Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day

"Reason?"

Li Zheng was startled: "Are you saying that this thing can cause someone to lose their reason?"

He couldn't imagine that passing through the Ancient Ruins could secretly hold the possibility of losing one's mind and becoming a lunatic.

Why didn't he feel a thing about it?

"That's right!" Zi Shu nodded and said, "Generally speaking, the worst-case scenario is that your consciousness gets destroyed, becoming a living corpse that only knows how to kill."

"A living corpse... only knows how to kill?"

Li Zheng frowned, recalling Xiao Siyuan's warning not long ago.

He hadn't expected Xiao Siyuan to detect the anomaly in him with just the intuition of a doctor.

Li Zheng pondered whether if he hadn't met Zi Shu this time, there might come a day when he too would turn into a living corpse.

He knew that although he had managed to avoid the worst outcome for some unclear reasons even to himself,

this killing aura still affected him somewhat.

It indicated that he wasn't completely immune, but just significantly reduced the aura's impact on himself.

Zi Shu said, "You don't need to be too pessimistic. This situation is not incurable.

In fact, if your Spiritual Power were strong enough from the start, you wouldn't even be infected by this kind of thing."

Li Zheng hurriedly asked, "Miss Zi Shu, is there a way to help with the healing?"

Zi Shu smiled slightly: "Of course not."

"???"

Li Zheng almost thought there was something wrong with his ears.

We talked for so long, and you analyzed the symptoms thoroughly, telling me it can be cured,

but then you say you can't cure it. What's that about?

Zi Shu got up to retrieve a metallic card from the front desk and placed it in front of Li Zheng: "Although we can't cure it, you can follow this card to someone who can help you heal."

It was a palm-sized silver-gray card with strange lines that seemed to be some kind of words.

Indeed, it looked like a business card.

As soon as Li Zheng picked it up, the twisted, bizarre words on the metal card transformed into neat Chinese characters: Doctor.

Below the words "Doctor" were the Arabic numbers: 9595995, likely the channel number where the other party resided.

This was a rather strange thing.

Because Li Zheng hadn't seen a channel number in the world channels starting with 3.

In fact, after channel merges and splits, he hadn't even seen one starting with 2.

Yet this "Doctor" was in a channel starting with 9.

Li Zheng realized that there might have been an enormous player community that existed before them.

Stowing the business card into the capsule residence, Li Zheng asked, "So, in exchange, what's the cost I need to pay?"

This card definitely wasn't free. You have to give something to get something. Li Zheng didn't believe he could get another guiding card for free after already receiving the "Bamboo Leaf Tea" here.

Sure enough, after he asked this question, Zi Shu gave a very professional smile: "It's very simple; Mr. Li just needs to help transport a cargo along the way."

"Transport cargo?" Li Zheng raised an eyebrow slightly.

Such a simple task, given the other party's ability, should be quick and easy, right?

Why even bother to make a player run errands?

Noticing his puzzlement, Zi Shu explained, "As you can see, this shop has only two employees, me and my master. Now my master is in seclusion, and I'm the only one managing the shop.

If someone else comes in while I'm away, there's no one to attend to the customers, which the Terminal disallows.

So, until my master comes out of seclusion, I have to stay in the shop."

Li Zheng noted that Zi Shu's eyes subtly drifted toward the display cabinets as she explained.

He immediately got it; she was worried that other players would come in and loot the displayed items while she was away.

Thinking it over, such a concern isn't without merit.

After all, if Zi Shu hadn't shown up earlier, Li Zheng would have tried to find a way to break open the display cabinets...

Immediately, Li Zheng nodded: "In that case, I'll deal with this task."

Handling something easily along the way, he considered it a favor returned.

Zi Shu was delighted: "Then please wait here for a moment while I go get the item."

After saying this, she rose and went into the room beside the front desk.

In no time, she came out empty-handed but with a wave of her hand, a large set of equipment appeared in the hall.

Seeing the equipment for the first time, Li Zheng almost bulged his eyes out.

It was an enormous metal bed, about five meters in length, width, and height, extending dozens of mechanical arms around the bedframe, each armed with a different tool.

The head of the bed had two huge screens, one monitoring the "patient's" vital signs, another for the doctor's convenience.

This size is feasible because it's Li Zheng.

Otherwise, ordinary players wouldn't have capsule residences big enough to house it!

Possibly due to it being "cargo," Li Zheng could see the basic info of the bed.

[All-Purpose Medical Bed·Enhanced Version

Tier: Star Shining

Type: Medical/Facility

Description: A medical bed modified by Blacksmith upon the doctor's request, this bed has more functions and better effects compared to the previous medical equipment!

Note: This equipment is for entrusted transport. Please deliver it to the target as soon as possible.

Time Limit: 36h

Warning: Failure to deliver on time will result in the doctor's and Blacksmith's disapproval. The consequences are at your own risk.

Warning: ...

Warning: ...]

The three repeated warning messages at the end reminded Li Zheng not to lose this item.

Mainly, not to keep it for himself, or the so-called "consequences" might provoke hostility or even retaliation from the other party.

After reading the attributes, Li Zheng noticed one particular term, looked at Zi Shu in surprise: "Your master isn't the legendary renowned Blacksmith, is he?"

"Yes, didn't I already mention that?" Zi Shu blinked.

Li Zheng was silent for two seconds: "Or... maybe you did..."

Zi Shu, a bit embarrassed, laughed and said, "Let me reintroduce: my master is Blacksmith, and our shop undertakes all kinds of item production. As long as you make a request and pay the price, our shop can help craft the corresponding items and equipment."

Li Zheng was silent, pointing at the display cabinets nearby: "Are those things invented by your master?"

"Not all of them," Zi Shu shook her head: "Those collections are divided into three parts.

The first part is from my master, the second is from other senior students, and a small portion is the inventions of other masters, collected by my master as samples."

"Oh, I see."

Li Zheng nodded, thinking that if the famous Blacksmith invented something as vulgar as the Technology Cup, that would be something.

On this thought, he took another look at the Technology Cup in the display.

Zi Shu noticed this and began to explain: "This item is a work by Senior Brother Five, named the Technology Cup.

Originally, Senior Brother Five intended to invent an item to be mounted on a weapon that could enhance its destructive power by resonating frequency.

However, during the experiment, something went wrong, so the master put it on display as junk to warn Senior Brother Five."

Li Zheng: "..."

If Zi Shu hadn't explained, it would have been fine, but after her explanation, Li Zheng suddenly found many things to complain about.

Was Senior Brother Five's initial idea really that serious?

Ms. Zi Shu, have you been deceived!?