Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day-Chapter 954 - 662: So It Was You!

"Dinner will be ready soon, is there anything else that needs preparation?" Mirel asked, busy at the stove.

"Nothing else." Li Zheng saw the table nearby already laid out with more than a dozen dishes and instructed Mirel: "Later, go to the Magic Crystal Store and invite Zhan Zhouzhou and the others over for dinner; consider it a welcome feast for the three of them."

"Okay." Mirel nodded obediently.

Li Zheng looked down at Lu Li lying on the ground, sighed heavily, and made no mention of placing him on a bed, leaving him to lie on the floor like that.

"This kid, he worships his brother so much; he surely has a heart inclined towards martial arts." Li Zheng mused silently.

But Lu Manjiang's fate left him repulsed by martial arts, hence he chose to become a sniper.

Unfortunately, hot weapons are ultimately a dead end, a path that cannot be pursued.

He took out the Inscription Card, opened the special channel of the contact terminal, organized his deductions about hot weapons, and sent them over, inquiring if they were true.

After a while, the terminal replied: "Your assumptions are largely correct; no matter how powerful hot weapons are, they can only destroy the bodies of those distorted creatures, having very weak effects on distorted Emotion Storms, and would instead cause those shattered bodies to become Black Mist enveloping the skies of the Sin Domain."

Initially, the sky over the Sin Domain did not have that dense Black Mist, but after a long period of hot weapon confrontations, it gradually formed such a mist.

Then, the embryonic form of the Sin Domain emerged.

Judging by how the terminal confiscated so many powerful inventions, it can be imagined that a long time ago, the Outer City was dominated by Technology Side forces.

But later, upon discovering the extremely weak effects of Technology Side weapons against Emotion Storms, they steered away from mere treatments, leading to a gradual shift in Outer City's course.

Therefore, many promising inventions were discontinued, resulting in an "abnormal technology distribution" within the Outer City and Matrix.

Terminal: "Now the path that adheres to the old ways and continues along the Technology Side route is taken only by a few races exiled in the Matrix."

Upon seeing this, Li Zheng suddenly recalled what Kuro from the Bloody Battlefield once mentioned; someone like Li Zheng had deceived their race, tricking them into researching robots, which eventually led to the tragic fate of the entire race.

"Who could that person be?" Li Zheng furrowed his brow deeply as he looked at the Inscription Card: "Is it a clone like me? Or the leader of the Celestial Will Organization? Or... is it the terminal itself?"

At this moment, Lu Li suddenly opened his eyes and got up from the ground: "I've made up my mind, I want to learn Sanda."

"You've decided so soon?" Li Zheng's expression shifted, his consciousness transitioned to the Dark Realm, surprisingly discovering another image inside.

It was Lu Manjiang's image!

Outside, Li Zheng looked at Lu Li in disbelief: "How did you do it? To be able to leave memory imagery in the Dark Realm!"

He had used the Memory Release Device to simulate creating memory imagery in the Dark Realm earlier, yet Lu Li was able to carve his memory into imagery and leave it in the Dark Realm without using the device?

"Huh?" Lu Li blinked: "I just recalled a few things my brother taught me inside, and then he appeared. But he could only stand there blankly; no matter what I tried, he wouldn't move. I thought it didn't work."

Not being able to move is definite; the Dark Realm is entirely Li Zheng's formed shape, how can other men easily unlock special postures?

Li Zheng released his grip on Lu Li's wrist and said: "Since you've decided, you can observe the imagery under that tree in the Dark Realm later; it will benefit you."

From the beginning, Li Zheng hadn't planned to keep it private. The Bodhi Tree, capable of enhancing the combat prowess of the general public, is best used to cultivate experts.

The more experts there are, the higher the final battle victory rate.

"Ideally, the overall combat strength would surpass Celestial Dragon Race…" Li Zheng thought about that Golden Light Zone in the Seven Sins Domain, and a touch of worry flashed in his eyes.

Faced with Emotion Storms then, the Celestial Dragon Race had seven teams totaling at least several hundred million individuals, and every member was quite powerful.

But the eventual outcome was bleak.

They failed, and nearly the entire race was almost annihilated in that campaign.

Li Zheng wondered if there were other valiantly brave races alongside the Celestial Dragon Race in history, or perhaps some were exterminated without leaving even a complete corpse.

Let alone forming a Golden Light Zone like the Celestial Dragon Race, even in death, still resisting.

Emotion Storms are like heavy clouds looming overhead; no matter how much effort Li Zheng puts in, it seems impossible to dispel them.

Every time he thinks about this matter, a sense of frustration arises inside him, seemingly from nowhere.

If even a race like the Celestial Dragon Race, brave and fearless with martial spirits and strong like dragons, is stuck there, what can the people of Blue Star possibly achieve?

They… probably won't do better than the Celestial Dragon Race…

Li Zheng sighed dejectedly and said to Lu Li: "Once your Spiritual Power grows, I suggest you stay in the Golden Light Zone in the depths of the Sin Domain for ten days."

"Golden Light Zone?" Lu Li didn't understand its meaning: "What is that?"

Li Zheng didn't say much, just shook his head and said, "You'll know when you go there. I believe you'll gain quite a lot there."

Seeing that he didn't want to explain, Lu Li wisely didn't press further, but kept the matter in mind, curious about what kind of mysterious place it was that even Li Zheng, who had never forced others to do anything with a specific purpose, was asking him to visit?

"Dinner is ready. You two come over and sit down first. I'll go call the others." Mirel placed the last pot of thick soup beside the table, wiped her hands, and went out to the Magic Crystal Store.

Lu Li smelled the aroma of food filling the air inside the room and couldn't help but swallow as he was the first to run to the table and sit down, staring and drooling over the full table.

"You have no idea how much we've missed your dishes since you came to the Outer City." Lu Li swallowed his saliva and said to Li Zheng who was walking over, "Even though many chefs in the Matrix have already collected cookware and seasonings to start cooking on their own, no matter how good their dishes are, they can't compare to what you have here."

"Especially Yan..."

At the mention of this name, Lu Li suddenly realized that Yan Guang had already died, his expression darkening significantly, forcing a smile: "In any case, everyone misses this special part about you."

Li Zheng saw his expression and felt puzzled inside: "Phoenix Mountain didn't tell you about Yan Guang?"

Lu Li was stunned upon hearing this: "Is there any news about Yan Guang that we don't know?"

"Nothing." Li Zheng shook his head and didn't say more.

The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

Phoenix Mountain didn't tell anyone about the hope of reviving Yan Guang through cloning, perhaps because he was worried that Yan Guang had been dead for too long, and no active cells could be found in the body for cloning.

He didn't dare hope too much before anything was finalized.

That day, after handing over Yan Guang's body to Li Zheng, he sent a private message to Li Zheng.

If Yan Guang couldn't be revived, don't tell him, let him continue living in illusions.

Even if it was a lie.

It could still support him to live in this world.

Now that it's certain Yan Guang has the opportunity to produce a clone, Li Zheng believes this news should be known first to Phoenix Mountain.

The two chatted casually for a bit, and then Mirel came back with Zhan Zhouzhou, Qian Duoduo, and Ma Long.

Le Jia didn't follow along. She has a deep-rooted rejection towards Li Zheng. When she heard Li Zheng invite them for dinner, she was so scared that she repeatedly refused, unwilling to come over even if she were to die.

Li Zheng listened to Mirel and didn't push, but just set aside some food for Mirel to take to Le Jia.

Afterward, Zhan Zhouzhou and the others, especially Qian Duoduo and Ma Long, finally enjoyed a decent feast.

This meal was consumed quickly, and in less than ten minutes, they had swept it clean, each of them casually lying on the floor, contentedly rubbing their bellies.

Qian Duoduo had a blissful smile on his face: "Honestly, after this meal, if you told me I'd be beheaded later, I wouldn't feel my life was in vain."

"A last meal before execution?" Ma Long beside him wasn't much better off, regretfully saying: "It's a pity there's no wine, otherwise this meal would really be perfect."

Li Zheng, who had never been in the military, asked curiously: "Is alcohol forbidden in the army?" 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Ma Long suddenly felt his posture was somewhat unbecoming and quickly sat up straight to answer: "It's generally forbidden, but on certain special days you can drink a little, like birthdays or the Lunar New Year's Eve dinner."

"So Blue Star also has Lunar New Year..." Li Zheng thought to himself, "If the Terminal hadn't acknowledged me as a Transmigrator, sometimes I really couldn't tell the difference between Blue Star and Earth."

He suddenly remembered something unrelated: "Earlier Ye Kai seemed to have privately messaged me at midnight asking about the Four Great Classics... Does Blue Star have the Four Great Classics too?"

Li Zheng asked the people present: "Do you have any particular programs you like to watch? For example, dramas, movies, variety shows, and such?"

After the meal, everyone relaxed. Qian Duoduo half-closed his eyes, savoring the taste of the meal just now, smacking his lips a few times and said: "I like watching crime thrillers, especially ones with undercover agents. I often secretly watch them when I was undercover."

Ma Long: "I like watching military films... Not that I really like them, but our troop only has military films, and only international news to pass the time."

Li Zheng looked at Lu Li, and Lu Li said: "I watch sports programs more often, not much else."

Lastly, it was Zhan Zhouzhou. She blushed a little, glanced sideways, and rarely showed some of her girlish shyness: "I usually watch romance films, both costume and urban romances."

Li Zheng raised his eyebrows and asked: "Does anyone like watching adaptations of classics?"

"Adaptations of classics?" Qian Duoduo opened his eyes, surprised: "You mean Martial Arts? That thing is boring to death, what's interesting about it?"

"Speaking of classics, only Shelter Place has a slightly better reputation, doesn't it?" Lu Li thought for a moment and said: "But I heard the magic adaptation is quite severe too. Anyway, I haven't seen it, not the original or the screen adaptation."

Zhan Zhouzhou and Ma Long each mentioned a film Li Zheng had never heard of.

He slightly curled his lips: "So it's you!"