Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day-Chapter 78 - 76: Huh? Could Phoenix Mountain be the Greatest Contributor?

Chapter 78: Chapter 76: Huh? Could Phoenix Mountain be the Greatest Contributor?

"Fuck!"

Phoenix Mountain obviously also caught another layer of meaning in Yan Guang’s words, unable to even scream in agony, his face twisted in pain, cursing fiercely: "Bullshit from your mother’s mouth!

You, surnamed Yan, don’t even think about succeeding!"

"Old Xiao, go ahead with the surgery. If I make another noise, I won’t carry the surname Phoenix!"

Saying this, Phoenix Mountain closed his eyes, clenched his teeth, and really stopped yelping.

"Oh my~"

Yan Guang exaggeratedly sighed, secretly giving the others a triumphant look, deliberately lamenting aloud: "What a pity that is..."

With that, she tossed both tubes of anesthetic back to Li Zheng for him to keep.

"..."

Li Zheng watched Yan Guang, who’s like a Golden-haired Lion King, a bit confused about what she was up to.

If she truly harbored lust toward Phoenix Mountain as she seemed, in such a situation, even if she forcibly administered a shot, Phoenix Mountain might not have been able to resist.

Yet she gave up such a prime opportunity, instead using this unconventional method to encourage Phoenix Mountain to endure the current pain.

’No wonder the elders say a woman’s heart is a needle in the sea, truly hard to fathom.’

Li Zheng put away the anesthetic, planning to either resell them later or use them himself next time he’s injured.

As for Xiao Siyuan suggesting enduring the pain?

Don’t be silly, since there’s a tool to reduce the pain, why not use it?

The only concern is controlling the dosage properly, maybe he could privately consult some experts and learn about local anesthesia.

Well, Xiao Siyuan wouldn’t be an option, as he advocates habituating and adapting to pain, he’s likely not to teach him.

The surgery on Phoenix Mountain was already halfway done, Xiao Siyuan used a considerable amount of hemostatic bandage before applying the splint.

Splints can accelerate bone healing, while the hemostatic bandage speeds up the healing of incisions during surgery and also offers a degree of disinfection and sterilization.

According to Xiao Siyuan, the medical specialization can enhance the effectiveness of healing tools used, presumably Phoenix Mountain will soon be back full of vigor.

In the meantime, maybe finish up the remaining exploration level first.

Glancing at the exploration level prompt, only the last ten percent remained.

After slaying a heap of mechanical Sword Mantises and that mechanical giant, besides the team members, there was nothing left that could move in the entire Ancient Ruins.

"Seems like the last bit of exploration level isn’t just about fighting monsters simply."

In contemplation, Li Zheng suddenly felt someone pulling his ear.

"Uh... Little Sakura?"

Turning his head, it was that tiny creature gone missing when the mechanical giant unleashed its electrical attack.

"Um... um um... um!"

Little Sakura hovered in front of Li Zheng, its tiny paws gesturing non-stop, seemingly conveying some sort of message.

After watching for a while, Li Zheng roughly understood its meaning, somewhat puzzled why it just gestured without making a sound.

"You mean you found a door over there, with something inside?" Li Zheng asked it.

"Mm mm mm!"

Little Sakura nodded vigorously, waved its tiny paw, signaling for Li Zheng to follow it.

Glancing at the others, Xiao Siyuan was performing surgery, Phoenix Mountain was on the receiving end of the surgery, Yan Guang was assisting Xiao Siyuan, Zhan Zhouzhou...

"Eh? Where’s Zhan Zhouzhou?"

"Looking for me?"

Turning back, Zhan Zhouzhou was standing behind him, watching Xiao Siyuan perform surgery.

"..."

Li Zheng was a bit speechless, if you want to watch, can’t you stand elsewhere?

Why stand directly behind me.

Suddenly speaking, giving one a scare.

Too lazy to retort, Li Zheng pointed to Little Sakura and said: "The little guy just found another room here, I’m going to check if I can complete the last bit of exploration level, you wanna come?"

"Humph."

The little guy, seeing Zhan Zhouzhou looking at it, turned its head away, seemingly not very fond of this woman who bullied Li Zheng before.

Zhan Zhouzhou shook her head and said: "If it could make it back here, there probably isn’t much danger, I won’t go."

"Alright."

Li Zheng had asked casually, not particularly insistent, following Little Sakura toward the room it discovered.

This metallic hall was very spacious, covering a large area.

Following Little Sakura, Li Zheng walked nearly ten minutes before finding a half-opened metal door.

This door’s shape was much like those in the Matrix, the only difference was that it had no light-curtain membrane behind it.

Moreover, it opened on both sides, and whether due to some malfunction, there’s a narrow gap in the middle, just enough for Little Sakura to slip through.

"Is this it?"

The door was ajar, Li Zheng couldn’t see inside clearly, but after Little Sakura nodded, he stepped forward, grasped both sides of the door, and with all his strength pried it open.

"Phew ~ Good thing I’ve got Bronze++ physical condition, someone else might not have managed to open it."

After opening the door, he caught his breath.

First, Li Zheng surveyed inside, finding the space not large, about fifty square meters or so, with some instruments placed within.

"What a pity Old Pu went offline, otherwise he could scan for any traps inside."

Although Little Sakura had ventured in, Li Zheng couldn’t be sure there weren’t any pressure-triggered traps, so he stood at the door and randomly tossed a bunch of Iron Ingots inside.

Once sure there were no traps on the floor, he carefully stepped inside the room.

After collecting up all the Iron Ingots and safely reaching the instruments, he finally felt at ease.

[Psychic Interference Device]

The Matrix System provided the name for this instrument but gave no explanation of its function.

"This thing...could it be the source of those bizarrely generated negative emotions?"

Li Zheng speculated about its purpose from the instrument’s name.

"But aside from when initially entering the ruins when the impact was significant, after several battles to vent out, the influence has become smaller."

Li Zheng carefully sensed, and though some mild negative emotions were still arising inside, they weren’t as severe as at the beginning.

"Just turn it off first."

Trying to find a way to operate the device, it was ultimately in vain.

Except for a spot that looked like a plug interface, Li Zheng couldn’t find a single button on the device.

"If it can’t be turned off, then we’ll dismantle it by force."

Li Zheng was an expert at such tasks, immediately retrieving a metal short stick from the capsule residence and pressing out the blade.

With the Light Saber in hand, Li Zheng swung it once, slicing off a part of the Psychic Interference Device that resembled a small signal transmitter.

"Zzzzz."

Sparked twice, the device ceased functioning.

With the Psychic Interference Device destroyed, Li Zheng felt a weight lift from his heart, the faint sense of oppression completely dissipating.

"Ah, much better!"

Li Zheng shook the Light Saber in his hand, feeling very satisfied: "This is way more useful than Iron Ingot."

Looking at the damaged device, Li Zheng reached out, mentally reciting: Decompose.

After failing several times to decompose the mechanical Sword Mantis, Li Zheng had a gut feeling that decomposing this device was doable.

Sure enough, the system notification appeared the next moment.

[Player Li Zheng has decomposed the damaged Psychic Interference Device and obtained: Psychic Interference Device Blueprint +1, Power Core Type IV +1, Orichalcos +1500g, Intermediate Module +25, Iron Ingot +20, Copper Ingot +20, Advanced Components +30]

"Whoa!"

Li Zheng was amazed on the spot.

While the decomposed items were few, their levels were very high, half of them being Gold Level materials.

"But this information notification..."

Li Zheng frowned at the panel, discovering that the decomposition information this time was shared across the entire team.

So, the items he obtained now were visible to the others as well.

"Let them see it; after all, in a team-based dungeon, the rewards should be public."

Li Zheng found this setting quite reasonable; otherwise, if he triggered the dungeon but the helpers were too strong, looting all the way through, he might end up with nothing, and they might even feel grateful for being conned.

With the decomposition of the Psychic Interference Device, the exploration degree of the Ancient Ruins reached 93%.

"One device equals three percent?"

Li Zheng looked at the two remaining devices of different shapes and decided not to try operating them, lifting the Light Saber to start chopping.

"Zzzla."

"Zzzla."

...

After a chaotic series of slashes, the remaining two devices also became damaged, and Li Zheng decomposed them one by one.

[Player Li Zheng decomposed the damaged Mechanical Race Research Core and obtained: Power Core Type IV +1, Power Core Type IV +1, Orichalcos +1321g, Intermediate Module +10, Iron Ingot +50, Copper Ingot +10, Advanced Components +23, Titanium Alloy +854g]

[Player Li Zheng decomposed the damaged Sword Mantis Assembly Center and obtained: Power Core Type IV +1. Orichalcos +818g, Intermediate Module +80, Iron Ingot +150, Copper Ingot +120, Advanced Components +38, Titanium Alloy +421g]

"Not a bad haul. Although the latter two devices didn’t yield any blueprints, the advanced materials obtained from this exploration are quite substantial."

Li Zheng was fairly satisfied with this kind of yield, though all items would eventually be divided into five parts, drastically reducing the materials he would personally receive.

Even so, the gains from this exploration of the Ancient Ruins were comparable in value to a normal day’s exploration.

With the last two devices decomposed, the exploration degree finally reached 100% full value.

[Ancient Ruins, Exploration Degree 100%]

[Congratulations to players: Li Zheng, Zhan Zhouzhou, Phoenix Mountain, Yan Guang, Xiao Siyuan, for completing the Ancient Ruins.]

[All players participating in and surviving this exploration receive two draw chances each.]

[The exploration has ended. All players will return to their original rooms after the draw ends.]

[Player Li Zheng has obtained two draw chances. Would you like to use them now?]

"It’s over already?"

Li Zheng was slightly stunned.

During this exploration of the Ancient Ruins, apart from the Sword Mantis swarm attack, Li Zheng didn’t even feel much effort was required.

For such an easy dungeon to require a five-person team, wasn’t that a bit of a joke?

"Hmm... something’s not right."

Li Zheng thought carefully and realized he had been short-sighted.

Initially, the small skirmishes in the metal corridor were indeed manageable for any team player to handle alone.

Even Phoenix Mountain, albeit taking some time, would find it not too difficult.

However, the difficulty suddenly escalated after exiting the metal corridor, jumping more than one level.

The swarm of over a hundred mechanical Sword Mantises was enough to overwhelm anyone without Bronze++ physical attributes, eventually leading to being sliced into mince by the swarm.

Li Zheng found it easy, thanks to Yan Guang’s timely double bombardment, thinning the ranks of the Sword Mantis swarm by more than thirty, reducing the pressure instantly.

Latter coordinated actions among the team led to a swift and easy elimination of the swarm.

However, the most terrifying entity in the entire Ancient Ruins was the final mechanical giant.

If Li Zheng hadn’t had the quick wit to use the capsule residence to block the first round of electric attacks,

If Zhan Zhouzhou hadn’t acted decisively by leaping onto the mechanical giant’s arm to counterattack,

If Phoenix Mountain hadn’t been brave and ruthless enough to face the mechanical giant’s palm head-on, risking everything to create an opportunity for Zhan Zhouzhou,

If not for Yan Guang’s powerful mechanical arm, Phoenix Mountain would never have made it across,

If not for Xiao Siyuan’s superb medical skills, Phoenix Mountain would still be lying there like a dead dog.

If not for his own extraordinary prowess, discovering the mechanical giant’s weakness and shattering its Power Core with a single shot.

Without the coordinated efforts and individual strengths of these people, any other team would surely have suffered losses in this exploration of the Ancient Ruins.

Possibly even a total wipeout!

"Huh?

Why does it feel like every factor in defeating the mechanical giant involved a certain man named Feng?"

Li Zheng suddenly had a doubt. Could Phoenix Mountain indeed be the greatest contributor to this exploration?