Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day

Chapter 576 - 457 Zhan Zhouzhou: Going to the Outer City Together (4K)_2

After speaking, she laughed to herself: "Actually, it wasn’t really tricking you, it was mainly that my master was in seclusion at the time, so I couldn’t leave randomly. Therefore, I used a little bit of a ploy to find someone to run errands for me, and you just happened to be the one to come along."

"Hey hey!~"

Saying this, Zi Shu tilted her head, blinked, and playfully stuck out her tongue. With her imposing figure, doing such actions truly left Li Zheng and others thunderstruck.

"But speaking of which, although our blacksmith shop can produce suppressing type gadgets, the doctors have the ability to directly eliminate such negative emotions. So, when I sent you to find a doctor... you weren’t tricked by the doctor, were you? He wouldn’t have just given you a suppressive-type gadget and sent you packing, right?"

Zi Shu suddenly saw the Emotion Balance Bracelet on Li Zheng’s wrist and exclaimed in disbelief.

Upon hearing this, Li Zheng’s face turned as dark as the bottom of a pot: "The doctor said keeping such negative emotions could help train my spiritual power, so..."

"So you accepted this suggestion?"

Zi Shu shook her head helplessly: "See, you fell into a newbie’s trap. Although the negative emotions created by ancient creepers can train spiritual power, the effect is negligible.

The reason the doctor suggested you keep it was just waiting for the day when the bracelet couldn’t suppress that emotion any longer, and you would go find him so he could raise the price on the spot.

But now, looking at you, it seems those negative emotions have already been eradicated?"

Indeed, they were eradicated, and Li Zheng wasn’t even sure when the ’violence’ that had been lurking in his heart had vanished.

Previously, he thought it was still there before he went to the Dark Realm last night, but thinking carefully, it seemed to have disappeared during the day yesterday.

But one thing was certain, the disappearance of ’violence’ had absolutely nothing to do with the Emotion Balance Bracelet!

"No wonder you’re ignoring the business in the Outer City and came to Matrix to be a special merchant." Li Zheng couldn’t help but complain: "Turns out, you had plans for us newbies..."

Hearing this, Zi Shu was unhappy and retorted: "Not every merchant is as unscrupulous as the doctor, okay? Honestly, you’ve never been treated unfairly in any transaction at the blacksmith shop, right?"

Li Zheng thought about it carefully, and indeed...

Among the special merchants he had dealt with, the blacksmith shop seemed to be the most fair.

Though they had tricked him once, making him go a long way around to find the doctor.

But their intentions were good.

The others, like Luo Aiman, the doctor, and the wandering merchants, aren’t they all ruthless and unscrupulous?

Trading with them felt like having a chunk of flesh cut from a player!

"See, you have nothing to say anymore, right?" Zi Shu seemed slightly proud that their blacksmith shop had a rather good reputation in the Outer City, "I’m leaving."

She waved her hand, opened a radiant teleportation gate, and kindly reminded Lin Fengjiao before leaving: "You take care at the doctor’s, his advice to you should not be fully trusted, or you might suffer a big loss!"

Players who could get their hands on Outer City tickets in advance weren’t simple, and Zi Shu didn’t mind showing goodwill at such times.

These would be potential customers for the store in the Outer City, and establishing good relations now would naturally bring some returns later.

Talking business is just business.

Where there are unscrupulous merchants, there are honest ones too.

Li Zheng felt he was also an exceptionally honest merchant in his dealings, so after Zi Shu left, he said to Zhan Zhouzhou: "Since you’re not using that Gravity Necklace, how about selling it to me? The price is negotiable."

’Overweight.’

Although this equipment was dismissed by Zi Shu, Li Zheng thought this kind of auxiliary tool was genuinely good.

Moreover, the ’Overweight’ collar itself was upgradeable!

It’s just that the materials needed for the upgrade were not present in the Matrix, which is why Zhan Zhouzhou chose to custom order a better one through this event as a replacement.

According to old Prel, if you have the upgrade materials, the gravitational enhancement of ’Overweight’ is theoretically unlimited!

Equivalent to being an ’infinite upgrade’ type tool akin to the Demon Blade Thirsty Blood!

"Okay."

Zhan Zhouzhou tossed the collar directly to Li Zheng.

Catching the still warm collar, Li Zheng was dazed; when did Zhan Zhouzhou become so easy to deal with?

Wasn’t this an infinitely upgradeable tool?

Giving it to him just like that?

"For this deal, what are you planning to exchange?"

Of course Zhan Zhouzhou wouldn’t give it to Li Zheng for free; she knew he could afford the price, hence why she confidently tossed it to him.

Li Zheng examined the attributes of the collar carefully and discovered a rather annoying flaw.

Because this was the first Lightweight Gravity Generator, the materials needed for the upgrade were marked as "Unknown."

Even Prelis’ Eye couldn’t provide corresponding information.

This meant that unless Li Zheng, as a light ironsmith, personally enhanced it or figured out how to create compatible parts.

Otherwise, this collar would have the same effect for life, unable to upgrade...

As a result, the value of ’Overweight’ instantly dropped significantly.

The most annoying thing is that the ’Overweight’ necklace itself didn’t have an exact level, and in the tier column, it showed "None."

This also caused its specific value to lack even a single measurable standard.

Li Zheng pondered, then tentatively said: "A Platinum Level Ice Ability development tool?"

He was currently eating Arctic Cattail Fruit like fruit, but because he wanted to remove the "Shaping" ability of the Ice Element, it limited his consumption of Arctic Cattail Fruit.

Eating it now would be basically a waste.

Might as well trade it and get real solid tools.

"Not enough!" Zhan Zhouzhou shook her head and rejected this offer.

"A high-growth pet, either a wolf or a rabbit, whichever you choose, even if you want a husky, I could find a way!" Li Zheng made another offer.

"Wow, a perfectly normal transaction, and you, old Li, have ulterior motives." Phoenix Mountain clicked his tongue in amazement: "A true connoisseur merchant indeed."

The husky’s ’house demolition demon’ fame is known throughout the universe. Hearing this species, Zhan Zhouzhou’s beautiful brows furrowed toward each other, clearly showing dislike.

"Unless it’s this level of pet, don’t bring out anything else." Zhan Zhouzhou pointed at Mirel.

"Hah! You’ve got a big appetite huh!" Li Zheng expressed disbelief. The potential equivalent to Mirel, aside from Xiaoying, he had only seen Su Xiaoya.

Even Li Chun’s spider, cultivated for so long, had less than a percent of Mirel’s potential.

And ’Overweight,’ in Li Zheng’s eyes, had a value roughly equivalent to the spider. Zhan Zhouzhou wanted to trade this tool for a pet like Mirel?

Impossible thoughts!

"Forget it, you have no sincerity, take back this tool."

Li Zheng decisively tossed the collar back to Zhan Zhouzhou and turned to leave.

"Wait."

Zhan Zhouzhou called out to him, and as he turned back, she tossed the collar over again: "The item is yours, but as for the deal... notify me when you go to the Outer City; I’ll go with you."

Going to the Outer City together?

Was she thinking of having someone to rely on?

"Didn’t Zi Shu just say the places reachable with Outer City tickets vary, how can we go together?" Li Zheng’s subtext was a refusal.

He already had several tag-alongs making his actions inconvenient; adding another person would only create more chaos.

Zhan Zhouzhou took out her Key Box: "We have five, right? With no outsiders here, let’s open them all and see if there’s any match, exchange if needed?"

"..."

Already thought of the method; she had been planning this, right?

Li Zheng stayed silent for a moment, estimating that even if he hadn’t proposed trading ’Overweight’ collar, Zhan Zhouzhou would have found an excuse to suggest going to the Outer City together.

Presenting this under the guise of a deal, using the ’Overweight’ collar as a goodwill gesture.

According to the agreement, Phoenix Mountain and Yan Guang’s two tickets should also be handed to him for safekeeping. If there’s any match with Zhan Zhouzhou’s possession, it could be directly used.

Therefore, operations like exchanging tickets aren’t even necessary.

Li Zheng looked at Phoenix Mountain and Yan Guang, silently extending his hands.

Let’s open them first and see if there’s any repeat among the five tickets?

Ps: Made revisions to the previous Chapter today, improved the suspected bug in the last Chapter, causing a delay in updates.

Ps1: The previous Chapter ended up with over seven hundred additional free words...

Ps2: In conversion, equivalent to nearly five thousand words of update today.