"Go directly to the outer city?" Li Zheng was completely moved now. That is the place where the method of leaving the matrix is hidden. If you go there, you will have a chance to return to Earth.
"Are you excited?" The butcher suddenly turned his head, with a strange smile on his plain face: "The outer city is not as beautiful as you imagined. That is where the real test begins."
Li Zheng asked: "Is the outer city more dangerous than the matrix where I am staying now?"
"Danger? Hahahaha..." The butcher suddenly laughed: "You haven't come into contact with the real danger yet. When the time comes, you will miss this place, because this is a paradise."
The butcher's authority seems to be a little wider than that of Roemand, and he can reveal a lot more things.
Opportunities like this are rare. Li Zheng continued to ask: "After going to the outer city, can't I come back here at will?"
"That's right, unless you are like me, you can only come back here after receiving relevant tasks." The butcher raised his knife to the body of the armored dragon turtle and drew a dotted line back and forth.
Li Zheng took two steps closer and asked, "I heard that there is a way to leave the matrix in the outer city. Is it true?"
From the side, Li Zheng saw the smile on the butcher's face getting weirder and weirder. It was a sarcastic smile with a hint of bitterness.
"It's true, but it's not true either."
The butcher seemed not to want to talk about this topic: "You can inquire about this kind of thing yourself after you get to the outer city. In short... everything is not as beautiful as you think."
After the words fell, Li Zheng wanted to ask something more, but he saw the butcher suddenly waved the bone chopping knife in his hand, cutting out invisible traces in the air. The body of the armored dragon turtle had stopped moving for a long time. Following these invisible traces, unexpectedly,
Break it down layer by layer.
A huge crack opened at the junction of the upper and lower parts of the tortoise shell, revealing the gray-brown meat and internal organs. As the butcher waved the bone chopping knife, pieces of fresh meat were peeled off, leaving behind the tortoise shell, internal organs, and bones.
The entire decomposition process lasted only thirty seconds, and only the frames of the two armored dragon turtles were left standing in place. The frames were wrapped with fresh internal organs, and there was not even a shred of flesh left on the bones, which were shaved cleanly.
Waving his hands to put away the meat and bones, the butcher opened up the turtle shell that had lost its support from the skeleton, walked into the internal organs, found the heart, gallbladder, and kidneys, and threw the rest on the spot without giving it a second glance.
Now, Li Zheng finally understood why the butcher's clothes were so dirty.
Li Zheng asked curiously: "Isn't there a special decomposition function? Why do you have to go to so much trouble to do it yourself?"
Without looking back, the butcher walked towards the heads of the two armored dragon turtles and said, "Didn't you realize that the meat I took out by myself was more complete and more complete than the one that was decomposed?"
After what he said, Li Zhengcai was shocked to realize that every time the butcher used his knife, he cut along the skeletal texture of the dragon turtle without destroying the quality of the meat. Moreover, the material obtained in the end was at least more than what could be obtained through the decomposition function.
Three times more!
"You mean..." Li Zheng had some guesses about this, but he still had questions: "The terminal once gave a reminder that the decomposed ingredients are safer. What you made like this..."
Having said this, Li Zheng suddenly realized that the butcher standing in front of him was so powerful that they didn't care at all about the bacteria, viruses or parasites in a mere diamond-level organism.
The butcher split open the dragon turtle's head with two knives, dug out the edible meat, brain and other parts, then peeled off the skin, took out two complete gray-yellow crystal cores, and threw them to Li Zheng: "You have to know,
The terminal offers so many features and is definitely not free.
Although the decomposed products are safer to eat, most of them are collected as handling fees.
These two crystal nuclei are given to you. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be able to get these two ingredients that are about to break through the extraordinary level."
How can there be any reason not to give up something you get for free?
Li Zheng put away the two crystal cores with peace of mind. These are good things that can improve Sakura's strength!
"Handling fees? What does the terminal need these fees for?"
The butcher took away the skinned skulls, which were also good for making soup, leaving behind useless internal organs and tortoise skin fragments: "Do you think any descendants were born when the previous players went to the outer city?"
After saying this, Li Zheng understood.
The matrix provides a decomposition function, but when all players decompose corpses, a lot of ingredients will be taken away to supply the consumption of the outer city.
"Are there no other sources of food in the outer city?" Li Zheng felt that there was still something unreasonable.
There are countless generations of players in the outer city. Is it possible that no one has brought in anything like a petri dish or edible crops?
"Yes, but it's not enough!" The butcher explained: "The rules in the outer city are different from here. The growth cycle of each crop is very long. Unlike here, you can harvest one crop in two or three days at most."
"Some people used to take advantage of the convenience of completing tasks to plant some crops privately in this area. However, the next time they came back, they couldn't find the coordinates."
Crops grown privately…
Could it be a petri dish found during exploration?
Li Zheng was sweating profusely. On the day he entered the matrix, he discovered several petri dishes. At that time, the crops were in an immature state.
Doesn’t that mean that the one who planted the crops was actually gone for less than twenty hours?
The butcher said depressingly: "Actually, I also secretly brought some things in not long ago. I wanted to grow some vegetables and fruits for a change, and help a friend grow some poisonous weeds for research.
It's a pity that you came in before the things were mature, not only losing the seeds, but you didn't even have time to take away the petri dishes."
Vegetables, fruits, poisonous weeds.
Gan!
It can't be such a coincidence, right?
A few drops of cold sweat broke out on Li Zheng's forehead: "Then when you came back this time, you didn't look for the things you planted?"
"I found it. I was lucky. It only took less than half a day to find the room where the crops were grown." The butcher gritted his teeth angrily: "There are only four petri dishes left, and all the things grown in them are gone! Players like you
There is no morality at all. In order to speed up the growth time of crops, I brought in a culture medium storage tank, but the damn thing broke it!"
Grass!
This is a real blow, the one who is going to die is himself!
Li Zheng wiped his cold sweat and thought, I don't know whether the butcher's luck should be good or bad.
I wonder what he would think if he knew that the person who took away his crops and smashed the storage tanks was the same person as the target of his mission this time.
After the butcher finished complaining, his expression changed, as if he had received some instructions, and he said to Li Zheng: "The task is completed, it's time for me to return to the outer city. Before I leave, I will give you a piece of advice. After you get the ticket to enter the outer city, don't be in a hurry.
It’s not too late to wait until the time is right to go.”
Is the time ripe?
What time?
Just as Li Zheng was about to ask, the butcher turned into a shadow and disappeared from his eyes.
