Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 478 The Legion from Heaven (4.2K)

What unexpected effects can be achieved by collecting all six different components?
The specific effects still need to be kept secret.
Laugh to death!

What do you think this is?
Infinity Stones?
After collecting them all, you can summon a giant creature with a purple sweet potato head?

Or is it a simplified version of Dragon Ball?

If you collect them all, can you grant a wish?
It was just a set of fishing gear, and these things couldn't be taken out after the event, so Li Zheng wasn't particularly eager to collect them all.

Of course, curiosity still exists.

After thinking for a moment, Li Zheng asked, "How many gold pans do you have here in total?"

There was only one item displayed on the tablet, but as Xiao just mentioned, this was the first one he sold ahead of schedule.

In other words, as time goes by, there will be a second, a third... or even a thousandth or ten thousandth?
“Here I am… wait! Why are you asking this?” As a businessman who values ​​integrity, Xiao almost blurted out the actual number on his own, and looked at Li Zheng warily.

"It's nothing, it's just that we nipped the possibility of others collecting all of these things in the bud." Li Zheng shrugged lightly, speaking as if it were a matter of course.

"Impossible!" Xiao said decisively after hearing this. "Selling you one in advance is already the biggest discount I can offer. You want to cut off our supply and buy them all at once?"

Xiao glanced at Li Zheng sideways: "You're not planning to wait until the right time to sell it at a high price, are you?"

"How could that be? Heh...hehe..." Li Zheng chuckled dryly; he did indeed have that thought.

If a player gets the same information from other merchants, they might collect these fishing gear components, buy up one type in advance, and then sell them at the right time, potentially making a fortune in points!
Having seen through Li Zheng's plan, Xiao was even less likely to tell Li Zheng the truth, shaking his head repeatedly: "Give up on that idea. No matter how close we are, I would never break the rules and sell all the stuff to you."

Selling one item a few minutes early is within his authority as a fishing tackle merchant, and the terminal will turn a blind eye.

But selling props several hours, or even ten or twenty hours in advance?

The terminal will issue a penalty in no time, okay?

They might even lose the 'wandering merchant' occupational privileges they worked so hard to obtain.

"I don't expect you to sell them all to me now. Just tell me how many there are in total and when they will be sold," Li Zheng said, putting it another way. He figured he could just come and buy them one at a time, it wouldn't be too much trouble.

"No, no, this is putting me in a difficult position." Xiao shook his head so hard it seemed to blur, and in a daze, his appearance changed slightly.

Li Zheng pondered for a few seconds and realized that Xiao was right; his request was indeed a bit too much for the other person.

He turned to Fengshan and asked, "Where is Lu Li? Tell him to come over here."

"Not far."

Feng Shan was standing to the side, and he heard their conversation clearly. He could roughly guess why Li Zheng had called Lu Li over.

He told Li Zheng about his request through the legion channel, and within five minutes, Lu Li came running over, carrying a black fishing rod inlaid with gold.

"Father... Bah! Old Li, you're looking for me?" Lu Li's mental state was fluctuating, and he swallowed back the words "Father" after only starting them, and instead called him Old Li.

“Okay.” Li Zheng nodded and said to Lu Li, “Please bear with me for a moment. Follow this merchant and check the items he’s selling every thirty seconds. If there’s anything called ‘Gold Rush,’ buy it all.”

As he spoke, Li Zheng showed Lu Li the tablet, pointing to the 'gold panning' fishhook so that he could see it clearly.

"Check it every thirty seconds? That's too much of a hassle!" Lu Li looked troubled.

"We want to torture him!"

Li Zheng raised his chin: "There are air conditioners over there. The temperature in the lava mountains is so high, wouldn't it be better for you to just stay in front of the air conditioners and block the heat?"

"No..." Lu Li said with a bitter face, "Even if there is a cold wind, checking the products every thirty seconds is more torturous for me than for him, right?"

"Although I had some issues with him, tormenting him made me feel good, but tormenting him also tormented myself..."

"Dude, I may have a mental illness, but I'm not stupid, okay?"

When Lu Li wasn't having an episode, he was practically lucid.

Li Zheng said, "You're not stupid, you're just a little dim-witted. I'll leave this to you. You can find some brothers in the regiment to take turns guarding it with you."

"Thirty people, divided into three rounds..."

"Stop, stop, stop!"

Li Zheng slowly counted on his fingers. Before Lu Li could say anything, Xiao couldn't take it anymore and loudly stopped him from continuing: "Is this how you treat a friend? How could you come up with such a disgusting trick to mess with me? You bother me every thirty seconds, do I even need to rest?"

Li Zheng grinned and said, "Didn't you say that friendship is friendship and business is business? When it comes to business, even the deepest friendships have to be put aside. I'm just making reasonable use of the rules."

Xiao was utterly speechless: "Good grief, you're using my own words to shut me up."

He gritted his teeth and said, "Fine, you win. You come every three hours, and I'll try to leave the rest of the gold to you, okay?"

Li Zheng revealed a victorious expression: "Wouldn't everything have been fine if we had done this earlier? But don't worry, as your friend, I won't let you suffer. You guys who work part-time as fishing tackle dealers must have performance evaluations, right? I'll give you a big gift later!"

"Big gift?"

Xiao was somewhat confused: "What grand gift?"

"Just watch." Li Zheng waved his hand, turned around and said, "Little Fengfeng, let's buy the first 'gold rush' and go!"

"okay."

As the leader of the Lava Mountain Range area, Fengshan had most of the fishing catches. He took out the various fish with the corresponding points and handed them to Xiao, who then bought the Gold Rush Fish Hook.

With Fengshan and Lu Li by his side, Li Zheng didn't go to meet up with the others. Instead, he randomly chose a direction and gradually walked away.

During the journey, after some hesitation, Fengshan said, "Um... are you sure you want to do this?"

Li Zheng didn't stop walking; he looked around, searching for a suitable spot, and said, "Why not?"

“If you use that ability here, its power will be ridiculously great,” Feng Shan said. “If you don’t control it well, it could easily involve players from other legions, and you’ll probably offend quite a few people…”

Li Zheng paused, looking in one direction towards a volcano crater, surrounded by a group of players averaging around 1.7 meters tall. His eyes narrowed instantly: "So, I'm looking for a suitable target."

"A suitable target..."

Feng Shan's expression shifted, and he looked in that direction. The Eye of Preer quickly provided feedback, and his face gradually became excited: "If it's these people, I request that the effort be intensified!"

Li Zheng: "Hehehe..."

Lu Li: "Hehehe..."

Fengshan: "Hehehehe..."

The three guys, all possessing abilities from the Eye of Preys series, had their lips curled up in a crazy smile, and their expressions gradually became increasingly wicked.

……

“Inoue-kun, we have plenty of points, why don’t we buy a grappling hook machine?” A player with a black mole on the corner of his mouth sat on the crater, holding a six-meter-long black fishing rod horizontally in his hand. However, his eyes were not on his fishing float, but instead he kept looking at another crater in the distance.

There, more than 300 white players gathered together, creating a lively and bustling atmosphere.

Among the crowd, dozens of players were using ten grappling hooks to catch fish in the lava, managing to catch one almost every ten seconds.

Each time they caught a slightly higher-level fish, these white players would erupt in a loud cheer.

Judging from the excited expressions of those white people, they were making far more money than the honest anglers who used fishing rods. Some even put away their fishing rods, took out materials in the middle of the crowd to build a bonfire, set out various foods, and started a bonfire party with singing, dancing, and laughter.

On the other hand, over two hundred people here were fishing with over two hundred fishing rods, their heads down, each one looking like they had lost their parents, their faces long and sullen.

"Look at those Germans, ever since they bought the grappling hook machine, their efficiency in catching fish has increased at least threefold!" the player with the mole said sourly.

Although the German players invested almost all of their early profits to buy those ten grappling hook machines, at the current rate, they should be able to break even soon. In fact, their rate of earning points in the future will far exceed that of other legions in the Lava Mountain arena!
It's absolutely impossible not to be envious.

Inoue, a middle-aged man around forty, sat on the crater, holding a fishing rod in both hands. He was serious and seemed oblivious to the envious words of his companions. After a moment, he finally spoke: "Hiryu-kun, you should know that our group's purpose in participating in the event is not to win the championship."

Inoue's voice was deep and hoarse, so steady that not a single ripple could be heard.

“I know all the profits go to headquarters,” Pingliu said, used to Inoue’s reaction. “But have you considered that if we diverted some of the profits to buy grappling hooks, we could actually earn points faster than fishing like this now?”

"Headquarters' goal is to accumulate enough points, and the purpose of buying grappling hooks is to gain points more quickly. So, if I misappropriate a little bit, headquarters shouldn't blame me after they find out. In fact, they should reward me, right?"

Inoue's expression changed; it was clear he was somewhat tempted.

In truth, he understood the reasoning behind it all too well.

Unfortunately, headquarters ordered them to submit their harvest every half hour.

The first submission was made just a few minutes ago...

Since they handed over their points, they have only accumulated less than two thousand points, not even enough to buy two grappling hooks.

How much can two grappling hooks increase profits?

If you're unlucky, you might not even break even in half an hour.

On the contrary, after buying the grappling hook, six people are needed just to operate the machine.

If six people fish with fishing rods for half an hour, each person will earn at least several tens of cents.

He had already sent someone to report the appearance of the grappling hook machine in the Lava Mountains, but the person who sent the report had not yet replied, so he naturally dared not make a decision on his own.

Sometimes Inoue thought to himself that he hadn't been included in the headquarters' upgrades several times, and this time he was being used as a tool, creating small legions to do hard labor for them, without any dignity whatsoever.

Instead of always serving others, why not start your own business?
But considering the strength of headquarters, he had to put an end to the idea.

If he dares to start his own business, headquarters will send people to eliminate him.

Aside from the two major legions, Takamagahara and Genesis, which of the remaining smaller legions in the Muddy Harvest player community doesn't have intricate connections with these two behemoths in order to survive in the cracks?
Come to think of it, I was just too weak. If I had the same fighting strength as that Chinese man, would headquarters still ignore me?
Inoue thought of the player from that vast country, feeling both envy and resentment.

They envied the other person's luck in getting an opportunity at the beginning of the Matrix game, quickly laying a solid foundation and improving their strength.

Frustrated by his own inadequacy, while others were making determined explorations, he remained holed up in the first starting room, begging and starving to survive.

If he hadn't eventually been forced to embark on an exploration mission because he couldn't hold on any longer, he might have already died on the first list of those targeted for elimination at the terminal.

Whenever Inoue thinks of those miserable days, his feelings become complicated.

In the language of that country, perhaps this is what they mean by "different people, different fates"...

Others have already become commanders of the First Legion, while I am still living under someone else's roof, doing hard labor for them.

I really envy the players from that country!
As far as I can remember, although Kunlun and Jiutian are enormous, I have never heard of them exploiting their own people.

"Inoue-kun? Are you even listening to me?" The player with the mole noticed that Inoue's eyes were gradually losing focus, clearly indicating that he was daydreaming.

"Well."

Inoue snapped out of his daze, glanced at the buoy floating on the lava, which remained motionless: "Hmm, I've already reported the situation to headquarters. Once we receive a notification from headquarters, we can go and buy grappling hooks."

"How long will it take?"

The player with the mole seemed very dissatisfied with headquarters, but dared not show it on the surface. He opened his mouth several times, as if he wanted to say something, but then reluctantly shut up.

He dared not say anything dissenting in public, otherwise, if someone with ulterior motives overheard, he would surely be punished.

At least ten people around him have mysteriously disappeared after speaking ill of headquarters.

"Wait, then."

Inoue was also helpless. He couldn't understand why, even though they lived on the same planet, their development paths diverged so drastically after entering an unfamiliar environment.

I really envy people born in that country...

Inoue sighed inwardly.

"Excuse me for disturbing you two. Are you Inoue Daitake and Hiranyu Chika of the Susanoo Army?"

Just then, a deliberately lowered, unfamiliar voice suddenly rang out behind the two of them, speaking fluent Muay Thai.

The two turned their heads at the same time and saw a mysterious person wearing a gray-white smiling mask and a gray robe that completely concealed himself.

"who are you?"

Inoue Daitake looked at his opponent warily. If he hadn't known that he couldn't effectively kill players in the fishing competition, he probably would have attacked and injured the other person in that instant due to the stress response he had developed over the past few days.

"Me? You can call me S."

The mysterious man, who had been bending down to make it easier to talk to them, slowly straightened up, inadvertently revealing a bronze medal at his waist.

The medal was engraved with an eight-petaled lotus flower.

"Would it be convenient for you two to speak privately? I would like to introduce you to the legion from Heaven!"

The mysterious man, who was only 1.5 meters tall, displayed the imposing presence of a giant.

……

"Why is that silly bird dressed up like that?"

Li Zheng withdrew his right hand, which was about to snap his fingers, and felt completely distraught.

He never expected that an acquaintance would appear at such a crucial moment.

(End of this chapter)