Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 96 New Exploration Team Assembles
"A special room, wanna go?"

After looking at the message from Zhan Zhouzhou, Li Zheng hesitated for a moment before replying, "Go."

"Okay, wait, I'll hire three more people."

After Zhan Zhouzhou sent the message, there was no further response.

Li Zheng opened the regional chat lobby and, as expected, was recruiting teammates there.

Li Zheng frowned but said nothing.

He just felt that the five-person team yesterday had a good configuration, and after getting used to each other in the Ancient Ruins dungeon, they were familiar with each other.

However, considering that the man surnamed Feng might not be fully awake yet, Li Zheng let her be.

Since it wasn't a dungeon I discovered myself, I just need to make sure the rules for distributing rewards based on merit aren't broken.

On the other hand, Zhan Zhouzhou also wanted to gather yesterday's team, and the first person she contacted was Yan Guang.

Although it has not developed genetic abilities, its mechanical missiles are definitely a powerful weapon against group attacks.

As a result, Yan Guang declined the offer when he realized that he still couldn't contact Feng Shan.

Now that's bad, the five-person team is down two people, so Zhan Zhouzhou has no choice but to recruit people in the regional channel.

Moreover, their recruitment strategy aligns with that of Fengshan and his companion.

One is a group attack to clear the field, and the other is a strong attack to kill a single enemy.

Finally, they contacted two players.

Ye Yuan and Liu Jiale.

Ye Yuan signed up because after exploring all ten rooms today, she had terrible luck and five of them were empty, so she could go to the dungeon together to make up for the lost rewards.

Moreover, this girl herself is a free spirit, and she's always having trouble getting in touch with Fengshan, so she's also quite bored.

Ye Yuan originally recommended her brother, but Ye Kai refused.

The reason given was that he still had a few rooms to finish playing today.

In fact, Ye Kai privately told Ye Yuan that the mecha had been damaged during the exploration.

Ultimately, he was replaced by Liu Jiale.

The reason Liu Jiale signed up is quite simple.

"I've never been to a special room before, I want to broaden my horizons."

With the addition of Xiao Siyuan, who also went along, the exploration team was now complete.

"Ready? I'll open the portal when I'm ready."

Zhan Zhouzhou sent a confirmation message, and Li Zheng replied, "Okay."

The next moment, the special portal of the spatial teleportation device opened, and Li Zheng led Xiao Ying inside.

With a shift in his gaze, Li Zheng saw Zhan Zhouzhou.

"Wow, I'm the first one."

Li Zheng smiled, walked to the side, and waited for the others to arrive.

The second one is Xiao Siyuan. After all, he has experience before, and his main role is medical. All the props are prepared in the capsule residence, so he is also fast.

The third is Ye Yuan.

Still wearing that revealing outfit, with smoky makeup, and carrying an exaggeratedly designed Gatling gun in one hand.

As soon as he entered, Ye Yuan glanced at Li Zheng and exclaimed in surprise, "Why don't you have any blood energy on you?"

"Blood?"

Li Zheng was slightly taken aback, then remembered what Chu Xiao had said on the world channel.

Killing other players will cause you to be surrounded by blood energy, which is equivalent to being marked as a "red-named player" by the matrix.

The more people you kill, the stronger the bloodlust becomes.

However, not only did he kill Lin Fan, but he also took the time last night to kill William, yet he had no trace of blood on his body.

Upon careful reflection, Li Zheng remembered.

Last night, after merging with William's capsule residence, it seemed to increase the size of my own residence by 2×2×2, but the improvement brought by merging with Lin Fan's residence was too great.

In contrast, the improvement brought by William was not particularly noticeable.

I never expected that William, such a coward, would actually have someone killed on his hands.

Li Zheng was somewhat surprised, but the person was already dead, so there was no point in pursuing the matter further.

All I can say is... that Mickey Mouse guy deserved to die.

"Perhaps it's because I only killed players with red names?"

Li Zheng was also a little unsure. He wasn't a serial killer like Lin Fan. Why would he kill a few innocent players just to verify something?
Let's not even talk about whether we'll be hunted down and retaliated against after being exposed.

Li Zheng himself couldn't even get past this hurdle. "Hey, there's no penalty for killing red-named players."

Ye Yuan grinned: "It's got that legendary feel to it."

After saying that, she skipped over to Zhan Zhouzhou with the Gatling gun in her hand, chattering away nonstop.

The Gatling gun was about half her height and definitely not light.

In her hands, however, it was like a toy, making a clanging metallic sound as she bounced around.

"Sister Zhan, you're so beautiful!"

"Sister Zhan, your skin is so beautiful!"

"Sister Zhan, why did you get this hairstyle?"

"So ugly."

Li Zheng: "..."

Why does this girl always bring up the most sensitive topics?

Sure enough, when Zhan Zhouzhou heard the question, she glanced at Li Zheng.

Fortunately, Liu Jiale also came in through the portal at this moment, and Zhan Zhouzhou's attention was finally diverted from Li Zheng.

"Nice to meet you all, please take good care of me."

Liu Jiale had short, tousled hair, a bronze complexion, a handsome face, and an upright posture. He wore a sleeveless, shoulder-length training uniform, revealing two muscular, bulging arms.

His hands were large and wrapped in bandages that had turned black from dust. He held a thick, pure black machete in each hand.

The blade was unsheathed and emitted a faint smell of blood.

[Tiberium Alloy Knife, Platinum Grade]

The Eye of Preys revealed the attributes of the Black Blade. Li Zheng glanced at the Black Blade's grade and thought to himself, "As expected of a player ranked high in combat power."

Just by looking at one piece of equipment, you can tell that his strength is extraordinary, and he may even be on par with Zhan Zhouzhou.

"This special room exploration..."

Li Zheng assessed the team's strength: "We've got this."

With everyone present, Zhan Zhouzhou, as the initiator of this special room, stepped forward to explain the allocation rules set yesterday.

"If either of you has any objections to the final allocation of resources, you can raise them now. Even if you want to withdraw, it's not too late."

After Zhan Zhouzhou finished speaking, he looked at Ye Yuan and the others, waiting for their response.

Ye Yuan seemed completely unconcerned about these things, and said with some eagerness, "The rules seem reasonable. Can we start exploring now? This is my first time entering a special room. What's it like inside? Are there many monsters? Are they strong? I only brought a little over 10,000 rounds of ammunition this time. Is that enough?"

Everyone: "..."

"Where do we go in from? This way? I'll go first, you guys follow! Hurry! GoGoGo!"

Ye Yuan chattered on and on, and without waiting for anyone's response, she excitedly slipped into the light screen.

"..."

Everyone remained silent as they watched Ye Yuan's figure disappear.

Finally, Xiao Siyuan suddenly laughed and said, "This little girl is quite lively. I feel old in front of her."

Li Zheng agreed and patted Xiao Siyuan on the shoulder: "Of course, you've dated twelve people already, if you're not old, who is?"

Xiao Siyuan: "..."

"Okay, let's go."

Zhan Zhouzhou took the lead and was the second to enter the instance.

……

As Li Zheng stepped out of the light screen, the colors before his eyes had just faded when he heard Ye Yuan's incessant complaints: "Sigh, you guys are so slow."

Li Zheng ignored her completely, pretending she didn't exist, and began to examine the new instance.

The entrance is a large hall, so spacious that its area is comparable to a stadium with a capacity of 10,000 people, which is quite exaggerated.

Not far from the entrance, there were two clumps of flesh on the ground, their species unrecognizable from their appearance.

Looking again at the ground near the two clumps of flesh, it was covered with bullet holes, like a beach caught in a downpour. People with trypophobia would find it incredibly satisfying.

"Those were two bats. They pounced on me as soon as I came in, which scared me so much that I lost control of my gun and couldn't hold back."

Ye Yuan pointed to the two clumps of minced meat and explained to everyone.

Everyone fell silent after hearing this, inwardly exclaiming at its cruelty.

Only Li Zheng and Zhan Zhouzhou were in mourning: How exactly did Lin Fan survive on Channel One?

(End of this chapter)