Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day
Chapter 185 - 156: Going to TN’s Persona!

Chapter 185: Chapter 156: Going to TN’s Persona!

[Ah! I’m dead!

Ha! I’m faking it!]

"Playing dead?" Li Zheng’s eyes darkened. He walked up to the headless corpse, pretended to examine it, then drove his tachi through Gangban Rihuan from top to bottom.

But, nothing happened.

The opponent didn’t even twitch, just like a corpse that had been dead for days.

At this moment, the headless corpse still partially retained the appearance of a mutant, looking scaly like the skin on the back of a toad.

Li Zheng glanced at it a few times, feeling utterly disgusted.

"Playing dead even without a head? If Old Pu hadn’t warned me, I might have thought this was some kind of doppelganger ability." Li Zheng tapped his chin with his fingers, flicking out a small flame.

"Let’s burn it outright, scatter you to the ashes, see how you’ll fake death then!"

Coldly watching as the flame landed on the headless corpse, as the body’s fats began to boil, the flames grew larger and larger.

Soon, it developed into a huge fire, engulfing the entire body in flames.

Vaguely, it was unclear whether it was because the fire had melted some nerves or if Gangban Rihuan still had some consciousness left.

Li Zheng watched as the corpse twitched erratically in the fire, like a fish flailing crazily on the shore.

The unpleasant stench of burning flesh filled the air, and Li Zheng didn’t blink an eye, steadily watching his opponent.

Until Xiao Siyuan arrived here through a compass, the fire had not yet gone out.

"What’s this thing? Why does it smell so bad?" Xiao Siyuan asked, pinching his nose.

Li Zheng didn’t turn his head: "Nothing, just a mud furnace chicken, I’m mud-furnacing it.

I’ve opened the permissions to my place for you. Go ahead and make your way there, the injured is in the bathtub of the bathroom."

Xiao Siyuan asked him, "Aren’t you afraid I’ll discover some secret in your place and then expose it?"

"Old Xiao."

Li Zheng finally turned his head and said seriously, "I can distrust everyone, Zhan Zhouzhou, Phoenix Mountain, Yan Guang, no matter how close we get, I can still keep a bit of caution with them.

But with you, I trust."

Xiao Siyuan asked with a smirk, "Why? Just because I treated you before?"

"No reason."

Li Zheng turned his head back again, still keeping watch over the burning corpse: "Just because you are worth it!"

Just because you are worth it!

Those five words pierced through Xiao Siyuan’s heart like a sharp arrow.

They have stuck to their posts for years, ten years, decades.

Why?

For honor?

No!

Because it’s worth it!

Because of everything they guard behind them.

It’s worth defending.

"Ugh~ so smelly, let’s go." Xiao Siyuan suddenly shivered, showing a disgusted expression, turning around to walk away.

As he turned around, Old Xiao’s eyes filled with tears, looking straight ahead, his posture upright and firm.

’Captain, did you hear that? This is the greatest recognition from our citizens!’

...

Entering Li Zheng’s capsule dwelling, Xiao Siyuan was struck by the internal space and several different structures.

"Bathroom, bed, cold storage, what is this? Your diaphragm, compost bin? Stove? Crop cultivation dish? Potion making station?" Xiao Siyuan looked around one by one, suddenly feeling more like crying.

This world is too outrageous; someone’s bathroom is comparable to his entire residence.

Truly living in a restroom.

Of course, the most terrifying were those piles of mountain-like blood materials, each small crystal bottle almost blinded him.

The nearby pile of several hundred power cores, if Xiao Siyuan hadn’t usually had no use for them, he would have wanted to pocket a couple to take away.

"Comparing oneself to others is infuriating. This time I must charge him for medical fees." Xiao Siyuan grumbled as he opened the bathroom, "Doesn’t he have a stove? Just provide me with three meals a day, that’s the perfect price!"

However, upon seeing the figure in the bathtub, even the well-experienced doctor Xiao Siyuan felt a jolt of shock.

"Sh*t, this is serious!"

Not daring to delay any longer, he quickly stepped forward, elbowing Xiao Sakura aside to conduct a thorough examination on Lin Fengjiao.

...

Li Zheng stood by the flames patiently; as long as Gangban Rihuan’s body was not fully consumed, he wouldn’t leave.

The corpse before him showed no signs of diminishing, and even some new flesh had begun to grow from its neck, where Li Zheng had cut off the head, indicating regeneration.

"Extreme Isolation!"

Poof!

Poof!

Poof!

Blade after blade, Li Zheng stood in the fire, hacking Gangban Rihuan’s body into several segments.

Can you regenerate?

One slice isn’t enough, then two!

Two slices aren’t enough, then four!

If unsatisfied, I can chop you into pieces!

During this time, Old Pu also provided the reason Gangban Rihuan was not truly dead yet.

The heart!

Due to some radiation-induced mutation, Gangban Rihuan’s vital point was different from ordinary people.

Most people, a heavy blow anywhere, may spell life-threatening danger, not to mention being beheaded.

But for Gangban Rihuan, the real vital point was his "heart"!

As long as the heart wasn’t destroyed, even if only a single nucleus remained, it could regenerate!

Li Zheng pried open Gangban Rihuan’s left chest the moment he got the hint, finding it empty inside.

It could actually move its heart at will!

Even completely detached!

[Ding-dong: Analysis complete, staying with the corpse is pointless, the heart is not in the body.]

"Don’t say useless stuff, just tell me where the heart is!" Li Zheng lifted his dual blades, chopping at Gangban Rihuan’s body like mincemeat.

[Oh-ho-ho, don’t worry, don’t worry, Old Pu just completed the analysis, follow the arrow.]

The text flashed by, and an arrow appeared on the screen.

Following the direction, Li Zheng looked to the area of mud where Gangban Rihuan initially was.

"This is... so, Gangban Rihuan already hid his heart during the escape? Waiting for me to leave so he could regenerate?" Li Zheng instantly understood the opponent’s intention, and following Old Pu’s guidance, he flew over.

Hovering over that area, Li Zheng descended, noticing a peculiar section of mud.

Below, there was a slight wriggling, which might have been missed without careful observation.

"Hah, little rascal, didn’t expect I could find you, right?" Li Zheng sneered, suddenly dropping down, plunging his blade fiercely into the mud.

As he pulled it out, the blade tip was already skewering a heart.

The heart had already sprouted two tiny arms to crawl through the mud, planning to find a metal door, to escape the place secretly if Li Zheng lingered too long in the room.

Gangban Rihuan’s life force was astonishingly strong; even with a pierced heart, it continued beating.

It didn’t take long before its pacing decreased and gradually ceased utterly.

An Identity Card floated onto the heart.

"It’s over."

Storing away the Identity Card, Li Zheng flicked his tachi and tossed the heart into the mud like throwing away trash.

Then flicked a spark, lighting the heart.

Without looking back, he entered the capsule dwelling.

"Old Xiao, how is she doing?"

Xiao Siyuan had just finished cleaning Lin Fengjiao and was cautiously applying a yellow powder to her body.

It was Muscle Regeneration Powder, a Bronze Level item, typically used for open wounds.

For instance, when a piece of flesh was gouged from Phoenix Mountain’s ankle, Old Xiao used this item to cover the wound.

"Not optimistic."

Xiao Siyuan shook his head seriously: "If it was anyone else injured this badly, they’d be long dead. This girl’s will to survive is powerful, sustaining her on one breath until now."

"Can she be saved?"

Xiao Siyuan’s lips quivered: "I’ll try my best!"

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