Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day

Chapter 1105 805: Shadows

Mirel was unsure if Li Zheng's decision involved her factor, but Li Zheng would always patiently explain to her, never showing any annoyance. She knew Li Zheng had her in his heart.

Suddenly, her expression changed: "Not good, you've driven Mudala away. When those twisted creatures come later, won't I be in danger?"

She realized, and asked: "Are you planning to abandon me again, under the pretense of protecting me?"

Li Zheng smiled bitterly: "Once my newly created technique is launched, even I can't control it, can't ensure your safety, so..."

"So it is!" Mirel slumped, saying: "I know the importance. With my strength, forcing to stay would just drag you down. Where you'll go will become increasingly dangerous, and my strength can't keep up, always being a burden."

She sighed deeply: "But I don't want to leave you, I want to stay by your side. I'm afraid you'll be lonely in the dead of night."

Mirel had been striving hard to improve her strength. In the Heavy Research Institute, her training diligence was nearly on par with Zhan Zhouzhou.

After tiring days, she'd still muster her spirit to manage household affairs for Li Zheng.

Whenever Li Zheng had troubles and didn't want to talk, she'd silently accompany him.

Whenever Li Zheng wanted to share joyful matters, she'd listen attentively while massaging him.

Whenever Li Zheng couldn't resolve doubts, she'd do her best to offer help, suggest some opinions.

"I will protect you..." Li Zheng began to comfort her, hoping she wouldn't overthink.

But Mirel shook her head, saying: "I've seriously thought it over just now. This time when you return, help me settle the Outer City resident's identity. Afterward, I'll stay home, wait for you to come back. Just so, Sakura also needs someone to care for."

"I'm afraid that's not possible," Li Zheng said: "The Terminal is accelerating the mass promotion of inhabitants from Water Blue Star. It's expected the Matrix will clear in two months. Before that, I'll have the Terminal send you back to the Abyssal Enchanting Demon Race, preparing to lead them out of the Abyss."

In the Abyss, various Demon Race types coexist, each governing separately yet cooperating without interference.

Persuading other Demon Races to emerge from the Abyss will require considerable effort. Li Zheng couldn't move from the Outer City, so Mirel had to handle this matter.

"So urgent?" Mirel frowned, thinking of those complex relationships among the Demon Races in the Abyss, she felt a headache.

Moreover, Abyss Demon Race is highly sensitive to negative emotions. She worried those clansmen arriving at the Sin Domain might turn into hostile factions.

"Not really urgent," Li Zheng said: "Our time was originally limited. Returning early to prepare can also avoid issues occurring in the middle."

"Alright." Mirel suddenly said reluctantly: "Then, won't we not see each other for a long time?"

Li Zheng nodded silently: "So you should lead them out of the Matrix soon, and make sure everyone is restrained, don't advance to the Wilderness and become Bloody."

"I will hurry." Mirel opened the bathroom, said to Li Zheng: "I want to take a shower, could you help me heat some water?"

Due to the capsule residence being unusable in the Outer City, Li Zheng never considered adding a heating function to the bathroom's water circulation system. For a bath now, he had to act as an artificial boiler.

But once entering the bathroom, some things were beyond control.

Until half an hour before the twisted creatures arrived, both Li Zheng and Mirel emerged from the bathroom, panting, and at the door, Li Zheng forcefully kissed Mirel: "It's not far to the Golden Light Zone. You can train your willpower on the way back, so I won't accompany you there."

"Hm." Mirel, with her eyes dazed from his kiss, softly clung to Li Zheng's embrace, unwilling to leave.

Li Zheng feared Mirel would ask for an encore, coaxed and persuaded her to leave.

Watching Mirel fly away gradually, Li Zheng withdrew his gaze, leaned against the capsule residence's outer wall and sat on the ground.

Months later, Li Zheng finally experienced the feeling of being alone again, but the difference was he had someone to miss.

Being alone, he inevitably thought of various things.

Li Zheng recalled those events after he first woke up in the Matrix, though many details had faded from memory.

"Back then Sakura was really ugly... but since the Terminal sent him to me, wasn't he afraid I'd ignore, or even instead kill Sakura?"

Knowing back then, to Li Zheng, a piece of meat was a precious food resource. The likelihood of doing such a thing was very high.

"Hmm, putting myself in his shoes, the Terminal probably assumed with those guards' horror bat meat, I'd let Sakura pass."

Li Zheng grinned: "Wonder if the Terminal anticipated my weapon contained highly poisonous, making the horror bat meat inedible, to fill my belly, I'd still likely kill Sakura..."

But... it's precisely for putting himself in another's position that he trusted like this.

After all, the two of us are akin to one person. Choices I'd make, he would as well, vice versa."

From another perspective, a pet delivered right to me could accompany me running around the Matrix.

Even if killed for meat, it should leave a spare, as reserve food when really about to starve, so at that time, Li Zheng simply couldn't kill Sakura immediately.

Li Zheng sat alone, pondering all sorts of things.

Half an hour later, the twisted creatures finally arrived, voraciously devouring the burnt corpses, showing no distaste for how the charcoal affected the body's taste.

"It begins."

Li Zheng packed his capsule residence, prepared a Nourishing Yuan Pill on him, so when utterly exhausted, he could take it unconsciously.

Though he wasn't sure if he would use it, only trying could give an answer.

"Seems larger than the last wave?"

Li Zheng didn't wear a disguise suit this time, unfurled Demon Thunder Wings and rose high, quickly surveying to draw a conclusion.

The previous wave had only over two thousand twisted creatures; this time it's over three thousand.

"Seems like... there's a commander behind them, increasing troops to the battlefield?"

If a thousand are annihilated, send two thousand; two thousand destroyed, send three thousand, until dispatched troops can't be easily exterminated, then it's enough.

Those twisted creatures were covered in eyes, already spotted Li Zheng in the sky, their countless eyes full of envy.

Envious of Li Zheng's appearance differing from theirs, or perhaps envying Li Zheng's ability to fly.

Li Zheng looked down coldly, his pupils gradually losing focus.

His subjective consciousness was blocked; Li Zheng immediately seemed like a different person, retracting Demon Thunder Wings plummeting into the twisted creature crowd.

The Black Dragon Spear gleamed coldly, held in Li Zheng's hand, split into nine mirror images, charging side to side.

Ice and flames surged again, leaving holes or charred marks on the twisted creatures.

Each move was as precise as a machine, absolutely no wastage, this couldn't be accomplished by Li Zheng's conscious mind.

Yet once his awareness was blocked, his innate body skills were unexpectedly powerful!

Li Zheng killed amid the twisted creatures, blood and flesh flying, yet scarcely a drop of filthy blood touched him, any occasional drops were blocked by his combat suit.

As twisted creatures fell one by one, Li Zheng's gains grew.

In his unconscious state, Li Zheng didn't notice a familiar shadow lurking close to the ground nearby, concealed under a rock.