Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 115 Searching for Someone Again at Night!
"it's dark."

As soon as he passed through a light barrier, Li Zheng noticed that the room had dimmed.

"It doesn't matter, anyway, with the mysterious declaration, only one out of ten explorations tonight will result in entering a non-player's room."

Li Zheng scanned the room and saw a capsule dwelling. The player who had been sitting at the door grilling meat became wary when Li Zheng entered.

Unlike Li Zheng, who possessed the Eye of Preerleus, he couldn't immediately identify someone from a distance.

“Quite vigilant.” Li Zheng didn’t mind the other party’s attitude and carefully examined him for a moment. “There’s no blood on him, so he probably hasn’t killed anyone.”

"Forget it, let's not cause any more trouble, let's just go."

Regardless of whether the other person could see his movements, Li Zheng nodded slightly to him, turned around and left.

Only after Li Zheng's figure disappeared through another door did the player relax and continue grilling meat.

……

Li Zheng then passed through six rooms in a row, all of which were occupied by unfamiliar players. Most of them were cooking over fires and eating various kinds of grilled meat.

The materials for starting a fire were all collected during exploration. Some people were unlucky and had to buy fuels such as coal and firewood in the trading hall.

Li Zheng was lucky; the room where he encountered the forest wolves also had many trees, and if he was willing to spend some time, he could cut down some wood.

However, this kind of raw wood requires other methods to remove moisture before it can be ignited, so basically no one buys it. (Decomposition doesn't care about this; the wood itself is just a gray quality, just like an aluminum can can't be broken down into something else.)
However, after a few days, there were very few players who hadn't entered a room with firewood, so even if Li Zheng painstakingly cut down all those trees, he probably wouldn't be able to sell many.

As for my own use...

Isn't applying fire elements much easier than using firewood or similar materials?
"There are already seven rooms. With my last three chances, I'll definitely enter a non-player room once, so I only have two more chances to find Li Chun."

The room where Li Zheng was located was relatively small. The players there were initially nervous when they saw someone come in, but once they realized it was Li Zheng, they immediately relaxed and even jokingly offered him meat.

Given Li Zheng's actions of selling rare items twice to enhance the safety of others, not a single veteran player in the entire channel believed that Li Zheng would harm them.

Even though he was carrying a lantern with blood-red light in his hand, his whole demeanor was eerie and sinister under the blood-red light.

"Hey bro, wanna grab some? Anaconda meat, super tender and delicious!"

The player enthusiastically tried to persuade him to stay.

"No, there is something else."

Upon hearing "super fresh and tender," Li Zheng subconsciously swallowed, but ultimately declined and left.

"Alright! I'll give you two pieces then. Take them out and try them when you have time."

The player was straightforward; he didn't try to stop him, but simply said he would give him two coins.

Li Zheng paused, turned around and thanked him, "Then I'll have to trouble you."

The player laughed heartily: "Hahaha, no trouble at all. Boss Li Zheng has never forgotten the brothers in our channel when he has good stuff, right? Since we've run into each other, we should at least do our part."

"Yes, they're all minor matters."

Li Zheng nodded and glanced at the identity information provided by the Eye of Preys.

Zhou Kai.

"So you're a frequent user of regional channels, no wonder you're so enthusiastic."

Remembering the name, Li Zheng randomly chose a door to leave.

The moment he entered the room, the room information that had previously indicated the presence of a player suddenly changed.

However, the speed was too fast. Before Li Zheng could see the information displayed by the Eye of Preys, he had already passed through the light curtain.

Looking at the empty metal room, Li Zheng frowned: "An empty room? Have all the players left? Why are they going out to explore so late at night?"

The level of danger within the matrix differs drastically between nighttime and daytime conditions.

Because anything can happen at night. Some creatures may become stronger, some may roam more frequently, and some traps in certain rooms may activate at night.

For example, a player once said in the world chat that after his last exploration during the day, he was safely staying in an empty room.

As soon as night fell, two laser beams suddenly appeared in the room, almost piercing him through.

In the end, they managed to survive the night by staying in a capsule apartment.

"Forget it, everyone has their own destiny. Maybe they also have ways to improve their strength at night?"

He shook his head, not thinking much about it, and went to look for the other doors.

"Huh? What is this?"

With a quick glance, Li Zheng spotted a grayish-white plastic bottle in the corner of the room, and Preys' Eye immediately provided the following information:
[A seemingly ordinary empty bottle was once used to hold painkillers.]

"Painkillers? This player was injured?"

Li Zheng raised an eyebrow and put the bottle back into his capsule.

After all, it's a container, and the space in the residence is much larger now, so storing it away might come in handy someday.

Li Zheng stood up and looked around, then froze in shock.

Apart from the door Li Zheng had come through, all the other doors in the room remained tightly closed, showing no signs of being opened, and the light on the ID card reader was not lit.

"Why are all five metal doors closed?" Li Zheng turned to look at the door he had come from. "Unless this person can appear and disappear out of thin air, it's impossible for only one door to be open!"

If the door you entered through happens to coincide with the route the other person took to enter, then there should be at least two doors in the room that are open.

However, with only one door open and the rule against backtracking within the matrix in place, how did this player leave?
"A spatial teleportation device?"

Li Zheng thought of a prop; besides this teleportation item, he couldn't think of any other possibility.

“Using a spatial teleportation device at night? Shouldn’t we wait until dawn to leave?” Rubbing his temples, Li Zheng was too lazy to think about it anymore. “Forget it, it’s none of my business. I should find Li Chun first.”

I opened the private chat interface and sent another message to that girl, but in the end I still received a reply that she was still resting.

"He's been resting for so long, something must have happened..."

Li Zheng selected a bronze-level bio-room, took out his speargun, swiped his card, and left.

Upon entering the ninth room, Li Zheng, alerted by the Eye of Preys, blasted the bronze-level creature inside with a single shot.

"What bad luck! I didn't get any materials for Bronze 5+, and I don't even have any items to train my pet."

After the decomposition was complete, Li Zheng was slightly disappointed, but he left with the few pieces of fresh meat and blood he had just harvested.

"This is my last chance. I hope I can find her."

After reading the information about the Five Doors, Li Zheng found that apart from the notification that there were players, there was no other special information mixed in.

"Leave it to fate, little girl."

Li Zheng randomly selected a door and swiped his card.

If he could, he really didn't want anything to happen to Li Chun.

After all, players like Li Chun are rare in the Matrix.

Simple, kind, and positive.

Li Zheng felt that in the Matrix world, Li Chun's personality was like a pure lotus growing in filth.

Pure and flawless.

“Girls like this should live in a peaceful environment, not die in the Matrix.”

(End of this chapter)