Chapter 495 Li Zheng's Two Secrets

Li Zhengke did not forget that in the original world, there were still a large number of elderly people and children who did not meet the player's standards and were screened out.

According to what Roemand said, those people should definitely die.

However, the terminal dropped a second batch of new players from the outside world on the fifteenth day of the survival game.

This is a bit of a contradiction.

Unless, as Roemont said, as long as you don't subjectively know the essence of the pattern, you won't be affected even if you face it.

"Are you thinking about farts?" Roemont tilted his head and stretched out a tentacle to carry the plate in Li Zheng's hand that had been contaminated with golden red blood. One piece is placed in the mouth: "The depicted pattern is just a replica, and of course it has no real influence. But the essence represented by this pattern will make you realize its essence when you look directly at it, so affect you."

"So, do you understand?"

"Well... I can probably understand." Li Zheng nodded.

This means that it is roughly equivalent to a person who has never been in contact with tigers. Even if he has seen a lot of video materials of tigers, he does not have a clear enough understanding of the dangers of tigers themselves.

But letting him see the tiger with his own eyes, even if the tiger didn't attack him, would trigger an instinctive fear in his heart.

The pattern body depicted by Li Zhengfu is even more exaggerated on this basis.

It's the equivalent of you looking at an image of a tiger, but you don't know it's a 'tiger', so you're fine.

By the time you know the image is a 'tiger', you will die in the 'tiger's mouth', even if you are not attacked by a real tiger.

"Since there is no immunity, how do the old and weak survive?" Li Zheng is even more puzzled. Regarding these existences that can be described as 'burdens', it is impossible for the terminal to build an exclusive space outside for them to be inside. Survive safely?

"Old and weak?"

Roemont's eating action paused: "You don't have to worry about those people, as long as your current class of players is not over, they will be well protected by the terminal."

After all, the terminal still needs those people to inject fresh blood into the player group.

However, Li Zheng still heard another meaning from Roemon's words.

If the trip of this class of players ends, the old and weak who stay away will lose their use value.

It might end up being thrown at the essence behind the patterns and let them fend for themselves.

"Do you have anything else to ask?" Roemont waved his hand to chase away people. If you have any questions, you'd better not ask him again. You almost got yourself in for the wrong thing just now.

"Well... there is still a problem." When Li Zheng said these words, Roeman's face changed instantly, and he almost bit someone.

"Don't worry, this question will never touch the secret!" Li Zheng quickly appeased Roemand's emotions, and then asked: "I just want to know there are so many kinds of creatures in the matrix, and the number is outrageous, don't they? Are they all players left over from the past?"

Li Zheng already knew that the so-called "dungeons" were composed of players left over from the past, such as demon players who fell into the abyss.

So... in daily exploration, what are the ingredients of those creatures that players encounter?

"Those?" Roeman calmed down after listening, and after thinking about it for a moment, he felt that even if the answer was not a big deal, he said, "Part of it is the low-intelligence species that the terminal brought in from that world when it was ingesting players, and also Some of them are hybrids that have been bred privately by some biological genius players since the development of the matrix survival game."

"So far, except for some lower-rank species, there are almost no pure bloods in the entire matrix, and they have all been improved by hybridization to a certain extent."

After saying a few words tentatively, Royman found that when he was answering these questions, the terminal did not stop him, and his courage gradually became fatter.

"Actually, don't underestimate those low-intelligence creatures. You must know that the matrix and the outer city can develop so far, and more actually rely on them."

"After the tossing of countless players, countless strange things have been found on those creatures."

"For example, manganese steel is an alloy material made of a forehead horn called manganese horned rhinoceros mixed with several basic metals."

"Unfortunately, no matter how fast a species' reproductive ability is, it can't keep up with the players' update iterations. There are many species that have passed away in a long time. I heard that there are only some genetic samples left in the terminal, but this statement is not true. confirmed."

After chatting for five minutes, Roemont was still a little unfinished. He rolled his tentacles in the plate, smashed it twice and asked, "What is the dish you brought here? The texture is flexible and rich in layers. The taste is indeed better than most famous chefs in the outer city."

"Oh, it seems to be an octopus with a blue ring pattern on its skin." Li Zheng recalled that when Miriel put the ingredients in the pot, he was watching.

"..." Roymand's head suddenly turned purple, and he pointed at the plate tremblingly and asked, "Is the name of the octopus you're talking about the blue-banded octopus?"

"Well...it seems so!" Li Zheng nodded vigorously.

Roemont: "..."

After being silent for a long time, Roeman couldn't bear it any longer. He threw the plate to the ground and shouted loudly: "Then it's extremely poisonous! Although that poison is harmless to me, it can even be used as a seasoning. Eating, but serving people with highly poisonous dishes...are you polite?"

Li Zhengji was sprayed with blood on his face by Roemang, and then he sprayed stars on his face, wiped his face and said, "I thought you would be angry because I gave you octopus, but you were angry because Just a little toxin?"

Blue-striped octopus is only a first-class fish, and the toxin will at most cause some trouble for players with black iron to silver strength.

And I don't know if it is some kind of weird rule, it seems that poisonous things are indeed much more delicious than non-toxic similar creatures.

click!

Roemont petrochemical on the spot.

Yup!

This kid just gave me octopus!

It's an octopus!

Octopus!

what! ! !

"Yo~~~~"

Roemont reacted and rushed to the beach, lying there and vomited.

Taking advantage of this stall, Li Zheng took out a towel from the capsule, wiped his head and face clean, and slipped away quietly.

In fact, he didn't react at first. It wasn't until Roemont took his first bite that he remembered that it was made of octopus...

However, he ate all the food, and he was too embarrassed to remind the other party at the time, hoping that Roehman would find out.

Who knows that the more he eats, the more hilarious he will be, drying up a whole plate...

At this moment, Li Zheng understood a little why Roemont hated himself for no apparent reason.

Only people with a lot of dogs can do such a thing as eating octopus for others?

Even if Li Zheng himself did it unintentionally, he can't resist subjectively thinking that you did it on purpose!

With the plate he picked up, he passed through the isolation layer, and the noisy voice returned to his ears. Li Zheng took a deep breath and walked back to Zhan Zhouzhou, which was in the endless ocean.

At the seaside, Roemont pretended to spit a few mouthfuls. Seeing that Li Zheng was gone, he got up as if nothing was wrong, and went back to the beach chair to lie down.

He took out the cool magazine and let out a wretched laugh while reading it happily.

joke.

Although Roemont looks exactly like an octopus, ordinary octopuses are not in the same family as him at all. Let alone eating a plate, even if he eats a car, he will not have any burden in his heart.

I have never seen humans feel guilty when they eat monkey brains.

Oh.

There are people who can't afford it. (Everyone is responsible for protecting wild animals!)

"The things are back." Zhan Zhouzhou had been waiting for Li Zheng to come to find her since he returned to the endless ocean. At this time, he bluntly asked him to give the things to him.

"Well, hard work." Li Zheng grabbed Zhan Zhouzhou's hand and secretly took the treasure chest with Sephiroth's core in his hand.

Zhan Zhouzhou has practiced swords all year round, but his palm is very delicate, only the skin on the first two knuckles of his index finger is slightly rough.

This is because her sword-holding habit is different from ordinary people.

"What are you going to do next?" Zhan Zhouzhou's face was slightly unnatural.

Li Zheng glanced at Xiao Siyuan who was sitting on the beach fishing without a trace, and said, "Just wait and see, I guess someone will come to me to attack the boss soon."

Saying that, he took Zhan Zhouzhou to find a seat beside Xiao Siyuan to sit down.

"Yo~ I'll see how much you've caught." Li Zheng mentioned the fish guard next to him, and he was so full that there were no less than fifty catches!

"Hoo! That's a lot!"

Putting the fish guard down, Li Zheng grabbed the fishing rod in Lao Xiao's hand again, and traded Sephiroth's core at the moment of contact, but said jokingly: "Come on, catch a few for me too. play."

"Go, go, go!" Xiao Siyuan calmly pushed away Li Zheng's hand grabbing the fishing rod, rolled his eyes wildly, "Where's your own fishing rod?"

"My fishing rod?" Li Zheng said with a smile: "My fishing rod can't catch fish!"

"It's ugly like this." Xiao Siyuan said solemnly: "It's not like a handsome guy like me who is rare to see in a hundred years, who can easily do dozens of things."

He patted Yuhu's rope with a smug look in his eyes.

At this time, Lin Longxuan ran over with two little fish, picked up the fish guard and threw the little fish in, tilted his head to see the number, and said curiously, "I said Dr. Xiao, you don't seem to be very good with fish today. Ah, you haven't caught a few fish here."

Xiao Siyuan: "..."

Li Zheng smirked: "Just a few dozen of them, right?"

Zhan Zhouzhou also learned to laugh badly: "Isn't it a handsome guy that is rare in a century?"

The two of them were yin and yang in tandem, making Xiao Siyuan's face flush.

Why is this beating so fast?

Is there a problem with the rhythm of putting it in Shuangwen?

So embarrassing!

Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Lin Longxuan ran away: "My sister and Xiaoya are waiting for me over there, I'll go first."

Xiao Siyuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "It's so embarrassing~"

"Hahaha!~" Li Zheng laughed aloud: "So, don't be too pretentious."

After laughing for a while, Li Zhengcai said, "Speaking of which, I didn't expect you to be willing to go fishing honestly."

He looked left and right, and there were a lot of starting members at the seaside who had finished their lunch, or that the queue took too long to sit in a row, or fish quietly or playfully.

"You mean frying fish with genetic ability is faster than fishing with a fishing rod, right?" Xiao Siyuan pouted: "The reason why fishing is called fishing is that the essence of it is the word 'fishing', not fish."

"If we blindly pursue the results and ignore the process, then what is the difference between living in the matrix and being a social animal outside?"

"But I just pursue the process blindly and choose this boring way of fishing. Isn't it more social than social animals?" Zhan Zhouzhou has a different opinion: "I think those who want to fish can fish slowly and experience the fun of fishing. . If you don't want to fish, you can let them play freely, and it's good to go to other places to fry fish."

"I think Zhan Zhouzhou is right."

Li Zheng nodded.

In fact, he thinks that the current players, as Xiao Siyuan said, do things under the arrangement of the terminal, and almost all live in the rules of the terminal, no different from social animals.

Both the result and the process are arranged by the terminal.

Some people think that Li Zheng broke the rules, but who can tell if he entered the outer city so quickly, was it secretly arranged by the terminal?

Living here, no one seems to be free.

At the same time, people seem to be able to choose a more free way of living.

Li Zheng was silent for a while. He wanted to tell the two of them what Roemont had just told him, but considering the crowd and the particularity behind the pattern, he kept this matter in his heart.

Just recalling the half of the sentence Roeman said when he vomited blood, Li Zheng was curious about what the second half of the sentence didn't say?

only?

only what?

only?

Only what?

It's "Everyone can see that thing, but the human race can't?"

Or "Everyone can see that thing, but... I can't?"

If the former, then Zhan Zhouzhou is undoubtedly a human race, how could she see it?

To know that Li Zheng was able to know the existence of the 'pattern', it was Zhan Zhouzhou who told everyone.

So this possibility is directly ruled out.

Then the truth is, only you can't do it!

But……

why?

Why can't you see that thing alone?

Is it because you have something special compared to others?

Li Zheng looked at the sea in the distance, his eyes were not focused, and a thought flashed in his heart.

Could it be that the matrix... No, it should be someone in the outer city who knows that they are transmigrators?

If it is said that because of some specificity, it is impossible for me to see the thing behind the pattern, then only the traveler is the difference between me and others.

Is there a possibility that the fact that he has passed through has been known by the matrix terminal long ago?

After all, all players are only admitted after being screened by it, so it is not impossible for the terminal to know that he is a traverser.

After thinking about this, Li Zheng suddenly realized that the reason why he was so anxious about entering the outer city and felt uneasy in his heart was because one of his biggest secrets might be exposed.

Li Zheng now has two secrets, one is the fact that he is a traveler, and the other is the treasure chest system.

Neither of these secrets seemed to escape the surveillance of the terminal.

It is even possible that the terminal treats itself differently just because it has these two secrets?

The more Li Zheng thought about it, the more uneasy he felt. He was afraid that, like the protagonists of film and television works or some suspense novels, his life was under the control of a certain existence.

I am afraid that no matter what choice I make, it will be designed by others in the end.

It made him feel powerless.

"Old Li?"

"Old Li?"

"What are you dazed for?"

Liu Jiale's voice sounded in his ears, and Li Zheng recovered from his daze, and found that Liu Jiale was standing behind him with a few legion leaders at some point.

"Hmm... Ready to attack the tropical rainforest?" Li Zheng looked at their posture and immediately understood their intentions.

"Yes, it's ready." Liu Jiale nodded and said: "And the conditions you put forward to the other legions, they also agreed, we will collectively take out 20 extraordinary blueprints as a reward, please take action to attack the tropical rainforest. Boss."

Paid?

Li Zheng glanced at Liu Jiale unexpectedly. He thought that Liu Jiale would use the previous relationship between the two to prostitute him for free.

Unexpectedly, there is still a reward.

"Yes." Li Zheng said lightly: "Give the drawings first, and then start."

Since it is a transaction, follow the rules.

"no problem."

Liu Jiale took out ten USB flash drives and handed them to Li Zheng: "Pay half of it first, and then pay the rest after you've beaten the boss."

In this regard, Li Zheng himself has no opinion. After checking the ten drawings, they are indeed extraordinary.

Eight weapon blueprints, all of which are melee cold weapons, have the lowest value among all blueprint types.

Two long-range weapon blueprints, one bow and one crossbow, are not worth much.

This is considered a loophole in the rules proposed by Li Zheng. After all, he did not limit the type of drawings at the beginning.

Handing over the blueprint to Xiao Siyuan, Li Zheng said to Zhan Zhouzhou, "Come with me in a while, and when the boss battle is over, take back the remaining half of the reward."

Zhan Zhouzhou didn't speak, just nodded in response.

Li Zheng glanced at the system time and said to Liu Jiale and others, "Check the time. You can send someone to enter the venue in five minutes. I will be there at the right time."

"I hope you can delay enough time to create a safe output environment for me."

"If this operation fails because of your reasons, the ten blueprints you just received will not be returned, and the operation will end immediately!"

For Li Zheng's rogue logic, Liu Jiale and the heads of the four legions he united were dissatisfied in their hearts, but they did not show it on their faces.

In this operation, they still have to rely on Li Zheng's output. No matter how ugly Li Zheng's words are now, they will suffer.

The same is true in the workplace. When your ability belongs to the "monopoly" type in the company, then even if you only use money to do things, you still have enough right to speak.

So people, you really have to work hard to improve yourself, otherwise you will be angry everywhere in your life, and you will be ruled by others.

"If there are no other questions, you should prepare first."

Li Zheng waved his hand and stopped paying attention to the other party.

Liu Jiale opened his mouth and seemed to want to say something, but in the end he just sighed and turned to leave.

After they left, Li Zheng stared at the sea and thought for a moment, then got up to find Fengshan, took it to Roemand and asked the other party to help set up a shield, and chatted a few words inside.

Except for Roymang, Li Zheng, and Fengshan, no one knows what they talked about inside.

At the same time, at the desert oasis site, the boss battle launched by Kunlun and Jiutian finally came to an end after more than ten minutes of fierce battle.