Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Everyone here enjoys reading novels, so they all know that time travelers always have a cheat code, so they didn't mince words and just said it directly.

"You've all seen my cheat code." Ye Kai unveiled his mecha and said, "I used to know nothing about mechanics, but after transmigrating, for some reason, I became a natural at everything related to mechanical modification!"

Ye Yuan rummaged through the capsule for a long time before realizing that her weapon had been put in the storage area. She said with a bitter face, "My cheat is the ability to modify firearms and unparalleled gun control. You have all seen me firing the Vulcan cannon in a row. If it weren't for my cheat, I wouldn't be able to do it at all."

"Wow, they actually have two innate cheat codes?" Li Zheng gave a thumbs up and exclaimed, "Awesome, I'm so envious!"

The three of them turned to look at Chu Xiao at the same time: "What about you? What's your cheat system?"

Chu Xiao scratched his head in confusion: "Would you believe me if I said I didn't know?"

The three looked at him with skeptical eyes: "You fraud, you don't even understand your own cheat system?"

“I really didn’t notice that…” Chu Xiao thought for a moment and asked, “Does high defense count? I haven’t been injured much since I entered the matrix.”

"Iron turtle?" Ye Kai raised an eyebrow: "I've never seen you seriously injured."

“That makes sense, but that form of address is somewhat insulting.” Chu Xiao narrowed his eyes and said, “Even if we have a good relationship… never mind, I can’t damage your mech anyway…”

It's true that he has strong defense, but Ye Kai's meticulously crafted and modified mecha is no pushover either.

While it may not be as exaggerated as the Gundam in anime, it's not something he can easily shake.

You have to be timid when you need to be...

Then the three of them looked at Li Zheng at the same time: "What about you? What's your cheat code?"

"Oh right, you're a clone, you don't have the original's memories." Chu Xiao realized, "Even if you have a cheat ability, it's your original's cheat ability, it has nothing to do with you."

"How can it not matter?" Li Zheng lightly stamped his foot and said arrogantly, "The place where you stand is my cheat code!"

The three didn't understand what he was saying at first, but Ye Kai thought for a while before he realized: "You mean... this outer city and the matrix were actually created by your true self?"

“That’s right!” Li Zheng glanced at the three of them and said, “Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an outer city or wilderness. In fact, all spaces combined together are called the matrix! It’s a whole!”

Ye Kaixin calculated the area and was shocked: "Holy crap? How much material would it take to build something this big?!"

And those special rules in the Matrix Trial Arena, which are just like a game world, are obviously caused by some kind of advanced technology, according to Li Zhengyi!

"As expected of a senior, even your cheat system is so powerful!" Ye Kai gave two thumbs up, full of praise and envy in his eyes.

"What's so special about that?" Li Zheng shook his head and said, "I envy you guys. You have all sorts of cheat codes that enhance your combat abilities. No wonder the three of you dare to challenge Lin Fan."

At the time, I didn't think much of it; I just assumed that Lin Fan had encountered three lucky players who were developing faster than others.

Looking back now, the fact that Lin Fan was able to kill more than thirty people and obtain a bunch of gold-level items and abilities while being chased by them speaks volumes.

Unlike him, whose original terminal handed over the treasure chest system to him to inherit, but now it has become a wishing stone fragment generator, which is a complete rip-off.

The seemingly most valuable cheat ability is almost no match for someone else's lifelong talent-type cheat ability. "Oh, right," Li Zheng remembered his initial question, "you haven't answered me yet, what year did you all travel back in time?"

"It was at the end of 2019," Ye Kai said. "My sister should have been born on the same day as me."

Although the two did not start reading the novel on the same day, they coincidentally finished reading it on the same day.

They now all see that novel as the catalyst for their time travel; otherwise, how could all the time travelers be connected to that book?
"Huh?" Chu Xiao also said, "Then you guys were ahead of me. I was on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year in 2020."

"Wait a minute!" Li Zheng suddenly realized something and asked Chu Xiao, "You said before that you learned from Yue Luo Hong Ying that there were only three readers who officially subscribed to the book, and one of them was him?"

“Yes.” Chu Xiao nodded: “I added him as a friend because I didn’t see many comments at the time.”

Ye Kai also noticed something amiss and asked, "When did you add him as a friend?"

“January 2020, by then you should have already traveled through time,” Chu Xiao replied.

"That's strange!" Ye Yuan frowned, also noticing something amiss: "We've all read the novel, whether it's the official version or a pirated copy, and all the readers have transmigrated. Why is he the only one who's unharmed?"

If we're talking about who was the first to read the entire novel, it would definitely be the author himself.

How come Yue Luo Hong Ying was still able to answer Chu Xiao's questions after he and Ye Yuan had both transmigrated?

"Maybe it's because he's the author?" Chu Xiao guessed. "Or maybe he actually traveled through time, but then went back?"

At this moment, Ye Kai asked Li Zheng, "And you? When did you travel through time?"

Li Zheng answered him blankly, "I was also in January 2020, but... no, my true form has been living in this universe for at least tens of thousands of years!"

Ye Kai exclaimed in surprise, "They're even later than us, yet they're ahead of us? What's the logic behind that?"

"That's not important!" Ye Yuan realized something, paused for a moment, and said with the same blank expression, "The point is that the time flow in this universe is not the same as ours. Maybe one day in the future we will find a way back and discover that only one second has passed in that world?"

"No!" Chu Xiao immediately rejected this conjecture: "If that were the case, you two should have already returned when I transmigrated. Why haven't we heard anything from you?"

With the internet so developed, and netizens generally love to join in the fun, if someone claims to have traveled to another universe and then returned, it will definitely be shared by many people, regardless of whether it's true or not!
Even if you treat it as a joke, it's impossible for it to leave no trace.

“There are only two possibilities,” Li Zheng said solemnly, “either we can’t go back, or…”

He glanced at the group and said to Ye Kai and his sister, "You two are dead in this world."

"No way?" Ye Kai and the other person chuckled awkwardly, "We're transmigrators, how could we die?"

Li Zheng said quietly, "Chu Xiao's sister is also a time traveler."

Immediately, the two of them froze, speechless.