Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 466 The Treadmill: A New Method of Mental Strength Training (4.4K)

"extract!"

Li Zheng went to the twelfth floor of his residence and retrieved the treasure chest. He didn't want Miriel to know about his treasure chest system yet.

"Extraordinary level".

Li Zheng looked at the colorful treasure chest in front of him, made of some unknown material, with a complicated expression.

Wouldn't it be amazing if this landed a critical hit?
With his hands clasped together and rubbing them up and down, Li Zheng slowly squatted down, solemnly lifted the lid, and reached in to scoop it out.

[Obtained: Power Core Type VII *1]

[Obtained: All-round Nanomedical Robot *1]

[Received: 50000g of titanium-air alloy]

[Received: 20000g of Orichalcos]

[Received: 10000g of Taibolai alloy]

[Received: 3000g of Vibranium]

[Received: 500g of Loham Force Alloy]

[Obtained: Memory Releaser (Blank) *3]

[Obtained: Intermediate Particle Transfer Chip *30]

[Received: 50 Primary Particle Transfer Chips]

[Received: 5000g of super memory metal]

The long list of prompts dazzled Li Zheng. This time, the extraordinary treasure chest seemed to have yielded a lot of items, but in reality, apart from three diamond-level memory release devices, its value was very ordinary.

Almost all of them are special metals of various grades, with the lowest grade being even a silver-grade titanium-air alloy...

Although the quantity was indeed considerable, a full 50,000 grams.

But for a dignified extraordinary treasure chest to yield silver-level items is simply shameful!
It's almost incomparable to the extraordinary treasure chest I opened last time.

"Ok?"

Li Zheng carefully examined the items he had obtained, and then casually waved his hand, sending two items flying into his hand.

Capsule dwelling renovation plan (practice room)

Rank: Extraordinary

Function: Allows you to modify a special room in your capsule residence for training purposes.

Description: Although this is a training room, in reality, apart from the fact that the interior is not easily damaged, there are no corresponding facilities for training.

However, its minor flaws cannot overshadow its inherent strengths. Practicing any skill in the training room that does not exceed the "skill specialization" level will have a slight bonus effect.

Required materials: 1000g Loham Force Alloy, 50 Primary Particle Transfer Chips, 50 Intermediate Particle Transfer Chips, 5000g Super Memory Metal, Iron Ingots...

After careful comparison, this treasure chest seemed to make up for the missing materials in the blueprint, just like the last extraordinary treasure chest...

"I'd almost forgotten we even had this blueprint."

Li Zheng thought for a moment, then used the renovation plan and chose to renovate a training room on the second floor.

Having finished the training room blueprints, Li Zheng looked at another item, which was also something he had obtained from the extraordinary treasure chest last time.

Loham Force Alloy Coin
Rank: Extraordinary

Description: Coins forged from Loham Force alloy, once used as "currency" in the Matrix, and still collected by certain races.

Function: Collect enough of these items to exchange for corresponding items with certain entities.

A tip from Lao Pu: Once this item reaches the outer city, it will most likely only have collectible value. If you haven't used it before leaving, perhaps you could consider leaving this coin to someone else.
Or... could you try breaking it down into materials?
However, Lao Pu doesn't recommend you do that, since the official craftsmanship for minting these coins has been lost, and genuine coins are always more valuable than fakes.

Lajipa Island!

After reading the attribute information, Li Zheng threw the coin, which had the image of some unknown creature engraved on its surface, back into the corner.

He could tell from the key phrase "collect a sufficient number" that such a coin was almost equivalent to "worthless".

If we ever run out of Loham Force Alloy, we can consider dismantling it!
"There was also something in the last treasure chest that can be used with the training room. We can use it once the training room is renovated." Li Zheng summoned a housekeeping machine and had it put the materials he had just obtained into the corresponding floors according to their type. He then returned to the second floor.

Miriel had finished showering and was sitting on the edge of the bed, staring blankly at the lights that were being used to build the training room.

"what happened?"

Li Zheng walked over and asked, "What are you staring at?"

"Hmm?" Miriel snapped out of her daze and moved to the side to make it easier for Li Zheng to lie down. "It's nothing."

After Li Zheng lay down, she crawled to his side and said, "I want to ask you for a favor."

"What's the deal?"

Li Zheng squinted his eyes; he was exhausted after a long day and felt sleepy as soon as he lay down.

"Won't you get a translation tool in a couple of days? Can I learn it with you then?" Miriel found a comfortable position and snuggled into Li Zheng's arms.

"Sure, but why are you learning all that stuff?" Li Zheng casually pulled her into his arms, then suddenly realized, "??? How come you just lay down here so naturally?"

"Aren't you going to see Xu tonight?" Miriel blinked. "That should make it easier for you to take me with you, right?"

It must be said that this little succubus is indeed clever; after just one trip to the Dark Realm, she roughly understood the principles of entering that place.

Li Zheng pushed her away and grabbed one of her hands instead: "That's fine."

"Oh." Miriel blinked again and lay down obediently to the side.

Li Zheng closed his eyes and asked, "You still haven't answered me: why do you want to learn the languages ​​of other races?"

“Be prepared.”

Miriel said softly, "Actually, I mainly want to learn your language."

"Well???"

Upon hearing this, Li Zheng opened his eyes: "What do you mean?"

“It sounds nice.” Miriel turned her head away. “And I’m partly responsible for your ambush today, aren’t I? If I hadn’t said you could come over, you wouldn’t have…”

Sensing the self-blame in the little succubus's words, Li Zheng smiled and said, "It's not your fault. Besides, it has nothing to do with language. The main thing is that you don't know about my grudges with those guys, and you don't know enough about that organization itself."

“I know.” Miriel turned to look at Li Zheng and said, “What about in the future? If I encounter something like this again, the language barrier will inevitably cause me to overlook many details, leading to errors in my reasoning.”

"You were able to resolve the trouble with your strength this time, but once we're in the outer city, your current strength won't amount to much, will it?"

Did they go to the outer city?

Li Zheng was stunned for a moment. Did Miriel's words imply that she would not leave alone even after arriving in the outer city?

Miriel felt a little uncomfortable under his gaze, and a blush rose on her face: "Don't look at me like that, this is just what I should do as a servant."

"Besides, even once we reach the outer city, I'll still need your player status to protect me, right?"

"So this is just an equivalent exchange..."

"And another thing... I also need to use your abilities to go to the Dark Realm. You have access to such a great place that can enhance spiritual power, so I definitely need to stay here and take advantage of it, right?"

……

"Ok."

Li Zheng smiled and said, "So it was because I was bluffing. I thought my personal charm was so strong that I could make you stay on your own."

"However, you should be prepared that those translation tools may contain more than ten thousand languages."

"Learning everything is not an easy task."

“It’s alright,” Miriel said confidently. “Anything that can be learned is no challenge for me!”

These words made Li Zheng pause, reminding him of his own pathetic martial arts talent.

Sometimes he envied Miriel, just for her "inquisitive" nature.

Because of this personality, Miriel learns everything faster than others, which is simply unreasonable!
Glancing at the training room, still under construction and likely not ready for use until tomorrow, Li Zheng's confidence in quickly mastering other skills surged. The training room could accelerate the acquisition of skills; even if his martial arts talent was so poor that the training room couldn't save him, hadn't he just opened three blank memory release devices today?
If all else fails, we can just take a roundabout approach and buy it directly from someone else, right?
Once the fishing competition is over, I'll be going to cause trouble for the higher-ups at Genesis. Maybe then I won't even need to go through the purchasing process.

With this thought in mind, Li Zheng's confidence returned.

So what if I'm a loser?

I have a cheat code!

“Alright.” Li Zheng closed his eyes, communicating with the lantern imprint, and said, “Close your eyes, let’s go find the void.”

"Ah."

……

"You are finally here!"

Xu was as happy as ever to see Li Zheng and the others, especially today, when he seemed quite excited.

"You seem particularly looking forward to our arrival today?" Li Zheng asked, puzzled.

Miriel felt the same way, staring at the guy who looked exactly like her with a puzzled look, without saying a word.

"Haha, you figured it out."

Like a child eager to show off their exam results, the virtual character waved behind them and said, "Look what surprise I've prepared for you!"

As he waved his hand, the darkness behind him suddenly dissipated, revealing a large red machine.

"This is……"

Li Zheng walked up to the machine and circled it three times, exclaiming in astonishment, "Isn't this a treadmill? You said yesterday that you had limited resources and couldn't make any fitness equipment, but you've already got it done so quickly?"

and……

Even though it was the first time I had seen this machine, why did I have a strange sense of familiarity with it?
It's as if it had been with me for a long time?
"I have to thank you for everything!"

Xu looked at Li Zheng with a smug look in his eyes: "If you hadn't brought in some strange things before, I wouldn't have been able to make this thing."

"weird stuff?"

Li Zheng was puzzled for a moment, then remembered that when he first came in, Xu had taken something from him when he left, and had hurt him at the time.

"you……"

He realized, "You've removed the rage?!"

That's right!

It seems that after that, I never sensed any lurking anger again!
While a latent rage may erupt due to external stimuli, Li Zheng could easily ignite it if he consciously tried to sense it.

Therefore, unless necessary, Li Zheng would subconsciously ignore it, which is why he didn't notice it when Xu removed his rage.

"Hmm, so it's called 'Rage'?"

Xu said thoughtfully, "No wonder it looks like it gets angry easily. In that case, let's call this machine... 'Berserk'."

Rampage...

Li Zheng was silent for a moment. He was amazed to find that there were people in the world who could come up with even worse names than himself.

"No..." Li Zheng asked curiously, "How did you manage to come across this thing?"

In the Dark Realm, everything is nothingness. Logically speaking, the rage that one brings in should also be nothingness. How does the nothingness remove it?
"That's why I said you brought something strange in."

He squinted and explained, "I've studied this thing and found that it should belong to something that shouldn't exist."

Or rather, it should not produce a physical existence.

However, due to certain special reasons, it was able to reside within the human body, resulting in a transformation from virtual to real.

"To some extent, it is more of a 'physical entity' than a 'void' in the dark realm. I can't explain the specific principles, after all, this is the first time I've officially come into contact with something like this."

"But it is precisely because of its special properties that it has become malleable in the dark realm, which is why I was able to create this machine in just one day."

As he spoke, he pointed to the treadmill and said, "Want to give it a try? It's much more effective than pushing against the void wall."

Try?

To be honest, Li Zheng subconsciously felt a bit repulsed by things made from negative emotions, after all, they weren't exactly good things.

"I come!"

Beside her, Miriel was eager to try; she had a keen interest in everything unknown.

"Okay! I'll teach you how to use it."

Seeing the little succubus's support, Xu was even happier and had her stand on the treadmill, where she then operated it.

"The inspiration for this device comes from Li Zheng's memories."

After a brief initial contact, the treadmill slowly started moving, and Miriel naturally began to walk briskly along the moving pedals.

Xu then began to explain the origins of the treadmill.

“At that time, I had seen many similar things in his memory. After experimenting with each device, I found that this device could be perfectly integrated with the emotional rendering of rage.”

Just as he finished speaking, Miriel shouted aggressively, "Speed ​​up!"

"Look," Xu said to Li Zheng while adjusting the treadmill's speed, "it's already starting to work."

Li Zheng did not respond, but kept his gaze fixed on Miriel, worried that she might be infected with the rage from touching the device.

However, after watching for a while, apart from the inexplicable angry expression that only appeared on Miriel's face when she was angry, and her unusually agitated emotions, there were no other signs of trouble.

"quick!"

"Faster!"

"Keep it up!"

"Such a slow pace, who do they think they are!?"

Miriel was shouting and yelling as if she had inexhaustible energy.

Even though her legs were practically blurring from the treadmill's excessive speed, she was still begging Xu to speed things up for her.

Gradually, Li Zheng wondered if he was seeing things, but he felt that Miriel's figure became clearer as she ran.

It's like the image quality is gradually transitioning from 360P to 480P.

"Faster! Faster! Faster!!!"

Mirevan let out a loud roar, while Xu simply smiled and sped her up.

Finally, when the treadmill reached a certain critical speed, Miriel's short legs could no longer keep up, and she stumbled and was thrown off.

biaji~
Even though there was no sound, Li Zheng couldn't help but imagine a sound effect as he watched Miriel being flung away.

"Um……?"

Miriel lay on the 'ground' for a while, calming down before looking up blankly; "What just happened?"

With a slight gesture, Miriel stood up from her fallen position and explained, "Although the special properties of the material itself were completely suppressed during the manufacturing process, preventing any spiritual entity from being infected or parasitized by it from coming into contact with it."

"But... therefore, its emotional rendering effect is actually enhanced in a certain way."

You can think of it as it being condensed.

"This also means that any spiritual entity that comes into contact with her, if its spiritual power is not strong enough, will become like her, completely different before and after."

"Of course, the benefits are also obvious."

"Any mental entity that uses this equipment for exercise will grow slowly due to the dual stimulation of exercise and emotions, as well as stress."

"This growth rate is the limit that outsiders like you can achieve in the entire Dark Realm right now."

There was a mistake in a previous chapter, such as the names of extraordinary special metals, which has been corrected...

So, sometimes laziness really can backfire...

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