Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 20 The Ice Giant Leader
As the saying goes, environment shapes people.

"That's absolutely right. Humans are indeed creatures with a very strong ability to adapt to the environment. I only entered the Matrix Survival Game for a day, and I already started to rely on the manufacturing function."

Li was walking along the wall, preparing to go to the top to see what was behind the door.

I should also reflect on why I almost got sick from the cold just now.

"So those self-help gurus were absolutely right."

"Details, details can determine a person's success or failure."

"Li Zheng, Li Zheng, you clearly remembered the use of aluminum cans yesterday, how did you end up so degenerate today that you almost got sick from the cold?"

"Let this be a lesson we learn; we must pay more attention to details in the future!"

"嘤嘤嘤!"

Li Zheng's incessant muttering to himself received full affirmation from Xiao Ying, who even chimed in with a couple of words.

"Sakura, you need to remember this too, pay attention to the details! Even though you're a genetic beast, we both need to remember this lesson, understand?"

"Eek...snoring..."

Li Zheng felt Xiao Ying turn over in his arms, and soon after, he heard a faint snoring sound. He was immediately speechless.

"..."

Sure enough, it's too early to expect this clueless guy to listen to profound truths.

"It seems that the preschool education plan needs to be put on the agenda."

Li Zheng decided to set some homework for Xiaoying when he had some free time.

"With my tutoring, getting into Tsinghua University is out of the question, but getting into an ordinary undergraduate program will be a breeze."

Finally arriving at the corner where the roof and wall of the room met, Li Zheng looked down and felt a momentary dizziness at the height of several hundred meters.

"Wow, this scene is a godsend for those with a fear of heights."

Li Zheng clicked his tongue in admiration, then noticed out of the corner of his eye a large giant in the very center of the rock ice giant clan.

Through the rock ice giant's unique blue translucent body, Li Zheng could vaguely see a bright red flash on the giant's body.

However, the distance was too great to see clearly what it was.

"Indicator light? Or the heart?"

Li Zheng scanned the other giants but found nothing similar.

"Could it be a special material that only elite-level rock and ice giants can produce?"

It could be either, or it could not be.

"Never mind, I still need to go down and check the last door anyway. If there's no danger, I can go and take a look."

Li Zheng withdrew his gaze and looked towards the center of the roof.

[Too far to detect.]

"The distance is still not enough, let's get closer."

Li Zheng used gravity to climb onto the roof.

As the distance between Li Zheng and the door decreased, the detector finally responded.

[Danger (orange-red), living organism.]

"The fourth dangerous door. The first three were all red, but this one is better; it's orange-red."

This shows that with Li Zheng's current strength, he still has a chance to break into that room.

"No rush, let's go down and take a look first."

Returning along the same route, Li Zheng landed and avoided the swarms of ice giants that had gathered along the way, heading straight for the flash of light he had just seen.

After winding and turning all the way, Li Zheng looked at the unconscious, motionless rock and ice giants around him and started to have a wicked idea.

"Can a giant in this state be decomposed?"

Do it when you think of it.

Li Zheng stopped, casually touched the nearest giant, and silently recited "decompose" in his mind.

[Unable to decompose living targets.]

"As expected."

Li Zheng didn't care. If the decomposition were to succeed, he would find it unreasonable.

If the decomposition function can be used directly on living creatures, then the Matrix Survival game would be more suitable as a "game to see who can eat the most and not die from overeating".

Li Zheng turned around and continued on his way. The giant that was flashing red light was much taller than the other rock and ice giants. Li Zheng could see it as soon as he looked up.

After winding his way through the maze, the giant finally appeared before him.

As Li Zheng got closer, he discovered that this giant was not only taller, but also much larger, almost the size of two ordinary giants stacked together.

Like a normal-sized rock ice giant, its entire body is a translucent blue, only the color is purer, resembling a giant sapphire.

Surrounding the giant was a pale blue halo with a radius of about sixty meters, but it was now dim and without light because the giant had lost consciousness.

[Leader of the Rock and Ice Giants.]

Li Zheng glanced at the detector and found that it only had a name on it, with no other information.

Even gold-level detectors cannot detect the presence of information!
"Holy crap! Did I run into the BOSS?" Li Zheng exclaimed inwardly, unconsciously slowing his footsteps as if afraid that his heavy footsteps would wake the BOSS.

"Red light...it's there!"

Li Zheng looked up and saw a small, fiery red flower growing strangely on the knee of the Ice Giant leader.

Although it is called a small flower, that is in comparison to the size of the Ice Giant leader.

In fact, this little flower, including its stem and leaves, is only about the size of a single hair on a giant's body, yet it is as big as Li Zhengyi's entire arm.

The flower buds were even as big as Li Zheng's head!

The flower is not high off the ground, only about ten meters away, within the working range of the detector.

[Rock Ice Like Fire, Platinum Level]

A peculiar parasitic plant that grows on the leader of the rock and ice giants, possessing both fire and ice attributes.

Consuming it may lead to the development of bigenes, and there is a very high probability of developing monogenes.

Note: There is a small chance that it may cause harm to the consumer.

Warning: Pulling out the Rock Ice Flame will awaken the leader of the Rock Ice Giants!

"White, a Platinum-level special item!"

Li Zheng's eyes widened, and he almost lost his voice.

In a time when even gold-tier items could become extinct, a platinum-tier item is of immeasurable value.

What's more, this is an item that can develop alien genes, which means it can provide players with skills!

It's even different from the Flame Flower.

There's a chance that Rock Ice Fire will unlock dual-type mutant genes in one go!

This caused the value of Rock Ice Fire to double!
We need to find a way to pull off a big score with him!

Li Zheng made a decision instantly: even if it meant waking up the leader of the Rock Ice Giants, he was determined to have this Rock Ice Flame!
It’s done, a young model in the club.

If you fail, you can be reincarnated and start over.

This is the worst that could happen!

"But before that, we need to make thorough preparations!"

After all, it is a matrix creature capable of producing platinum-level items, so Li Zheng guessed that its level must be no lower than platinum-level, and its strength was definitely beyond his imagination.

If you are truly blinded by temptation, it's practically tantamount to courting death.

Looking around, Li Zheng spotted the last metal door not far away and immediately had an idea.

The detector returned an "empty" result for the last door.

This means that the room behind the door has no resources at all and is completely worthless.

Normally, Li Zheng would never choose this place knowing that it is an empty room.

However, for the sake of the Platinum-level Rock Ice Fire, wasting only one exploration attempt was a huge gain for Li Zheng, right?
After swiping his card, Li Zheng pulled Xiao Ying out of his arms once the door opened.

Before the little guy could react, the fiber wrapped around it was stuffed through the light screen.

Immediately afterwards, Li Zheng opened the trading hall. All the water that had been put up that morning had been sold out, and there was an extra 80g of B25 grade manganese steel.

Ironically, what Li Zheng needs now is also water.

"Damn! It's already the second day, why are there so few people trading water resources?"

Li Zheng patiently searched for a long time, but couldn't find many places selling water.

Even the few players who list water resources for sale are asking ridiculously high prices.

"Fifty milliliters of water in exchange for a silver-grade blueprint?"

"One hundred milliliters of water in exchange for tools to arbitrarily develop alien genes?"

"Ten milliliters of water in exchange for a meal that can fill your stomach?"

"Why the hell don't you guys just die?"

Li Zheng cursed loudly, saying that these unscrupulous businessmen were offering prices far more exorbitant than his.

Looking at the sellers listed for sale, I recognized two of their names.

Junkazu Kato, William Houston.

"..."

Li Zheng was speechless.

What can I say?

All we can do is curse them so they'll get eaten by a gene-eating beast in the next room.

"It seems we have no other choice."

Li Zheng was truly at his wit's end, so he opened the world chat: "[Snake Grass Needle] Bronze-grade poison needle, can also be used as special ammunition. Its toxicity can instantly kill Black Iron-grade genetic creatures and inflict massive damage on Bronze-grade genetic creatures. I only need to change the water, clean water and sewage, I want it all! DM me if you want a large quantity! [Snake Grass Needle Attribute Photo]"

After using up his daily dose of megaphone, Li Zheng changed his private chat keyword to "water" and then granted access to strangers.

World Channel: 1155247 William Houston: "Don't do business with this despicable Asian man. I just bought a water purifier from him yesterday, and it smells like urine."

(End of this chapter)