Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day

Chapter 1132 - 832: Speculations on the Essence of the Treasure Chest System

The essence of the Emotion Storm is a boundless and immense spiritual power.

And to expand and grow this spiritual power, it requires more spiritual power to merge into it.

As for why the pig farming method was used to achieve this purpose, Li Zheng believes that the standard of ordinary creatures’ spiritual power can no longer satisfy the needs of the Emotion Storm. Only stronger, purer, and richer spiritual power qualifies as its food.

This is evident from Li Zheng’s own spiritual power, even the virtual power instilled in him can no longer be casually enhanced.

Let alone the infinite mass of the Emotion Storm.

If Li Zheng had to choose, he would also opt to cultivate an existence closer to himself, then wait until the opportune moment to strike and kill it, absorbing the opponent’s spiritual power into himself.

Because only this way can his spiritual power possibly see significant improvement!

Stepping back, just like the initial approach of the Emotion Storm, it absorbs countless water droplets with the momentum of encompassing all rivers, winning by quantity.

But now, the Emotion Storm advances side by side, employing both methods.

On one side, it keeps some ordinary "livestock" that can be released at crucial moments as solo acts; on the other side, it lets the Terminal cultivate stronger elites.

The Terminal murmured, "So the resistance I thought was just a joke, am I merely a pig farmer for others?"

He was disheartened, the effort of countless years turned to a dreamlike illusion upon the revelation of the truth.

This was a major blow to the Terminal, akin to a brutal impact on his will from psychological and various aspects.

"In that case, should we not resist? Since resistance is of no use, just a more delectable pig, perhaps our resistance is nothing more than a pre-dinner show for the diners before the livestock are served on the table?"

The Terminal felt despondent, giving rise to thoughts of abandoning resistance, even the computational power brought by the supercomputer at this moment couldn’t find a way to resist the Emotion Storm.

If the Terminal’s hope cannot be rekindled, he might sink into oblivion from this moment on, never concerning himself with worldly matters, waiting for the day of destruction to officially arrive.

"Are you going to give up?"

Li Zheng spoke softly, "I know, with our current means, we have almost no power to resist. But don’t forget, we still have a trump card."

"A trump card?" The Terminal looked at Li Zheng, "Are you referring to the Treasure Chest System?"

He asked with a bitter smile, "Since Yan Jinjin arrived, has that thing ever given you anything decent?"

"..."

Li Zheng was silent for a while, then shook his head quietly, "It’s all Wish Stone Fragments, but I believe the reason the system hasn’t given anything new yet might be because the time isn’t right."

"The time isn’t right?" The Terminal disagreed, shaking his head, "I don’t think so, I believe the system has been delaying because the inventory is empty, giving some Wish Stone Fragments just to maintain a presence. In reality, the system has long become useless, whether it exists or not makes no difference."

"No!" Li Zheng pondered for a moment, then said, "Remember how Yan Jinjin said he was brought here by the system? When he failed to cross the tribulation and escaped through Soldier Resolution, that’s when the system captured him and brought him to this world. The next day, even the Storage Treasure that Yan Jinjin thought should have been destroyed by the Celestial Tribulation was delivered. This suggests that it’s not that the system has nothing to send, but rather that the difficulty has increased!"

"Oh? Wait a moment..."

The Terminal’s expression shifted slightly, then he recalled something and began to frantically mobilize the computational power of the supercomputer.

About five minutes later, the Terminal suddenly became excited, "I understand! I’ve suddenly understood the principle behind the system sending things!"

Li Zheng said nothing, waiting for the Terminal to continue.

"When I was still an ordinary person, most of the things opened from the system treasure chests were technological products," the Terminal said, "Psychic Interference Devices, Matrix, supercomputer... Everything seems to be from a higher-tech universe!"

"That’s right." Li Zheng nodded, somewhat grasping the Terminal’s meaning.

"Initially, the universe we were in was actually an emerging technological civilization, so the treasure chests gave items that were of higher technology," the Terminal said excitedly, "When you were in the Matrix Space, what you obtained should also be technological products, because compared to the Outer City, the Matrix’s internal technological level is lower, so everything opened from the treasure chest was actually ’stolen’ from the Outer City."

Li Zheng recalled, "And the system gave items based on my own strength, when I was still a minor nobody, at most the system provided items below the Gold Level to boost my strength."

In the beginning, he could even open various seasonings from the treasure chest, proving that his own strength greatly affected the quality of items the system provided.

Li Zheng pondered, "No wonder, no wonder Super Divine Level items were so hard to obtain, it turns out my strength wasn’t enough. Later on, as my strength increased, the system even upgraded, removing the lowest quality treasure chests because those low-level items were no longer suitable for me!"

The Terminal asked, "Remember when you first entered the Outer City, you took out a Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill that clearly wasn’t associated with technology? At that time, we were still trying to explain the origin of the Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill using technological concepts. Thinking about it now, we were wrong from the start!"

"Indeed!" Li Zheng’s mind stirred, "The Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill was opened from a Super Divine Level treasure chest, but Yan Jinjin’s Storage Bag had plenty of Bone Marrow Cleansing Pills, and he even mentioned that in their world, elixirs like Bone Marrow Cleansing Pills and Nourishing Yuan Pills are very basic, only valuable in the eyes of mortals, cultivators with any strength don’t even care for them!"

"I think I already know why a Super Divine Level treasure chest would open elixirs that are worthless to Yan Jinjin," the Terminal said regretfully, "It should be related to me letting you enter the Outer City prematurely, your strength at the time wasn’t actually sufficient to enter, at most you were at a low tier in the Outer City."

"No!" Li Zheng frowned, "I had already acquired the virtual spiritual power inheritance at that time. If I spared no effort, I could easily destroy an entire block."

"But you would die too!" The Terminal grew more excited, "I understand, the system awards items based on your overall strength, how much strength you can utilize allows you to obtain that level of items."

"Then here’s a question." Li Zheng felt a faint sense of unease, "Why can the treasure chest still only open Wish Stone Fragments when my overall strength now has multiplied thousands of times since entering the Outer City?"

"Yes, why indeed?" The Terminal was equally puzzled, "Based on our earlier assumption, you should be able to acquire other immortal cultivation items from Yan Jinjin’s world, so why can you only obtain Wish Stone Fragments? Do you need to assemble all the fragments to... but that doesn’t make sense either..."

Both were dumbfounded at the Central Hub, unable to figure out the answer to the mystery.

Until Li Zheng proposed a guess, "Could it be that when I obtained Yan Jinjin’s Nascent Soul and Storage Treasure, my actual strength was insufficient, and the system... gave me a loan, and now I’m paying the debt?"

"Such an absurd notion, how could it..." The Terminal instinctively thought it impossible, but then he paused, "We seem to have overlooked a very important question."

"What question?" Li Zheng asked.

"For some reason, we’ve naturally assumed the system’s existence, but everything exists for a reason." The Terminal said, "No one would shower someone with unconditional kindness for no reason, even parents might have those who exploit their children, yet the system is unrelated to us, why does it help us?"

"Or rather..."

"With all the good things the system has given us, what can it take from us in return?"

"If we figure this out, we should be able to deduce the system’s standards for giving us items."

Li Zheng nodded, sighing, "It’s a pity we can’t communicate with the system, otherwise we could directly ask."