Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 275 Molten Essence, the most disappointing silver-level item.

Upon entering, a fiery red scene unfolded before my eyes; rather than a volcano erupting, it was as if the place had become a sea of ​​lava.

Like the avalanche house, there is a small open space at the entrance, completely untouched by the rolling lava, forming a safe little platform.

Standing on the small platform, Li Zheng observed his surroundings. All he could see was lava, with thick black smoke floating in the air and fine dust falling from the sky.

"This scene is nice, it feels like surviving the apocalypse. Let's take a picture to remember it." Li Zheng used the tough leather to tie the air purifier to his face, and then extended the area of ​​the extreme isolation to cover it up, so that the only purifier would not be damaged by the high temperature.

After taking the photos, Li Zheng, with Lao Pu's help, searched for traces of heat worms, tiny creatures that live in lava and are extremely difficult to find.

After scanning the lava inch by inch, Old Pu quickly gave a hint: a heat bug had passed through the area.

“It’s a bit far.” Li Zheng looked at the spot about two meters away from him, hesitated for a moment, and then jumped directly into the lava.

The lava wasn't deep, only reaching up to the calves; standing in it felt like jumping into a mud pit. The resistance made movement somewhat difficult.

"It's alright. I thought I'd be swimming in lava, but it's only this deep."

After walking back and forth a few steps, Li Zheng quickly adapted to the resistance and began to concentrate on searching for the heat worms in the magma.

The one he had spotted earlier disappeared after he jumped down, and Old Pu pointed out that there were two heat bugs about ten meters away.

Just as Li Zheng was about to go over, a figure suddenly swept past him, flapping its dragonfly-like wings, and fell into the lava.

"..."

After a two-second silence, Li Zheng angrily drew his sheathed sword and stabbed it there.

"Make you arrogant!"

puff!
A little lava splashed up, and the sheathed sword was pulled out of the surface, bringing out a fiery red beetle that was almost fused with the lava.

"Is this the heat worm?" Li Zheng examined the pierced beetle closely.

The heat insect is only the size of a palm, its entire body is fiery red without a single blemish, it has no face or eyes, and its head has only two thin and long antennae.

It has no feet under its belly, but has two paddle-like claws on its chest and a shrimp-like tail, which allows it to propel itself through lava.

It has two pairs of wings on its back, which are long and thin like knives and are very similar to the wings of a dragonfly.

Although they have wings, they can't actually fly; they only use them to glide when they are ejected from the lava by their tails.

"Small body, great energy. I didn't even notice when you swam nearby. You're really fast." Li Zheng picked off the dead heat insect and began to decompose it.

If I hadn't struck just as it plunged into the lava, even with Old Pu's help, it wouldn't have been easy for me to catch the Heat Bug, given its speed.

Disassembling a Firefly yields: Molten Essence +1, Firefly Gland Fluid 10ml, Firefly Abdominal Tail Meat +1

"Only ten milliliters?" Li Zheng frowned. To make a bottle of medicine, he needed at least fifty milliliters, which meant he would have to catch four more.

After careful recollection, Li Zheng remembered that among the materials for the first nine doses of medicine, there were indeed many small bottles of 10 milliliters each.

At the time, he thought these people were making fun of him and deliberately trying to disgust him, but it turns out that this kind of material was of this standard.

"What is 'Molten Essence'? The name sounds pretty fancy." He rummaged through the capsule, took it out, and held it in his palm.

It's about the size of a grain of rice, and if it weren't for the faint glow it emits, it would be easily overlooked if you didn't look closely.

Molten Essence

Rank: Silver

Type: Material

Function: Thermal insulation material; holding one in hand makes even the coldest winter feel like spring.

Description: A grain of rice, shining as brightly as the moon and warm as the sun.

Note: Molten Essence is volatile; if not stored in an airtight container, it will evaporate completely within half an hour.

"Flying flowers? Throw them into the trading hall, and I'll see you flaunt them..." Li Zheng didn't have a sealed container; why would he specifically go to the trading hall to search for such useless silver materials?
Not worth it.

Having dealt with the heat bug, Li Zheng buried himself in the lava, trying to collect the remaining four as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, these little creatures are difficult to spot because they are hiding in the lava, and they swim incredibly fast.

It took Li Zheng nearly half an hour to catch the four heat insects, during which he had to extend the extreme isolation dozens of times.

If this ability didn't consume so little energy, Li Zheng would have given up.

He's now extremely curious about how those people who made the previous deal managed to catch the heat bug.

"Now the Silver Physique has reached its limit." Half an hour passed after the fifth Molten Essence was thrown into the trading hall.

The system notification indicates that the item "Molten Essence" in the trading hall has completely evaporated.

"Even the trading hall can't stop the evaporation?" Li Zheng searched and found that he was the only player selling Molten Essence.

"This is outrageous! A silver-level item just vanished like that." Speechless, Li Zheng shut down the trading hall and called over the bored Xiao Ying. Together, they flew to the doors leading to other rooms.

The heat bugs are neutral creatures, and players don't need to kill them all to leave. The most dangerous thing about this room is the environment; the heat bugs are just a side effect.

Passing by a volcano that had stopped erupting, Li Zheng flew up to admire it, took some photos, and then leisurely departed.

Behind the gate lies a swampy environment, filled with mud and hundreds of silver-level poison dart frogs, which are not only of little value but also extremely disgusting.

Don't ask what's disgusting about it; Zhan Zhouzhou hates frog-like creatures.

"...So you got the relevant information from Zhan Zhouzhou, right?" Li Zheng changed his tone.

Behind the door is an ordinary room containing a storage tank, some food, and clean water.

You're not the same person you were on day one, so let's just skip this junk.

Li Zheng obediently changed the subject: "Who would have thought that the food and water that were so precious at the beginning would now be considered garbage?"

[It's safe behind the door. There are some unclaimed materials waiting to be claimed. If you're missing... never mind, let's get straight to the point and exchange them, understand?]

"Understand."

[The area behind the door is deep-sea. If you have thalassophobia, it's recommended to take a detour. If you don't... it's still recommended to take a detour.]

"to make!"

After looking at the doors above his head, Li Zheng was about to go to the last one when he suddenly froze in mid-air.

"Damn it, the last door is in the lava. All that running around was for nothing."

Back on the ground, Li Zheng followed Lao Pu's instructions and flew to the area where the metal door was located to conduct a probe.

[Behind the door lies a labyrinth of traps, hidden deep within which lie treasures—you know, Master Pu is never afraid of these things.]

"A maze..." Li Zheng recalled his experience at the doctor's doorstep, which was utterly devoid of any gaming experience.

Old Pu knew exactly where to go and where not to go, so I didn't even need to use my brain; I just had to follow the route Old Pu gave me.

Li Zheng usually doesn't enter rooms that don't offer a good gaming experience.

However, since the existence of the treasure had been detected, they had no choice but to make the trip.

After landing at the bottom of the lava and groping around, Li Zheng found the card reader and was about to read the card when he received a private message.

"Sent by Lao Xiao, does it mean there's another dungeon to run?" Guessing why Xiao Siyuan was contacting him, Li Zheng casually opened the message.

The job change quest I accepted on channel 879 only requires one final clear of the dungeon to complete.

(End of this chapter)