Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day-Chapter 952 - 660: What Did You See?

"This guy."

Li Zheng looked at the boy Lu Li, who looked only seven or eight years old, and shook his head helplessly: "No wonder you have mental illness; most of your spiritual power is drawn out to maintain such a complex spiritual realm, your spiritual power is much weaker than ordinary people, and it's logical that you get influenced by sudden emotions inexplicably."

But...

He furrowed his brow, reached out with one hand to grab the back of Lu Li's neck, where a gray, toad-like thing lay, exuding a tempting aura.

The gray toad, seeing Li Zheng reaching out to grab it, tried hard to evade towards the back of Lu Li's neck, but its claws seemed connected to Lu Li's cervical vertebrae and could only stay in that position, unable to escape.

Li Zheng seized it in one grab, his palm emitting a slight glow, and the light shone on the toad, immediately resembling a red-hot iron plunged into dirty water, releasing a plume of smoke.

"Sure enough, it's laziness, and the artificial marks are very apparent. Besides those ancient tribesmen, no one else could have concocted this thing," Li Zheng took a firm breath, causing the spinning smoke to be swallowed into his mouth, disappearing instantly, "The ancient tribes' version of rage emotions can be made into tools for strengthening spiritual power through special means; perhaps laziness can too. I'll study it later."

"...Who are you?"

At this moment, the boy Lu Li woke up, saw Li Zheng before him, and looked puzzled: "Why do you look exactly like I did when I was a child? Where am I? Why can I only see you, nothing else?"

"You don't remember what happened?" Li Zheng asked.

"Xiao Siyuan let me enter the Outer City first, along with Ma Long and Qian Duoduo, later...I seemed to feel very sleepy for several days..." Lu Li's mind hadn't recovered, instinctively spoke his thoughts till he realized and shut his mouth promptly, warily looking at Li Zheng: "Who exactly are you? What's your purpose in bringing me here?"

"Remembering events during this period indicates that while being influenced, you maintained some self-awareness." Li Zheng nodded: "When did you come into contact with the ancient tribes' things, how did you not notice being parasitized by laziness?"

"What ancient tribes?" Lu Li's eyes were full of vigilance: "Who exactly are you?"

Seeing him like this, Li Zheng had to explain first: "I'm Li Zheng. We are now in your spiritual realm, where what you are seeing is my spiritual body. However, my spiritual body is rather special and tends to reflect others' appearances." 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"You are Li Zheng?" A hint of doubt flashed in Lu Li's eyes, followed by his probing question: "Then tell me, is Li Zheng my son or my grandson?"

"What the heck!" Li Zheng was infuriated: "You ungrateful child, disrespectful, needing a lesson?"

Lu Li was overjoyed: "You really are Li Zheng!"

"..." Li Zheng felt drained, holding his forehead: "Forget it, I'll go out first and then talk to you slowly."

With that, Li Zheng retracted his spiritual power, while the laziness emotion entwined at the center of his spiritual body was sent into the Dark Realm through the Lamp Holder's gate, awaiting Li Zheng to deal with it when he had time.

"Damn!" Lu Li opened his eyes and saw Li Zheng, blurting out: "It's really you...ouch...my head hurts so much."

He sat up abruptly, his expression suddenly changing, painfully clutching the lower part of his back head: "Feels like getting hit on the head several hundred times, so painful that my vision goes black."

Li Zheng went to call Mirel in, told her to continue preparing dinner, and advised her to cook more since many people would come for dinner tonight.

Then he returned to Lu Li's side: "You've been affected by laziness and your will has been dazed for quite some time; now it's only a headache, you're lucky. The last person I met like you has already lazily died on the Bloody Battlefield."

"Laziness...right!" Lu Li remembered something, said to Li Zheng: "When I came to the Outer City, I had a layover somewhere, but my memories are fuzzy, only vaguely recalling someone binding me to a dissection table and inserting something into my brain."

He shook his head, feeling the headache worsen: "But at the time I didn't feel anything peculiar, so I didn't take it seriously...by the time I realized I had been seeded with laziness, I couldn't be bothered to care..."

"What do you mean couldn't be bothered to care?" Li Zheng frowned: "Did Ma Long and Qian Duoduo not notice your abnormality?"

"They did." Lu Li smiled wryly: "But since they weren't familiar with me, they thought I was naturally lazy. Moreover, when on tasks in the Wilderness, I never batted an eye when it was my turn to act, so they misunderstood..."

During the initial ten days, laziness was slowly taking effect, gradually intensifying the symptoms.

Until today, when it reached its peak effect and Li Zheng happened upon him, promptly rescuing him.

If they hadn't encountered Li Zheng today, once Lu Li fell into unwakeable sleep, Ma Long and the others would surely have noticed Lu Li's anomaly and taken him for healing.

In the Outer City, the ancient tribes' subtle little tricks are quite insignificant.

Compared with the messy stuff crafted by the Celestial Will Organization, they fall far behind.

Even doctors can expel it via medical means, which shows how insubstantial the ancient tribes are.

Or to put it, this race is better adept at fabricating and refining mechanical bodies rather than researching these so-called negative emotions.

From the start, the direction ancient tribes excelled in was skewed, and since they are chaotic conglomerations of various thoughts merged into one, their temperament unknowingly turned eccentric, stubbornly continuing down this twisted path.

A typical case of knowingly accessing risky pages.

"Luckily, discovered in time, no major issues arose." Li Zheng continued explaining the issues he found in Lu Li's spiritual realm: "Regarding your situation, I actually have a method to solve it, so that you'll never be troubled by mental problems again."

Lu Li's current spiritual power intensity is much weaker than ordinary people's, far from meeting the condition to communicate with Magic Crystals, let alone absorb their energy into oneself.

However, Li Zheng can allow Lu Li's spiritual body to enter the Dark Realm, letting him walk his own path inside, methodically enhancing his spiritual power intensity.

With diligent training, it won't take long to catch up again.

"Oh yeah, and there's this." Li Zheng took out a fruit from a capsule, the Elf Fruit he had instructed the ugly farmer to plant before; nearly twenty days had passed since it was planted, already matured in batches.

Though the spiritual power enhanced by Elf Fruit is countless times weaker than the White Magic Crystal, and rather insignificant, Li Zheng considered it beneath him, hence he kept it stored without using it.

Presently giving Lu Li one, however, seems just right.

Lu Li looked at the Elf Fruit in Li Zheng's hand, remained silent.

After a while, he asked: "What exactly did you see in my spiritual realm?"