Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 801 (This is a fragment of a larger text, likely a title or heading.)
"Can't you guys be a little more straightforward?" Miriel said, feeling frustrated. "Two people together have eight hundred schemes in their minds. How tiring is that?"

"I didn't want to either," Li Zheng said with a wry smile. "I was forced into it."

He used to be sincere with everyone. If you got along, you got along; if you didn't, you didn't. He didn't pretend or put on an act.

But as time went on and he met more people, he gradually became the way he is now.

Sometimes it's not that Li Zheng wants to play tricks on others, but rather that others are too cunning, forcing him to be extra cautious.

“Actually, you don’t need to wrong yourself,” Miriel said quietly. “Those Water Blue Star people have nothing to do with you. It’s fine if you don’t care about them.”

Miriel felt that everything Li Zheng did was to increase the chances of the Water Blue Star people winning when they faced the emotional storm. In order to achieve this goal, Li Zheng accepted a lot of pressure that he should not have had to bear.

For example, the transaction between Mo Li and the other two clans, including the Blood-Patterned Black Dragon, into the outer city was not his own intention. Even if he refused to help, with the terminal as his backer, the Blood-Patterned Black Dragon clan wouldn't dare to do anything to him.

But he accepted it anyway, in order to win over the three races and the Blue Star people to stand on the same side and have more helpers.

“Some things are unavoidable and must be done,” Li Zheng said. “I’ve told you this many times: we must find a way to resolve emotional storms. Although I’m not 100% sure I can do it, I have to try. Compared to that, my personal gains and losses are actually very small, so small that they’re not worth mentioning.”

“I understand, I just feel sorry for you.” Miriel held Li Zheng’s hand and said softly, “You’ve shouldered almost all the pressure, and I’m worried that you’ll break down if this continues.”

“There’s a saying that with great power comes great responsibility.” Li Zheng sighed and said, “My current identity is very special. I am a clone of the terminal, and I can do things that many other races cannot. If I don’t take the initiative to step forward and shoulder some of the pressure, all races may really be doomed.”

There are still many secrets in the realm of sin that have not been fully explored, not to mention the final emotional storm.

To launch a counterattack and quell the emotional storm, it would be nearly impossible to do so with the strength of just one or two races.

The Celestial Dragons are the most typical example.

Despite exhausting the entire clan's resources, all that was ultimately left was a relatively safe area for all other races.

Such regions are utterly vulnerable in the face of true power.

The twisted creatures they encountered while following the Black Dragon Ancestor and his companions into the depths of the Gluttony Sin Domain were enough to overwhelm the Golden Light Zone, but for some unknown reason, the twisted creatures never did so.

It's as if there's a force behind the twisted creature, maintaining a delicate balance.

It was what he saw and heard that made Li Zheng realize how shallow his knowledge was and how insignificant his strength was. That's why he stayed at the Institute of Reconstruction for a long time, striving to improve his abilities.

"Forget it, let's not talk about such heavy topics." Miriel asked, "You seem to be quite exhausted this time. Speaking of which, didn't we take the Marrow Cleansing Pill? How come you've been exhausted for so long?"

Miriel also consumed her full dose of the Marrow Cleansing Pill, and since then, except for training for too long in the gravity field, she has hardly felt tired.

"I don't know either," Li Zheng said with a wry smile. "Tell me what happened just now?"

"you……"

Miriel described the scene of Li Zheng killing those twisted creatures. "Huh?"

Li Zheng was stunned for a moment: "I actually fused the newly learned footwork with the mirror image ability? So the thing that was hindering my martial arts progress was my conscious mind?"

In an unconscious state, my combat ability skyrocketed, leaving my conscious self far behind!
The only hard thing is that the aftereffects are a bit hard to accept.

When fighting unconsciously, they seem to give it their all, without caring whether their bodies can handle it.

Li Zheng suspected that if those twisted creatures hadn't been killed before his body completely collapsed, the outcome would have been completely reversed, with the twisted creatures sitting next to his corpse, "chatting and laughing".

Therefore, this unconscious combat state cannot be used indiscriminately. It can only be used when the strength difference between the two sides is not too great; otherwise...

"Burning one's boats" probably really means just burning one's boats...

"Any discoveries?" Miriel asked. "If you can't recover soon, I suggest we retreat back to the Celestial Dragons to avoid encountering more twisted creatures later."

After crossing the golden zone, the twisted creatures will roam within a fixed distance, with only a very few "disobeying the rules" and going near the golden zone, where they will be hunted by the people guarding the area.

Now, the twisted creatures here were first swept away by Zhan Zhouzhou, and the twisted creatures that were added later were swept away by Li Zheng.

Before long, another group of twisted creatures will arrive nearby. By then, Li Zheng will not have recovered, and the three of them will be unable to leave.

Li Zheng sensed his own condition and found that his physical strength was recovering at an extremely slow rate. He estimated that it would take at least one or two days to recover to his peak condition.

He immediately agreed with Miriel's suggestion, saying, "Go and urge Mudala to clean up the battlefield quickly, then bring her back and have her carry me on her back."

“Hmm.” Miriel got up and left the capsule residence. Mudara walked among the charred corpses not far away. With each corpse she passed, a twisted magic crystal flashed in her hand and she put it into her storage space.

A minute later, Mudala finished collecting all the Twisted Magic Crystals and returned to report: "Mistress, a total of 2,311 Twisted Magic Crystals have been collected by your subordinate."

“Li Zheng isn’t fully recovered yet, so he needs to go back to the Golden Light Zone to rest. You go in and report back to him, then bring him out. We’ll head back immediately.” Miriel glanced at Mudala’s figure again, a hint of jealousy flashing in her eyes, tinged with sourness: “Remember to wear your disguise. What kind of appearance is it to be naked!”

Mudala puffed out his chest nonchalantly, creating a wave as if to taunt Miriel, but then took out a disguise and obediently put it on.

At that moment, Miriel deeply understood the true meaning of Li Zheng's words, "I have no choice in the matter."

When you want to have a heart-to-heart talk with someone, they may not understand you. Instead, they may have other motives and try to outmaneuver you.

To cope with this situation, you can only learn to scheme and outmaneuver others.

Mudala quickly carried Li Zheng out of the capsule residence. Just as they put the capsule away, the three of them saw two men dressed in disguise blocking their way not far away.

(End of this chapter)