Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 95: An Invitation from Zhan Zhouzhou, a New Special Room.

"Poof!"×2
Blood splattered everywhere. Li Zheng, expressionless, drew his titanium alloy spear and wiped the blood off his face.

“If you two were heterosexual and provided me with some milk, I would change my mind and not kill you.” Li Zheng wiped the blood off his spear with his sleeve. “At worst, I’ll find other ways to get fresh blood from Kentaic cattle later.”

I gave you all a chance, but you were all useless.
"break down!"

【分解肯泰牛尸体，获得：肯泰牛鲜血2000ml、肯泰牛鲜肉+40、肯泰牛牛鞭+2、肯泰牛牛宝+4、坚固锋利的肯泰牛角+4、肯泰牛心核+2】

After both Kentaic beef cattle were completely processed, Li Zheng once again gained a large sum of gold-grade materials.

Perhaps because the Kentaic beef had exhausted its poisonous blood during its charge, the flesh and other materials that Li Zheng extracted this time were all non-toxic.

"Another forty pieces of fresh meat..."

Li Zheng rubbed his forehead. He had been getting far too much meat and blood lately, and he couldn't possibly eat it all. He also had to spend a lot of time every day freezing the meat.

"Let's sell half of them."

Li Zheng opened the trading hall, put twenty portions of beef on the shelves, and then threw in all the meat, both poisonous and non-poisonous, that he had obtained before yesterday.

"I didn't sell them before because I thought they wouldn't sell quickly and would easily rot, so I'd have to take them off the shelves and refreeze them," Li Zheng muttered as he put the items up for sale. "Now it's great! With the composting studio here, even if they rot in the trading hall, I can bring them back and use them as compost material. Perfect!"

Selling it would be ideal, as it would also bring in some income from the materials.

Although it is the meat of creatures that produce gold and silver, its value is pitifully low.

After all, if you kill any creature, unless it's a small one like a dire bat, you can easily break it down into ten or twenty pieces of fresh meat.

Therefore, the fresh meat that Li Zheng sells is only bought by foodies who like to try different foods.

If they can't be sold, at most they can be used to make fertilizer, and the fertilizer produced can be used to feed crops.

You should know that in the Matrix, vegetables are much more expensive than meat.

Foods like ginseng flower honey fruit, which can be eaten as fruit, are much more valuable than meat.

When vegetables are actively sold, most people's trading needs are either for the core or for raw materials sold by the "piece".

Meat... can only be exchanged for special metals that are priced by the gram.

Basically... a piece of meat can be exchanged for a maximum of ten grams of special metal.

However, it takes 125 to 150 grams of special metal to exchange for other materials of the same grade, such as high-grade parts and modules.

Therefore, meat is really worthless.

Blood is worth less.

At least that's the case on channel 879.

Once all the meat was on the shelves, Li Zheng took out the bull penis and bull testicles to check their attributes.

Kentai Beef Tentacle, Gold Grade, Ingredient

Description: A powerful aphrodisiac.

It has a chewy, smooth, and bouncy texture.

Cons: It's flashy.

Kentai Beef Treasure, Gold Grade, Ingredient

Description: Nourishing** (Active crab, which means nourishing organs of the same shape)
It has a tender and fresh texture.

Cons: Extremely flashy.

"..."

Li Zheng remained indifferent and opened the regional channel: "Two bull penises and four bull testicles. Just say if you want them, they're free!"

Ha, even if a set that's been used on dry roads is highly effective, I won't take it!
The message caused an uproar in the regional channels as soon as it was sent.

Lu Li reacted the fastest: "@Li Zheng, Dad, give me a set!"

This was the first time Li Zheng had seen this guy speak in the regional channel since he revealed his combat strength.

It turns out it was all for this one thing.

Ugh, how embarrassing!

Li Zheng grinned and, without saying a word, put a set up for sale, specifically requesting Lu Li to trade.

The second person to shout out was interesting; it was not only a female player, but also someone Li Zheng knew.

Yan Guang: "I want one too! @Li Zheng"

This really surprised Li Zheng.

Why would this woman buy this thing?

Could it be...

"Oh~~"

Li Zheng grinned mischievously, said nothing more, and listed the item for a specific transaction.

Just because Li Zheng doesn't talk much doesn't mean others won't.

Especially when you encounter someone who isn't very bright.

Lu Li: "Received the [bullwhip photo]. Holy crap, it's longer than my arm and thicker than my thigh. @Yan Guang, can you handle it?"

"..."

Li Zheng's smile suddenly froze, and he almost wanted to drag Lu Li out and beat him to death.

Is that how you ask a question in public?
Isn't this making things awkward for the other party?
You should be just like yourself...

Uh--

Silently, she deleted the message she was about to send to Yan Guang and then closed the private chat window.

If Lu Li angers Yan Guang, and then sends him a private message, Yan Guang will go berserk and accuse him of "father-son collusion" and kill him along with Yan Guang.

That would be a huge loss.

However, Li Zheng was also quite curious about how Yan Guang would respond, so he eagerly watched the screen.

Yan Guang: "I'm not eating it."

Lu Li: "I understand, I understand. You didn't necessarily take it to eat it..."

Yan Guang: "What are you thinking about? I prepared this for Fengshan."

Land from:"???"

"???" Li Zheng was also full of questions.

Yan Guang: "If he's doing well, I'm doing well too."

"puff!"

Li Zheng instantly realized that Yan Guang was plotting something sinister!

Lu Li: "Let's mourn for our Fengshan boss for three seconds."

Zhan Zhouzhou: "@Lu Li, what are you mourning for! Feng Shan had a banquet after he finished eating, what did you get after you finished eating?"

Li Zheng: "Zhan Zhouzhou, you hit the nail on the head!"

Lu Li: "Well said, that's the end of the sentence."

Lu Li went back to lurking online, probably because Zhan Zhouzhou's words had stung him.

However, Li Zheng looked at Yan Guang's profile picture and felt a little reluctant.

He had always thought that Yan Guang's personality was just like that—carefree and easygoing. Whenever he said he wanted to sleep with Feng Shan, he was just joking around.

But now it seems... this girl is serious. This is really troublesome.

Fengshan clearly had no romantic feelings for her, and always kept his distance as if he were a tiger or leopard.

On the regional channel, they never responded to Yan Guang's remarks.

"Why don't we find an opportunity to talk to her privately, so that things don't get ugly between them later and things don't turn out badly?"

As Li Zheng was pondering this, he was about to close the regional chat channel when he saw Zhan Zhouzhou ask a question.

Zhan Zhouzhou: "@Yan Guang, you're not serious, are you?"

Li Zheng stopped himself from closing the page and continued to spy on it.

Zhan Zhouzhou and Yan Guang are both women, so they are probably easier to communicate with.

However, after Li Zheng waited for five minutes, more people started chatting in the regional channel, but Yan Guang still didn't reply.

"Forget it, why bother with all that?"

Li Zheng closed the chat room and turned to look for the composting materials left by Kenta Niu in the room.

……

On the other side, Yan Guang did not reply in the lobby, but instead sent messages to Zhan Zhouzhou in private chat.

Yan Guang: "Of course I'm serious."

Zhan Zhouzhou: "What are you after? We're in this godforsaken place, living day to day. Even if you really get together with him, what good will it do? Maybe one of you will die tomorrow."

Yan Guang: "You don't understand."

Do you know what I was thinking when that crocodile bit my forearm?

I was thinking, how wonderful it would be if someone came to save me.

I'm all grown up, and I've never had a serious relationship.

I haven't met the person I can entrust my life to yet.

I haven't yet fulfilled my filial duty to my parents.

I am not yet financially independent.

I have not……

I still have so many things to do.

If only someone could come and save me...

Unfortunately, that person doesn't exist.

I was just lucky to escape from the crocodile monster's mouth; I almost died from blood loss.

As fate would have it, the next room contained a human modification table, which saved his life.

But I also lost a hand.

Do you know what I was thinking when I was lying on the modification table, without any anesthesia, and that saw cut off the remaining half of my arm?

I thought I was going to die.

The cold saw blade cut down on my shoulder, and I could feel its teeth tearing my skin, severing my tendons, cutting my flesh, and crushing my bones bit by bit!

I was thinking then, if I survive this, I must finish all the things I haven't done yet, so I won't have any regrets in my life.

Zhan Zhouzhou: "So you..."

Yan Guang: "That's right, Fengshan is the first goal I want to achieve in my life."

Zhan Zhouzhou: "You're not going to say you fell in love with Fengshan at first sight, are you? You could fall in love at first sight just by seeing his profile picture?"

Yan Guang: "Of course not! It's just that Feng Shan is the first strong person I've encountered since entering this place, so I want to conquer him!"

Zhan Zhouzhou: "...What kind of lame reason is that? If it's just about conquest, what does it have to do with feelings?"

Yan Guang: "At first, the idea was to conquer... but then we went to the ancient ruins, didn't we..."

Zhan Zhouzhou: "Hmm?"

Yan Guang: "Mm!"

Zhan Zhouzhou: "So you only started getting serious when you went to the ancient ruins? Isn't that still love at first sight?"

Yan Guang: "Hehe."

Zhan Zhouzhou: "You should be able to tell that Fengshan isn't interested in you."

Yan Guang: "I know."

Zhan Zhouzhou: "Then you..."

Yan Guang: "What does it matter to him if I like him?"

Zhan Zhouzhou: "Since you know what's going on, I won't say anything more."

After sending the message, Zhan Zhouzhou closed the private chat panel and shook his head, seemingly unable to understand Yan Guang's thoughts.

He took out the tungsten steel longsword and the malicious detection pocket watch, preparing to head to the next room.

Selecting a door to probe, the pocket watch beeped once and then emitted a black light.

"The room with the black light means that with my current strength, I would have a very low chance of dying if I went in."

Zhan Zhouzhou remembered the instructions for using the pocket watch that Fengshan had sent along with it. Instead of overestimating his abilities and trying to challenge it, he turned around and swiped his card at a different door.

"Di."

The metal door opened, revealing a pure gray light curtain behind it.

"what?"

With a delicate, raised eyebrow, Zhan Zhouzhou tried to enter.

You have discovered a special room: the Lost Castle.

"It really is a special room."

……

With the help of Preys' Eye, Li Zheng found the place where the Kentai cattle defecate and called on Number Four and Number Five to move all the composting materials into the workshop.

"Once this round of work is finished, the compost bin should be half full."

Li Zheng roughly estimated that the compost bins would be full after searching two or three more rooms.

"I only have one petri dish right now, and I don't need much fertilizer. Once the compost bin is full, I'll start operating it. We can't possibly use up all the fertilizer produced in a short time."

But... should we put some up for sale in the trading hall?

During their exploration, players encounter crop cultivation dishes, and fertilizer can shorten the time required for cultivation.

The demand must be quite high.

Li Zheng decided to try selling some of the fertilizer after this batch was produced. If it sold well, he would continue to operate the composting business long-term.

In any case, in the matrix, almost every room with living beings contains a large amount of feces.

"There's nothing of value in this room anymore. Let's move on to the next room."

Li Zheng looked around and, after confirming that the Eye of Preys had not given any clues, prepared to head to the fifth room of the day.

He had barely lifted his foot when he received a private message from Zhan Zhouzhou.

"A special room, wanna go?"

(End of this chapter)