Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 9 Making a Small Water Purifier
"On another note, we also chose green for the first room, but all we found was a blueprint and a Snickers bar. If it weren't for the accidental discovery that smashing the two machines could disassemble the damaged equipment, the gains wouldn't have been significant."

Li Zheng climbed the steps and went up to the second floor, while starting to take stock, trying to find out what each color of room in the matrix represented.

"This is also a green room, and I've gotten a Snickers bar so far. However, I also got a black iron-grade lantern in the basement."

"But it seems that the items in this room are not as valuable as those in the first room."

A lighting fixture, though a finished product, is clearly less valuable than the blueprints for a water purifier.

"After all, water is one of the most important survival resources, while lighting equipment is, in a sense, dispensable."

So far, Li Zheng has not encountered a room that is completely dark.

"So there should still be some things on the second floor that we can loot."

Upon arriving on the second floor, you are greeted by a square-shaped corridor that encloses the entire second floor, with distinctive railings surrounding the edges.

On the other side of the corridor, there is another room in each of the four directions.

Li Zheng walked into the nearest room, which was a bedroom.

The room features a double bed, silk curtains, and luxurious bedding—everything you could want.

On the inner wall of the bedroom, a metal door stands quietly.

The detector indicated that this was a dangerous, orange-red door.

"Yes, the metal door to the next room is indeed on the second floor, but there's no rush to explore it now. There's still plenty of space to explore on the second floor."

Next, Li Zheng went to see the other three rooms.

They were in a washroom, and the metal door inside was found to be empty.

A small bedroom, the metal door inside was detected as a red hazard.

There is also a study, which contains only a desk and a bookshelf.

In the washroom, Li Zheng found 100ml of clean water in a wooden bucket, took out a water bottle, and filled it up.

As usual, I smashed everything I could before leaving, but unfortunately there was nothing that could be broken down.

In the small bedroom, Li Zheng took out two parts from the pillow. After touching them, he found that the bedding and curtains could be directly decomposed to obtain 30 fibers.

[Fiber (Gray) Material]
Soft, fluffy materials can be used to make specific items.
Emerging from the small bedroom, Li Zheng nodded: "Now the value of the items found in the two green rooms is roughly equal."

Upon entering the study and walking to the desk, Li Zhengcai discovered that a familiar screen was embedded in the desktop.

"Research Data Station!"

Li Zheng strode forward quickly, familiar with the layout, and first turned the entire desk over. After pulling open a drawer, he found two sockets inside.

Take out the water purifier diagram, insert the USB drive, and the screen lights up, displaying the geometric diagram of the water purifier.

The drawing was marked with some data, and the word "Learning" was displayed on the edge of the screen.

As he touched the "Learning" screen, the USB drive disappeared, and the images transformed into light, flowing into Li Zheng's brain.

Players learn blueprints to unlock crafting features.

A system notification appeared simultaneously, and Li Zheng noticed a "Manufacture" button on the panel in front of him.

Upon opening it, I found only one item available: a [small water purifier].

Clicking on the mini water purifier opens the page, clearly displaying the quantity of materials needed for its manufacture, as well as the quantity of materials Li Zheng currently possesses.

Small water purifiers can convert wastewater into clean drinking water.

制作所需材料：零部件*1/7，铁锭*3/14，铜锭*1/11
"The materials needed are not many, let's make one first and see."

Select "Manufacture," and the materials will be deducted directly. A short while later, a prompt will appear in front of Li:
[The mini water purifier is now complete. Please find a location to place it or store it in your capsule home.]

"Just put it on this table."

With a thought, a silver-white machine appeared before Li Zheng's eyes.

It is small in size and looks like a water dispenser. The water inlet at the top is funnel-shaped, and the bottom is a metal cup.

[Lack of energy.]

A virtual arrow pointed to the back of the water purifier. Li Zheng followed the arrow and opened it, finding that it was just the right size to hold a Power Core Type I.

Take one out, put it in, and close the back cover.

[Lack of sewage.]

"Where...where can we find this sewage?"

Li Zheng was in a dilemma. Could it be that after all this effort, he had ended up with a useless thing?

"I don't know if urine counts as sewage..."

Li Zheng thought for a moment, "I guess so..."

He should have thought about it, but once he did, he immediately felt an overwhelming urge to urinate.

"Try it."

Since no one was watching, Li Zheng started relieving himself.

After entering the matrix, I didn't drink much water, just enough for one soda can.

With a look of disgust, Li Zheng picked up the can with two fingers and poured the pungent liquid into a funnel. "Buzz."

The water purifier made a slight sound and started working.

Almost simultaneously, water began to fill the metal cup below, and within two minutes, Li Zheng had 300ml of purified water.

"..."

"Awesome... almost lossless conversion, yay~"

Although the system indicated that the water was purified and safe to drink.

However, the thought that it was purified with urine made Li Zheng feel disgusted, and he just couldn't bring himself to eat it.

"Let's list it on the stock exchange and sell it...and sell this water purifier too."

Divide 300ml of water into three portions, and set each portion to contain 20g of B25 grade manganese steel.

"One hundred milliliters of water in exchange for twenty grams of bronze material is not a large amount, and there should be people who are extremely short of water who would be willing to do so."

Li Zheng wasn't in a hurry. Anyway, the exchange didn't charge any fees. At worst, he could just relist the transaction under different conditions when it expired.

"As for this water purifier... let me give you a subtle hint."

First, pry out the power core, then throw it on the exchange, and the seller's message says: Under what circumstances can you drink a cup of water for a lifetime?

The transaction requirements are: 2 iron ingots, 5 spare parts, and 2 copper ingots.

It costs almost twice as much as it did to build.

Whether anyone buys it or not, the price is what it is.

"I happen to have some free time right now, so I'll clean up my private chats."

Opening the private chat, countless unread messages were displayed, showing 9999+.

Li Zheng didn't bother to look closely, keeping only the chat logs between Feng Shan and Zhan Zhouzhou, and deleting all the others' logs.

As soon as I deleted it, a new private message from a stranger came in.

Unsurprisingly, it was still just flattery and sycophancy.

Helpless, Li Zheng had no choice but to change the private chat settings to reject messages from strangers, and only then did he feel at peace.

After finishing deleting everything, Li Zheng finally had time to pay attention to Fengshan and Zhan Zhouzhou.

Because both of them had traded with Li Zheng at the exchange, the system automatically categorized them as "acquaintances".

By this time, Fengshan had already been removed from the blacklist, and had sent more than twenty unread messages during this period.

Upon opening the message, one finds it filled with resentment, containing superstitious blessings such as "I'll draw a circle to curse you" or "You'll definitely get sick and get cancer."

"This kid..."

Li Zheng chuckled and replied, "Next time there's a fire-type one, I'll save it for you."

I guessed that Fengshan was bored after finishing ten rooms, so I replied almost instantly, but with only one word:

"Humph."

"Quite arrogant..."

Li Zheng smiled, ignored him, and instead looked at Zhan Zhouzhou's profile picture, opening a private message: "How's the result? Did you successfully awaken?"

After a moment, Zhan Zhouzhou replied: "No."

Expected.

Li Zheng thought to himself.

Not everyone is like that beast Fengshan, who can trigger a 2% chance to awaken the fire gene with just one flower.

However, since the other party had used a silver-level power core to exchange for it, only to end up with nothing, Li Zheng felt that as the seller, he had a responsibility to care about the buyer.

"It's normal that it didn't awaken; the probability is indeed a bit low. Next time there's something similar, I'll give you a friendly price."

By the way, you didn't trigger that 30% probability, did you?

Yes, those words were both humane and caring.

Li Zheng felt that he was a qualified and heartwarming seller.

Almost instantly, Zhan Zhouzhou replied to the message.

Li Zheng clicked on it and saw that it contained another word:

"roll!"

"???"

The other party has blacklisted you for twelve hours.

Li Zheng: "???"

Damn it?

Do you even understand reason?
(End of this chapter)