Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 701 A New High-Efficiency Training Plan
The terminal, having spent countless years in this universe as a transmigrator, was so unlucky that it couldn't even open a super god-level treasure chest.

For some reason, Li Zheng felt no emotion whatsoever upon hearing this news.

There was no secret delight, nor any surprise; it was as if... it was only natural.

"After all, even a handsome man like me took two months to collect three super-god-level treasure chests," Li Zheng said in a low voice. "The terminal, as the main body, must be the epitome of bad luck, so it's reasonable that it can't open any super-god-level treasure chests."

Come to think of it, my luck has been terrible. It must be because of him that I've been affected, that he's transferred some of his bad luck to me, his clone, and dragged me down with him. Otherwise, I should be the lucky one.

Terminal's face darkened: "You're talking to yourself so loudly, are you afraid I won't hear you, right?"

"Haha..." Li Zheng chuckled dryly and was about to explain when the scenery in front of him changed. He had been kicked out of the central hub by the terminal and returned to his small rented room.

"You're back. What did you talk about with Terminal?" Miriel pestered her again, ready to continue the exercise they hadn't finished earlier.

"It's nothing, I just asked him to help analyze what we've found these past few days." Li Zheng sat down by the bed.

"Hmm, you want to replicate the items you got from the treasure chest?" Miriel asked vaguely. "Is it possible?"

She always felt that the items that came out of the treasure chests must be very rare, and that the materials might be impossible to find.

“Only the Calming Bell and the Hundred Flowers Diagram have a chance of being successfully replicated, but it will take some time.” Li Zheng said with a pained expression, “Eighty percent of the ingredients in these two pills have never even been seen on the terminal, and more than half of those eighty percent are not the same.”

At the terminal that controls almost all matter in the universe, the biggest challenge in replicating the two pills is that the materials are not readily available, which is truly remarkable.

"Hmm..." Miriel thought for a moment and asked, "Is it possible to get related materials from the treasure chest?"

Li Zheng thought of the tons of catalysts he had previously obtained and nodded: "It's possible to obtain them, but the probability is not high, and there will definitely be many types. Even if they can be found in treasure chests, it will definitely take a long time to accumulate them slowly."

“That’s troublesome. It would be better to just give us the finished product like we are now.” Miriel got up and sat down, letting out a long sigh. “We can’t make those two pills if we’re missing any one of the materials. Giving us the materials would just waste our daily treasure chest opportunities. It would be better to open those stone fragments. At least every time we open a fragment, we can piece the stone together a little more completely. It’s a visible improvement.”

“That’s right.” Li Zheng agreed with Miriel’s point of view: “However, going to the central analysis to analyze those things also verified a conjecture I had previously made without any basis. After arriving in the outer city, the things that came out of the treasure chests did indeed come from another universe.”

When Li Zheng first arrived in the outer city, he saw some 'unrealistic' things and felt that they didn't seem to be products of this world. However, at that time, it was just a guess and there was no way to verify it.

After the terminal analyzed several items, it told him that it had never seen many of the materials before, which explained everything.

Miriel twisted her slender waist a few times and asked, "The other universe... could it be the place you came from?"

Earth.

Li Zheng... or rather, the hometown of Li Zheng himself.

In that universe, Earthlings were still in the early stages of exploring the cosmos, and had not yet discovered any other intelligent life besides Earth.

However, judging from the examples in this universe, there must be countless intelligent races in the universe where Earth is located, it's just that Earthlings have not yet come into contact with them.

"Could things like the Marrow Cleansing Pill be products of other intelligent races in Earth's universe?"

Li Zheng could not verify this conjecture, since he had never come into contact with other intelligent races in that universe.

He didn't want to think too much about things he couldn't be sure of. After chatting with Miriel for more than two hours, he took a shower, retrieved today's treasure chest, and opened it without a second thought.

Holding a fragment of a wishing stone from the treasure chest, Li Zheng curled his lip and casually put it into a capsule: "Just as I expected, after giving you something, you always give me this useless junk..."

What is this called?
This is called the law of conservation of luck!

With nothing else to do, the two went to sleep.

Over the next few days, Li Zheng settled into a routine of going back and forth between the gravity research institute and his rented apartment.

Rothcal specially drafted a new training plan for him.

Spend half an hour in an environment with high gravity, and then when you stop to rest, use your mental energy to gently stimulate all the cells in your body, keeping them in a relatively active state.

As a result, Li Zheng was exhausted every day, and when he returned to his rented room, he didn't even want to move a finger.

Every time Miriel had to suppress her emotions, she had to do it herself, which exhausted her. But the effect was indeed remarkable; in just four days, Li Zheng had completely adapted to fifteen times the gravity.

Moreover, because he constantly uses his mental energy to stimulate his cells, the speed at which he naturally produces genetic energy has also increased considerably.

In numerical terms, it's like the gene force that used to recover one point per minute has now recovered one and a half points per minute, a huge improvement!

At the end of the fifth day, Li Zheng returned to his rented room and lay sprawled on the bed like a dead dog, unwilling to move.

Today is the day to take the Marrow Cleansing Pill again.

Mirell went to prepare dinner. After calming down for a while, he took out a pill from the capsule and swallowed it.

The medicine spread throughout his body, giving him some energy, allowing him to endure the aches and pains and get up to walk around.

In order to save on Peiyuan Pills these days, he hasn't taken a single one.

He counted them; there were only ten in a bottle. Every one he ate was one less, so he couldn't waste them.

We need to save it for emergencies when needed.

Walking to the stove, Li Zheng popped a Marrow Cleansing Pill into Miriel's mouth and said, "Shall we try something different today?"

Miriel paused in her cooking: "Tired of this?"

“I’ll never get tired of your cooking.” Li Zheng released a rabbit from the animal pen. “But these creatures are breeding more and more prolific, and my several animal pens are almost full.”

Li Zheng released a relatively old Delicious Rabbit, which was different from the Delicious Fruit Rabbit that evolved at the beginning. This Delicious Rabbit was particularly prolific.

The gestation period is only fifteen days long, and a litter can produce double-digit births!

Li Zheng had been deliberately trying to prevent them from mating frequently, but even people have their off days.

These delicious rabbits stay in their enclosures, with plenty to eat and drink, and no natural predators around them. Apart from breeding baby rabbits, they have nothing else to do.

At first, Li Zheng didn't pay much attention, but when he did, he saw that the animal pens were full of little rabbits hopping around everywhere.

Later, when the pen became too crowded, he had to put all the wolves in one pen to make room for the rabbits.

“…Alright.” Miriel picked up a sharp knife, grabbed the rabbit, and ended its life cleanly and decisively: “We’ll have a whole rabbit feast tonight.”

She had never cooked rabbits before, but these small animals were all pretty much the same to handle: skin them, keep the meat and a few edible internal organs, and throw the rest into the composting room to turn into fertilizer.

While waiting for dinner to be served, Li Zheng decided to dismantle the animal pen, go back to Block 4, buy a larger house in the factory area to use as a breeding farm, and leave the species he currently raises there to be taken care of by a specialist.

The Timberwolves have been spending too much time in their enclosures without any exercise, and lately they haven't been in great shape, looking sickly and lacking energy.

The rabbits slept and ate all they did, and they were all raised like pigs.

Li Zheng had seen the rabbit when Miriel was processing it; it was covered in soft, mushy fat, hardly resembling anything "delicious."

Only the leaf-biting ant, under the queen's management, has maintained a relatively constant population size.

However, this reduces the amount of growth-inducing gland fluid produced by leaf-eating ants, affecting the production of the enhanced intermediate culture medium.

After dinner was prepared and served, Miriel listened to Li Zheng's idea and suggested, "In my opinion, we're not short of money now, so why don't we buy more factory buildings, put all the production equipment from the capsules out, hire people to manage them, and expand the scale?"

Perfect timing! Now that three major ethnic groups have moved into Block 4, there's no shortage of workers.

"Good idea. Let's go back to Block 4 in the next couple of days and get everything settled." Li Zheng thought it made sense.

Expanding the scale would only benefit him.

Not only can it save a lot of time caring for three species, but it can also increase productivity, giving Ugly Farmers more opportunities to make a difference.

(End of this chapter)