Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 831 Spring Rain Pirates

"Li Zheng, those people have disappeared!"

When Xiahou Fei returned, he couldn't find any of the madmen. He was so anxious that he paced around in circles, his mind filled with thoughts of where they had gone.

Li Zheng, pale-faced, waved his hand impatiently and said, "What does their disappearance have to do with me? I'm not their parent, am I supposed to protect them every moment?"

He escaped from the depths of the Sin Domain only after entering the Dao state, but after taking control of his body, he felt his mind was in a daze, and many thoughts became chaotic and incoherent once again.

Xiahou Fei spun around, muttering to himself, "They're gone, how could they have disappeared?"

Li Zheng realized something was wrong with the two of them, grabbed Xiahou Fei, and shouted, "Let's go! Leave the Lazy Sin Domain and never come back!"

Xiahou Fei was dazed, as if he couldn't understand Li Zheng's words, his expression blank.

Li Zheng struggled against his dazed state, using all his strength to bring Xiahou Fei back to the entrance of the Sin Domain.

Fortunately, he had recently expanded the total amount of genetic force by more than a hundred times through his inexhaustible research; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to escape back to the Golden Light Zone today.

"They're gone... I brought back food, how come they're gone?" Xiahou Fei was completely bewildered. After Li Zheng let go of him, he actually lifted his foot to run back towards the golden area.

Li Zheng followed up with a slap, shouting as he did so, "Wake up!"

Bang bang bang~
After being slapped hundreds of times, Xiahou Fei's brain was almost completely scrambled, but he finally regained a sliver of reason.

"Li Zheng...why did you hit me?"

“You’re a Wilderness Man. I don’t know where you came from. Go back to the Wilderness and don’t come to the Lazy Sin Domain again!” Li Zhengqiang said, barely managing to stay calm. He then turned and rushed into the entrance of the Sin Domain, teleporting back to the fourth district of the outer city.

The moment he escaped the realm of laziness, Li Zheng's sluggish brain suddenly sprang into action, and two streams of blood spurted from his nostrils.

"The Domain of Sin is truly terrifying!" Li Zheng slumped to the ground, wiping the blood from his nose. Recalling his state just now, he was filled with lingering fear: "Even my mental strength couldn't withstand it. The emotional storm is indeed not as simple as I imagined!"

[I can see! I can see again!]

Old Pu flashed words of surprise, repeatedly saying that it had finally seen the light of day again.

Lu Li happened to be passing by, stopped and looked for a moment, then asked in surprise and doubt, "Li Zheng?"

"It's me." Li Zheng put away his disguise, his breath coming in short gasps.

Lu Li was shocked: "You're injured?"

He went over and helped Li Zheng up, only to find that Li Zheng was as if he had no bones, all limp and weak.

Lu Li was even more shocked: "Who could have injured you like this?"

In the hearts of all the people of Aquamarine, Li Zheng is the epitome of invincibility. It seems that ever since they heard of Li Zheng's name, he has never lost and no one has been able to defeat him.

Not to mention, like now, they're fleeing like stray dogs after a defeat.

"My mind is a mess right now," Li Zheng said weakly. "Send me back first, then set up a warning here that no one is allowed to go to the Slothful Sin Domain!"

The Sloth Domain doesn't sound like a dangerous place.

But having experienced it firsthand, Li Zhengcai discovered that this might be the most dangerous place in all the realms of sin.

Because here, everything is out of control. Even the source of the Sloth Domain, the tentacle itself, is unable to resist its influence.

Li Zheng speculates that laziness may play a crucial role among the seven negative emotions, and it is far more complex than people think.

After being sent back by Lu Li, Li Zheng rested for almost a day before finally recovering.

Whether it was a side effect of frequently "entering the Dao" or the influence of being corrupted by the sinful realm, Li Zheng always felt a dull ache in his brain that was difficult to recover from.

Throughout the day, Li Zheng pondered the emotional storm, the Sin Domain, and what that will had said, and the more he thought about it, the more something seemed amiss. Once he had recovered somewhat, he immediately contacted the terminal and entered the central processing unit.

"You've been contacting me quite frequently lately." The terminal seemed annoyed that Li Zheng had repeatedly interrupted its experiments. "What happened this time?"

Li Zheng cut to the chase and asked, "Do you know what the Sloth Sin Domain is all about?"

"The Domain of Sloth?"

The terminal was taken aback: "What are you going there for? Didn't anyone tell you that the Lazy Sin Domain is different from other sin domains and is extremely dangerous?"

Li Zheng smiled wryly and said, "I am your clone. Even you didn't tell me that I couldn't go to the Lazy Sin Domain. Did you expect someone else to tell me?"

"Wait a minute." The face displayed on the terminal frowned. "Let me check who was the person who received you. Why didn't they tell you such important common sense?"

"Is this common knowledge that the receptionist is going to tell all the new residents of the outer city?" Li Zheng was surprised for a moment. So, his bad luck this time was caused by Yakumo?

"Yakumo and Yoran?" The terminal quickly retrieved some information and said coldly, "As expected, they are these two Yato clan members!"

Li Zheng sensed something was off about the tone of the voice on the terminal: "Yato clan... what's wrong?"

"What's wrong?" the terminal sneered. "Do you know Spring Rain?"

Spring rain?

That sounds like a familiar name.

Li Zheng thought about it carefully: "Aren't those the magic crystal shops that open on various streets?"

Spring Rain Magic Crystal Store.

Li Zheng remembers it very clearly.

"Spring Rain's main business in the outer city is indeed the magic crystal shop," the terminal said. "But before that, Spring Rain actually had another identity: they were a group of pirates roaming the universe! They specialized in plundering resources from planets and reselling them between planetary races that had already begun space travel; even human populations were within their trading scope!"

“Hmm…pirates?” Li Zheng suddenly remembered that he seemed to have seen similar information somewhere, but he couldn’t remember where he had seen it for a moment.

“That’s right, the Spring Rain Pirate Crew, mainly composed of members of the Yato race,” the terminal said. “They were brought into the Matrix by me during a trade with another race. At the time, I didn’t notice their differences until later…”

"What happened next?"

"Later, after they advanced to the outer cities and wilderness, they developed large-scale scientific research projects and enslaved a large number of people of various races to work for them." The terminal's expression became complicated: "But it must be said... the period when they were still there was the period when scientific research in the Matrix developed the most rapidly."

"They've developed the power core from the first generation to the tenth generation!"

"They also discovered the method for purifying the Twisted Magic Crystal!"

"Many more useful scientific inventions have come from Chunyu!"

"At the time, in order to ensure that the scientific research was not affected, I turned a blind eye and let them develop."

"They even considered sparing them from the final battle."

"But the truth is that after I contacted the leader of Spring Rain, they gave me the answer that I must return to the universe."

“I advised them, telling them that the universe would inevitably fall, and that the final battle would not be so easy to overcome.”

"But...they gave me a surprise."

"The Spring Rain Pirates are the only racial force to have escaped the Matrix through the Sin Domain since its inception!"

“Uh…” Li Zheng then spoke up, “They might not have actually escaped.”

(End of this chapter)