Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Block 375.

Li Zheng and his group stepped out of the portal and looked at the familiar streets. Li Zheng took a deep breath: "Let's go to the research institute first and tell the professors."

Today is the last day of the holiday. Tomorrow, Li Zheng will probably have to start the boring and tedious training again. I'll go and let the doctor know first so he can prepare.

The group arrived at the research institute and easily found the gravity chamber where Zhan Zhouzhou was training.

Originally, Feng Yue was monitoring this place from the control room. During Li Zheng's vacation, Feng Yue was assigned by the professor to accompany him, and Professor Rothcal temporarily took over this place.

"Daddy!" Xiaoying was left here in Zhan Zhouzhou's care. Zhan Zhouzhou had arranged for her to stay in the control room during training. When she saw Li Zheng, she jumped up and landed in his arms like a swallow returning to its nest. She rubbed her little face affectionately against Li Zheng's neck and said, "Aww, Xiaoying missed you!"

Li Zheng weighed Xiao Ying in his hand and couldn't help but laugh and cry: "I don't think you miss me at all, otherwise how come you've gained so much weight in just fifteen days?"

"Eek!" Sakura protested, "I'm just growing, I'm not getting fat!"

"Okay, okay, it's not that you're getting fat, alright?" Li Zheng held her affectionately with one hand and gently stroked her delicate little nose with the other, which made the little one protest.

"Mommy Miriel, Sakura misses you too!" The little one stretched out her arms to Miriel, asking for a hug.

"Really?" Miriel pulled her into his arms, pretending to struggle, and teased her, "Oh dear, you've really gotten so much heavier, I can hardly carry you anymore."

"Ugh~~ I'm just growing, I really haven't gotten fat!" Sakura grabbed the red Porings that were peeking out from her shoulder and pointed at them, saying, "If you don't believe me, ask the Porings. They can vouch for me. I really eat much less than before!"

“Po…” The Red Poli looked at her with suspicion.

"Speak quickly!" Sakura bared her teeth in a cute but fierce way.

"Poring Poring! Poring Poring!" The red Porings nodded repeatedly, their expressions suggesting that whatever she said was right and that everyone should believe her.

"Haha, okay, okay, I believe you. Let them go first, you've squeezed them so much they're deformed." Miriel put Sakura down and pointed to the spot where Sakura had squeezed the Porings into a thin line.

The Porings are made almost entirely of water, so they have little intelligence and no sense of pain. Even when Sakura pulls and stretches them like clay, they just think Sakura is playing with them and even feel happy.

Because of their unique structure, the Poring race is unable to generate mental power in the conventional sense.

Li Zheng had taken some time to try checking with his mental energy, but he couldn't detect even the slightest fluctuation of mental energy within the Red Porings.

He was very curious about how the life phenomena of the Poli tribe came about.

In the outer city, some people captured several Porings in the Matrix and forcibly brought them back for research. Not only did they find nothing, but those Porings that were forcibly brought back would actively refuse to absorb water, causing themselves to dry up and die.

Sakura released Red Polly, her little face full of anticipation, and asked, "Miriel, are you having a family dinner tonight since you're back today?"

Upon hearing this, Miriel immediately understood Sakura's true thoughts and shook her head with amusement: "You glutton, so you were waiting here all along!"

"Hehe." Sakura grinned and shook Miriel's arm, pleading, "Let's have a get-together! Let's have a get-together tonight! I really want to eat Miriel's mom's cooking." Miriel couldn't resist her pestering and finally said, "Alright, alright, tonight we'll invite Aunt Zhouzhou, Uncle Fengyue, and Professor Uncle to have a get-together, okay?"

"Yay!" Sakura jumped up happily, her head hitting the roof of the control room with a thud. She didn't feel any pain and giggled after landing.

Li Zheng leaned close to the monitor to watch Zhan Zhouzhou's progress. In the fifteen days he had been away, Zhan Zhouzhou's progress had been astonishing. The gravity he could adapt to had exceeded seventeen times, and today he was trying a seventeen-and-a-half-times gravity environment.

According to Professor Rothcal, Zhan Zhouzhou has tried under 17.5 gravity no less than ten times today, and the total time he has endured it has exceeded one hour!
From just a few tens of seconds at the beginning to now persisting for nearly fifteen minutes, his progress is truly astonishing!

However, even now, Zhan Zhouzhou can only lie in the gravity field, her flesh being pulled down from the edge of her body by gravity, and even her bones have undergone a certain degree of deformation.

One can only imagine the terrifying pressure that her internal organs were under.

Li Zheng had experienced the same situation countless times and understood that this was a process that had to be gone through every time the upper limit of gravity was broken, and that this process could take more than ten days to make significant progress.

In the monitor, Zhan Zhouzhou seemed to have reached her limit; her fingers trembled slightly a few times.

Roscal immediately noticed this detail and took action to lower the gravity coefficient. Within the gravitational field, Zhan Zhouzhou's body visibly returned to its original state.

This scene looked extremely bizarre, especially since the female's unique sexual organs also stood up again after the gravity decreased, like bamboo shoots that had sprouted from the soil and grown for more than half a month after the spring rain, looking extremely proud.

"This is too bizarre. Without any bones for support, how is it supported?"

Li Zheng couldn't figure this out, and could only conclude that after Zhan Zhouzhou entered the matrix, her body was strengthened from various angles by various items, which caused her muscles to develop a strange memory ability.

As the gravity decreased to zero, Zhan Zhouzhou had already made sufficient adaptation movements. He walked out of the gravity field and headed straight for the control room: "I'm back."

"Hmm." Li Zheng smiled and said, "Thank you for taking care of Xiaoying. The little one has a big appetite, so you've gone to a lot of trouble."

"It's no trouble at all." Zhan Zhouzhou looked at Xiaoying and said, "I've watched the little one grow up. She used to be so small, and she looked like a bat with a dinosaur's head, kind of ugly-cute. I never expected that she would grow into such a lovely little girl. She must have suffered a lot following you."

"No..." Li Zheng's expression darkened. "What do you mean by that? How has Xiaoying suffered because of me? Have I deprived her of a bite to eat or a sip of water?"

"It has nothing to do with food and drink," Zhan Zhouzhou said calmly. "But the child is so old now, when are you going to arrange her academic classes?"

"???" Sakura turned her head and looked at Zhan Zhouzhou with a confused expression.

Although she didn't hear what she just said, Sakura clearly felt a chill that seeped into her bones.

That seems to be the biggest nightmare for every race of children at her age!

“Miriel and I, as parents, aren’t worried at all, but you, as an aunt, are quite concerned.” Li Zheng narrowed his eyes slightly. “But speaking of education… it seems there aren’t any schools in the outer city?”

He suddenly realized that after walking through so many blocks in the outer city, he didn't seem to have seen any buildings that looked like a school.
To be precise, apart from Kangor's grandson, Rolle, who was considered a child, he had seen almost no signs of any of the race's offspring moving around in the outer city.