Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 361 Unreasonable Rank Suppression
The connection between Li Zheng and Wu Hao dates back to an inconspicuous material.

That is one of the essential materials for making a laser restoration device—radium.

This radium element is completely different from radioactive elements on Earth, but its uses are equally wide-ranging, and it can be used to repair damaged power cores.

At that time, Wu Hao was the only person in the entire matrix who sold radium, but because his asking price was so exorbitant, even Li Zheng couldn't afford it.

Most importantly, Wu Hao refused all bargaining and stuck to the price, which is why Li Zheng has not been able to buy the radium element to this day.

From this perspective, Wu Hao is very greedy, extremely greedy!
Previously, when Li Zheng secretly contacted several players from China, he only mentioned his plan to trick Wu Hao, and Wu Hao readily agreed.

The condition for agreeing was that, in addition to helping to suppress the bids from the Muddy Country, the final transaction price in other normal auctions should also be discounted by 40%.

Ultimately, Li Zheng pushed the price down to 20%.

"What will happen to the price of this item if I accidentally bid on it?"

Although Li Zheng had already agreed with him that all the extra bids would be waived, and the transaction would be based on the initial transaction price minus 10%.

But Wu Hao was still not entirely at ease, so he sent a private message to confirm, as if he was afraid that Li Zheng would turn around and trick him.

Li Zheng reassured him, "Don't worry, even if you don't need the item after you buy it, I can find another buyer. I definitely won't let you suffer a loss."

"Then I'm relieved." Wu Hao sent a private message, and a number floated across the screen—200!

What the hell!

Li Zheng was shocked on the spot.

I told you to trick the Japanese, but I didn't expect you to do it so obviously!
They only added the minimum markup, and you immediately raised it to two hundred?
Even a fool could see something was wrong.

If that's what you mean, why don't I just go directly to Tang Qianzang?
Gan!
As expected, Wu Hao's bid seemed to have alerted Tanaka Junichiro, as no new bids appeared in the live chat for a long time.

Tang Qianzang sent a private message: "Where did you find this idiot? He can't even scam people properly!"

Li Zheng was speechless. How the hell was I supposed to know this guy could be this stupid?

I initially thought he was a shrewd businessman because he was selling radium and wouldn't budge on the price.

Looking back now, he was just a hothead!
Li Zheng's face darkened, but since things had come to this point, he had nothing more to say. He just told his clients not to contact him again if this happened again.

There was no activity on the screen for a long time, and Liu Qishao was a little gloating: "This bidding is going to fail. Transfer those three usage rights to me later. Ninety dynamic cores will help you recover your losses."

Wu Hao also sent a private message: "Did I mess up?"

Li Zheng remained silent: "..."

So you figured it out yourself?
I thought you wouldn't notice!

What a simpleton!

Just then, an unexpected turn of events occurred in the live stream.

Suddenly, a notification popped up at the top of the live stream screen:
[Player "Tanaka Junichiro" has left the live stream.]

Everyone was stunned. Even Ryoma Itazumi, who also belonged to Takamagahara, did not expect that Junichiro Tanaka would leave halfway through.

He immediately tried to contact the other party via private message, but received no response for a long time.

"What do we do now? I have three uses of the medical bed but I can't use them!" Wu Hao sent a private message asking.

What to do?
What else can we do?
Sell ​​it to someone else to recoup some of the losses!
Li Zheng steadied himself and began to take control of the situation: "It seems that Mr. Tanaka knows he is short of funds and has already withdrawn from this auction."

"Given that no further bidding was received, this item was successfully acquired by Mr. Wu Hao for the price of two hundred Platinum-grade Power Cores!"

"Let's congratulate Mr. Wu Hao!"

A few ellipses floated across the screen as Wu Hao posted a few pretentious, humble comments. Meanwhile, Li Zheng swiftly completed a series of actions, signing an agreement with Liu Qishao for ninety dynamic cores.

Liu Qishao signed the agreement with Li Zheng, feeling uneasy: "Won't this agreement fall through halfway through?"

The agreement he signed with Li Zheng last time was voided in less than half a day, which made him somewhat distrustful of system agreements to this day.

"Don't worry, there won't be any surprises this time!" Li Zheng assured him.

Liu Qishao thought about it and was still worried: "After the auction, give me the coordinates and send a few soldiers there to use up those three usage rights. Get ready."

“No problem.” After confirming, Li Zheng continued the auction.

Although Tanaka Junichiro's sudden departure caught Li Zheng off guard, he wasn't the only mud-bomb player in the live stream.

If I can't cheat him, can't I cheat someone else?

Although this practice is quite dirty, Li Zheng enjoys it immensely.

"The next item up for auction will definitely be something you've never seen before."

"I won't keep you in suspense any longer, I'll just show you the attributes!"

Li Zheng raised his hand and picked up a piece that looked like a fragment cut from some kind of fur, showing everyone its attributes.

"This is a piece of equipment with special properties. It can only be obtained by dismantling finished equipment, and its effects are absolutely powerful."

Li Zheng gave everyone some time before continuing, "The characteristic contained in this fragment is 'psychic ability amplification.' The method of use is very simple: just sew it onto your own equipment, and it will take effect. If any of you don't have a suitable tailor, I can sew it for you for free."

This fragment is only of gold grade. It was a scrap that Li Chun produced while practicing. Since none of the people he knew had the expertise in "psychic power," Li Zheng took it and put it into the auction.

The fragments themselves aren't particularly valuable, but their worth lies in the fact that this type of item is practically exclusive to Li Zheng; you simply can't find another one like it in the Matrix.

Everyone understands the principle that scarcity increases value.

Therefore, many people were prepared to bid for this fragment and decided to contact Li Zheng afterwards to secure an exclusive supply channel and monopolize the market.

Some people don't care about this at all.

They were more curious about why Tanaka Junichiro had suddenly left, and were all distracted by the intelligence gathered by their subordinates.

Li Zheng's auction proceeded as usual.

On the other side, Junichiro Tanaka was absolutely furious.

“The second one!” Tanaka Junichiro looked at the group of research-oriented players who were considered treasures by Takamagahara, his face ashen.

His gaze swept over the innocent faces of the research enthusiasts, and Tanaka Junichiro said in a deep voice, "Two probes have been damaged in succession. Can any of you give me a reasonable explanation?"

"This……"

The research-oriented players exchanged glances, all looking quite troubled.

They couldn't understand why a diamond-level device, just by testing two gold-level tools, would destroy itself.
From the perspective of rank suppression, this is completely unreasonable.

If this were to get out, no one in the entire matrix would believe it, let alone Tanaka Junichiro, who personally supplied the probe and possessed the blueprints and knew its performance.

But the truth is just that strange.

It doesn't make any sense at all.

They were totally confused too...

(End of this chapter)