Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day

Chapter 1043 745: Pathfinder

When there's time, I need to visit the other Sin Domains I haven't been to...

No, I should visit the Seven Great Sin Domains again and take a good look at those places. There might be more fascinating things I've never discovered before.

Li Zheng set another plan for himself. After pondering for a long while, he did not directly bring up the matter of the three materials but instead shifted the conversation to ask the doctor, "Is the device you use to stimulate their cerebral cortex specially made too?"

The android doctor answered truthfully, "That device is quite common in the Outer City and can be used in various fields. For instance, the Memory Release Device has a miniature version to assist with memory transmission. It converts memories into special frequency waves that are received by the brain and stored as information."

"So, it's mainly your newly developed drug that can wake them up?" Li Zheng raised an eyebrow.

"Not entirely," the doctor shook his head. "I tried giving them only the drug, and no one woke up. It's only effective when used in combination with the device."

"I see."

Li Zheng checked a few more patients' conditions and found them very similar, even the quality and size of their spiritual bodies were almost identical.

"After they woke up, did you stop giving them the medication?" He perceived some situations and continued questioning the doctor.

"No," the doctor replied. "Those materials are not common, and I don't have many drugs here, so I can't afford to waste them. I stopped the medication when they woke up without recovering their previous memories."

An understanding rose in Li Zheng's heart. The method researched by the doctor was equivalent to reconstructing a "soul" within these people's bodies.

Strictly speaking, they couldn't be considered the same person; they were entirely different conscious entities.

However, this method obviously had significant flaws.

The newly formed spiritual body could not grow actively over time like a normal person, so all patients' spiritual bodies remained at a basic size after stopping the medication.

Or perhaps...

This is like a group of souls of infants living in the bodies of adults. Without follow-up methods to help them grow, they will remain in this muddled state until their bodies gradually age and lose vitality.

"It seems that perfectly curing Soul Loss is a long and arduous journey."

Li Zheng sighed, "That's it for today. I'll come back if I make new discoveries."

Trying to save Kuimi is almost impossible with Li Zheng's strength alone.

Thinking of the worst-case scenario, even if he could retrieve her spiritual realm taken by someone and return it to her mind to save her, Li Zheng wasn't sure whether the person who took her spiritual realm was alive or dead.

Maybe that person had already died somewhere in the Wilderness?

After all, many people die there every day. It's a very likely occurrence.

"I'd better have Yakumo and the others prepare for the worst."

Li Zheng bid farewell to the doctor, left the clinic with Mirel and the others, and glanced in the direction of the Teleportation Gate at the street corner. He gave up the idea of telling Yakumo the news.

Yakumo had long been obsessed with whether Kuimi could recover, and telling them at this point would be futile. It might even provoke Yakumo, making her despise him even more.

"Nevermind, let's head back to the Botanical Garden and think of a way in the next few days." Li Zheng changed direction and walked towards the Botanical Garden. "If it doesn't work... I'll have to give up saving her and find other ways to settle the debt."

Settling debts could be done in many ways. Li Zheng just wanted to do it perfectly.

But he overestimated his ability. Many things that others couldn't understand, he couldn't understand either, and he needed time to explore.

"Human efforts can be exhausted. I must contact the Terminal to select a group of smarter Water Blue Star folks to enter the Outer City." Li Zheng pondered as he walked down the street, "I'm a clone, with inherent deficiencies. Although I've grown significantly over the past few months, I'm still not as smart as normal people..."

And above normal people, there are geniuses. Only geniuses can find paths in unknown directions and lead others to keep moving forward.

"All I have to do is guide those geniuses to explore the paths, and then I can reap the benefits,"

The more Li Zheng thought about it, the more he felt this method was the most feasible and secretly delighted, "I'm rather clever, aren't I?"

Back at the Botanical Garden, Li Zheng saw the gate wide open, and a group of strangers coming out, led by an elderly woman with nine fluffy fox tails trailing behind her.

Kang'er escorted the group out of the Botanical Garden, watching them disappear from sight before finally breathing a sigh of relief, "Finally sent them off."

He looked at Li Zheng, "Sir, you're back."

"Hmm." Li Zheng watched the direction the elderly woman left and asked, "Is that person the client who commissioned you to cultivate the Ancient Cang Hun Tree?"

"Sort of," Kang'er replied. "That Nine-tailed Race member is just the butler by the client's side. She was the one who negotiated the commission with me. As for who the actual client is, I suspect it might be the chief of the Nine-tailed Race."

"The Nine-tailed Race?" Li Zheng asked curiously, "What's their relationship with the Celestial Fox Race?"

Lin Fengjiao's brother, Lin Longxuan, had a Celestial Fox Orphan in the Matrix, who also had multiple tails. It was said that one tail could take the place of a person's life.

Lin Longxuan was able to survive to see Lin Fengjiao because of that Celestial Fox Orphan; otherwise, he would have died in the various dangers during his new trial period.

"They're considered close relatives," Kang'er said, "But members of the Celestial Fox Race are already very scarce, hiding and living in some unknown place. It's said the last time they were discovered was thirty years ago."

"Hiding?" Li Zheng was intrigued by the word, "Have the Celestial Fox Race gone into the Wilderness?"

"In the Outer City."

Kang'er sighed, "The Celestial Fox Race's misfortune lies in their racial talent. One tail can block a disaster for others. Catching one would be like having nine extra lives. Who wouldn't be tempted by such a treasure?"

Li Zheng furrowed his brow deeply, "Were all the Outer City people responsible?"

Kang'er looked around and ushered Li Zheng and the others into the Botanical Garden, closing the door tightly before speaking in a low voice, "Most of the Celestial Fox Race were captured and forced into slavery by powerful people in the Outer City. Back when the environment in the Outer City was very competitive, many considered the Celestial Fox Race as consumables, not leaving them even one last tail!"

"Later, the Celestial Fox Race hid in the Wilderness to protect themselves. For a long time, there was no news about them until about thirty years ago when it was rumored in the Sin Domain that someone saw the Celestial Fox Race, but the news was not confirmed."

Li Zheng listened, his heart burning with anger, "Everyone belongs to the myriad races of the Outer City, yet they treat the Celestial Fox Race as disposable items for random consumption?"

This act, devoid of humanity, was no different from the Bloody ones in the Wilderness.