Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day - Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Making a Small Water Purifier

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

“Speaking of which, the first room was also green in color, but there was only a snickerand a blueprint. If it wasn’t for the fact that I accidentally discovered that smashing the two machines could yield materials, I wouldn’t have gained much.”

Li Zheng walked up the stairs to the second floor. At the same time, he began to estimate what the colors of the rooms meant.

“It’s a green room and I got a snicker. However, I also obtained a black-iron portable lamp in the basement.”

“From the looks of it, the value of the props in this room is not as good as the first room.”

Although it was a finished product, the value of a lamp was obviously not as high as the water purifier blueprint.

“After all, water is one of the most important resources for survival, while light is dispensable.”

So far, Li Zheng had yet to come across a room without any light.

“So there should still be some things I can loot on the second floor.”

When he arrived on the second floor, there were four corridors surrounding the entire second floor in a square. The edge of the corridor was surrounded by a fence with a distinctive style.

On the other side of the corridor, there was a room in each of the four directions.

Li Zheng walked into one of the rooms, which was a bedroom.

A double bed with silk curtains and luxurious bedding.

On the inner wall of the bedroom, a metal door stood quietly.

The detector showed that it was orange-red.

“The metal door leading to the next room is on the second floor, but I’m not in a hurry to explore it. There’s still a lot of rooms to check out.”

Li Zheng then went to check out the other three rooms.

One of them was a washroom, and the metal door inside was empty.

In a small bedroom, the room behind the metal door was red.

There was also a study with a desk and a bookshelf.

In the bathroom, Li Zheng found 100ml of water in a wooden bucket and took out a bottle to drink it.

As usual, he smashed everything he could before leaving, but unfortunately, there was nothing he could break down.

In the small bedroom, Li Zheng took out two spare parts from the pillow. Then, he realized that the quilt and curtain could be broken down, and he got 30 fibers.

[Fiber (gray). Material]

[A soft and fluffy material that can be used to make special items.]

Coming out of the small bedroom, Li Zheng nodded. “Now, the value of the items found in the two green rooms is almost equal.”

He walked to the desk in the study, only to find a familiar screen embedded in it.

“Research desk!”

Li Zheng walked up to the desk and flipped through it. He pulled open a drawer and found two sockets.

He took out the drawing of the water purifier and inserted the USB drive. The screen lit up and showed the water purifier’s geometric drawing.

Some data was shown on the blueprint, and the word “learn” was written at the edge of the screen.

He touched the word and the USB drive immediately disappeared. The data turned into a ray of light and entered Li Zheng’s head.

[Player has learned the blueprint and unlocked the craft function.]

At the same time, Li Zheng saw a “craft” button appear on the panel in front of him.

When he opened it, he saw that only a “small water purifier” could be made.

He tapped the small water purifier, and a page opened up. The amount of materials needed to create it and the amount of materials Li Zheng currently had were clearly displayed.

The small water purifier could turn sewage into clean drinking water.

[Required materials: spare parts 1/7, iron ingot 3/14, copper ingot 1/11]

“It doesn’t need a lot of materials. Let’s make one first.”

He chose to craft it, and the materials were deducted. A moment later, a notification appeared in front of Li Zheng.

[The small water purifier is completed. Please find a place to place it or keep it in your capsule.]

“I’ll put it here first.”

With a thought from Li Zheng, a silver-white machine appeared in front of him.

It wasn’t big and looked like a water dispenser. The top was shaped like a funnel, and there was a metal cup below it.

[Energy source required.]

A virtual arrow pointed to the back of the water purifier. Li Zheng opened it and found that it was just big enough to fit a power core.

He took one out and put it in, then closed it.

[Sewage required.]

“Where can I find sewage?”

Li Zheng was in a dilemma. Could it be that after all this trouble, he’d only end up making something useless?

“I wonder if urine counts as sewage…”

Li Zheng pondered for a moment.

“I guess so…”

The moment he thought about it, he immediately felt like peeing.

“I’ll try it.”

Since no one was watching, Li Zheng began to pee.

After entering the matrix, he didn’t drink much water, he just had enough to fill a can.

Li Zheng picked up the can with two fingers and poured the foul-smelling liquid into the funnel.

“Buzz.”

The water purifier made a slight noise and started working.

Almost at the same time, the metal cup below started to be filled with water. In less than two minutes, Li Zheng had obtained 300 ml of purified water.

“…”

“Awesome…almost none is wasted!”

Although the system notified him that the water had been purified and was drinkable, Li Zheng couldn’t bring himself to drink it.

“I should just trade them off.”

He divided the 300ml of water into three portions, and each portion was set to be traded for 20g of B25 grade manganese steel.

“100 ml of water for 20 grams of bronze. The amount required isn’t much. There should be people who are extremely dehydrated and willing to trade.”

Li Zheng wasn’t in a hurry. The exchange didn’t charge processing fees anyway. At most, he could just change the conditions and re-list it once the deal expired.

“As for this water purifier…I’ll give them a hint.”

First, he dug out the power core and listed it. He wrote this in the description box, “Under what circumstances could a cup of water last a lifetime?”

[Trade requirements: iron ingot x2, spare parts x5, copper ingot x2]

It was almost twice the cost.

It didn’t matter if anyone bought it or not.

“I’m free right now, I should clear my private chat.”

He opened his private chat and saw that there were a lot of unread messages, and the number was 9999+.

Li Zheng couldn’t be bothered to look at it in detail. He kept Feng Shan and Zhan Zhouzhou’s chat records and deleted everyone else’s.

However, just as he deleted them, a new message came in.

Unsurprisingly, it was just useless flattery.

Helpless, Li Zheng had no choice but to change the private chat settings to reject messages from strangers.

Li Zheng was only interested in Feng Shan and Zhan Zhouzhou.

Both of them had traded with Li Zheng, so the system recognized them as acquaintances.

At this time, Feng Shan had already been unblocked, and he had sent more than 20 messages during this period of time.

When he opened it, he saw that it was full of hate messages.

“This kid…”

Li Zheng chuckled. “Next time I have a flame flower,” he replied. “I’ll save it for you.”

He guessed that Feng Shan must be bored after finishing ten rooms, so he replied almost instantly, but with only one word.

“Hmph”

“How arrogant.”

Li Zheng smiled and ignored him. He turned to look at Zhan Zhouzhou’s profile picture and sent her a private message. “How was it? Did you succeed?”

After a moment, Zhan Zhouzhou replied, “no.”

Just as he expected.

Not everyone was like Feng Shan, that beast. The flame flower had a 2% success rate of developing the fire-type gene.

However, the buyer had used a silver-grade power core in exchange for it, and in the end, it was all for nothing. Li Zheng felt that as the seller, he had the responsibility to care about the buyer.

“It’s expected. The probability is indeed a little low. Next time, if there’s something similar, I’ll give you a discount.”

“By the way, you didn’t get the side effect, did you?”

He sounded concerned.

Li Zheng thought he was a good person.

Zhan Zhouzhou replied almost instantly.

Li Zheng opened it and saw the message.

“Get lost!”

“???”

[The player has blocked you for 12 hours.]

Li Zheng: “???”

The f*ck?

How unreasonable!