Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day-Chapter 799 - 561: I Am Not a Normal Person

"Are you out of your mind? What did I ever do to you?" Li Zheng cursed angrily.

Zhan Zhouzhou suddenly halted her sword-wielding hand, looking at the prompt from Prel's Eye with a face full of surprise: [Though it might sound shameless to say so, the good-looking guy in front of you is indeed your acquaintance, not someone else in disguise.

Additionally, a friendly reminder, if you don't stop now, the Outer City Law Enforcement Team will come to arrest you.]

"Are you really Li Zheng?" Zhan Zhouzhou dispersed the Purple Extreme Sword, catching a glimpse out of the corner of her eye of a few guys wearing symbols of Law Enforcement Officers halting their steps, "Where are those little ones around you? Why don't I see them?"

Players' capsule abodes can't accommodate pets, and the two pets Li Zheng has usually follow him. After encountering a guy who resembled Li Zheng a lot before, Zhan Zhouzhou set a standard for herself.

It's not out of the question that there could be someone identical to Li Zheng in the future, then the most direct way to distinguish the real from the fake is to see if he has two pets following him.

If not, then it must undoubtedly be a fake.

So after returning to the Outer City, upon seeing Li Zheng without pets, Zhan Zhouzhou instinctively took him as an imposter.

"Is it our first day of knowing each other?" Li Zheng said speechlessly, "Your way of recognizing me is actually depending on Xiao Ying and the others? Come on, don't just stand there in a daze, come over and sit down to talk."

Inviting Zhan Zhouzhou to sit by the roadside, the two summarized what had happened over the past two days in the briefest terms.

"If it weren't for your ability reminding me, I might have just helped you chop yourself just now." Zhan Zhouzhou picked up a teacup, sipping a bit of the tea.

"Why does that sound so weird?" Li Zheng frowned, "What do you mean by helping me chop myself? Are you saying if you chop me, I should thank you?"

"Isn't it?" Zhan Zhouzhou replied confidently, "I only chop those who want to disguise as you. I put in the labor, and you show gratitude; it's only reasonable."

"By the way, who did you provoke? Why does someone want to disguise as you and cause trouble in the Wilderness?"

Zhan Zhouzhou had just told Li Zheng about her mission outside, considering the hooded guy as an enemy trying to ruin Li Zheng's reputation.

"Actually..." Li Zheng hesitated for a moment, ultimately deciding to tell the truth, "You might not believe it, but I'm actually not a normal person."

"I could tell." Zhan Zhouzhou took another sip of tea, "Sometimes your brain doesn't work well; what normal person would be like you?"

Li Zheng: "..."

We're talking serious matters, can you not interrupt?

"Then can you guess why my brain isn't functioning intermittently?" Li Zheng smiled bitterly, "I bet you can't guess."

"I really can't guess." Zhan Zhouzhou said earnestly, "There are many reasons for an intellectual defect, both congenital and acquired. If you go guessing one by one, I can probably come up with at least fifty."

"You damn..." Li Zheng glared angrily, "Can you stop talking about my brain not working? It's not like I want this, okay? As a clone, this defect was destined the moment I was created, and it can't be remedied..."

"Pff!!!"

Zhan Zhouzhou spat all her tea on Li Zheng's face, interrupting him, "What did you just say?! You're a clone?"

This is quite unbelievable...

Because that reason wasn't among the fifty guesses Zhan Zhouzhou had just listed.

"Are you sure there's no mistake?" Zhan Zhouzhou closely examined Li Zheng, trying to find something different on him, "Whose clone are you? Why clone you?"

Li Zheng took out a towel to wipe his face, "If you were any uglier, I'd smack you for spraying water all over my face..."

"You clone, such a temper." Zhan Zhouzhou rolled her eyes at him, bringing the topic back, "You still haven't said whose clone you are."

Who on earth is valuable enough to be cloned?

And who cloned such a being?

Zhan Zhouzhou was quite curious about these two points.

Li Zheng leisurely wiped his face clean, his affected demeanor made Zhan Zhouzhou almost hit him.

Just a second before Zhan Zhouzhou went berserk, Li Zheng finally spoke out the answer, "I'm the clone of the Matrix Terminal."

"Matrix... Terminal?" Upon hearing the answer, Zhan Zhouzhou for some reason didn't feel particularly surprised, but rather had a kind of 'I knew it' sentiment.

It seems... besides the Matrix Terminal, there's nothing else worth the trouble of cloning.

"Do you know who cloned you and what their purpose was?" Zhan Zhouzhou continued to ask.

Everyone has a clear purpose for everything they do, and if someone is making clones, it indicates they must have some covert plan.

"Wait..."

Before Li Zheng could answer, Zhan Zhouzhou suddenly remembered something and raised her palm, "You, like us, have been players since the first day of this survival cycle, and all your permissions are the same as ours. To achieve this, there seems to be only one answer."

Zhan Zhouzhou wasn't stupid; after a brief deduction, she arrived at the desired conclusion herself.

"The one who cloned you... no, should I say the one who cloned the Matrix Terminal, is actually the Matrix Terminal itself." Zhan Zhouzhou showed a thoughtful expression, "But why did the Matrix Terminal clone you and integrate you into the player community? What's the purpose of doing that?"

This is a rather puzzling matter because doing so doesn't seem to benefit the Matrix Terminal.

It can't possibly be because the Matrix Terminal was bored after living too long and came up with this as a way to amuse itself, could it?

That would be too ridiculous.

"I'm not the only one being thrown into the Matrix as a player," Li Zheng said. "To be precise, the Terminal puts a clone into every batch of players, and the one you met in the Wilderness was likely one of them. Except he didn't get into the Outer City and went to the Wilderness... As for the reason, it's quite simple; from your description, one can infer that the clone is probably an early work of the Terminal with inadequate intellectual capacity, operating only under a fixed logical pattern."

At this point, Li Zheng couldn't help but ridicule, "Compared to that, I'd say my intelligence is relatively clever..." 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

For a moment, it was unclear whether it was a blessing or a curse.

"But... the purpose?" Zhan Zhouzhou still couldn't figure out why the Matrix Terminal was doing this.

"The purpose..." Li Zheng asked in return, "Do you remember that time when we were chatting and you mentioned what you saw when you were captured by the Matrix?"

Zhan Zhouzhou certainly remembered that indescribable thing she saw. It was just a glance, yet it stirred intense negative emotions in her heart.

Luckily, the Matrix Terminal made people unconscious when capturing them, or else Zhan Zhouzhou couldn't imagine if she would be driven mentally mad by such tormenting negative emotions.

"You mean, the reason why the Matrix Terminal embeds a clone in each batch of players is primarily to fight against... that thing?" Zhan Zhouzhou thought carefully but couldn't find an accurate term to name the thing she saw.

"That's right." Li Zheng nodded, "After all, the very purpose of the Matrix's existence is to confront that thing."

He lowered his voice, condensing what Xu had told him and conveyed it to Zhan Zhouzhou.

"Wow! ~" Zhan Zhouzhou sighed after listening, "My goodness, your life story is truly bizarre enough. If someone were to write it down, it's surely the story of a web novel's protagonist... the life of a tool clone."