Chapter 386: Chapter 328 Armored Dragon Turtle
Several named transactions all came from Misaka Tsuchiemon, exclusively various Gold Level materials, with ten Power Cores alone.
"This is..." Li Zheng was stunned for a moment, then realized that the other party had asked him to protect Yuanfei Yuluo last night.
"Is this a reward?" Li Zheng felt a little embarrassed to accept it, because he hadn’t really taken the request seriously and barely paid any attention to the situation with Yuanfei Yuluo.
It wasn’t until a seller’s message came through that Li Zheng understood what was going on.
"Protect Yuanfei Yuluo for a while longer?"
They really treated him like a bodyguard, huh?
Am I, Li Zheng, the type of person who can be bought off with a petty interest?
He took all the materials.
It’s a shame not to take it; these are all resources!
"But then again, why does it feel like this kid is arranging affairs as if preparing for the end?" Li Zheng scratched his head, finding Misaka Tsuchiemon’s series of actions increasingly like finding a safe place for his sister before dying.
"With just that bit of combat ability, what’s with doing dangerous actions, wouldn’t it be better to explore the Matrix obediently?" Li Zheng shook his head, not understanding what Misaka Tsuchiemon was thinking.
But a promise is a promise.
Since they’d given the reward, he could pay more attention to Yuanfei Yuluo’s situation, and if they faced danger, helping out wouldn’t be a big deal.
After putting everything away, he quietly finished lunch with Anan and continued with the day’s exploration.
On the way to investigate the metal door, Li Zheng flipped through the world channel. Since Liu Qi finished trading with him, the terminal had only issued two announcements, and the variants numbered thirty-two and thirty-one had also been resolved by the Ma Long Squad.
The points for the kills were even with Li Zheng’s team; if they could take down Variant Number 30, they would surpass them.
However, an hour had passed since they took down Variant Number 31, and no new announcement had appeared; who knows what unexpected event happened to Ma Long and his team.
Li Zheng stroked his chin, took out the event ticket again, and found it was still locked and couldn’t be used for transport.
"I wonder which number of the Divine Power it is." Holding the ticket, Li Zheng pondered the purpose of the terminal in initiating this event.
If the aim is to use this event to have other players take out these variants, the terminal may be overestimating its players.
With current player strength, they might not even conquer Variant 29 by the event’s end.
What will happen to the remaining variants after the event ends?
Release them, giving normal player treatment?
If so, ordinary players will be in a bind.
Keep them locked and use them as samples for the next event?
Two events with the same content?
The terminal wouldn’t be so incompetent, would it?
"It would be great if I could go to Luo Aiman; maybe some answers could be obtained from him." Li Zheng shook his head and put away the event ticket.
[Behind the door sleeps two Diamond Level creatures, danger level: high.]
An exploration message made Li Zheng raise his eyebrows: "Two Diamonds!"
Moreover, it’s Diamond Level creatures encountered outside of the instance!
These past two days, apart from entering instances and participating in events, everything else was a dull experience for Li Zheng.
Most of his time was wasted on exploring information back and forth, and if it wasn’t to maximize exploration gains, Li Zheng could rush through twenty explorations in two hours!
"Looks like I’ve reached the threshold where exploration difficulty increases?"
Given Li Zheng’s current strength, ordinary Diamond-level creatures were like toys.
But lately, the hardest challenge he’d faced was only Platinum.
Perhaps after this time, the appearance of Diamond Level creatures will become more frequent.
"Let’s check the other doors first. This one will be the first choice." Instead of swiping his card immediately, Li Zheng went in a different direction to probe several other doors.
Sure enough, besides this, there were two other doors leading to rooms with Diamond Level creatures.
However, each only had one, making them relatively less challenging.
The remaining doors had Platinum level challenges, and one led to an empty room.
Now, the choice of door became much clearer.
Returning to the first detected door, he swiped his card, drew his Sheathed Sword, and entered with anticipation.
Without noticing, Li Zheng was no longer satisfied with a peaceful exploration life; instead, he longed for more challenging ventures.
Challenging powerful creatures stirred something within him, making him feel his blood boil.
The light screen in front dissipated, revealing a terrain covered in bizarre rocks.
Pillars of stone pierced skyward, and upon first glance, Li Zheng almost thought the area was ravaged by Earth Dragons.
[Armored Dragon Turtle
Tier: Diamond
Description: Nocturnal, receives enhancement at night, close to extraordinary power.
Feature: Incredible defense!
Ability: Brute Force, Rolling Wheels, Heaven-Shattering Earth-Splitting, Hard Shell, ???, ???
Weakness: Clumsy.
Old Pu: Upon seeing them, Old Pu felt a strange familiarity, as if he’d encountered them somewhere before.]
Scanning past a few distant spikes, Old Pu suddenly provided detected information; these were one of the two Diamond creatures sleeping here!
They perfectly blended into the environment, effectively concealing their presence!
"Familiar?" Li Zheng noticed this term and carefully approached them, taking advantage of their slumber.
Circumventing a few massive stone pillars, crossing two geological crevices, Li Zheng finally observed the appearance of the Armored Dragon Turtle from a distance.
Its head, half-protruded from the enormous shell, resembled a crocodile’s, with a rugged skin texture akin to stone.
Its limbs were like stone columns, so robust that even in slumber, the Armored Dragon Turtle had to support itself upright.
The hefty limbs exuded a sense of mountain-crushing strength.
The colossal shell was seemingly sculpted from rock, and like a sea urchin, the back was adorned with dense spikes.
Among these,the five most conspicuous spikes were twice as large as the others and formed a line down its back.
The spike nearest the head leaned forward, slightly curved like a prow mounted on a maritime vessel.
"The tip of the side spike..." Li Zheng compared scratch marks from the True Maze, finding them amazingly consistent.
"Damn! Could these be the two creatures wandering to my resting rooms last night? Such a coincidence?" He recalled their paths, which shouldn’t have intersected with his.
"It’s possibly the same species but not the same individuals?" Putting away his True Maze, Li Zheng watched the Armored Dragon Turtle cautiously from afar, avoiding waking it.
What he detested most were high-defense iron-tortoise type creatures; after spending ages, he might not even breach their defense, having to find their weak spots.
Just like humans, with vulnerable areas like the throat, heart, groin, eyes, and head.
Matrix creatures, beyond the convenient weaknesses Old Pu uncovered, often harbored some instantly fatal vulnerabilities.
Identifying these could drastically lower battle difficulties, even allowing prowess to surpass their level effortlessly!