Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Li Zheng quickly broke free from the flower cluster and, regaining his senses, asked the terminal, "How did you manage to make the butterfly image complement the hundred flowers image so perfectly?"

The effect of the Hundred Flowers Painting was too weak for him; compared to his enormous spiritual body, it was so weak that he couldn't feel it at all.

Even with the addition of the Butterfly Diagram, Li Zheng still couldn't sense any change in his mental strength, but he knew that the Hundred Flowers Diagram must have been significantly enhanced.

The terminal user also looked confused: "I don't know either... well... you know what building blocks are, right?"

"..." Li Zheng's face darkened: "I am your clone. If you treat me like an idiot, you are treating yourself like an idiot."

What is there to not know about building blocks?

Need I ask?
"You can think of the brushstrokes in the diagram as small building blocks. I simply disassembled what was originally a single block and reassembled it into another single block. As a result, the block I reassembled can be combined with the previous block to form an even larger block." The terminal rattled off a long string of words, and finally asked, "Do you understand what I'm saying?"

“It’s a bit convoluted, but I understand now.” Li Zheng pondered for a moment and said, “Is it possible that the brushstrokes used to draw this pattern are not limited to what we see, or rather… there are more small blocks in places we don’t know about. If we can find these blocks, we can complete the whole block we have at hand even more?”

The terminal responded, "Theoretically, it's feasible, provided we can get more small building blocks."

Upon hearing this, Li Zheng's expression changed slightly.

Where will the more building blocks come from?

It all depends on how well the treasure chest works, right?
But will the treasure chest be lenient?
It won't give it to me!

It’s been a month!
A whole month!
They're all fragments of wishing stones!
"I have a question for you."

"You ask."

Li Zheng pondered for a moment and then asked, "When the treasure chest system was with you, did you ever get an empty one?"

"Empty?" the terminal exclaimed in surprise. "A treasure chest can be empty?"

"It seems not." Li Zheng nodded, then asked, "Have you ever given away anything that seemed useful but was actually completely useless?"

"It's been fired!" the terminal said regretfully. "That's what caused the emotional storm back then!"

"..." Li Zheng remained silent for a long time: "Besides that?"

Terminal tried to recall for a moment, then shook his head: "That's all. Sometimes I'll get some low-level gadgets, which I just throw into the matrix."

Li Zheng asked in confusion, "You've never gotten a Wishing Stone fragment?"

"...Wishing stone?" The terminal also looked puzzled: "There are such superstitious things in treasure chests? I only opened tech-related products."

“This…” Li Zheng said, “Okay, maybe my previous guess was right. You took most of the items in the treasure chest, so now I can only get some wishing stone fragments as a consolation prize.”

“Possibly,” the terminal said. “After all, I’ve opened countless treasure chests. Even the legendary King’s Treasury, I estimate I’ve emptied tens of thousands of them. It’s reasonable that the contents of the chests have decreased.”

He was secretly pleased: "Hehe, it seems my luck is no worse than yours. I transferred the system to you just when the treasure chest system was about to be emptied."

"Is this something to be happy about?" Li Zheng's face darkened, and he complained, "So it turns out it's not that I'm unlucky, but that someone took too many things before me, which is why I keep getting Wishing Stone fragments."

“Nobody wants to admit they’re less lucky than others.” The terminal tapped the butterfly image and said, “Take that thing with you, and leave me one of those wishing stone fragments you mentioned. I’ll study it.”

Li Zheng casually grabbed a handful of fragments, took the butterfly pattern, and placed it on the counter: "Don't give me one or two, I'll give you a whole bunch, you can play with it slowly."

He'd been collecting them for a while now, and occasionally, when he was bored, he'd take out all the fragments and try to piece them together, but he found that very few pieces could be assembled; most were separate pieces that couldn't be connected. After a few attempts, Li Zheng gave up.

It was so boring, it was very soporific.

After taking the butterfly diagram, the terminal sent Li Zheng out of the central hub.

Back at the rented room, Miriel asked, "What does the terminal want with you now? You didn't even have time to wash up?"

"It's nothing urgent." Li Zheng took out the butterfly diagram and recounted what had just happened.

Miriel looked at the painting in surprise: "Go wash your face and brush your teeth first, then come out for breakfast. I'll take a look at this picture first."

“Perfect timing. Remember to tell me about its effects after you’ve finished looking at them.” Li Zheng handed both the Hundred Flowers and Butterfly scrolls to Miriel and headed to the restroom. “You need to look at both pictures together to see the effect. My mental strength is too strong, so it’s hard for me to tell how much these things enhance my mental strength.”

As soon as he entered the restroom, Miriel unfurled two scrolls and began to examine them intently.

Before long, her eyes became glazed over, and her mind wandered far away.

He has clearly entered the same state as Li Zheng.

She stood amidst a profusion of flowers, her body exuding a fragrance identical to that of the blossoms. Butterflies of various kinds fluttered around her, occasionally landing on her as if she were one of the flowers in the garden.

At the same time, her mental strength was also slowly increasing.

When the final growth rate matched that of the initial view of the painting of a hundred flowers, she stopped, pulled herself out of the flowerbed, and came to her senses.

Just then, Li Zheng finished washing up and said, "The effect is the same as the Hundred Flowers Painting. It should also need to be observed regularly to maintain its effect. Would you like to enter my mental world for a look?"

After viewing the Hundred Flowers Painting, a garden of flowers sprouted in Miriel's mental world.

After looking at the butterfly picture, she felt that there must also be butterflies fluttering in her spiritual world.

"No need to look, as long as it works." Li Zheng waved his hand and sat down at the table. Xiao Ying buried her head in her rice the whole time, with two red Porings assisting her. One Poring held a fried dough stick and brought it to Xiao Ying's mouth so she could take a bite, while the other Poring held a bowl of porridge and immediately brought it to her mouth after she had taken a bite of the fried dough stick so she could drink some.

Meanwhile, her hands were also busy; one hand held chopsticks to pick up kimchi, while the other held a napkin to wipe her mouth from time to time.

His little face was bulging with food he hadn't swallowed yet, like a hamster hoarding food.

"Eat slowly, no one's going to take it from you." Li Zheng couldn't help but scold her, "You're eating like a starving ghost reincarnated."

"Mmm-hmm!" Sakura's mouth was constantly moving, so she made a couple of random hums to protest.

Miriel also sat down at the table, returned the two pictures to Li Zheng, and spoke up for Xiaoying: "Her true form is a Blood-Patterned Black Dragon. You've seen the scene of the Black Dragon Ancestor revealing his true form before. Although Xiaoying's true form is not as good as the Black Dragon Ancestor's, it is definitely much larger than her actual form, so it's normal for her to eat more."

She picked up a fried dough stick and placed it in Xiaoying's bowl, saying affectionately, "Here, have another piece of dough."

"Just keep spoiling her!" Li Zheng sighed helplessly.

“It’s a blessing for a child to be able to eat well. That’s a saying I saw when I was learning Chinese,” Miriel said. “By the way, besides the increase in my mental strength after looking at the butterfly picture, I think I also grasped some… um… special uses of mental strength.”

"Oh?" Li Zheng paused in his work upon hearing this. "Tell me more?"