NOVEL WEB Chapter 272 Rubik's Cube
"A treasure chest of Extraordinary Level quality, really a life-eater. Even if it drops a level, it's still Diamond quality, and there's no material to craft the items it drops." Li Zheng didn't pay attention to the voice in his ear reminding him to extract the treasure chest, he was caught in a dilemma.
"How about... leveling up and opening it directly as a Star Shining chest? Besides blueprints and materials, sometimes you can get finished items from the treasure chest, hitting the jackpot if you're lucky, right?"
"No, no, with my unlucky face, if I don't get a finished item, this treasure chest would be a waste draw!"
"So bothersome!"
Li Zheng had foreseen that one day he would be stuck in a dilemma because the treasure chest's quality was too high, but he didn't expect that day to come so soon.
He even had a vague intuition that the reason for his bad luck compared with others might be because he used it all up while drawing treasure chests.
Otherwise, how to explain that he always gets Gold and Platinum quality treasure chests?
"Or just open the Extraordinary one directly without delay?" Li Zheng's eyelids slightly lifted; this was the first time in his life he fell into a choice-phobia.
Just when he was feeling uncomfortable, Ye Kai suddenly sent a private message.
"What's up with this guy tonight? He rarely sends me private messages." Li Zheng opened the private message in confusion.
"Who's the author of Journey to the West?" After reading the private message, Li Zheng almost questioned his life, "This... in the middle of the night, what kind of madness is this? Playing charades with me?"
Already bothered by the treasure chest, and Ye Kai added to the trouble, without thinking, Li Zheng replied with three words: "Cao Xueqin!"
"Thanks!" Ye Kai replied.
In just two words, Li Zheng surprisingly read a cheerful tone in-between the lines.
After taking a closer look at the name, confirming it wasn't Lu Li sending messages around, Li Zheng was even more puzzled, "What's wrong with everyone? After spending some time with Lu Li, their minds all become a bit abnormal?"
Forget it, whatever!
Shake his head and cast the matter to the back of his mind, completely unaware that his answer had made three people question their life choices.
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"Who's Cao Xueqin?" Ye Kai casually thanked Li Zheng and then carefully looked at the name he sent, falling into confusion.
Although he couldn't remember the author of Journey to the West, he was sure the person's surname wasn't Cao.
"Cao Xueqin?" Ye Yuan said without lifting his head, "I only know Li Xueqin, a stand-up comedian."
"That's a talk show..." Chu Xiao was helpless, how did he not notice that this brother and sister could be so bizarre in some aspects.
Ye Kai scratched his head furiously, "Li Zheng said Cao Xueqin is the author of Journey to the West, but I remember the person's surname wasn't Cao?"
Seeing him still wound up over this matter, Chu Xiao rolled his eyes, lowered his head to sort the materials, and ignored this peculiar pair of siblings.
Ye Yuan also found the topic uninteresting and lost the interest to pursue further, she said perfunctorily, "Just take it as that, let's hurry up and get through the work, there's a lot to sort through, who knows how long it'll take?"
"..." Ye Kai opened his mouth about to speak, when suddenly a name flashed in his mind.
As he was about to say it, the name vanished from his mind and got stuck at the tip of his tongue.
This made him even more frustrated.
The answer was right there, but his brain seemed to have Kaspersky running, blocking everything outside the firewall.
"...so annoying." With his head down, Ye Kai resigned to his fate, diligently attending to the task at hand.
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"Might as well extract the Extraordinary one, forcing it might backfire." Having perfunctorily dealt with Ye Kai, Li Zheng also made up his mind, deciding not to use the delay extraction feature and open it directly.
"Extract!" Li Zheng issued the command.
The next second.
Dong——
A more magnificent chest, larger than any previous ones, landed before him. Unlike the other treasure chests, this one was crafted out of green vines, with fresh buds visible in the gaps, seemingly freshly picked.
"Wow, Extraordinary is impressive, hey." He casually praised, flipping the treasure chest open and habitually reaching in to grab items.
[Obtained: Particle Restraint Device +1]
[Obtained: Capsule Housing Remodel Blueprint (Exercise Room) +1]
[Obtained: Intelligent Humanoid (Agriculture) +1]
[Obtained: Loham Force Alloy 500g]
[Obtained: Intermediate Particle Transmission Chip +20]
[Obtained: Blacksmith's Mysterious Invention +1]
[Obtained: Mysterious Fruit +1]
[Obtained: All-Knowing Training Device +1]
[Obtained: Loham Force Alloy Coin +1]
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"Nine items, only three are Diamond, the rest are Extraordinary!" After reading the prompts, Li Zheng felt half joyful, half concerned.
Joyful because he once again stayed ahead of everyone, officially beginning to touch Extraordinary-level items.
Concerned because the unused items gathering dust at his place had increased again.
The three Diamond-level items were: the Agricultural Humanoid, since it wasn't made by Li Zheng himself and didn't go through the "face sculpting" process, it's a faceless intelligent humanoid, seeing it suddenly at night really made Li Zheng's sanity levels drop drastically.
The Blacksmith's Mysterious Invention, a palm-sized cubic box, looking utterly ordinary from the outside, opening it... still ordinary.
[This is a small toy invented by the blacksmith out of boredom which was once all the rage, it's designed only to cultivate mood with no practical function.
Lao Pu: Perhaps you can try playing with it while training your spiritual power.]
Li Zheng poured out the contents of the box, placing it in his palm for careful observation.
It's a cube, about the same size as the box it came from, each face is a different color, and from each face, it's divided into nine smaller squares of equal size.
"This damn… isn't this a Rubik's Cube?" The more Li Zheng looked, the more familiar it seemed, until he tried twisting it, then confidently declared, "This is a Rubik's Cube!"
Hardly imaginable, an ordinary Rubik's Cube was classified as a Diamond-level item.
"Could it be because the materials are more precious?" Li Zheng compared it with previously obtained Vibranium; shockingly, the texture was identical.
"Rich and extravagant!" Li Zheng was stunned, the blacksmith truly deserved to be one of the special existences, even a casually made small toy used such precious metal materials.
Balancing it on his palm, Li Zheng estimated, this Rubik's Cube weighed at least eight hundred grams!
This was eight hundred grams of Vibranium!
Such a simple toy, yet using such fine materials.
The system notified that this type of Rubik's Cube is quite numerous!
"How much Vibranium was wasted... huh?" Feeling the loss, Li Zheng kept twisting the Rubik's Cube, suddenly his expression changed, showing surprise.
When he first twisted it, he didn't notice the peculiarity, but now, after scrambling it and putting it back together, a gentle vibration occurred at a certain turning point.
It felt like what he was holding wasn't a metal Rubik's Cube but a cicada in his hand, buzzing and vibrating.
The most amazing part was, the vibration didn't cause discomfort.
On the contrary, after twisting the Rubik's Cube several times, Li Zheng found his emotions subtly stirred, gradually becoming more serene.
The emotional influence wasn't significant, possibly not enough to instantly calm an angry person.
But it seemed quite effective as a sleep aid.
After just a few twists, a wave of drowsiness washed over Li Zheng.