That night, Li Zheng was lying on his bed, staring at the ceiling with his eyes wide open. Although he was exhausted, he could not fall asleep.
Miriel slept on the eggshell bed. She tried to cheat and squeezed in with Li Zheng, but Li Zheng kicked her under the bed.
unconsciously,
It was midnight in the outer city, and Li Zheng heard the electronic sound of indeterminate gender on time.
[The random treasure chest is being drawn today, please wait...]
"Here we come." Li Zheng said in his heart.
Even though he had determined that there was a certain purpose behind the treasure chest system not long ago, and the system gave him a warning because of it, now that it was refresh time, it still appeared on time as usual,
Draw the treasure chest on time, as if nothing had happened before.
"Is it because I'm too weak and even if I find something, the treasure chest system doesn't bother to care about me? Or is it because the treasure chest system actually has no intelligence and is just a plug-in similar to a computer program?"
Li Zheng has thought about this question many times, but every time he has no answer, and the treasure chest system has never communicated with him.
[The extraction is successful, the quality of the treasure chest is diamond, do you want to withdraw it now? 】
"Even the notification sounds in my ears are so precise that they are word for word."
Li Zhengang made a move and placed a mental barrier in the room. Then he sat up and thought to himself: "Extract!"
Boom!
The diamond-level treasure chest appeared out of thin air and fell to the ground. Miriel did not die from sleep. Hearing the noise, he got up from the eggshell bed and looked at him quietly with his head raised.
Li Zhengzhao smiled and said: "Come on, come over and drive together."
Miriel is absolutely trustworthy now, even if she has second thoughts,
Li Zheng was also able to control her before she revealed her secret.
"good!"
Miriel jumped out of bed excitedly,
He ran to Li Zheng in small steps, his beautiful eyes were shining, and he stared at the gleaming diamond treasure box: "I was afraid that you would find out before, so I didn't dare to take a closer look. So is this how you get the good things every day?"
"Yes, it's a treasure chest." Li Zheng said, "I was unlucky today. I only drew a diamond-level treasure chest. It's probably filled with stone fragments."
Except for the super-god level treasure chests he opened a few days ago, almost all of them were like this. Li Zheng no longer has any illusions about those below the super-god level.
"Uh..." Miriel was eager to try: "Can I open this box and play with it?"
Li Zheng stretched out his hand: "Come on, try it!"
He was not sure if anyone other than himself could open the treasure chest he pulled out, so he just let Miriel give it a try.
"Okay!" Miriel put his hand into Li Zheng's palm and held him.
Li Zheng was stunned for a moment. Miriel's hand was so weak and boneless that it felt so soft in his hand that he couldn't help but knead it a few times.
He asked: "Don't you want to open the treasure box?"
"That's right." Miriel blinked: "Grab my hand and open it.
Just give me a sense of participation."
"You can drive it alone." Li Zheng laughed and shook his head: "I just have some ideas that I want to test."
Miriel hesitated for a few seconds: "Then I'll open it myself?"
"Let's go." Li Zheng let go of her hand and looked on.
Miriel was gearing up and excited: "I've wanted to try it for a long time, but I never had the chance...huh?"
He put his hands on the treasure box, but the treasure box penetrated directly like a shadow without any real object.
Miriel refused to give up and pulled back and forth with her hands several times, passing through the treasure chest and failing to catch anything.
"How could this happen!?" Miriel was furious. She finally had a chance to open a treasure chest to satisfy her curiosity, but she couldn't touch it.
Li Zheng exhaled: "I should be the only one who can drive it."
As he said that, he reached out and grabbed Miriel and said, "Try again to see if the two of them can open it together."
"Yes." Miriel followed Li Zheng and grabbed the treasure box together. This time he did not go through it, but actually touched the texture of the treasure box, which was cool and hard.
"I touched it! I touched it!" Miriel shouted excitedly.
Li Zheng's heart moved, and his thoughts changed to not wanting to open the treasure box. As a result, the two hands penetrated into the treasure box just like Miriel had opened it alone before.
"Huh? Why is it gone again?" Miriel was surprised, "Are you controlling it?"
"I just discovered that as long as I don't allow it, even if others grab me, they can't open the treasure chest." Li Zheng was also surprised, because this phenomenon can no longer be explained by science...
He suddenly realized that the existence of the system seemed to be impossible to explain scientifically, let alone the treasure chest that appeared out of thin air every time?
Li Zheng was curious if the two of them could turn the treasure chest into reality if they didn't take it out from the "phantom" treasure chest.
He tried it, but it didn't work. As long as his hand was still inside, the treasure box remained in "ghost" mode.
After several attempts to verify it, Li Zheng knew that even if he leaked the existence of the treasure box system, as long as he refused, no one would be able to get the contents of the treasure box from him.
He took out his hand and finally took Miriel to open today's treasure chest.
The two of them looked inside at the same time, and Li Zheng discovered that what was in the box today was not a wishing stone fragment, but a bottle of liquid that glowed slightly, like some kind of medicine.
Reaching in and taking it out, the treasure box disappeared immediately. Miriel stared at the place where the treasure box disappeared for a long time, and praised: "This thing is so safe. Only you can touch it on your own initiative. After taking the thing, it will disappear directly.
No one else can grab it even if they want to."
"I used to keep everything secret for fear of revealing the existence of the treasure chest. If I hadn't tried it today, I wouldn't have known how safe this thing is." Li Zheng looked at the bottle of liquid in his hand and said casually.
Miriel thought for a while: "Even if the security is very high, I don't think more people can know about its existence. It's one thing that others can't take it away, but when you meet such a narrow-minded guy, you think you can't take it away."
We don’t even want others to have it, so if they chase us, we will inevitably cause trouble.”
"Well, I think so too." Li Zheng nodded, he had similar thoughts.
Seeing Li Zheng staring at the bottle of liquid in his hand, Miriel asked curiously: "What is this? Genetic medicine?"
"Almost, this thing is called Yin-Yang Mixture. If two people drink it at the same time, the person who is in worse condition can be restored to the level of the other person who is in better condition." Li Zheng read out the effect based on the information given by the Eye of Preles.
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"It means..." Miriel mentally processed Li Zheng's words: "If you drink with me, you are injured before drinking, but I am not injured, you can return to the peak of your condition and heal your injuries?"
Li Zheng nodded: "That's understandable."
"Then what are you waiting for?" Miriel urged: "Weren't you weakened by that broken gun before and haven't recovered yet? It's time to try out the upper limit of its effect."
With that said, she reached out to take the mixture in Li Zheng's hand.
Li Zheng flipped his wrist and put the mixture into the capsule: "I'm just a little anemic. I'll buy some blood supplements these days and it won't take long for me to recover. It's too wasteful to use the Yin-Yang mixture at this time."
"All right……"
After the box was opened, Miriel's curiosity was satisfied and she suddenly felt uninterested. She pushed Li Zheng and said, "Go inside and get some."
Li Zheng's face darkened: "Go and sleep over there. My bed is not big, and you still come to take my place."
Mireel pointed to the spacious space inside, which could even accommodate two more people if they squeezed in: "This is a double bed! Did you tell me that there is no room?"
"Yes!" Li Zheng said shamelessly: "I like to turn over when I sleep!"
"..." Miriel was completely speechless. She had been following him for how many days. She knew better than Li Zheng whether he liked to turn over when sleeping, and there was no such thing at all!
"Ever since I became an adult, I feel like you have changed!" Miriel burst into tears: "You have become more and more disgusted with me!"
Li Zheng was helpless: "I know what you are planning, but I really can't do this!"
Li Zheng had already had a panoramic view of Miriel's condition through the Eyes of Preles, and he knew it well.
Lao Pu also told him the solution.
The reason why Miriel was uncharacteristically pestering her was probably to use herself to solve the side effects of her heart surge.
Miriel's expression dropped: "Why?"
"Maybe our two races have different concepts." Li Zheng confessed, "I don't want to have a relationship with you for reasons other than feelings. That would make me feel like I'm not a human being, but a beast.
And I promised the queen that I would never touch you, and I can’t break my promise!"
This is his bottom line and his persistence as a human being.
Miriel was entrusted by the Succubus Queen to take him into the outer city. Before leaving the abyss, he promised the Succubus Queen that he would not break the contract.
"I have grown up!" Miriel said anxiously: "And we do it quietly. My mother doesn't know anyway. When I return to the abyss one day, the raw rice will be cooked, and she won't be able to say anything.
"
"No, it's no!" Li Zheng said firmly: "If you do this again, I can only terminate the contract and drive you away."
"You!" Miriel was furious when she saw that he was unable to get enough of him: "It's unreasonable!"
After getting up, she stepped heavily on the ground and returned to the eggshell bed to sleep.
Li Zheng waited until Miriel calmed down before silently taking out the bottle of yin-yang mixture again: "Another unreasonable prop. I am now more and more sure of my previous inference. The treasure chest system gave me something in the outer city.
It is definitely a product of another higher-level universe!”
【Yin Yang Mixture
Type: Potion
Grade: none
Effect: If both drinkers are of the opposite sex, the combination of yin and yang can restore the worse health status of the one to the current health status of the better one.
If both drinkers are of the same gender, the one in better condition will suffer the same damage as the one in worse condition!】
One bottle is only enough to be used once. According to the introduction, Li Zheng can indeed return to his peak condition through this bottle of mixture, but there is a prerequisite.
It’s the “combination of yin and yang” mentioned briefly in the message.
Li Zheng, who was familiar with Chinese culture, could certainly understand the meaning of these four words, so he gave up the idea of using the mixture of yin and yang to restore his condition. He did not want to break the agreement between himself and the Succubus Queen.
Although the original agreement was that Li Zheng could not do anything to Miriel before she reached adulthood, this did not prevent Li Zheng from setting restrictions on himself.
He, or in other words, he is a traditional person at heart. Li Zheng, who has some of the same memories, sincerely believes that some things require mutual agreement.
Miriel is very beautiful. If you say that he is not attracted to her, you will not believe it.
But what about Miriel to him?
Li Zheng felt that there should be no feelings between men and women. He didn't believe that he was so charming. Miriel had only been with him for about twenty days and he could fall in love with him.
At least he couldn't feel it.
If one day he could feel that Miriel was serious about him, he wouldn't mind establishing a relationship with him and having something happen between them.
Just now, no.
"Although the stuff is good, if you don't use it for the time being, it's like wasting a treasure chest." Li Zheng put away the Yin-Yang mixture again and stared at the ceiling in a daze.
Slowly, sleepiness began to rise, and he fell into a deep sleep.
Later in the night, Li Zheng dreamed that he fell into the sea, and the rough waves swept over him, leaving him breathless.
'Magic Thunder Wings!'
Subconsciously, he activated his power and wanted to fly, but he suddenly woke up and found that he was still lying on the bed.
The thunder wings spread out from behind instantly penetrated the bed beneath him, and Li Zheng fell down through the hole, causing someone to exclaim: "Why did you wake up?"
Li Zheng crawled out from under the bed, with an angry look on his face: "I just want to ask you, why are you coming here if you don't sleep in the middle of the night?"
Miriel poked her head out from behind him and chuckled: "What do you think?"
Li Zheng frowned, their heads were close together, he smelled the smell of heather from Miriel's mouth, and he was suddenly startled: "Are you serious?"
Miriel hugged him from behind, her little hands free: "What else?"
Li Zheng raised his head angrily: "You don't regret it!?"
"Hehe, I've never heard of anyone from the Succubus tribe regretting something like this." Miriel patted Li Zheng's head twice: "And I've already mastered your ulterior secret, so I'm not afraid that you won't.
Submit!"
Li Zheng raised his head higher, took out the yin-yang mixture and took a sip: "You're done!"
…
In the central space, on the supercomputer where consciousness is stored in the terminal, data messages flashed across the electronic screen:
Port B tries to establish a link with Port A...
Port B sends a link request to port A...
Port A passes the application and successfully establishes a link with port B...
Port A goes back to port B and is blocked by the firewall...
Port A is temporarily programmed to enhance its offensive capabilities...
Port A successfully broke through the firewall and is trying to inject data...
Port A successfully injected a large amount of data and prepared to retreat...
Port B intercepts and tries to request more data from port A...
Data injected from port A is building the database...
Database creation failed...
Strengthen data transmission to meet the needs of port B...
Port A is filled, and port A retires...
…
The next day, Li Zheng woke up from his sleep. When he got up, he felt dizzy and his eyesight went black.
"I need to buy more supplements today, the sequelae of anemia are a bit serious." Li Zheng held his forehead and sighed, got off the eggshell bed, packed up the bed that was broken during the night, put out the stove, and prepared breakfast.
Miriel turned over, raised her head, and got down to the ground. Her legs felt weak. She took a breath of air and sweat broke out on her forehead: "It's over. I seem to be injured."
Li Zheng didn't even look back: "Forcibly drive a 60mm diameter bolt into a 30mm nut. The nut will definitely not be able to withstand it. I will make breakfast today. You can have a good rest."
Miriel sat back on the bed and complained: "Didn't it say that Yin-Yang Mixture can heal injuries? Why doesn't it work for me?"
"Because the yin and yang mixture had already taken effect before you were injured, helping me recover." Li Zheng washed his hands and said, "The blood that was sucked out by the Black Dragon Spear yesterday has been completely replenished. My waist is a little sore, maybe it's anemia."
Sequelae.”
"Will the sequelae of anemia cause backache?" Miriel tilted her head.
"Yes..." Li Zheng thought for a while and said, "When I got up just now, my eyes were black. Isn't this the sequelae of anemia?"
"Oh..." Miriel nodded and asked after a while: "Are you busy today?"
"..."
Li Zheng moved his hands for a moment, then turned around to meet Miriel's expectant gaze. He felt that his waist was even more sore, and said quickly: "Yes, I am going to find someone to buy a resident status in an outer city, and make you my master and servant."
Replace the contract. This kind of thing can be done by someone in the outer city, so don’t bother the terminal."
"That's it..." Miriel looked disappointed and continued: "I have good news for you. My strength has improved again. But there is also bad news. I seem to have hit a bottleneck and my mental power cannot continue to improve."
"Yes, I can see it." Li Zheng rolled out the kneaded dough, cut it into thin strips, added salt to the boiling water, stirred it up, and put in some vegetables and meat slices.
Three minutes later, two bowls of fragrant hand-made noodles came out of the pan.
Bringing a bowl to Miriel, Li Zheng sat next to him and ate while saying: "When I finish getting you the identity of a resident of the outer city, I will come back to teach you how to condense the nodes. This is something that Xu has studied over countless years.
The way to continue to improve your mental power was something he taught me when he poured all his mental power into me."
"So...he did one good deed before he died?" Mireel took a bite and rolled the dough with his hands, narrowing his eyes happily.
"Do good things?" Li Zheng shook his head thoughtfully: "He has evil thoughts separated from his body. I don't think he really has a kind heart when he does such things, and every time I think about him, I feel uneasy.
, I always feel that he is not dead yet and I can see him again in the future.”
Miriel sighed with a complicated expression: "He worked so hard to help us improve our mental strength before, but I really couldn't tell that he had evil thoughts. I have always regarded him as a teacher."
Indeed, Li Zheng thought the same way when he came into contact with Xu Gang.
And there really isn't any malicious intent in what Xu did.
"The reason why he helped us improve our mental power is because our foundation is too low. If we accept the mental power he instilled rashly, we will easily collapse." Li Zheng said: "I estimate that he condensed the huge mental power in the dark world.
He just wanted to escape from the dark world one day, but later he discovered that his mental power was too strong and became a drag, preventing him from leaving there."
Miriel thought: "Where do you think Xu will go after leaving the dark world? Also, by what means did he leave the dark world?"
"I don't know either." Li Zheng smiled bitterly.
Li Zheng was also puzzled by this question, because he never found out when and by what means Xu left.
The only thing that is certain is that Xu's method of leaving the dark world is definitely not through the mark of the lamp bearer, otherwise there is no need for him to wait until now.
After all, the mark of the lamp bearer has had many owners before, and he can leave at any time if he wants.
There is only one possibility for not leaving, and that is that he cannot escape from the dark world through the mark of the lamp bearer.
