Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day-Chapter 852 - 611: The Traitor Among the Clones

The ugly farmer's appearance was identical to now, standing in front of a Cultivation Dish, holding a bubbling, black viscous liquid, and dripping it into the dish.

Inside the Cultivation Dish grew a familiar plant to Li Zheng, Snake Grass!

This plant, which led Li Zheng ahead of everyone else in the initial days, was impossible for him to mistake.

Perhaps the Snake Grass Needle he inserted into the Starting Point Legion might still remain there.

As the black liquid dripped into the Cultivation Dish, the Snake Grass madly grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, greedily absorbing the black substance, its originally dark needle tip turning pitch black like ink.

The leaf, typically only the size of a sewing needle, became extremely exaggerated, within a few breaths, turning longer and thicker than a rolling pin!

Boom!

With a loud explosion, the Cultivation Dish was shattered by the wildly growing Snake Grass, which seemed to have acquired biological consciousness, slithering and twisting like a giant serpent bristling with thorns around the ugly farmer.

Even after bursting the Cultivation Dish, the growth of Snake Grass showed no sign of stopping; instead, it grew even more exaggerated.

It wasn't long before the ugly farmer appeared extremely small in front of the Snake Grass.

"Did you see it?"

The image froze, with several figures seemingly appearing behind the ugly farmer, resembling Li Zheng.

"This is the power of the highest tier Cultivation Liquid, a dangerous product that breaks the boundaries of plant production, allowing for perpetual growth."

"Without restraint, the Outer City would have been completely destroyed by then, ceasing to exist."

The image continued to move.

The dozen or so 'Li Zheng's appearing later were not very powerful; they all carried a metal canister on their backs, with a hose extending from the canister, spraying orange-red flames, burning the expanding Snake Grass until it turned yellow and curled, eventually becoming charred.

The canisters on their backs, if Li Zheng recalled correctly, he had seen on a shelf earlier.

The ignited compressed gas could spray flames exceeding 8000 degrees, hotter than the surface of the sun.

In theory, if the medium could withstand it, the temperature could even be increased to hundreds of thousands of degrees!

Like a walking star!

Even with such terrifying tools to aid them, Li Zheng saw 'himself' in the image suffering casualties, with several clones dragged off-screen by the Snake Grass wrapping their ankles.

Probably doomed.

"The plant back then was too troublesome, ultimately it had to be completely exterminated, no sample could be preserved. But the real terror was not the plant, but the Overlimit Cultivation Liquid that caused the mutation."

"Did you see the Intelligent Humanoid in the image?"

"The Overlimit Cultivation Liquid came from its hand, at that time, this Intelligent Humanoid did not resist and was dismantled into pieces."

"However, according to subsequent investigations, the Outer City resident who made this model of Intelligent Humanoid went to the Wilderness through the Teleportation Gate and was eventually killed by the Bloody, but the records still show another Intelligent Humanoid of this model missing, without knowing where he hid it."

Li Zheng opened his mouth, eventually remaining silent.

He knew that the missing Intelligent Humanoid stayed inside his capsule, the ugly farmer diligently served him after reaching his place, not doing anything out of line but taking care of his cultivated crops, saving him a lot of trouble.

Moreover, the Overlimit Cultivation Liquid was produced by another Intelligent Humanoid of the same model, what did it have to do with the ugly farmer?

Such blanket act is indeed somewhat excessive.

The Terminal seemed not to notice Li Zheng's abnormality and continued: "Of course, if it's only what was just mentioned, it wouldn't be enough to compare with other things, as handling it is relatively easy."

"But don't forget, among the myriad races there are no shortages of plant-type life. If they come into contact with the Overlimit Cultivation Liquid, it would undoubtedly evolve into a total disaster."

At this moment, Li Zheng suddenly felt moved and asked, "Does the Cultivation Liquid affect plant-type life?"

"Yes." The Terminal glanced at him and said, "Are you worried about the Vine Race grandparents who bought Cultivation Liquid from you? If that's the case, you don't need to worry much. Nowadays, the black market still circulates a lot of Cultivation Liquid, as long as there isn't an Overlimit Level, it poses no danger to them, instead it can become an item akin to a regular Genetic Potion, offering them some strength enhancement."

Hearing the Terminal talk like this, Li Zheng breathed a sigh of relief.

He had just thought of the Vine Race as plant-type life, if the grandparents privately absorbed the Cultivation Liquid and caused an unexpected result, he would bear considerable responsibility.

However, from the Terminal's previous words, Li Zheng could hear that the other party knew he had a channel to acquire rare items, but was unsure of what that channel was.

In other words, even if Li Zheng stood in front of the Terminal, the other party would not notice the existence of the Treasure Chest System.

"Now, it's your turn, is there anything you want to ask?" the Terminal said, "I will answer any question I can."

Li Zheng looked at the endless shelves around him, "Since there are so many large-scale destructive weapons, why not deploy them in the war against the Emotion Storm, instead of storing them here, letting them collect dust?"

"I suppose their original intent was to resist the Emotion Storm, right?"

After hearing this, the Terminal said, "Indeed, that would be the first question... From just now's introduction, you should be able to see that the items here only maximize harm when targeting entities with a physical form, whereas the Emotion Storm has an inherently ethereal nature. Taking these items out would only inflict damage on the twisted beings spawned by the Emotion Storm and nothing more.

If there are ill-intentioned individuals among the masses, they would become double-edged swords, cutting oneself."

Even if the probability of this occurring is one in a billion, I cannot take such risks." 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

The Terminal's extreme approach is understandable.

After all, the Outer City is his token of countless years of preservation effort among the myriad races. If it were wiped out because of this, all previous effort would be lost in a single morning.

He absolutely cannot accept such an outcome.

"Alright." Li Zheng nodded, "Switching questions, since I am a clone you created, how do you plan to deal with me?"

This question seemed to be anticipated by the Terminal, with his expression unchanged: "If I were to deal with you, I would have done so the moment you entered the Outer City. Originally, your genes contained flaws, and according to set fate, you should have died from genetic collapse ten days ago.

But since you've had other opportunities to supplement the flaws through Genetic Potions, all excess life is what you've earned yourself, I have no rights to continue interfering with you.

You are already an independent entity, free, you can shed the identity of a clone and live freely.

You can do whatever you want, as long as you don't threaten the myriad race survivors, I won't act against you."

"Another question?"

"Yes," Li Zheng continued, "Zhan Zhouzhou once encountered someone resembling me very much in the Wilderness, is he one of the clone bodies? And why did he attack Zhan Zhouzhou?"

Upon hearing this question, the Terminal's expression grew somewhat forlorn.

"Cloning technology in the Outer City was once a legal science, until that time when a traitor appeared among the clones I sent out..."