Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day

Chapter 1081 782: Exhausted Heart

"You?"

Ye Kai looked at Chu Xiao, his eyes rolling: "I actually have a good task for you, but I'm afraid you won't be willing to do it."

"Not willing?" Chu Xiao said displeased: "Do you think I'm the kind of kid who is lazy and afraid of hardship? Whatever you need, just tell me!"

Ye Kai said, "You see, it's like this. Ye Yuan and I are definitely focusing on developing various powerful weapons in the future. Since they are weapons, of course, we need to test their power, right?"

Chu Xiao had an ominous feeling: "If you dare say you want me to be a test target, I'll transform right now and crush your bones!"

"Uh..." Ye Kai smiled awkwardly, and didn't say anything more.

Chu Xiao immediately raised his eyebrows: "Wow, I thought of you as a friend, and you actually want to use me as a test target for shooting?"

Ye Kai hurriedly apologized, promising to make it up to Chu Xiao with a meal to finally calm him down.

It was Li Zheng who thought of a relatively good job for him: "Phoenix Mountain might need a helper to hold down the fort in District Four, you might as well assist him, and when Ye Kai and the others go into the wilderness, you can go with them."

"Sure!" Chu Xiao was very satisfied with this arrangement, at least it was better than being a target for people to test guns on.

In this way, the three fellow Earth natives were all settled.

Li Zheng strengthened the spiritual barrier he had quietly set up before, isolating the sound and now also the view, then guided the three to condense spiritual power nodes on the spot.

To his surprise, the three Earth natives' spiritual power was comparable to Zhan Zhouzhou's. It only took them twenty minutes to condense their first spiritual power node, and the node was smooth, glossy, even stronger than the one Mirel had condensed back then.

One must know Mirel is from the Enchanting Demon Race, known for their spiritual power, and considered outstanding among the various races.

"The Nine Heavens leader who managed to erase his presence without being detected by these three must have had many adventures, perhaps reaching the pinnacle of spiritual power for Outer City residents."

Li Zheng thought as he watched the three still solidifying their nodes.

But now that Ye Kai and the others have condensed their spiritual power, that Nine Heavens leader won't seem so impressive next time they meet. Chu Xiao and the others will not only remember his presence but more of his characteristics, and even avoid him, forcibly leaving a memory imprint of him.

"Comparatively, spiritual power defense methods must also be added to the research agenda."

Li Zheng pondered: "If we can't improve spiritual power defense, Ye Kai and the others will have little chance against the Celestial Will Organization and might even have their nodes taken by them, further enhancing their strength!"

While studying that Fire Ape Race person before, he discovered a significant flaw in the Celestial Will Organization's grafting method. Each spiritual realm they seize and graft must be stronger than the last!

And the condensed spiritual power nodes are suitable for someone who has finished grafting five nodes to seize, and then start grafting the sixth, seventh...

Another feature of spiritual power nodes is that each node condensed will be stronger than the last.

"So the spiritual power defense project has to be developed quickly, otherwise the Outer City residents will become a harvesting field for the Celestial Will Organization!"

Before there are breakthrough developments in defense methods, Li Zheng doesn't plan to widely promote the method of node condensation, to prevent the Celestial Will Organization from realizing and causing variables.

"This matter is urgent." Li Zheng's frown deepened, as people from Water Blue Star are accelerating their entry into the Outer City, there is definitely a push from the terminal behind this.

Especially Phoenix Mountain, who Li Zheng hasn't forgotten killed many people seeking revenge on Yan Guang, carrying a certain amount of blood qi, simply suppressed by other means so as not to display.

And for the Bloody Phoenix Mountain to enter the Outer City, there's no need to mention who made this happen.

Even allowing Phoenix Mountain in shows how lax the terminal's bottom line has become, giving Li Zheng some bad ideas.

"I must also find someone to ask how the Black Dragon Patriarch and others absorbed the blood qi of their kin."

Li Zheng mused, there are certain rules in the Outer City that can't be broken, he is merely the terminal's "Deputy," enjoys certain privileges which is all well and good, but situations like Phoenix Mountain's absolutely cannot be condoned.

Otherwise, once discovered it would be a major handle, not favorable for people from Water Blue Star overall.

Especially for the Blood Patterned Black Dragon and other three races.

Don't be fooled thinking they are currently in the same boat as Li Zheng, grateful for his help in entering the Outer City.

If they discover Phoenix Mountain is a Bloody, they will undoubtedly harbor resentment, questioning why their patriarchs couldn't come in.

"The terminal's actions this time are really unwise, they should have discussed with me earlier, leaving so many hidden threats."

Li Zheng took out the Incription Card, hesitated but eventually gave up on the idea of contacting the terminal.

The terminal doesn't need to report its every move to him, if he were to propose an opinion, it would no doubt feel to the terminal like he's overstepping his bounds.

Better to do less than more, he'll handle covering up the terminal's tracks in private.

"I hope Phoenix Mountain wises up and doesn't reveal any signs before I find a method to absorb blood qi."

As he thought, Li Zheng suddenly felt a wave of exhaustion.

Even though the arrival of Ye Kai and the others today somewhat eased the pressure from the Celestial Will Organization, there were still plenty of things to do, and he was strapped for manpower, without adequate talents on all fronts.

"Treasure Chest, Treasure Chest, can't you be a little more reliable and give me something to solve the problem of weak spiritual power defense?"

Li Zheng for the first time actively hoped the Treasure Chest System would purposefully provide him with things, but he knew it was unrealistic.

After all, the Treasure Chest System is now just a Wishing Stone Fragment producer, if it could give, it probably would have given already.

After Ye Kai and the other two stabilized their nodes, they each left.

Li Zheng removed the spiritual power barrier, walked into the gravity chamber, and notified the professor to start today's training.

The professor didn't raise any doubt about their long conversation, cooperating with Li Zheng for gravity training.

So it went until evening, when Li Zheng and Mirel took Little Sakura home.

Tonight they had no plans for mischief, so they brought Little Sakura back to stay.

While Mirel cooked dinner, Little Sakura played with the Red Polis by the side, and Li Zheng started to sort through what Yan Jinjin pulled out of the bag today.

"Ten bottles of Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill, not bad."

"Fifty bottles of Nourishing Yuan Pill, that many?!"

"What kind of pill is this? Why does it smell like rice?"

"Ginseng? One root... Oh my, taking it out of a palm-sized box and it's an entire ginseng as long as a person? How many years must it have been growing?"

"What is this? Reishi? The diameter of a bathtub?"

"What's this herb? Oh? It actually came alive and turned into a bug?"

Yan Jinjin, after all, was a cultivator at the Nascent Soul Stage, even using up numerous treasures to deal with the Celestial Tribulation, the remaining stock was still quite substantial.

Unfortunately, the only elixirs remaining were the Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill, Nourishing Yuan Pill, and the Rice Pill, probably because these three kinds of pills were too low-end, not helpful for Yan Jinjin's tribulation crossing and thus left behind, otherwise they'd likely be consumed too.

Then there were a variety of strange and bizarre plants, many of which Li Zheng had never seen before, but they all had one thing in common - "big"!

Very, very big!

Extraordinarily big!

That ginseng, not counting the dense and hair-like ginseng beard, was only its main stem and already matched Li Zheng's height!

And it grew strikingly like a living person, with limbs and a torso and head all differentiated, one could vaguely make out facial features on the head.

If it wasn't quietly lying there like a dead thing, Li Zheng might have thought he saw a human mold covered in mold.

Li Zheng had Prelis' Eye scan over them one by one, identifying only a few of the plant's properties, while most remained unclear.

But most harmonized with the elixirs, and Li Zheng planned to hand them to the terminal for research.

Especially when he found a handful of various seeds in a palm-sized box, each one full and lustrous, looking quite extraordinary.

He didn't dare rashly let the Ugly Farmer plant them, categorizing them into the batch of resources to be handed to the terminal.

The terminal masters technology far beyond a mere agricultural humanoid, giving them to it was the safest approach.

Apart from that, there were more strange and bizarre items.

Like: metal, stones, soil, liquids, wood, etc.

Presumably materials meant for refining so-called magical treasures.

These items were limited in quantity and couldn't be reproduced, Li Zheng kept them, planning to ask Yan Jinjin to help him craft a magical treasure once he finished studying the cultivation technique.

After sorting everything, Li Zheng carefully put the items away, only to find Little Sakura drooling over a bottle of pills smelling like rice.