Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 832 We were all wrong!
"They didn't escape?"

The terminal's expression shifted: "Did you discover something in the Sin Domain?"

“Well, this time when I went to the Slothful Sin Domain…” Li Zheng recounted what he had seen and heard in the Slothful Sin Domain to the terminal: “That mysterious will asked me to tell you that we were all wrong.”

Were we all wrong?

The terminal muttered, "What does this mean? Did he tell you who he is?"

Li Zheng shook his head: "He didn't say. Oh, right, there's another piece of information. He was waiting for me, but it wasn't me he was waiting for. He was very disappointed when he saw me. I asked him if he wanted to see you or Xu, and he said both and neither. What does that mean?"

"Such a riddle-like statement?" The terminal pondered for a long time, seemingly realizing something: "Could it be him?"

"Who?" Li Zheng was completely confused. He called others riddle-makers, but wasn't the terminal itself a riddle-maker?

Fortunately, the terminal chose the wrong riddle teller and explained to Li Zheng: "If I'm not mistaken, you met Meryl, the second-in-command of the Spring Rain Pirates. Meryl is the strategist of the Spring Rain Pirates, and almost 80% of the strategies are proposed and executed by Meryl."

In order to monitor the Spring Rain Pirates in real time, since most of them were in the outer city, I had to limit their behavior and prevent them from doing anything too outrageous, so I sent the Ninth Clone to make contact with them.

At the time, the Ninth Clone was very close to Meryl, and when the Spring Rain Pirates broke through the Sin Domain, they almost took the Ninth Clone with them.

Therefore, Meryl most likely wants to see the ninth clone.

"What did you mean by 'we were all wrong'?" Li Zheng asked. "What about the ninth clone? Where did it go?"

"I interpret that sentence as meaning that Chunyu's decision to break through to the Sin Domain was wrong. After all, you met one of them in the Sin Domain and confirmed that their original approach was completely unworkable," the terminal said. "As for the Ninth Clone... he went to the wilderness after Chunyu left and never came back. I also sent more clones to the wilderness to look for him, but every clone that went out disappeared without a trace, and none of them came back."

"Went to the wilderness?" Li Zheng's heart skipped a beat: "Le Jia once said that the leader of the Tianyi Organization was also named Li Zheng. Could the leader of the Tianyi Organization be the Ninth Clones? Also, some of the clones sent out by the terminal were probably captured and brainwashed by the Ninth Clones, because Zhan Zhouzhou mentioned before that he killed a guy who looked a lot like me in the wilderness."

"No!" Li Zheng suddenly said, "That's not what that sentence meant!"

That statement, "We were all wrong," is absolutely not the result of the terminal's speculation that the decision to break through the sin domain was wrong!

Li Zheng thought back carefully and could feel a deep sense of helplessness, resentment, and powerlessness when the mysterious will transmitted fluctuations to him.

That kind of "powerlessness" is the feeling of thinking you know everything, only to find out after coming into contact with the truth that everything is in vain.

There is only one reason for this feeling of powerlessness!
That means that the outer city and the wilderness's previous understanding of the Sin Domain and the Emotional Storm was all wrong!

The terminal looked at Li Zheng, waiting for him to continue.

Li Zheng pondered for a moment and asked, "Do you have any information here about the final battles of those races in the past?"

"There are some, all information passed down from survivors." The terminal retrieved some files stored in the database and asked, "Would you like to take a look?"

"Ah."

Li Zheng nodded, and the terminal began playing.

These are images of memories left behind by survivors, which were converted into data streams and collected in the supercomputer by the terminal. Because they come from different survivors, they are not continuous.

In these memories, Li Zheng discovered that in every Sin Domain, including the Sloth Sin Domain, countless twisted creatures would form an army that would surge forward like a tidal wave during the final battle. The strength of these twisted creatures increased little by little, from the beginning when any warrior could easily dominate within the swarm of twisted creatures, to later when a single twisted creature would dominate among the warriors.

Countless people were exploited and converted.

Although on the surface it seems that the number of twisted creatures killed was far greater than those who were later converted could make up for it.

But when the next twist strikes, the number of twisted creatures seems to be replenished, returning to an endless number once again.

There are no memories or images left from the battle between the Spring Rain Pirates and the Sky Dragon Clan, because the former completely "left the Matrix," and the latter had only one survivor, while the others all perished and turned into the Golden Light Zone.

Li Zheng looked for a while, then said with a serious expression, "After all these years, haven't you noticed the abnormal number of twisted creatures?"

This is clearly not right. Twisted creatures are transformed from various races in the universe, but the death to fill ratio in each battle is completely inconsistent. How come the terminal did not detect it?

“Of course I noticed that,” Terminal said. “But I thought that each time I took away a race before an emotional storm, there were still a lot of wild animals, insects, and plants left behind, and those should be the main source of replenishment for each twisted creature.”

“That possibility cannot be ruled out.” Li Zheng shook his head and said, “But I think that the emotional storm must have imprisoned… no, it should be said that it kept a group of myriad races in captivity without your knowledge, treating them like lambs and letting them reproduce without restraint. When they reached adulthood and were ready for market, they were transformed into various types of twisted creatures and filled into the army.”

The terminal said, "I have considered this possibility, but doesn't it seem unnecessary for an emotional storm to do this? Given the contagious nature of an emotional storm, even without distorting the biological tide, we..."

At this point, he seemed to realize something and fell into thought.

"Found it?" Li Zheng said quietly, "It clearly doesn't need the twisted creatures. The emotional storm itself can wipe out all races in the entire universe. Why would it go to such lengths to create countless twisted creatures and play this childish game of all-out war with us?"

The terminal speculated, "Perhaps it's because some individuals among the myriad races possess excessively strong spiritual power, making it possible to weaken the opponent's state by distorting them, and then complete the transformation? No... that doesn't make sense..."

“Of course that doesn’t make sense!” Li Zheng said. “Before me, no one in the entire outer city and wilderness had broken through their previous mental strength limit, and when I went to the Sloth Sin Domain this time, even my mental strength almost got stuck there!”

The terminal was fully aware that Xu had given his spiritual power to Li Zheng.

Because the terminal had previously issued a task to all users, and when Li Zheng completed the task, his response was "indoctrination".

"But what does it want?" The terminal started the supercomputer and deduced the problem. After ten minutes, it came to thousands of conclusions, one of which seemed the most unreasonable but also the most likely.

"Emotional storms are feeding pigs?!"

"We and all the pigs he raises are pigs!"

"The only difference is that we are wild, while those are domesticated!"

"And the reason it did that..."

Li Zheng continued, "It's all for more and stronger spiritual power! Letting you leave with so many races is just so we can use you to breed even fatter pigs!"

"this!!!"

The terminal seemed struck dumb, utterly dejected, and said, "Meryl is right, we were all wrong!"

(End of this chapter)