Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 828 Hidden Unknown Dangers

Li Zheng felt a surge of annoyance. Ever since he entered the Sloth Domain, he felt that his mind wasn't working very well, somewhat like when he first woke up from the Matrix.

Or rather, it's not that my brain isn't working properly, but rather that I'm subconsciously resisting using my brain to think.

The more mindless a person is, the more easily they are swayed by their emotions.

"Something's wrong with this Sinful Domain!" Li Zheng frowned deeply. "If it can affect my consciousness, there must be a being here whose spiritual power can rival mine!"

Once he realized this, his mind suddenly cleared, and some details that he hadn't noticed before came to mind.

"That's right. The fact that the tentacles could pass through the golden zone to reach the other side already indicates that there is one or more extremely powerful beings deep within the Sloth Domain." Li Zheng kept firing, thrusting, parrying, parrying, and swinging his spear one after another. Those who had gone mad seemed to have lost even their fighting skills, only charging forward savagely, completely unafraid of the black dragon spear in his hand.

"He was not expelled!"

"Grab him! Throw him out and kill him!"

"I want to eat meat! I want to eat meat!"

As the incoherent ravings emanated from those people, Li Zheng grew increasingly annoyed.

"Xiahou Fei!" Li Zheng shouted, "Have you forgotten your state in the Fourth Sin Domain? These lunatics can no longer be considered human. Fight back and kill them!"

"This..." Xiahou Fei was being chased by dozens of frantic figures and had to dodge them. He couldn't bring himself to be ruthless, thinking how difficult it was for these people to survive.

"Womanly compassion!" Li Zheng said disdainfully, "Are you really a resident of the wilderness? You don't even dare to kill someone? In that case, why don't you offer yourself to the tigers and feed them your flesh!"

He ignored Xiahou Fei and began to wield the Black Dragon Spear with full force, his entire body surrounded by an impenetrable barrier, with countless spear shadows swirling around him, making him impervious to any attack.

Those madmen seemed to have completely lost their minds, charging forward fearlessly one by one. When they were hit by the gun, their bodies instantly shattered into a pile of mangled flesh.

The madmen who were besieging him were quickly killed. Li Zheng glanced in Xiahou Fei's direction and saw that he was still dodging around and had no intention of fighting back.

With a slight frown, Li Zheng stood up, rubbing his forehead. "What was I thinking about? Damn it, I think I forgot again... No, I'm just too lazy to remember. I need to find a way to keep my brain active!"

He now feels like an ordinary person who has stayed up for three consecutive nights. Although many thoughts are racing through his mind, the brain, this sophisticated instrument, is starting to become sluggish and aging. Every thought that just pops up is suppressed again.

If he had just thought a little more and followed the emerging train of thought, he could have uncovered a great deal of information.

But the thought of having to process so much additional information made my brain feel even more tired, so I subconsciously suppressed those racing thoughts and didn't want to think about them any further.

Something... is interfering with us!

"Xiahou Fei, he shouldn't be such a rigid person. He's probably just... too lazy to think straight!"

"What the hell!"

Li Zheng pounded his head hard: "How is this possible? How could there be any spiritual power in the Sin Domain that could affect my existence?"

No! Don't let your brain stop!

"Following this line of thought, that clue is crucial!"

Li Zheng realized that a thought had just begun to form when it was instantly suppressed by the inertia in his mind.

His intuition told him that if he thought in that direction, he could understand many things and even guess more of the truth behind the emotional storm behind the sin domain.

"Old Pu!"

"Old Pu!" Li Zheng called out in his heart, straining to look towards the depths of the Sin Domain: "Help me investigate what's there!"

[Empty! (Panic!) There's nothing there! It's empty!]

I'm blind! I've gone blind! I can't see anything!

"How could this be?" Li Zheng looked surprised. The Eye of Preers, which was always effective but could only be blocked by his mental power, had actually been thwarted.

"No... my mind is starting to get muddled, I need to find a way to stay clear-headed."

Zheng.

A long, glass-like sword appeared in Li Zheng's hand, and he slashed it forcefully down at his wrist.

puff!
The skin is torn apart!

Thick, fresh blood rolled in the wound without dripping out; it even tugged at the surrounding area, trying to pull the torn flesh back together.

For the first time, Li Zheng felt that his current healing ability was such a hindrance; the cut he made with a knife was almost completely healed in the blink of an eye.

He could only cut himself repeatedly on his wrists and arms, using the pain to stimulate himself.

Finally, Li Zheng grasped the thought that he had previously overlooked.

"Emotional storm! Mental storm!"

Li Zheng opened his eyes wide and stared into the depths of the Lazy Sin Domain. He finally understood something.

"If the people from the outer city can't break through the upper limit of their mental strength, then... as an emotional storm formed from condensed mental strength, how strong must the mental strength of the twisted creatures it transforms into be?"

"The outlying city residents and the wasteland people all thought the twisted creatures were mindless monsters that only acted on instinct, but..."

"What if what has appeared before people all these years is just an illusion, a smokescreen?"

"The emotional storm has been brewing for countless years, so vast that it almost covers the entire universe. With such a scale, how could it not transform into an intelligent entity?"

Li Zheng's mind was racing. It seemed that the entity that had been secretly influencing him had withdrawn, and the chaos around Xiahou Fei's side had also stopped. The madmen were no longer so extreme and were begging Xiahou Fei to give them some more food.

Xiahou Fei dared not provoke them at this moment, and waved his hands repeatedly to tell them to stay away from him, fearing that those madmen would go crazy again and surround him, shouting that they wanted to eat his flesh.

Seeing that they couldn't get any food, the madmen dispersed dejectedly. Xiahou Fei didn't even dare to ask them for the twisted magic crystals they had agreed to exchange for food.

He had just lifted his foot to check on Li Zheng's condition when he suddenly sensed something and turned around to look behind him.

There were only the corpses of the Celestial Dragons there; otherwise, it was empty, not even a madman.

"I clearly felt someone watching me, but how come they disappeared as soon as I turned around?" Xiahou Fei was on his guard. He didn't think that feeling was just his imagination. There must have been someone secretly watching him from that place just before he turned around!
Li Zheng has stopped cutting his arm. The wounds healed and disappeared one by one, and the new skin that grew back was no different from the old one.

But he was far from at peace.

If his earlier guess is true, then the terminal's feat of using the Matrix to contain all races in the universe to combat emotional storms over the years is a joke.

Because the real danger in the emotional storm never showed itself from beginning to end.

"But...why?" Li Zheng asked, puzzled. "Why would Emotional Storm keep the matrix, allowing the terminal to always be three years ahead of it and steal away wave after wave of alien races?"

What exactly is the goal of an emotional storm?
(End of this chapter)