Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

"People die when they are killed; this is an age-old truth. Why should we be an exception just because we are time travelers?"

Li Zheng shook his head and said to Ye Kai and the other man, "We can't project ourselves onto the protagonists of novels. Whether we survive or not mainly depends on our own efforts. Of course, I won't stand idly by. If one day I find the way back, I will definitely take you all with me!"

“Go back…you can take them with you.” Chu Xiao said, “My parents died in a car accident a few years ago, and only my sister and I depended on each other. Now my sister is gone too. What can I do if I go back? It’s better to stay here. At least I can still find some value in my existence.”

"Don't you want to go back and take a look?" Ye Yuan asked. "Isn't there a setting where transmigrators who die return to their original world and are resurrected? Maybe your sister died in this world, but actually returned to Earth?"

"No! The probability of that is very low!" Ye Kai said seriously, "Li Zheng is right. We can't project the protagonist's mindset from a novel onto ourselves. Similarly, we can't arbitrarily project other inexplicable settings onto ourselves. If he takes it seriously, wouldn't he be thinking about suicide all the time? And if he dies, he's really dead, and there's no going back?"

Don't forget, when they traveled through time, they didn't see even the slightest bit of information we gave them. Do you think that, given our personalities, we would be able to resist bragging to others online after traveling back in time?
You definitely won't be able to resist anyway.

Ye Yuan was annoyed and clenched her little fists, baring her teeth.

Thinking about it again, he realized his brother was right, and reluctantly put away his fist: "You're right... but doesn't that mean we're doomed to die here?"

"Everyone dies eventually, and dying of old age is still death." Ye Kai shook his head and said, "I'm pessimistic about the possibility of us traveling back in time. Maybe we'll just have to stay here for the rest of our lives?"

"No one can predict the future," Li Zheng said. "Let's put aside whether we can go back for now; there are more important things to deal with right now."

He briefly described the crisis of the emotional storm, and Ye Kai and the other two fell silent after listening.

"Okay, I take back what I just said." Ye Kai said sadly, "Little sister, we might send it to each other, so be prepared."

Ye Yuan cursed miserably, "Damn it, the firearms in that Ghost Sin Domain are actually being weakened? Does that mean my brother and I are useless?"

One of them was a gunsmith, and the other was a mechanical modification expert. Their main means of attack were all firearms. Once they entered the Sin Domain, their strength instantly dropped by 90%, making them no stronger than an ordinary person.

"Haha!" Chu Xiao said smugly, "Luckily, I'm good at genetic abilities and have high defense, much better than the two of you."

"Hmph!" Ye Yuan turned her head away angrily, not wanting to look at him.

Not long ago, she was proud of her superior abilities, but now the tables have turned and she's become useless.

"As the saying goes, everyone has their own unique talents. Who says you two are useless if you can't go to the Sin Domain?" Li Zheng looked at Ye Kai and his sister with a strange expression and said, "There is a place where you can show your skills."

"Where?" Ye Kai asked immediately.

"wilderness!"

"wilderness?!"

Ye Yuan asked, "Are you talking about those red-named territories?"

“That’s right!” Li Zheng said solemnly, “The inhabitants of the wilderness are cruel and inhumane. In order to improve their mental strength and break through the limits, they have even developed a method to seize the mental world of others and graft it onto their own bodies. They have already used this method to harm many residents of the outer city, causing countless patients with the Soul Loss Syndrome.”

The ringleader is an organization called Heaven's Will, and according to my current intelligence, its leader is suspected to be a clone like myself.

"Do you mean someone like you who is a clone of Li Zheng, or someone else's clone?" Ye Kai didn't understand.

“According to one of the survivors who escaped, the man’s name is Li Zheng.” Li Zheng said in a deep voice, “I suspect that the terminal confiscated the gene serum production line and cloning technology because they were worried that the clones they released would produce traitors like the one before them.” Gene serum can repair the genetic damage that clones are born with. If Li Zheng hadn’t obtained the gene serum production station through the treasure chest system, he might have died a long time ago due to genetic collapse.

"You want us to go to the wilderness to fight the Heavenly Will Organization?" Ye Yuan asked eagerly, her eyes gleaming with excitement.

“Not now,” Li Zheng said. “The Heavenly Will Organization has been entrenched in the wilderness for many years and is deeply rooted. With your current strength, going there would only be suicide.”

Ye Kai frowned: "What you said makes sense, but we are latecomers. How can we catch up and surpass the Heavenly Will Organization?"

"Let's focus on development first," Li Zheng said. "Compared to the Heavenly Will Organization, our advantage is that we have more ways to become stronger. You two should focus on developing technology, and work with the mental energy gathering techniques I'm going to teach you later. In addition, there are combat skills from so many races in the outer city, and... there's another even more amazing thing waiting for us to develop in the future."

The little Heavenly Will organization is only a matter of time before it's wiped out!

"By the way, I have two assistants here that might be useful to you." Li Zheng raised his hand and released two robots.

Upon landing, the two robots simultaneously performed a bowing motion and spoke in a foreign language.

Kuro, Is.

Li Zheng then took out the two legal identities of outer city residents that he had previously asked Miriel to obtain and asked them, "I have two legal outer city resident identities here. You have two choices in front of you. No matter which one you choose, I will give you the identity."

First, take this identity and settle in Block 4. From now on, you can decide your own life.

Second, using this identity, I can become their assistant and contribute to the development of the outer city.

Kuro and Is both mechanical bodies, while Ye Kai is a master of mechanical modification; the two complement each other perfectly.

If they are willing to follow Ye Kai and Ye Yuan, they could be a great asset.

"I am willing to serve my lord!"

Kuro and Is chose the latter almost without thinking. They took the inscription cards representing their legal status as residents of the outer city from Li Zheng and bound them to themselves. Then, they each took the initiative to choose one of Ye Kai and his sister and stand behind them.

Kuro followed Ye Kai, and Yi Si followed Ye Yuan.

Li Zheng thought for a moment, then raised his hand and released the ancient production line he had acquired earlier, as well as some ancient machinery he had accumulated, and handed them to Ye Kai: "These are of no use to me; only you can unleash their potential."

In the blink of an eye, a large amount of space was freed up inside his capsule.

Ye Kai looked at Kuro standing behind him: "I've been eyeing the robots from the Crimson Battlefield for a long time. I've always wanted to get one to study, but unfortunately, after asking many people, they all said that the Crimson Battlefield is empty, and the remaining robots are all scraps from the destruction. Now, a very ferocious alien life form is active there."

"To be precise, they are actually the Kron race, while the alien races left behind on the Crimson Battlefield are the original cyborgs." Li Zheng recounted the events that happened to the Kron race to Ye Kai and the others.

After listening, Ye Yuan looked at Yi Si curiously: "I used to think they were just robots with advanced intelligence, but it turns out they have real life consciousness inside, and this one is even a girl?"

“Kuro and Is don’t have translators, so you’ll have to figure out the language yourself. I suggest you buy two translators and modify them for them,” Li Zheng suggested. “I believe this won’t be difficult for Ye Kai.”

"You all have things to do," Chu Xiao asked sullenly. "What about me?"