Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 833 Speculation on the Essence of the Treasure Chest System

The essence of an emotional storm is a vast and boundless spiritual force.

For this spiritual power to expand and grow, it needs more spiritual power to be integrated into it.

As for why he chose to raise pigs to achieve this goal, Li Zheng felt that the spiritual power of ordinary creatures was no longer sufficient to meet the needs of emotional storms. Only stronger, purer, and richer spiritual power was qualified to become its food.

This can be seen from Li Zheng's own spiritual power. Even with the spiritual power that was instilled into him by the Void, ordinary methods could no longer improve it.

Not to mention the immense and seemingly endless scale of emotional storms.

If Li Zheng were to choose, he would also choose to cultivate an entity that is closer to himself, and then, when the time is right, ruthlessly kill it and absorb its spiritual power into himself.

Only in this way can his mental strength make significant progress!
To take a step back, it's like the initial emotional storm: absorbing countless drops of water with the force of a vast ocean, winning through sheer volume.

However, nowadays, emotional storms are raging on both fronts, and both methods are being used.

On one hand, they raise some ordinary "livestock" that can be released for private chat at critical moments, while on the other hand, they allow the terminals to cultivate stronger elites.

The terminal muttered, "So all I thought was resistance was a joke. I'm just a pig farmer raising pigs for someone else?"

He was devastated, and all his efforts over the years vanished like a dream after the truth was revealed.

This was a huge blow to the terminal, tantamount to a brutal impact on his will on a psychological and other levels.

"In that case, we don't need to resist anymore, right? Resisting is pointless anyway; we'll just be tastier pigs. Perhaps our resistance is just a pre-dinner performance for the diners before the livestock are served?"

The terminal was disheartened and had the idea of ​​giving up the fight. Even the computing power brought by the supercomputer could not find a way to resist the emotional storm at this moment.

If he cannot rekindle hope for the terminal, perhaps he will sink into despair from now on, never to care about the world again, waiting for the day of destruction to officially arrive.

"Are you giving up?"

Li Zheng said calmly, "I know that with our current methods, we have almost no power to resist. But don't forget, we still have a trump card."

"A trump card?" The terminal looked at Li Zheng: "You mean the treasure chest system?"

He asked with a bitter smile, "Since Yan Bujin arrived, has that thing ever given you anything decent?"

"..."

Li Zheng remained silent for a while, then shook his head silently: "They are all fragments of wishing stones, but I think the reason why the system hasn't given anything new is perhaps because the time isn't right yet."

"The time isn't right yet?" The terminal had a different opinion. He shook his head and said, "I don't think so. I think the system is just dragging its feet because its inventory is empty, giving some wish stone fragments to keep it in existence. In fact, the system has long been useless, so it doesn't matter whether it exists or not."

“No!” Li Zheng pondered for a moment and said, “Do you remember what Yan Bujin said about how he was sent here by the system? He failed his tribulation and was captured by the system when he tried to escape by disintegrating his body, and then brought to this world. The next day, even the storage magic treasure that Yan Bujin thought should have been destroyed by the heavenly tribulation was sent here. In other words, the system isn’t really out of things to send, but the difficulty is greater than before!”

"Oh? Wait a minute..."

The terminal's expression shifted slightly, then it seemed to remember something and mobilized the supercomputer's computing power to run at full speed.

About five minutes later, the terminal suddenly exclaimed excitedly, "I understand! I suddenly understand the principle behind the system sending things!" Li Zheng didn't speak, waiting for the terminal to continue.

"Back when I was just an ordinary person, most of the items I opened from the system's treasure chests were technological artifacts," the terminal said. "Mind interference devices, matrices, supercomputers... everything seemed to come from some advanced technological universe!"

“That’s right.” Li Zheng nodded; he understood what the terminal meant.

“Initially, our universe was a nascent technological civilization, so the treasure chests contained advanced technology.” The terminal was very excited and said, “When you were in the Matrix space, what you obtained should also have been technological products, because the technological level inside the Matrix was lower than that of the outer city, so everything that came out of the treasure chests was actually ‘stolen’ from the outer city.”

Li Zheng recalled for a moment and said, "Moreover, the treasure chest system gives me things based on my own strength. When I was still a nobody, the treasure chest system would at most give me some gold-level items to improve my strength."

At first, he was even able to open various seasonings from treasure chests, which proved that his own strength had a great influence on the quality of what the system gave him.

Li Zheng pondered, "No wonder, no wonder it's so hard to get super god-level items. It turns out my strength isn't enough. And later, as my strength increases, the system will even upgrade and remove the lowest quality treasure chests, because those low-end items are no longer suitable for me!"

The terminal asked, "Do you remember when you first entered the outer city, you took out something like the Marrow Cleansing Pill, which was clearly not a technological product? At that time, we were still trying to explain the origin of the Marrow Cleansing Pill using scientific concepts. Now that I think about it, we were wrong from the very beginning!"

“Indeed!” Li Zheng’s heart stirred: “Back then, the Marrow Cleansing Pill was obtained from a super god-level treasure chest, but Yan Bujin had a lot of Marrow Cleansing Pills in his storage bag. He himself also said that Marrow Cleansing Pills, Qi Cultivation Pills and other pills were very basic in their world. They were only valuable in the eyes of mortals. Cultivators with some strength would not even look at them!”

“I think I know why the God-level treasure chest yielded pills that were worthless to Yan Bujin.” The terminal said regretfully, “It must be related to the fact that I let you enter the outer city in advance. At that time, your strength was actually not enough to enter the outer city. At most, you were considered a third-rate person in the outer city.”

“No!” Li Zheng frowned and said, “I had already obtained the inheritance of the Void’s spiritual power at that time. If I had acted recklessly, I could have easily destroyed an entire block.”

"But you will die too!" The terminal became more and more agitated as it spoke: "I understand. What the system gives you is determined by your overall strength. The level of what you can get depends on how much strength you can exert."

"So here's the question." Li Zheng sensed something was amiss: "My overall strength has increased more than a thousandfold since I first entered the outer city, so why are the treasure chests still only yielding Wishing Stone fragments?"

"Yeah, why is that?" The terminal was also puzzled. "According to our previous deduction, you should have been able to obtain other cultivation items from the world where Yan Bujin resides, but why are you still only getting Wishing Stone fragments? Do we have to wait until we collect all the fragments to...? But that doesn't make sense..."

The two stood frozen in the center, utterly baffled by the question.

It wasn't until Li Zheng offered a guess: "Could it be that when I obtained Yan Bujin's Nascent Soul and storage magic treasure, my strength was actually insufficient, and the treasure chest system... lent me money, and now I'm just paying off the debt?"

“How can such an outrageous statement be…” Terminal subconsciously thought it was unlikely, but then he paused, “We seem to have overlooked a very important issue.”

"What's the problem?" Li Zheng asked.

"We take the system's existence for granted for certain reasons, but nothing in this world exists without a reason," the terminal said. "No one is unconditionally kind to someone for no reason. Even parents can be scum who want to leech off their children. But the system has no relation to us, so why is it helping us?"

"Or……"

"The system gives us so many good things, but what can it possibly get in return from us?"

"If we figure this out, we should be able to deduce the standards by which the system gives us things."

Li Zheng nodded and sighed, "It's a pity we can't communicate with the system, otherwise we could just ask it directly."

(End of this chapter)