Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 429 The ratio of time flow is one to four!

"Actually, the method of training your mental strength and consolidating your strength was originally intended as a reward for you."

He gestured for Li Zheng to sit down and slowly explained, "But I still want to thank you for easing the awkwardness for me in this way... right?"

"Ah, that's not important. What's important is that you remember what I'm about to teach you..."

Xu Zhen was a chatterbox. After the first Lamp Holder left, he was lonely for too long and unknowingly picked up the other's bad habits, evolving from a quiet listener into a gossip.

Even when explaining the secrets of cultivating mental strength to Li Zheng, he would subconsciously bring up a few related anecdotes, and after chatting for a long time, he would bring the topic back on track.

In short, despite his best efforts, Li Zheng couldn't remember much about cultivation; instead, he did remember a few short stories...

"...That's why I locked that guy up, made him suffer the torment of endless loneliness before releasing him!" Xu paused here, then asked Li Zheng, "How much do you remember?"

Li Zhengsheng said with a sense of despair: "I remember about three short stories, five incidents of revenge, and sixteen interesting stories about my interactions with the first Lamp Holder."

"Why are you memorizing all this useless stuff?" Xu scolded. "I told you to memorize the methods for cultivating spiritual power and condensing spiritual power nodes!"

"So you know these little stories are useless, huh!" Li Zheng lay back and asked, "Tell me the truth, are you afraid that once you teach me, I won't come anymore, so you're using this method to interfere with my studies?"

"No... how could that be?" Xu's expression was somewhat unnatural; it seemed he hadn't yet learned how to lie.

"Sigh... It's alright, we have plenty of time. But I've stayed long enough this time. I still have things to do outside. I'll come back to learn from you next time." Li Zheng sat up, calculated the time, and realized that nearly four hours had passed without him noticing!

If I don't go back soon, I might not be able to finish all ten challenges for today, so I have to say goodbye now.

"Well... alright, I'll see you out." Xu said somewhat dejectedly, stood up, made a strange gesture, and pointed at Li Zheng.

The next moment, Li Zheng felt a sudden pain in his hand holding the lantern, as if it were burning or being pricked by needles.

He let go, intending to rub the area to relieve the pain, but as his hands crossed, he realized that he had no physical form here.

"What did you just do?" Li Zheng was stunned. His current form should be similar to a spiritual body. How could the Void cause harm to him in this state?

If we learn this trick, wouldn't we be able to kill the enemy without them even realizing it?

"It's nothing, I just forcibly bound the lantern to you. Don't forget, the terminal that you and I both call X, and I also have some of its abilities." Xu Wei smiled slightly.

This means that unless Li Zheng dies, the Mysterious Declaration can no longer be traded to others.

"Are you afraid that one day I'll learn how to cultivate spiritual power and sell the lantern to someone else?" Li Zheng sighed. "Aren't you being too wary?"

Although he did have this idea, it's likely that Xu had already glimpsed it beforehand and that's why he did it.

"Being prepared is always better than being caught off guard, right? It's an idiom from your memory...?" Xu raised his hand to press it down. "Don't worry, I just promised you that I wouldn't easily pry into other people's thoughts anymore, so this time it really was just something I wanted to do myself."

Li Zheng couldn't confirm whether he had truly kept his promise, but since they were already bound together, Li Zheng gave up the idea of ​​trading the lantern.

"Alright, take me back first. I haven't figured out how to use this broken lamp yet," Li Zheng urged.

"Your spiritual power is too low to use it now. Once you condense your first spiritual power node, you can use it in the Dark Realm," Xu explained, waving his hand casually.

Li Zheng felt dizzy and disoriented before finally plunging into darkness.

In just a moment, when he opened his eyes again, he was back in his capsule residence.

'Master, what happened to you just now?' His hand trembled, the Bloodthirsty Demon Blade still in his grasp.

Li Zheng looked at his other hand and found that the "lamp bearer" had disappeared, and a trace of the lantern had appeared in his palm, flashing by.

That was in the Dark Realm, the place where the Void finally hurt him.

"Is this a complete binding?" Li Zheng muttered. He could accurately sense a lantern in his left hand, and with just a mental movement, he could enter the Dark Realm again through it.

"Truly worthy of being the first Lamp Bearer, to be able to create such a stable tool for entering the Dark Realm." Li Zheng couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

Back in the Dark Realm, Xu had explained to Li Zheng that even for beings of both reality and illusion, the Dark Realm wasn't a place one could enter at will.

Although a large number of lives entered the void, it was actually the result of an accumulation over an unknown period of time.

In fact, if the first lamp-bearer hadn't been a true genius, figuring out how to traverse between the real and virtual worlds by walking through the relatively stable abyss.

The Dark Realm is still a place where you can only enter if you have good looks.

"Huh? By the way, you just said I've been standing here the whole time?" Li Zheng asked the Demon Blade while glancing at the time.

12:45 noon?

I've been in the Dark Realm for almost four hours, but only one hour has passed in the Realm?
A time flow rate of 1:4?
Or did I make a mistake?
Actually, I've been standing here for a whole day and night?

Because he had entered the Dark Realm, he couldn't bring anything from the Realm with him. So, he lost all the functions of the system terminal panel. Li Zheng couldn't see the time or any information and could only estimate it himself.

'The owner has been standing here for almost an hour since taking out that lamp, huh? The lamp is gone?'

The Demon Blade's explanation basically confirmed for Li Zheng that the time flow rate between the real world and the dark world is one to four.

The Bloodthirsty Demon Blade became very obedient after being subdued, so it probably won't lie.

Li Zheng returned to the first floor, where Xiao Ying was dozing off with an empty plate in her hand.

Now Li Zheng was certain that Mo Dao was telling the truth.

If she had been in the Dark Realm for more than six hours, Sakura wouldn't be sitting here so obediently taking a nap.

"Master, master, that lamp disappeared sometime ago!" The Demon Blade was still agonizing over this matter, vibrating incessantly in Li Zheng's hand.

"Alright, I know!" Li Zheng showed the lantern for a moment, then put it back into the mark, and the demonic sword went quiet.

Looking at the lantern imprint, Li Zheng felt a deep resentment towards the first lantern bearer.

Why make such a powerful feature disappear after being combined?
Damn...

I'm furious!

He didn't care about any of the other features, but he really couldn't bear to part with the "free item" feature!
Moreover, according to Xu, the "add one more" characteristic was actually an unexpected product. Originally, he and the first lantern bearer did not intend to add this characteristic to the lantern.

So, it's one thing that other features are gone, but why did this unplanned product also disappear?
This is unreasonable!
Li Zheng felt increasingly distressed and contacted Zhan Zhouzhou and the other three to begin their plan to challenge the mutants that day.

He vented all his anger on the mutants.

(End of this chapter)