Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 822 Xiahou Fei's Mental World
"You are hurt?"

"Yes, this sinful realm is too evil. I can only use pain to keep myself awake." Xiahou Fei stopped and took out medicine to treat his injuries.

Seeing this, Li Zheng asked, "How long did it take you to get here?"

Xiahou Fei said, "I don't know. I was often in a daze on the road and had long forgotten the time. I think... it must have been a long time, because my wounds have begun to fester."

"In a daze?" Li Zheng asked, smelling the faint stench of decay. "Have you eaten that kind of thing like those people?"

He pointed to the creatures that had just been scrambling for the tentacles.

"I..." Xiahou Fei hesitated, then finally said dejectedly, "I've eaten."

Li Zheng's heart skipped a beat: "You've eaten there!?"

"Yes, I had completely lost consciousness, but I regained consciousness briefly while fighting for those things, and that's how I managed to crawl into the Golden Light Zone." Xiahou Fei said with a bitter smile, "Actually, I can't tell whether I'm still lying outside, and seeing you was just a hazy dream, or whether I really entered the Golden Light Zone, but..."

He suddenly removed the clothing that concealed his identity, revealing his true face.

There was a strange creature that looked like a monkey or an ape, covered in golden fur, with festering wounds all over its body. These wounds were completely beyond healing because blood-red eyes were growing out of its flesh, staring out with evil and ferocity.

Around his eyes were dense, black lines resembling optic nerves, deeply rooted and pulsating as they drew something from Xiahou Fei's body.

“This is…” Li Zheng’s eyes twitched. Xiahou Fei was now seventy percent similar to those twisted creatures in the Jealousy Domain!
"After I ate those things, these monstrous things grew on my body." Xiahou Fei laughed bitterly, and when he spoke, you could see that there were even eyes in his mouth. "The reason I can stay conscious now is probably because the golden light zone is suppressing these eyes. I have a feeling that as long as I step out of the golden light zone, these eyes will completely devour me."

Li Zheng was silent for a moment, then asked, "Have you tried to arouse your fighting spirit and resonate with the golden light zone?"

The Heavenly Dragon Clan's battle intent can counteract the influence of the Sin Domain. Before resonance, the Heavenly Dragon Clan simply shields themselves from the influence of the environment, but once resonance occurs, this influence will penetrate into every part of their body.

"I dare not." Xiahou Fei shook his head and said, "I look like a twisted creature right now, how could I be worthy of resonating with them?"

He smiled wryly and said, "My main concern is that after resonating with them, they'll mistake me for a twisted creature and kill me."

Li Zheng understood Xiahou Fei's concerns, after all, the golden zone left behind by the Tianlong Clan was mortal enemies with the twisted creatures, and was naturally the nemesis of the twisted creatures.

Xiahou Fei's current appearance does indeed resemble that of a twisted creature, and no one can guarantee what will happen after the resonance.

but……

Li Zheng felt that if the Heavenly Dragon Clan wanted to kill Xiahou Fei, he should already be dead, instead of standing perfectly fine in the golden light zone talking to him.

But he wouldn't let Xiahou Fei do anything. Xiahou Fei's life is his own. If there are no problems after the resonance, everything will be fine. If there are problems, Li Zheng will take full responsibility.

"What are you doing here in the Sloth Sin Domain all of a sudden?" Li Zheng asked. "Weren't you almost used to it back in the Fourth Sin Domain?"

“Laurel told me that there are seven flaws in human nature, and to grow in all aspects, one must pass the test of these seven flaws,” Xiahou Fei explained. “Before coming to the Sloth Sin Domain, I also went to the Gluttony Sin Domain, where I successfully resisted my cravings for food. I thought coming to the Sloth Sin Domain would spur me on and make me work harder, but I never expected... that I would end up like this.”

This is equivalent to going astray during practice and becoming possessed by evil spirits.
Li Zheng shook his head helplessly. Xiahou Fei's mental strength was not very strong. It would be dangerous for him to enter any sin domain rashly. He was able to survive the fourth sin domain and the Gluttony sin domain because someone was protecting him and because he didn't have a strong desire for food.

And laziness...

Perhaps Xiahou Fei was a person content with the ordinary, or perhaps he longed for a peaceful life, which is why he was so greatly affected here.

But why did his distortion develop in the form of the domain of jealousy?
"Are you a wilderness dweller?" Li Zheng asked tentatively. "That's right," Xiahou Fei didn't hide anything: "I was born in the wilderness."

"Want to go into the outer city?" Li Zheng asked again.

This time, Xiahou Fei remained silent for a while before nodding: "I want to!"

"I understand," Li Zheng sighed inwardly.

Xiahou Fei was born in the wilderness and may have seen too much fighting, killing, and separation, so he wanted to go to the outer city to live a peaceful life.

This is the biggest factor that influenced him from the sin of sloth.

But he was a native of the wilderness and would almost never be able to enter the outer city in his lifetime, so he might subconsciously harbor a sense of jealousy towards the residents of the outer city.

This is the reason why his distortion after being influenced is the manifestation of the sin of jealousy.

At that moment, the sky behind them split open again, and hundreds of tentacles stretched out, wrapping up dozens of figures.

The Celestial Dragons also appeared and shattered the outer tentacles.

As soon as the tentacles landed, the people around them went crazy and began to devour them.

Li Zheng noticed that most of the people swept away by the tentacles this time were the same group of guys who had just swallowed the tentacles.

A muffled groan of pain suddenly came from beside me.

Li Zheng turned his head and saw that Xiahou Fei's eyes were bloodshot and blood was seeping from the corner of his mouth, as if he was struggling to suppress some kind of impulse in his heart.

Xiahou Fei felt much more relaxed after all the tentacles had been swallowed up.

“Your mind has been affected,” Li Zheng said. “Would you like me to examine you?”

“If…” Xiahou Fei gasped for breath, his words barely coherent, “If you can find anything on me that can fight against the Sin Domain, please don’t hesitate.”

Li Zheng looked around and had Lao Pu investigate. He found that Xiahou Fei seemed to be an exception, because apart from him, there were no similar people on the edge of the Golden Light Zone.

"I'm going to enter your mental world to take a look. If you see anything strange, just protect yourself." Li Zhengqing shouted, his mental energy already penetrating deep into Xiahou Fei's brow.

Xiahou Fei's mind was filled with shattered mental defenses. Those defenses were not very strong to begin with, and Li Zheng sensed three different auras from the shattered mental defenses.

"Lust, gluttony, sloth." Li Zheng glanced around and said, "Xiahou Fei, you're quite the character. You couldn't even withstand the evil energy of each of the sin domains, yet you dared to go to three different sin domains in a row!"

Li Zheng traveled to Xiahou Fei's mental world and sensed these three different emotional auras even in the deepest part of his mental defenses. This indicated that Xiahou Fei was on the verge of being transformed into a twisted creature in any of the sin realms.

If it weren't for the fact that he had been protected by someone in the previous two sin domains, or that he himself didn't crave that kind of emotion, Xiahou Fei would have had his defenses breached long ago and been completely eroded by negative emotions.

Just as Li Zheng was investigating, the eyes on Xiahou Fei's body suddenly ruptured, and then thin, short tentacles grew from inside the eyes and wrapped around Li Zheng.

(End of this chapter)