Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 663 It turns out to be you!

"Dinner will be ready soon. Is there anything else to prepare?" Miriel asked, turning her head as she busied herself at the stove.

"That's all." Li Zheng saw that there were already more than ten dishes on the table next to him, and instructed Miriel: "Go to the Magic Crystal Shop later and invite Zhan Zhouzhou and the others over for dinner. Consider it a welcome dinner for the three of them."

"Okay, sure." Miriel nodded obediently.

Li Zheng looked down at Lu Li lying on the ground, sighed heavily, and didn't say anything about putting him on the bed, just left him lying on the ground.

"This kid, he idolizes his brother so much, he must also have a heart set on martial arts," Li Zheng thought to himself.

However, Lu Manjiang's fate filled him with aversion to martial arts, which is why he chose to become a sniper.

Unfortunately, firearms are ultimately a dead end, a dead end.

He took out the inscription card, opened the special channel on the communication terminal, and sent his deductions about firearms, asking if they were true.

After a while, the terminal replied to him: "Your guess is basically correct. No matter how powerful the firepower is, it can only destroy the bodies of those twisted creatures. It has very little effect on the twisted emotional storm. Instead, it will turn those twisted creatures whose bodies are blasted into black mist and shroud the sky above the Sin Domain."

Actually, there wasn't that dense, impenetrable black fog above the Sin Domain at first. It was only after a long period of firearms combat that the black fog gradually formed.

At that time, the prototype of the Sin Domain appeared.

In fact, judging from the fact that so many powerful inventions were confiscated by the terminal, one can imagine that a long time ago, the outer city was mainly based on technological forces.

It was only after it was discovered that technological weapons were extremely ineffective against emotional storms, merely treating the symptoms rather than the root cause, that the outer city gradually shifted its strategy.

This is why many promising inventions were terminated, leading to the "technology point abnormality" in the outer city and the matrix.

Terminal: "The only races that continue down the old path and take the technology-driven route are those few races exiled within the Matrix."

Upon seeing this, Li Zheng suddenly remembered that Kuro from the Crimson Battlefield had once said that someone like Li Zheng had deceived their race, leading them to research robots, which ultimately resulted in a tragedy for the entire race.

"Who could that guy be?" Li Zheng frowned deeply as he looked at the inscription card. "Is he a clone like me? Or the leader of the Heavenly Will Organization? Or... the terminal itself?"

At this moment, Lu Li suddenly opened his eyes and got up from the ground: "I've made up my mind, I want to learn Sanda (Chinese kickboxing)."

"You've already made up your mind so quickly?" Li Zheng's expression shifted, and he transferred his consciousness into the Dark Realm, only to be surprised to find that there was another image inside.

That's Lu Manjiang's image!

Outside, Li Zheng stared at Lu Li in disbelief: "How did you do that? You actually managed to leave your memories in the Dark Realm!"

Previously, he created memory images in the Dark Realm by simulating them using a memory releaser. However, Lu Li was able to imprint his memories as images and leave them in the Dark Realm without using this device.

"Huh?" Lu Li was taken aback for a moment: "I was just recalling what my brother taught me inside, and then he appeared. But he could only stand there blankly, and no matter how I tried, he wouldn't move. I thought it hadn't worked."

It's certain that he can't move. Now the Dark Realm is completely shaped like Li Zheng. How could any other man easily unlock special positions?

Li Zheng released Lu Li's wrist and said, "Since you've made up your mind, you can go to the tree in the Dark Realm to watch the images later. It will be good for you."

Li Zheng never intended to keep anything secret from the beginning. The Bodhi tree, which can enhance the combat power of the general public, is most suitable for cultivating experts.

The more skilled players there are, the higher the chance of winning the final showdown.

"Ideally, the overall combat strength of the entire population should surpass that of the Heavenly Dragon Clan..." Li Zheng thought of the golden area in the Seven Sins Domain, a trace of worry flashing in his eyes.

When the Celestial Dragon Clan faced the emotional storm, the seven teams together numbered at least hundreds of millions of people, and each member of the Celestial Dragon Clan was quite powerful.

But the final result was pessimistic.

They failed, and almost the entire tribe was wiped out in that battle.

Li Zheng didn't know if there were any other races in history as brave as the Tianlong Clan, besides them. Perhaps some of those who were wiped out didn't even leave behind a complete corpse.

Not to mention the Celestial Dragon Clan, who formed a golden zone, and even after their deaths, they continued to fight.

The emotional storm was like a heavy dark cloud hanging over his head, and no matter how hard Li Zheng tried, he seemed powerless to dispel it.

Whenever he thinks about this, he feels a sense of frustration that he doesn't know where it comes from.

Even the Dragon Clan, a race known for its fearlessness, martial spirit, and dragon-like nature, was trapped there. What could the Blue Star people possibly achieve?

They probably...didn't do any better than the Celestial Dragons...

Li Zheng sighed and said to Lu Li, "Once your spiritual power has grown, I suggest you go to the golden zone deep within the Sin Domain and stay there for ten days."

"The Golden Zone?" Lu Li asked, puzzled. "What's that?"

Li Zheng didn't say much, but just shook his head and said, "You'll know when you get there. I believe you'll gain a lot there." Seeing that he didn't want to explain, Lu Li wisely didn't press him. He just kept the matter in mind, wondering what kind of magical place it was that even someone like Li Zheng, who never forced anyone to do anything with a specific purpose, wanted him to go there.
"Dinner is ready. You two come and sit down first. I'll go call the others." Miriel placed the last pot of thick soup on the table, wiped her hands, and went out to the magic crystal shop.

Lu Li smelled the aroma of food filling the air and couldn't help but swallow hard. He was the first to run to the table and sit down, staring at the table full of delicious food and drooling.

“You have no idea how much we’ve missed your cooking since you came to the outer city.” Lu Li swallowed and said to Li Zheng, who was walking over, “Although many chefs in the matrix have collected cooking utensils and seasonings and started cooking on their own, no matter how delicious their dishes are, they can’t compare to what you have here.”

"Especially banquets..."

Upon hearing this name, Lu Li suddenly realized that Yan Guang was dead. His expression darkened considerably, but he forced a smile and said, "In short, everyone misses the good things you had."

Seeing his expression, Li Zheng wondered, "Didn't Fengshan tell you about Yan Guang?"

Lu Li was taken aback when he heard this: "Is there any other information about Yan Guang that we don't know?"

"It's nothing," Li Zheng shook his head, not saying anything more.

The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

Fengshan did not reveal that Yan Guang could be resurrected through cloning, perhaps because he was worried that Yan Guang had been dead for too long and that no active cells could be found in his body to make cloning possible.

Before everything was settled, he dared not have too many expectations.

After handing Yan Guang's body over to Li Zheng that day, he sent Li Zheng a private message.

If Yan Guang has no chance of being resurrected, do not tell him; let him continue living in his fantasy.

Even if it's just a lie.

It also allows him to live on in this world.

Now that it's confirmed that Yan Guang has a chance to produce clones, Li Zheng believes that Feng Shan should be the first to know this news.

After a brief chat, Miriel returned with Zhan Zhouzhou, Qian Bugou, and Ma Long.

Le Jia did not go with them. She had a deep-seated aversion to Li Zheng. When she heard that Li Zheng had invited them to dinner, she was so frightened that she refused repeatedly and refused to come no matter what.

After listening to what Miriel said, Li Zheng did not insist, but simply gave Miriel some food to deliver to Le Jia.

Afterwards, Zhan Zhouzhou and the others, especially Qian Bugou and Ma Long, finally had a decent meal.

The meal was eaten very quickly, and was completely devoured in less than ten minutes. The group then casually collapsed onto the ground, patting their bellies with satisfaction.

Qian Bugu had a happy smile on his face: "To be honest, if you told me you were going to kill me after this meal, I would feel like I have no regrets in life."

"Your last meal, is that it?" Marlon, standing next to him, didn't seem any better off than if he didn't have enough money. He said with a hint of regret, "It's a pity there's no wine, otherwise this meal would have been perfect."

Li Zheng had never served in the military, and upon hearing this, he asked curiously, "Is alcohol prohibited in the army?"

Ma Long suddenly realized that his posture was not very elegant, so he quickly sat up straight and replied, "I usually abstain from alcohol, but I can drink a little on special occasions, such as my birthday or when I have New Year's Eve dinner during the Spring Festival."

"So even Planet Water Blue has a Spring Festival..." Li Zheng thought to himself, "If the terminal hadn't acknowledged that I was a transmigrator, I sometimes really wouldn't be able to tell the difference between Planet Water Blue and Earth."

He suddenly remembered something unrelated: "Ye Kai seemed to have sent me a private message in the middle of the night asking me about the Four Great Classical Novels... Does Water Blue Star also have the Four Great Classical Novels?"

Li Zheng asked the people present, "Do you guys usually have any favorite shows or programs? For example, TV dramas, movies, variety shows, etc."

After dinner, everyone was relaxed and chatting. Qian Bukui half-closed his eyes, savoring the taste of the meal, and smacked his lips a few times before saying, "I like watching police and gangster movies, especially the kind with undercover agents. When I was an undercover agent, I often watched them secretly."

Ma Long: "I like watching military films... It's not that I like watching them, it's just that military films are the only genre in the military. The only other thing to pass the time is international news."

Li Zheng looked at Lu Li, who said, "I watch a lot of sports programs, not much else."

Finally, it was Zhan Zhouzhou's turn. Her pretty face was slightly flushed, and she glanced to the side, showing a rare hint of girlish shyness: "I usually watch romance movies, both period dramas and modern romances."

Li Zheng raised an eyebrow and asked, "Does nobody like watching adaptations of classic works?"

"Adaptation of a classic novel?" Qian Bugou opened his eyes wide in surprise and said, "You mean Martial Universe? That stuff is incredibly boring, what's so interesting about it?"

“Speaking of classic works, only Zhedi has a good reputation, right?” Lu Li thought for a moment and said, “But I heard that the adaptations are quite drastic. Anyway, I haven’t read it, neither the original nor the film and television adaptation.”

Zhan Zhouzhou and Ma Long each mentioned a film that Li Zheng had never heard of before.

A slight smile played on his lips: "So it was you!"

(End of this chapter)