Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 671 Thirteen Times Gravity Amplification!
Roscal glanced at the monitor screen, where the data kept changing, recording every change in Li Zheng's body caused by his every movement.

He looked at it for a moment, then his eyes lit up. He opened the data bar and scrolled up and down to examine it carefully.

"Professor, what's wrong?" Feng Yue asked curiously. Roscal must have discovered something to be acting this way.

Roscal pointed to several data points and said, "Muscle strength, bone density, blood flow velocity, pressure on the heart, visceral pressure, intracranial pressure... Each set of data shows different levels of variation, although the magnitude is small, but..."

He looked up at Li Zheng: "But each change he brings is shaping his body in a better direction!"

Rothcal's eyes were filled with astonishment: "What kind of race is this? What are their special characteristics? Why are they so adaptable to their environment?"

“It’s just data from a single individual; perhaps it’s an exception?” Feng Yue said. “To prove the uniqueness of this race, we need more data from similar individuals. Maybe we can issue a district-wide mission to recruit residents of this race who have entered the outer city to assist in the research at the institute?”

“You’re right.” Roscal glanced at him. “Aren’t you afraid they’ll break the record first? After all, you’ve been working on breaking the record for over twenty years.”

Feng Yue smiled nonchalantly, "Aren't records meant to be broken? Even if I set a new record, someone else will break it in the future. So what does it matter whether I can be that record-breaker now?"

Roscal was quite surprised and said, "I didn't expect you to be so open-minded. I always thought you were a stubborn guy, which is why you wanted to break the records left by your predecessors."

"Haha." Feng Yue chuckled, "To put it bluntly, the reason I wanted to break the record was actually to contribute to the technological breakthrough in this area in the outer city. Now that there is a more suitable candidate than me, it means that a breakthrough in this technology is just around the corner. I'm overjoyed."

“It’s good that you think that way.” Roscal pondered for a few seconds and said, “You’ve been immersed in gravity research for over twenty years, and your theoretical knowledge is no less than mine. I’ll apply to the higher-ups later and have you become my assistant. At least get a professor’s assistant position; it sounds better than your regular researcher position, and your status and pay will be much higher.”

Upon hearing this, Feng Yue's eyes lit up: "Then I thank you in advance, Professor."

“This is the treatment you deserve. If it weren’t for the small number of people involved in this research, I would have promoted you long ago,” Rothcal said.

Li Zheng practiced for a while, but felt that the results were minimal. He urged in the direction of the communicator, "Why hasn't the gravity coefficient increased yet?"

Rothcal laughed: "He's even more obsessed than you; he can't wait."

He turned on the communicator and announced, "I'm going to increase the gravity to 10.5 times now. Get used to it first, and we'll take it one step at a time."

Li Zheng immediately nodded: "Okay."

As soon as he finished speaking, the gravity coefficient in the gravity field increased again. After adapting to ten times the gravity, Li Zheng once again experienced the feeling of being shackled.

"Hiss~ Huff..." He took a deep breath, adjusted his body slightly, and tried to stand up straight, slowly adapting to the current gravity.

“Ten times gravity is a hurdle, but also a breakthrough,” Roscal said. “Many races from the outer city have participated in this experiment, but most of them stopped at ten times gravity and could not continue to improve.”

“I have studied their data, and most of them have some kind of limitation in terms of genes.”

"This limitation cannot be broken by gene therapy; it is an innate shackle that cannot be broken by human intervention."

"It can be understood that God limited their growth, preventing them from reaching their full potential in this area."

"But any race that can break through ten times the gravity coefficient often has amazing and huge leaps in improvement afterward."

"So far, only your Luo Gui clan has achieved a level of gravity close to fifty times that of gravity."

The equipment produced by the Gravity Research Institute can amplify gravity by a hundredfold when turned on at maximum power, and to date, no one has been able to survive in such an amplified environment.

Roscal’s eyes were full of anticipation: “I wonder how far he will ultimately go.”

Is it possible to survive in an environment with a gravity amplified a hundredfold, like in a dream?
After a few minutes of adjustment, Li Zheng jumped around in the gravity field. Each time he landed, his steps became unusually heavy, far less comfortable than in a ten-fold gravity environment.

"After ten times, it seems that a qualitative change has occurred." Li Zheng stopped what he was doing and continued to adjust his senses. He thought to himself, "It's only increased by 0.5 times, but the difference has become as absurd as jumping from eight times to ten times."

He could feel that every part of his body was changing to adapt to the current environment, and even deep within every cell, something seemed to be changing.

He simply couldn't describe what that change was; it was just a vague and mysterious feeling.

Five minutes later, he tried the standing jump again.

This time, his steps were much lighter when he landed.

If before it was a sandbag weighing over 200 kilograms falling from a height, now it's like a bottle of water weighing over 20 kilograms being forcefully slammed down.

“Still not enough.” Li Zheng frowned. This time, he didn’t stand still, but instead spun around in the gravity field, his steps uneven.

Gradually, their steps became synchronized, and each step became very even.

By the time he felt he had fully adapted, another half hour had passed.

He jumped a few times and landed lightly, as if the more than ten times the force of gravity had no effect on him at all.

"My physical abilities seem to have improved significantly, but I haven't been able to extract even one ten-thousandth of my total mental energy..." Li Zheng said into the communicator, "Add more!"

Two hours later.

"Add more!"

……

"Add more!"

……

"Add more!"

……

Five more increases were made, each time by 0.5 times, which is exactly the thirteen times that Rothcal had mentioned before!
Li Zheng could no longer stand and could only sit there, his whole body trembling as he struggled to stay upright.

"Thirteen times, that's the limit."

Li Zheng was drenched in sweat: "For every 0.5x increase in the growth rate, the time required to adapt increases exponentially. To adapt to the current environment, I need to endure at least thirty consecutive hours of intense pressure!"

He raised one hand, but even such a simple action as raising his hand was incredibly difficult for him. Each finger felt like it was weighed down by a massive weight, forcing him to lower his arm.

In addition, under such a high degree of gravity, his skin and muscles inevitably showed signs of sagging.

In particular, the eyelids droop completely, covering the eyes and making it impossible to open them.

The flesh on both sides of his cheeks drooped, much like a certain breed of dog on Earth in Li Zheng's memory—a pug.

"That's enough for today." Feng Yue was worried that something might happen to Li Zheng, so he couldn't help but suggest, "There are still many days ahead, we can continue tomorrow."

Roscal shared the same idea, but he only focused on collecting data; whether to stop depended on Li Zheng's own decision.

But Li Zheng sat there, showing no sign of pausing.

Half an hour later, Li Zheng's expression suddenly changed: "Stop!"

Roscal quickly began to operate, gradually reducing the force to restore gravity.

This process lasted for another twenty minutes before the gravity generator was finally completely shut down.

As the device was turned off, the parts of Li Zheng's body that had slumped down gradually returned to their original positions.

Li Zheng got up and moved around a bit, feeling incredibly relaxed all over.

He stood up, turned around, and frowned: "Have I gotten shorter?"

He stretched and yawned.

The spinal joints made a series of cracking and popping sounds.

Then he looked around and thought, "Hmm, my height is back."

He hurriedly left the gravity field and headed straight for the nearby restroom.

If he didn't need to go to the toilet, he could have held on for a while longer.

(End of this chapter)