, so I didn't post it.

I'll post it after I get home from get off work tonight and finish refining the code (it's reprinted).

Yeah, it probably won't be released until tomorrow morning...

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