Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 380 The Wandering Merchant: Xiao

Li Zheng didn't tolerate him and took out his sheathed sword to parry and deal with the situation. Xiao Ying next to him also perked up and opened her mouth, causing two obsidian stones to fall from the sky.

With a simple movement, the blue-skinned man raised his arms and lashed out with his spear, easily knocking away the stone that Sakura had conjured using her diamond-level ability, "Obsidian Slam."

"What the hell... this is not as good as the ones I've encountered before?" Li Zheng jumped up and down. Old Pu was indeed unreliable!

This level of strength is definitely more than just Star-level!
"Slip away!"

Li Zheng spread his wings and flew wildly in another direction, with Sakura following closely behind, while Pink Poring transformed into a transparent membrane covering Sakura's body.

As soon as they retreated, the blue-skinned guy stopped chasing them and watched Li Zheng walk away with a puzzled look on his face.

"I go!"

Li Zheng felt his heart pounding like never before. He felt that the blue-skinned guy in front of him wasn't serious at all, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to escape!
Seeing that the other party had stopped moving, Li Zheng hesitated for a moment, then stopped instead of immediately looking for the door to leave.

"..."

"Could she have misunderstood me?"

Li Zheng thought about it carefully and realized that his actions were not like "copying language from my brain" but more like "taking my brain out and giving it to you".

"Old Pu, are you sure this guy has the ability to copy languages? What if he doesn't actually know it and I end up getting stabbed in the back?"

Li Zheng asked the Eye of Preys in a low voice, but received no response.

"...I'll trust you one more time. If that doesn't work, I'm leaving."

Gritting his teeth, Li Zheng risked his life and practiced the gestures several more times in different ways.

Five minutes later, the blue-skinned man finally understood Li Zheng's meaning, put away his spear, and pointed at him from mid-air.

A feeling that was both familiar and strange resurfaced in my mind, as if someone had taken something out of my head.

This feeling is strange; I feel very insecure.

"Cough...cough!" The blue-skinned man coughed twice before speaking: "So you wanted me to use the language extraction function. I thought you players this year were so awesome that you would give your brains to others as soon as you meet them."

Finally able to communicate, Li Zheng felt a surge of emotion and almost cried.

I'm so incredibly touched!

He almost got hacked to death because of this!

Oh no, I mean stabbed to death.

"Anyone with a brain knows that's impossible!" Li Zheng said speechlessly. "By the way, what do you do for a living?"

If it weren't for Lao Pu's warning, any other player encountering the other would have likely lost at least one person on each side, given the other's style of behavior.

"I?"

The blue-skinned man realized, "Oh right, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm a newly hired wandering merchant, responsible for walking around the Matrix and selling some items that you might be interested in."

"You can call me by my name... Xiao."

"But are all the players this generation so weak? I've been looking in this channel for two days, and you're the first customer I've encountered."

Ha, no wonder you're a newbie who just started working here.

If you keep browsing this channel, it won't be long before you've traded with every player in the channel.

So... you didn't receive any training before you started working?!
Why look for customers in a channel that might have the fewest players in the entire matrix?
Luckily you came in 995. If that number were reduced by one, you might wander around forever and never encounter a single player.

Li Zheng rubbed his forehead: "You can try switching channels, like 0000879. That channel has the most remaining players right now, and it'll guarantee your business booms."

“0000879?” Xiao repeated, nodding earnestly, “Thank you, I’ll remember it.”

"By the way, would you like to take a look at my merchandise? As a thank you, I can give you a discount!"

Look!
Of course I'll watch it!

That's why I came here!
I almost got stabbed in the back because of this. If I don't check now, wouldn't I be missing out big time?
"Alright, I hope you can offer something useful to me." Li Zheng feigned modesty.

"As a certified full-time wandering merchant, all my goods are top-quality, and I would never sell inferior goods as superior ones." Xiao Zheng straightened his expression, his big eyes almost popping out of their sockets.

Lifting a corner of his cloak, Xiao took out a USB drive and placed it in his palm. He introduced it, "First, let's look at the platinum-level one. This is a rare material blueprint. It's only available across all channels in the entire matrix... cough, the number won't exceed five. And this is my sixth! You know what that means, right?"

"Does this mean the blueprint came from the outer city?" Li Zheng narrowed his eyes.

"Huh?" Xiao exclaimed in surprise, "You actually know about the outer city? Wait! Tell me your name first!"

He seemed to remember something and hurriedly asked Li Zheng's name.

Language memory retrieval does not infringe on the player's privacy or other information, so Xiao did not know Li Zheng's name.

"My name is Li Zheng," Li Zheng casually gave his name.

"You're Li Zheng!?" Upon hearing this name, Xiao jumped up as if his tail had been stepped on by a cat and shouted, "You're the player who was pre-selected by the terminal to enter the outer city early, Li Zheng?!"

Xiao's reaction was unexpected by Li Zheng. Judging from this, he must be quite famous in the outer city.

"Have you heard of me?"

"I've heard so much about you! After the Butcher finished his mission last time, he went back and raved about you, telling everyone he met. He's already spread the word that you've been chosen!" Xiao seemed a little too excited.

"The butcher?" Li Zheng asked curiously, "How did he praise me?"

"Him?" Xiao replied, "He praised you for being generous."

……

"And then what?" Li Zheng had a bad feeling.

"That's all! I was just praising your generosity. You were willing to give him two armored dragon turtles with ancestral bloodlines. Do you know how much he benefited after giving those two dragon turtles to the God of Cookery?" Xiao shook his head vigorously. "Two pots of delicious soup! Two pots! Do you know what two pots of delicious soup mean? It's enough to buy a basic-level residence on the outskirts of the outer city!"

Grass!
Li Zheng finally realized that the butcher's inexplicable friendliness towards him was actually because of the two armored dragon turtles.
Is this what they mean by "he who takes a man's money is bound to be grateful"?
wrong!

residence?

"Do we need to buy additional accommodations once we reach the outer city?" Li Zheng caught this phrase. "Don't players have capsules? Can't they just stay in capsule accommodations?"

“Of course, you’ll need to buy separate accommodations in the outer city!” Xiao explained. “The capsule accommodations are currently only for your emergency use; they’re roughly equivalent to what you call… tents.”

"In your words, would you allow us to set up a tent and live in a busy area? Not only would it be taking up public resources, but we might also be punished by law enforcement!"

At this point, Xiao said to Li Zheng in a low voice, "Let me tell you a secret: before entering the outer city, you must collect as many resources as possible, and do your best to expand the capsule space without becoming a bloodthirsty person."

"Do as I say, and you'll thank me later!"

(End of this chapter)