Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day

Chapter 963 671: Perseverance Is the Ladder to Progress

"How are you feeling?"

Li Zheng had just come out of the bathroom when Mirel quickly stepped up to look him over with concern: "You were completely transformed by the gravity pressure just now. Is your body damaged?"

Seeing the worry in her eyes, Li Zheng felt a warmth in his heart and held her hand, reassuring her: "I'm fine. It's just thirteen times the gravity. No big deal."

"What do you mean no big deal?" Mirel said: "I've known you these past few days. Do you think I don't understand you? Sometimes you just want to show off without caring if it's dangerous for you."

"Besides, you couldn't even stand up just now. Why don't we just give it up? Don't use such a dangerous thing as the gravity field to enhance your strength. Try another method?"

Li Zheng knew Mirel was concerned, but he understood his situation.

To quickly enhance strength, there's only the path of increasing physical strength.

His spiritual power was immensely vast, and his real strength immeasurable. It's only the weak physical form that couldn't bear the overly strong spiritual body.

For others, absorbing the Magic Crystal Energy to enhance spiritual power step by step could quickly increase strength.

Because spiritual power always falls short of their body strength, it's extremely difficult to enhance.

Li Zheng was the exact opposite of them.

"Aside from the gravity field, I can't think of anything in the Outer City that could quickly enhance my physical strength." Li Zheng comforted Mirel: "I promise not to take risks with too high a gravity coefficient. After all, I still have many things to handle."

"Okay." Mirel nodded seriously behind a stern face: "Anyway, I'm not leaving your side. If I find you messing around, I'll have them stop."

Li Zheng smiled: "Alright, if such a moment comes, you can take charge."

Just then, Rothschild and Feng Yue walked out of the control room, and Li Zheng went up to greet them.

Rothschild shook his head and sighed: "What a pity. If you hadn't used the Genetic Potion initially, maybe your adaptability could be higher."

Li Zheng heard this with confusion: "What's it got to do with the Genetic Potion?"

"It's like this..." Feng Yue explained the hazards of the Genetic Potion to Li Zheng: "Anyone who uses the Genetic Potion is equivalent to prematurely overdrafting the future, with the 'future' being greatly discounted as a price."

Many people in the Outer City once chose to take the Genetic Potion, rapidly elevating their strength to the Basic Level, simply because they couldn't bear prolonged hard training and wanted to step up instantly.

And because of the potion's overdraft negative effects, some people spared no expenses in developing better Genetic Potions, ultimately producing an over-limit version which caused flesh to continuously proliferate, turning people into neither man nor ghost with extremely harmful effects.

In the end, the Terminal had to step in to seize the over-limit Genetic Potions and destroy the potion factories.

"So that's how it is." Li Zheng didn't quite mind, for he himself, as a clone, has genetic flaws and shouldn't have lived long.

If not for using the Genetic Potion to fix those flaws, even becoming more perfect than the original form, he would have died long ago.

To Li Zheng, there's nothing much to pity.

The Genetic Potion at least saved his life, as certified by both Old Pu and the Terminal.

Rothschild observed Li Zheng's expression and cautiously asked: "May I take a bit of your body tissue to test? Don't misunderstand, I just want to see how much the potion has supplemented your genes because logically, under perfect genetic status, you shouldn't adapt to such high gravity multiples so quickly."

"Okay." Li Zheng pulled a strand of hair, then used a fingernail to scratch his fingertip, squeezing out a drop of blood.

Rothschild promptly took out clean storage tools, securing both the hair and blood, vowing: "Don't worry, I know many people dislike their genetic information being leaked. After testing, I'll destroy the results immediately, ensuring no one else knows!"

He glanced at Feng Yue: "Including him."

"..." Feng Yue: "?"

What the heck, I didn't ask to see it.

But Rothschild was simply indicating an attitude, even someone like Feng Yue, who is familiar with Li Zheng, wouldn't see the genetic info, let alone unrelated individuals.

"No worries." Li Zheng confidently smiled: "Even if you want to leak it, you couldn't."

What a joke, he still had the final Boss of the Matrix behind him. The Terminal is just refraining from interfering in the Outer City's personal affairs unless absolutely necessary. Otherwise, it would have already opened a backdoor to seize what it needed, not bothering to act by the rules, requiring money to buy experimental materials.

Besides, there were so many clone predecessors who had betrayed the Terminal, with genes similar to his long not a secret to those interested. Whether leaked or not...

The difference is truly minor.

Rothschild did not understand Li Zheng's words, but he didn't dwell on them, eager only to return and test Li Zheng's genes, planning to devise the most suitable adaptation scheme for Li Zheng concerning gravity.

After greeting Li Zheng and the others, he hurriedly left.

Li Zheng watched his back and then said to Feng Yue: "I thought beyond Street no. 50 should all be negligent, yet I didn't expect to meet a resident here devoted to research, which is unexpected for me."

"Professor Rothschild is quite famous here." Feng Yue said: "His ancestor was one of the founding figures initially developing countless inventions that laid the foundation for the Gravity Research Institute—Cambrus."

"Cambrus?" Li Zheng felt the name familiar: "The one who invented Gravity Shoes...?"

"Yes, that's him!" Feng Yue said: "He was a highly respected founding scientist. But alas, I was born with a rather dull mind, unable to handle overly complex research, can only collaboratively focus with Professor Rothschild on 'Improving survival ability under super-multiple gravity coefficient environments' research topic, and only achieved minor results after over twenty years, having learned quite a lot."

Spending over twenty years on one topic is a rare dedicated spirit not possessed by many.

People tend to aim high and strive to be a jack of all trades, eventually being mediocre in everything.

This alone changed Li Zheng's impression of Feng Yue, deserving respect: "Knowing many paths isn't as good as specializing in one. To delve into one topic to the extreme is an impressive achievement."

"You overpraise, Pathfinder." Feng Yue humbly replied: "After more than twenty years still unable to break the record left by predecessors, I might have given up already if it weren't for unwillingness."

"The mere fact that you persevered is commendable." Li Zheng said with a smile: "There are too many mediocrities who give up halfway; only by persisting, can one transform from striving mediocrity into notable talent. You've done it."

Feeling embarrassed, Feng Yue scratched his back head: "Pathfinder, your continuous praises are making me feel uneasy."

"Why feel uneasy?" Li Zheng said: "If praise isn't free, then criticism is meaningless. Alright, let's head to the place you found for me, then I have some things I'd like your help with."