Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day-Chapter 770 - 533: Another Transmigrator?

"Zi Shu is really thoughtful, I'll have to thank him in person later!"

Li Zheng first returned to his own greenhouse and handed the handheld computer to Mirel: "Here, weren't you always thinking about this? Just right, I have something for you to do."

"This is..." Mirel, who was originally resting with her eyes closed, opened them curiously at the handheld computer: "Your translation device has arrived?!"

She jumped up and took the handheld computer from Li Zheng's hand, randomly pressing buttons with a look of curiosity.

"I tell you, be careful not to accidentally delete the data inside," Li Zheng reminded worriedly.

"Don't worry, the delete function is surely designed to be in the corner. As long as I don't touch the edge of the screen, there will be no problem." Mirel fiddled with it for a while, couldn't figure it out, and handed it back to Li Zheng: "Can you help me see if the system language can be adjusted to Abyss Race script? Your characters are like blocks, I can't understand."

"You're right, our language is indeed known as block characters." Li Zheng took the handheld computer and fiddled with it for a while, but didn't find a function to switch the system language, so he had to find a document that compared Abyss Race script with Chinese characters: "This device doesn't have a switch function. I'll adjust it for you, and you can learn by comparing. Once you understand Chinese characters, you can use it normally."

"...That's fine, it's just a bit slow." Mirel didn't mind this detail, anyway, what she wanted was to learn the language and script of another race, it didn't matter which she learned first.

"Then you learn slowly, I still need to continue understanding the terminal tasks with Basil."

Li Zheng left Mirel behind, watching her quickly get into a state of learning, he shook his head lightly and walked out of the greenhouse.

Finding Basil again, he and Kota had moved to another place to handle plants. Seeing Li Zheng, he casually asked: "Are you done?"

"Yeah." Li Zheng put on his earplugs: "Where did we leave off?"

"Actually, I've said most of what I know about the tasks. If you want to understand more in detail, you'll have to try taking on some terminal tasks yourself to experience it." Basil said without raising his head: "But it's best not to choose expulsion and patrol tasks, you might want to start with the basic mining tasks.

There's also basic tasks like hunting Desolate Beasts, but those tasks have stricter requirements on strength. It's best if you wait until your overall strength reaches the basic level before attempting them."

Mining tasks.

This task is relatively the safest among all task types, because there's no need to contact the outside world, and there are no Desolate Beasts inside the mines, almost no threat to life.

The downside is that the reward is also the least among all tasks. On average, a miner working all out for a day makes only about one or two thousand White Crystal Coins.

Even so, in the Outer City, many people wait eagerly in the Task Hall, hoping for mining tasks to be released.

When Li Zheng went to the Task Hall earlier, it was packed, with at least five to six tenths of them waiting to seize mining tasks.

"I will." Li Zheng nodded, seeing Basil busy and prepared to return to his own greenhouse. Before leaving, he asked: "By the way, I almost forgot the most important question, have you heard of anything in the wilderness that can scatter another's consciousness, leaving the target with no brain activity at all?"

"Scattering consciousness?" Basil's movements paused slightly: "I think I've heard of it."

He stopped his work, as if recalling something, and said somberly: "The last time I heard of this was a year ago. It was my best friend in district 469, who took on a task to hunt Desolate Beasts, and didn't return for over ten days."

"I thought he encountered an accident and died in the wilderness."

"Unexpectedly, a month later, he returned to district 469."

"According to those who found him at the time, he was covered in scars when he came back, seemingly attacked by at least ten different weapons, one nearly taking his life."

Here, Basil paused, took a breath to calm his emotions.

"Thinking about it now, it might have been better if he had died. He wouldn't have had to lie in District 469's clinic for so long, surviving only on nutrient solutions."

"Wait, you just said your friend has been in the clinic for a year?" Li Zheng asked: "Haven't the doctors there tried to research a healing method?"

Basil shook his head: "They tried everything that should be tried long ago. Although those experimental subjects woke from their unconscious state, the effects varied. Some seemed to have their intelligence degraded to infantile levels, some just stared blankly with open eyes, and some became like wild beasts, only retaining the instinct to survive."

What Basil said matched what Li Zheng saw at the doctor's place.

This indicates that it's not just the doctors, but medical experts in every district across the Outer City are researching healing methods, but there has been no progress so far.

How is this done, and who did it?

Li Zheng couldn't figure it out.

The most puzzling thing to him was that a large portion of those unconscious patients were retrieved by others from outside the city, and when found, they already showed no brain activity, making them easy targets to kill.

Yet those people were unharmed, while others who went with them were torn apart, scattered across the ground.

Why did the perpetrator deliberately leave survivors?

It's utterly illogical...

"Oh right, when my friend came back, he said something..." Basil recalled with effort: "He said, 'I'm waiting for you.'

"I'm waiting for you?" Li Zheng took out his earplugs, looking puzzled: "Say that again?"

"I shouldn't be mistaken, that's exactly how it was pronounced." Basil said in clumsy Chinese: "I'm waiting for you."

"!!!"

Li Zheng was utterly shocked.

It really was Chinese!

And it was from a year ago!

This doesn't make sense!

It doesn't make any sense at all!

Players from Blue Star and himself from Earth have only been entering the Matrix for about a month, how could someone have spoken Chinese a year ago?

Could there be another transmigrator?

Who is he?

The Bloody One?

Or someone lurking in the Outer City?

Whom is he waiting for?

Why is he doing these things?

Li Zheng's expression grew serious, having only spent half a day in the Outer City, mysteries kept surfacing, filling his mind with questions.

The only way to figure this all out is to have a personal look.

That would mean going outside the city to seek.

Luckily, Li Zheng's original plan involved visiting the Blood Patterned Black Dragon Ancestral Land.

According to Xiao, the Blood Patterned Black Dragon Ancestral Land is somewhere outside the city, so he can try looking for clues along the way.

Li Zheng had a strong premonition that the target might very well be himself!