Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day-Chapter 43 - 42: Little Helper... Gone!

[The little pups ran away with their tails between their legs, what a pity, you’ve lost a batch of good materials.]

While roasting meat, Li Zheng also kept an eye on the wolves’ movements.

"They slipped away?"

When the Wolf King howled, he thought the wolves had finally decided to fight to the death.

But Prelis’ Eye gave completely opposite information.

Li Zheng sighed, "These wolves are too smart. If it weren’t for exploiting the capsule residence’s invincible feature as a bug, I wouldn’t have been able to slaughter them so one-sidedly."

As he turned the roasted meat in his hand, Li Zheng suddenly thought of a question.

Since the capsule residence has an invincible feature, why did so many players die in the past three days?

Is it because they were foolish and didn’t discover this bug exploit?

"It’s impossible that I’m the only one who noticed, or perhaps..."

Li Zheng stared into the campfire and thought of a possibility: "Or perhaps the capsule residence’s invincible feature is a safety net arranged by the system for players."

This safety net ensured that more than half of the players could survive within three days.

Otherwise, with thirty billion defenseless humans, or even three hundred billion, three trillion, how would they face the creatures in The Matrix?

Is it really just pure luck to choose a room?

Lucky players pick safe rooms, collect blueprints and materials, craft weapons and gear, and then kill monsters to level up? Reach the pinnacle of life?

And unlucky ones, are they just doomed to be insta-killed in their first room?

This doesn’t align with the ’fairness’ of The Matrix Survival Game.

You can tell from the fact that each player has the same amount of resources when entering The Matrix.

Vaguely, Li Zheng felt that he might have overlooked something.

The initial safety net given to players by the system is definitely more than just the capsule residence.

A single capsule residence alone can’t ensure players will get through the "beginner’s period."

"What could it be?"

Li Zheng stared dazedly at the campfire, not even noticing that Xiao Ying had landed beside him.

"Yiying!"

Xiao Ying smelled the burnt meat and alerted Li Zheng.

"Hmm."

Li Zheng snapped back to reality, looked at the burnt wolf meat, and simply tossed it aside, extinguishing the campfire.

"Let’s go back and decompose."

Li Zheng beckoned, and Xiao Ying obediently took flight again, then nestled into his pocket.

"Yiyingying!"

The little guy seemed excited because it had helped Li Zheng before, proving its usefulness.

"Yeah, our Xiao Ying is the best."

Li Zheng patted its little head and said soothingly, "In the future, Xiao Ying will become even stronger, and I’ll need Xiao Ying to protect me."

"Ying!"

The little one was particularly pleased by this, patting its little paw on its chest with a ’leave it to me’ expression.

...

Because Li Zheng intentionally circled around, he never strayed far from the previous wolf corpses and soon found the place again.

The strong smell of blood lingered, with blood spatter and wolf carcasses scattered everywhere, appearing eerie under the dim lamplight.

[Decompose...]

Li Zheng quickened his pace and soon turned the remaining wolf carcasses into materials, storing them in the capsule residence.

"Killed a total of sixteen wild wolves."

Li Zheng counted the materials, the slaughter yielded a staggering 53 bottles of wolf blood!

"If all Black Iron Level potions only need one material, wouldn’t I be able to make over fifty potions?"

Thinking about this, Li Zheng eagerly set up the capsule residence and put a bottle of Forest Wolf Blood and a bottle of Fire Scorpion Blood into the making station.

"Analyze!"

The fully repaired making station diligently began working, and after a while, results were displayed on the screen.

"Forest Wolf Blood can be used to make Cell Vitality Potion and Muscle Strength Potion, but it lacks one material."

"Desert Fire Scorpion Blood can be used to make Bone Strength Potion, and it’s a Bronze Level potion, so the effect must be much stronger than Black Iron Level!

But the quantity of missing materials..."

Li Zheng frowned, looking at the list of missing materials for Black Iron Potions. "Both potions require the blood of the Armored Wild Boar. Let’s check the trading hall first, and if it doesn’t work, I’ll have to use the loudspeaker to broadcast a trade at night."

After opening the trading hall and searching, there were very few players selling Armored Wild Boar Blood.

Because this blood has an attribute that enhances players’ physique, few are willing to sell it.

"A fifty-milliliter bottle of wild boar blood actually costs a Power Core?"

This price is indeed too high.

Although Li Zheng currently has a dozen Power Cores, he dislikes being taken advantage of.

A thought crossed his mind that perhaps some players in the region channel also have a few bottles of Armored Wild Boar Blood.

"Though the chance is low, since such a thing that directly enhances player strength is often consumed immediately when acquired."

Li Zheng didn’t have high hopes; after all, if he’d acquired such things without a Genetic Potion Making Station, he would have consumed them as soon as possible.

Only materials converted into strength have value.

Otherwise, they’re just taking up space in the capsule residence.

"Let’s give it a try."

Li Zheng composed a message and sent it to the region channel.

Li Zheng: [Snake Grass Needle] for large quantities of blood, 5 bottles of Black Iron level blood for one Needle, 2 bottles of Bronze level blood for one Needle, trade quickly, only waiting half an hour!

As soon as the message was sent, the initially chatty region channel fell silent for a moment.

Then, the channel started flooding with messages.

Especially the players who received Snake Grass Needles yesterday, their spamming efficiency was something else.

Phoenix Mountain: Bro, I’ll trade! I have ten bottles of Black Iron level, five bottles of Bronze level! Give me six Snake Grass Needles, take them all!

Lu Li: I have twenty bottles of different types of Black Iron level, I’ll trade too! @Li Zheng, dad, for the sake of our father-son relationship, how about giving me five Snake Grass Needles?

Li Chun: I only have twelve bottles of Black Iron level...

Random Player: I have four Black Iron and one Bronze, big guy, can you give me a friendly price and trade for two Snake Grass Needles?

...

The message feed was moving too fast; Li Zheng was so overwhelmed that he had to enable private chat and let players who wanted to trade send their quantities and prices to him directly.

Over the next half hour, Li Zheng handled private messages one by one, haggling, trading, and setting up specific orders.

He was so busy he could hardly contain his enthusiasm.

As soon as the half hour was up, Li Zheng closed private chat and tallied his gains.

In the end, the transaction resulted in a total of 586 bottles of various types of Black Iron Level blood and 40 bottles of Bronze Level blood.

Not a single bottle among them had attributes for enhancing physique.

In fact, most of the attribute descriptions indicated that the taste was: fishy, stinky.

Most effects included either a risk of food poisoning or a chance of causing minor bodily harm after drinking.

All this indicated that out of over five hundred bottles of blood, not one was from an armored wild boar...

"Damn it!"

Li Zheng was speechless, "These players are as shrewd as foxes, they won’t take the slightest loss!"

In the regional channel, the players who had traded were celebrating, praising Li Zheng for being such a generous big shot.

The notifications mentioning him came in one after another, and Li Zheng was getting annoyed.

He could guess with his knees that those praising him might be secretly calling him an idiot.

Exchanging something as valuable as snake grass needles for a bunch of useless "junk" — isn’t that just foolish?

It is foolish!

Some people speculated that Li Zheng’s move was a broad net strategy trying to catch a few bottles with enhanced physique, only to get played in the end.

Li Zheng silently watched the reveling players in the regional channel, his mouth uncontrollably curving into a wry smile.

"Who’s the fool really? We’ll see once the analysis is done."

He closed the regional channel, ignored the notification mentions, and immersed himself in analyzing the blood.

After a series of sorting, analyzing, comparing, and categorizing, Li Zheng successfully produced thirty-six bottles of Black Iron Level genetic potion and two bottles of Bronze Level.

Cell Vitality Potion: Black Iron Level *9

Muscle Strength Potion: Black Iron Level *8, Bronze Level *1

Nerve Reaction Potion: Black Iron Level *9, Bronze Level *1

Bone Strength Potion: Black Iron Level *10

Looking at the colorful thirty-eight test tubes, Li Zheng wiped the nonexistent sweat from his brow with satisfaction.

"Even though a lot of snake grass needles were used, the final harvest is far more valuable than the needles themselves!"

Li Zheng picked up a Black Iron Level Cell Vitality Potion and drank it in one gulp.

The potion entered his stomach and immediately transformed into energy, filling his entire body.

With eyes closed, he felt his whole body’s cells being activated by the potion, coming alive, cheering with joy.

"More!"

One vial after another of potion was consumed, and Li Zheng’s physical qualities transformed dramatically.

Muscles rippling, bones cracking.

Li Zheng broke out in a cold sweat, and when he opened his eyes, a glint as sharp as an electric flash shone in his gaze.

The glint was fleeting.

Li Zheng walked to the door of his capsule residence and looked outside.

The dim lighting no longer affected him; through the thick trees, he could clearly see scenes hundreds of meters away.

Looking at nearby things, every leaf’s shape and each tiny pattern on the trees were vividly clear to Li Zheng’s eyes.

"Let’s test my current strength."

Clenching his fist, an explosive force seemed to build up inside his body.

Thud!

With a powerful stomp, he shot out like an arrow from the bowstring from the door of his abode.

In the forest, a figure was flipping, turning, soaring, and dodging among the trees.

Sometimes leaping high, sometimes skimming along the ground.

Li Zheng never imagined that one day he could easily perform a perfect split.

Even those parkour moves that he once watched with envy in videos he could now effortlessly perform.

"Ha!"

Kicking off the tree trunk in quick succession, Li Zheng leaped, bouncing between the trunks, before finally landing exhausted after several maneuvers.

"That was awesome!"

Li Zheng laughed heartily, delivering a punch to a nearby tree trunk, leaving a clear imprint of his fist.

"This kind of power is still small compared to firearms, but as long as I continue using genetic potions, maybe one day I could shatter a mountain with a punch like in the novels!"

Looking at his unscathed hand back, Li Zheng clenched his fist zealously.

"All the Black Iron potions are finished, and there’s only an increment of one plus sign for each attribute! If I directly consume the more potent Bronze Level potion, wouldn’t the increase be even more terrifying?"

Returning quickly to his capsule residence, Li Zheng picked up a Bronze Level genetic potion.

Just as he was about to drink it, Prelis’ Eye suddenly provided a warning:

[You can’t be serious can you?

Does someone really believe they can consume a genetic potion beyond their level?

If you insist on drinking it, be prepared for your body to be overwhelmed by the potion’s power.]

The excitement brought on by his sudden strength gain was immediately doused. Li Zheng reluctantly put down the potion and laughed at himself.

Indeed, meals must be eaten bite by bite, roads taken step by step.

Trying to reach the sky with a single leap?

Wishful thinking!

"Sakura, let’s go!"

Li Zheng grabbed Sakura and packed up his capsule residence, feeling high-spirited.

He turned his head, looking around, hoping to rely on Prelis’ Eye to find the "little helper" in the room.

[Idiot, for dragging your feet so long?

Your little helper has already been taken by the wolves; don’t bother thinking about it, all you have here is trees and more trees, maybe you could become a lumberjack, cut some trees and take them along?]

Li Zheng: "..."