Chapter 29: What You Fear Comes

"Swordsmanship Family? The city's tricks run deep, who's truly genuine? If I trust you, I'd be a fool."

Passing through the light screen, Li Zheng glanced around and walked towards the materials scattered on the floor of the room, putting them into his capsule residence one by one.

"But this Swordsmanship Mastery ability is indeed very impressive." Li Zheng recalled the moment when the other party used a sword to strike a gun, and the detector issued an orange-red danger warning, revealing a hint of seriousness in his eyes.

Although it was just a fleeting moment, Li Zheng still caught it.

This indicated that Zhan Zhouzhou, at that moment, had both the ability and the intention to harm Li Zheng.

"Without using genetic ability, merely on her own, she could pose a threat to players who have already developed genetic abilities." Li Zheng pondered, doubting that a so-called "Swordsmanship Family" heir could easily achieve this.

Not to mention whether such a fantasy setting exists on Earth, just the fact that Zhan Zhouzhou, who only said she had won three provincial championships, is self-contradictory.

"Just based on the speed and power of that sword, world-class fencing champions might not even match up. How could she have only won three provincial championships? And even then, it was because her family went easy on her."

Presumably, everything the other party said was half-truths. To listen and believe blindly would indeed be foolish.

Touching his smooth forehead, Li Zheng smiled nonchalantly: "What a vengeful woman she is..."

However, it's fine; if shaving my head can eliminate her grudge against me, it's not a loss.

From the gradual enmity with William Houston, which eventually led to a compendium being just out of reach, Li Zheng learned a lesson.

"It's always better to have one more friend than one more enemy. With the strength Zhan Zhouzhou has shown now, there could be multiple negotiations in the future, possibly trading for some useful things."

Before Li Zheng left that room, Zhan Zhouzhou had already removed him from the blacklist, and they had agreed that whoever obtains something usable by the other side would prioritize trading with them.

Standing in front of a smooth metal wall, Li Zheng used it as a mirror and narcissistically said: "Although it's not very clear, I'm still a handsome guy."

"Ying ying!"

Little Sakura poked its head out from his pocket, agreeing with a shout.

Li Zheng pressed its little head with his finger, smiled, and said: "You think so too, don't you?"

"Ying."

Little Sakura squinted, enjoying Li Zheng's touch, like a child spoiled by parents.

"Let's go."

Li Zheng withdrew his hand, standing in front of a chosen metal door. The detector showed that behind the door was a green food room, "It's getting late, and there are five rooms left to explore. I need to speed up."

Beep.

Swiped the card.

Woosh~

The door opened.

Li Zheng entered together with Little Sakura.

After two days of exploration, especially after the detector's upgrade, Li Zheng had roughly figured out the room patterns he encountered at this stage.

First, the rooms in the matrix, in the face of a Gold Level detector, fall into three types: dangerous, safe, and unknown.

Dangerous rooms are divided into red and orange-red according to threat level.

Li Zheng estimated that the orange-red level meant that as long as he was cautious, he could get through safely.

Red meant that he must be very careful when dealing with it, or else a slight mistake could lead to a mishap.

Meanwhile, dangerous rooms are also divided into two types: environmental and biological.

The former has too much uncertainty, which Li Zheng would never consider regardless of whether they are dark red or orange-red.

The latter, after awakening genetic ability, he might consider, but now with injuries, he would avoid if possible.

Safe rooms also have two colors: blue and green.

These represent the amount of resources in the room.

More resources are blue, fewer are green.

It's solely about the quantity, not the quality.

For example, on his first day, the first two rooms he entered: the first room was green, strictly speaking, if he hadn't accidentally discovered that the broken machinery could be decomposed, he could only have gotten a blueprint and a Snickers in that room.

The second room was blue, and the harvest... was quite plentiful.

Safe rooms generally only show two types: materials and food.

Like the previous environmental room with the Rock Ice Giant, it also showed blue safe, but that's because its characteristics were rather special and weren't of reference value.

With the light film's color fading from sight, for this time's green food room, he seemed uninterested.

"Tsk, as expected..."

Just as he expected, in the middle of the room stood a supply storage tank, and the rest was empty, Li Zheng was already prepared to only obtain one Snickers bar.

"If it weren't for the fact that the last room had a blue door on the ceiling and the rest were dangerous, I wouldn't have come here..."

Pouting, Li Zheng walked forward to open the 'fridge.'

"Oh~ not bad, there's actually a bottle of water."

Storing away a bottle of water and, as expected, a Snickers bar, Li Zheng skillfully took out a bumpy Iron Ingot.

"Sigh... Back on Earth, if you'd hit me hard, I'd never have thought that one day my road to riches would depend on demolition."

With continuous dismantling and smashing, Li Zheng's harvest over the past two days, in terms of quality, aside from the Platinum Level Rock Ice Ruo Fire, wasn't actually as good as the high-quality items obtained by Phoenix Mountain and other top players.

However, for low-quality materials and food, Li Zheng hasn't worried so far.

Even for the relatively scarce water resources, if Li Zheng is determined, he can still recycle them.

Besides... with over thirty thousand Snake Grass Needles, he can trade them for food and water anytime, so he really isn't worried about food and drink problems.

"What can I say?"

"It's not really about the food and drink... I just like the surprise and satisfaction of finding things myself."

Li Zheng sighed, lifted the Iron Ingot, and began another round of demolition work.

However, because his ribs were still broken, this round of demolishing and smashing took him a bit longer.

Twenty minutes later, the supply storage tank let out a wail and fell in front of Li Zheng.

"Damn it, because I dare not exert too much force; otherwise, I'd have already explored two rooms by now." Li Zheng cursed, wiped away the cold sweat from the pain on his forehead, and started decomposing.

[Decomposed broken supply storage tank, obtained: Temperature Controller*1, Broken Power Core Type III*1...]

"Oh, a pleasant surprise."

Li Zheng took out the newly obtained Temperature Controller and glanced at it, confirming that it was indeed complete and undamaged, and of fairly high quality.

[Temperature Controller

Silver Level

Description: An instrument to control temperature, can be used to craft items or devices.]

A very simple item description, so simple that even the detector did not provide more information.

"Although it has no unknown hidden functions, at least it's a Silver Level material, not bad."

Li Zheng nodded with satisfaction; this was one of the few high-quality items he had obtained through normal channels today.

Recalling the details of this dismantling, Li Zheng realized that due to his rib injury, the Iron Ingot mostly hit the upper-middle section of the supply storage tank.

"Presumably the Temperature Controller was installed in the lower half of the fridge; next time I encounter a fridge, I might try to get a Silver Level Power Core."

With a plan in mind, Li Zheng began scanning the several metal doors.

Above, blue/safe/material.

Ground, green/safe/material.

"..."

Seeing two safe rooms at once, Li Zheng suddenly had a bad premonition.

After looking at the remaining three metal doors, he pulled a long face and angrily cursed: "Damn it! What you fear is what you get!"

The remaining three metal doors were all orange-red (biological).