The Leader of the Ice Giant

"The environment could change you."

"That's true. Humans are creatures that are very adaptable to their environment. I've only entered the matrix for one day, and I've already begun to rely on the system."

Li Zheng was walking along the wall, preparing to go to the top to see what was behind the door.

At the same time, he thought about why he almost froze to death.

"So the successful scholars were right."

"Details. Details can determine a person's success or failure."

"Li Zheng, oh Li Zheng, yesterday you knew how to use the empty can for other uses. How did you become so stupid and almost froze to death today?"

"Take this as a lesson. I must pay more attention to detail in the future!"

"Chirp, chirp, chirp!"

Chirpy agreed with Li Zheng's incessant mumbling, and it even added a few words of agreement.

"Chirpy, you have to remember this too! Although you're a creature, we both have to learn this lesson, understand?"

"Chirp…"

Li Zheng felt Chirpy turn over in his arms, and soon there was a faint snoring sound. He was speechless.

"…"

As expected, it was still too early to teach it great principles.

"It seems that an education plan is in order."

Li Zheng decided to give Chirpy some homework later on.

"With my help, even though I didn't graduate from Tsinghua University, it could easily get into a normal university."

Li Zheng finally arrived at the intersection between the ceiling and the wall. He looked down, and the few hundred meters of height made him dizzy for a moment.

"Whoa, this place is perfect for those with acrophobia."

Li Zheng clicked his tongue in admiration. From the corner of his eye, he noticed a giant in the center of the group.

Through the blue translucent body of the ice giant, Li Zheng could vaguely see a bright red flash on the giant's body.

However, it was too far away to see what it was.

"An indicator light? Or the heart?"

Li Zheng swept his gaze over the other giants but did not find anything similar.

"Could this be a special material that only elite-grade giants produce?"

Maybe, maybe not.

"Forget it. I still have to go down and confirm the last door. If there's no danger, I'll go over and take a look."

Li Zheng retracted his gaze and looked towards the center of the ceiling.

[The distance is too far, unable to detect.]

"Let's go closer."

Li Zheng changed the direction of the gravitational force and ascended to the ceiling.

As the distance between Li Zheng and the door shortened, the detector finally responded.

[Danger (orange-red), creature.]

"The fourth dangerous door. The first three are red. This is a little better."

This meant that with Li Zheng's current strength, he still had a chance of getting through the room.

"No rush, let's go down and take a look."

Returning the way he came, Li Zheng avoided the ice giants and headed straight for the flash he had just seen.

Along the way, Li Zheng looked at the unconscious ice giants standing still around him and began to think.

"Can the giant be decomposed in this state?"

He went ahead and tried it.

Li Zheng stopped and touched the giant closest to him, murmuring in his heart.

[Unable to decompose living creatures.]

"As expected."

Li Zheng didn't mind. If the decomposition had really succeeded, he would have found it unreasonable.

If the decomposition function could be used directly on living creatures, then the matrix would be a buffet.

Li Zheng turned around and continued on his way. The giant that was flashing with red light was much taller than the other ice giants. Li Zheng could see it just by looking up.

After making a few turns, the giant finally appeared in front of him.

Only when he got closer did Li Zheng realize that this giant was not only taller, but also larger in size. It was almost the size of two giants stacked together.

Like a normal-sized ice giant, it was translucent blue, but the color was purer, like a giant sapphire.

Around the giant, there was a faint blue halo with a radius of about 60 meters on the ground. At this time, because the giant was dormant, the halo was dim.

[Leader of the rock giant.]

Li Zheng took a look at the detector and found that there was only one piece of information.

Even a gold-grade detector could not provide more information!

"Damn! Did we run into a boss?"

Li Zheng was speechless. He subconsciously lightened his footsteps, afraid that his footsteps would wake the boss up.

"The red light...is there!"

Li Zheng raised his head and saw a small, fiery-red flower growing on the leader's knee.

The flower was small relative to the size of the ice giant leader.

This flower, including its stem and leaves, was only the size of a giant's hair. Yet, it was the size of Li Zheng's entire arm.

The flower bud was the size of Li Zheng's head!

It wasn't too high up, only about ten meters above the ground, within the working range of the detector.

[Flaming ice flower, platinum-grade.]

[A peculiar parasitic plant that grows on the body of the ice giant leader. It has both fire and ice attributes.]

[After consumption, there is a probability of developing dual-element genes, and a very high probability of developing single-element genes.]

[Note: there is a small chance of damage to the consumer.]

[Warning: taking the flaming ice flower will wake the giant leader!]

"Platinum-grade special item!"

Li Zheng's eyes widened, and he almost lost his voice.

In this place where even gold-grade items were so rare, the value of a platinum-grade item was so high that it was difficult to gauge its value.

What's more, this was an item that could develop special-type genes, which meant it could provide players with skills!

It was different from the flame flower.

Flaming ice flowers had a chance of developing two types of genes at the same time!

This caused its value to double!

"I have to think of a way to take him down!"

Li Zheng made his decision in an instant. Even if he had to wake the leader of the ice giants, he would still take this flaming ice flower!

If he succeeded, he would become the model player.

If he was defeated, he would be reincarnated.

That was the worst case scenario!

"But before that, I have to make sufficient preparations!"

After all, it was a matrix creature that could produce platinum-grade items. Li Zheng guessed that its level would not be lower than platinum-grade, and its strength was definitely beyond his imagination.

He could not be blinded by temptation. That would be no different from courting death.

After looking around, Li Zheng saw the last metal door not far away and immediately had an idea.

For the last door, the detector showed "empty".

This meant that the room behind the door had no resources at all and was of no value.

Normally, Li Zheng would not choose this room if he knew it was empty.

However, Li Zheng thought that it was worth wasting one exploration attempt for the platinum-grade flaming ice flower.

He went over to swipe his card, and when the door opened, Li Zheng took Chirpy out of his arms.

Before the little creature could react, he stuffed the fiber wrapped around it through the film.

Immediately after, Li Zheng opened the trading room. The drinks that had been put up in the morning had all been sold out, and there was an additional 80 grams of B25 manganese steel.

Ironically, what Li Zheng needed right now was water.

"F*ck! It's already the second day, why are there so few people selling water?"

Li Zheng patiently flipped through the pages for a long time, but he couldn't find any that sold water.

Even the few players who sold water resources were asking for outrageously high prices.

"50 ml of water for a silver-grade blueprint?"

"100 ml of water in exchange for any special gene development item?"

"10 ml of water in exchange for a full meal?"

"Why don't you all f*cking go to hell?"

"F*ck!" Li Zheng cursed. These evil merchants had offered a much higher price than he had.

He looked at the seller and recognized two of the names.

Kato Shunhe and William Houston.

"…"

Li Zheng was at a loss for words.

What could he say?

He could only curse at them.

"It seems like this is the only way."

Li Zheng had no choice but to open the world channel. [Viper grass needle, a bronze-grade poisonous needle. It can also be used as a special ammunition. Its poison can kill black-iron-grde creatures in seconds, and can cause a lot of damage to bronze-grade creatures. I would like to exchange it for water. Clean water or dirty! [Picture of snake grass needle] ]

After using the speaker for today, Li Zheng changed the search keyword in his private chat to "water", then allowed messages by strangers.

In the world channel, 1155247 William Houston replied, "everyone, don't deal with this despicable person. I just bought a water purifier from him yesterday, but it reeked of urine."