Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Who is the author of Chapter 272, Journey to the West? (Two chapters combined)

"Yes, my sister and I were both invited to be their special members, enjoying the benefits of intelligence sharing without having to pay too much," Ye Kai said frankly.

"Which organization?" Li Zheng continued to ask.

He already had the answer in his heart: the only organizations that would invite players from the Dragon Kingdom were Kunlun and Jiutian.

Aside from these two, Ye Kai and his group wouldn't pay any attention to invitations from other smaller organizations.

"Nine days."

"That's good." Li Zheng nodded, confirming his suspicions.

If it were a small organization that invited them, Ye Kai and his group probably wouldn't even give them a second glance.

"So... the plan to plunder the world was orchestrated by the Nine Heavens behind the scenes?" Li Zheng asked in a private message.

Ye Kai replied, "No. I've already signed a confidentiality agreement. This kind of information that indirectly exposes both parties to the agreement is monitored by the terminal, so how could it possibly be released?"

Li Zheng considered the logic and realized that Ye Kai's words made sense. If the one who planned the robbery was Jiutian, Ye Kai's method of exposing the other party through language would indeed be noticed by the end user.

Since it's not the Nine Heavens, then it must be Kunlun.

Good guy!
Ye Kai has been doing quite well these days; he's made contact with the two most famous organizations in the Dragon Kingdom!

Li Zheng was a little puzzled. Even Ye Kai could get in touch with these two organizations, so why was he, as the number one on the combat power list, being ignored?
He also wanted to investigate how these people who created organizations out of boredom actually operated, and why those players were willing to join them.

To be fair, Li Zheng was actually a leader of an organization.

However, his organization only had two people, the other being Xiao Siyuan.

And this organization hasn't even been named yet...

After communicating with Ye Kai for a while, I learned that he is currently a special invited member and has not yet decided whether to officially join Jiutian, so he is not particularly clear about the internal rules of Jiutian.

All I know is that as a member of the Nine Heavens, I can obtain information discovered by others for free.

For example, the strengths and weaknesses of various matrix organisms, the classification of gene abilities of each lineage, survival tips, etc.

These are all compiled by designated personnel and then distributed to each official member to help players improve their survival rate.

If you are missing a certain material, you can submit an application within the organization, and players who have the material will provide it to you free of charge.

However, applicants will be scored, with different scores depending on the rarity of the requested item. They must find a way to reduce their score to zero within the specified time.

The scoring is also handled by specialists, who are said to be senior accountants or data professionals before joining the matrix.

According to Ye Kai, there is also a promotion mechanism within Jiutian, and if you become a senior member, you will receive special benefits.

Ye Kai said he didn't know the specifics of the benefits.

As it was approaching midnight, Ye Kai said he needed to rest, and the two stopped sending private messages.

Li Zheng then got out of the now-cold water, dried himself off, got dressed, and left the bathroom.

"Aww~" Sakura stood expectantly at the bathroom door. Li Zheng required her to take a bath every day, but today she had been occupying the bathroom for so long that she was almost falling asleep.

"Go ahead, wash yourself thoroughly." Li Zheng sat back on the bed, not lying down, quietly waiting for dawn to arrive.

Due to the confidentiality agreement, Ye Kai did not tell Li Zheng how to prevent others from transferring items out through the trading hall, but Li Zheng guessed it might be the effect of some high-level item.

If you cut off someone's connection to the trading floor, and then use coercion and enticement tactics, you can indeed plunder someone's gains.

“If it’s a prop, it must be of a high level and there must be a lot of them.” Li Zheng put his hands on his chin. “Kunlun is willing to use such a prop to plan the plunder of the world. I estimate that they will take a lot of what they get afterward.”

"Hopefully Ye Kai and the others are careful and haven't revealed their identities, otherwise the Creator World won't retaliate against Kunlun, but will instead target the three of them."

……

As night deepened, Itazumi Ryoma finished his daily kendo training and prepared to rest when he suddenly received a private message from his subordinate, informing him that a player who was storing supplies had been completely robbed.

After ruling out the possibility of embezzlement and using the excuse of "being robbed" to cover it up, Banquan Longma was almost driven mad with anger.

"Is Koinu-kun still alive?"

"Alive, but seriously injured. I just requested medical supplies."

"Is it seriously injured?"

"It's very serious. There are wounds of varying degrees all over his body, indicating that he has been subjected to prolonged torture."

"Has the injury been examined?"

"No, but he sent me a photo."

Ban Quanlongma's face darkened: "Next time you encounter something like this, you should have your injuries checked first, to prevent someone from faking injuries to steal from you."

"Hey!"

"Now repeat the whole process to me, without omitting anything!"

"Hey! Here's what happened..." The subordinate reported the details of the robbery to the player in a private message, which was basically copied and pasted.

After reading the entire book, Banquan Longma closed his eyes and gently pressed his temples with his eyes.

"Two men and one woman, all with disguised faces, spoke English. They arrived in the morning using some kind of teleportation device, captured the puppy, and then used a special device to disable his ability to trade and send messages. After succeeding at night, they teleported away again?"

After extracting the key information, Banquan Longma muttered to himself for a while, then opened his eyes and had his subordinates check some details with Xiao Quan.

After receiving the reply, he showed an expression of "I knew it," and muttered to himself, "Just as I expected, besides the facial disguise, the language was also fake!"

Because the device has a built-in translation function, players can understand and read any language, even dialects, from any country.

But this doesn't mean that what you see and hear is a translated language, but simply that you can "understand" it.

This is why looters have to disguise their language, otherwise their identities would be easily exposed.

At the very least, it will reveal which country you come from.

"Unfortunately, your cleverness backfired. Your 'Little Dog' who looted you had studied the accents of English speakers from different countries, which led to your failure in disguise!" Itazumi Ryoma's eyes were practically spitting fire.

"Stealing from our own people, what audacity! Taking advantage of the discord between Genesis and Li Zheng, they dared to steal resources from an entire warehouse!"

Banquan Longma decided to suspend all plans for Genesis and first retaliate against the bandits who dared to plunder Genesis.

"There are only two organizations that would dare to steal from a country like this: Shincheonji and the Nth Room," Izazumi Ryoma recalled intelligence about these two organizations.

"Shincheonji is a bunch of lunatics. They have the desire and the guts to steal, but they lack brains. It would be difficult for them to plan something like this in a short period of time." The Shincheonji organization was originally the largest cult in the country, with numerous members.

After entering the Matrix, a leader, in the name of New Heaven, rallied the followers and continued to brainwash them, referring to the Matrix world as the New World mentioned in the doctrine.

Their goal was to conquer this so-called "new world" and create their ideal divine kingdom.

Regardless of how outrageous this goal is, this alone shows that the members of Shincheonji are indeed not very bright.

Even someone with a good brain wouldn't believe in a church like that...

"The Nth Room is a group formed by members of various conglomerates, who employ a group of ruthless thugs. This robbery seems like something they would do." Ryoma Itagaki's eyes were deep. He was basically certain that the Nth Room was the instigator of this robbery.

Soon, he gathered a group of senior executives from Genesis to discuss how to retaliate against the Nth Room.

Meanwhile, the real perpetrators were dividing up the spoils.

On channel 879, Ye Kai, Ye Yuan, and Chu Xiao were all in one room, gathered around a lit campfire, with a mountain of materials and props piled up beside it.

Among them are some platinum-grade materials, and there are even quite a few individual and group spatial movement devices.

Ye Yuan slowly munched on a piece of fruit, her eyes fixed on the pile of props, unwilling to look away: "The thought of having to give them half of what's here makes my heart bleed."

Ye Kai sat on the other side of the fire, holding a dark green bottle in his hand and taking two big gulps, letting out a comfortable sigh: "There's nothing we can do about it. We were able to get it this time thanks to that thing they provided. You should be grateful if we can get half of it."

Ye Yuan grumbled in dissatisfaction, "But we were the ones who did the work, and we were the ones who took the risks. Why should they get half of it without doing anything?"

Chu Xiao, who was sitting with his back to the materials, looked up when he heard this and said, "You should be grateful. If it weren't for my childhood friend contacting me by chance, we wouldn't have gotten this good deal!"

He paused, then continued, "Besides, wasn't the whole plan drafted by them? They even gave you a crash course in English, you should be smug about it."

"Tch!" Ye Yuan spat out a piece of fruit peel and said disdainfully, "It's just a few words of English, what's so great about it? Besides, is the language master your friend found a fraud? Why do I feel like the few words of English I learned have a strong dialect accent?"

"Dialect?" Ye Kai opened the bottle and let out a bubbly burp: "Burp—you're wrong about that. That's not a dialect accent, that's the accent that Chinese people use when speaking English. I had a Chinese student in college, and her English had that accent."

I also want to ask Lao Chu, where did your childhood friend find this language expert? His accent is so strong!

"How would I know?" Chu Xiao rolled his eyes. "They have such strict discipline; they won't say a single thing they shouldn't."

"Hehehe." Ye Kai didn't seem to care, and instead laughed strangely: "How long do you think it will take for the Creation World to realize that it wasn't the country they stole, but the three of us?"

"That's hard to say." Chu Xiao carefully recalled the entire plan, looking for any oversights.

After confirming there were no mistakes, he said, "Let's see if Genesis can maintain its composure after suffering such a huge loss. If it can't, and it falls out with the country thief first, I estimate that it might not be able to react even when both sides are fighting to the death."

Misunderstandings are most difficult to resolve through reasoning.

But this is something that can't be reasoned with.

Because no matter how much the country steals from, it will be considered a "denial" by the creator.

Ye Yuan tilted her head and thought for a moment, then suddenly said, "Have you noticed that this time we've used their own methods against them?"
"Genesis framed Li Zheng a couple of days ago, so today we'll use the same methods to cause them trouble, and the success rate will be much higher than their straightforward plan."

Upon hearing this, Ye Kai thought about it carefully and laughed: "You know what, it's true! It's a pity we both signed a confidentiality agreement, otherwise I really would like to tell Li Zheng about this right now and make him happy."

"Forget it, he's already got enough to worry about these past few days, let's not add to his troubles." Chu Xiao shook his head, offering the opposite opinion, then suddenly paused, as if glancing at his private messages, "We got a message from them, asking us to send the items to a player named Tang Qiancang."

"Tang Qianzang? That's a strange name." Ye Kai put the dark green bottle aside, and the three of them got up and started organizing the mountain of materials and props together.

Because all three had signed an agreement, which included a clause on profit sharing afterward, it could not be violated.

While tidying up, Ye Yuan muttered to herself, "The one called Tang Sanzang had to go on ten pilgrimages to the West. If his name is Tang Qianzang, how many pilgrimages will he have to go on?"

Hearing this, Ye Kai looked up and asked in surprise, "Didn't Tang Sanzang only go on the pilgrimage once? Where did the ten times come from?"

Chu Xiao interjected, "The tenth attempt was successful; the previous nine attempts all failed."

"Failed? And nine times at that?" Ye Kai exclaimed in surprise. "Are we watching the same Journey to the West? How come I didn't know about this setting?"

Ye Yuan gave him a disdainful look: "You usually read books so quickly that you wouldn't notice the details that are only briefly mentioned. Jin Chanzi was reincarnated to retrieve the scriptures, but he was eaten by Sha Wujing the first nine times, which caused the journey to fail. He only succeeded on the tenth time because he was protected by Sun Wukong."

"Is that so?" Ye Kai scratched his cheek. He felt that this statement was strange, but he couldn't find any flaws to refute it, so he just assumed that he had indeed overlooked it.

After a while, he suddenly looked up and asked, "Do you think that Jin Chanzi's previous nine reincarnations were also named Tang Sanzang?"

This question left Chu Xiao and the other person speechless.

They exchanged glances, each waiting for the other's answer, but no one knew.

Ye Yuan lowered her head: "Who knows? Why don't you ask Luo Guanzhong? He wrote Journey to the West; he's the author."

Ye Kai seized the opportunity to retort with disdain: "Luo Guanzhong? He's the author of Water Margin!"

Chu Xiao kept his head down and busied himself for a while before looking up blankly and asking in bewilderment, "Isn't Shi Nai'an the author of Water Margin?"

Ye Yuan seemed to remember something and excitedly said, "That's right, Luo Guanzhong is the author of Romance of the Three Kingdoms!"

She also expressed her contempt for her brother: "He's read the Three Great Classical Novels so thoroughly that he can't even tell the authors apart."

"Hey~" Ye Kai looked shocked: "You were the one who said Luo Guanzhong wrote Journey to the West, how did it become my fault?"

"Hmph, can't I be wrong?!" Ye Yuan retorted stubbornly.

Ye Kai retorted, "Fine, why not? As long as you clearly state who the author of Journey to the West is, I'll admit that I've been reading the three great classics in vain."

"Isn't the author of Journey to the West..." Ye Yuan was speechless and turned to look at Chu Xiao.

Chu Xiao, who had been watching the show, immediately lowered his head and pretended not to know anything.

Ye Yuan: "..."

Ye Kai: "Speak up?"

"I...I fed it to the dogs!" Ye Yuan, taking advantage of her young age, started to act spoiled. "Don't be so smug, you have to feed the dogs with me! Humph!"

"Hello, hello... wait!" Ye Kai suddenly froze: "Why do I vaguely remember it being one of the Four Great Classical Novels, not the Three Great Classical Novels?"

……

Li Zheng chatted with Ye Kai for a while, and just after midnight, the treasure chest finally refreshed for the day.

After the quality was confirmed, Li Zheng listened to the voice in his ear, his eyes wide with disbelief.

"This quality... is amazing!"

(End of this chapter)