CHAPTER 273: CHAPTER 233: SECOND POTION SALE, BLACKLIST THICKNESS INCREASES SIGNIFICANTLY

"I never thought that an ordinary sewing table would secretly have such powerful functionality!" Li Zheng marveled outside his residence while adapting to the newly acquired equipment characteristic.

"That’s why professional tasks should be done by professionals. If I were to try it myself, I wouldn’t even know where to start!"

Earlier, he tried to operate the sewing table but didn’t discover the feature to disassemble equipment. It wasn’t until it got to Li Chun that the little girl discovered it.

Li Zheng didn’t find it disgraceful that he didn’t discover this feature. After all, besides cooking, he never had much knack for tasks requiring manual labor.

He preferred simple and straightforward things, even when watching videos, he’d skip the foreplay.

"I’ve never encountered the Gale Leopard Cat before. Its fur is similar to the Eye Demon Resilient Hide and can absorb a special energy in the air for recharging. Once its characteristic is actively triggered, it can briefly enhance my flatland movement speed for thirty seconds."

Li Zheng ran at full speed around the capsule residence, moving very quickly and silently with each step. If it weren’t for the sound of the wind he stirred up, he would be almost undetectable.

The thirty-second countdown displayed at the corner of his eye quickly ended, and his running speed sharply decreased as Li Zheng stopped.

"Not bad, compared to the speed my Silver Physique bursts out now, it increased by about thirty percent, it should be a fixed value, compensating for the inflexibility of the Power Demon Incarnation."

"Given such an impressive characteristic, what kind of reward should I give to Li Chun?" Li Zheng stood there, troubled. Although he could forego the processing fee, it wouldn’t be right to take advantage of the little girl with the raw materials.

"But I don’t have any corresponding materials at hand... Maybe I should owe it first and return it to her once I acquire the appropriate fur?"

Li Zheng entered his residence and prepared two portions of Black Iron Level cuisine to give to Li Chun: "Consider this as the interest on the debt."

He opened the private chat interface, deleted the insulting messages from strangers during this time, and locked it again.

He looked at the time; it was already close to four in the afternoon, not far from dinner and the second Genetic Potion trade time.

During this time, besides taking care of the Flame Branch, there wasn’t much to do, so Li Zheng simply took out a Sheathed Sword and practiced his swordsmanship in the open space.

Since attending Zhan Zhouzhou’s lessons, Li Zheng had made progress with each swing of his sword.

The thrusts were not only more accurate but faster as well.

If he got serious now, ensuring accuracy, he could consecutively thrust eighteen times in ten seconds, and all with full force.

This rate of improvement wasn’t due to Li Zheng’s exceptional talent in the Sword Dao, but attributed to some physical advantages brought by "Spear Art Specialization."

This allowed him to achieve half the effort with double the results when practicing other martial arts, especially after receiving guidance and finding the trick to it, the improvement speed was astonishing.

However, such high-intensity sword thrusts were a significant strain on his stamina, and he couldn’t maintain it for long during a full burst.

It could only be sustained for about three minutes.

After three minutes, if the opponent wasn’t down, he probably needed to start making future plans.

Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, he couldn’t recklessly enter this burst state in a fight.

"No wonder those martial arts masters in wuxia films always dragged out fights; it’s like Ultraman battling lesser monsters. They all save their big moves until the very end." Li Zheng recalled reading somewhere an opinion about martial arts experts’ battles, saying that the initial boring exchanges were actually about exhausting each other’s stamina while looking for openings.

If both parties were at peak physical condition, starting with big moves and going all out, their techniques could easily be seen through and blocked, wasting stamina for nothing.

The key was to save the killer move for when the opponent’s stamina was waning, and their focus was low, then strike with full force for a guaranteed hit!

Two hours flew by, and Li Zheng sheathed his sword, gathering his strength.

He glanced at the time; it was already dinner. He finished preparing the meal and called Sakura back to settle the dinner.

During this, Li Zheng looked at the pink Poli and suddenly wondered about this creature seemingly following Sakura without needing to eat.

On regular days, he just needed to ensure it maintained body moisture, making it very low-maintenance.

It’s simply the perfect pet type in the Matrix.

Unfortunately, every individual of the Poli tribe seemed to have a bit of a mental problem, and finding someone who could tame them might be rare.

After dinner, Li Zheng filled a pool with water for himself, heated it, and immersed himself, casually sending out a message on the World Channel about starting today’s Genetic Potion trade.

Even now, many people were still cursing him, but business had to continue as usual. He couldn’t let these senseless idiots affect his life.

As expected, just as Li Zheng showed up on the World Channel, someone immediately jumped in to curse him out.

There were all sorts of unpleasant words, with some people even taking the opportunity to suggest he hand out the Genetic Potions to the public.

Li Zheng was unfazed, casually blocking that person and cutting off all related information.

He even refused to sell the items he had listed in the trade hall to that person.

"Go ahead and curse, the harsher you curse now, the more it stings when you’re proven wrong later!" Li Zheng had already instructed Old Pu to diligently record the names of everyone cursing him now, so once the Shinoda Chizuru situation was resolved, if any of these people wanted to buy anything from him later, the prices would be ten times what others paid.

Not buying?

Suit yourself!

Keep cursing?

The price will continue to rise!

By then, everyone else will have the good stuff, and they won’t; let’s see if they’ll be infuriated!

Someone reselling to them?

Doesn’t matter!

As long as he found out, he’d file them under the same treatment as this group!

The unpublished treasures Li Zheng has in his hands are plentiful, he’s not afraid these people will regret it!

Turning off private chat restrictions, ignoring all stranger messages, Li Zheng first advised Li Chun not to announce the new equipment made at the sewing table or the dismantled fragments to the public, but to satisfy familiar players first.

In Li Zheng’s concept, the better the thing, the later it should be made public.

Otherwise, he’s afraid those players won’t have time to accumulate resources to sell it at a good price.

Li Zheng doesn’t mind helping fellow Dragon Country comrades to a certain extent, even risking offending an organization to stand up for Lin Fengjiao.

But that was before last night.

Especially after meeting Ma Yan today, Li Zheng, who originally had somewhat selfless thoughts influenced by Xiao Siyuan, has changed quite a bit.

There are too many ungrateful people in this world, and you can’t see through human intentions, one Shinoda Chizuru exposed so many idiots.

Li Zheng is really afraid that if he continues to be so "selfless," he will one day die at the hands of these people.

He is not a doctor, he doesn’t have Lao Xiao’s "healer’s compassion".

He is also not a soldier, lacking Lao Xiao’s "mission for the nation and people".

He just felt Lao Xiao’s ideas were worthy of respect and learning, which led to him doing things that seemed completely foolish to others.

But reality taught him a harsh lesson.

After all, Li Zheng has encountered too much kindness in his life, whether it was being taken in by the old landlord or Xiao Siyuan’s assistance, he’s been deeply affected.

He believed life should treat others with sincerity and kindness.

This time being cyber-bullied, to be honest, if it weren’t for Ancient Technology setting him up with a "decisive kill" process as a prelude, his mental string would have snapped long ago.

However, Li Zheng himself didn’t realize all this, everything seemed to subtly happen without his awareness.

Compared to when he just entered the Matrix, in just ten days, Li Zheng has grown quite a bit.

After all, he’s just a young man in his early twenties, not everyone who reads "Three-Body" will follow the dark forest theory.

In a peaceful society, if you treat that as a guideline, how unsatisfactory life would be?

"Exploration attempts refresh at midnight, let’s turn in the mission first and let the doctor solve the problems with my body."

Li Zheng picked through the messy private messages and found those players sincerely trading potions, settled the price and sent them out.

During this time, he summarized a pattern.

The insults from these cyber-bullies are basically just a few phrases repeated, occasionally appearing different but essentially the same.

Some players went too far, even insulting his family, he didn’t care which country they were from and swiftly placed them on a permanent blacklist.

Just within a day, Li Zheng’s blacklist grew to over a thousand names, with players from various countries.

Overall, Dragon Country players still made up the majority.

No choice, Dragon Country’s population base is too large.

Relative to that, the number of fools is also quite high.

This is unavoidable.

Li Zheng even found joy in the process of sorting and blacklisting and did so diligently until the blacklist tripled in size before stopping.

It’s not that his heart softened.

It’s mainly because today’s potions have sold out.

Only two hundred sets, finding two hundred players willing to buy potions in the sea of people was no challenge at all.

After selling the potions, Li Zheng blocked private messages and tallied his gains.

"Three thousand five hundred bottles of various Bronze Level blood materials, five hundred more than yesterday?" Li Zheng was a bit surprised.

He wasn’t in much of a mood to haggle during today’s trades and just sold when the price seemed right.

Yet the gains today were even more than yesterday?

"Could it be that the players who bought the potions yesterday spread the word about their effects?"

After some thought, Li Zheng concluded that this was the only possibility: "Looks like my decision to sell the potions over multiple days was wise!"

With such an increase, won’t there be even more tomorrow?

Now one Black Iron Level 1+ Potion, Li Zheng opened the price not very high, averaging less than twenty bottles of Bronze Level blood per set.

However, he already planned to auction live after selling this batch of potions, controlling the quantity delivered each day precisely, and the harvests would only get higher.

Thinking about the bright financial future, Li Zheng suddenly felt a lot more excited.

Then he soaked in warm water in the bathtub and took a nap.

It wasn’t until Sakura came in because he’d been soaking too long that he was awoken, and it was already past ten in the evening.

He got up to let Sakura and little Poli use the bathtub, put on his clothes, and left the bathroom, finding quite a few group chat messages mentioning him.

"What’s going on?" Li Zheng wondered as he opened the group chat.