Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

“Even if it’s not the Dark Realm, being able to cut something like this is already quite remarkable.” Li Zheng felt that what Miriel said made sense. The strength of the Dark Realm was something even he couldn’t shake. He could only use the rules inside to do some things that seemed outrageous to outsiders.

For example, ignoring the limitations of distance, infinitely stretching things from afar to someone else's view.

Just like Xu had done before, he delivered the node to Li Zheng's eyes, like a star falling.

In reality, the node didn't move at all, and its size was far smaller than it appeared at the time. It was just that the virtual entity used the special rules of the Dark Realm to enlarge the mental energy node.

The principle is similar to the effect of a telescope.

Thinking about what had recently happened to him, Li Zheng increasingly felt that the outer city and the wilderness were like two different worlds, and the residents living in the two places had completely different ideas.

Apart from races like the Blood-Striped Black Dragon that still yearn to enter the outer city, the thoughts of other wilderness races cannot be judged by common sense.

They might do dangerous or bizarre things that others consider completely unnecessary, all for the sake of insignificant petty gains.

Li Zheng thought the agreement that the clone senior made with the four races was quite bizarre. Who would casually add a condition that they must find a wife for the other party?

The problem is that they actually agreed...

This only proves that the four races are even more bizarre...

He suddenly remembered that he had almost gotten into a conflict with a race that looked a lot like pandas when he was in the 950s district, because the two races had different ways of thinking and some unique customs.

Perhaps some things that seem bizarre to Earthlings and people from the Blue Planet are quite normal to outsiders?

For example, the idea of ​​destroying one race and recruiting other races to strengthen their bloodline sounds as immoral as humans mating with wild beasts, but they consider it normal.

"However, the customs and history of Water Planet overlap with those on Earth so much..."

Although the countries have different names, their races, languages, customs, histories, and even ethnic hatreds are highly similar, leading Li Zheng to believe that the Blue Planet was Earth.

According to the terminal, Earth exists in another universe.

This was confirmed by the Eye of Preys.

Why would two different universes each have a planet and civilization with such a high degree of overlap?
This was a question Li Zheng had never thought about before, but it suddenly popped into his head today.

He racked his brains but couldn't find the answer.

"Is it a coincidence?"

He rolled his eyes and thought, "But with such a high degree of overlap, what a coincidence that must be..."

They're practically twins.

"Or perhaps, it's terminal intervention?"

Another idea popped into my head: the terminal had been in this universe for who knows how many years. Perhaps at some point it discovered this blue planet and then became the mastermind behind the scenes, single-handedly promoting the civilization evolution of this planet, just to create a background exactly like its home.

"Are you fucking bored?"

Li Zheng shook his head, dismissing the thought: "The terminal staff are busy to death every day, how could they possibly have time to do such a boring thing?"

Moreover, according to the history he knew, since the emotional storm appeared, the terminal had been using the matrix to follow the emotional storm and wander in the universe for countless years. The Blue Planet should have been his first contact with it.

So... it was just a coincidence?

Li Zheng turned over, hugged Miriel, and fell asleep lost in thought.

The next morning, Miriel woke him up. After washing up, Feng Yue came over and put away the button-sized gravity field, somewhat disappointed that he hadn't been able to catch his target.

All that effort was for nothing.

He came to confirm the itinerary with Li Zheng. After finalizing the defeated agreement with Mudala today, they would return to the outer city.

Afterwards, Li Zheng planned to go to the 950 block, and Feng Yue said that he had to continue to follow him.

Li Zheng had no objection to this. Having one more or one less person behind him made no difference to him, since the real core secrets were impossible for him to know anyway.

After a while, Mudala arrived, carrying the same small package.

Li Zheng asked, "Think it over carefully. Once you hand over the surrender agreement, there will be no chance to regret it."

Mudala said calmly, "I've thought it through. Shall we begin?"

"Please begin your performance." Seeing this, Li Zheng asked Feng Yue and Mirell to leave first, leaving the two of them alone, so that Mudala wouldn't feel restricted by the presence of outsiders.

After the two left, Mudala went over and closed the door, then took off the package from his body and put it aside, and began to take off his clothes.

Li Zheng sensed something was wrong with this action: "Wait! What are you trying to do?"

The defeated contract is something related to mental power. Isn't it a bit much for you to take off your clothes?

However, as it turned out, Li Zheng was overthinking things.

Mudala simply took off her outer dress, revealing a layer of close-fitting clothing underneath. There was an extremely intricate pattern around her waist and abdomen, resembling a natural tattoo.

"What is this?" Li Zheng glanced at it and then looked away, asking.

“This is my clan’s defeat pact,” Mudala explained. “Each member of my clan has a unique defeat pact, which cannot be shown to others easily. First, memorize these patterns, then use your mental power to penetrate my mind and imprint the same patterns on the outer edge of my mental world. Then leave the rest to me.”

"Oh?" Li Zheng didn't completely believe her and asked in his heart, "Old Pu, is everything she said true?"

[Analysis in progress...]

Well, it seems this pattern is quite complex; even Old Pu needs some time to decipher it.

About two minutes later, Old Pu provided the following information:

[Analysis complete, results as follows.]

[Slave Contract: A unique talent of the Destroyer Clan. When subduing a slave, the slaver uses their mental power to draw a pattern on the outer edge of their mental world, forming a slave brand. Afterward, the Destroyer Clan can control the slave's life and death through this brand.]

[Clearly, this Mudala wench in front of you isn't telling the truth and is plotting to trick you.]

Li Zheng patiently read it, then his face turned cold: "Mudala, you're trying to play these petty tricks on me? Aren't you underestimating other people's intelligence?"

To everyone's surprise, Mudala didn't panic upon hearing this. Instead, he frowned and angrily said, "What do you mean by that? I've already agreed to offer up the surrender agreement, what more do you want?"

"What do I mean?" Li Zheng sneered, "This is clearly a slave contract. If I do as you say, I'm handing my life over to you. What do you think I mean?"

"impossible!"

Mudala's face turned ugly. It wasn't as if his trick had been exposed, but rather as if his common sense had been suddenly twisted by someone else, which he found hard to accept: "This method was taught to me by the previous Saintess of Destruction who arranged for me to wait here. I remember it clearly, there's absolutely no mistake!"