Chapter 147: Chapter 137: This plan is enough to land you in prison for life!

“Hiss!”

Swish, swish, swish…

A large amount of multi-colored venom sprayed out of the venom sac like a fountain, engulfing the three-meter radius in front of Li Chun and his servant.

The Gold Level Five-Colored Xuan Poison Spider’s venom not only had a strong poison but also potent corrosiveness.

Like raindrops, the venom fell, and the nearby grass, barely clinging to life, made sizzling sounds and quickly withered.

The blood-colored vines mixed in among them instantly suffered, smoking as they quickly retreated from the venom’s range to avoid the danger.

However, even after retreating from the venom’s spray, the vines were not spared, the places touched by the venom continued to corrode, full of holes.

Li Chun praised, “Good job, little spider!”

The Five-Colored Xuan Poison Spider, happy as a watering car, sprayed its venom freely, filling the air with smoke.

After ten seconds… it was done.

The venom was used up…

“Little spider… let’s fall back!” Li Chun patted his pet, then retreated to the protective circle formed by Xiao Siyuan and Yan Guang.

The Gold Level venom was effective, but its production was minimal each day; the ten seconds of indulgence used up two days’ worth of accumulation.

Though Li Chun and his servant were almost combat ineffective, and the spider’s size was exaggerated, it was not adept at dealing with the vines and moved behind the others.

Still, the venom sprayed in just over ten seconds created a vacant area in that direction; the blood-colored vines dared not step a foot over the line, only circumventing.

This relieved the group’s pressure somewhat, plus Li Zheng, alone, delved into the vine nest, crazily cutting grass and digging pits to freeze them.

Before long, the scene gradually calmed down.

…

As the dust settled, Xiao Siyuan glanced at the exploration progress, which was only 25%, far from completion.

As this wave of attacks ended, his progress in Dagger Mastery had also broken through to 99%, needing just a little more effort to form a Mastered Ability.

Even though a single Mastered Ability doesn’t have much of a bonus.

But it’s the necessary path to Specialized Abilities, and since there’s this setting in the Matrix, Xiao Siyuan thought having it was better than not having it.

As the surroundings quieted down, Li Zheng was not idle, digging up all the roots through one hole after another.

“Little spider, come help!”

Li Zheng called over the Five-Colored Xuan Poison Spider to transport all the roots he dug up back for others to decompose.

He then glanced at the forest some distance away.

“The exploration progress is only a quarter; that forest seems to be a necessary path for passing through.”

Continuing to work, he unearthed vine roots frozen into ice lumps, while, under Li Chun’s command, the spider carried them back.

[Player Yan Guang decomposed MWD3 Experiment Body, obtained: Broken Gene +1]

[Player Xiao Siyuan decomposed MWD3 Experiment Body, obtained: Strong Anesthetic Venom 25ml]

[Player Li Chun…]

The four busied themselves with decomposition work, and all the blood-colored vines could only be decomposed into these two types of items.

The anesthetic venom needs little explanation: it’s Bronze Level, effective enough that if a player’s physique hasn’t exceeded Black Iron, injecting a little would quickly cause partial limb control loss.

The broken gene, however, was much more interesting; when Xiao Siyuan and others decomposed to obtain this, they almost thought they were playing a gaming grind fest.

Fifty fragments could synthesize a complete genetic chain, which enhances pet quality, only upgrading from Black to Bronze.

At the same time, there’s a chance to randomly obtain a genetic ability, with the ability tier likely being Black Iron, and a small chance of Bronze.

Once processed, the group gathered to count their haul.

“This round we encountered 58 experimental bodies in total, got 45 gene fragments, 325ml of anesthetic venom, which doesn’t match the difficulty in value at all, it’s too low!”

Yan Guang complained that the instance’s environmental limitations prevented her from fully utilizing her abilities, making this battle feel terribly frustrating.

Xiao Siyuan glanced at Li Zheng’s back heading towards the forest, saying, “Only a quarter of the exploration progressed, why hurry? Judging by this progress, there might be two to three more battles, so the final gain shouldn’t be too low.”

“I…”

Yan Guang wanted to explain her dissatisfaction with the fight, ending with a kick on Phoenix Mountain’s rear: “It’s all your fault!”

Phoenix Mountain: “???”

Yan Guang felt if Phoenix Mountain hadn’t been ambushed from the beginning, causing the group to be tied down, they wouldn’t have been pinned in one place, passively taking hits, with only Li Zheng going on the offensive.

Li Zheng, all alone, charged into the coup de grace made of vines, scattering the fragments, was something Yan Guang was dying of envy for.

She now had the illusion that her strength couldn’t keep up with others, drastically reduced in certain environments.

Unbeknownst to her, others had envied her during her first public mini-bomb group bombardment.

What swagger, when she single-handedly resolved nearly half a hundred mechs in two rounds of cannon fire!

…

Li Zheng stopped at the forest edge, not rushing in recklessly.

Even though Old Pu had transformed from equipment into an ability, within the instance, suppression still applied; without Old Pu’s information advantage, he dared not act rashly in such an unknown environment.

“The textures on the surfaces of these trees are strange.”

Li Zheng examined them closely for a moment, finding that the trees forming this forest had pitch-black bark, with twisted lines on the surface, oddly resembling a closed-eye human face.

“Tree spirits?”

Seeing no movement in the forest, Li Zheng quietly led the little cheering squad back.

Little Ying, holding the cheering stick, fluttered her wings, following behind Li Zheng.

Not far into their steps, the little fellow suddenly sensed something, abruptly turned around for a glance.

All calm, the forest remained deathly silent.

“Huh?”

Perplexedly wagging its tail, it turned to follow Li Zheng again.

Wasn’t there something watching its back just now?

…

“How about it? Was there anything in there?” Xiao Siyuan asked.

Li Zheng didn’t conceal anything, explaining what he had found, and suggested, “If my guess is correct, I have an idea to solve that forest without bloodshed.”

Phoenix Mountain asked, “What’s the idea?”

He was now able to stand up and move; as long as he didn’t foolishly use his injured leg’s Bursting Power, he could manage low-intensity combat.

“Lean in!”

Li Zheng called the group closer, whispering his plan.

Once the plan was laid out, Li Chun was a bit hesitant, “Is this really okay?”

“What’s wrong with it?”

Phoenix Mountain nonchalantly waved it off, “After this special room is cleared, we won’t be back a second time, just follow Li Zheng’s method and do it!”

Xiao Siyuan considered its feasibility, “It’s a good thing this is the Matrix Game, not in our domestic space.

Otherwise, this plan could get you locked up.”

Li Chun explained, “I don’t mean the plan’s bad, I’m worried this way we might not extract materials.”

“Huh?”

The group exchanged glances and simultaneously realized: “Oh, right!”

Li Zheng considered, reviewed the decomposition information, then decided, “If it’s a little less, so be it; we can’t extract anything particularly good from this instance anyway. Let’s wrap it up quickly; there’s the Underworld Li Chun discovered too.

At worst, we treat it as earning two extra draws.”

This made Phoenix Mountain hesitant, “You guys might not care about these small gains, but that genetic chain is quite useful to me. My pet’s still just an ordinary animal; it could use the boost.”

Li Zheng only now realized, “I wanted to ask before, where’s your pet gone?”

Phoenix Mountain mulled over the taste, “Damn, what was I thinking naming it so ridiculously!”

The little pet, due to its truly weak strength, was left in the previous room by Phoenix Mountain, not brought along.

Once they finish exploring here, he could directly return there, without fear of losing his pet.