Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day

Is there someone in the grass?

Li Zheng almost believed he would see three burly men shouting "Demacia" and then leaping out of the grass onto his face.

Taking out the Sheathed Sword and holding it in his hand, Li Zheng slowly approached the clump of mugwort, using the end of a Long Staff to part the waist-high grass, where he saw someone lying.

A female Player in a coma.

From facial features, it could be seen that this was a woman from the Three Kingdoms, with a beautiful face marred by several cuts and bite marks scattered between the wounds.

"Isn't this a fairly well-known Bollywood actress? How did she end up like this?" Li Zheng carefully examined her and found her face familiar, as if he had seen her star in movies before.

Though he had seen her movies, Li Zheng rarely paid attention to reports about these stars, only remembering that there was domestic media discussing her.

She seemed to be a high-caste actress advocating for the abolition of the caste system, who had appeared several times to support victims of wrongful cases from lower castes and demand justice for them.

In the Three Kingdoms, such a person stood against everyone. It's said that apart from a very few people, even the lowest Dalits didn't like her.

When Li Zheng read the report at the time, he found it quite ironic because the people this woman repeatedly helped were the Dalits.

Li Zheng remembered the last time he had seen information about her: she had been repeatedly attacked in the Three Kingdoms and ultimately had to flee to another country, not daring to return.

Old Pu probed and provided the current status Attributes of her.

[Naguri

Race: Human

Status: Organ missing/Severely injured/Near death (High concentration of anesthetic residue in body)

...

Old Pu: So pitiful, I can't imagine what happened to her in the past half-hour. With only 5% of her intestinal tissue left, it's a miracle she's clinging to life.]

"..." Li Zheng read the Attributes Old Pu provided, glanced at Naguri's lower body according to the hint, and almost vomited.

He saw a few abnormal depressions and protrusions on Naguri's abdomen, where two organs had been cut open with a sharp tool, exposing the internal fat layer.

Below her, one side of her legs was drenched in blood, with numerous tissue fragments in the blood—her internal organs, brutally extracted from her abdominal cavity and scattered on the ground like butchered livestock innards.

Even Li Zheng, who was desensitized to violence, couldn't have imagined the nauseating scene that had just been displayed.

"Beasts!" Li Zheng cursed angrily.

The actions of some people truly challenged his worldviews time and again.

Every time he saw what these people did, he felt the saying made perfect sense—The differences between people are greater than those between humans and pigs!

"Awoo…" Little Sakura watched on with eyes full of sympathy, unable to bear it.

The little creature, having stayed with Li Zheng for a long time, shared similar worldviews with him, never showing mercy to red-named Players or those Li Zheng ordered to be killed.

But it didn't prevent its inherently kind nature.

"Damn it, those two bastards even have the nerve to insult me on the world channel?" Li Zheng was so angry that he was about to explode; these two Three Kingdoms Players had done the most disgusting thing he'd ever known, bar none!

To commit such a cruel act to a young girl, how twisted must the minds of these two beasts be?!

Maybe while they were causing a scene on the world channel earlier, they were doing this disgusting act while arguing that they were innocent?

Naguri's chest still faintly rose and fell, her twisted limbs occasionally twitching; she wasn't dead yet, she was still tenaciously holding on.

According to Old Pu's hints, a lot of high-concentration anesthetics remained in her system, indicating Naguri was in a coma while undergoing such torment.

This didn't mean those two Three Kingdoms Players were humane; they were simply afraid that Naguri would expose their beastly behavior on the world channel if she woke up.

Li Zheng couldn't bear to imagine the pain Naguri would feel if she didn't die before the anesthetic wore off and regained consciousness.

Maybe it would be more merciful to kill her now.

Li Zheng considered helping her end it, but Naguri was a white-named Player, and if she died at Li Zheng's hands, he would certainly become a red name.

Must he leave her to fend for herself here?

"Little Sakura, let's go." Li Zheng took a deep breath, called to the little creature beside him, and prepared to continue pursuing the two escaped Three Kingdoms Players.

His gaze swept over the Pink Poli tied to Little Sakura's leg, and he suddenly felt a pang in his brain, realizing a question he hadn't previously considered.

The Pink Poli didn't show up on his pet panel. Although it stuck with Little Sakura incessantly and was in a bizarre state, essentially speaking, it seemed... unrelated to him?

So, if the Pink Poli killed the white-named Player, would it also be unrelated to him?

"Little Sakura, do you think if the Pink Poli kills someone, it would count against us?" Li Zheng wanted to take the risk and try, as if the Pink Poli counted as an independent entity, and it would save him a lot of trouble in the future.

"Awo?"

Little Sakura tilted its head, pondering the meaning of Li Zheng's words, then briefly communicated with the Pink Poli and shook its head towards Li Zheng.

"It doesn't count?" Joy filled Li Zheng's heart, and he told Little Sakura, "Tell the Pink Poli to help end it for this woman, so she doesn't suddenly wake up and endure more pain."

The Pink Poli consistently ignored Li Zheng's commands.

Yet this time, before Little Sakura even communicated with it, it detached itself from Little Sakura's leg, reverting to the solitary form Li Zheng witnessed the first time—like an oversized water-filled balloon.

"Poli."

The Pink Poli elongated its body, transforming into a long, sharp, thin needle, which then pierced Naguri's heart.

Not long after, Naguri's chest ceased to rise and fall, and the Identity Card appeared on the surface of the corpse.

Li Zheng immediately checked himself, confirming he hadn't turned into a red-name Player, and only then felt at ease.

Looking back at the Pink Poli, it seemed unchanged throughout the process.

But he noticed this: the Pink Poli had to detach from Little Sakura to independently handle other Players.

He guessed, only in this way would the kill not be counted against him.

Li Zheng bent over to pick up Naguri's Identity Card, retreated a little with Little Sakura, and flicked a spark to ignite the mugwort.

Watching the fire grow stronger and gradually consume the spot where Naguri's body lay, Li Zheng softly uttered, "Although I couldn't save you, I can avenge you, ensuring they die less comfortably."

Naguri was just a side episode during his closing pursuit. After two days of blood-soaked cleansing, Li Zheng felt his heart grow harder.

The last time he faced a situation similar to Lin Fengjiao's, he would have thought of a way to save her.

But now…

He chose to help her end the suffering.

"Let's go, settle the remaining matters early, and we'll return to 879 and live like a carefree fish." Li Zheng patted Little Sakura, turned, and headed towards the metallic door through which the two had fled.