Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day-Chapter 697 - 502: I, Li Zheng, Protect My People!_2

Especially among the readers who love online novels, there is such a group. They are pessimistic, resentful of the world, and gloomy.

They like cold-blooded protagonists who are akin to fiends, wishing the protagonist could kill everyone in the world to satisfy their inner twisted emptiness, restrained by 'right and wrong', 'morality', 'law', and other factors.

They call this behavior of the protagonist "decisive and ruthless."

How ridiculous and naive a thought?

But if you say these readers are all sixteen or seventeen-year-old boys and girls?

That's not entirely the case.

However, one thing that can be certain is at the age when these people need guidance, they didn't receive the correct guidance for their values due to the wrong educational methods and family environment.

This is not their fault.

It's the fault of societal structures that believes in so-called 'taboos', causing educational deficiencies.

This is society's fault.

It's caused by the deformed education system.

Can't blame them.

Even the internet is like this now. In a place like the Matrix, where there are no legal and moral constraints, letting them develop freely, who knows what they'll turn into.

And now, Li Zheng is trying to guide these 'children' in his own way.

He is not a professional in the education industry and is not sure whether what he's doing will achieve the desired effect.

But now, it seems the result is acceptable.

"It's great that you can think this way."

Li Zheng said with a relieved smile, "But there's one thing you've overlooked. This time you survived the attack because of the nature of the activity; otherwise, out there, you'd already be a pile of corpses waiting for cremation!"

"So..."

"Self-reliance is what you should do, and what we should do is—"

"Protect our own!"

Pa!

BOOM!!!!!!

A towering blaze surged up, and in the reflection of the flames, Li Zheng's entire body seemed to be glowing with a golden light.

This scene left a deep impression in the minds of Wang Er and the others, lingering for a long time.

...

"Damn, with a leader who protects like this, it almost makes me want to quit the legion and join the Starting Point!"

"Who doesn't want to? The problem is that leveling up at Starting Point is too slow. I've been waiting in line for several days and still can't get in; otherwise, would I be out here with you all watching the live stream?"

In Zhou Shufen's live stream, all of Li Zheng's actions were broadcasted, and the bullet chats were filled with envy; those who have already joined Starting Point are truly lucky.

Of course, where there is envy, there are also different opinions.

"Aren't you being too naive?"

"It's not wrong for Li Zheng to protect his own like this, but isn't he afraid of retribution from the legions he offended after the event ends?"

"Exactly, after the event, there's no such thing as Transfer Space; dead means dead."

Someone quickly rebutted:

"You've said it yourself, outside the event, dead is dead—who would dare avenge against the Starting Point? Aren't they afraid of Li Zheng and his group striking back?"

This is true. The N-number room dared to participate in the plan against Starting Point because no one would truly die in the event.

Otherwise, no matter how bold they were, they wouldn't dare to act.

At this moment, a bullet chat suddenly floated by, causing everyone to start doubting Starting Point's situation:

"Li Zheng is so strong, he must be close to entering the Outer City, right?"

"When he goes to Outer City, will Starting Point still have a protector?"

"The more arrogant they are now, the worse it'll be then. Those wanting to join Starting Point better find another place soon, so you don't die without knowing why!"

As if to answer this comment, Li Zheng said to Phoenix Mountain and the others, "Before I head to the Outer City, I'll leave the traversal channel tools. If our legion gets bullied, you should do like I did today and lead people to fight back!"

"Don't worry, Old Li. Whoever tries to mess with us, my wife and I will be the first to chop them!" Phoenix Mountain replied arrogantly, having a bit of a wild nature; he was known for being someone who would fight right away when displeased by Li Zheng. Li Zheng was quite at ease with him.

Lu Li hesitated for a moment, just about to say something when he suddenly acted out again, showing a manic smile, "You're right, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth! If people respect me by an inch, I'll respect them by a yard! But if anyone dares to mess with us, I'll kill their whole family!"

Everyone: "..."

The people looked at the completely inconsistent contrast of Lu Li and felt an extremely strange feeling on the spot.

Especially Wang Er and others who didn't know him well, feeling inside that this person was unpredictable, it's best not to provoke him in the future.

Who knows if he'd disregard the comradeship of a legion?

If he decides to kill and they die at his hands, how frustrating would that be?

It was at this moment that, after Li Zheng had cleaned them up for some time, the remaining players in the encirclement were few and far between.

Only then did Guan Hu bring his people to start tidying up the mess.

"Can Captain Li give me some face and let them off this time?" Guan Hu approached and said.

Li Zheng glanced at him, then at Liu Qi, who was standing behind him like a subordinate, and slightly frowned: "Why are you the one talking to me? Where's your major?"

Guan Hu wasn't annoyed by such an offensive remark and smiled harmoniously at Li Zheng: "Our major... *cough*, Liu Qi has already stepped down as the captain of the Kunlun Legion. Before this event ends, I am temporarily acting as the head of Kunlun Legion."

"Stepped down?"

Li Zheng didn't understand why Liu Qi suddenly played the stepping down trick for no reason, but this was Kunlun's internal affair, as an outsider he shouldn't meddle too much.

He was just worried whether Liu Qi's stepping down would affect the previously agreed cooperation with Kunlun before the event.

"What about the things we agreed on before..."

"Don't worry, Captain Li. Kunlun won't go back on promises, even if Liu Qi stepped down, the agreed cooperation will continue," Guan Hu turned the subject, "though... the matter might be delayed, waiting for Kunlun to elect a new general manager."

No plans could proceed without someone in charge; without a general manager, all Kunlun's external activities would be temporarily shelved.

Li Zheng frowned more deeply: "How long will it take?"

"Not long! As quick as half a day, as slow as three days. Any news will immediately be notified to Captain Li." Guan Hu replied unhurriedly.

"Is that so?"

Li Zheng nodded thoughtfully; Kunlun changing their person in charge at this juncture inevitably made him speculate.

Originally, he had agreed with Liu Qi to act against Creation after the fishing competition, to thoroughly pull down that legion.

But it wasn't even a day before Liu Qi stepped down?

This must have something to do with the matter, more or less.

Looks like Kunlun can't be relied on in the short term.

"Alright, since you've spoken as acting head, I'll give you this face," Li Zheng clapped his hands, gesturing to the Starting Point members behind him, "Let's go, find a nice place to fish!"

"Fishing?"

Guan Hu took a step forward, unobtrusively blocking them: "Doesn't the Starting Point Legion have its own territory? Why doesn't Captain Li take your people back there to fish?"

"What do you mean by that?"

Before Li Zheng could speak, Phoenix Mountain couldn't hold back and jumped out loudly, "Don't forget, the Lava Mountain Range was originally Starting Point's territory!"

"As you said, it was originally yours, but now you're not taking it back?" Guan Hu faced Phoenix Mountain without giving an inch.

"You!" Phoenix Mountain pointed at him.

"I believe Captain Li is a reasonable person!" Guan Hu ignored Phoenix Mountain and directly interjected, "It wouldn't make sense to argue over this matter, right?"

"Or do you mean, are the Starting Point folks willing to make up for the ticket money?"

"Damn it! I thought you were easy to get along with, but I was wrong!" Phoenix Mountain cursed, raising a fist ready to charge up: "You're asking for a beating!"

"Phoenix Mountain!"

Li Zheng came up to hold him back, fixed his gaze on Guan Hu for a moment, then glanced at Liu Qi's direction.

Seeing Liu Qi signaling to him with his eyes, he hesitated a bit and led the Starting Point members towards the entrance.

Passing by Liu Qi, Li Zheng whispered, "You better give me a reasonable explanation afterward!"

Liu Qi opened his mouth but just gave a wry smile.