Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 676 An Extraordinary Physique

Feng Yue arrived late and was slightly shocked by the progress Li Zheng had made when he entered the control room and saw the scene on the screen.

Rothcal stated that the record that Feng Yue had always wanted to break was about to be broken by someone else.

Feng Yue remains indifferent, believing that as long as the project makes a breakthrough, it doesn't matter whether he breaks the record or not.

He opened the communicator and said, "Master Guide, I have brought you what you requested. Would you like to stop?"

Li Zheng thought for a moment and said, "Okay."

Roscal immediately began operating, gradually reducing the gravity coefficient to allow Li Zheng to emerge.

Feng Yue released three sets of clothes made of the softest metal in the outer city from his personal space. They landed with three loud thuds.

Roscal instantly understood Li's intention in wanting these things: "You want to enter the gravity field with a load?"

Li Zheng said, "These weighted gear are reserved for when I reach the limit of gravity, not for me to wear now."

"That's good." Roscal breathed a sigh of relief and said, "After all, entering a gravity field with a load has a similar effect to increasing the gravity multiplier, and it will also affect your current data collection. If you reach a bottleneck, you can try to break through using this method."

After only a brief appearance, Li Zheng immediately returned to the gravity field to continue his training for the day.

Li Zheng repeated his recent experience, but this time he discovered something different.

"Strange?" He frowned and slowly stood up from the ground. "I only stopped for a moment. I couldn't stand up straight just now, but I can now?"

Although the feeling of being weighed down by a small mountain was still there, and even when standing up straight, she still couldn't make any more movements, her eyelids drooped, completely covering her eye sockets, and she couldn't open them at all.

This situation not only puzzled Li Zheng, but also Roskar and Feng Yue, who were watching from the control room.

Feng Yue was speechless: "What...what's going on? He seemed to be having a lot of trouble just now?"

Roscal was equally astonished: "I don't know either, there's never been a case like this before..."

He seemed to be deep in thought. After waiting for about half an hour, he lowered the gravity on his own, allowing Li Zheng to rest for half an hour before letting him enter the gravity field again.

This time, the change was even more astonishing. Li Zheng actually took a small, shaky step!

"Incredible!" Roscal's eyes widened, and he pushed up his glasses that had slid down his narrow nose with his fingers. "His cells are like they have a mind of their own. When gravity acts on him, every cell is under pressure and can't make any more changes to resist the pressure."

"But after gravity stopped, his cells seemed to be rapidly transforming themselves to resist the possibility of a similar environment in the future, making each cell stronger and more resistant to pressure!"

"Is this normal?" Feng Yue found it hard to believe. How could the cells of a living organism be so intelligent?
“I don’t know,” Roscal shook his head, looking completely bewildered. “I’ve studied a lot of materials and have never seen a similar case before. This is an unprecedented phenomenon!”

Feng Yue realized: "So, this is a characteristic unique to his race?"

Miriel, who had overheard their conversation, pondered, "It shouldn't be a racial issue, but rather that Li Zheng himself is rather unique... Could it be the effect of that pill he took from the treasure chest earlier?"

Li Zheng is a clone. If his own race possessed such unique characteristics, the terminal would have discovered it long ago.

However, the terminal never mentioned these things, indicating that the terminal was unaware of Li Zheng's uniqueness.

If that's the case, it means that Li Zheng's uniqueness was created by external forces in his later life.

So what makes him different?

Aside from that strange treasure chest that you can get one of every day, there seems to be no other possibility.

As Miriel realized this, Li Zheng came to the same conclusion: "It seems that the effects of the Marrow Cleansing Pill are not as simple as initially thought. But why didn't Old Pu mention this change back then?"

[You think your Uncle Putin would make such a basic mistake? Think carefully about what his original explanation to you was.]

The Eye of Preys suddenly 'came back to life,' displaying text in an arrogant tone.

Li Zheng's expression shifted as he carefully recalled: "...After using it, his physique was greatly improved, making him like Tang Sanzang, and others could obtain some of the effects of the Marrow Cleansing Pill just by taking a bite."

His eyes widened suddenly, and he actually lifted his droopy eyelids: "So that's how it is?"

Only then did he realize that the effects of the Marrow Cleansing Pill described by Preys' Eye were not as simple as they seemed. The most incongruous part was the latter part: 'to become like Tang Sanzang, so that others can gain some of the effects of the Marrow Cleansing Pill just by taking a bite.'

At the time, Li Zheng thought that others received the effects of the Marrow Cleansing Pill from him because some of the effects were stored in his body and not fully absorbed.

Only now did he realize that the truth was that the Marrow Cleansing Pill had fundamentally changed his physique, making it completely different from before.

If he hadn't come to the gravity research institute this time, he might never have discovered this!
Then, his expression turned strange: "If others can get some of the same effects from eating a bite of me, then what about Miriel...?"

In the control room, Miriel reactivated the Overweight Necklace, adjusting it to a three-fold multiplier.

After receiving the necklace yesterday, she maintained double gravity, only turning it off when she slept or rested.

This morning she tried triple gravity and felt much more comfortable than yesterday, though she had some difficulty breathing.

Before Feng Yue arrived, she temporarily shut herself down for a while to calm herself down.

When she activated the necklace again, she was surprised to find that she was much more comfortable in an environment with three times the gravity, and it was much easier than before she paused!
"Why do I have a similar constitution?" Miriel fell into deep thought. Succubi could never have such a constitution. She had lived in the Abyss for eighty years and knew this perfectly well.

So I must have become like this after I got together with Li Zheng.

"Could it be...!" She was always smart, and her mind was much more agile than Li Zheng's. When she first started following Li Zheng, she even looked down on him for this.

Later, she discovered that Li Zheng was a very independent person at crucial moments, so she stopped interrupting him.

After a moment's thought, she understood the crux of the problem.

Her cheeks slowly turned crimson, as if she had been drinking.

"This kind of thing must never be told, otherwise Li Zheng will definitely be eaten alive!"

In the field of gravity,

Li Zheng's eyes darkened slightly: "You must never hand over your body parts to others casually in the future, otherwise I'll be in danger if someone discovers this characteristic."

Never again will you carelessly hand over your blood to others for testing, like you did before.

Who can be sure that people who get their blood tested won't suddenly have the urge to taste it to see if it's salty?

Rothcal and his companion studied Li Zheng's data for a long time but couldn't find any clues. They could only attribute this characteristic to Li Zheng's own race.

Feng Yue was incredibly envious: "If I had that trait, I probably would have broken the record long ago, right?"

"Twenty years!" Roscal pushed up his glasses. "Forget breaking records, the new records have been raised many times over!"

Feng Yue said dejectedly, "It's a pity I was born into the wrong race..."

“What’s there to envy?” Roscal comforted him, saying, “The Roscal Turtle Clan also has its own advantages, such as… perseverance, which is your strength.”

To persist for more than 20 years toward a goal for which one does not know if one can succeed is beyond what can be explained by the word "persistence".

At that moment, Li Zheng's voice came through the communicator: "Professor, adjust my schedule to a frequency of half an hour limit followed by half an hour rest."

“Okay,” Roscal replied into the communicator.

Even if Li Zheng didn't say anything, he would change the plan himself and choose the best way to train Li Zheng.

Because the back-and-forth motion of gravity requires time to adjust, a round trip takes nearly an hour and a half. The effect that Li Zheng gets from training all day is not much different from the effect of being in a high-gravity environment continuously.

However, he himself can relax a bit, and once he stops, he can learn more about gravity from Roscal.

For the next six days, Li Zheng practically lived at the Gravity Research Institute.

Aside from going back to rest with Miriel at night, I would rush to the research institute as soon as I woke up.

In addition, he took some time to study the Hundred Flowers Painting with Miriel several more times.

(End of this chapter)