Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 34 Decomposing Platinum!

"Sakura, stop!"

Li Zheng spoke up to stop him, his expression gradually calming down.

Xiao Siyuan is right, the pain comes on quickly and goes away quickly.

At this moment, not only did my ribs no longer hurt, but I even felt a tingling sensation.

"Ying ying."

Sakura stopped her charge, gave Xiao Siyuan a fierce look, landed next to Li Zheng, and rubbed against his hair... his bald scalp.

There was no way around it; last time I rubbed my cheek, I ended up covered in blood.

The little guy has learned his lesson.

"Judging from your expression, we can start treating the next rib very soon."

Xiao Siyuan, as expected of a player with "medical expertise," had an exceptionally accurate grasp of Li Zheng's injuries.

Less than five minutes after he finished speaking, the microgravity skeletal traction gun stopped operating, and the number of uses decreased by 1.

This indicates that the wound has completely healed.

The microgravity skeletal traction gun truly lives up to its silver-level medical status; its effects are more than twice as good as the bone-setting device Li Zheng traded before.

"and many more!"

As Xiao Siyuan moved the traction gun to another rib, Li Zheng's eyes twitched uncontrollably. He called out to stop, "Let me catch my breath first. I almost ascended to heaven just now."

"Okay, take your time, no rush."

As he spoke, Xiao Siyuan pressed the start button without making a sound, and the traction gun started working again.

hum.

Click.

"You son of a bitch..." Li Zheng screamed in terror, then let out a bloodcurdling scream: "You have no sportsmanship at all!"

"Wude?"

Xiao Siyuan revealed a harmless, simple smile: "When treating patients, I'm just a doctor. I only need to talk about medical ethics. Why bother with martial ethics?"

Li Zheng screamed in agony: "Aaaaaaah!"

Sakura glared angrily: "Waaah!"

Xiao Siyuan ignored him and continued, "But the way you are reminds me of a former comrade-in-arms. He was probably around your age back then, maybe twenty-two or twenty-three."

At that time, he had just been transferred to the border defense and was not very familiar with the route. As a result, one day the veteran who led him went on a mission and he was the only one left in the outpost.

That kid was ambitious; he went out on patrol by himself, but he went off course and slipped, rolling down the hillside.

Good heavens, several bones in his body are broken, and you can see the broken bone fragments sticking out of the flesh in his right arm, all white and raw.

Even so, he endured the pain, performed emergency treatment, and forced himself to walk back to the outpost.

According to the veteran who had just returned to the outpost, even though the kid was in so much pain that he was covered in cold sweat and his clothes were soaked with sweat in the freezing weather, he didn't utter a single sound.

What a pity...

"Ahhh...what a pity?"

Li Zheng screamed halfway through when suddenly the pain began to disappear, replaced by a tingling sensation that interrupted his spellcasting and forced him to stop.

"Unfortunately, after that treatment, he could no longer serve in the army."

With a look of reminiscence in his eyes, Xiao Siyuan slowly said, "At that time, I happened to be at a nearby outpost. I received the notice and rushed over to take him to the hospital. I guess you could say I cured him myself, since I was the one who performed the surgery."

After recovering, his right arm injury was too severe and had been delayed for too long, essentially rendering it useless. He eventually had to leave the border defense line, retire, and return to his hometown.

The day he left, I went to see him off, and he hugged me and cried so hard.

He didn't shed a single tear when several bones were broken and bone fragments were piercing through his flesh, so why did he cry after he recovered?

I didn't understand it then, but later... after I retired, I finally understood.

"Why do I always have tears in my eyes?"

Li Zheng murmured to himself, reading it in a low voice.

"Because I love this land so deeply..."

Di-

Wow.

The traction gun in Xiao Siyuan's hand was depleted of its uses, shattered into several pieces, and became completely useless.

Li Zheng finally recovered from all the injuries caused by his momentary greed.

The internal debridement was also completed, and all the nanobots gathered in his abdomen, but this time Li Zheng did not rush to return them.

Because he discovered that the time intervals between the two rentals of nanobots, when added together...

Exactly eight hours.

"It's a big loss."

This thought crossed Li Zheng's mind.

Xiao Siyuan composed himself, his eyes slightly reddening, and said with a smile, "You've heard this poem too?"

"How rare is it?"

Li Zheng got up and stretched his limbs. He had felt so constrained for the past few hours that he almost died of frustration. "As long as we Chinese people can recite this poem in its entirety, at least the last two lines are familiar to everyone."

"Yes...it's a household name."

Xiao Siyuan patted his clothes, stood up and said, "Now that you've healed me, it's time for me to leave. Judging by the time, I might not have used up all my exploration attempts for today."

"You're just leaving?"

Li Zheng watched Xiao Siyuan's retreating figure with a complicated expression.

The other party chose a metal door that was marked as red and dangerous by the detector.

Li Zheng opened his mouth and glanced at the remaining metal door again; the detector showed it as blue material.

After hesitating for a moment, he called out, "But you haven't collected your consultation fee yet!" Xiao Siyuan stopped, turned around, and said with a smile, "You can hand over your consultation fee to the country after you leave here one day. As for me... the country will pay me a salary."

After saying that, he turned to leave.

Li Zheng gritted his teeth and finally made up his mind: "Wait!"

Xiao Siyuan paused again, waiting for the rest of the story.

Li Zheng casually pointed to the blue security door and said, "If you trust me, go through there."

"..."

Xiao Siyuan looked at him silently without saying a word, then smiled, turned to the blue security door, and swiped his card.

Uzi~
The door opens.

Just as he was about to go inside, Li Zheng asked loudly, "What happened to that wounded and retired soldier you mentioned? Did he ever join the Matrix? I'd like to meet him if I have the chance."

Xiao Siyuan paused, didn't turn around, and said loudly, "His feathers are rotting in the ground."

After saying that, he disappeared into the light curtain.

……

Watching the other person leave, Li Zheng stood there for a long time before he came back to his senses.

"It's rotting in...the ground."

Li Zheng understood what Xiao Siyuan meant. The border guard who had already retired and returned home had returned to the border post for some unknown reason, and ended up sacrificing his life in the battle to defend the country.

"What a respectable person."

Li Zheng sighed, turned around and waved to let Xiaoying go back into his pocket, then walked towards the Wuji Modifier that had already stopped operating.

First, he tried to take the revolver off its hand, but to no avail. So Li Zheng simply took out his Desert Eagle and fired dozens of shots at the Wuji Modifier's fingers, breaking all of them.

Boom!
The exaggeratedly designed revolver landed with a dull thud.

"..."

Li Zheng shook his numb arm. Although he had gradually mastered the knack of firing a gun, the Desert Eagle was indeed a Desert Eagle, and its recoil was no joke.

"嘤嘤!"

Sakura poked her head out in protest, looking quite disgruntled.

"Okay, okay, I'll try to use the special shooting mode in the future."

Li Zheng spoke up to comfort the little guy.

"Hey?"

Sakura looked puzzled and started patting her ears with her two little paws, because she couldn't hear what Li Zheng had just said.

Li Zheng laughed it off and ignored it, figuring it would recover in a few minutes anyway.

"Let's see if it works."

Bending over and gripping the gun handle with both hands, Li Zheng struggled to lift it, but the system prompted:
[Unauthorized access denied; dismantling recommended.]

"..."

Li Zheng was speechless; they really didn't allow him to find any loopholes.

"It's likely that not only the guns, but also this suit of armor, won't be usable directly..."

I instantly lost interest, put my things away, and opened the system interface.

"break down!"

[Decomposition of the Limitless Modifier (System Discontinued)]
获得：飞轮手**纸*1、核能心脏改造许可*1、微型核能反应炉图纸*1、AI核心*1、钛空合金400g、基础模块*50、铁锭*30、B25级锰钢500g、钨钢800g】

"Good heavens! As expected of a platinum-level monster, the loot from dismantling it is simply outrageous..."

Li Zheng glanced at the space display of the capsule residence and saw that it was almost full!

[Flywheel Hand Cannon Crafting Diagram, Gold Grade, One-Time Use]

Description: Can be used to craft a flywheel hand cannon.

所需材料：动力核心Ⅳ型*1、钛空合金100g、基础模块*20、B25级锰钢300g、钨钢500g、铁锭*20、高级零部件*5]
[Nuclear-energy heart modification license, gold-level human modification license]
Description: Can be used at the human body modification station to perform a special human body modification.

Required materials: Power Core Type IV, Basic Module *10, Titanium-Spatial Alloy 200g
Note: This device requires a miniature nuclear reactor for use.
[Miniature Nuclear Reactor Construction Diagram, Gold Grade, Disposable]

Description: A miniature nuclear reactor can be built.

所需材料：动力核心Ⅳ型*1、基础模块*10、铁锭*10、钨钢100g、钛空合金100g、B25级锰钢100g]
Li Zheng glanced at the blueprints, thought for a moment, opened the trading hall, and put up the blueprints for the nuclear energy core modification permit and the micro nuclear reactor, specifying Xiao Siyuan from this channel, and agreed to trade unconditionally.

Seller's message: You don't have to pay the consultation fee, but I did use your treatment tools twice, so consider this compensation.

After a while, the system notified the other party that the transaction had been accepted.

The buyer left a message: "The door you chose is indeed very secure. These two items are very valuable. Consider it a favor I owe you."

Li Zheng smiled slightly; he didn't care about personal relationships.

Although they are two gold-level items, they are ultimately just blueprints and modification permits, and their value is negligible compared to other items.

However, if the other party hadn't intervened midway and delayed the Wuji Modifier a little, Li Zheng would probably have been reduced to ashes by now.

How can I not repay the life-saving grace?
Moreover, Li Zheng had no intention of modifying his body.

"If these materials weren't otherwise useful to me, I would have sent them all over directly."

Li Zheng removed the detector from his ear; all the upgrade materials were ready, and the upgrade could be completed tonight.

"Upgrading it to the next level would probably make it a platinum-level detector. I wonder how effective it would be?"

Full of anticipation, Li Zheng did not choose to upgrade immediately, but instead put it back on.

"It takes four hours to upgrade from silver to gold, and it will definitely take a long time to upgrade from gold to platinum. Let's wait until we use up the remaining exploration opportunities."

Li Zheng looked at the remaining metal door, which was marked as dangerous in red.

It's time to leave.

(End of this chapter)