Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 85 The Floating Thruster, Li Zheng is in the Sky!
Li Zheng put the pocket watches up for sale one by one and designated them for trading, totaling more than 500 yuan, which took him more than half an hour.

During that half hour, he experienced the agony of the system notifications flooding the screen once again.

"This damn matrix system terminal, can't it at least have a panel minimize function? Or just ignore the system prompts!"

"These idiots, they took the pocket watch and instead of exploring, why are they tagging me in the regional chat?"

Li Zheng felt a throbbing vein in his forehead and opened the regional channel to take a look.

Good heavens, there was a whole line of over five hundred players who had received the pocket watch thanking him!
He was tagged in every single post!
This spectacular scene left the players who had been split up completely bewildered. Why were these people thanking a player ranked fifth?
Then someone spoke up to ask what was going on, wanting to find out what happened.

Those players who got the pocket watch were equally decisive.

Brother Li Zheng has such an incredible item as pocket watches, yet he doesn't hoard them. Instead, he thinks of his brothers on the same channel and spent an unknown amount of time making so many pocket watches yesterday.

They might have stayed up all night just so their brothers could get the pocket watch before setting off to explore early in the morning, ensuring their safety.

Back on Earth, staying up all night might not have been a big deal.

However, in the matrix survival game, you may encounter combat at any time while exploring during the day!
In this situation, which player wouldn't want to be fully rested before exploring?

For the safety of his brothers, Boss Li Zheng stayed up all night making pocket watches, and he will definitely need to rest for a while later.

This will definitely slow down today's exploration progress. We might not even be able to use up all ten exploration opportunities before dark, and we'll have to explore in the dark.

Isn't this spirit of selflessness worthy of praise?
Isn't this noble and selfless virtue worthy of praise?
So... the players who got the pocket watch took turns explaining to the players who asked questions in the regional chat.

Some people even posted screenshots of some of the pocket watch's attributes.

Suddenly...

Those who joined later couldn't hold back any longer.

What is this pocket watch?
That's like losing half your life!
Using it once per room means that at least one-fifth of the rooms are safe during the exploration!
Who wouldn't want this?
Next, Li Zheng received another round of mentions, but he had already opened the chat lobby, thus avoiding another round of notification bombardment.

New players who were a day late in getting the pocket watch mobilized in an organized and opportunistic manner. After tagging Li Zheng, they asked: "Li Zheng, do you still have any pocket watches? We'll get one no matter the cost!"

Among them, Ye Yuan, one of the Ye siblings, was the most enthusiastic. The speed at which she sent messages made people wonder if she was using a cheat code.

While others post one message, she can post five, or even six...

Li Zheng was so annoyed he was about to curse, but then his eyes lit up and he immediately started to shift the blame.

Li Zheng: "That's all. I only have one left for myself. Besides, I didn't make the pocket watch; I was just responsible for collecting the materials."

The one who actually owns the blueprints is Fengshan. If you want them, ask him for them.

Upon hearing this, most of the players immediately switched their focus and began tagging and bombarding Fengshan.

Unfortunately, Fengshan was asleep and didn't witness this scene.

otherwise……

However, a small number of people sent private messages to Li Zheng, but because Li Zheng had enabled the function to reject private messages from strangers, all messages failed to be sent.

Then these people started searching the trading hall...

After a while, Li Zheng suddenly started receiving a lot of material, and then the number of private messages began to climb.

"???"

Li Zheng was stunned for a moment. After realizing what was happening, he opened the trading hall and found that the ordinary clothes he had listed yesterday, which were originally not selling well, were now being bought by others one by one.

In just a short time, the quantity was reduced by half, and Li Zheng obtained at least a hundred basic materials of the Black Iron grade.

Those who have had transactions with each other are automatically considered "acquaintances" by the system. These people, however, have found a way to bypass Li Zheng's method of blocking private chats...

This was a shrewd move that Li Zheng had thought of before but hadn't taken seriously.

After all, who would buy some "junk" that the other party is selling but that they don't need just because they want to send a few private messages?

"Why won't you listen?"

Li Zheng clicked his tongue, intending to leave these people hanging.

But then I thought, wouldn't these newly acquired players also be laborers helping me collect materials for gene potions?
"Sigh... If I had known things would turn out this way, I shouldn't have gotten them a pocket watch yesterday!"

With patience, Li Zheng dealt with each issue one by one, telling them that he was telling the truth.

After receiving confirmation in private messages, most people started looking for Fengshan.

Only a very small number of people still believe that Li is lying to them; I don't know what's wrong with their brains.

This infuriated Li Zheng, who immediately blacklisted these people.

"Would I, Li Zheng, lie to you about something like this?" At this moment, Li Zheng suddenly felt that the world was peaceful, the air was fresh, and even his mood became beautiful.

"Oh, by the way, the levitation thruster is finished. Let's take a look."

The prop had been completed long ago, but due to the interruption from Fengshan, Li Zheng managed to delay releasing it for over an hour.

"boom."

With a soft thud, the levitation thruster landed on the ground in front of Li Zheng.

"This shape..."

Li Zheng looked at it for a moment, and the more he looked, the more familiar it seemed.

"Isn't this the jetpack invented by the rich boss in 'The Mermaid'?"

The hover propulsion device does indeed look very similar to the **-10 jet aircraft that has already appeared on Earth.

However, the difference is that the air-lift propulsion system is much simpler than that of the **-10, consisting of only two jet cylinders.

The overall design is silver-white, and the body lines are very smooth, giving it a very high-tech feel just by looking at it.

Another difference is that the hovercraft does not have a joystick control device, nor does it even have a back frame to fix the body. Instead, there are two deep grooves on the side of the fuselage.

"Is this thing... reliable?"

Thinking of the awkward way the character in the movie first used the jetpack, Li Zheng bent down and picked up the levitation thruster.

It's very lightweight; you can barely feel its weight.

"The method of use is to fit the groove into the back, and then..."

Li Zheng tried it out according to the instructions. As soon as the levitation thruster touched his back, two prototype baffles suddenly extended from each side, passing under his armpits and connecting and fixing in front of him, just enough to lift him up.

"what……"

After moving his shoulders a few times, Li Zheng realized that the deep grooves were actually designed to allow the user to move their arms, providing space for the shoulder blades.

"Let's try it out and see how it goes."

Li Zheng carried the levitation thruster outside his residence.

I glanced at the place where Lu Li had camped last night; it was empty. I didn't know when he had left.

"With a pocket watch in hand, his safety should be greatly improved."

Li Zheng muttered to himself, and with a thought, the levitation thrusters on his back spewed out two powerful jets of gas.

"Bah!"

The continuously ejected gas easily propelled Li Zheng to a height of two meters.

Controlling the airflow, Li Zheng tried adjusting the direction.

Once he was familiar with it, he began testing the forward and backward movement.

Before long, he was able to fly freely in mid-air.

Furthermore, thanks to the gene serum, after all his physical attributes were upgraded to Bronze++, Li Zheng's control over his body greatly improved.

Once you're familiar with the operation, you shouldn't have to worry about making too many mistakes.

"Yingying?"

Sakura flapped her little wings and flew quickly to Lee's front, looking at him curiously.

They seemed curious about how Li Zheng could suddenly fly.

"Haha."

Li Zheng laughed loudly and asked Xiaoying, "Xiaoying, do you want to have a competition?"

"Eek?" Sakura tilted her head.

The next second, it suddenly changed direction and flew away quickly, whimpering.

Wow, they actually jumped the gun!

Li Zheng shouted, steered the plane, and flew after Xiaoying.

(End of this chapter)