Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 540 Street Teleportation

"Let's not talk about that. You stayed in the Dark Realm for so long before coming out. Did you find something?"

Miriel put down her handheld computer. After a long period of intense studying, even she was a little tired. She decided to chat with Li Zheng to relax.

"I……"

Before he could finish speaking, a commotion arose outside the greenhouse. Kota rushed in, his face filled with panic. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Li Zheng and the others were alright: "Boss, it's so good that you're okay..."

"What happened?" Li Zheng looked outside and saw Hu Er, Hu San, and two other members of the Tengluo Clan, one old and one young. Their status bars all showed the words "still in shock," and he immediately frowned.

Could it be that someone came to cause trouble while I was in the Dark Realm?

Li Zheng looked at Miriel with a questioning gaze, but the other party also had a puzzled expression, indicating that she knew nothing.

"You...you didn't feel it?" Kota gasped for breath, looking like he was about to pass out. "Just...just now, an incredibly terrifying pressure suddenly appeared in the outer city. We...we only felt a little bit and we couldn't help but submit."

Boss... didn't you notice?

Seeing Li Zheng's puzzled look, Kota was astonished. Unless the boss's mental strength was extremely dull, it was impossible for him not to sense that oppressive aura.

But the way the boss dealt with them before clearly proved that he had remarkable mental strength, possibly approaching the ceiling of mental strength. There was no way he wouldn't have sensed it.

"An extremely terrifying pressure?" Li Zheng asked Miriel, "Is that so?"

Miriel looked bewildered: "No, I was just studying Chinese and I didn't feel any pressure at all."

"You didn't sense it either?" Kota was even more surprised. This little succubus was the boss's pet, and its overall strength was even inferior to theirs. How come you didn't sense it?
Outside the greenhouse, the Kanger family listened to their conversation, their eyes flashing with deep fear.

One of them had lived longer and experienced more than Kota and the others, while the other was more knowledgeable. Both of them understood the real reason why Li Zheng and Miriel had not sensed that oppressive aura.

"Grandpa, it seems we've taken in... an incredibly important person!" Basil draped his vine limbs over Kanger, emitting a unique vibration—a secret encrypted communication method unique to their Wisteria tribe.

“Yes!” Kanger sighed without changing his expression. “No wonder he could produce resources that had long been lost to the public. I suspect that the destruction of those factories was also related to him.”

"Should we expose him?" Luo Le looked at Li Zheng with a wary gaze: "Keeping such a dangerous person around might lead to some uncontrollable events."

"No!" Kanger didn't even dare to think about such a thing: "We'll just treat this kind of person well and pretend we don't know his true identity. Even if the law enforcement arrests us for questioning, we'll insist that this person is just a normal business partner with us!"

"I understand." Basil retracted his vine limbs, already planning to leave Block 903 tomorrow. Cooperating with this kind of person was like playing with fire, and he didn't want to get involved.

Compared to the young Basil, the elderly Kanger was much more insightful.

He had seen many previously unknown small forces rise to the top of their districts by associating with a powerful figure, and he had also seen many large forces wiped out of the outer city overnight after offending a powerful figure.

The seemingly peaceful outer city is actually more dangerous than the overall chaotic matrix. Sometimes, life and death depend on their choices and attitudes toward a certain thing or existence.

Kanger originally wanted Li Zheng to stay in the botanical garden because he valued Li Zheng's ability to produce intermediate-grade culture medium, which he could trade with whenever he needed it.

But now that he had guessed that Li Zheng was the source of that terrifying pressure, the old Tengluo clan member harbored some ambitions that he had never dared to have before.

perhaps……

Could I leverage this connection to acquire all the high-end product shares in the entire block?

At that time, Kanger Botanical Garden will be the largest supplier in the entire 903 block!
Because of Kota's description, Li Zheng also learned that the time when the so-called pressure appeared coincided with the time when he came out of the Dark Realm. If he still didn't understand what was going on after knowing this much, he would be too stupid.

Li Zheng wanted to try stimulating his mental power again, but because he was worried that a mental power outage would harm him first, he could only appease Kota's emotions and tell them to stay quietly next door and not think about anything else.

After they all left, Li Zheng cautiously released a wisp of his spiritual power, spending some time creating a soundproof barrier around him and Miriel.

"I think... I know what just happened."

Before Li Zheng could speak, Miriel asked, "What exactly happened to you in the Dark Realm? Why did such a big change occur?"

"I..." Li Zheng smiled wryly, not expecting Miriel to be so smart. Before he could even explain, she had already guessed the general idea based on Kota and the others' descriptions.

He briefly recounted what Xu had done, concealing the fact that he was a clone and that there might be other 'compatriots' of his in the wilderness or the outer city.

As Miriel listened to Li Zheng's account, her expression grew increasingly astonished: "How could Xu be so foolish? How could he do something so dangerous? Doesn't he know that having too much spiritual power stuffed into a weak body can easily lead to disaster?"

The succubus race is considered somewhat skilled in mental power. There was a historical example where the most powerful succubus queen, on her deathbed, concentrated all her mental power and transferred it to her newborn, only to have the newborn succubus instantly turned into mincemeat.

Moreover, besides destroying a frail body, the uncontrolled explosion of mental energy leaves behind effects that require generations to slowly erase. At the site of that experiment, the succubus race took over thirty years to completely eliminate the out-of-control mental energy.

During this time, ten of the most powerful succubi in the succubus race were present at all times, working together to control the spread of the influence.

The power of the void is at least equivalent to hundreds of millions of the succubus queens of yesteryear.

It's conceivable that if Li Zheng were to unleash his power now, it might create another mental storm.

Moreover, it's a mental storm that exists within the outer city!
This would be an absolute catastrophe for all races!
"I really should have gone into the Dark Realm with you just now," Miriel thought to herself, annoyed that her own engrossed study had almost led to a tragedy.

If I were there, I would definitely take action to stop Xu's actions.

“It’s too late to say anything now.” Li Zheng said with a bitter smile, “I can feel that my body simply cannot contain that kind of mental power. Even if I can maintain stability for a short time now, it will definitely explode completely someday in the future.”

It all depends on his luck. If he's unlucky, he might trip and fall the next second, and then everything will be over.

"So the most urgent thing we need to do right now is to find a container for your mental energy..." As Miriel spoke, her little face fell.

Holy crap, just how extravagant a container would be needed to store such powerful spiritual energy?

This is why Li Zheng's mental energy and his body have a certain compatibility. Due to some strange self-preservation instinct, he did not explode the moment his mental energy returned.

Otherwise, one's consciousness might remain forever stuck in the process of learning Chinese...

"I do have an idea about containers." Li Zheng raised his hand, revealing the mark of the Lamp Holder: "Perhaps I can store my spiritual power in the Dark Realm?"

“Good idea. But can you cut off your own mental energy and only put most of it in?” Miriel asked, squinting.

"..." Li Zheng remained silent for a long time before saying weakly, "No!"

Let alone the fact that he can't split his mental energy, he doesn't even dare to recklessly touch his mental energy right now, for who knows if touching it will result in a 'bang'.

"So you mean your entire spiritual body will enter the Dark Realm?" Miriel asked, arms crossed. "Then your own consciousness will go in with you, how will you control your body then?"

"Ah, this..." Li Zheng racked his brains: "If I could use the lamp holder to connect the dark realm with my spiritual realm, creating an opening, perhaps I could put my spiritual power into the dark realm while still controlling my body?"

Snapped!
"well said!"

Miriel clenched her fist and asked, "So here's the question: how are you going to do it?"

“Well…” Li Zheng thought for a moment and finally came up with an idea: “Professional things should be left to professionals. I certainly don’t have the ability to modify the Lamp Holder prop myself, but someone else can.”

"Who?"

"blacksmith!"

Li Zheng uttered a code name, and among all the beings he knew, if the blacksmith was second in manufacturing, then no one would dare to claim to be first!

“If I remember correctly, the blacksmith’s main store is at number 30 on the seventh block. We can go there ourselves.”

Moreover, there's someone knowledgeable about cross-district matters that you can ask. Didn't Kanger's grandson, Basil, just recently return from another district?

Just ask him for directions.

"You want to go to Block Seven?"

Basil had just returned to the greenhouse to tend to the plants when Li Zheng arrived with Miriel. He blinked and asked, "Why are you suddenly going to such a far place?"

"Far?"

Upon hearing this, Li Zheng felt a sense of unease: "Is there no teleportation portal in the outer city that leads directly to District Seven? Or do we have to cross over from the wilderness?"

Basil put down his work and replied, "First of all, each block in the outer city does have portals leading to other places, but the destinations are all fixed blocks. If the number of the place you want to go to is significantly different from the block you are in, then you will need to teleport frequently, possibly hundreds of times, to get there."

“Each teleportation to the district requires a certain fee, ranging from several hundred white crystal coins to tens of thousands.”

"This is why very few people do cross-district business; the transfer fees are simply too high for the average person to afford."

(End of this chapter)