Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day - Chapter 15

Chapter 15: Under What Circumstances Can a Cup of Water Last a Lifetime?

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

[World Channel 1003698 William Hermes: “So, if I’m 50 years old, I can get out of this damn place safely?”]

[World Channel 1186437 Karl Tribioni: “That’s great! I can finally leave this place. The system just gave me a prompt telling me to make preparations. I can’t take anything else with me except the things I had with me. I’ve put all the materials and props in the trading room, you can have them for free.”]

[World Channel 1057123 Ross Geller: “Damn it, you bastards are really fast, I only got ten grams of tungsten steel!”]

Li Zheng immediately gave up the idea of checking out the trading room.

It was simply impossible to fight with so many people for materials.

“Forget it. It’s only the first day. Even if the 49-year-old players have the guts to continue exploring, they probably won’t be able to go through many rooms. There won’t be many good things there.”

Even if there were, they would definitely give them away to people who were closer to them.

After all, the items that were listed in the trading room were few and of low value.

Li Zheng shook his head and opened the regional channel to see how many lucky people were left.

[Matrix channel: 0000879. Current players remaining: 932. Number of speakers: 0/1.]

Noticing the change in the number of people, Li Zheng’s heart skipped a beat. “There were 964 people before, right? Another 32 people died.”

Every time he saw the number of players in the channel reduced, Li Zheng would feel a sense of hopelessness.

Because one day, it might be his turn.

“I have to be strong…”

Li Zheng glanced at the carefree Chirpy who was still flying around the lamp and thought, “even if it’s for the sake of this little fellow.”

However, there were only a few people who had such thoughts. Most people in the world thought of taking advantage of the situation.

For example…

[Liu Lingling: “I’m looking for a chance encounter, a one-night stand, and 10 months of safety!]

[Chen Qianxue: “God, please bless me with a handsome guy in the next room! I also want 10 months of safety!”]

[Mo Lian: “+1.”]

…

In channel 0000879, there were very few people discussing the 50-year-olds leaving the matrix. Most of them were young women madly spamming for a mate.

Occasionally, Li Zheng could even see some comedic remarks.

[Lu Li: “Line up! I’ll do it!”]

[Yan Guang: “Why only women could get 10 months of safety? Did men deserve to stay here in fear? When can we men stand up? I’m shivering in this hot weather…what? I’m a woman? It’s fine then.”]

[Feng Shan: “…@Yanguang, you’re so slutty~”]

[Li Chun: “@Lu Li, pfft! I didn’t expect you to be such a person!”]

[Yan Guang: “@Fengshan, I can be as slutty as you want. Your profile picture looks pretty good, how about…I let you have it?”]

[Lu Li: “@Li Chun, what’s wrong with me? I’m just saying what every man is thinking.”]

[Feng Shan: “@Lu Li, just admit that you’re a pervert. Don’t try to involve us normal men. @Yanguang No thanks, I still have ten wives to take care of, and I don’t have that much energy.”]

[Lu Li: “@Fengshan you’re right, I’m just a pervert. I am whatever you say I am. Can you help me? I still need 50 grams of tungsten steel…”]

[Feng Shan: “Get lost.”]

[Lu Li: “Okay.”]

[Yan Guang: “@Fengshan 10 wives? You’re even sluttier than me.”

[Yan Guang: “@Fengshan Why don’t you consider it? You have nothing to lose!”

[Feng Shan: “No thanks.”]

[Yan Guang: “Coward.”]

[Liu Lingling: “I’m looking for a chance encounter…”]

…

All in all, the system announcement sent everyone into a frenzy.

Li Zheng saw that there wasn’t any interesting topic in the chat, so he was about to close the page and continue exploring the next room.

A piece of news caught his attention.

[Zhan Zhouzhou: “All of you, stop! You idiots, can’t you see the main point of this announcement?”]

The main point?

Li Zheng looked at the announcement again, but he didn’t find anything special.

[Feng Shan: “What’s the main point? Tell me in detail.”]

The chat suddenly fell silent. Even the women who were begging for sex had stopped, waiting for Zhan Zhouzhou to explain.

[Zhan Zhouzhou: “The key word is ‘removed’! The people who are leaving the matrix tonight are being removed!]

[“In other words, we are actually physically in the matrix, not our avatars.”]

[“If there are any idiots who don’t understand this, I’ll be more direct. Once we die in this ‘game’, we’re really dead!”]

[“It’s not the kind of game where you could leave after you die!”]

Li Zheng thought that Zhan Zhouzhou’s words would make the channel even more chaotic.

However, reality was the complete opposite. The people in the channel were unexpectedly calm.

[Yan Guang: “@zhanzhou, just this? I already knew that.]

[Yan Guang: “Did you see this (photo)?”]

Li Zheng opened the photo and saw that Yan Guang had taken a photo of a bright silver left arm with a smooth surface that looked like a robot’s arm.

And it was connected to Yan Guang’s body!

[Yan Guang: “I might be unlucky. I encountered a monster that looked like a crocodile when I was exploring today. After losing an arm, I barely managed to escape to the next room.]

[“When the monster bit me, I could clearly feel its sharp teeth tearing my skin and flesh, and finally, it bit my bones.”]

[“The pain was so real that I wish I could just die on the spot.”]

[Li Chun: “OMG! That’s so scary!”]

[Lu Li: “Then what’s with the metal arm? An artificial limb?”]

[Yan Guang: “Body transformation table. It can perform a body transformation.]

[“I found this thing before my blood ran dry, cut off the remaining half of my upper arm, and replaced it with this damn thing.”]

[“You could say that I’ve just walked right to the gates of hell. I’m still traumatized by the experience.”]

[Li Chun: “I feel sorry for you.”]

[Lu Li: “+1”]

[Feng Shan: “+1”]

…

[Yan Guang: “@Fengshan, why feel sorry? If so, then when we meet one day, let’s have sex!”]

[Li Chun: “???”]

[Lu Li: “Damn girl!”]

[Zhan Zhouzhou: …]

[Zhan Zhouzhou: “so you all knew!! I’m the idiot…”]

Li Zheng closed the chatroom and sighed. “I feel sorry for them…”

Compared to the others, he was living a very comfortable life.

At least, every time he entered the next room, he would know what to do. He would not be afraid of any sudden danger.

“Thank god for the treasure!”

Li Zheng gave the treasure chest system a huge thumbs up.

[The small water purifier you put up for sale has been traded. The transaction is complete. The goods have been automatically stored in the capsule.]

Thanks to the people who left, someone finally noticed the items that Li Zheng had put up for sale. In just a minute, they were all bought.

To Li Zheng’s surprise, someone was actually willing to trade a bronze-grade material for 100ml of water.

Looking at the name of the trader, he saw that it was a player from another channel.

“000023 Shunwa Kato”

300 ml of water was traded by this Japanese player.

The water purifier was bought by another player from channel 1155247, William Houston.

At this moment, the system notified him that there was a new private message.

Li Zheng opened it and was delighted to see that it was the player named William, who he had just traded with.

[“Mr. Li Zheng, why does the water purifier have a strange smell?”]

Li Zheng thought to himself, ‘this person is quite polite. He said there was a ‘strange smell’, but not ‘smelly’.”

Of course, he couldn’t tell William the truth.

[“Under what circumstances can a cup of water last a lifetime?”]