Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 702 Return to Block 4, Professor Rothcal's Research Objectives
"The sooner the better, let's go back to Block 4 tomorrow."

Li Zheng put down his rice bowl and patted his belly with satisfaction: "This delicious rabbit is so fat, I thought it would taste bad, but after your cooking, it's not greasy at all, it's tender and fragrant. Your cooking skills are getting better and better."

Hearing the exaggeration, Miriel couldn't help but feel smug: "Of course!"

She once saw a saying while learning Chinese: "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach."

Miriel believed she had Li Zheng completely under her thumb, so she wasn't worried about him not caring about her. The fact that she had specially set aside a day to go shopping with him was proof of that.

In the past, Li Zheng would never have wasted a day specifically to accompany her shopping.

A delicious rabbit was eaten by the two of them in one meal, and the rest was frozen in the cold storage.

They put the tableware into the capsule and had the housekeeping dolls take it to be washed. After washing up, the two waited until midnight to open the treasure chest.

"Even metaphysics doesn't work anymore!" Li Zheng put away the fragment of the wishing stone in the treasure chest and couldn't help but shake his head.

I've opened several treasure chests these past few days, all sorts of kinds, including the dusty heavy treasure chests and wooden treasure chests from before.

But the contents inside were all fragments of wishing stones.

"I feel like the items given after the system upgrade are no longer related to the treasure chests. It's getting more and more random..." Li Zheng sighed. "It would have been better not to upgrade at all. At least the items in the treasure chests were related to the quality of the chests each time."

The Super God-tier chests always contain rare, unseen items; anything below Super God-tier is just Wishing Stone fragments. I'm used to it.

Sometimes, when you encounter a King-level treasure chest, you can use the "add one more" function to upgrade it to God-level.

With the system upgrade, the "add one item" feature has been completely removed...

"How can you get weaker as you level up?" Li Zheng felt that perhaps it wasn't that the treasure chest system's rewards were random, but rather that he hadn't yet discovered the patterns.

Miriel speculated, "Is it possible that the treasure chest system has been on the terminal for too long, and it has already given out all the items it could, so it is using wishing stone fragments to make up the numbers?"

Thinking about it, Li Zheng felt it made a lot of sense: "Maybe there are still some wish stone fragments at the terminal. I'll have to ask him when I go to see him again someday."

The terminal is very busy every day, and Li Zheng is now too embarrassed to bother the other party for small things. He can only wait until he has accumulated some more things before going to the terminal again.

After opening the treasure chest, the two rested.

The next day, the two went to the Gravity Institute to tell Roscal about their trip back to Block 4. The professor, recalling the previous incident, insisted that Li Zheng must take Feng Yue with him.

He no longer wanted to miss out on important data.

Li Zheng couldn't refuse him, so he had to agree and then set off with the two of them.

On the way, Li Zheng asked Feng Yue, "What's the point of all the projects you've been working on with the professor for so many years?"

Is it simply about researching how to break through the limits of survival in high-gravity environments?
Li Zheng couldn't figure out what the use of studying this thing was.

"Of course it's useful, and very useful." Feng Yue said seriously, "The Gravity Research Institute not only invents civilian gadgets, but also produces a large number of military supplies. Whenever the final calamity comes, the Gravity Research Institute will send people to the Seven Great Sin Domains in advance to set up large areas of gravity fields."

When the race struggling against the emotional storm succumbs and retreats, the gravity field will activate in full force, using gravity more than a hundred times stronger to stop the twisted creatures from pursuing them.

Li Zheng listened attentively and asked, "And then? This doesn't seem to have much to do with your current research, does it?"

“Indeed not,” Feng Yue said. “But… has the Guide noticed a problem? That is, the gravitational field is only used as a barrier to stop the twisted creatures, not as a direct means to combat them.” “Because twisted creatures can’t be crushed by a hundred times the gravity?”

Li Zheng frowned, thinking of the gluttonous behemoths in the Gluttony Domain. With their size, the power they generated and their terrifying vitality, they might actually be able to survive under a hundred times the gravity.

“Yes!” Feng Yue said, “All the twisted creatures in the Sin Domain are different from ordinary creatures. Simple high gravity cannot crush them, but they will be unable to move when they enter a hundred times gravity environment.”

If we had an army capable of moving freely in an environment with a gravity of 100 times the normal, wouldn't those suppressed, twisted creatures be like fish on a chopping board, completely at our mercy?

Mirell: "So Professor Rothcal has been relentlessly researching for decades to find a way to train such an army?"

Feng Yue nodded: "That's right! The equipment produced in the Gravity Research Institute is enough to cover an area of ​​hundreds of thousands of kilometers. Once such an area is deployed on the battlefield, coupled with an army that can move freely within it, it will definitely deal a devastating blow to those twisted creatures!"

Li Zheng thought about it and felt that something was not right.

After pondering for a long time, he asked, "Has the research institute ever tried to use those extremely large races with astonishing physical strength...?"

Before he could finish speaking, Feng Yue replied, "I've tried, but without exception, they all collapsed."

"Huh?" Li Zheng asked, puzzled. "Why? With strong physical strength, shouldn't you be able to resist higher levels of gravity?"

“That’s true, but you’ve overlooked a very important factor,” Feng Yue explained. “That is pressure.”

"pressure?"

“That’s right,” Feng Yue said. “Gravity is not just about changing gravity; it also causes changes in pressure within the test subject’s body. The larger the body size, the greater the pressure difference between the inside and outside of the body, and the more drastic the changes must be.”

"I once saw a research document at the institute. A giant volunteer from the Windward Tribe volunteered to participate in this research project, but the moment the gravity increased to eight times, his body exploded from the inside out, turning into a pile of minced meat!"

"And before that, the Windbreak Giant hadn't noticed anything unusual in the seven times gravity environment!"

“This…” Li Zheng was increasingly puzzled: “But the twisted creatures I saw in the Gluttony Sin Domain were all tens of meters tall. Wouldn’t they explode instantly once they entered the gravity zone?”

Feng Yue shook his head: "No! As I just said, twisted creatures are different from normal life. They seem to defy common sense and can remain calm under a hundred times the gravity."

"Aside from being unable to move, it will have almost no effect on them!"

Li Zheng then asked, "According to this theory, wouldn't it be better for conventional life forms to be as small as possible when entering a gravity zone? Wouldn't creatures like mice and rabbits be more suitable?"

“But their bodies are very weak…” Feng Yu sighed. “Some creatures can’t even withstand five times the gravity; they are instantly crushed from the outside in.”

"The only conclusion drawn from so many years of research is that only ordinary life forms with a similar body size to us can enter a gravitational field."

As Li Zheng traveled, constantly shuttling between the portals of various districts, he sought advice from Feng Yue on many aspects of gravity.

Feng Yue was also very open with his knowledge; he was willing to tell Li Zheng anything he knew.

Unfortunately, Li Zheng only half-understood many of the things he heard, which led to many embarrassing situations.

By the time they returned to Block 4, it was nearly evening.

As Li Zheng emerged from the portal, he was stunned by the sight before him.

(End of this chapter)