After breakfast, Li Zheng opened the door of the capsule residence, and the light outside was much brighter than last night.
Having gotten used to the almost non-existent light within the capsule residence, Li Zheng found the outside light a bit glaring.
But he quickly adapted, waved his hand for Xiao Ying to go outside to play, while he stayed in the capsule residence.
"First, I'll make a water purifier to solve the physiological issue."
Li Zheng opened the production page and three seconds later, a small water purifier appeared in front of him.
He inserted the Power Core he had used once before and the water purifier began to work, and Li Zheng took out the big water container.
Gurgle gurgle.
With a little shake, Li Zheng had another four hundred milliliters of purified water.
As usual, he divided it into four portions and put them in the trading hall, pricing them at 20g of B25-grade Manganese Steel.
"As for this water purifier..."
Li Zheng thought this thing should be kept and used as a portable toilet.
Because the water purifier consumes a tiny amount of energy even on standby, Li Zheng decided to save it and took out the Power Core showing 65% remaining energy, placing it beside the water purifier.
"This lousy machine, its sewage conversion rate is indeed high, nearly reaching one hundred percent conversion. But the energy consumption..."
Li Zheng was no longer the newbie who had just entered the Matrix Realm, he now had a rough concept of the value of various tools.
Firstly, food and water definitely belong to relatively scarce resources, but due to the existence of various Genetic Beasts, they are not particularly valuable.
For now, most people's powers haven't improved much yet, so food resources can still be sold at a good price.
In a few days, once surviving players have a few combat-type gear, the value of food resources will plummet.
They might even end up as real cheap "cabbages."
Besides food and water, the value of other tools should be organized as: basic materials—Genetic Beast materials—Power Core—blueprints—special materials in sequence.
Basic materials are things like Iron Ingot, Copper Ingot, and components, Genetic Beast materials are decomposed from Genetic Beast corpses, no need to say much about Power Core.
Blueprints are divided into one-time blueprints and learnable blueprints, each with its advantages and disadvantages, and their value is roughly equal.
The most valuable special materials are what Li Zheng obtained yesterday, such as "Technology Core," "Temperature Controller," and the like.
Moreover, an independent category emerged, such as "Flame Flower," a tool capable of developing players' Alien Gene Ability.
However, due to its low success rate, its value fluctuates greatly.
Take Phoenix Mountain's trade, a Bronze Level blueprint can be exchanged for a Silver Level Flame Flower.
In Li Zheng's concept, Flame Flower's value is not even as good as a Bronze Level blueprint.
As for the lowest value items, they must be the grey-quality tools.
"For the small water purifier to operate, it requires consuming 5% of a Power Core Type I's energy to convert one hundred milliliters of water, an entire Power Core Type I only converts two liters of water."
After exploring ten rooms yesterday, along with trades, Li Zheng currently only had four complete Power Core Type I left.
"However, an average person's best water intake per day requires about two liters, equivalent to consuming one Type I Power Core daily."
The cost-performance ratio is too low!
If it weren't for water resources still being relatively scarce at the moment, Li Zheng wouldn't even want to use the water purifier.
"Forget it, there's plenty to do today without overthinking this."
Li Zheng no longer tangled with the water purifier's cost-effectiveness.
After pouring water out, another pressing need became intense.
Helplessly, Li Zheng turned his gaze towards the currently most useless resource—Fiber.
"Sigh... It's a pity there's no paper..."
Li Zheng looked pained, tearing off some Fiber, heading outside the capsule residence to take care of the big business.
Crouched in the corner, Li Zheng opened the temporary upgrade interface for tools and took out the Detector.
"Let me see how much my baby has upgraded?"
[Advanced Science Detector, Gold Level, unique item.
Capable of detecting, but not limited to: materials, items, creatures, player information.
The higher the item level, the more detailed the detection information.
Materials required for next upgrade: AI Core*1, Titanium Alloy 300g, Power Core Type IV*1, Basic Module*30]
Other than the name, level, and upgrade materials changing, the Detector's item description had hardly changed, just removing the word "basic."
"Gold Level item!"
Li Zheng's face lit up with joy.
After yesterday's operation, the entire Matrix Survival Game left about three billion players.
"Among these three billion players, how many could have a Gold Level item by the second day?"
Li Zheng guessed there should be some.
But absolutely not many!
Phoenix Mountain and Zhan Zhouzhou are considered top players in this channel.
Even during yesterday's trade, they were seen taking out Silver Level items at most.
Even for Li Zheng, this Gold Level item was brought by the Treasure Chest as a plug-in.
Let alone other ordinary players.
"Perhaps this Detector is currently the only Gold Level item obtained by a player in the entire Matrix Realm."
Li Zheng even considered showcasing the item to Phoenix Mountain to make him envious.
But rationality made him suppress this urge to boast.
"Stay calm, make a fortune quietly, let's see the effects by putting it on."
The upgraded detector's appearance hasn't changed much; it's still an ear-mounted single-lens goggles, except the color has turned black except for the lens.
Skillfully putting on the Detector, after starting it and waiting a moment, Li Zheng looked at several metal doors.
Left: Dangerous (red), environment.
Right: Dangerous (orange-red), biological.
Front: Safe (blue), material.
Above: Safe (blue), Food.
Ground: Empty.
The upgraded detector not only can detect the dangers behind the metal door, but it also gives hints about the type of resources or dangers present in the room!
"Amazing, my treasure!"
Li Zheng just regrets that the treasure chest system doesn't have a physical form, otherwise he would want to give it a big kiss right now.
However, since he can't kiss the treasure chest system, kissing a treasure chest would be just as good.
Glancing at the treasure chest system, Li Zheng gets excited again.
[Chest has been refreshed, would you like to extract now?]
"Refresh time... midnight, just as I thought!"
Li Zheng wiped away the grime with fiber, ready to release today's random treasure chest when he looked up and saw Little Cherry mimicking his pose, squatting not far away with her butt sticking out.
"..."
Seeing Li Zheng look over, Little Cherry's face turned red with embarrassment, and she turned away, not daring to make eye contact.
"..."
Li Zheng looked at the small stain on the ground behind Little Cherry, and then at her short hands, obviously unable to reach behind her.
"Alright, that's typical parenting..."
He went back to the capsule shelter and pulled out some fiber, helping Little Cherry clean her butt.
The little one kept her head down throughout, feeling extremely shy.
Her two small wings faintly showed a pink hue.
"Chirp..."
Little Cherry activated her ability for fast flight, instantly diving back into the capsule shelter, burying herself in the fiber she slept in last night.
"Hey, the little one actually knows how to be shy."
Li Zheng found it funny and speechless.
Previously, when you were sitting in my hand, why didn't you feel shy?
"...emmmmm"
Li Zheng wiped his hands with the remaining fiber, expressionless.
[Today's chest extraction, quality randomizing...]
[Extraction successful, chest quality: Bronze. Would you like to extract now?]
"Only Bronze?"
Li Zheng frowned.
It seems today's luck isn't good, the random chest isn't even as good as yesterday's.
But since it's drawn, what else can you do but extract?
Besides, the quality of the chest is random, he can't control it anyway.
"Extract it."
After witnessing the power of Gold Level items, Li Zheng couldn't muster much interest in a mere Bronze Level chest.
Thunk!
The Bronze Treasure Chest, true to its quality, had a complete bronze feel, showing a coppery green color.
However, the design was generally the same.
Li Zheng went over, lifted the chest lid, and reached in to grab.
[Obtained: Bronze Blueprint [Air Purifier]]
[Obtained: Advanced Components*10]
[Congratulations, treasure chest critical hit, successfully extracted Gold Level item: Power Core Type IV*1]
"..."
"What the...?!?"
"Chest critical hit?"
"A Bronze Treasure Chest can actually produce Gold Level items?!"
Li Zheng was dumbfounded.
After realizing it, Li Zheng's first reaction wasn't to excitedly shout "Yay".
Instead... he opened private chat, found Phoenix Mountain, moved them out of the blacklist, uploaded the Power Core Type IV information, and sent it.
After a while...
"What the...?"
"What the...!!!! Gold Level!!!!!!"
Phoenix Mountain's reaction was much bigger than Li Zheng's.
"Bro, you even have Gold Level items now? Sell a few Snake Grass Needles to your little bro!"
[The other party has moved you into their blacklist for twelve hours, unable to send private chat messages.]
"Damn it!"
Phoenix Mountain instantly went crazy.
"Li, you're PUAing me!!"
Phoenix Mountain punched the wall inside his capsule shelter angrily.
Boom!
That punch surprisingly contained explosive force, even creating a dent in the capsule shelter's wall.
[Illegal modification, capsule shelter damaged, please repair promptly.]
"..."
Phoenix Mountain looked at the system prompt, tearfully consuming 100 grams of B25 Level Manganese Steel for repairs.