Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 240 The other half of the reward is...

The doctor's further questioning made Li Zheng hesitate.

If what the other party said is true, then keeping that feeling in one's heart might actually be a good thing?
but……

Li Zheng glanced at the balance bracelet in his hand. Because Lao Pu was "offline," he could only see some very basic attributes.

Emotional Balance Bracelet

Rank: None
Type: Equipment/Accessories
Function: To balance extreme emotions and prevent the wearer from taking dangerous actions due to intense emotional fluctuations.

There's nothing wrong with the item; in terms of its properties, it does indeed help suppress the hidden dangers left by ancient technology.

or……

Stay?

After hesitating for a long time, Li Zheng finally accepted the doctor's plan and decided to keep the murderous aura in his heart.

"Okay, what's the other half of the reward?" Li Zheng put on the bracelet, which automatically retracted at his wrist, fitting snugly against his skin without affecting his movements.

"Huh?" Li Zheng exclaimed in surprise. He felt that he had seen the style of this prop somewhere before.

The doctor showed no surprise, as if he had expected Li Zheng to make this choice: "You need to find the other half of the payment for me."

"Go out and search?" Li Zheng was taken aback. Was this another task he was about to be assigned?

“That’s right.” The doctor said expressionlessly, “At your level, anything that can be normally obtained from the Matrix is ​​worthless to me.”

"So for the remaining half of the reward, I want you to go out and find a material for my research."

Use the calmest tone to say the most hurtful things.

Doctors are different from blacksmiths and merchants.

In the latter two transactions, regardless of the cost to the customer, as long as the total value is sufficient to pay the reward, that's fine.

But doctors can't.

For someone with the skill level of a doctor, ordinary materials are no different from garbage in his eyes; he is more interested in things that can be used for research.

However, as a doctor, Li Zheng felt that the other side had probably studied all the creatures he could kill.

Could it be that I'm supposed to go into some dungeon and bring out a sample containing the genes of some rare creature?
That requires a lot of luck, right?
"Don't worry, it's not too difficult." The doctor seemed to see through Li Zheng's thoughts and made a condition: "Among your group of players, there are some individuals who are very special. I need you to find one of them and bring his gene sample."

To Li Zheng's surprise, the thing the doctor asked him to find wasn't in the instance, but rather a player's gene sample.

It's actually much easier than I imagined; I might be able to do it right here!
Li Zheng asked, "Do you have any general information about the target and its location?"

What Li Zheng actually wanted to ask was the other party's name and channel number. With these two pieces of information, he could find a way to contact the other party and buy a vial of their blood through the trading hall.

"I don't know the other person's name, but I can provide the channel number he's in. Once you get there, just find the strongest player in that channel," the doctor said, shaking his head slightly.

“A channel number will do.” Li Zheng was initially disappointed when he heard that the other party didn’t have a name, but knowing the channel number was fine. He could just ask the top-ranked player on the world channel what their name was.

It's just past midnight. The world channel megaphone has been refreshed for today. Use it now, and you can use the megaphone Chu Xiao gave you to trade potions this afternoon.

"The target is on channel 67. Keep the name card for now; you can use it when you come back with the item." The doctor added, "My place is a bit special. Although there's only one path leading here, everyone can use that door multiple times. As for the teleportation item, you'll have to figure that out yourself, as long as you can deliver the item within ten days."

After giving his instructions, the doctor's figure flickered a few times and disappeared.

The red button on the reception desk popped up and reset. Upon receiving the message that he was ranked number one on the combat power leaderboard of Channel 67, Li Zheng immediately posted on the world channel, wanting to complete the mission as soon as possible to save on two space pirate teleportation attempts.

However, perhaps because it was so late, many people had already started to rest.

Apart from a few players who jumped out to curse him, no one in that channel paid any attention to him.

It was just a waste of a small megaphone; Li Zheng didn't care at all. He could just ask again after eight o'clock in the morning.

If all else fails, I'll just have to make the trip myself.

However, before that, I still had some things to take care of on channel 995.

"Sakura, let's go."

With the shivering Sakura in tow, Li Zheng passed through the door he had come from and actually returned to the previous pipe-shaped room.

This struck Li Zheng as utterly absurd.

Because the doctor here actually violated the rule in the matrix that you can't go back the way you came!
"Is it because he's too strong, that even the terminal can't control him?" Li Zheng muttered to himself, looking at the bracelet that was pressed against his wrist.

At this point, Old Putin was "online" again, back to work, and provided more information.

[Description: Products made by blacksmiths are guaranteed to be of the highest quality.]

This is one of the blacksmith's early works, made entirely according to the doctor's requirements. Initially, it was only intended to control depression, but it was later discovered that this tool also had a miraculous effect on a certain other disease.

Old Pu: I think you should have realized by now that the purple-skinned woman wasn't telling the truth!

Li Zheng: "..."

It looked familiar before, and it wasn't just my imagination!
Li Zheng remembered seeing props of a similar style somewhere before.

Isn't this the "overweight" collar that Zhan Zhouzhou got from the blacksmith?
It looks like metal, but it's actually very soft and fits the skin perfectly!

"So, Zishu was afraid I wouldn't help transport the medical bed, so she tricked me into coming here indirectly?" Li Zheng thought carefully about the conversation at the time and realized with frustration that, in a sense, the other party hadn't actually lied.

He asked the purple tree if it could cure the ailment, and the purple tree said no.

She can't be cured, but the same thing can help suppress it.

Li Zheng didn't believe the other party couldn't make this prop. Even if Zi Shu couldn't, how could the blacksmith who was "in seclusion" not know how?
Looking at the emotional balance bracelet, Li Zheng sighed helplessly.

What can we do?
Should we go back and cause trouble for the purple tree?

It doesn’t make sense!

Since they are a blacksmith shop, even if they realize there's something wrong with their shop, they can simply ignore it.

But the fact that they gave us a heads-up beforehand is already a huge favor. Even considering that, it doesn't seem like a big deal to help them make a trip to deliver something.

"Just consider it another part of a series of missions."

After taking out the mysterious declaration, Li Zheng instructed Lao Pu to find the nearest metal door and head in that direction.

After navigating a maze that offered absolutely no gaming experience, Li Zheng looked at the metal door in front of him that indicated the presence of a player, and a slight twitch appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"Kato Junkazu, the superior to the left of the gate, should have more information. Perhaps I can find out the origins of those creatures of the night from him."

(End of this chapter)