Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

“Previously, the temperature of ice-type attachments was very low, around 100 degrees Celsius, and the cooling rate was not high. It was impossible to freeze creatures of a certain strength instantly.”

Li Zheng thought to himself, "But the temperature of the ice-based coating has become even lower, now approaching minus two hundred degrees Celsius, very close to absolute zero. Its heat conduction and cooling capabilities also seem to have improved significantly!"

He exhaled a breath of white air, which instantly froze into a cloud of icy mist due to the surrounding cold temperature, and the ice crystals fell to the ground with a soft rustling sound.

"Normally, ice-type attachments could never freeze exhaled breath so quickly; it would take at least one to two seconds to convert!"

With its current power and genetic abilities, it has at least reached the level of a god!
Li Zheng applied an extreme level of protection to himself, completely shielding him from the potential effects of the low temperature, and brandished the Black Dragon Spear, creating an arc of cold light in front of him.

The ape-man's eyebrows, eyes, beard, and hair were all white, covered with a layer of white frost.

He moved slowly, barely managing to block the attack with his fiery red javelin, and then opened his blood-red maw, spewing out a large amount of flames.

"The reason why my Fire Ape clan fears the cold is because the properties of water, cold, ice, chill, and yin are incompatible with our clan." The ape-man sneered, "But if the fire within our clan is upgraded to a certain level, it will be enough to crush the incompatible properties, and this bit of cold air will be insignificant!"

The flames were under his complete control, flowing around his entire body and transforming into a suit of armor made of flames.

Two slender ribbons extended from the back of the flame armor's neck, the flames carried by the rising hot air, fluttering and crackling as they drifted away.

The intense heat generated by the flames instantly clashed with the ice-based domain activated by Li Zheng.

On either side, one red and one blue, one hot and one cold, they invade each other.

The cold air condensed the moisture in the air into ice crystals, but the rising heat wave pushed the cold air back. The newly formed ice crystals were instantly melted and burned by the high temperature of the flames, turning into water vapor and rising again.

Just as the steam rose into the air, the cold air repelled the high temperature and froze the water vapor once again.

This cycle repeats itself, and the amount of water vapor decreases until it eventually disappears completely.

It was in this process that he was elevated!

"The Heavenly Will Organization must have carefully studied my information to pick out such a counter to attack me!" Li Zheng's heart sank. Apart from Nato and the Shadow Controller leader, this ape-man was another formidable enemy he had encountered since entering the outer city.

He glanced at the corner of his eye; Preys' Eye hadn't yet detected any more weaknesses in his opponent. If they continued fighting hand-to-hand, he wouldn't stand a chance!

Even with the help of something as powerful as the Bodhi Tree, Li Zheng was still just a martial arts trainee who had only been training for two months.

With his martial arts skills, how could he possibly be a match for those old monsters who have been immersed in the same path for countless years?
The fact that the Bodhi Tree has been able to hold out for so long without falling behind is already a testament to its extraordinary abilities; otherwise, Li Zheng would probably have been killed in the very first encounter.

“Kid, the chief sent me to capture you and take you back, but he secretly gave me three hundred amethyst coins to kill you and take your corpse back.” Seeing that he was beginning to turn the tide, the ape-man grinned and said, “If you can give me more money, I’ll let you go, how about that? But taking you back to see the chief is a non-negotiable thing.”

"Your leader's orders were for me to be alive, right?" Li Zheng retorted with a sneer. "You took it upon yourself to kill me and bring back a dead man. Aren't you afraid of being punished by your leader?"

"Punishment?" The ape-man laughed. "You resisted stubbornly, and I couldn't capture you alive without injury, so I accidentally killed you. The chief is reasonable; he will forgive me. Besides, I've brought back several people like you before, and each of them died on the chief's research table. They were all going to die sooner or later anyway, so what difference does it make whether they're alive or dead when we bring them back?"

"How many?" Li Zheng roared in fury: "That son of a bitch actually captured more than one clone?"

Can……

If my guess is correct, the leader of the Heavenly Will Organization should be a clone, just like myself.

So what is his purpose in collecting even more clones?
Furthermore, why do the people cloned from the terminal have different personalities, some righteous and some evil?

It seems I still need to ask the terminal about some things; he definitely has a lot of secrets he's hiding from me!
Li Zheng was secretly furious. He had treated the terminal so honestly, sharing everything with him, and yet the terminal still had secrets hidden from him! What a jerk!

"Haqiu!"

Terminal sniffed: "That's strange. I'm just a stream of consciousness data inside the terminal computer, so why am I sneezing?"

He thought about it for a while but couldn't figure it out, so he went back to doing his own thing.

"But right now, the most urgent thing is to get rid of this annoying guy!" Li Zheng's eyes turned cold. He could already feel his body becoming saturated, and the spiritual energy drawn from the Dark Realm was beginning to put a burden on his physical body.

"That's about one-thousandth more than fifteen times the amount? That's enough!"

One-thousandth here does not refer to the total amount, but rather to the mental energy capacity that Li Zheng's body can hold when he is at the limit of fifteen times gravity.

Compared to that vast and complete spiritual power, this amount is insignificant.

"Well? Have you thought it through?" The ape-man was surrounded by intense heat and flames, wielding his fiery red javelin with great skill. He had used this time to become completely familiar with Li Zheng's fighting rhythm. As soon as Li Zheng showed a weakness, he could instantly counterattack and turn the tide of the battle.

"I've thought it through." Li Zheng suddenly stopped, retreating rapidly to create distance between himself and the ape-man: "Surrendering is impossible, so... you'd better prepare to die!"

Before he finished speaking, an overwhelming surge of mental power erupted from Li Zheng's mind.

The overwhelming pressure made everyone present want to kneel down and worship.

However, since it wasn't the pressure generated by using all of one's mental power, its intensity was weakened by tens of thousands of times.
"Hmph, nothing special!" The ape-man resisted the urge to kneel down, a ferocious smirk on his face as he spoke disdainfully.

"Is that so?" Li Zheng gritted his teeth. Every time he used the maximum amount of mental energy that his physical body could bear, it was an extremely terrifying burden on his body. At this moment, he had only used his mental energy for the first time, and he felt a splitting headache and countless cuts on his back, with waves of excruciating pain.

"The main event is just beginning!"

The violent mental energy instantly poured into the ape-man's brain, frantically assaulting his mental world, breaking through his layers of mental defenses, and forcefully squeezing in.

The ape-man's spiritual body, engulfed in a sea of ​​magma, was both shocked and furious upon seeing Li Zheng appear before him: "What have you done?!"

"die!"

Li Zheng did not answer. He controlled his mental power and transformed it into a violent storm in the ape-man's mental world. The ape-man's mental body resisted for a brief moment before being swept up and torn apart by the storm, screaming as it was swept into nothingness.

Li Zheng looked down and discovered five obsidian-like objects floating up and down in the magma within the ape-man's spiritual world.

"That's... a node?"

His body was on the verge of complete collapse, and he could no longer hold on. He could only withdraw his spiritual power and frantically stuff it into the Dark Realm.

He quickly took out a handful of medicine to treat his injuries, threw it all into his mouth, chewed it a couple of times, and swallowed it in large gulps.

"Li Zheng!"

Miriel flew over and caught his falling body.

“I’m fine…” Li Zheng’s face was pale. He glanced at the ape-man who had also fallen from the sky to the ground, and he smiled bitterly: “I think… I know how Jiu Mi and the others became like that.”