Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Mirelle prepared a huge feast tonight, every dish was a feast for the eyes, nose, and palate, making one's mouth water at first glance.

The family of three sat around the table. Sakura, who is usually the most gluttonous, had a bitter face today, holding her chopsticks, not knowing where to start eating.

She was greedy and ate a whole bottle of rice-flavored pills, a total of twenty-five pills!

The price she paid was that she now felt very full...

Do not!
I feel so full!
It was as if something was rising from her stomach and blocking her throat, making it impossible for her to eat anything.

The little guy smelled the aroma of the food and was so eager he almost cried.

Li Zheng deliberately tried to annoy her by waving the food in front of her before putting it in her bowl.

Immediately, Sakura's eyes filled with tears. She put down her chopsticks and left the table crying.

Miri scolded him, saying, "Why are you bullying a child?"

Li Zheng said innocently, "How was I supposed to know she was so fast? Before I could stop her, she had already gulped down the whole bottle of pills. You didn't see how hungry she looked, like she was afraid I wouldn't let her eat. She didn't even chew them, she just swallowed them whole!"

She can't eat dinner now, it's all her own fault, she can't blame me.

"Then why did you deliberately try to upset her?" Miriel rolled her eyes at him.

Li Zheng shrugged and said, "Isn't this just to teach her a lesson? She puts everything in her mouth. Luckily, this time it was a fasting pill, which only helps her suppress hunger. What if she encounters something poisonous next time?"

Poison won't tell you it's poison.

On the contrary, poison actually used to kill people would definitely be made colorless and odorless, and might even be made extremely delicious in order to lure others into eating it.

Can Sakura resist something delicious?

Obviously it can't be done.

“Sigh…” Miriel sighed and said, “You’re right. This time it was indeed Sakura’s fault… no, it should be our fault as parents for not educating her properly.”

"?" Li Zheng was almost speechless with confusion. "Aren't we educating her? What's wrong with that?"

"I can't argue with you, okay?" Miriel rolled her eyes. "Let's eat."

Sakura got tired of making a fuss and stopped, lying down on the edge of the bed and falling fast asleep, her snot bubbles popping in and out.

Miriel packed her things and went over to straighten Sakura on the bed.

The little one is great in every way, except she can't seem to shake her gluttonous habit. Hopefully, today's incident will teach her a lesson she can learn from.

The treasure chests respawn at night.

Li Zheng eagerly retrieved the treasure chest, opened it, and took out two wishing stone fragments, ending his hopes of continuing to take shortcuts using the treasure chest system.

"People still have to rely on themselves!"

Li Zheng sighed, lay down on the bed, and hugged Miriel tightly.

Cheat codes and such are definitely unreliable!

The following days returned to a period of stable training.

After adapting to nineteen times the gravity, Zhan Zhouzhou came to see Li Zheng. The professor also suggested that she take a break for a while and ask Li Zheng what he had done during his fifteen-day break.

Li Zheng replied, "I just wandered around, going wherever I wanted, without doing anything in particular."

"Okay." Zhan Zhouzhou nodded after listening: "Then I'll go to the Sinful Domain for half a month."

"???"

Li Zheng was puzzled. Was that what I meant?

Given Zhan Zhouzhou's personality, wouldn't going to the Sin Domain mean fifteen days of continuous high-intensity combat?

Then what's the point of resting?!
Without waiting for his explanation, Zhan Zhouzhou turned and left.

For the next fifteen days, Lady Zhan did not return once, and Li Zheng did not go out to look for her either.

During this period, Ye Kai and the others officially began their work, joining two research institutes respectively and starting to implement their plans.

Yan Bujin's progress is slow; he is still working hard to learn about genes. However, he has a strong learning ability and absorbs knowledge much faster than ordinary people.

Professor Reina praised him highly.

Mudala led ten players from Aquamarine Star to Block 375 to receive training from the professor.

The professor clearly had other ideas. He created different training plans for the ten people and would switch them every few days to collect data on the effectiveness of the different training plans on different people.

Li Zheng has also fully adapted to twenty times the gravity and has begun to strive towards twenty-one times the gravity.

In addition to gravity training, Miriel also needs to absorb magic crystal energy every day to condense a complete spiritual energy node.

Sakura... More than ten days have passed, and the effects of the fasting pill she took last time have not yet worn off. She has difficulty swallowing food every day, and her memory has completely changed, making her numb to delicious food.

The treasure chest system is still working well, consistently producing Wishing Stone fragments. Li Zheng hesitated, thinking he might as well just extract them, but then worried that the treasure chests he missed might contain something good.

Everything seemed to be developing in an orderly and stable direction for the better.

Until this day, the terminal sent Li Zheng a message: "Bring Yan Bujin along and come quickly!"

Li Zheng no longer contacts the terminal unless there is something particularly important, for fear of affecting the terminal's research project. Today there should be some progress, so ask Li Zheng to come and take a look.

After informing the professor, Li Zheng went to Yan Bujin's rented apartment alone. He then contacted the terminal and was transferred to the central control unit.

During this time, Yan Bujin finally understood the rules of this world and knew that the terminal represented the highest power. As soon as he entered, he knelt down and shouted, "Greetings, Terminal Lord!"

He was exasperated by the terminal's response: "Don't give me that crap. I'm not a monarch of a feudal dynasty. What's with this lousy habit of kneeling all the time? Change it!"

"Yes, sir!" Yan Bujin said, kowtowing.

"The habit of kowtowing must also be corrected!" the terminal said again.

"Yes!" Yan Bujin froze, giving a stammering reply.

A Nascent Soul cultivator like him, who used to be the one receiving others' obeisance, had now found his flattery backfiring. He was truly embarrassed.

Li Zheng asked, "Did you discover something new by asking me to come here this time?"

"There haven't been many major discoveries. There are a few things I need to tell you this time," the terminal said. "When I sent you some helpers earlier, I overlooked a rather serious matter."

That guy named Fengshan has blood energy on him. When you have time, go back and remove the blood energy. The method is very simple: just have him release his blood energy to touch the resentful entity behind you.

The vengeful spirit is a manifestation of a higher concentration of blood energy, invisible to ordinary people. Blood energy is like food to it, but it can only devour the blood energy of its own kind. I don't understand the principle behind this rule. The people of Water Blue Star are very similar to us, so it shouldn't be a problem.

"..." Li Zheng frowned and said, "Next time something like this happens, send me a message to remind me. I took care of Feng Shan when he came to me before, but now I have to make a trip to Block 4."

"I'd like to, but I'm too busy. I have so many things to do, I really can't manage it all." The terminal rarely expressed its apology: "I'll be more careful next time."

In addition, I studied the cultivation technique left by Yan Bujin and found that it has some similarities with the pills you sent before.

However, the points of agreement are too weak to be further verified, so I wanted to ask you, Yan Bujin, if you have any kind of elixir that can accelerate cultivation progress?

“Indeed, there are more than one kind.” Yan Bujin glanced at Li Zheng and said, “I have some medicinal herbs in my Sumeru bag that are materials for refining Qi Nourishing Pills. Perhaps we can make use of them.”

He dared not say more, fearing that this would displease Li Zheng.

The terminal asked, "Where is the item?"

"It's here with me." Li Zheng took out all the things he had previously categorized.

The terminal immediately controlled several robotic arms to take them away one by one, complaining, "Since you have these things, why didn't you send them over sooner?"

Li Zheng was speechless and rolled his eyes: "I messed up one of your studies last time, and you were almost cursing me out. How could I dare to contact you again?"

The terminal remembered this and nodded: "My mistake. If you need anything in the future, feel free to send me a message, and I'll reply when I have time. Is that okay?"

“Okay.” Li Zheng nodded and said, “There’s a box with a lot of seeds in those things, but I can’t tell the types and I didn’t dare to cultivate them rashly. You can think of a way. Also, Yan Bujin, how much of the demon race’s cultivation technique have you translated last time? Give it to the terminal as well.”

"I have done my best and have deciphered a small portion of the content, but I am afraid that there may be errors or omissions that may cause misunderstandings for the terminal master, so..." Yan Bujin was not sure himself. At first, he thought that the cultivation methods of Qi and body refinement were similar in that they led to the same goal, and that it should not be difficult for him to decipher them.

When he actually started working on it, he discovered that the difference was as vast as heaven and earth. In the past ten days or so, he has made very little progress, and he himself cannot guarantee that the parts he has deciphered are correct.

“It’s alright, leave it to me,” the terminal said. “I recently created a simulation program based on the principles of Qi Refining Techniques. Let me input this demonic technique into it and test the simulation.”

Unable to express himself fully, he dictated the original text, which was then recorded on the terminal. He helped check for errors and corrected typos in the exercise manual.

After obtaining the demon race's cultivation technique, the terminal opened a Qi refining simulation program in the background, input the demon race's cultivation technique, and ran it according to the principles of Qi refining.

A small figure appeared on the screen. After the program started running, the figure sat cross-legged, and its chest and abdomen began to glow.

However, not long after, the little figure suddenly flickered, twitched violently, and finally the program froze.

The terminal was constantly monitoring the data running in the background and seemed to have found a clue: "It seems that I can use an emulator to merge these two cultivation techniques by modifying the source code?"

You all go back first. I need some time, but I can't guarantee there will be results, so don't have too high expectations. Yan Bujin, continue your research as needed; don't delay the progress.

With that, he waved and saw the two out of the central area.

As soon as he returned to his rented room, Yan Bujin knelt down with a thud, trembling with fear and trepidation: "Your subordinate knows his mistake, please forgive me, my lord!"

“You’re too calculating.” Li Zheng frowned and said, “Whether you bring those things up or not, I’m already planning to send them to the terminal. I’m not so petty as to punish you for something like this.”

Don't try any more tricks on me in the future; I don't like them.

"Yes!" Yan Bujin wiped away a bead of sweat. He was afraid that Li Zheng would be angry with him for the loss caused by his words, so he hurriedly admitted his mistake.

Fortunately, Li Zheng was much more magnanimous than he had expected and did not blame him.