Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day - Chapter 24

Chapter 24 Healing

“This is bad!

“If I land at this speed, even if I don’t die, I’ll be crippled!”

Li Zheng suddenly came to his senses. He took a quick glance as he fell. Although the room was empty, it was more than ten meters high.

If one fell from a height of more than ten meters, they would be sent directly to the ICU.

Furthermore, Li Zheng had been falling for more than thirty meters.

“Gravity shoes, please, do it again!”

Li Zheng screamed in his heart as he used all his strength to activate the smoking gravity shoes.

Light flickered, and the metal shoes made a slight explosive sound. The system notification then appeared.

[The gravity shoes are completely destroyed and cannot be repaired.]

However, with the explosion, the gravity shoes finally helped him one last time, changing the gravity around him.

A momentary change in gravity was enough.

Li Zheng’s falling momentum suddenly slowed.

But it still couldn’t stop him from free falling.

“I’ll have to leave it to fate!”

Li Zheng hugged his head with both hands and curled himself up like a shrimp. He tried his best to protect his body, trying to land on his back as soon as possible.

Thump!

Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!

First, there was a strong impact, followed by intense pain.

His lungs felt an inexplicable pressure, and his heart stopped beating for a moment.

He rolled a few meters on the ground before finally stopping.

Lying on the ground, Li Zheng felt pain all over his body. He had lost count of how many bones he had broken, and his internal organs were burning. There were probably signs of bleeding as well.

“Oof! It hurts…”

Li Zheng coughed out a mouthful of blood and immediately opened the trading room to search for healing items.

However, perhaps it was just the second day, there were very few healing items.

Besides, the prices were extremely high.

“A black-iron-grade hemostasis spray is 1 liter of water + 100 g of bronze-grade B25 manganese steel? However, it can only heal external injuries. PASS!”

“Black-iron-grade bone-healing device, AI-controlled. It has eight uses left, could heal most bone fractures, and the price is food that is enough to last five meals? I’ll take

it!”

“Ten honey fruits are not enough? I’ll add ten more ginseng flowers!”

(Honey fruit -10. Ginseng flower -10.)

“Black-iron-grade XBP painkiller. Oral medication. Effectively suppresses pain, has no healing effect on wounds. One pill could last eight hours. There are two left? Asking price is… one item that could develop special-type genes? You’re wasting my time!”

-velop

“Nanomachines. Bronze-grade. Could heal internal injuries. One technology core to rent for eight hours? F*ck, there’s actually a rental function? I have to use my own materials? Fine, I’ll rent it!”

[Technology core -1.]

Li Zheng looked through all the healing items he had traded, and in the end, he managed to get two items that were applicable for his injuries.

The bone-healing device was a cylindrical object. It was somewhat similar to the cylinder that was used to store paintings. It could be opened and closed from the side, and it was mainly used to connect the broken bones of the limbs.

The nanomachines, on the other hand, were a type of silver-gray gravel. They were stored in transparent crystal bottles and could work inside the body after they were swallowed.

After the energy was used up, the nanomachines would accumulate in the abdomen of the user and receive wireless charging from the power core. It was undoubtedly a black-technology item.

Bearing the pain, Li Zheng put his right arm into the device. It was just enough to cover his shoulder.

After closing it, he asked Chirpy to help him press the switch.

With a buzzing sound, the dislocated bone was repaired. After another wave of heart-piercing pain, his arm felt warm and the pain quickly subsided.

“Although this device is only of black-iron-grade, it’s surprisingly good.”

Li Zheng was a little surprised.

He thought that a black-iron-grade item would not be very effective.

The result was faster than he had expected. In less than five minutes, the pain in his right arm had been reduced by half.

“We can’t waste time on things that we’ve rented. Chirpy, help me pour that bottle of stuff into my mouth.”

Seeing that the bone-healing device was working, Li Zheng asked Chirpy to help him. He was being healed from the inside and outside.

“Chirp, chirp.”

Chirpy landed on Li Zheng’s body, and with great effort, it picked up the crystal bottle that was almost as big as it and brought it to Li Zheng’s mouth.

Using his teeth to open the bottle cap, the silver-gray gravel fell into his mouth and he swallowed it without hesitation.

Not long after, he began to spit out large mouthfuls of blood. The scene was extremely terrifying. “Chirp, chirp…”

Chirpy flapped her wings and flew up, looking at Li Zheng worriedly. However, she knew that she couldn’t be of much help at this moment, and her heart burned with anxiety.

After spitting out a few mouthfuls of blood, Li Zheng’s pale face regained some color.

The pain in his body gradually decreased, and his face relaxed. Li Zheng even had the energy to smile at Chirpy in relief.

“I’m fine. It just looks scary. I’ll recover in a while.”

“Chirp.”

Chirpy landed next to Li Zheng’s ear and rubbed its face against his cheek. As a result, the fine hair on its face was stained with quite a bit of blood.

“Chirp?”

It tilted its head and thought for a moment, then went to Li Zheng’s side and started to extract fiber from his clothes.

Pulling out a ball of fiber, the little creature grabbed a large piece and flew up to Li Zheng, slowly and clumsily wiping away the blood.

Li Zheng smiled and praised it, “you’re so kind! Come, help me wipe the left side of my face. The blood is almost in my ear.”

“To the right. The right side of my face is sticky. You didn’t wipe it clean just now.”

“A little higher, a little higher.”

“Chirpy, are you drawing on my face!?”

“Chirp, chirp, chirp!”

Chirpy was getting a little impatient after being bossed around by Li Zheng. Its initial worry was completely gone, and it was so angry that it grabbed the fiber and wiped it all over Li Zheng’s face, causing his face to turn red.

But then it remembered that Li Zheng sent her to a safe place when he discovered that there was danger and its heart ached again, so it got a few more clean fibers and slowly wiped Li Zheng’s face clean.

With a crisp sound, the bone-healing device automatically sprung open, and its use was reduced by one.

“Eh? It seems like my entire right arm has recovered?”

Li Zheng tried to move his right hand, but the excruciating pain from half an hour ago had disappeared. It was as if he had never been injured.

“If there’s such amazing black-technology on earth, so many people could benefit from it.”

Li Zheng muttered to himself as he put his left arm in as well. This time, he could activate the device by himself.

After one of his arms was healed, it was much easier for him to do things.

“Alright, you should rest for a while. I can do it myself. You should eat something first.”

Li Zheng stopped Chirpy, who was circling around him, and took out a ginseng flower from his capsule.

The little creature was exhausted.

Perhaps it was because it had not been able to help Li Zheng when he was in danger, the little creature tried its best to prove its concern for Li Zheng.

Whenever it saw any blood or dirt on Li Zheng’s body, it would use fiber to wipe it clean.

It even wanted to clean out Li Zheng’s earwax…

Four hours later, the treatment for Li Zheng’s limbs was complete. Only the nanomachines in his body were still working.

In the past four hours, Li Zheng had charged the nanomachines twice, using up two of his power cores.

The result was that as long as he did not move too violently, he almost did not feel any discomfort in his internal organs.

“The nanomachines are running out of power again.”

Li Zheng sat in a corner and estimated that the nanomachines would run out of energy in about five minutes.

At that time, he would be able to return the nanomachines to the owner.

After all, his only two power cores had been used up in the treatment, leaving only the water purifier with 65% energy. However, even if he used this one, it would not have a better healing effect, so he might as well leave something for himself.

During this time, Li Zheng did a body check and found that, other than the internal organs and limbs being severely injured, he only had two broken ribs.

The bone-healing device could not heal the ribs. He realized that he wouldn’t be too affected by the broken ribs as long as he didn’t move too much.

“I have to find an item that can treat rib injuries as soon as possible. Otherwise, the injury will worsen if it drags on. However, the spine that landed first was miraculously uninjured, which was really beyond my expectations.”

It seemed that this was the so-called “fortune in misfortune.”

However, the blunt contusions on his back were more serious, and he grimaced in pain from just a touch.

“Luckily, I stuffed my clothes with fiber, which acted as a good cushion when I landed, otherwise…”

Li Zheng rejoiced.

His broken bones were almost all caused by the few times he rolled on the ground.

Therefore, the broken bones were mainly in the four limbs.

As for the two ribs, they were indeed injured the moment he landed.

[The nanomachines have run out of power. Please recharge them.]

“I’m not charging it anymore. I’ll return it now.”

Li Zheng rejected the option to charge and opened up the trading room, and returned it.

In the next moment, Li Zheng felt an itch on his fingers. Silver-gray gravel fell from his fingertips and disappeared before they hit the ground.

Even the crystal bottle that was used to store the nanomachines had disappeared without a trace. It was likely that the system had returned it to the owner.

“Phew…”

Heaving a sigh of relief, Li Zheng put away the bone-healing device that had two more uses. He had used it four times to heal his legs becase his legs were longer than his arms. He then took out the red flower the size of a human head, the flaming ice flower.

“Now, it’s time to enjoy my reward for all the suffering.”

Li Zheng muttered to himself as he bit down on the fiery petal…