Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

"She wants to learn how to break through the limits of mental strength. My condition is that she must offer you a defeat pact."

"She actually agreed?" Li Zheng looked in Mudala's direction in surprise.

Not long ago, she had been unusually adamant in her refusal to offer up the surrender agreement, but now she has actually agreed.

Feng Yue speculated from the side, "Could it be that the defeat contract that destroyed a clan is related to the strength of her mental power? Perhaps she is thinking of obtaining a secret technique to enhance her mental power, and then forcibly breaking the contract?"

“No need for ‘maybe,’ that’s exactly what she’s thinking!” A glint of light flashed in Li Zheng’s tired eyes. There was only one possibility that could make Mudala change her mind.

Mudala probably thought that since he had defeated the ape-man with his mental power, his mental strength was not much stronger than the ape-man's, after all, Miriel's previous attack on the ape-man had affected the ape-man for a short time.

After comparing several examples, Li Zheng was not surprised to reach this conclusion.

He thought to himself, "If that's the case, your wishful thinking is going to fall through."

Li Zheng couldn't help but laugh. He was looking forward to seeing what Mudala's expression would be after he offered up the defeated contract and sensed his vast spiritual body.

Mudala was too slow to handle it alone, so Li Zheng asked Feng Yue and Mirell to go and help. The three of them worked together and quickly cleared a large enough open space.

Feng Yue then went to a distant place to cut down a large number of trees and transported them back. In just half an hour, two simple wooden houses were erected.

Li Zheng had recovered somewhat and got up to go over to Mudala, saying, "Originally, if you had voluntarily handed over the defeat contract, I would have taught you how to condense spiritual energy nodes. However, I am currently quite exhausted, so I will rest for the night and teach you tomorrow."

Although the outcome is the same, the purposes and nature of each person's actions are completely different. At least Mudala has been completely removed from Li Zheng's list of trusted individuals.

In fact, if Mudala were willing to cooperate, he could teach him how to condense spiritual energy nodes right now. The reason he made the excuse of resting for a night was just to take the opportunity to deepen Mudala's impression of his limited strength.

"It's okay, I'm not in a hurry."

Since their negotiations broke down, Mudala's attitude has become much colder. If Li Zheng hadn't just displayed his powerful mental strength, she probably wouldn't have bothered to even acknowledge him.

Mudala left Li Zheng and the others behind, returned to his wooden house, and then took his tools to tidy up the destroyed flowers and plants.

Feng Yue watched her walk away and said with regret, "Of all the good options available, she chose the worst one."

Li Zheng knew that Feng Yue wanted to say that Mudala was being unreasonable, but he defended Mudala, saying, "After all, we have only just met. It is understandable that she would refuse to offer up a defeat contract that could determine her life or death to a complete stranger."

He led Miri into a wooden cabin and then said, "But that doesn't mean I have no problem with her. After all, my subjective feelings have made me feel some aversion towards her."

Li Zheng finds people with many hidden agendas annoying, especially those who are always sincere and whose words and actions come from the heart.

But even so, he never received the same response from others.

Although it's true that one should always be wary of others, he could understand why others did this, as it seemed to be without fault.

However, he just couldn't accept that he had no intention of harming anyone, yet people treated him like a thief.

Mudala is quite similar to An'an of the Suffering Clan; both of them are very shrewd and calculating. Li Zheng usually keeps his distance from such people.

I treat others with sincerity, but they do not treat me with sincerity.

"I'm sorry, we're not on the same page. From now on, let's each go our own way and neither of us should try to gain anything from the other." "You rest for a bit, I'll go get that guy." Miriel told Li Zheng to rest in the cabin, while she went out, grabbed the ape-man by the foot, and dragged his body into the cabin.

Li Zheng laid out the bed, sat on the edge of the bed, and waited for Miriel to drag the ape-man in before immediately using his mental power to invade the ape-man's mind again.

His body had recovered considerably by this time, and the mental energy he had used was far from enough to affect his body, so there was no major problem.

After the ape-man's spirit dissipated, the defenses of his spiritual world also completely disappeared. Li Zheng easily invaded the area once again, arriving in a sea of ​​fire and lava.

Two seconds later, another figure appeared beside him—it was Miriel.

"Is this his mental world?" Miriel looked around curiously. "How strange, this person's mental world is actually inside a volcano?"

Li Zheng looked at her and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Miriel has already condensed two nodes, and her mental power is much stronger than before. She can now enter other people's mental worlds.

The prerequisite is that the other party must release all mental defenses, or have their mental world completely collapsed like an ape-man.

"I'm curious, come in and take a look." Ever since Li Zheng first entered her mental world and described the scenes there to her, Miriel has been quite interested in other people's mental worlds and is always eager to try entering them.

"Be careful. Entering someone else's mental world is very taxing. If you can't hold on, go back immediately," Li Zheng warned before drifting towards the center of the fire.

Miriel followed behind him and said, "Okay."

The two quickly arrived at the center and looked down, where they saw five obsidian-like objects floating and undulating in the churning lava.

"You mean those?" Miriel looked surprised. "They do resemble nodes to some extent, but... they feel so strange to me, so out of place in this spiritual world."

That's right.

He just doesn't fit in!

Although this is a volcanic environment, it seems reasonable that a few obsidian stones would appear.

However, upon using mental energy to make contact, it was discovered that the aura and fluctuations emitted by the five obsidian stones did not belong to this place at all.

Or rather, it bears absolutely no resemblance to the mental energy fluctuations of ape-men themselves.

“It’s as if…their spiritual energy was left in the ape-man’s spiritual world.” She suddenly paused, exchanging a glance with Li Zheng, who was also thinking the same thing.

"The method by which the Heavenly Will Organization breaks through the upper limit of spiritual power is to seize the spiritual power source of others as a container to hold additional spiritual power!"

The two of them said this conclusion in unison.

"Therefore, it's not that the spiritual bodies of patients with loss of spirit have been scattered and disappeared, but rather that they have been taken from their spiritual world by some means, made into something similar to obsidian, and transplanted into the user's spiritual world!"

In the spiritual world of the ape-man, every obsidian stone is equivalent to a living human life!