Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 295 Finding an Intelligent Humanoid

Li Zheng witnessed Misaka Tsuchimuro leaving with Sarutobi Ayaka. How come the two separated so soon after that?
"Could it be that Sarutobi Uroku woke up and found herself tricked, and the two of them broke up?" Li Zheng scratched his head and turned to walk towards another door.

Whether they've fallen out or not, it's none of my business.

With darkness approaching and ten exploration opportunities still unused, Li Zheng had no time to worry about others.

After the other four doors were all checked, Li Zheng was even more confused. Why didn't he see Misaka Tsuchiemon?

Logically, as long as there are other players in the channel, they should all be connected to his room due to the characteristics of the Mysterious Declaration.

However, after the Five Doors probed, they only found Sarutobi Amuro, while Misaka Tsuchiemon was nowhere to be found.

"Takamagahara has already mastered an item that ignores the limitations of teleportation?" Li Zheng thought of the only possibility: only by mastering an item similar to those used by space pirates could they possibly leave within the thirty-day teleportation limit.

“An item that can teleport across channels without regard to restrictions must be extremely valuable. Given Misaka Tsuchiemon’s personality, it’s perfectly reasonable for him to abandon Sarutobi Amatsu and leave alone.” Li Zheng swiped his card at a metal door that was of reasonable value, glanced back at the door where Sarutobi Amatsu was, and sighed.

What a bad fate!
This is a room with a petri dish containing a mature, gold-level wind-type plant.

In addition, there was a "corpse" lying next to the petri dish. According to the results of Lao Pu's detection, this "corpse" was an intelligent humanoid that had exhausted its energy and belonged to the agricultural model.

This means it's the same type of robot as the "Faceless" robot that Li Zheng obtained from opening the treasure chest.

An agricultural-type intelligent humanoid has fallen into a dormant state due to a malfunction in its core energy system, which prevents it from recharging on its own.

Replace its core energy system and restore its energy supply, and perhaps it will be willing to leave with you.

Of course, you can also disassemble it and recycle a small amount of materials.

"So it was a malfunction. I knew the intelligent humanoids would automatically regenerate their energy, how could it run out?" Li Zheng turned the strangely shaped robot over and found that it had been molded into a monster with six arms and a blue face and fangs during production, making it extremely ugly.

They were wearing some kind of dried animal skin, making it difficult to identify what kind of creature they belonged to.

"This is too ugly!" Li Zheng said with some disgust. He doesn't grow many crops right now. The Faceless One mainly takes care of the Arctic Ibaraki. Other ordinary crops only need to be taken care of incidentally. There is no need for a second agricultural machine for the time being.

However, the crops planted will definitely increase in the future. If this oddly shaped agricultural doll can be repaired, it can be put into use directly.

"It's okay if it's ugly, as long as it's practical. The problem now is how to repair it." Li Zheng cut open the animal skin on the agricultural humanoid and felt a round, hard object near its heart.

By cutting open the biomimetic tissue on the surface with the sheathed sword, the internal structure is revealed.

Congratulations! You've found its power core storage compartment. Now, remove the damaged power core, install new energy, and try to start it up.

Good luck!】

Following Lao Pu's instructions, Li Zheng carefully inspected the device and discovered a pinhole-sized flaw on the surface of the power core, which was originally located in the heart of the agricultural humanoid, as if it had been pierced by something.

However, this power core was firmly fixed inside the housing by several parts, which were like a cage and quite complex.

It took Li Zheng ten minutes to sort out the parts, pry them apart one by one, and take out the discarded moving core.

After that, a platinum-grade power core was installed as the energy source, all the parts were restored, and an attempt was made to start it up.

diú～

With the power core activated, energy is rapidly transmitted through various components beneath it, quickly spreading throughout the core area of ​​the entire agricultural humanoid.

Karaara.

The agricultural doll trembled a few times, then its tightly closed eyes snapped open, revealing an eye made up of electronic lenses below. Whether it was an illusion or not, Li Zheng actually saw a hint of "melancholy" in the cold electronic lenses the moment the agricultural doll opened its eyes.

This agricultural doll seems to have its own thoughts and emotions, unlike typical intelligent dolls.

This is an enhanced intelligent humanoid equipped with an AI core and a personality release device. It is much smarter than ordinary robots. Its previous owner left and never returned until its power core system malfunctioned and was destroyed.

Although it certainly won't understand your language, you can try to communicate with it. If you're lucky, you might be able to take it with you.

The previous owner?
Li Zheng noticed the key point in the new prompt: this intelligent humanoid was not unclaimed; it's just that its owner had been gone for a long time and was probably dead by now.

"Hello?" Li Zheng waved in front of the agricultural humanoid's binoculars to get its attention: "Can you understand what I'm saying?"

"..." The agricultural humanoid tilted its head, seemingly puzzled.

“Yeah, I really can’t understand it.” Li Zheng gave up on verbal communication and switched to gestures.

“I…” refers to himself.

"Repair... damn it! How do you even gesture for 'repair'?"

When body language communication reached an impasse, Li Zheng thought for a long time and then made a screw-tightening motion to tell the agricultural doll that he had fixed it.

"..." This time, the agricultural doll tilted its head again, but Li Zheng could see something from this tilt.

It understood, but not completely.

After several attempts to communicate, Li Zheng finally found the right way.

It understood as soon as you pointed to the new power core in its heart.

“I don’t know who your master is, but I can tell you for sure that he’s not coming back.” Li Zheng released the capsule residence, opened the door and said, “From now on, you should come with me. It’s much better than you staying here and waiting in vain. At least if any part of it breaks down in the future, I can help you fix it.”

These words were a bit complicated, and Li Zheng wasn't sure if the other party could understand what he meant.

However, he understood the action of the agricultural doll getting up from the ground and walking into his capsule.

"A wise choice." Li Zheng grinned. As long as the abduction was successful, his platinum-level dynamic core wouldn't have been wasted.

"I don't have anything for you to do right now. You can stay in the area with the cultivation dishes and help the Faceless Ones out occasionally." Li Zheng pointed to the cultivation dish area where ordinary crops were planted. Since he maxed out the Ice and Fire Attachment, he had pulled out most of the Flame Branches and replaced them with various edible materials.

Anyway, he still had a lot of Flame Branch seeds left, so he could replant them whenever he needed them, without wasting much time.

To be honest, he had considered growing more Flame Flowers to sell, but the limited shelf life of Flame Flowers meant that sales would not be very good; only players who needed to upgrade their genetic abilities would be willing to buy some.

Even so, he wouldn't make much money from this kind of business. It would be better to switch to ordinary crops, at least the harvested food would be of real use.

The agricultural doll completely ignored Li Zheng and went to the petri dishes to check on the growth of the crops.

After a while, it came to the place where Li Zheng had put the materials, picked and chose, and found a few bones that Li Zheng had thrown in before.

After grinding everything into powder, they were mixed in different proportions and applied to several crops.

When Li Zheng looked at the properties of the crops, he immediately knew he had struck gold again.

With the help of those mixed bone meal, the projected yields of several crops increased by a staggering ten percent!

(End of this chapter)