Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 626 Who is the Ugly Monster?
Different races, different appearances, and naturally different aesthetic standards.

Succubi resemble humans in appearance, which is why Miriel's appearance can cause other players on Aquamarine to become obsessed with her.

The appearances of the Purple Diamond Clan vary greatly. According to Purple Iris's standards, a strong and powerful appearance like Purple Tree is considered a great beauty of the Purple Diamond Clan. Therefore, someone as fair-skinned, "weak," and beautiful as Miriel might be considered an ugly monster in his eyes.

Even if an ugly woman possesses the strongest spiritual charm, how could anyone possibly fall for or become infatuated with her?

Li Zheng quickly figured out the key point and then said to Miriel, "See, it turns out your charm isn't that incredible after all."

Upon hearing this, Miriel rolled her eyes speechlessly, exuding charm: "I didn't intend to be that charming. I just used a period of unknown origin and then reversed the effects of that period on me, spreading them outwards."

In addition, the first menstruation she experienced when she reached adulthood combined with this double effect, resulting in her being able to attract the attention of the opposite sex without doing anything.

Fortunately, this attraction doesn't seem to work on races with different aesthetic tastes, otherwise Miriel would only feel more distressed.

"Wait a minute!" Li Zheng realized, "If you're an ugly monster in Zi Yuan's eyes, then what he just said meant..."

Miriel roared in fury, "You're the ugly one!"

Li Zheng nodded in agreement and said to Zi Yuan, "You're the ugly one!"

Zi Yuan: "???"

He was wearing a translator and could understand what Miriel was saying. Besides, he wasn't blind; Miriel had clearly been cursing Li Zheng. How could he possibly pass off that as a message to himself?

He was about to say something when he suddenly noticed a light emanating from Li Zheng's side. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was coming from Miriel.

For some reason, at this moment, Miriel's figure looked so strong and powerful, so charming, as if it had been planted in Zi Yuan's heart.

“Miss Miriel!” Zi Yuan’s heart was pounding, and she could no longer see anyone but Miriel. She staggered out from behind the counter: “Miss Miriel…please let me be your dog!”

As he spoke, he actually crawled on all fours to Miriel's side, sticking out his tongue and panting obediently at Miriel's feet.

Li Zheng was utterly shocked: "This is your newly acquired ability?!"

Miriel's eyes peeked out from under the mask, seemingly gleaming with a faint, alluring light that captivated anyone who looked at them.

“That’s right, the active effect of being infatuated uses mental power to interfere with the target, changing their impression of me.” Miriel explained softly, then ordered Ziyuan, “Get out of the way!”

"Woof!" Zi Yuan barked, rolled on the ground, and looked up with a fawning smile.

Li Zheng frowned: "He's Zi Shu's brother, so let's not go too far."

“Okay.” Miriel obeyed Li Zheng’s order unconditionally and said to Zi Yuan, “Go back behind the counter and sit down!”

Zi Yuan scrambled to her feet and used all four limbs to get back behind the counter and sit on a stool.

Immediately, Miriel withdrew his ability. He jolted awake, returned to normal, and showed a strange expression: "Strange, I just thought you were the number one beauty of my Purple Diamond Clan?"

Zi Yuan had completely forgotten what had just happened; her memory was stuck on the moment she looked away from Li Zheng, completely unaware that she had just done something shameful.

Behind the blacksmith's shop, the blacksmith, wielding a giant hammer, was hammering away in front of a furnace radiating terrifying heat.

Suddenly, he stopped moving, turned around, and looked through the wall into the living room in front of him. His gaze seemed to penetrate the wall, taking in everything that was happening in front of him.

Feeling ashamed, Li Zheng apologized to Zi Yuan: "Just now, Miriel used a little of her ability to change your opinion of her. I apologize on her behalf and hope you can forgive her."

Unaware of her embarrassment, Zi Yuan waved her hand magnanimously and said, "It's alright, it's alright. As long as you don't have any improper thoughts about my sister, I'm determined to be your friend."

“Brother Yuan is magnanimous,” Li Zheng said, then shouted at Miriel, “Come with me!”

He led Miriel to the room that had been arranged for him earlier.

Miriel lowered her head, knowing she had made a mistake, and followed suit step by step.

Behind the shop, the blacksmith withdrew his gaze, his expression unchanged, and continued hammering the parts on the table.

Upon entering the room, Li Zheng discovered that the bedding and other items on the bed had been changed, and even the bed itself had been replaced with something resembling an eggshell, its silver-white metal casing giving it a high-tech feel.

"You almost caused a major disaster, do you know that?" Li Zheng entered the room and reprimanded Miriel: "Most people in the outer city have strong mental power. Even if some of them don't have a maximum level of more than the initial level, their foundation is no worse than ours. When you used your ability to interfere with Zi Yuan just now, I sensed a powerful mental force erupting from behind the blacksmith's shop. Obviously, your actions have attracted the blacksmith's attention!"

"I'm sorry." Miriel lowered her head and buried her chin in her chest. "I was just angry for a moment. I will never do it again."

Li Zheng softened his tone: "We need their help now. It's okay to suffer some grievances because of a misunderstanding. They didn't mean any harm, and they didn't intend to humiliate us. Let's try not to fight if we can avoid it, so as not to escalate the situation and ruin all the goodwill we've built up."

Miriel said pitifully, "I really know I was wrong."

"It's good that you know you were wrong." Li Zheng sat down by the eggshell bed, looked around and saw that there were no chairs, so he simply let Miriel continue standing: "Perfect, I have some questions for you."

Miriel squatted down beside him and gently tapped his leg: "Ask away."

Li Zheng felt a pang of discomfort and stopped her, saying, "You're not my servant, there's no need for you to do such a thing, and you're not allowed to do it again!"

"Oh." Miriel got up and sat down next to him, her left hand unconsciously resting on Li Zheng's lap.

Li Zheng frowned, pushed her hand away, and moved a step to the side.

Miriel shifted her position as well, staying close to Li Zheng: "Didn't you have a question to ask?"

"..." Li Zheng stood up from the eggshell bed: "Why are you sticking so close to me?"

Miriel looked completely innocent: "You used to hug me while we slept, but now I just sit next to you. Why are you so disgusted with me?"

"what?"

Li Zheng scratched his head: "Have I ever done anything so shameless before?"

He thought about it carefully, and his face instantly turned red.

Damn it, I used to treat Miriel like a clueless child. To take care of her, I did let her sleep in the same bed with me. Sometimes, I got used to it and would hold her in my arms...

But at the time, he didn't realize there was anything wrong with what he was doing; after all, who would have lewd thoughts about a child?!
But now that I've realized it, I do feel that it was inappropriate.

"Um... well, things were different then. It's better if we keep a certain social distance." Li Zheng felt awkward and uncomfortable all over.

Miriel looked at him curiously for a while: "You don't actually like adults, you only like children, do you?"

"Shut up!" Li Zheng shouted anxiously, veins bulging on his forehead. "I'm definitely not that kind of person!"

Miriel picked at her ear: "If it's not true, it's not true. Why are you yelling so loudly?"

"No matter what, our values ​​must be upright!" Li Zheng said seriously. "The 'Zheng' in my name not only means 'upright' in character, but also 'upright' in values. So I am a normal person and have absolutely no strange or weird hobbies!"

Miriel feigned allure, saying seductively, "You just said I was pretty and that you liked my type."

Li Zheng's forehead was sweating: "I was just using you as an example to explain the misunderstanding to Zi Yuan!"

People often say that fox spirits are the most alluring, but now Li Zheng just wants to say that those people are talking nonsense!

Succubi are clearly the most dangerous!
If he didn't use his mental strength to resist, even someone who had lived with Miriel for a long time would find it difficult to withstand.

To boost his morale, Li Zheng closed his eyes and banished distracting thoughts.

Soon, my mind cleared and I regained my composure.

Turning around to set out his bed, the already small room felt even more cramped, and the narrow aisle gave off a suffocating feeling. Li Zheng missed the days when he could still live in capsule homes, but unfortunately, he couldn't release them in the outer city.

"what?"

Thinking about the characteristics of capsule dwellings, Li Zheng's expression changed: "This kind of technologically advanced prop should also be the blueprints that the terminal opened from the box."

“Didn’t you just say you had a question?” Miriel sat up straight and said, “Go ahead and ask.”

Li Zheng looked at her for a while: "I want to suggest to the terminal that it release those races that were previously trapped in the matrix, so that they can compete for the chance to enter the outer city again. Do you want to go back and help the Abyss race?"

Miriel was stunned: "Will the terminal... agree?"

"Probably." Li Zheng pondered for a moment and said, "Based on what I've learned these past few days, the progress of the Water Blue Star players far surpasses that of previous players. They will all be able to enter the outer city soon, at which point those spaces in the matrix will be freed up, which will be perfect for the next trial."

The terminal didn't say how long it would take for the final catastrophe, the emotional storm, to arrive. Li Zheng had heard others mention it before. Generally speaking, the matrix arrives about three years earlier than the emotional storm. Currently, the players on Water Blue Star have only taken a month.

Li Zheng predicted that in at most six months, the remaining players would be able to enter the outer city. At that time, with his help, the overall strength of the Water Blue Star players would be able to rise even higher.

Perhaps this time, it will be the strongest battle ever fought by a single player against an emotional storm since the Matrix was created.

But Li Zheng was still not satisfied.

He wanted to improve the odds of winning the final battle, even if it was just a tiny bit.

He didn't count on the survivors in the outer city. Apart from the residents of the first fifty blocks, the rest were just a bunch of dissolute scoundrels living a life of debauchery. Expecting them to go to the battlefield would be providing fuel for an emotional storm.

On the contrary, he intended to win over those races that remained in the matrix.

He had only been to the Abyss region once, but based on the atmosphere he felt there that one time, it was not difficult to discover that the entire Abyss race valued martial arts and was extremely eager to improve their strength.

Of course, this does not exclude the chaotic nature of the Abyss race as a whole, since they have appeared in legends and mostly represent one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

For example, the succubus race corresponds to the seventh sin, lust.

“But if I go back…” Miriel hesitated for a moment, “you’ll have no one by your side.”

Li Zheng was taken aback and laughed, "You've lived in the Abyss for eighty years. Do you really think you can abandon your homeland and compatriots for a foreigner you've only known for twenty days?"

What Miriel was actually worried about was that if she went straight to adulthood by absorbing her first period, the Queen would definitely try to remove the negative effects left in her body when she returned.

The way to clear away the negative effects is simple and brutal: find a member of the opposite sex to have sex with, allowing her to fully release all the excitement that arose from her first period.

It's true that Miriel reversed the throbbing of her first period, but she underestimated the impact of a double menarche. While the reversal might seem to weaken the effect on herself, it actually just distributed the throbbing to other targets.

She herself is still somewhat affected, and occasionally finds it hard to control her emotions.

In just a few hours since she became an adult, her lower body clothes have become wet several times.

"Let me think about it," Miriel said in a low voice.

"It's okay, there's still plenty of time, you can take your time to think about it." Li Zheng looked around and found that there wasn't enough space left in the room to put the stove, so he had to put away the bed he was sitting on and then put the stove here.

When Mirell saw the stove, she stood up and came over to prepare dinner.

Li Zheng took the ingredients and seasonings out of the capsule and placed them aside, watching her operate.

After reaching adulthood, Miriel grew to be over 1.75 meters tall, and no longer needed anything to stand on when using the stove. However, she needed a moment to get used to operating the stove again after her height changed.

Soon, she became adept at using all the kitchen utensils. She was beautiful, and even her cooking was a pleasure to watch.

Da da da……

Miriel wielded her knife with lightning speed, skillfully chopping vegetables, and casually said to Li Zheng standing next to her, "I heard you chatting with the terminal just now."

"Hmm," Li Zheng uttered a syllable through his nose.

He didn't deliberately avoid Miriel when he talked to the terminal about the treasure chest system.

“Actually, I’ve known for a long time that you have a way to obtain treasures,” Miriel continued. “I discovered this a few days after I started following you, but I never said anything.”

“Hmm.” Li Zheng nodded, seemingly not surprised at all, even though he always avoided Miriel when retrieving treasure chests, and he didn’t know how she found out.

“I admit that I initially had the idea of ​​taking it for myself. My mother’s task for me was to leave once we reached the outer city. The reason I didn’t leave was because I wanted to get that channel from you.” Miriel put the chopped vegetables into the basket next to her, then took a piece of frozen meat and handed it to Li Zheng to thaw.

As long as the fire element is properly controlled, thawing some meat is not difficult, and Li Zheng quickly handed the thawed meat back.

Miriel took it, placed it on the cutting board, and cut it into the desired shape: "But ever since I gave you all my spiritual power, I knew that there was no hope for this. In order not to make you misunderstand, I consciously find a place to rest every night at the appointed time."

"Hmm...hmm?" Li Zheng looked up at her. These past few days, Miriel had indeed been avoiding him after dark. So it was to avoid suspicion?

“Hehe.” Mirell chuckled slyly, “After all, this involves your greatest privacy. If I’m not careful, I’m afraid you’ll kill me.”

"Hehe." Li Zheng mimicked Miriel's sly smile: "Aren't you afraid that my open discussion of this with the terminal is a ploy to silence you?"

"Don't be afraid!" Miriel puffed out her chest, her breasts surging. "You definitely won't want to give it up right now!"

Li Zheng felt dizzy and looked away: "You probably don't know me well enough. I've killed quite a few women, some of whom had better figures than you."

“It’s different,” Miriel said confidently. “Those you killed were your enemies, but I wasn’t. I’m loyal to you enough!”

Li Zheng turned his head, narrowed his eyes, and a murderous aura flashed out, disappearing in an instant: "Just now you said you wanted to steal the system from me, and now you say you're loyal enough to me? Is this what you call loyalty?"

Miriel's smile faltered: "Wasn't that before...?"

“But there’s no guarantee you won’t have second thoughts later.” Li Zheng nodded thoughtfully. “Indeed, I should kill you to silence you!”

Miriel paused in her stir-fry: "So, am I still going to cook this?"

Li Zheng looked at the pot, then at Miriel, then back at the pot, and swallowed hard: "Then I'll shut you up once you've cooked the food!"

Realizing Li was joking, Miriel continued cooking, her back drenched in cold sweat. The murderous intent emanating from Li was palpable; she had truly panicked just now.

Not long ago, Li Zheng had just killed tens of thousands of people. Under the shadow of the murderous aura he had gathered, she actually had a hallucination. It was as if she saw a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. In the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood, there was a figure with black armor, black clothes, black shoes and black hair. She could not see the face clearly, but the figure looked up and stared at her. That gaze could kill!
This is not an exaggeration, but Miriel's true feeling. When she met those eyes, she almost thought she was going to die!
Fortunately, Li Zheng wasn't serious, otherwise Miriel felt she might have become the first succubus in history to be killed by a look.

According to Li Zheng's habit, in addition to breakfast, lunch and dinner should consist of three dishes and a soup. In just over forty minutes, Miriel brought down the last pot of armored turtle bone soup from the stove.

After putting away the stove, Li Zheng casually released a pile of iron ingots, which could be pieced together to be used as a table.

"We gave our table to Mo Li, so just make do with it."

Li Zheng hasn't had a moment's rest these past few days. He hasn't been able to replace the tables and chairs he gave to Mo Li, so he can only wait until after dinner to go out and buy a set.

Sitting opposite Miriel, just as he picked up his chopsticks, Miriel suddenly asked, "Can I sleep with you tonight?"

“No!” Li Zheng refused decisively: “The way you are right now…”

"Are you afraid you won't be able to control yourself?" Miriel asked with a smile in her eyes.

"No!" Li Zheng said seriously, "You're taking up too much space like this; you can't fit on one bed!"

“…” Miriel rolled her eyes again with a charming expression.

I don't know if this chapter will be partially censored. If not, I'm going to go all out!
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