Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day

Chapter 1023 - 725: Slicing the Dark Realm?

"I don’t know his name, but he seems to have gone mad." Li Zheng looked at Mudala’s unblinking eyes and said calmly, "He perished together with the twisted creature, turning into a flame... much like when the Fire Apes appeared just now."

Mudala remained unmoved, quietly meeting Li Zheng’s gaze.

After a moment, Li Zheng sighed, "Ms. Mudala, is there really nothing you want to tell me?"

"The Fire Ape Race is one of the few without reproductive isolation with my race." Mudala finally spoke, saying slowly, "You probably encountered a hybrid of Fire Ape Race and Destruction Race, then went insane due to some stimulus, that’s all."

"Is that so?" Li Zheng nodded slightly, "In that case, there’s no collusion between the Destruction Race and the Celestial Will Organization?"

"I’ve lived here alone for over thirty years and know nothing of the Celestial Will Organization." Mudala firmly denied.

"Hmm."

Li Zheng hummed noncommittally.

The atmosphere at the dining table became heavy, Feng Yue and Mirel looked at Mudala with unfriendly eyes.

Mudala faced them indifferently, showing no fear.

Li Zheng kept eating the white-water boiled meat in the pot leisurely, cleaned out the last piece of beast meat, wiped his hands, and stood up, "Now that we’ve eaten and it’s getting late, let’s rest separately."

He said to Mudala, "Come see me tomorrow morning to complete the remaining procedures, then we’ll go to the Outer City."

"Alright."

Mudala got up and left.

Li Zheng looked at Feng Yue, "Why are you still here? My wife and I need to rest, are you going to stay and watch?"

"How vulgar, how can the Pathfinder talk so crudely?" Feng Yue covered his face, walked out of the wooden house, glanced back at Mudala’s figure, turned, and dropped a button-sized pellet at the doorway before heading to his own cabin.

"Thirteen times gravity, the Pathfinder and his wife can withstand it, but ordinary people can’t." He closed the door, thinking, "If Mudala makes any moves tonight, the gravity generator will surely capture her on the spot!"

Feng Yue felt smug about his clever plan.

If the Pathfinder knew, he’d surely think his arrangements were meticulous, right?

Li Zheng glanced outside the door and said to Mirel, "Be careful when you go out before morning, within a meter around the door is thirteen times gravity, don’t embarrass yourself."

"Thirteen times gravity?" Mirel immediately guessed, "Did Feng Yue do it?"

"Yes." Li Zheng laughed, "He probably saw me probing Mudala earlier and assumed she had some unspeakable conspiracy, so he made some defensive measures."

"He’s probably feeling smug now, thinking his arrangements are thorough."

"Don’t say that, Feng Yue means well." Mirel asked, "Since you suspect collusion between the Destruction Race and the Celestial Will Organization, why are you still fulfilling your promise to take Mudala to the Outer City?"

Li Zheng took clear water to wash, "It’s just a preliminary suspicion, no substantial evidence, innocence until proven guilty."

"Speaking of..." Mirel recalled the Destruction Race member he saw in the Gluttony Sin Domain, "If that person is a hybrid of Fire Ape and Destruction Race, why did he act so strangely?"

Perishing together at the drop of a hat, how mad is that?

Most crucially, the Dragon Race, which only acknowledges pure combat spirit, actually accepted him, allowing him to become a member of the Golden Light Zone.

"That’s also what puzzles me." Li Zheng wiped his face clean and lay on the bed.

If that person had ill intentions, they wouldn’t escape the Dragon Race’s spirit detection.

This indicates that his spirit is pure, with absolutely no distractions.

"The Celestial Will Organization advocates coexisting with the Emotion Storm, if that person is a member, he wouldn’t just die easily." Li Zheng murmured, "The Destruction Race must have other issues I’m unaware of, perhaps..."

Mirel washed her hands and suddenly added, "Perhaps the Destruction Race has split into two factions?"

"Split..."

Li Zheng looked at Mirel, "You might be right, perhaps the Destruction Race’s previous acceptance of intermarriage with foreign races sowed the seeds for the current split?"

"Moreover, have you considered one more point?" Mirel said, "Since the Celestial Will Organization researched the method to extract others’ spiritual bodies to create containers, wouldn’t they use this as a reward to recruit more people to serve them? That Fire Ape, that Nato, and the Shadow Controller."

"Exactly!" Li Zheng sat up suddenly, "Mudala also changed her tone to agree to hand over the Defeat Contract after noticing my Spiritual Power had broken through its limit!"

In other words, Mudala knows that Destruction Race members accepted the Celestial Will Organization’s employment, so she urgently seeks a way to break through the Spiritual Power limit?

"It seems the Defeat Contract is indeed related to Spiritual Power intensity, otherwise, given the Destruction Race’s character, they wouldn’t be easily tempted." Li Zheng pondered, "Such a method to break through the Spiritual Power limit is undoubtedly the best bait for the Destruction Race!"

"Do you still think Mudala is colluding with the Celestial Will Organization?" Mirel finished washing her hands, shook off the water and said, "If she already has the means provided by the Celestial Will Organization, there’s no need to demean herself to get another set from you, right?"

"This... remains questionable for now." Li Zheng said, "Let’s ask her for clarity after she offers the Defeat Contract tomorrow, we can’t conclude anything yet."

"Alright." Mirel washed her face clean, then climbed into bed and lay down, "By the way, did you figure out those five Obsidian fragments?"

"I did some basic research." Li Zheng recounted what had happened earlier and said regretfully, "I didn’t anticipate that those things would dissipate on their own once they left the Spiritual Realm, I intended to rescue those five people and attempt to gather some information from them."

"You can’t blame yourself for this, it was the first time we encountered such a thing, completely unpredictable, don’t be too hard on yourself." Mirel comforted him, "But you said those spiritual bodies dissipated, and the shells preserving the Spiritual Power source were absorbed by the Dark Realm?"

"Yes." Li Zheng recalled the scene, "That thing, whatever material it’s made of, actually got assimilated by the Dark Realm... wait a minute!"

Suddenly shocked, he thought, "Could those shells have been cut from a space similar to the Dark Realm? Or perhaps they are part of the Dark Realm itself?"

"It’s likely the former." Mirel said, "You inherited the spiritual power of the Void, and thus also the Dark Realm, you could be considered the master of the Dark Realm. If someone entered the Dark Realm and cut a portion out through some means, wouldn’t you notice?"

"Moreover, even if we take a step back, if someone could cut the Dark Realm and use it, what kind of power and skill would that require?"