Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day

Chapter 1011 714: Taking a Break for a While

"I said I don't quite understand, how about I show you instead."

Mirel spoke, her eyes becoming blurred, a complex floral scent reached Li Zheng's nose.

He gently sniffed a bit, and Li Zheng's brow immediately furrowed.

Before his eyes appeared delicate petals, a gentle breeze blew from somewhere, causing those petals to swirl and drift towards him.

At first, they moved slowly, but gradually, those petals suddenly hardened, like flying blades, accelerating swiftly towards his throat!

Li Zheng remained calm, letting the petals sweep across his neck, but not a scratch appeared; the petals, like illusions, passed through his body.

"Illusion?"

"Not just an illusion."

Mirel said, "If I wish, those petals can instantly become tangible, causing harm to their target. Moreover, as my spiritual power increases, the destructive force of the petals will also rise."

"This is quite similar to your Myriad Whips Return to the Root." Li Zheng pondered for a moment and said, "It should incorporate a bit of the Myriad Whips Return to the Root technique, right?"

"Indeed, a little." Mirel explained, "But Myriad Whips Return to the Root directly manifests whip shadows that everyone can see, while these petals can only be sensed by the target I lock onto."

"Additionally, Myriad Whips Return to the Root generates directly thousands of whip shadows, each with a pattern, and if faced with the same enemy multiple times, it's easy to be exposed."

"Petal attacks, on the other hand, follow my instructions entirely, offering more variations and flexibility."

Li Zheng thought for a while and asked, "Does your ability have trigger conditions? Earlier, I smelled a floral scent and then saw the petals. Does one need to inhale the floral fragrance to fall into the trap?"

"No." Mirel smiled slyly and said, "The fragrance is just a diversion."

"Smart." Li Zheng praised softly.

If the enemy knows nothing about Mirel, repeatedly smelling floral scents before realizing they are under petal attack will inevitably develop a habitual mindset, thinking they are fine as long as they avoid inhaling the fragrance.

This way, they fall into Mirel's trap.

When the enemy holds their breath and relaxes their guard, Mirel might achieve remarkable success using this ability again.

"Hehe." Mirel laughed lightly, "This is also an insight I gained from a sentence I saw while learning Chinese, which goes: 'When experts contend, psychological warfare is paramount.'"

The Enchanting Demon naturally enjoys toying with people's minds and strongly agrees with this kind of statement.

"By the way." Li Zheng remembered something and said, "We've saved up some near-purple-level magic crystals over the past month, enough to get you a complete Outer City resident identity. Do you want to wait until the queen enters the Outer City before you do it, or find some time to directly get your identity?"

Previously consulted with Zi Yuan about this issue, and back then due to high costs, Li Zheng couldn't afford the crystal coins, so it was temporarily postponed.

Later, although they obtained many twisted magic crystals, Mirel absorbed energy too slowly, resulting in Li Zheng not saving many empty magic crystal casings.

Now, after a month has passed, they finally saved enough, and Li Zheng thinks it's time to prioritize this matter.

"Actually, as long as I can be with you, the identity doesn't matter. What's important is the identity I hold in your heart." Mirel said tenderly, "So there's no rush for this, let's wait until Mother comes to Outer City."

Mirel is currently still in a follower identity to Li Zheng, and her actions in Outer City aren't free, even crossing districts via teleportation requires Li Zheng's company; otherwise, the Teleportation Gate Receptionist has the right to deny her requests.

However, this has benefits too; in the future, if a mission to Matrix is released, Li Zheng only needs to secure a spot to take Mirel back to Matrix.

After breakfast, Li Zheng and his group continued training at the Gravity Research Institute.

Now, the Overweight Necklace has exchanged hands once again, now onto Xiaoying.

But Xiaoying tends to be lazy, always secretly shutting it off when Li Zheng and Mirel aren't paying attention, resulting in slow progress. Currently, she's not very accustomed to twice the gravity.

Regarding this, Li Zheng doesn't want to force her, only hoping the little fellow doesn't slack in her spiritual power growth, ensuring she'll have adequate means of self-defense in the future.

Life returned to a mundane rhythm as Li Zheng's group proceeded step by step in enhancing their strength.

The current training method, having been refined multiple times by Rothschild, is known as the best way, barring any discovery of even better means, further improvement seems unlikely.

Li Zheng initially thought he could train indefinitely at the Gravity Research Institute.

However, after another month, just as he fully adapted to the twenty-fold gravity environment, nearing Feng Yu's highest record, Rothschild delivered him some bad news.

"After two months of high-intensity training, your data changes are becoming increasingly weak." Professor Rothschild pushed his small glasses up and said, "My observations during this time show that the issue lies in your cell vitality."

"Due to prolonged pressure, the internal potential of your cells is being overdrafted, gradually becoming fatigued. Continuing training won't yield greater progress, and might even harm your body."

Li Zheng asked, "Are you suggesting I stop training and take a break?"

"Pretty much." Professor Rothschild said, "Actually, I recommend going out, allowing your body to experience a different environment, relax, adapt to another rhythm, then return to train further."

Li Zheng frowned and said, "But training is akin to sailing against the current; if you don't advance, you'll regress. I worry relaxing will lower my current state."

"That's true." The professor didn't deny but also had his own standpoint: "However, there's another saying: balance in tension and relaxation. Your cells have been tense for too long, so they deserve a period of loosening."

He provided an example: "Take Xiaoying for instance, she eats a lot, but can she continue to eat endlessly and unrestrictedly? Her digestion is strong, but reaches a point of fullness, and continuing beyond that is burdensome. If unchecked, she'd eventually eat herself to death or become obese from over-nutrition."

Xiaoying: "???"

She really wanted to ask: Are you being polite?

"Alright." After thoughtful consideration, Li Zheng nodded, "Just as the magic crystals are about to run out, let's visit Sin Domain and gather some more."

He asked the professor, "How long should this rest be?"

"At least half a month, otherwise it won't achieve a relaxing effect." Professor Rothschild said, "I'll assign Feng Yue to accompany you, recording daily changes, any thoughts or discoveries, feel free to communicate with him. As for Zhan Zhouzhou, I'll take on her training affairs."

"Alright then."

Fifteen days – too long.

Gathering magic crystals in the Sin Domain doesn't need that many days.

After a moment's thought, Li Zheng decided to make a detour to the Wilderness, settling the Destruction Race agreement as well.