Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Q: How can you get someone to voluntarily give up their hobby?
A: Turn his hobby into something he hates!

Q: What do most people dislike?

A: My alarm clock and work!
After watching for a while, Li Zheng understood the casino owner's strategy: to deprive Hu Er of the sense of accomplishment that gambling brought him, and to gradually make him lose interest in gambling.

"Sir," the casino owner said with a fawning smile, "this trick of mine has an 80% success rate on any gambler. Given his temperament, it will take no more than seven days to completely kick his gambling addiction."

By this time, Tiger Two had switched to another machine. The gameplay was largely the same, with only slight differences in multipliers, patterns, and rules.

The journey was delayed by five seconds because of moving the chip box, and the burly man then deducted Tiger's bonus of one thousand again.

Li Zheng watched Hu Er's retreating figure. This guy was no longer as arrogant as he had been when he first heard that he could gamble freely. All that remained was his obsession with the prize pool and his resentment. He continued to gamble entirely on a whim of resentment.

Li Zheng asked the casino owner in a low voice, "What are some of the unreasonable rules?"

To come up with such a disgusting trick, one has to admit, they are quite a talent.

Li Zheng felt that the person who drafted the terms must have carefully studied a lot of psychology materials. Every broadcast hit the nail on the head, leaving him feeling frustrated and helpless.

If this kind of suppressed anger is held in for too long, it can eventually lead to symptoms similar to PTSD, causing the person to instinctively resist and retaliate when they hear or see related situations, things, or behaviors.

The casino owner laughed and said, "There are no specific rules. Everything is improvised. We just seize the opportunity to find a pretext to impose a fine."

He pointed at the burly man: "Look."

Li Zheng looked over there and saw that Hu Er had played the slot machine twice more. He sat up straight the whole time, not daring to move his legs, and was completely focused on the slot machine.

Fearing he would be fined for doing it a third time, he cautiously got up, packed up the ball box, and prepared to move to the next machine.

At this moment, the burly man suddenly spoke again: "Step out of the casino with your left foot first, and you'll be fined one thousand!"

bass!
Upon hearing this, Tiger Two's sharp claws instantly sprang out from between his fleshy fingers, scratching several marks on the ball box.

The burly man said, "Damaging casino property will result in a fine of one thousand!"

"Shameless, utterly shameless..." Li Zheng sighed and shook his head. No matter what he did, someone might seize the opportunity to fine him. In the next few days, Hu Er would definitely live cautiously and have no interest in gambling.

Once you no longer feel the pleasure that gambling brings and develop a genuine aversion to gambling, you can successfully quit gambling.

Of course, simply imposing fines won't be very effective.

Prematurely exhausting his emotions might at most make him somewhat weary of gambling, but it won't make him particularly averse to it.

Only by constantly pulling him back and forth, letting him occasionally receive some bonuses, and then gradually deducting all of them, can we make him experience the despair of gaining and then slowly losing, thus maximizing the effect and achieving the best results.

There's a saying that fits perfectly here: the person who knows you best isn't necessarily yourself, but your enemy definitely knows you very well!

“Then I’ll leave him to you. I’ll come back to pick him up in seven days.” Li Zheng said, taking out an empty near-purple-grade magic crystal and handing it to the casino owner: “I don’t know how much loss these seven days will cause you, so consider this compensation.”

"Thank you, sir!" The casino owner's eyes lit up when he saw the complete, uncut magic crystal, and he quickly took it.

A near-purple-grade magic crystal!
It's a level above red crystal coins, and it's enough to equal nearly a year's revenue for his casino!
With such high returns, it's worth it to close for at least six months, let alone seven days.

For those who frequently hunt in the Sin Domain, one or two near-purple-grade magic crystals are not particularly valuable; given some time, they can obtain them within the Sin Domain.

However, nowadays most of the residents in the outer city are just sitting around doing nothing, making magic crystals of this level even more precious. Especially in neighborhoods like 950, which are numbered very low, having a near-purple-grade magic crystal means you can live very comfortably here for a long time without worrying about food or drink.

"Let's go."

Li Zheng led his men away from the casino and turned to Kota, saying, "Go back to the botanical garden and help Kanger with his work. Come back and pick them up in a few days."

Kota dared not disobey his boss, so he responded and turned back.

"Are you going to see a doctor?" Miriel wrapped her arm around Li Zheng's arm, sensing what he was thinking.

"Okay, let's go see Kota's mother and those patients with amnesia." Li Zheng nodded and led the group toward the alley where the doctor's clinic was located.

Arriving at the familiar alley once again, Li Zheng looked at the almost unchanged interior and felt a strange sense of nostalgia.

“I remember when we first came here, we knew nothing about the outer city. We were just two clueless newbies.” Li Zheng saw the miscellaneous items hidden by the Thousand-Eyed Clan. There was a sense of life surviving beneath the items, but this time he was wiser and didn’t throw out his eyeballs to fish for them.

He must have recognized Li Zheng, so he didn't dare to act rashly.

Miriel laughed and said, "Now you're something else. Everyone here has to call you 'Sir' and you've got the airs of a big shot."

Li Zheng teased her, "Even if I'm a very important person, I can still willingly kneel behind you."

Miriel blushed and scolded, "There are other people here, what nonsense are you talking about!"

Li Zheng laughed heartily and led them to the clinic entrance.

It's still the same here, nothing has changed.

Li Zheng slapped the person at the door with practiced ease, stunning the sleeping security guard. It took him more than a minute to react before he obediently opened the door for him.

As soon as the clinic door opened, Li Zheng heard an angry shout from inside: "Who's so strong that they triggered my access alarm? Who's going to pay for it if it gets damaged?"

"How much? I'll pay!" Li Zheng said loudly, leading his men inside.

The doctor, still in his android body, was guarding the clinic. He was clearly stunned for a moment when he saw Li Zheng, then his eyes narrowed and he switched to two high-powered lenses to scan Li Zheng.

"Your physical strength is more than ten times stronger than it was two months ago. No wonder you could trigger the alarm with just one slap. It seems you've been putting in a lot of effort in training these days."

"It's alright, though I did suffer a bit." Li Zheng nodded and asked, "When will your main body return?"

The doctor switched his eyes back to bionic eyeballs: "Looking for my original body? What's wrong?"

"Good thing."

Li Zheng asked, "The android only retains your memories from a certain period, thus forming a personality similar to your original self. In reality, everything is controlled by sophisticated computers, and there is no mental power inside, right?"

“That’s right.” The doctor did not deny it.

"So, you didn't sense those two incidents more than two months ago?" Li Zheng was referring to the two events that caused chaos throughout the entire neighborhood.

Doctor: No, Yakumo mentioned it to me afterwards.

"When will you call your main body back? We'd like to meet you," Li Zheng said. "Perfect timing. I have a method here to break through the upper limit of mental power. Your main body will definitely be very interested."