Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

“I don’t know his name, but he seems to have gone mad.” Li Zheng looked at Mudala’s unwavering eyes and said calmly, “He perished together with the twisted creature, turning into a blazing flame… much like the way the fire ape looked when it appeared earlier.”

Mudala remained unmoved, silently staring at Li Zheng.

After a moment, Li Zheng sighed and said, "Ms. Mudala, do you really have nothing to say to me?"

"The Fire Ape Clan is one of the few races that are not reproductively isolated from ours," Mudala finally spoke, slowly saying, "What you encountered was probably a hybrid of the Fire Ape Clan and the Destruction Clan, who went mad due to some kind of trauma, nothing more."

"Is that so?" Li Zheng nodded slightly. "So, the Destruction Clan and the Heavenly Will Organization are not colluding?"

"I've lived here alone for over thirty years and have no idea about any organization called 'Heaven's Will'," Mudala vehemently denied.

"Ah."

Li Zheng let out a muffled sound from his nose, neither confirming nor denying.

The atmosphere at the dinner table became somber, with Feng Yue and Miriel looking at Mudala with hostile expressions.

Mudala remained calm and showed no fear.

Li Zheng slowly ate the boiled meat in the bowl, scooping out the last piece of meat. He wiped his hands, stood up, and said, "We've finished eating, and it's getting late. Let's all go back and rest."

He told Mudala, “Come see me tomorrow morning, finish the rest of the procedures, and then come with me to the outer city.”

"it is good."

Mudala got up and left.

Li Zheng looked at Feng Yue: "What are you still standing there for? My wife and I are going to rest. Are you going to stand here and watch?"

"Vulgar! How could the Guide speak such vulgar words?" Feng Yue covered his face, walked out of the wooden house, glanced back at Mudala's back, threw a button-sized pellet at the door, and then went to his own wooden house.

“Thirteen times the gravity, even the Guide and his wife can withstand it, but ordinary people can’t.” He closed the door, thinking to himself, “If Mudara makes any move tonight, it will definitely trigger the gravity generator and capture her on the spot!”

Feng Yue was quite pleased with himself, secretly pleased with his clever move.

If the Guide knew, he would surely think his arrangements were meticulous, wouldn't he?
Li Zheng glanced outside the door and said to Miriel, "Be careful when you go out before tomorrow morning. The area within a meter of the door is thirteen times the normal gravity. Don't embarrass yourself."

"Thirteen times gravity?" Miran immediately guessed what was going on: "Did Feng Yue do this?"

"Hmm." Li Zheng chuckled, "This guy probably saw me testing Mudala earlier and thought Mudala had some ulterior motive, so he took some defensive measures on his own initiative."

"He's probably feeling smug right now, thinking he's made a very thorough plan."

“Don’t say that, Feng Yue meant well.” Miriel asked, “Since you suspect that the Destruction Clan is colluding with the Heavenly Will Organization, why did you still keep your promise and take Mudala to the outer city?”

Li Zheng took out some clean water to wash himself: "It's just a preliminary suspicion, there's no substantial evidence, so we should presume innocence."

“Speaking of which…” Miri recalled the Destroyer Clan member she had met in the Gluttony Sin Domain and said, “If that person was a hybrid of a Fire Ape and a Destroyer Clan member, why did he act so strangely?” How insane was his fighting style of killing each other at the slightest disagreement?

Most importantly, the Heavenly Dragon Clan, which only recognizes pure battle spirits, actually accepted the other party, making him a member of the Golden Light Zone.

“That’s what I’m wondering about too.” Li Zheng washed his hands and face clean and lay down on the bed.

If that person harbors ill intentions, they will absolutely not escape the test of the fighting spirit of the Heavenly Dragon Clan.

This shows that the other person's mind is very pure, without any ulterior motives.

“The Heavenly Will Organization advocates coexistence with emotional storms. If that person was one of them, they wouldn’t have died so easily,” Li Zheng muttered. “There must be other things I don’t know about the Destruction Clan, perhaps…”

As Miriel washed her hands, she suddenly added, "Perhaps the Destroyer Clan also split into two factions?"

"Split……"

Li Zheng glanced at Miriel: "What you say makes sense. Before the destruction of the clan, they accepted intermarriage with other races. Perhaps this action is what sowed the seeds of the current division?"

"Have you considered this other point?" Miriel said, "Since the Heavenly Will Organization has developed a method to extract other people's spiritual bodies and make them into containers, wouldn't they use this as a reward to recruit more people to serve them? That Fire Ape Clan member, that Nato, and that Shadow Controller."

“That’s right!” Li Zheng suddenly sat up: “Mudala only changed his mind and agreed to hand over the defeat contract after he saw that my mental power had exceeded its limit!”

In other words, Mudala knew that some members of the Destroyer Clan had been hired by the Heavenly Will Organization, which is why he was so eager to find a way to break through the limits of his mental power.

"It seems that the defeat pact is indeed related to the strength of one's mental power; otherwise, given the nature of the Destruction Clan, they wouldn't be so easily tempted," Li Zheng pondered. "This method, which can break through the upper limit of mental power, is undoubtedly the best bargaining chip to lure the Destruction Clan into a trap!"

"So, do you still think Mudala is colluding with the Heavenly Will Organization?" Miriel said, shaking off the water from her hands after washing them. "If she already has the means provided by the Heavenly Will Organization, why would she need to go through the trouble of getting another set from you?"

“This… remains uncertain for now,” Li Zheng said. “We’ll ask her for clarification tomorrow after she presents the surrender agreement. We can’t draw any conclusions yet.”

"Okay." Miriel lowered her head to wash her face, then climbed onto the bed and lay down. "By the way, have you figured out those five obsidian stones?"

"I did a quick look into it." Li Zheng recounted what had happened and said with frustration, "I didn't expect that thing would dissipate on its own after leaving the spiritual world. I originally wanted to rescue those five people and try to get some information from them."

"This isn't your fault. It was our first time seeing that thing too, and we couldn't have predicted what would happen. You don't need to blame yourself," Miriel comforted him. "But you said that after those spiritual entities dissipated, the outer shell that preserved their spiritual energy was absorbed by the Dark Realm?"

"Hmm." Li Zheng recalled the scene at the time: "That thing was made of some unknown material, yet it was assimilated and absorbed by the Dark Realm... Wait a minute!"

A sudden thought struck him: "Could those outer shells have been cut out from some kind of dark realm? Or perhaps they are part of the dark realm itself?"

“It should be the former,” Miriel said. “After you inherited the Void’s spiritual power, you also inherited the Dark Realm. You can be said to be the Lord of the Dark Realm. If someone enters the Dark Realm through certain means and cuts off a part of it to leave, wouldn’t you notice?”

"To take it a step further, if the other party can even cut through the Dark Realm and take it for their own use, just how powerful must their strength and methods be?"