Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

"Professor, this isn't a request you're making; you're clearly helping me out of my predicament!"

Li Zheng was overjoyed and invited, "But there's no rush. I'll treat everyone to dinner today, and we can chat while we eat."

“Alright,” Rothcal accepted the invitation.

That evening, Miriel spent two whole hours cooking a table of delicious and visually appealing food, which delighted Sakura so much that she wanted to jump right into the middle of the table.

The way she wolfed down her food prompted Zhan Zhouzhou to repeatedly explain, "I swear, I didn't let her go hungry for even one meal! Really! You have to believe me!"

Feng Yue and Mudala looked on with suspicion. If they weren't starving, how could they eat like bulldozers plowing the ground?
Li Zheng counted the contents of the capsules, looking worried: "Oh no, with this money-devouring beast, my savings are about to be gone."

His cold storage is filled with the best ingredients, and the best ingredients are saved for last. Even Li Zheng himself is reluctant to eat them.

Sakura didn't care about any of that. The better the ingredients, the more delicious the dish would be. But when it came to her, it was like Pigsy eating ginseng fruit – she didn't even chew it, she just swallowed it raw!
"Looks like we need to think about correcting Sakura's eating habits before she starts school," Li Zheng said with a stern face.

When they're with family, it's fine for Sakura to be a little unrestrained.

We have guests today, this behavior is really quite impolite.

“Haha, children are like that. In our race, there’s a saying: ‘Being able to eat is a blessing.’” Professor Rothcal laughed. “Because families with limited means can’t afford to let their children eat too much.”

"Huh?" Li Zheng raised an eyebrow: "Does the professor's hometown have such a saying? It seems that eating is something that all races in the universe value very much."

After all, survival is at stake. All intelligent life forms must have experienced many famines throughout their evolutionary history, so it is normal for them to value food, eat, and develop certain sayings.

"It's not just my race; many other races have similar sayings." The professor's mouth was similar to that of a crocodile; he couldn't chew, so he could only tear his food into pieces and swallow it slowly.

Fortunately, Miriel was skilled with a knife and prepared each dish exquisitely, thus avoiding the scene of the professor tearing apart food in public.

However, the professor was not used to using chopsticks, so he only tasted each dish briefly before discussing serious matters with Li Zheng.

Within the gravity research institute, there are numerous individual gravitational fields, numbering in the thousands.

However, many of these gravity fields are usually reserved by researchers in other research institutes or leased long-term by people from other research institutes, so there are not many idle gravity fields that can be freely mobilized.

Professor Rothcal meant that Li Zheng only needed to find ten more people from the Blue Planet to participate in the training and research.

Li Zheng was not satisfied with this; he wanted more people from the Blue Planet to come here for training.

However, the insufficient gravitational field is indeed a major problem.

It's impossible to add another roof now.

Space in the research institute is limited, and all the areas where buildings and equipment could be added have already been completed.

Unless someone spends an exorbitant amount of money to purchase a property in Block 375 and applies to the terminal to use more advanced space renovation technology to expand the interior space.

Then we placed an order with the gravity research institute to purchase enough gravity generation fields and monitoring equipment for the control room.

"If we build one hundred gravity chambers, including the purchase of properties and equipment, how many crystal coins would it cost?" Li Zheng asked Professor Rothcal.

"A complete set of equipment for generating a 50 times gravity field costs approximately..." Professor Roscal was busy with his research and didn't think of it for the moment.

“One thousand amethyst coins,” Feng Yue continued. “That’s just the equipment, not including the outer shell of the gravity chamber. If you want to build one hundred sets, you’ll need at least one hundred and fifty thousand amethyst coins. And the price of a property that can accommodate one hundred gravity chambers varies from ten thousand to one hundred thousand amethyst coins, depending on the neighborhood.”

Feng Yue is referring to areas outside of Block 50; the larger the house is in the first 50 blocks, the more expensive it is.

“In addition, there are subsequent energy costs, which are also a considerable expense.” Feng Yue advised, “Master, building your own gravity chamber is not cost-effective. At most, you can build one for your own training. If you want to build a system to provide for others to use, it is really not worth it.”

After all, a gravitational field is different from places like martial arts gyms and fitness centers.

The worst outcome of going to a martial arts gym or fitness center is, at worst, an injury.

Training in a gravity field can be deadly!
Therefore, apart from the gravity research institute, no one in the outer city uses this technology to open a business and make a profit.

If Li Zheng were to build a hundred gravity chambers, it would be a completely unprofitable endeavor. "Okay..."

After thinking it over carefully for a while, Li Zheng said to Mudala, "Go to Block 4 tomorrow and find a guy named Lu Li. Have him choose ten people to come with you to Block 375."

Zhan Zhouzhou was initially in charge of managing the Blue Star players in Block 4, but she got tired of it and handed the job over to Xiao Siyuan, then went to Block 375 to train.

Now Xiao Siyuan has also left Block 4 to study with the doctor. Before leaving, he handed over the responsibility to Lu Li, who had been cured of his mental illness.

After Lu Li's mental illness was cured, Li Zheng and the others discovered that he was surprisingly reliable. Many things were not as people used to joke, that "mentally ill people have broad thinking," but rather that he really had many unique perspectives of his own.

Sometimes Li Zheng wondered if Lu Li's achievements might have surpassed Lu Manjiang's if it weren't for his mental illness.

"Yes, my lord!" Mudala nodded vigorously. This was the second task her lord had given her to do alone, and she would definitely complete it diligently.

After finalizing the number of people to be sent from Aquamarine, Roscal quickly made an excuse and left.

Fengyue followed closely behind.

The only outsider present was Zhan Zhouzhou.

After dinner, Li Zheng transferred some travel money to Mudala and then sent her and Zhan Zhouzhou to spend the night at the other party's rented house.

He also sent Sakura over there.

Upon hearing Li Zheng arrange for Xiao Ying to sleep at Zhan Zhouzhou's place, Miriel instantly understood his intention. Her eyes welled up with tears, and she quickly finished cleaning up the remaining dishes.

Eight thousand words are omitted.

Late at night, just after midnight, Li Zheng carried Miriel out of the bathroom.

The two sat on the edge of the bed and retrieved today's treasure chest.

With a muffled thud, today's treasure chest finally appeared in a way that had never been seen before.

"A new treasure chest!"

Miriel's eyes lit up: "Could it be that we'll finally get something other than Wishing Stone fragments?"

“Perhaps…” Li Zheng’s expression suddenly changed, his right ear twitched, and he tilted his head to listen: “Is it just my imagination? I think I heard someone talking inside the treasure chest?”

Miriel listened carefully for a while, her face also full of suspicion: "I heard it too."

Would they really give away living people in a treasure chest?

The two exchanged a surprised glance and quickly dressed themselves.

Li Zheng said solemnly, "Go to the side, lest the guys inside are hostile and hurt you."

“Okay.” Miriel stepped aside, leaving Li Zheng alone in front of the treasure chest.

With his hands on the treasure chest, Li Zheng could hear clearly that someone inside was indeed shouting.

"What a monster!"

"How dare you ban me!"

"If you know what's good for you, let me out right now!"

"Otherwise, the day I escape, I will surely exterminate your entire family!"

"Did you hear me?"

"Release me immediately!"