Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day

Chapter 672 494 Basic Level

"There's news from the Lava Mountain Range. Kunlun and Nine Heavens are teaming up to conquer the Desert Oasis Boss. Aren't you going to check it out?" Zhan Zhouzhou asked as she approached Li Zheng. "Maybe you can take the opportunity to kill another Boss?"

The information she mentioned, Li Zheng had seen in the legion channel. It was something Li Chun and the others had noticed when other legion members were discussing it.

"What's there to see?"

Li Zheng, standing by the stove and watching Mirel deftly flip the pan, said without turning his head, "You have to know, some things aren't as simple as they seem."

"I just went to the Lava Mountain Range. Li Chun and the others were a bit distant from the others. How careful would those people have to be to let them hear just 'a few words'?"

"You mean, someone wants to use you to undermine Kunlun and Nine Heavens' operation?" Zhan Zhouzhou got the idea. "Do you want me to have Li Chun and the others investigate that legion?"

Those allowed into the Lava Mountain Range by Kunlun, on the surface, have no hostility towards Dragon Country players.

But judging from this matter, Kunlun miscalculated.

Someone harbors ill intentions and wants to sow discord between Li Zheng and the two factions.

"No need, there's nothing suspicious to uncover. People can justify it as idle chat, with no intent to provoke me to cause trouble." Li Zheng shook his head. "Such things are hard to prove anyway, so why bother?"

"Besides, anyone who only dares to use such clumsy tactics won't amount to much. We don't need to bother with them."

"Okay, then..." Zhan Zhouzhou agreed with Li Zheng's reasoning, nodded, and changed the topic, "Do you think Kunlun and Nine Heavens' operation will succeed this time? Although I've never faced those two Bosses directly, even you have to go all out to take them head-on, indicating their power is King Level, right?"

"It's indeed King Level."

Li Zheng didn't deny this. The (pseudo) King Level is still King Level, having reached the threshold of that tier.

"It's just not as strong as you imagine. If you're willing to risk it, you can actually kill them on the front lines."

Here, 'willing to risk it' means having enough 'cannon fodder' to buy time for Zhouzhou, allowing her to unleash without worries.

"By the way, go to Li Chun and tell her the Heart Guard Armor I previously asked her to help sew can be given to me now. Help me retrieve it."

"Heart Guard Armor?"

"Yes, she'll understand what you're talking about." Li Zheng didn't elaborate further. He had already learned through Prelis' Eye that Li Chun possessed an Empty Treasure Chest attribute and that she had placed a High-Energy Core inside it.

"Okay."

Seeing Li Zheng not wanting to say more, Zhan Zhouzhou naturally didn't press further, turned around, and left.

"Wait." Li Zheng called her, looked up at the sky as if pondering something.

Finally, he shook his head and said, "Never mind, go ahead."

Li Zheng wasn't sure how many live stream cameras were still focused on him, making him cautious about saying too much openly.

"Okay." Zhan Zhouzhou entered the Teleportation Gate and returned to the Starting Point's exclusive Transfer Space, heading towards the Lava Mountain Range.

After Zhan Zhouzhou left, Li Zheng pondered for a moment, then once again exercised his privilege to intercept a freshly prepared seafood dish by a Starting Point member, carrying the plate to a secluded corner of the beach to find that golden octopus in its scholar's robe.

Luo Aiman lay on a beach chair, under a huge and luxurious umbrella with a small table filled with various fruits and drinks. Two tentacles held a light magazine, occasionally making him emit a few lewd and suppressed chuckles with pink heart-shaped bubbles emerging from his head.

"Why are you here again?" Luo Aiman sensed someone approaching, instantly hiding the magazine behind him and switching to a gentleman's demeanor, looking at Li Zheng with disdain.

In Luo Aiman's mind, doing business with Li Zheng might not be unprofitable, but it would certainly be nauseating.

Every cell in his body resisted contact with Li Zheng.

"Why can't I come? You're a merchant, I'm a customer. Isn't it natural for customers to seek out merchants?" Li Zheng held the plate, showing no signs of friendliness.

Every time Luo Aiman saw him, it was as if he had seen a ghost. Yet, Li Zheng couldn't figure out what else he had done to offend the other than firing a shot during their first meeting to make him so loathsome.

Since the other party didn't give him any friendly faces, Li Zheng felt no need to return kindness, opting instead to meet coldness with coldness...

"There are six merchants in this event. Why do you keep coming to me instead of going to others?" Luo Aiman's face twitched near what seemed to be nostrils, showing a trace of emotion.

So fragrant~

The smell emanated from the plate, a strong cheesy aroma!

Luo Aiman unconsciously licked his lips, his gaze involuntarily drifting towards the plate, hesitant to look directly.

Li Zheng sat down with the plate, unpleasantly saying, 'If it weren't for you being the closest to me and the cleanest place here, do you think I'd want to find you?'

In truth, the reason Li Zheng was willing to approach Luo Aiman was largely because, despite being termed a 'Black Market Merchant,' Luo Aiman was in essence the most pure of all the merchants Li Zheng had encountered.

Truly a 'business is business' type.

Compared to Luo Aiman, other merchants were much more greedy, especially that Wandering Merchant, who charged prices far above the actual value of the items they offered!