Chapter 16: Snake Grass Needle, the Real Treasure!

On the second day, Li Zheng woke up to a chorus of "ying ying" sounds.

He glanced at the time; it was already past ten in the morning.

Perhaps he was too exhausted yesterday, which resulted in Li Zheng, who usually had a strict routine, sleeping in for a change.

"Ying ying, ying ying!"

Little Sakura flapped her wings, her small face puffed up high, evidently displeased that Li Zheng woke up at this hour.

"Hungry?"

Li Zheng listened to Little Sakura's complains for a good while and finally deduced the fundamental reason for her anger, leaving him speechless.

"If you're hungry, go and eat first. We still have plenty of Luoshen Flower and Honey Fruit at home, don't we?"

Li Zheng muttered to himself, got up, and took two Luoshen Flowers, handing them to Little Sakura.

"Here, eat up."

After that, Li Zheng went straight to the trade hall to take a look, and upon searching, he found that the small water purifier Mickey Old had listed for sale had been bought at some point.

"Forget it, since it has already been traded away, I don't need to bother anymore. Let's check the transaction status of those meats from yesterday; if there are enough parts, I'll try to craft the Gravity Shoes later."

Turning to the information of items he listed for sale, he found that the original thirty blocks of poisonous Horror Bat Meat had already been snapped up, and even the fifty milliliters per bottle of Poison Blood was sold out.

In contrast, the non-poisonous Horror Bat Meat still had one block left unsold, hanging solitary on the trade panel.

At this moment, Li Zheng felt utterly bewildered.

"Oh my!"

After looking through the buyer information, he found out that the buyers weren't the same person, all from different channels, featuring names of people from various countries.

However, the transaction times were mostly around six in the morning.

"What on earth happened this morning? Have these people gone mad? Poisonous blood and meat can't be eaten, yet they are so keen to buy it?"

"Eh?"

Li Zheng discovered a few familiar names among the buyer information, all players frequently chatting in the same channel.

Among them were Phoenix Mountain and Zhan Zhouzhou.

"Let me send a message and ask."

Opening the private chat panel, since players automatically enable "Do Not Disturb" mode while sleeping, the private chat was spotlessly clean.

"Xiao Feng, what happened this morning? You all didn't buy the clean meat and went for the poisonous blood and meat instead?"

After sending the private message, before thirty seconds had passed, Phoenix Mountain sent a bunch of messages directly.

"My goodness, my dear brother, you finally woke up!"

"Quick, are there any more of those poisonous meat? Give me some more!"

"You've lost big this time, let me tell you!"

"You don't know! You were probably still sleeping then, someone named William on the world channel sent messages cursing you."

"Calling you an unscrupulous merchant, selling poisonous blood and meat, clearly harboring bad intentions."

"It wouldn't have mattered if he hadn't said anything; his words actually reminded us."

"Damn, that William is a complete moron, only noticing that eating poisonous meat would result in death, never thinking that if matrix life forms ate poisonous stuff, they'd kick the bucket too!"

"Darn, I thought I was quick-witted enough, but I just mentioned it once in the channel, and a bunch of beasts were even more ruthless than me!"

"After saying it in the channel, I immediately opened the trade hall and bam, it was so fast!"

"I thought with the speed of a single man's hand developed over twenty-three years, hardly anyone on earth would match."

"But I never thought that a mountain could be higher than Phoenix Mountain, darn it, I couldn't snatch from those B's."

"It took a struggle for me to buy just one piece of meat!"

"Hurry up!"

"My dear brother, give me two more pieces of poisonous meat, I beg you!"

Seeing the messages Phoenix Mountain sent within just a minute, Li Zheng started scratching his head crazily.

Too many points to rant about, not knowing where to start.

Firstly, the Mickey guy named William bought the small water purifier from Li Zheng, which had a urine smell, leading him to hold a grudge against Li Zheng.

Early in the morning, William used the world channel to call on players to crusade Li Zheng.

But because he was too much of a moron, he didn't discover the real use of the poisonous meat, instead inadvertently reminding those who hadn't checked the trade hall yet.

"Hmm? I seem to not have thought about using poisonous meat to feed matrix life forms at the beginning either..."

Li Zheng suddenly realized...

Darn it, was he also included in Phoenix Mountain's remark?

"Is the clown really me?"

Secondly, it was only now that Li Zheng understood that among all the spoils from yesterday, the most valuable was not the Silver Level Flame Flower.

But the most inconspicuous Snake Grass Needle among several crops!

Turning to look at the pile of Snake Grass Needles forming a small mountain, Li Zheng felt as if he was staring at a mountain of gold!

Those are treasures!

More than thirty thousand Snake Grass Needles!

Just ask you, aren't you tempted?

The third point that made Li Zheng most heartbroken was...

Thinking back to yesterday when dealing with the Horror Bat swarm, a total of forty Snake Grass Needles were shot, and only fifteen Horror Bats were hit.

Li Zheng's heart was bleeding.

A full twenty-five Snake Grass Needles!

If one Snake Grass Needle kills one Horror Bat, that means missing fifty pieces of poisonous Horror Bat Meat! Twelve hundred and fifty milliliters of Horror Bat Blood!

"Ah, the pain is unbearable..."

No, this feeling definitely can't be endured by me alone!

Li Zheng sent a message to Phoenix Mountain asking: "Since you bought a piece of poisonous meat, have you tried it? How was the effect?"

Quickly, Phoenix Mountain's reply arrived.

"It was smashing!"

"Products from my dear brother must be top-notch!"

"I used two blocks of non-poisonous fresh meat sandwiched to lure a Bronze Level Two-tailed Corpse-eating Wolf to eat, and after eating it began bleeding, chasing me while bleeding."

"That scene... was exhilarating!"

"It's the first time I've killed a Bronze creature this easily."

"Unfortunately, after the Corpse-eating Wolf was killed, the decomposed meat had no toxins left."

"My dear brother, could you kindly spare two more poisonous meat for me?"

Seeing "Bigwig" Phoenix Mountain, who was constantly licked by others in the channel, showing such humility in front of him, Li Zheng's mouth curled into a sinister smile again.

"[Snake Grass Needle]"

Without mentioning whether he'd give the poisonous meat or not, Li Zheng sent over the Snake Grass Needle information.

"???"

"What's this? Unknown toxicity?"

Li Zheng was surprised to see Phoenix Mountain's message, confirmed himself, and discovered that the information both saw about the Snake Grass Needle was different.

[Snake Grass Needle, Bronze Level, Material/Ammo

The matured leaves of the Snake Grass, containing a lethal toxin, any Black Iron Level gene creature that touches it will die. It can inflict huge damage on Bronze Level gene creatures.]

"The poisonous meat you all bought was decomposed from Horror Bats killed by the Snake Grass Needle."

Li Zheng explained to Phoenix Mountain.

Immediately, Phoenix Mountain became even more excited.

"!!!"

"Great stuff!"

"Dear brother, sell some to me!"

"Kneeled request!"

Caught the bait.

Li Zheng's sinister smile started to get wilder: "How much do you want?"

Phoenix Mountain barely hesitated and immediately said: "I want as much as you have, name your price!"

Heh, quite bold.

"[Snake Grass Needle*36927]"

Li Zheng casually sent the amount he owned to Phoenix Mountain.

"..."

"Holy moly!!!!!!!!!"

Seeing his goal achieved, Li Zheng quickly pulled Phoenix Mountain into the blacklist, blocking all message interaction, set for twelve hours.

"Ah... feels so good..."

After routinely bullying Little Phoenix Mountain, Li Zheng completely ignored all messages, closed the panel, and prepared to craft the Gravity Shoes, and start today's exploration.

However, upon looking ahead, he saw Little Sakura still hovering mid-air with two Luoshen Flowers in her hands.

"Ying ying."

Seeing him snap back to reality, Little Sakura offered a Luoshen Flower to him.

"Oh?"

Li Zheng instantly understood what she meant.

"Do you want to eat together with me?"

"Ying!"

Little Sakura nodded vigorously.

"Alright."

Li Zheng showed a truly happy smile and said to Little Sakura: "Then let's have each meal together from now on."

"Ying ying ying..."

Little Sakura flew over, rubbed her small face against Li Zheng's cheek, and then rested in Li Zheng's open palm, contentedly eating breakfast.

Li Zheng also picked up the Luoshen Flower that Little Sakura handed him, put it in his mouth, and chewed, and a rich milk aroma carrying full happiness enveloped Li Zheng's heart instantly.