Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 35 Business Opportunities
As the thin-film light curtain dissipated, Li Zheng calmed down and slowly looked around the room, unexpectedly discovering that there was actually a supply storage tank here.

"Hey, isn't this a coincidence?"

Li Zheng casually took out an old friend, revealed a familiar smile, and walked over.

"It seems that not everyone knows about the design that allows various devices to be disassembled after being damaged. Xiao Siyuan didn't smash it when he left the room."

That's right, Li Zheng neither chose the red dangerous room nor the room with two doors, but instead chose the room where Xiao Siyuan had come from.

"Just as I imagined, once a player leaves a room, it only means that he or she cannot turn back, but it does not mean that others cannot enter from that direction."

Li Zheng recalled how every room he had passed was completely destroyed, and suddenly thought with a wicked sense of humor, "If someone were to enter a room I had explored and find it in complete disarray, with nothing usable left, I wonder what they would think?"

Boom, boom, boom!
After his ribs were healed, Li Zheng had no more worries and went all out. In no time, he smashed the supply storage tank to the point of being decomposable.

"break down!"

Disassembling the damaged supply storage tank yields: Temperature Controller *1, Damaged Power Core Type III *1, ...

"Ok?"

Li Zheng frowned. He had avoided the upper left half when he was dismantling the machine, but he still managed to damage the power core. "So, the power core is installed on the right side?"

Keeping this in mind, Li Zheng looked at the three doors he could enter through, opened one, and closed the other two.

The open door is the route Xiao Siyuan took to enter this place, while the two closed doors are both green material security doors.

"Xiao Siyuan's luck... is a mix of good and bad. With a two-thirds safety margin, he just happened to pick one of the remaining one-third?"

Li Zheng selected a door and swiped his card to enter.

In the next two rooms, Li Zheng searched them immediately, smashing everything in sight, leaving nothing behind that he could carry with him.

……

"Finally finished all of today's exploration quota. Let's take a break and have dinner."

"Hey!"

Sakura poked her head out of her pocket, rubbing her little hands together expectantly.

"You little foodie."

Li Zheng chuckled and tapped Xiao Ying's head, which provoked the little girl's protest.

"嘤嘤嘤!"

Sakura flew out, raising her hands high to indicate that she wasn't a glutton.

"Okay, okay, our Xiaoying isn't a foodie, she just likes to enjoy delicious food." Li Zheng replied perfunctorily.

"Eek, hmph!"

Sakura felt something was off about what he was saying, but she couldn't figure out why, so she just snorted and turned her head away.

"Alright, move aside a bit, I'll release the accommodation."

Li Zheng threw out the capsule, and after the residence expanded, he opened the door and took Xiaoying inside.

He took out four ginseng flowers to eat himself, and after thawing the salt-roasted glands, he took off a portion, heated it up, and handed it to Sakura, saying, "Here, this is for you."

After eating, replenish your fluids.

"Tun tun tun... Ha~" This is Li Zheng.

"Tun tun tun... hiccup~" That's Sakura.

"Hahaha!"

Li Zheng pointed at Xiao Ying and laughed loudly. This girl was imitating him again, and then he burped.

Sakura blushed and protested, refusing to admit that her hiccups had ruined her "ladylike" image.

After dinner, Li Zheng threw away the empty water bottle and slumped onto the few remaining fiber balls. Xiao Ying, as usual, flew outside to frolic and digest her food.

"Ah...that feels so good!"

Suddenly relaxing, Li Zheng felt weak all over and had no desire to move at all.

"This detector will probably take quite a while, let's upgrade it first."

Remove the detector and open the system interface.

"upgrade!"

The advanced scientific detectors have sufficient materials, confirming the upgrade...

This upgrade will consume: AI Core *1, Titanium Alloy 300g, Power Core Type IV *1, Basic Module *30

The estimated time required for this upgrade is 8 hours.

I turned around and roughly counted my supplies, only to find that despite my best efforts to be frugal all day, I still only had one bottle of water left.

"There's not much water left, let's trade some more."

Li Zheng opened the trading hall, placed the snake grass needles on the table, and offered to exchange one snake grass needle for two hundred milliliters of purified water.

Previously, the transactions were urgent, so the prices were relatively much cheaper.

By now, some of the people who traded before should have already used up the snake grass needles. After experiencing the benefits of snake grass needles, these people will definitely remember them. Even if the price doubles, there will still be people buying them.

"It's a pity there's no megaphone, otherwise shouting it out on the world channel would definitely sell it faster."

Now... I don't know when they'll find my trading records.

"Put ten on first, then change two liters of water, that should be enough."

After finishing, Li Zheng checked the time; it was almost night. With nothing else to do, he suddenly remembered he had a blueprint. [Air purifier, bronze level, disposable]

Description: This device can be used to make an air purifier.

Required materials: 5 spare parts, 5 iron ingots, 5 copper ingots, 1 Power Core Type II
It's the same air purifier blueprint that was found in the bronze treasure chest today.

"A Type II power core is needed?"

Li Zheng rubbed his temples in frustration, opened the trading hall, and searched for the Power Core.

The list refreshed, and all the power core models currently listed for sale appeared before him, a very considerable number.

"So many?" Li Zheng was slightly surprised. "I didn't get many power cores all day, and someone actually has extras to trade?!"

Li Zheng looked at the orders in the trading hall and filtered through them one by one to find the power cores he could afford.

"Power Core Type I, trading one liter of clean water? Is it really that cheap?"

The first transaction left Li Zheng astonished for a long time. It was only afterward that he realized that he had explored twenty rooms in two days, and even with the initial supplies, he had only found three bottles of water.

It's only 1.5 liters in total.

Scrolling down, Li Zheng discovered that there were actually quite a few players trading Type I power cores for water resources.

Moreover, most of the transaction requirements are between one liter and one and a half liters.

After reading it, he stroked his chin, his eyes showing a thoughtful look. "If a water purifier is used, one Power Core Type I can convert up to two liters of sewage, with a conversion rate close to 100%."

"Then I can use the purified water to trade for Type I power cores, and I can earn between 500 milliliters and a liter of water? Is there really such a good deal?"

It was unbelievable, but after calculating, Li Zheng discovered that such a good thing really did exist!
The facts are undeniable; no matter how unbelievable they may seem, they have happened, leaving Li Zheng no choice but to believe them.

"This is obviously not normal... If it were this easy to make money, didn't some sucker buy that water purifier that William was reselling before? How come he didn't discover this bug? Could he have died in the Matrix?"

Thinking of this, Li Zheng suddenly sat up, his spirits lifted. "It's not impossible!"

In the matrix, countless players die every hour; who knows, maybe that unlucky guy will meet his maker during that time?
"But the matrix is ​​so big, it's impossible that I'm the only one who got the blueprints for the water purification equipment, right?"

Li Zheng turned around and searched for the word "purified water" again. After switching the list, he found that most of them were actually a black iron-grade item called "purified water effervescent tablets".

"Water purification effervescent tablets, consumables. Add them to 100 ml of wastewater and let them stand for three hours to obtain 90 ml of purified water. The price is... good heavens!" Li Zheng exclaimed, "You only sell them for 80 ml of clean water? I call you the biggest rip-off!"

Upon seeing the seller's name again, Li was speechless.

William Houston!
"Why do I see this B's name everywhere?"

Skipping over the unpleasant names, Li Zheng looked at other water purification equipment, such as sand filters, distillers, and water molecule extractors.

However, all of these devices are set up for rental, and none of the players are selling them.

Moreover, they all have some drawbacks, more or less.

Sand and gravel water filters consume sand and gravel materials while filtering water, and these materials are hard to find.

After all, in the Matrix, most rooms are sci-fi-style metal rooms, and it would be difficult to find any rocks to break them.

Moreover, the filtration cycle is long, and it cannot achieve 100% conversion of water by a water purifier.

Or like a distiller, although it only needs to consume a power core, just like a water purifier, its energy consumption is only slightly lower than that of a water purifier, and its conversion ratio is very low and the time is long.

The water molecule extractor doesn't consume much water, but the water purification cycle is long; it takes ten hours to extract one liter of water, making it incredibly inefficient.

In comparison, water purifiers offer the best value for money among all water purification devices.

Although it consumes the most energy, the conversion rate is high and the speed is fast!

"I feel like I'm going to make a fortune tonight!"

Li Zheng became completely excited and began searching for sewage.

"One hundred and fifty milliliters of sewage for one hundred milliliters of clean water? I'll take it!"

"Two hundred milliliters of sewage in exchange for a tool to develop genetic abilities? Get lost!"

"Twenty milliliters of sewage in exchange for the blood of any matrix creature? Dream on!"

"Fifty milliliters of sewage, traded for the flesh of any matrix creature? My urine is yellow, I'll make you faint from the stench!"

……

After careful selection, Li Zheng replaced the 500 milliliters of clean water in his hand with 1,800 milliliters of sewage.

"There's not enough water."

Li Zheng opened the regional chat channel and, without paying attention to what was being discussed, sent a message directly.

Li Zheng: [Snake Grass Needle] Power Core Type I replacement, interested parties please DM with price.

Fengshan: @Li Zheng, shouldn't things be clearly priced?
Lu Li: 9494.

Li Zheng: @Lu Li, my dear son, what did you say?
Lu Li: Cough cough, what I meant was that nine snake grass needles could be exchanged for four power cores.

Li Zheng: @Lu Li, give me the trade! I'll kill you if you can't produce it!

Lu Li: Dad, I was wrong!
Fengshan: @Lu Li, I'm your uncle. Call me before you get beaten to death!

Li Chun: Then wouldn't I be an aunt?
Yan Guang: Blind student, you're only just realizing the key point?
Li Zheng: Ten snake grass needles can be exchanged for one power core. Only one can be exchanged. Speed ​​is the priority!
Passerby: I'll switch!
Li Zheng: Okay, you're the one. I'll name you in the trading hall.

Fengshan: ? ? ?
Lu Li: ? ? ?
Passerby: [Snake Grass Needle] @Li Zheng, thank you so much! @Feng Shan, thank you so much for negotiating the price! Mua!

Fengshan: Get out!!!

Lu Li: Wouldn't this be considered a case of the snipe and the clam fighting while the fisherman benefits?
Fengshan: You get out of here too!

Lu Li: Okay!
(End of this chapter)