Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day-Chapter 73 - 71: Mechanical Giant!

Everyone looked in the direction the sound came from, their expressions growing serious.

"Something’s coming, line up according to the previous arrangement!"

Li Zheng shouted, overpowering the drum-like footsteps, and stood at the back of the team with Xiao Siyuan, tightly holding the Desert Eagle.

Xiao Siyuan listened for a moment and shouted, "About three hundred meters away, at least fifteen meters tall! Be careful, it’s fast!"

"Impressive!"

Li Zheng couldn’t help but glance sideways, amazed that just by listening to the footsteps, one could judge the distance and height of the opponent. Truly worthy of military training experience.

Li Zheng wasn’t sure if military training included such skills, but if not, it indicated the opponent had some unique talents in certain areas.

"Fifteen meters?"

Phoenix Mountain looked up and realized the metal passage was just over three meters high, startling him: "If that thing doesn’t approach the passage but instead stays outside, won’t it just tear down this place?"

"But this is the Matrix; these walls shouldn’t be destructible!"

Yan Guang was slightly puzzled. She had tried several rounds of continuous bombing, and the entire metal room’s walls only showed slight inconspicuous deformations. The most serious damage was just the useless machines on the surface being wrecked.

Phoenix Mountain suddenly turned his head and stated word by word: "Did anyone ever say that this passage we’re in is the entire ruins?"

"Yeah..."

Everyone was taken aback. Since entering here, they all assumed this metal passage was the so-called Ancient Ruins.

As their exploration progressed, the discovery rate of the ruins was slowly increasing, and the metal passage seemed to go on endlessly.

Nobody had considered that outside the passage, there might be an even more expansive space.

"Boom!"

"Clang!"

The two loud noises sounded almost simultaneously. Li Zheng was terrified when he saw a section of the metal passage ahead suddenly collapse, with the entire passage being compressed and merging seamlessly with the ground.

"Damn!"

Li Zheng yelled, "That damn thing isn’t trying to come in; it’s trying to stomp us flat!"

"Zhan Zhouzhou!"

"Leave it to me."

The girl nodded, leaping up suddenly, with a Light Saber materializing in her hand, swinging it forcefully.

"Zzzlap."

The electric light flashed, cutting a slit in the passage’s ceiling.

"Zzzlap."

"Zzzlap."

Repeating the same trick, Zhan Zhouzhou consecutively leaped up twice, expanding a slit into a "凵" shape.

The wiring connected to the lights at the top was severed, dimming this section of the passage, and Li Zheng shouted, "Everyone, get clear!"

Everyone except Zhan Zhouzhou leaped aside a short distance, avoiding being directly below.

"Zzzlap!"

The final slash was delivered, and a piece of the metal ceiling fell synchronously with Zhan Zhouzhou’s form.

Crash.

Li Zheng looked up and found light outside; without further thought, he leaped forward, easily jumping three meters and passing through the "skylight."

"Boom!"

"Clang!"

Following the direction, Li Zheng saw a giant mechanical being about twenty meters tall, walking step by step along the metal passage, surrounded by countless flying mechanical sword mantises.

At least a hundred of them!

At this point, the opponent had already noticed him.

A huge, bulb-like single eye appeared on the face of the mechanical giant, revealing a very human-like gaze, staring at him.

"Buzz~"

The mechanical giant made no visible action, but the dense mass of mechanical sword mantises around it surged forward like a swarm of locusts.

"Damn! So many!"

The sight made Li Zheng’s scalp tingle. Phoenix Mountain was the second to jump up to the "skylight," but because he wasn’t quite as strong, he couldn’t jump directly out and clung to the edge with both hands.

Peeking out, the overwhelming scene scared him so much he let go and fell back inside the metal passage.

"I’ll distract these mechanical sword mantises; you guys hurry up!"

Li Zheng quickly shouted, giving a shoulder shake, and Xiao Sakura immediately understood.

"Eep eep!"

Activating Fast Flight, Xiao Sakura’s speed was no slower than those mechanical sword mantises. After circling in the air, she began launching Flying Rock Bombs continuously with the Earth Element Gene Ability.

Just like during the battle with the Intelligent Humanoid, in this situation, the little one didn’t even need to aim; she could randomly hit a target with her eyes closed.

"Pitter-patter!"

Like a machine gun, the little one used up all her Geneic Force, attracting three mechanical sword mantises, then focused on flying, kiting these three pursuers.

On the other side, Li Zheng jumped down from the metal passage, landing in an open hall. He sprinted, attaching the Fire Element to the Desert Eagle, and began shooting.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh..."

Running wasn’t suitable for the usual shooting mode, so within seconds, Li Zheng emptied a magazine without caring how many mechanical sword mantises he hit, focusing on reloading.

With a physique of Bronze++, his speed was slightly faster than the mechanical sword mantises, and in the short term, he wasn’t worried about being caught.

"As long as I’m not surrounded, I can exhaust all the mechanical sword mantises!"

Li Zheng was very confident about this.

However, the number of mechanical sword mantises outside the passage was overwhelming, and it was just a matter of time before he got surrounded.

...

Inside the metal passage, Phoenix Mountain and the others huddled in the shadows under the "skylight," watching a large number of mechanical sword mantises flying above, their hearts pounding.

With such a large number, even Zhan Zhouzhou, if alone against them, risked getting sliced up; they dared not jump up rashly now.

"This scene is seriously buggy, isn’t it?"

Phoenix Mountain and others whispered among themselves, discussing strategies for after they went out.

"Boom!"

"Clang!"

The loud noises behind them continued, slow but steady.

This indicated that the entity flattening the metal passage wasn’t chasing Li Zheng.

"No worries, it’s time for me to take action. Once we’re out, just watch me perform."

Yan Guang patiently awaited the swarm of mechanical sword mantises to fly over the "skylight" before speaking in a low voice, "Once I go up, Zhan Zhouzhou will follow, helping cover me. As for you two..."

She glanced at Phoenix Mountain and Xiao Siyuan, "Just stay safe, especially you, Phoenix. Don’t drag me down."

Her remarks, laced with barbs, reflected her unresolved issues, with almost every interaction between them slightly confrontational.

"Tch!"

Phoenix Mountain ignored her, instead asking Xiao Siyuan beside him, "Old Xiao, how are your shooting skills?"

"Not practiced regularly, but decent now."

Xiao Siyuan replied modestly.

"Decent is good enough. Once we get up there, I’ll cover for you; just focus on shooting the enemy." Phoenix Mountain glanced at Yan Guang, "How can we let ourselves be outdone by a woman?"

"..."

Xiao Siyuan looked at them both and tactfully avoided the topic.

"Heh~"

Yan Guang smirked, nudging Phoenix Mountain with her toe: "Phoenix, how about a bet? After we go out, let’s see who takes out more mechanical sword mantises?"

"No!"

Phoenix Mountain replied with a serious face, "I can never align with gambling or drugs!"

"Really?!!"

Yan Guang suddenly became excited, her eyes roving up and down Phoenix Mountain’s body.

"Gulp."

Her intense gaze made Phoenix Mountain swallow hard, hurriedly adding, "And porn!"

"Lame!" Yan Guang grumbled in disappointment.

At this moment, Zhan Zhouzhou, who had been watching outside the skylight, interrupted the two, "It’s about time, we can go up."

"Alright."

Yan Guang put aside her playful thoughts, regained her seriousness, and with a silver-white left arm, grabbed the edge of the skylight, easily vaulting herself above.

"Let’s start, and help Li Zheng solve these little nuisances quickly. There’s still a big guy waiting for us to handle."

Zhan Zhouzhou followed closely, landing beside Yan Guang, her Light Saber ready for action.

"Then let me show you the charm of firepower coverage." Yan Guang raised her left arm, revealing the silver-white mechanical arm with segments of square metal plates unfolding, displaying a dark barrel beneath.