Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 291 Continuously Developing New Abilities (Two-in-One)

After a brief farewell, Yu Xiaoyu took out the teleportation device and left.

Fengshan stared blankly at the spot where he had stood before leaving, speechless.

He didn't know what was wrong with him. He was clearly annoyed by Yu Xiaoyu and Yan Guang, but when someone left, he felt empty inside, as if a piece of him was missing.

He hadn't acted like this even when Feng Qiwu left.

"What's wrong? Reluctant to part with it?" Yan Guang said meaningfully, but in his heart he was planning whether to take advantage of Yu Xiaoyu's absence tonight to push Fengshan away.

"Who...who can't bear to part with you?" Feng Shan was embarrassed and angry when his secret was exposed: "I can't wait for you two to leave. I'm just wondering when you can get the hell out of here!"

After releasing the capsule, Fengshan stormed inside, ignoring Yan Guang behind him.

"Ha, what a clueless straight man with low emotional intelligence." Yan Guang sneered, watching Feng Shan's retreating figure as he entered the residence, and said softly, "You can't escape! I'll sleep with you sooner or later!"

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Li Zheng returned to the previous room with his two followers. He still had ten additional exploration attempts from the Mysterious Declaration, enough to scavenge even more resources.

Looking at the time, it was only a little past four in the afternoon, almost the time for daily potion sales.

After leaving his residence, Li Zheng went inside to check on the growth of the Arctic Ibaraki tree. He found that it had matured and had been picked by Wumian himself and placed aside.

However, the second crop hasn't even started growing yet because the temperature has dropped below -100 again. Once the temperature isn't low enough, Arctic Ibaraki will stop growing, which means it won't produce as many frighteningly high yields as Flame Flower.

Li Zheng isolated this petri dish in a corner of his residence because the low temperature inside would have some impact on the surrounding area. If it were placed with other petri dishes, crops such as millet might not grow.

A lone Arctic Ibaraki was lying on the ground near the culture dish, with no chance of triggering a mutation, which slightly disappointed Li Zheng.

He also wanted to take advantage of his deal with Roemon today to develop two more diamond-level genetic abilities in one go.

"Platinum it is, I can accept it." Li Zheng took the Arctic Ibaraki, "Raysu" and the lightning-type items he had traded from Roemang and left his residence.

"Eat the Arctic Ibaraki first to prevent the lightning ability from being washed away." Sitting cross-legged at the door, Li Zheng put the things on the ground, picked up the Arctic Ibaraki, and took a bite.

Platinum-level items have a much higher success rate than silver-level items, but there is still a high chance of failure. Therefore, Li Zheng wanted to be on the safe side and tried to use a platinum-level ice-type item first. If it failed, there wouldn't be much loss. At least he could avoid losing the diamond-level lightning-type ability by trying to use it later.

He had eaten Arctic yak fruit once before, but that time he used extreme isolation to resist the severe cold, so he only tasted its fragrant and sweet flavor.

This time, the flavor changed dramatically. It was refreshingly cool, like eating a non-greasy shaved ice, with a refreshing coolness that went straight from the tip of the tongue to the heart.

Combined with the original sweetness, the taste is improved by more than 100%!
"It's delicious!" Li Zheng was pleasantly surprised. He wasn't a person with a sweet tooth and had never been very interested in sweet foods.

But the icy coolness of Arctic Ibaraki complements its sweet and refreshing aroma perfectly. It is sweet but not cloying at all. Instead, it gives him a feeling of being purified, instantly winning his heart.

Even if the platinum-level abilities aren't very useful in the future, he will try to develop some high-level ice-type abilities and eat Arctic Ibaraki as a snack or fruit.

He devoured the fruit in a few bites, leaving only a useless pit in his hand.

The tools for developing genetic abilities are different from ordinary fruits and cannot be viewed in the usual way. Only seeds obtained in a specified manner can be used for planting.

The seeds of the Arctic iris are kernels, but not entirely kernels.

According to the information, there is a chance that the Arctic Ibaraki tree will generate an "elemental vortex" at the moment of maturity during its growth, absorbing the surrounding cold air.

The cold air will accumulate inside the fruit pit, changing its structure and turning it into a seed that can be planted.

Don't assume that producing seeds is a good thing.

If an Arctic Ibaraki tree produces a seed, the fruit will turn into a super hard ice lump due to the concentrated cold air inside.

Even if you bake it at high temperatures until it melts, you'll only end up with a rotten fruit, and even the seeds inside will become waste.

Although the fruit pit he obtained this time was useless, Li Zheng still kept it.

"It's a bit smaller than a walnut. I'll get another one later and play with it."

Just as Li Zheng threw the fruit pit into his residence, he felt a sudden surge of cold air in his stomach, which split into two streams along the boundary between his chest and abdomen, one flowing upwards to his throat and the other downwards to his anus.

The moment the two streams of cold air split apart, a familiar progress bar appeared before Li Zheng's eyes. As the cold air slowly moved through his body, the progress bar also slowly increased.

Twenty minutes later, the cold air that had reached his throat suddenly accelerated and spewed out of Li Zheng's mouth, like a burp, releasing a mouthful of blue gas.

The gas temperature was not very low, and the amount ejected was not large, so it failed to freeze even the moisture in the air.

The path leading to the anus also accelerated at the checkpoint, turning into a cold, sharp fart as it was released.

Meanwhile, the progress bar finished loading, and the Platinum-level Ice-type ability was successfully developed.

When Li Zheng saw the system notification providing the general information about the ability, he couldn't help but smile wryly: "Why is it another support-type ability?"

Ice-based Shaping

Rank: Platinum

Level: Lv1
Type: Control

exp: 0/100
Description: Allows you to mold ice cubes into any desired shape.

Note: The level of detail in the finished product depends on your imagination and memory. If your brain is comparable to a supercomputer, then congratulations... you've got a great toy.

Base consumption: 5yp/s, which increases or decreases depending on the size of the ice block being shaped.

Old Pu's review: Useful, but not very useful; however, the Platinum tier suggests it might have some unexpected uses.

"Shaping, it's nothing more than turning ice into weapons like swords, spears, and halberds, what else can it do?" Li Zheng pondered as he looked at this ability. Even if the ice was as strong as a platinum weapon after shaping, it was still useless. He already had a sheathed sword in his hand, why would he use a lower-tier ice sword instead of a perfectly good diamond weapon?

"Huh?" Li Zheng suddenly thought of Zhan Zhouzhou's ability: "Isn't this shaping ability just an enhanced version of the ice-type lightning sword?"

Zhan Zhouzhou's weapon can only transform into a single weapon, but his can transform into many different weapons and can be customized at will.

"Not bad. I'll test the strength after shaping it. If the strength can match the ability level, maybe I'll have all kinds of weapons for becoming a fighter in the future."

Li Zheng didn't rush to test it. Instead, he picked up the prop he had exchanged with Romain Rolland and chewed it up little by little before swallowing it.

This is a purple and blue leaf. It looks like a tree leaf. One side is smooth with veins, while the other side is rough without corresponding veins.

The taste was very ordinary. When Li Zheng took his first bite, he almost thought he was eating an ordinary tree leaf. The rough side seemed to have countless tiny thorns on it, which made his mouth and tongue feel uncomfortable.

"Yuer~" Li Zheng swallowed all the leaves, gagged, and wanted to complain, but when he opened his mouth, a large amount of lightning shot out, and silver snakes danced wildly, which frightened him so much that he quickly closed his mouth.

With its mouth closed, the electric snake seemed to have lost an outlet for its energy, and could only surge inside its body, gradually spreading to every corner of its body.

Li Zheng closed his eyes and felt the tingling sensation. It was initially uncomfortable, but after getting used to it, it actually had a stress-relieving effect. It was as if every cell in his body had undergone acupuncture, cleansing away all the impurities.

Indeed, that was the case. Li Zheng suddenly broke out in a sweat, the sweat smelling like someone who hadn't showered in the sweltering heat of summer—smelly and foul-smelling.

The lightning-type development item is also platinum-level, just like the Arctic Ibaraki Fruit, which takes about twenty minutes to fully charge.

At the last moment, all the darting electric snakes suddenly receded like a tide, converging entirely at the base of the collarbone on the back.

Suddenly, the bone root swelled up, as if something wanted to burst out of the body.

Li Zheng was still carrying the aircraft, and fearing that it would be damaged by the electric power that burst out of his body, he had no choice but to take it off first.

The moment the aircraft left its back, the swelling on its back could no longer be contained, and a ray of electricity pierced through the flesh and skin, broke through the clothes, and stretched out.

Crackling.

With a crackling of lightning, the bolts of lightning that burst out of the body stretched out and transformed into a pair of hollowed-out wings!

Magic Electric Wings

Rank: Platinum

Level: Lv1
Type: Elemental Transformation

exp: 0/100
Description: A pair of wings composed of lightning elements, theoretically capable of reaching the speed of lightning.

Base cost: 5 yp/s, adjusted based on flight speed, maximum 20 yp/s
Old Pu's Review: I want to fly to the sky, stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun, the world is waiting for me to go on an adventure!

Its flight speed is extremely fast, requiring a great deal of practice to master. Now it has another subject to study each day—what a diligent little bird!

"What the hell..." Li Zheng was stunned. This was the first time he had ever seen a genetic ability that required practice to master.

Shouldn't so-called genetic ability be the ability engraved in the genes?

It's all etched into our genes, so why can't we use it at will?
Li Zheng refused to believe in such superstitions and, taking advantage of the fact that he still had wings, decided to try to fly.

As a result, it flew sideways and almost crashed into the wall.

After barely landing, Li Zheng looked back and discovered that the problem lay in the openwork design.

Once it takes flight, the hollowed-out wings are not flexible enough to adjust the angle in time, making it difficult to operate.

Furthermore, the openwork wings cannot contain airflow, making it even more difficult to control the direction of flight.

"I'm speechless." Li Zheng got up, looking dejected. With a thought, his wings disappeared. "They've even created wings with lightning elements. When I want to fly and have some fun, they still have the nerve to play games with my physics?"

These shameless settings on the terminal are truly shameless.

It challenges common sense, manipulates common sense, and yet demands that players abide by common sense...

That old double standard is weird.

"This ability can't be mastered in a day or two." Li Zheng put the flying device back on, knowing he would have to continue using it for the time being.

Having successfully developed both platinum-level abilities, Li Zheng felt that his luck was quite unusual.

"Oh, maybe all my bad luck was used up on the types of abilities I successfully developed?" Li Zheng suddenly realized, slapping his forehead.

One is "Shaping," and the other is "Magic Electric Wings." The former looks useless, while the latter requires diligent study and practice to master its use.

None of them are normal abilities!
"Oh right, let's try shaping it." Remembering this, Li Zheng went to his residence to get some water, froze it, and shaped it into a simple, thin, round sheet.

“Not bad.” Li Zheng nodded slightly. “Once the ability is activated, whatever you imagine in your mind, the ice block can become.”

The thin sheet kept changing in my hand, sometimes turning into a sphere, sometimes into a cube, sometimes into a dog, and then into a cat... but the level of detail in the dog and cat was... well, let's just say it wasn't great.

Finally, I took the salted fish gun and shot it at the ice block to test its strength after it was shaped.

The result was disappointing; the small piece of ice was smashed into nothing more than crumbly ice, leaving Li Zheng feeling utterly heartbroken.

It can't even withstand an attack from a gold-level weapon, so why is its shaping ability ranked in the "platinum" tier?

The two attempts to develop gene capabilities took nearly an hour in total, and Li Zheng faced a difficult choice.

"Should we upgrade the Lightning Wings to Diamond level?"

He was afraid that if he upgraded, the diamond-level wings would be too fast, and he might accidentally kill himself during practice.

No improvement?
Who knows when we'll get the next item that unlocks lightning-type abilities? Some things become outdated if you keep them.

Just like some people, they drift apart as time goes by.

Li Zheng sat on the edge of the bed, looking at the gene force that had already exceeded five hundred. If all of it were used to activate the Power Demon Avatar, the duration would be close to two minutes!

Two minutes of transformation into a superhuman is enough for Li Zheng to do a lot of things, and he feels much more confident.

"Perhaps the increase in the value of the genetic force is the only good news brought about by this genetic development." Li Zheng went out, picked up Lei Su, gritted his teeth, and swallowed it down.

Instead of keeping it, we might as well convert it into combat power. At least we can get more genetic energy, or even use it to become a power demon.

Leisu has a thick, tasteless texture, like drinking a mouthful of mercury mixed with thick phlegm, making it very difficult to swallow.

The unswallowed resin remained in the mouth, constantly emitting a weak electric current that stimulated the oral cavity, creating a sensation similar to popping candy.

Li Zheng felt that if Lei Su could be mass-produced, it could very well become the best-selling item in the Matrix.

He believed that as long as someone knew about this amazing taste, they would buy it in large quantities without hesitation, even if it wasn't for improving their strength.

Thinking this, Li Zheng looked at Pink Poli who was hanging out with Sakura: "Goodness... jelly, popping candy, ice cubes, warm water... they've got it all!!"

As we all know, these items are only found in certain stores, places with two-tiered glass windows where you can only see half of the transparent glass and where pink lights are always on.

Li Zheng had never been to such a place, but he knew about it.

As the last bit of popping candy was swallowed, the Magic Lightning Wings were upgraded to Diamond level, gaining 20 more points of Gene Force, which, when converted into a Power Magic Avatar, is equivalent to four seconds.

Having resolved the two issues related to genetic forces, Li Zheng went to the stove to prepare dinner and, incidentally, posted another round of advertisements for today's trading potions.

Incidentally, he also shared a bombshell piece of news that caught the attention of many prominent figures.

That is: an auction will be held live in three days, at which time a large number of high-level items will be auctioned.

(End of this chapter)