Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 588 Blacksmith
After traversing the streets, it took Li Zheng and his group two full days to successfully reach Block 7.

Starting from Block 50, Li Zheng and his group noticed that the atmosphere had changed.

Every resident from the outer city who walks here exudes a faint sense of oppression. As soon as Li Zheng is looked at directly by these residents, he feels a sense of alarm.

Clearly, these people were not as incompetent as the neighborhood residents they had encountered before; each of them harbored considerable ambition.

In Block 7, the area around the portal was packed with people. The two receptionists were too busy to pay attention to them and waved for them to hurry up and leave so as not to block other people from entering and exiting.

"Has the terminal issued another mandatory task?" Li Zheng muttered to himself. "Why are so many people running into the wilderness?"

Having worked as a temporary receptionist for two days, I became very sensitive to area codes and street codes.

As he passed by the two hosts in Block 7, he overheard someone talking to them, requesting to open a portal to the wilderness.

"It's not a mandatory mission; they all voluntarily go to the wilderness to do missions." Someone next to him explained, but when he turned around, he saw a race with purple skin all over their bodies and a third eye on their forehead.

"You are..." Li Zheng recognized him: "The Purple Lotus Clan?"

"Huh?" The man looked surprised. "You've seen members of my clan before?"

He looked Li Zheng up and down, then realized, "You're a new player, right? Then you must have met my sister, Zi Shu?"

"...You're Zi Shu's brother?!"

Li Zheng also sized up the other party. To be honest, as long as they were people of the same race but different races, unless they were of different genders, he really couldn't see much difference between them.

If it weren't for the obvious difference in sexual characteristics, he would have almost thought it was Zi Shu when he first saw it.

"Hmm." Zi Shu's brother introduced himself, "My name is Zi Yuan. You must be the outstanding player Zi Shu mentioned when she came back a few days ago, Li Zheng, right?"

“It’s me.” Li Zheng didn’t deny it. Only then did he belatedly realize that Zi Yuan could speak fluent Chinese even without a translator: “Why…”

"Oh, so why don't I need to wear a translator?" Zi Yuan said with a smile, "Actually, I do wear one, you just can't see it."

Implantable translator

Rank: Unpredictable

Function: Real-time translation of all racial languages ​​and generates the desired answer based on the corresponding language, automatically translating it.

Description: This is a blacksmith-exclusive model, only available to blacksmith employees. This type of translator requires implantation in the brain; those without a brain are advised to choose other models.

Li Zheng's eyes lit up: "You're an employee of the blacksmith shop? That's great! I came to Block Seven specifically to find you!"

"Looking for us?" Zi Yuan was slightly taken aback, and pointed the way for him: "Just keep going in this direction, and you'll reach the blacksmith shop after about 1,300 shops. I have a few people to pick up here, so I can't take you there. Please forgive me."

"It's alright, it's alright. I was going to find it myself anyway. You go ahead with your work." Li Zheng waved his hand and led Miriel and Zhan Zhouzhou in the direction Zi Yuan pointed out.

They had barely left when Zi Yuan was greeted by the person he was supposed to meet.

A man with purplish-black skin, wearing mottled iron armor, had two thick ram horns coiled like mosquito coils hanging down from the sides of his head and over his shoulders.

She was followed by another woman from the Ziling tribe.

If Li Zheng were here, he would recognize this Zi Ling clansman as Zi Shu. "Boss, apart from the head chef who was originally guarding the shop, the other seven chefs have all returned after receiving the news and are waiting for you to come back to the shop," Zi Yuan said respectfully to the burly man with ram horns.

"Hmm." The blacksmith nodded slightly, the sounds coming from his throat, though consciously suppressed, were like a hidden volcano, ready to erupt at any moment.

……

"What's the teacher up to by suddenly calling us back for a test? I was collecting Sloth Crystals in the Seventh Sin Domain, and I was just one thousand more away from being enough..."

Following the direction Zi Yuan pointed out, Li Zheng walked for a long time before finally finding the blacksmith shop near the end of the street. Before even entering, he heard a grumbling coming from his translator.

“Icarus, the teacher must have his reasons for sending us back. We can collect the Sloth Crystals later.” Another somewhat shrill voice advised, “Just stay in the shop and wait.”

"Hey, Pas, when did you become so well-behaved like your senior brother?" The voice called Icarus asked curiously, "Didn't you used to scream even louder than me when something like this happened?"

“Oh, that’s because in the past, when the teacher summoned us, we wouldn’t be expelled from the sect even if we didn’t come back,” Pas explained. “This time it’s different. Let alone not coming back, Master has declared that everyone who fails this test will be kicked out! You, the third disciple who has disappointed the teacher for years, should really think about how to pass this test.”

"Aaaaaaahhhhhh..." Icarus screamed in despair, "I hate quizzes!!!"

……

Li Zheng listened to their conversation, and was especially surprised when he noticed the names mentioned.

He knew the names Icarus and Paz all too well!
Do you remember when we first went into the dungeon with Zhan Zhouzhou and the others, and we got some weird weapons in the lottery at the end? Weren't they made by them?
and many more……

Li Zheng's expression suddenly turned strange.

What did Paz call Icarus just now?

The blacksmith's third apprentice?

Good guy!
What kind of monsters and demons are the blacksmith's apprentices?
First there were his five disciples who invented the 'Technology Cup,' and now even the two who created the weapons 'Ham' and 'Salted Fish Gun' are his apprentices?!
Really...

A room full of brilliant minds and outstanding talents!

Just as he was hesitating whether to go in for help, a familiar voice came from behind him: "Li Zheng? What are you doing standing outside the door?"

"Purple Tree?" Li Zheng turned around in surprise. "You've gone back to the outer city? You don't need to keep an eye on the matrix anymore? And who is this...?"

He noticed that Zi Shu was standing behind another unfamiliar, burly man, clearly taking the other man as the leader.

"Let me introduce you. This is my teacher, who is also the owner of the blacksmith shop. He is known as the blacksmith." Zi Shu then pointed to Li Zheng and said to the blacksmith, "Teacher, this is Li Zheng, the winner of the previous event. The woman next to him is from the same team. She was the one who suggested making the portable gravity device."

"Nice to meet you." Zhan Zhouzhou looked at the blacksmith warily, sensing an extremely strong threat emanating from him.

A blacksmith's skills are definitely not limited to making equipment; his ability to kill must also be terrifyingly high!
Nickname: Blacksmith
Real name: Unknown

Occupation: Blacksmith shop owner
Strength: High-level top tier (also known as plane-level)

Old Pu: Never try to anger him before your mental shackles are broken, or you'll discover what the most terrifying standard of combat power in the world looks like.

(End of this chapter)