Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 354 The First Matrix Auction Begins

Li Zheng, who was fast asleep at night, suddenly woke up with a start. He opened his eyes wide and stared at the soft light on the ceiling of his room, looking puzzled: "Why do I always have this feeling that I've forgotten to do something, but... I feel at ease?"

Turn over, put that feeling behind you, and fall asleep again.

Shortly after he fell asleep again, someone spoke on the world channel: "So... at this hour, Boss Li hasn't announced any more potions for sale, does that mean we don't need to wait anymore?"

"Holy crap... I thought I was the only one staying up all night waiting, but it turns out there are other people keeping me company. I'm not alone!"

"You misunderstood. I just took a nap, and I only got up to pee and asked a question. Judging from your reply, I didn't miss this batch of gene serum. I'm going back to sleep now."

"...Are you polite?"

Yesterday, Li Zheng spent the entire day repeatedly jumping between event dungeons, completely forgetting about selling gene potions, which caused some people to stay up late all night.

God knows how this person's brain works.

The next morning, Li Zheng woke up full of energy to Xiao Ying's fuss.

After washing up and having a meal, they changed into their combat gear and walked out of their residence feeling refreshed. As expected, Kuro and Is once again entered standby mode due to insufficient energy.

"It's another beautiful day."

Pack up the dwelling, the crimson robot, and the real maze. Check the metal doors to make sure no wandering monsters entered the room last night.

After doing a few stretching exercises to loosen his muscles and bones, Li Zheng directly raised the mysterious declaration and prepared to begin today's exploration.

"Huh? Why are there so many private messages?"

Before I had taken two steps, the number of private message notifications suddenly increased, quickly exceeding 99+.

Upon opening the message, I found it was from players who looked familiar but weren't quite familiar with me.

"Aren't these the players who bought potions from me before? What are they doing drawing so early in the morning... Wait a minute!" Li Zheng paused, finally remembering what he had forgotten.

"Damn it...didn't I fail to sell those two hundred sets of potions yesterday?"

I looked through a few private messages.

Goodness, it's all players who recommended the potions to their friends asking why they weren't sold yesterday.

What else can Li Zheng say about this?
Should I tell them I forgot about it?

nonexistent!

A true master must remain calm in such situations.

Li Zheng rubbed his forehead, deciding not to reply to each message individually. Instead, he used today's megaphone in the world channel: "Potion sales are starting early today. There are 400 sets in total, all priced at 30 Bronze Blood per set. First come, first served. By the way, a quick plug: too many words, see the next megaphone."

"The auction requires advance booking. Interested and capable players can contact me privately to register. They need to provide evidence to prove their assets. I will select suitable candidates to participate in the auction. The auction will be held live in the room at 5 pm today. Only those who accept the invitation can participate."

Using a megaphone, Li Zheng gave a brief overview of the items at today's auction. He then unlocked the private chat restrictions and waited for the barrage of messages to follow.

Unsurprisingly, the number of private messages exploded, becoming overwhelming.

There were people buying medicine, people asking about the detailed requirements for participating in the auction, and people barking like sycophants—you name it.

It took Li Zheng nearly three hours just to deal with this wave of private messages. In addition to selling two days' worth of potions, he also selected two hundred qualified players from the vast sea of ​​people to participate in today's auction.

Many of them were acquaintances.

For example: Tang Qianzang, Wu Hao, Qian Bugou, Misaka Tsuchimon.

There are also several known organization leaders, such as Banquan Longma, Cheng Tianpu, and Liu Qishao.

Originally, Li Zheng wanted to refuse the participation of the mud-covered people in the auction.

But then I thought, what difference does it make who you do business with?

Not shabby.

Well, the main reason is that yesterday, when Cheng Tianpu and Banquan Longma caused such a commotion on the world channel, Li Zheng felt there was an opportunity to exploit, so he temporarily changed his mind.

This time, Li Zheng wanted to emulate war profiteers, selling his war profits to two or even several companies to make a fortune from the war. Re-enabling the private chat restrictions, Li Zheng wiped non-existent sweat from his forehead, slightly exhausted: "Goodness, this is more tiring than a fight. I'll never do this again!"

At this point, Li Zheng's work was far from over.

He also needs to contact Li Chun, Chu Xiao, and Xiao Siyuan to collect a batch of "local specialties" from them to use as auction items.

Besides that, he also prepared some props in advance to avoid being flustered during the auction.

By the time everything was finished, it was almost lunchtime, and Sakura, bored out of her mind, had already taken a nap next to him, using Pink Poring as a pillow.

I decided to eat early, and then spent four hours clearing six rooms, obtaining some diamonds and platinum-level materials, leaving four exploration opportunities for the event dungeon.

Almost at the last minute, Li Zheng sat at the entrance of his residence, turned on the live stream, set it to a mode where only designated players could watch, and invited the group of people selected that morning.

Within half an hour of the live stream starting, the chat went from being completely clean to a chaotic mess in less than ten minutes, with a group of people arguing loudly in the live stream room.

The main force among them were Banquan Longma and Cheng Tianpu. They were still arguing like they hadn't had enough last night, and they were arguing back and forth with great enthusiasm.

Other onlookers, not wanting to miss out on the drama, kept urging the two of them to make a move in the live chat.

In particular, several organization leaders from Russia sent comments mocking the two of them, calling them sissies and indecisive.

This sparked discontent among leaders of women's organizations in several Western European countries, who subsequently engaged in a war of words.

This scene made people from other countries exclaim: This auction was fucking worth it!
then……

Then someone discovered that their arch-nemesis had also been chosen, and made a few sarcastic remarks in secret.

Another chaotic situation is inevitable.

If Li Zheng hadn't had no choice but to impose a complete silencing order, he even suspected that these participants would have continued hurling insults at each other until the end of the auction.

"First of all, welcome everyone to this, and possibly the only, matrix auction." Li Zheng began his opening remarks with a great sense of ceremony: "In this auction, all the items have different starting prices. Some require only blood materials, while others require power cores. Please refrain from deliberately disrupting the bidding process, otherwise..."

At this point, Li Zheng grinned, his snow-white teeth sending a chill down everyone's spine.

The last time Li Zheng single-handedly terrified an entire organization, it feels like it happened just yesterday, still vivid in my mind.

"Without further ado, let's start with the main event to whet your appetite."

Li Zheng waved his hand, and a flying machine flew from inside the residence to the door. He caught it in his hand and introduced its performance.

"The hover propulsion device, although only a gold-level item, is easy to use. As long as you wear it, you can easily perform well. It is a top-notch aerial combat tool. With it, you have control of the battlefield."

"Many of you probably participated in the auction specifically for this, right? There are ten levitation thrusters up for auction this time, and the starting price for each one is..."

After offering a set of materials as the starting price, Li Zheng lifted the silence in the room, and the auction officially began.

"Each bid must be for at least one unit. Now... let the bidding begin!"

First up was Banquan Longma, who eagerly offered: "I'll offer fifteen sets of materials, and I'll take all ten units!"

Unlike professional auctioneers who constantly shout and create a lively atmosphere, Li Zheng Auction simply lets the viewers bid quietly via the live chat.

Cheng Tianpu followed closely behind: "Eighteen sets!"

"twenty!"

"twenty two!"

"twenty five!"

"thirty!"

The two were locked in a fierce battle, and in just thirty seconds, the price finally reached the same level as when Li Zheng sold it alone.

Just then, another person joined the bidding, catching Banquan Longma off guard.

……

(Just wanted to let everyone know that updates might be a bit irregular for the next few days because an elderly relative passed away and I have to go back for the funeral. I probably won't have time to write. Hope you understand.)
(End of this chapter)