Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 45 Death Declaration, Lin Fan Makes His Appearance!
Four hours later.

"boom!"

With the final gunshot, Li Zheng's exploration for the day came to a close.

At this moment, he was in a deep, cave-like room, surrounded by long-haired spiders with four eyes lying on the ground.

"After decomposing the Four-Eyed Hairy Spider, I can make another batch of Black Iron Potions today, enough to add another plus sign to my four-dimensional attributes."

Without rushing to decompose it, Li Zheng released the capsule's dwelling place, first warming up some spider glands for Xiaoying, and then taking out two yellowish-brown crystals.

"The heart core of the Armored Wild Boar has a chance to develop earth-type gene abilities if fed to a pet. I'll give Sakura one tonight to try. If it fails, I'll give her another one tomorrow morning."

The surface of the core is rough and uneven, not smooth at all, and looks like it's undercooked.

Li Zheng couldn't help but rub it a couple of times.

"It feels quite like a walnut, it's a pity there are only two, otherwise it would be nice to play with them when I have nothing to do."

These two cores were broken down from an adult armored boar. The smaller one may not have developed its genetic abilities yet, so it did not break down into a core.

Li Zheng placed one of the crystals in front of Sakura and said, "Eat this core after dinner."

"嘤嘤!"

Sakura looked at the walnut-sized crystal and frowned.

There's no way we could finish all this food in one meal.

You'll gain weight!

As it grew larger, its appetite also increased slightly. In order to cultivate it as soon as possible, Li Zheng did not reduce the amount of food when heating the spider glands just now.

"It's okay, if you can't finish it, just eat it slowly. Consider it a good way to chew your teeth, so you won't run around outside all the time."

Li Zheng patted the little guy's head, ignoring its protests, picked up a few ginseng flowers, and walked out of the capsule residence.

Disassembling a four-eyed hairy spider yields: +3 Strong Spider Silk, 50ml Hairy Spider Blood.

Disassembling the four-eyed hairy spider yielded: ...

Each long-haired spider, the size of a washbasin, was dissected, yielding pitifully little material. Aside from long-haired spider blood, the most one could obtain was some tough spider silk of the black iron grade.

Strong spider silk, black iron grade, material
It can be used to make clothing; it is flexible, resilient, and comfortable against the skin.

"I saw clothing blueprints in the trading hall before, but they were all learning blueprints. If I bought them, I would have to go to the information desk, which would waste an exploration opportunity and wouldn't be worth it."

Li Zheng chose low or medium threat levels for all his exploration opportunities today, in order to obtain more blood.

If you choose a safe room to study the blueprints, you will lose at least 100ml of blood materials.

"After the dismantling is complete, ask in the regional channel if there are any players who want to learn clothing patterns, and post a commission order for crafting."

Commissioned crafting is a new feature launched today, primarily designed to facilitate trading between players.

Some rare learning blueprints are hard to obtain, so you can find players who have already learned the blueprint, provide them with materials and payment, and commission them to make it.

The production team must start working within five minutes of accepting the commission, and the finished product will be sent directly to the commissioning party by the system.

If anyone accepts a commission and attempts to delay, they will be punished according to the amount of time delayed.

This differs from the method of directly placing a trade.

When a transaction order is placed, buyers can only passively search for and purchase it.

By placing an order, the buyer can decide the remuneration they are willing to pay.

There are two transaction methods, one convenient for buyers and the other convenient for sellers.

Each has its advantages and disadvantages.

After Li Zheng finished decomposing all the four-eyed hairy spiders, he turned around and saw Xiao Ying holding the heart core in her hands, flying behind him and slowly gnawing on it.

"Ying ying."

When Sakura saw him finally turn around, she angrily turned away and ignored him.

We agreed to eat together from now on, but he left Benying behind and went outside by himself.

"Ah, haha, sorry, sorry."

Li Zheng chuckled awkwardly and apologized, "I didn't eat lunch, and I was worried you'd be hungry, so I let you eat first..."

As he spoke, he waved the two remaining ginseng flowers in his hand, "Let's go back and have dinner."

"Hey!"

Sakura ignored him and flew towards her capsule home on her own.

Li Zheng hurried after him and entered the house to find the little guy sitting on the ground, angrily gnawing on the kernel, making a crunching sound.

"Alright, alright, here I am, right? Our little Sakura can't be that petty, can she?"

Li Zheng went over and sat down, making a couple of teasing remarks.

"Humph!"

Sakura turned her back and began to devour the heart core faster and faster, as if venting her anger.

Before long, it finished eating the entire core, and a yellowish-brown light appeared on its body, instantly enveloping the little guy.

"Hey?"

Sakura saw her identity glowing and curiously poked it with her little hand, but the light went right through her and touched her own body.

The next instant, the light surged, and Sakura transformed into a ball of light.

Inside the ball of light, the little guy felt extremely tired and eventually couldn't hold on any longer, falling into a deep sleep.

"Sigh, this guy..."

Looking at the unmoved glands of the spider, Li Zheng guessed that Sakura had eaten the core first in order to grow faster.

[Sakura eats the heart core of an armored boar to unlock her genetic abilities.]

[Pet genetic abilities under development...]

Development progress: 0.1%...0.5%...

Looking at the progress, it's much faster than the development speed after I finished eating Rock Ice Fire.

"After all, it's just a black iron-level development tool, so it's normal for it to be a bit faster."

Comparing the times, Li Zheng roughly calculated and concluded, "Only five minutes?"

It's alright, I can wait.

During this time, Li Zheng was not idle either. He asked on the regional channel and learned that Li Chun had studied clothing pattern design.

After asking about the required quantity of materials, and because they were acquaintances, Li Zheng placed a special order for them, charging 50% of the total material cost.

To this end, Li Zheng not only used up all sixty spider silks he had just harvested, but also took out more than thirty different kinds of animal hides.

Li Chun is a very honest person. Seeing how generous Li Zheng is, in addition to making an outer garment, she also used her own materials to make another set of underwear for Li Zheng.

Five minutes later, the light around Sakura dissipated, and several message notifications popped up.

[Sakura successfully developed her genetic ability: Flying Rock Shot.]

Flying Rock Projectile
Iron grade

Type: Physical manipulation

Lv1
0/100
Active effect: Condenses earth elements to form small rock projectiles for attack.

Cost: 1 point of Gene Force per Flying Rock Projectile.

[Sakura's Gene Ability Unlocked, Initial Gene Force Value 20/20]

[Sakura has entered her growth stage.]

[Sakura's personality confirmed: Ambitious.]

[Ambitious: Pets with this personality are eager to improve their strength.]

Effect: Increases the effectiveness of all growth-type items by 10%.
[When any item is used by a pet (limited to boosting itself), there is a chance it will be permanently increased by 10%]

Your order has been completed. Please pick up your goods promptly.

[Your trade has been selected in the trading hall; please confirm it promptly.]

"Yingying?"

Sakura woke up, seemingly wondering why she had suddenly fallen asleep.

"woke up?"

Li Zheng looked at it with concern and asked, "How are you feeling?"

"Eek... Hmph!"

Sakura originally wanted to talk to Li Zheng, but then she remembered that she was still angry, so she turned her head away angrily.

Turning his head, the little guy realized something was wrong.

how……

Does it seem like my perspective on things has become more elevated?

As Sakura got up from the ground, she was surprised to find that... she had grown taller again!
"Waaah, waaaah!"

Looking at its little hands and feet, it noticed they had grown quite a bit bigger, and it excitedly cried out.

I've finally grown up!
No longer a burden to Li Zheng! That's wonderful!
Sakura was amazing today too!

Seeing its excited expression, Li Zheng was also very happy. He smiled and said from behind Xiaoying, "Our Xiaoying has always been amazing!"

"Humph!"

Sakura proudly raised her head.

Li Zheng added, "They'll be even more amazing in the future, even more amazing than me!"

"嘤嘤!"

Sakura was finally satisfied. She turned around and very generously said that she was no longer angry with Li Zheng.

But from now on, Li Zheng must keep his word and never leave me out of meals again.

"Okay, okay, I promise!"

After Li Zheng swore repeatedly, Xiao Ying flapped her wings, wanting to fly into his pocket, but she was distressed to find that she had grown too big and the pocket could no longer hold her.

"嘤嘤!"

Her little face showed a wronged expression, as if she was about to cry.

It looked up at Li Zheng pitifully, as if to ask him if it had gotten too fat and whether Li Zheng would dislike it.

"Alright, from now on, stop trying to get into my pockets. Just stand on my shoulder."

Li Zheng held Xiao Ying, who was already as big as a macaw, in both hands and placed her on one of his shoulders.

"Hey."

Sakura stretched out her little paws to grab Li Zheng's hair to steady herself, but she grabbed nothing. In the end, she could only hug Li Zheng's ears to get used to the balance of standing on his shoulders.

It quickly mastered the skill and could stand very steadily on it.

"Let's go out and test your new ability."

Li Zheng led Xiao Ying out of their residence and found a more open space.

"Let's hit a stationary target first and see how powerful it is."

After searching around, Li Zheng found the dismembered remains of a four-eyed hairy spider and placed them in a safe spot.

"Sakura, hit it with a Rock Shot."

Li Zheng pointed to the fixed remains and gave the order.

"Hey!"

Sakura clenched her fist, opened her mouth, and emitted a yellowish-brown ball of light. Inside the ball was a rock the size of a ping-pong ball, which shot towards the mutilated corpse with a shriek.

"Snapped!"

The stone struck the mangled corpse accurately, causing juices to splatter.

Li Zheng glanced at it and estimated that its power was slightly less than that of the Desert Eagle. However, the Desert Eagle was a bronze-level weapon, and one of the more powerful pistols.

It's already quite exaggerated that the Black Iron level gene ability can match its power.

And most importantly, genetic abilities can be upgraded!
Li Zheng also has a core of an Armored Boar, whose attributes match those of the Flying Rock Shot, and can significantly increase experience gain.

"It's awesome!"

Li Zheng gave Xiaoying a thumbs up and praised her highly.

"嘤嘤!"

The little guy stood with his little paws on his hips, looking quite pleased with himself.

Next, Li Zheng tested the firing range and accuracy of the flying rock projectile.

The detection range is acceptable; it can hit targets within 80 meters, but its power decreases beyond that range.

As for accuracy...

Li Zheng looked at Xiaoying squatting in the corner and said helplessly, "Let's start training tomorrow and try to improve our aim so that we can hit living things."

"Hey..."

Sakura was completely speechless and dejected.

Having no other choice, Li Zheng had to practice with Xiaoying a few times.

He found more than ten pieces of hairy spider carcasses and threw them far away.

Sakura must hit the target with a flying rock bullet before the corpse hits the ground.

Otherwise, it would be considered a failure.

However, Sakura failed to hit the target even after her genetic energy was completely depleted.

"Uh-huh-huh."

Sakura looked at Li Zheng, her black, gem-like eyes filled with mist.

Now Li Zheng was completely at a loss. He could only take the little guy back to its capsule home and lie to it, saying that it must be too tired today and that it should rest early and try its gene abilities again tomorrow morning.

After finally calming Xiaoying down, Li Zheng finally had time to start making the Black Iron-grade gene serum.

For all subsequent explorations today, Li Zheng chose rooms with living organisms, accumulating another batch of materials.

As night fell, Li Zheng drank all the potions, finally raising his cell vitality and muscle strength to the Iron Level++.

The other two attributes, while not reaching two+, are not far off.

"Most of the potions tonight are at the maximum level of three plus signs for Black Iron. They'll probably be saturated in a couple of days."

Li Zheng stopped the production table, which was running low on energy, and lay down in the fiber ball. "It will probably be quite troublesome to gather enough materials for the maximum of four or even five doses of the potion."

"Moreover, there is a severe energy shortage. If only we could repair those damaged power cores, five of which are Type III."

"Forget it, how about we go into a few equipment rooms and dismantle a few refrigerators when we explore tomorrow?"

As I thought about it, drowsiness crept in.

Li Zheng got up, closed the door, and prepared to lie back down to rest.

……

In a room within the 0000879 matrix, a metal door slowly opened, and a young man with a gloomy expression and ruthless eyes stepped out.

The man's body surged with blood energy, sometimes transforming into a demon, sometimes into a yaksha.

"Those two lunatics from the Ye family chased me all day for the lives of a few pieces of trash."

"When I get back in a month, I'll make sure you pay for all the humiliation a hundredfold!"

Lin Fan held a blood-red lantern in his hand, his mind filled with wicked thoughts.

Suddenly, he looked towards the center of the room, where there was a capsule dwelling that had been released.

In front of the residence, a bald girl was practicing sword moves, her expression extremely focused, seemingly unaware of Lin Fan's arrival.

"Ah."

Lin Fan revealed a cruel smile: "There's an unexpected surprise. This little wench is quite pretty. You're in luck tonight."

Carrying a lantern, Lin Fan took out his weapon from his residence.

A silver-grade folding-barrel sport shotgun.

This shotgun has a legendary name—S686!
If you haven't heard of its name, you've certainly heard the slogans its owners have used:

"Everyone is equal before the S686!"

Lin Fan obtained the blueprints for this gun in the first room after entering the Matrix.

Along with the blueprints, he was also carrying a red lantern.

He was able to kill more than 30 players within 2 days and 20 exploration opportunities, all thanks to the lantern's effect.

[Death Declaration, Silver Level]

The holder will receive ten additional exploration opportunities after nightfall.

Death: After killing a player, you will receive an additional item of the highest value tier +1 when merging the capsule dwelling.

Declaration: Day or night... I am everywhere! (90% chance of entering another player's room while exploring)
Note: This item only works when held in hand.

Using the lantern's effect, Lin Fan initially tricked and killed other players to obtain a large amount of high-level materials, and forged the weapon within half a day.

after that……

It escalated and became uncontrollable.

"Slaying monsters to survive is nothing compared to the thrill of killing people."

Lin Fan's wicked expression grew even stronger, and his gaze towards the girl was naked and undisguised.

"Before killing her, I can have some fun."

It's over four thousand words, so I won't break it up; it really affects the reading experience.

There should be another chapter updated tonight, about two thousand words.

Well, considering the word count of this chapter, couldn't you at least give me some monthly tickets or a reward...?

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