Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

"I've overlooked your repeated offenses because of how much you helped me when I first entered the outer city," Li Zheng said coldly, looking at Ya Yun and Ye Lan. "Do you think I'm soft-hearted and easy to bully?"

"I..." Ye Lan wanted to argue his case, but suddenly realized that he and Ya Yun were in the wrong. He opened his mouth and uttered a single word, but his momentum weakened and he remained silent.

Yakumo believed that a new player from a new race who had just entered the outer city could possess boundless and powerful spiritual energy, which must be a conspiracy against the outer city. However, since Li Zheng entered the outer city, they had not heard of any trouble happening anywhere.

Ye Lan also advised Yakumo that her view of Li Zheng was entirely prejudiced.

However, Yakumo was stubborn and wouldn't listen to reason.

In recent days, Li Zheng has returned to the 950th district twice. Every time Yakumo sees him, she treats him like a thief. If she didn't know that the difference in their mental strength was huge and that her brother and sister might not be able to defeat him in a fight, Yakumo might have already killed Li Zheng.

"This is just a small punishment. If there's a next time, I won't let you off so easily!" Li Zheng walked up to the teleportation portal and coldly shouted, "Open the door!"

Ye Lan lowered his head, came over, opened the teleportation portal, adjusted the teleportation target, and stood aside.

"Let's go!" Li Zheng snorted coldly and stepped into the teleportation portal to leave.

The group had barely walked five seconds when Yakumo snapped out of his daze and was about to go berserk: "How dare you! I've been waiting for you to make your move. I've finally found an excuse to kill you..."

She was furious. She looked around but couldn't find Li Zheng. She asked Ye Lan, "Where is he?"

"He's gone." Ye Lan sighed. "You stood there frozen for a full ten seconds. If he wanted to kill you, you would already be dead."

His intention was to discourage Yakumo, but Yakumo misunderstood: "If he could kill me, he would have done so long ago. Why wait until now? He only had the advantage of a sneak attack. I was caught off guard and fell into his trap. If I had been prepared in advance, the outcome would have been uncertain!"

Ye Lan frowned deeply and sighed heavily: "You said it yourself, if he wanted to kill you, he would have done it long ago. The reason he hasn't killed you yet is that his intentions aren't as bad as you think."

"You can know a person's face but not their heart. Just because he didn't kill me doesn't mean he doesn't have bad intentions!" Yakumo said with certainty, as if he had obtained some solid evidence. "He must have some grand scheme in mind. He didn't kill me just because he was worried that it would disrupt his plans!"

"You keep saying he has ulterior motives, so tell me what he's ulterior motives?" Ye Lan said impatiently. "All I know is that ever since you and I, my brother and sister, learned that his mental strength is much stronger than most people's, we've repeatedly used that as an excuse to make things difficult for him. He's always backed down and never held it against us. And you're still not letting it go?"

“He backed down because he was guilty!” Yakumo immediately retorted, “Besides, you know that only the Heavenly Will Organization can barely break through the limit of mental power right now. Although it’s unclear how they did it, don’t you know what kind of people are associated with the Heavenly Will Organization?”

After Hisa became like this, Yakumo and Yoran investigated for a long time, trying to find the culprit.

However, as they followed the clues, they were shocked to discover that the other party might be colluding with the Heavenly Will Organization. Knowing that they were not strong enough to take revenge, the two were disheartened and took Hisa to find a doctor. After that, they settled down in the 950 block.

Yakumo's obsession with Hisaya has become an obsession.

I'm tongue-tied and don't know how to persuade them.

As the older brother of both Yakumo and Hisa, after Hisa's accident, he could only do his best to protect Yakumo and prevent her from being harmed as well.

"Wait, then."

Yakumo looked at the portal and said in a deep voice, "He will eventually reveal his weakness, and then you will know that I was right!"

She firmly believed that Li Zheng had concealed his spiritual power to infiltrate the outer city, and that he definitely had ulterior motives.

……

"Li Zheng." On the way back to the research institute, Miriel asked softly, "Didn't you always want to ease the tension between you and Yakumo and the others? You were about to succeed, so why did you suddenly attack her just now? Didn't that just deepen the misunderstanding between you two?"

"To ease tensions?" Li Zheng glanced at her and said, "I never sought to treat Jiu Mi with the intention of easing tensions with her. It was mainly because I felt I owed her a favor. Now it's just a matter of repaying the favor and we're even."

“But it’s always better to have one more friend than one more enemy. I’m worried that she’s so petty, she’ll still hold a grudge against you for what happened today even after Hisa is healed,” Miriel said worriedly.

"I'd rather not have a friend like that who turns on me so easily," Li Zheng shook his head.

When he first unleashed his mental pressure, Yakumo's hostile tone and gaze left a deep impression on him.

It reminded him of Chizuru Kamishiro, whom he had personally saved in the Matrix, only to be falsely accused of being a rapist.

When he later found Chizuru Kamishiro, she looked at him with a similar gaze.

But he clearly did nothing to wrong the other party, so why should he be treated like this?
Later he figured it out.

Good people deserve to have guns pointed at them.

Because they can't afford to mess with truly bad people.

"My lord," Mudala suddenly spoke from behind, "should I go back and kill them to prevent future troubles?"

Li Zheng paused, then turned back to look at Mudala with a detached gaze: "Without my orders, you are not allowed to act on your own."

Mudala said urgently, "My lord, danger must be nipped in the bud. Once it grows, it will become a major threat!"

“If that’s the case, then the person I should kill right now is you.” Li Zheng narrowed his eyes. “After all, you were forced to sign the contract by me, and when the contract is broken, you will definitely hate me to the bone.”

"Please see my true intentions, my lord!" Mudala bowed deeply. "Your subordinate has no disloyal thoughts whatsoever!"

“You’re just saying that now.” Li Zheng waved his hand and continued walking towards the next teleportation gate. There may be multiple teleportation gates in the same block, and this is often a transfer station between multiple blocks, requiring a walk.

This is also the main reason why it takes two or three days to travel from Block 4 to Block 950; the time is wasted in the transfer process.

Regarding how to deal with Mudala, Li Zheng had promised that he would let her leave as long as she wanted to.

But as Mudala just said, danger must be nipped in the bud. The fact that Mudala was left alone there for more than 30 years was certainly the work of the old saintess.

But Li Zheng was also implicated; he wasn't sure if Mudala, while hating the old saintess, also wished he could kill him as soon as possible.

However, whether it was due to the contract or because Mudala herself didn't want to leave, she never mentioned leaving even once in all these days.

This made Li Zheng even more uncertain.

"Could it be that Mudala is only staying with me because he wants to use me against the old saintess?"

At the same time, he suddenly remembered two people he hadn't spoken to in a long time.

He had previously promised to find a way to grant them the status of out-of-town residents, and now it seems the time is right.