Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 221 Where are you? Let's raid some gold?
The next day, I got up, washed up, and had breakfast.

All the miscellaneous tasks were resolved within an hour. In order to be in full shape for the exploration, Li Zheng prepared a three-dish meal with soup early in the morning, with double the amount.

While filling my stomach, I also managed to fully stack the buffs to all four attributes.

"Yes, the first round of flame branches has been planted. We'll plant the second round this afternoon, and then harvest them as soon as possible."

Li Zheng was woken up by the housekeeping robot "Nanny" in the middle of the night so that the seeds of the Flame Branch could be planted.

Although the Flame Flower has no "time limit" after turning into seeds, Li Zheng still chose to plant it continuously in order to upgrade the Ice and Fire Attachment to the maximum level as soon as possible.

Not a single moment is wasted.

Li Zheng did not plan to use "Thunder Essence" before he had maxed out the Ice and Fire Attachment skill.

The prerequisite for obtaining this item is possessing some type of lightning-based genetic ability.

According to the hints given by Lao Pu, different types of genetic abilities, even those of the same level, have different values.

Therefore, in order to obtain a satisfactory lightning-type ability, one might have to risk side effects by repeatedly using items of different attributes to remove unsatisfactory lightning-type abilities.

This is no small project.

With everything ready, we put away our capsule accommodations and, with Sakura and Pink Polly in tow, officially set off for today's exploration.

Since he needed to get to the doctor's location, Li Zheng bypassed the five doors' detection and went in the direction indicated by the business card.

Preys' Eye provides information about the environment behind the door.

There is a tomb behind the door containing burial goods. If you choose this spot, you can dig up the tomb to obtain some non-technical items, but they are not of high rank. It is recommended that you reconsider.

Note: Grave robbing may provoke the wrath of the grave's occupant.

"Consider what? Do you think I don't want to?" Li Zheng rolled his eyes and swiped his card at the door.

"The problem is, no matter what's here, I have to get through here."

The door opened, and I led Sakura and the others inside.

The environment suddenly changed, and Li Zheng arrived at a hillside with beautiful scenery, a gentle breeze, and the fragrance of flowers in the air.

Looking up at the sky, a metal door hangs upside down in mid-air.

White clouds dotted the side of the door; it was hard to tell if they were projections or real clouds.

The hillside was covered with weeds and unidentified wildflowers. These plants were essentially worthless trash, but if dried, they could be used as kindling.

Hidden among the flowers and plants are rocks of varying sizes; besides these, there are only the clues given by Old Pu:

Walk this way, and you'll see a tombstone in about 500 meters.

I took out the business card, and sure enough, one of the arrows was missing. Looking in the direction it pointed, the message had changed again.

Walk this way, and after 800 meters you will see a door leading to the next room.

"Yes, everything is pretty much as I expected. According to the arrow, the earliest we can complete the transport mission is tomorrow."

Li Zheng pondered to himself, hesitating whether he should work overtime that night, wait for the exploration count to refresh, and then immediately set off to complete the mission.

"Get it done as soon as possible, and we can save time to use space pirates to go back."

The space pirates could only hold the teleportation opportunity for three days, leaving less than twenty teleportation chances. Li Zheng planned to use them all before returning the pirates.

No matter what, using it less than once feels like losing money.

Walking towards the grave indicated by the clue, Li Zheng remembered the few people who hadn't returned to Channel 879 yesterday.

"I wonder what Chu Xiao and the others are up to. Their names have already appeared on the power rankings of Channel 24 overnight, haven't they?"

"Hmm? Right, I remember discovering some players in this channel yesterday..."

Li Zheng realized what was happening, opened the regional channel, and checked the combat power rankings.

Sure enough, after refreshing at eight o'clock in the morning, my name had already appeared.

Besides him, the name of another player was unexpected by Li Zheng.

"Kato Junkazu? What's he doing here?" Through the left side of the gate, Li Zheng already knew that Kato Junkazu was his superior.

They also knew that the other party was a junior manager in the "Genesis" organization.

But isn't he on channel 24?

Why did you end up here?
"Is it also for the doctors' sake?"

After thinking it over, Li Zheng felt that there was only one possibility, otherwise the other party would be so bored as to come to such an obscure channel.
Without asking the other party on the regional channel, Li Zheng knew that Kato Junwa would definitely not pay attention to him.

Kato Junwa was not involved in the previous two World Channel transactions, so he probably knew that Gangmen Pianzuo must have betrayed him.

Even if he participated, Li Zheng wouldn't give him a friendly look.

"I wonder if the two attacks by the creatures of the night are related to him?" Li Zheng was already thinking that once the mission was completed, he would go to Kato Junkazu and interrogate him.

Five hundred meters, not far, Li Zheng soon saw a tombstone appear in front of him.

The tombstone is carved from gray stone and is a little over two meters tall, with the top just protruding from the weeds.

Behind the tombstone is a high mound of earth, and even from a distance, you can tell that it is as large as a basketball court.

Upon approaching, the Eye of Preys gave another hint.

A tombstone stands there, and buried within is the former administrator of this channel. Before his death, he gave away all his valuables, leaving only some more decorative props as burial goods.

Be careful, the tomb owner seems to have left a contingency plan in their final resting place; there may be danger.

After clearing away the weeds, the entire tombstone was revealed, its gray stone surface deeply engraved with intricate characters.

Although he couldn't understand it, Li Zheng could still recognize that this script was different from the patterns he had seen before.

"Looks like it's another race we haven't encountered before?"

Li Zheng had no interest in the meaning of the text; he was just here to dig up a grave.

Although Lao Pu had already hinted that the burial goods left behind by the other party were not of high value, even a mosquito's leg is still meat.

"So, how do we enter this tomb?"

After bypassing the tombstone and examining the mound behind it, Old Pu gave no clues about entering it.

It looks like I'll have to figure out a way to dig in myself.

After taking out the shovel, Li Zheng hesitated for a moment before releasing two household cleaning machines to do the work.

Intelligent humanoids have no scruples; they don't even have emotions and only act according to commands.

Li Zheng pointed to the grave and gave the order: "Dig it!"

The two intelligent humanoid robots then began digging with all their might.

Thanks to their mechanical bodies, this digging work is not strenuous for them.

With a few shovelfuls, the plants on the surface of the mound were cleared away.

After digging diligently in one area for three minutes, the sound changed when the shovel struck.

Li Zheng immediately stopped them, stepped forward, and dug away the soil in that area to reveal what was underneath.

This is a stone obstacle. Carefully clean along the edges and scrape out gaps.

"The tomb entrance?"

The door is carved with strange beasts, each one fierce and menacing, some of which have twisted and indescribable bodies.

The creatures carved on the door were all killed by the tomb owner during his lifetime.

"Is this a show of force to intimidate tomb raiders?"

Li Zheng looked closely at the carvings, his pupils suddenly contracting as he spotted a familiar creature in the corner.

(End of this chapter)