Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day-Chapter 99 - 91: Zhong Shiru and the Compost Workshop

"Fighting... is it the kind of fighting with two against one?"

Li Zheng touched his nose and tactfully turned back around, casually grabbing a few empty bottles from the capsule dwelling: "I haven’t even collected the Clockmilk yet, just confirmed which door to go to, and already there’s a ’surprise’. This luck... it’s awesome."

"Although I don’t mind taking a look, Little Sakura is still a child, so I can’t let it see such peculiar things."

"Ying?"

Little Sakura remained dejected, raising its head in confusion.

"It’s nothing."

Li Zheng shook the plastic bottle in his hand: "In a bit, we’ll have milk to drink."

"Ying!"

Speaking of food and drink, Little Sakura instantly got excited, flying in the air and flailing, its fine tail twisting even faster behind it.

"Haha, you little foodie."

Li Zheng teased it, walking towards the direction indicated by Prelis’ Eye.

The bottles were plastic bottles of purified water that Li Zheng had emptied over the past days. In theory, in this supposedly sci-fi Matrix Survival Game, some materials should have been retired by now.

However, both the initial supplies sent at the game’s beginning and the purified water found during exploration all came in 500ml plastic bottles.

And the shape was quite familiar to Li Zheng, just like the brand where a farmer’s triple punch kills the masterfather, except without the label.

Perhaps due to certain luminescent minerals within the rock walls, the cave had a faint illumination.

Though dim, it didn’t affect Li Zheng too much.

After searching for a while, Li Zheng found a shallow pool of Clockmilk on the ground following the sound of dripping.

The Clockmilk, as introduced by Prelis’ Eye, was milky white like milk. When getting close, Li Zheng could smell a faint dairy aroma.

Unlike the aroma of Luoshen Flower.

The dairy aroma of Luoshen Flower has a floral fragrance, while Clockmilk’s aroma... is pure milk.

"Wonder how long it’s been gathering in this shallow pit, whether it’s spoiled..."

Li Zheng murmured softly, crouching down and pressing the water bottle into it. The somewhat viscous Clockmilk slowly poured into the bottle.

Soon, Li Zheng filled four full bottles, leaving only some residue at the bottom of the shallow pit.

"Emmmm..."

Li Zheng hesitated slightly, individually capping all four full bottles tightly and storing them in the capsule dwelling. Then, another piece of fiber appeared in his hand.

Ten seconds later, Li Zheng stood up and left the shallow pit with Little Sakura.

The shallow pit behind them was licked clean like by a dog, without a trace of Clockmilk residue.

"Hmm, it’s not spoiled." Wiping off a milky white smear inadvertently left at the corner of his mouth and licking his fingers, Li Zheng commented.

"Ying ying!" Little Sakura, holding the other lump of small fiber ball in its little paws, took a sip. The rich dairy aroma filled its mouth, and its small, black gemstone-like eyes narrowed with happiness.

The "milk" was even more delicious than it imagined, compared to the food it had eaten in the past few days, such as the dropline spider glands; this was an absolute delicacy!

The fiber ball wasn’t large, and the amount of Clockmilk absorbed was small.

Even with Little Sakura being very frugal, taking only modest sips, it couldn’t last beyond two or three gulps before the fiber ball lost its flavor.

"Ying ying..."

Little Sakura gazed at Li Zheng with hopeful eyes, wanting another drink.

"There’s too little of this stuff, only four bottles, so we have to drink sparingly. For now, just tasting is enough." Li Zheng mercilessly refused, "We’ll drink more during dinner tonight."

Li Zheng remembered he still had a tea set, which would be perfect for serving Clockmilk then.

"Ying."

Little Sakura threw away the little fiber ball and began eagerly anticipating dinner time to come sooner.

The anticipation for food even surpassed its concern about growing a tail.

The slender, scaled tail swayed left and right behind it, who knew if it could even feel it.

Li Zheng walked a few steps and suddenly made a turn.

After walking several meters further, he stopped and, pinching his nose, looked ahead at a much larger deep pit.

The pit bottom was filthy and unbearable in smell.

[Scale Crow Giant Lizard’s Excrement (Grey), Gold Level creature’s excrement, excellent for composting.]

"It’s a pity that materials are not enough now, and I haven’t learned the pipeline blueprint. Otherwise, I could use this time to consume the two construction blueprints and pile the fertilizer first."

Li Zheng hesitated for a moment, turned around, and released his capsule dwelling to go in and check materials.

"There’s enough material for one blueprint... let’s build the compost workshop first; the bathroom can wait until tonight. I’ll learn the pipeline blueprint along the way."

Finding the compost workshop blueprint, Li Zheng confirmed its use.

[Please designate the construction area for the ’High-Quality Compost Workshop.’]

"Just... by the door then."

Li Zheng marked a 5×5×4 space on the left, seven meters from the door, and confirmed the construction.

The seven-meter space was mainly to leave room for the bathroom.

The bathroom would be right next to the door, making it convenient for use when entering and exiting the dwelling.

[Materials sufficient, High-Quality Compost Workshop under construction...]

After confirming construction, the selected materials disappeared into thin air, and lines appeared in the designated area, outlining the compost workshop’s shape.

The disappeared materials filled in the blueprint’s outline, like paint used in drawing.

[Time required for this construction: 4:59]

"Five minutes, not long, it’ll just be ready by the time those two are finished over there."

Li Zheng checked the time, estimating that the two fighting would also need about five minutes to wrap up, allowing him to finish the compost workshop, collect all compost materials, and then give them a clean break during their sage time.

Time passed quickly, and the High-Quality Compost Workshop completed. The Matrix System provided a timely notification:

[High-Quality Compost Workshop construction completed.]

With this notification, Li Zheng opened the workshop door and entered. The inside contained only a 3.5×3.5×3 metal compost bin.

The compost bin’s upper part was square, and the lower part was conical, with the discharge outlet at the tip of the cone, controlled by an automatic valve.

When fertilizer is produced, the discharge outlet will automatically open, closing again once the fertilizer is discharged.

At the very top, there’s a flared opening about one meter in diameter, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, which serves as the input port.

The external structure of the bin includes a small ladder leading directly to the input port, facilitating manual input of compost materials. Li Zheng originally intended to use the ladder to peer through the input port and inspect the internal structure.

After considering it, he thought, it’s just a 30.75³ "septic tank", what’s there to see, and abandoned the idea.

After observing for a bit, Li Zheng exited the workshop and called, "Number Four, Number Five, come on out... ahem, time to work!"

In response to this command, the two Intelligent Humanoids, which had assisted in organizing the dwelling and hadn’t moved since, finally activated again.

The two identical-looking teenage Intelligent Humanoids followed Li Zheng out of the dwelling, Li Zheng pointed at the large pit and ordered, "Go down and move all the feces into the workshop, toss them into the machine."

Finished speaking, he pinched his nose and stepped aside.

The two Intelligent Humanoids received the order, descending the pit’s edge, soon climbing back up with hands full of Scale Crow Giant Lizard’s excrement.

"..."

Li Zheng paused, embarrassed as he remembered not having tools, so he traded at the exchange hall for two shovels and tossed them over.

Iron Ingot -6, Shovel +2

"Clang clang."

Number Four and Number Five didn’t take the shovels but entered the workshop first, dumping the excrement they carried into the compost bin. Only afterward did they pick up the shovels and go down into the pit to continue working.

Li Zheng stood a short distance away, overseeing the work, looking at the pit, then at the shallow pit several meters away where Clockmilk gathered, suddenly remarking, "Even livestock know to separate waste disposal from food, but some folks just want to dump it into the sea!"