Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day-Chapter 62 - 60 "Damn European Emperor!

"If Li doesn’t empty out my entire stock this time, he won’t be satisfied!"

Phoenix Mountain cursed under his breath, his face sour, as he retrieved a pocket watch from his capsule dwelling and handed it to Li Zheng, saying, "Little brother, the reason I could collect materials so quickly today is all thanks to this thing."

Li Zheng looked at the pocket watch in his hand, and Prelis’ Eye displayed the information:

[Malice Detection Pocket Watch · Black Technology Edition, Silver Level

Select and enter the next room’s door to detect if there are creatures behind it.

Can be used only once per room.

Comment: Lame! Compared to the noble and omnipotent Prel the Detector Master, this thing is just a junior!]

"It’s a good item, how do you use it?"

Li Zheng casually returned the pocket watch to Phoenix Mountain, putting on a difficult expression: "I’ve already taken a Silver Level Light Saber from you. If I also take this, it might seem a bit greedy."

"Eh?"

Phoenix Mountain was taken aback, thinking this kid’s personality had changed; such a good item in hand and he returned it?

One must know, the function of the Malice Detection Pocket Watch, no matter who owns it, is a heaven-defying tool that can either explore resources or protect life.

Li Zheng said no and actually returned it? Even Phoenix Mountain found this straightforward behavior a bit unreal; is the person in front of him still the despicable, shameless, brainless Li Zheng whom people felt like kicking to death?

There is something off!

There is indeed something off!

Phoenix Mountain was suspicious but still explained the usage: "Just use it against a metal door; if there are creatures behind the door, the pocket watch will make a sound like an alarm, making a few sounds depending on the number of creatures.

Furthermore, this thing can compare the strength difference between the creatures behind the door and the user themselves.

For example, if the creatures in the next room pose no threat to me, it will blink green light.

If there’s some threat but manageable, it will blink blue light.

High threat, possibly injured in combat, the pocket watch blinks red light.

And there’s one where facing such a foe would almost guarantee death, it blinks black light."

Finally, Phoenix Mountain added, "Like in our current room, there was originally only one giant wolf; when I detected it before, it made one sound. The power comparison to myself posed no life threat, but it took some time to kill, so it blinked blue light."

"Oh? So detailed?"

Li Zheng raised his eyebrows and asked, "Have you been through all these room types? Otherwise, how do you classify the threat levels so clearly?"

"Of course, I’ve been through them all!"

Phoenix Mountain said this with a feeling of triumph, full of confidence.

"Including the black room?"

"Including the black room!"

"Really? I don’t believe it!"

Li Zheng truly didn’t believe Phoenix Mountain had been into a black-light room.

According to Phoenix Mountain, the room blinking black light should be a sure-death scenario if he confronted it, so how did he survive if he really went in?

"Ahem..."

Phoenix Mountain coughed awkwardly, scratching his face and explained, "It’s really not a lie, but that room was a bit strange. The previous player was some big shot, not only escaped but also fled through the door under the monster’s feet.

I also took advantage, dodged several attacks, then swiped my card to the door without waiting, and escaped.

So that black room, I’ve only been there once, and I’ve never dared to touch it again."

"Oh?"

Li Zheng was intrigued: "There’s someone on our channel stronger than you like that? What happened? Tell me in detail?"

"Well..."

Phoenix Mountain carefully recalled the situation at the time, organized his words, and slowly recounted.

"Back then, it was the first time I encountered a black-light room, and I didn’t know what the color meant.

The pocket watch kept beeping, and I thought there might be a lot of creatures in the room, so I thought I’d go in and take a look; if I could score big, I’d be rich on the spot, wouldn’t I?

But, oh boy, it was a low-temperature room upon entering, with many statues over thirty meters high, like giants, the surface covered with ice..."

"Wait a minute!"

Li Zheng interrupted immediately upon hearing this, his expression strange, and asked, "You said there were many statues over thirty meters high?"

"Yeah, I just estimated roughly. The actual height might have some error, but it’s not far off." Phoenix Mountain thought Li Zheng was concerned with the statue’s height and casually explained.

Li Zheng scratched his head, already having a general guess about the story’s progression from Phoenix Mountain, but he motioned for him to continue, saying, "Go on, what happened next?"

"Afterwards, I thought these statues didn’t move or attack me, so I figured they were dead objects, scene settings.

Anyway, they’re stone and ice statues, so deconstructing them wouldn’t yield any good stuff, so I ignored the statues and headed straight to the center.

Then, before getting far, a particularly tall statue at the center suddenly moved, turned its head to look at me.

At that moment, I was scared to death.

The thing opened its mouth and shot a blue light, but I activated my bursting ability to enhance speed and barely dodged it.

I thought, it seemed like we could fight, so I charged forward."

"And then?"

The more Li Zheng listened, the stranger his expression became, thinking that at that time, Phoenix Mountain should have tried decomposing some, perhaps realizing sooner that these statues were living creatures, and he wouldn’t rush in but would sneak around finding the door to escape.

"Then?

Then I dodged the statue’s palms a few times, barely made it to its front and unleashed a full-power punch on its leg!"

"Damn, you’re badass! You dare to go up and fight at that scene?"

This time Li Zheng sincerely admired him; at that time, he had no time to escape, let alone dare to fight back.

"Badass my foot!" Phoenix Mountain’s face turned red, embarrassed, saying, "That punch barely chipped off a few pieces from the ice layer on him, and due to too much bursting power, too hard a body, I actually fractured one of my hands."

"Oh~"

Li Zheng showed a ’I thought so’ expression, and continued, "After seeing you couldn’t win, you saw a door about sixty meters away opened up, and you used burst speed to swipe through and escape?"

"Of course not! If couldn’t even crack the outer shell, I wouldn’t run quickly and wait to die, would I?"

Phoenix Mountain suddenly realized, looking at Li Zheng with a face full of horror: "How do you know the door was about sixty meters away?"

"Damn!!?"

"No way!???"

He pointed at Li Zheng, with a face of disbelief, speechless for a long time.

"Uh-huh~"

Li Zheng showed a self-satisfied expression, somewhat modest in tone: "Humbly speaking, the door was opened by me."

But he dared not explain too much, for when he escaped from the Rock Ice Giant’s room, he suffered significant injuries.

Phoenix Mountain went in afterward and now it seems, except for the fracture he caused on his own, he didn’t suffer additional harm.

Comparing both, Phoenix Mountain was much stronger than him.

At least facing the Rock Ice Giant leader was that way.

"By the way, when did you enter that room?"

Li Zheng wanted to confirm, seeing if his post-battle review conclusions were usable.

Phoenix Mountain was still shocked, racking his brains, never expecting this despicable, shameless, brainless merchant whom people felt like kicking to death, secretly to be a hidden giant.

Before meeting, he always thought Li Zheng was just a businessman; otherwise how could he have so many good things?

As for good things?

Surely scammed!

Or got lucky and found big opportunities in some rooms.

Such rooms do exist, Phoenix Mountain himself had once entered one.

Calming his mind, Phoenix Mountain answered, "Yesterday morning, just escaped from that room, the system prompted that the novice period ended."

"Yesterday morning, huh."

Li Zheng silently noted, one day later than when he entered that room.

After one night, the Rock Ice Giant leader hadn’t fallen asleep; losing Rock Ice Ruo Fire meant it remained vigilant.

Luckily he escaped back then, not relying on the invincible trait of capsule dwellings; otherwise, when the novice period ended the next day, he’d have been squashed into a pancake alongside his dwelling.

"You got real lucky; if you went in a bit later, you’d be stuck."

Li Zheng thought, if you went in a bit earlier, you’d be stuck too.

Phoenix Mountain nodded in agreement, "To be honest, I’ve been lucky since I was a kid; except for not winning the lottery, every drink I bought was with the ’try again’ cap."

Li Zheng: "..."

Damn lucky dog!