Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 27: Another new room?
"Damn it, if I had known it would turn out like this, I would have..."

Li Zheng scratched his head speechlessly, opened the trading hall, and searched for finished equipment. A bunch of weapons popped up: swords, spears, halberds, axes, hooks, forks, whips, maces, hammers, claws...

"Why are there only melee weapons? Doesn't anyone sell armor? I need clothes!"

Li Zheng flipped through dozens of pages of transaction records, and finally changed his approach, searching for armor.

"Holy crap, I'm totally blown away!"

Looking at the results displayed after the page redirected, Li Zheng was so frustrated he almost scratched his head off.

"Why are they all shields? What's this? Log shields? And they're gray quality? You dare to offer rentals for gray quality log shields? Riot shields, composite shields, giant shields, plate shields..."

After flipping through dozens of pages, I still couldn't find what I wanted.

"Alright, let's change the condition this time. No armor with attributes, just everyday decorative clothes will do, right?"

Enter your criteria and search!
"JK (high school girl), Lolita fashion, halter tops, teachers, nurses, school swimsuits..."

Li Zheng flipped through a few pages and immediately went berserk.

"Is this some kind of trading hall or a gathering place for perverts? Isn't there a single place selling men's clothing?"

Don't say it, there really is!

"Spider-Man cosplay outfits, Batman cosplay outfits, Superman cosplay outfits... all of them are tight-fitting clothes, does this turn into a gay mob again?"

Li Zheng scratched his head until sparks flew, and finally, a flash of inspiration struck him. He entered "suit" as the condition, and the atmosphere in the trading hall finally returned to normal.

"So that's how detailed the search function in the trading hall is! That's really thoughtful..."

"Thoughtful my foot! This is an anti-human design! Who would buy those rubbish?!"

In the end, Li Zheng traded a Luo Shen flower for a set of black and white casual clothes. After trying them on, he finally decided to trade another Luo Shen flower for a pair of underwear.

"Phew, that feels better."

In the Matrix Survival game, regardless of the player's body type or what clothes they wear, anything obtained within the Matrix will fit perfectly when worn, and all clothes are gender-neutral.

Therefore, theoretically, Li Zheng could wear a school swimsuit, a tank top, and then a teacher's uniform.

"Since we've already searched, why not see if anyone is trading the blueprints?"

After getting dressed, Li Zheng stopped rushing and started studying the search function in the trading hall.

If you enter "drawings" as the condition, all drawing types will be displayed.

This includes: equipment, facilities, furniture, etc.

To be more specific, equipment blueprints are divided into: weapons, armor, shields, etc.

Further subdivided, weapon blueprints are divided into: melee, ranged, etc.

Further subdivided, melee weapon blueprints are further divided into: knives, guns, swords, etc.

To further refine this, melee swords are divided into: long swords, short swords, dual swords, katanas, etc.

If it gets any more... well, I won't go into detail. Although it's a free chapter, it's not good to pad the word count like this. In short, if you want to find a certain item in the trading hall, your search criteria must be very precise. Otherwise, you'll get a bunch of related things, which is very annoying to search through.

After all, this is an exchange used by more than 3 billion people. After a day of exploration, the number of orders placed in the trading hall cannot be described as massive.

This is why Li Zheng posted the poisoned meat in the middle of the night, but the players didn't notice it until 6 a.m. because of William Houston's loudspeaker notification.

After doing some research, Li Zheng rested his chin on his hand and muttered to himself, "Although players are bringing out a lot of items now, very few of them are actually being traded."

"Even for some items that seem very useful, players prefer to rent them out or simply ask for an extremely high price."

"This situation may need a few more days of exploration before things improve, as the market becomes saturated with various items."

So it's practically impossible to find anything useful in the trading hall today.

Before closing the trading hall, Li Zheng searched for two more conditions.

"Mysterious" and "USB flash drive".

The former search result showed that the transaction records were empty.

"No items related to mystery? Does that mean items without the word 'mystery' in their names, or items without the attribute of mystery?"

Undeterred, Li Zheng searched for "mysterious lantern" again, but the results were still empty.

The search results for "行口巴..." on the USB drive were still various blueprints.

Left with no other choice, Li Zheng changed the keyword to "illustration guide," which led to a new discovery.

"Huh, there's actually one?"

Inside the trading hall, a lone black USB flash drive with gold thread patterns hung there.

Like the previous one he had found, this black USB drive did not display any information.

Even if the item has already been listed for sale, there is no information about the item.

"Strange, why are there items in the matrix that have absolutely no information about them? Could it be a bug?"

Li Zheng glanced at the price; the other party's requirements were quite high. The transaction target was an item for developing gene abilities, with no restrictions on grade or type.

"Quite an appetite. The price is outrageous for a prop that doesn't show any information."

Li Zheng was somewhat annoyed, as he knew that the encyclopedia had the incredible ability to reveal monster weaknesses.

He has only collected one set of "Biological Atlas (VII)" so far, which means he has at least six more sets of atlases to collect.

"If I could collect the complete biological encyclopedia, wouldn't all the weaknesses of every creature in the entire matrix be exposed to me?"

By then, won't I be able to roam freely within the Matrix?
The illustrated guide was right in front of him but he couldn't get it, and Li Zheng was clearly unwilling to give up.

"Contact the seller... William Houston?!"

After seeing the seller's name and confirming the channel number, the feeling of frustration was indescribable.

"Damn it, this is like a persistent ghost..."

Frustrated, Li Zheng shut down the trading floor without even considering trying to contact William Houston.

Because he knew that the other person had probably already blocked him from private chat, just like he had.

Now Li Zheng truly understands what it means to "catch something you shouldn't live with."

"A sin..."

Li Zheng looked up at the sky, brooded for a while, and finally decided to leave first.

"I have eight more exploration opportunities today, I need to speed things up... uh... how come there are only seven left?"

"Oh, right, this is the third room I've entered today."

Li Zheng counted on his fingers for a moment, then, without dwelling on it too much, went back to pick up Xiaoying, put away the capsule residence, and only then began to examine the metal doors.

The area above is ignored.

Li Zheng came in from there, so there was no need to look again.

The ground is also ignored.

The gravity shoes are broken; there's no point in looking at them now.

The other four metal doors are: Dangerous (red) Creature, Dangerous (red) Creature, Dangerous (orange-red) Environment, and Unknown (gray) Similar Creature.

"The detector has given a new rating!"

"unknown?"

"similar?"

This means,

Behind the door,

Any players?
Li Zheng's injuries had not fully healed, and apart from this room that might contain players, he didn't even consider the other three.

Swipe your card at the door.

Li Zheng exclaimed, "As expected of a prop from a treasure chest, my clothes were all burned off, but the detector was completely intact."

Truly, a single squeeze of this land reveals a treasure chest!
I stepped inside.

Li Zheng mentally gave the treasure chest system a huge thumbs up.

(End of this chapter)