Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 23 Treatment
"not good!
If I land at that speed, even if I don't die, I'll be crippled!

Li Zheng suddenly realized what was happening and glanced at the room in the midst of the tumbling. Although the room was empty, it was still more than ten meters high.

Falling from a height of more than ten meters, if you're unlucky, you'll end up in the ICU, and then the whole village can come and wait for the food to be served.

What's more, before entering this room, Li Zheng had experienced a free fall of nearly thirty meters!

"Gravity Shoes, please, rise to the occasion again!"

Li Zheng roared inwardly, exerting all his strength to activate the Gravity Shoes that were emitting black smoke.

sizzle.

A flash of electricity, a slight popping sound from the metal shoe, and a system notification appeared.

The Gravity Shoes are completely destroyed and beyond repair.

However, with that loud bang, the Gravity Shoes ultimately contributed to Li Zheng's efforts, changing the gravity around him for a moment.

A mere instantaneous change in gravity is enough.

Li Zheng's descent suddenly slowed.

But that still couldn't stop his freefall.

"Leave it to fate!"

Li Zheng covered his head with his hands, curled up like a shrimp, and tried his best to control his rolling body, hoping to land on his back when he landed.

Boom!
Puff puff……

First came the intense impact, followed by a pain so severe it almost made me faint.

My lungs were inexplicably compressed, and my heart skipped a beat.

It rolled several meters on the ground before finally coming to a stop.

Lying on the ground, Li Zheng felt pain all over his body. He didn't know how many bones were broken, his internal organs were burning, and he guessed there was some bleeding.

"Damn! That hurts..."

Li Zheng coughed up a mouthful of blood and immediately opened the trading hall to search for healing items.

However, it's unclear whether this is because it's only the second day of the game or because healing items are so scarce.

There were very few trades for healing items, and the prices were extremely high.

"A black iron-grade hemostatic spray costs one liter of water plus 100g of bronze-grade material B25 manganese steel? But it can only treat superficial wounds, PASS!"

"Black iron-grade bone-setting splint, intelligent control, with eight uses remaining, capable of reconnecting most fractures, but it costs the equivalent of five meals a day for one person? I'll switch!"
Ten honey fruits aren't enough? Add ten more ginseng flowers!

Honey fruit - 10, Luoshen flower - 10.

"Black Iron Grade XBP painkiller, oral medication, effectively suppresses pain, but has no effect on wound healing. One tablet lasts for eight hours. Two tablets left? The price... one tablet in exchange for one tool for developing alien genes? What a waste of my time!"

"Nanorobot (biological type), bronze level, capable of internal wound cleaning, one technological core... Rent for eight hours? Damn, there's a rental function? And I have to provide the energy myself? I'll rent it!"

Core Technology - 1.

Li Zheng reviewed all the lists of medical supplies for the transactions and ultimately traded one item for another, obtaining two items that would be effective for his injuries.

The bone-setting splint, though called a splint, is actually a cylindrical object, somewhat similar to a cylinder used to store calligraphy and paintings. It can be opened and closed from the side and is mainly used to reconnect broken bones in the limbs.

Nanorobots are silver-gray granules contained in transparent crystal bottles; they can work simply by being swallowed.

Once the energy is depleted, the nanorobots will gather in the user's abdomen to receive wireless charging from the power core, making it undoubtedly a cutting-edge technology product.

Despite the pain, Li Zheng first put his right arm into the splint, which just covered his shoulder.

After closing it, ask Sakura to help press the switch.

With a buzzing sound, the dislocated bones were put back together. After another excruciating pain, my arm felt warm and the pain quickly subsided.

"Although this splint is only of the black iron grade, its effect is surprisingly good."

Li Zheng was somewhat surprised.

He had assumed that the effects of a black iron-grade medical device wouldn't be very good.

The effect was faster than he expected; in just five minutes, the pain in his right arm had subsided by more than half.

"We can't waste time on things we've rented. Sakura, help me pour that stuff into my mouth."

Seeing that the bone-setting splint was in operation, Li Zheng simply asked Xiao Ying for help, and they worked together, both inside and out.

"Ying ying."

Sakura landed on Li Zheng, struggled to lift the crystal bottle that was almost as big as herself, and held it to Li Zheng's mouth.

Click.

Li Zheng cracked the bottle cap open with his teeth, and the silvery-gray grit fell into his mouth. Without hesitation, he swallowed it all.

Soon after, he began vomiting large amounts of blood, a truly horrifying sight.

"嘤嘤......"

Sakura flapped her wings and flew up, looking at Li Zheng with worry, but knew that she couldn't help him at the moment, and was extremely anxious.

After spitting out a few mouthfuls of foul blood, a sliver of color returned to Li Zheng's pale face, making him look much better.

The pain gradually subsided, and the furrowed brows that had been tightly knit due to the pain relaxed. Li Zheng even had the energy to give Xiaoying a reassuring smile.

"It's okay, it just looks scary, I'll be fine in a little while."

"Eek." Sakura landed next to Li Zheng's ear, rubbing her little face against his cheek, resulting in her fine hairs getting stained with a lot of blood.

"Hey?"

After tilting her head and thinking for a moment, Xiaoying ran to Li Zheng's side and pulled fibers out of his clothes.

Pulling out a clump of fibers, the little guy grabbed a large piece, flew up with it, and came to Li Zheng, slowly and clumsily wiping away the blood.

Li Zheng smiled and praised, "Our Xiaoying is so sensible! Come on, wipe my left cheek for me, the blood is almost getting into my ear."

"Your right cheek is sticky; you didn't wipe it clean."

"A little higher, a little higher."

"Sakura, are you drawing on my face?!"

"嘤嘤嘤!"

Sakura became impatient with Li Zheng's orders, and her initial worry vanished. In anger, she grabbed a fiber optic strip and rubbed it haphazardly on Li Zheng's face, leaving him with a bright red face.

But then she remembered that Li Zheng knew there was danger and immediately took her to a safe place, so she felt sorry for him and ran to tear off a few more clean pieces of fiber to gently wipe Li Zheng's face clean.

Click.

With a crisp click, the bone-setting splint, which had been in use for half an hour, automatically popped open, reducing its usage count by one.

"Hmm? It seems my entire right arm has recovered?"

Li Zheng tried moving his right hand, and the excruciating pain he had felt half an hour ago had vanished, as if he had never been injured.

"Such amazing cutting-edge technology, if it existed on Earth, it would benefit so many people."

Li Zheng muttered to himself as he put his left arm in the splint. This time, he could activate the splint himself for treatment.

After recovering one arm, things became much easier.

"Alright, you can rest for a bit. I can do it myself. You should eat something first."

Li Zheng stopped Xiao Ying, who was circling around him, and took out a Luoshen flower from the capsule and handed it to her.

That half hour really exhausted the little guy.

Perhaps because it couldn't help Li Zheng when he was in danger, the little guy tried hard to prove its concern for Li Zheng.

Whenever it sees any bloodstains or dirt on Li Zheng, it wipes them clean with its fibers.

In the end, all that was left was to clean Li Zheng's earwax...

Four hours later, Li Zheng's limbs had been treated, but the nanobots inside his body were still working.

In the past four hours, Li Zheng has recharged the nanobot twice, consuming two of his Type I power cores.

The effect of high energy expenditure is that as long as he doesn't move too vigorously, he can hardly feel any discomfort in his internal organs.

"Judging by the time, the nanobots are running out of energy again."

Li Zheng sat in the corner and estimated that the nanobots would run out of energy in about five minutes.

At that time, he can return the nanobots to the lessee ahead of schedule.

After all, his only two complete Type I power cores had been used up in the treatment just now, leaving only the one with 65% energy remaining. However, even if he used this one, it wouldn't have a better therapeutic effect, so he might as well keep something for himself.

During this time, Li Zheng examined his body and found that apart from the serious injuries to his internal organs and limbs, he only had two broken ribs.

The splint could not treat the ribs, and after trying it a few times, he found that the broken ribs did not affect his activities that did not require much effort.

"We need to find a way to treat the rib injuries as soon as possible, otherwise the injuries will easily worsen if it drags on. But the spine, which landed first, was miraculously uninjured, which was really beyond my expectations."

It seems this is what they call "a stroke of luck amidst misfortune".

However, the blunt trauma to his back was quite severe; even a slight touch would make him wince in pain.

"Thankfully, I stuffed my clothes with fibers beforehand, which cushioned the impact upon landing; otherwise..."

Li Zheng felt somewhat fortunate.

Strictly speaking, almost all of the bones he broke were caused by those few rolls on the ground.

Therefore, broken bones are mainly concentrated in the limbs.

As for those two ribs, they were indeed injured by the impact upon landing.

[The nanorobot has run out of energy. Please recharge it promptly.]

"I'm not recharging anymore, please return it early."

Li Zheng rejected the charging option and opened the trading hall, selecting the rental item return function.

The next moment, Li Zheng felt an itch in his fingers, and grains of silvery-gray sand fell from his fingertips, disappearing before hitting the ground.

The crystal bottle used to contain the nanobots has also disappeared without a trace, presumably returned to the lessee by the system.

"call……"

With a sigh of relief, Li Zheng put away the bone-setting splint, which still had two more uses (his legs had undergone four repairs, requiring him to slurp up porridge, and his legs were longer than his arms), and took out the head-sized red flower—Yan Bing Ruo Huo.

"Next, we need to eliminate the source of all suffering: the initiator of greed."

Li Zheng muttered to himself, taking a big bite of the petal of Yan Bingruo Huo...

(End of this chapter)