Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day

Chapter 973 681: Sakura's Return

What's going on here?

Li Zheng was completely in the dark. Ever since the Blood Queen appeared, the situation had taken on a peculiar turn.

The ancestor of the Black Dragon Race and the Blood Queen sat upright in the upper seats, barely communicating, each relishing the delicious fruits on the table.

Li Zheng was curious to taste them but was too preoccupied with his thoughts to feel any appetite.

After about twenty minutes of this eerie atmosphere, two people walked into the cabin, breaking the stillness.

One of them was Yan Yi, who had left earlier; the other was a delicate seven or eight-year-old girl. She bore some resemblance to Mo Li, with pale skin, gray hair, and golden vertical pupils in her eyes, a thin agile tail swaying behind her.

The girl wore a bright red dress, and upon seeing Li Zheng, eagerly opened her mouth wide to reveal several sharp hollow teeth: "Papa!"

The red dress wiggled as two round small heads poked out from her shoulders, cheerfully calling "Poli, Poli" towards Li Zheng.

"Xiao Ying?" Li Zheng looked at the little girl, hardly able to believe it.

Xiao Ying's appearance seemed to be a fusion of several racial traits.

The hollow sharp teeth were characteristics of the Blood Race, the tail was from the Enchanting Demon Race, and there should be a pair of wings from the Blood Patterned Black Dragon Race folded behind her, yet to be spread open.

Furthermore, the grayish hair and pale skin hinted at other races.

Ignoring everyone present, Xiao Ying joyously leaped as if returning to a nest, throwing herself into Li Zheng's arms, rubbing her little head affectionately against him: "Papa, you've finally come to get me."

"Poli! Poli Poli!" The two Red Polis also stretched their necks, rubbing against Li Zheng's face.

Li Zheng patted the Red Polis, asking, "Have you two been causing any mischief here?"

"Poli?" The two Red Polis seemed to recall something, hesitated briefly, and then shook their heads vigorously: "Po Poli! Po Poli!"

"..." Li Zheng's face stiffened.

As expected, the thing he feared most happened. These two Red Polis were even more careless than Dan Fenglai. Expecting them to behave properly was always an impossible wish.

Originally he had hoped they would take care of Xiao Ying, ensuring her sleep wouldn't be disturbed, but now it seemed he had been utterly delusional.

Yan Yi, standing behind Xiao Ying, said softly, "Though no major trouble was caused, they did stir up quite a bit of minor trouble."

"Eek!" Xiao Ying exclaimed, "I didn't! I'm innocent! I've been so good, always sleeping peacefully!"

"Poli Li!" The Red Polis nodded vigorously, echoing Xiao Ying.

"Yes, you slept very soundly," Yan Yi said from behind her, "but these little critters were quite unruly, taking you everywhere during mealtimes to secretly munch on others' food."

Xiao Ying's pale face flushed slightly with a hint of color: "That's because I was hungry, and you didn't feed me. Poli Poli was taking care of me!"

"Not feeding you? Is there such a thing?!" Li Zheng frowned, looking at Mo Li, demanding, "Is this what you meant by having someone properly take care of her?"

Mo Li looked perplexed: "Really? I specifically instructed, before I left, to prepare three meals a day for her."

She asked Yan Yi, "Didn't you follow through?"

Yan Yi replied helplessly, "We did prepare meals; in fact, every meal was prepared with the serving for three adult Black Dragons, yet she seemed insatiable. As soon as I left, she was taken out of her slumber by the Polis..."

"Crunch, munch, munch, you were too stingy, never letting me eat enough. Poli Poli, afraid I'd starve, had to let me out to find food," Xiao Ying said, unknown when she grabbed a fruit from the table, sitting in Li Zheng's lap, eating it until her mouth was full of juice.

"Poli Poli!" one Red Poli nodded vigorously, looking righteous.

The other Red Poli served on the side, wiping away the juice on Xiao Ying's face.

"The appetite suitable for three adult Black Dragons!" Mo Li exclaimed in shock, "Even I can't eat that much... Umm, I mean, that's a lot already. How could she still be hungry?"

The ancestor of the Black Dragon Race listened kindly to their conversation, cheerfully laughing, "Like mother, like daughter. Mo Li, the trait of having a big appetite in Xiao Ying is mainly your responsibility."

"???" Mo Li was immediately taken aback, standing up from her seat: "Ancestor, what did you just say? She's my daughter?"

She pointed at Xiao Ying incredulously, "I... you can't say such things lightly, I haven't even reached the egg-laying stage!"

"Strictly speaking, you're not considered Xiao Ying's mother," Li Zheng said, "After all, she's cultivated from your genes, essentially a part of your clone."

"Clone?" Xiao Ying asked curiously, looking up, "Papa, what is a clone? Is it delicious?"

"It's inedible." Li Zheng affectionately tapped her little nose, "You little foodie, always thinking about eating; I was worried you'd turn into a plump little girl when you woke up."

"Eek!" Xiao Ying indignantly raised her little fists: "Xiao Ying is not a plump little girl!"

"What... exactly is going on?" Mo Li furrowed her brows tightly, panic rising. She felt as though many fragmented memories were surfacing but were too chaotic to grasp the essentials immediately: "Are my memories being unlocked?"

"Someone, many years ago, took some blood and marrow from me..."

"Li Zheng..."

"Li Zheng?"

She captured this name in her memory, turning abruptly to look at Li Zheng, pointing at him, "It was you who took my genes!"

"It wasn't me!"

"It wasn't him." Both Li Zheng and the Blood Queen spoke simultaneously.

The Blood Queen said, "It was another Li Zheng who took genes from us, besides the Blood Patterned Black Dragon Race, there was the Blood Race, Suffering Race, Destruction Race, and... the Enchanting Demon Race. Xiao Ying is a clone cultivated from the genes of five races, but she initially awakened the genes of your Black Dragon Race and was brought back after encountering you."

The ancestor of the Black Dragon Race continued, "We never had a member of our race left outside; from the day you brought her back, I knew he succeeded. He really used the genes of our five races to cultivate a species with unlimited potential!"

"It's not five races." Li Zheng said calmly, "Inside Xiao Ying, there are a total of fifty different racial genes, some strong, some weak, very complex."

"Exactly!"

At that moment, a powerful female voice came from outside the cabin, and everyone inside the cabin looked out to see two female aliens with gray-white hair walking in.

One was tall, with a robust build, and her facial features were rugged, reminiscent of a man.

Her voice was also androgynous, hard to distinguish unless listened to carefully.

As she led the finely-featured young girl beside her into the hall, she said, "If you merely use the genes of our five races, it would ultimately produce nothing but an infinitely proliferating, thoughtless monster. Only by using other races' genes with compatible traits to harmonize them, there was a slim chance of success."