Five seconds!
What can you do in five seconds?
Cut down five opponents and then spin around with a big knife to run away?
Or take out a cigarette, light it, and take a deep puff?
Or maybe reach out to turn off the alarm after it rings in the morning?
Undoubtedly, a mere five seconds is insignificant in a lifetime.
But sometimes, it can decide the fate of a few people!
...
[00:00]
As the countdown ended, Li Zheng watched as the Infinite Transformer suddenly froze, finally breathing a sigh of relief.
Just now, within less than a second, nearly a continuous line of icy blue bullets shot towards it.
As expected, the Infinite Transformer, which was only operating on instinct, did not realize that its energy was almost depleted and still made evasive maneuvers against the threatening bullets.
However, what should have been a life-saving action only hastened its shutdown.
For it, shutdown was another form of death.
[Infinite Transformer (Shutdown)]
A transformed Infinite race being with a modified heart and brain, its body parts have shut down due to total energy depletion and cannot be awakened.
Can be decomposed.
The countdown disappeared, and the detector finally started working, giving a prompt.
"Finally over."
Li Zheng's hand, which held the gun, seemed to lose all strength instantly, dropping to the ground, as he gasped for air.
It was only now that he realized, due to the intense running earlier, his heart felt like it was about to leap out from his chest, pounding wildly.
His lungs burned with pain, yet continued to expand and contract, greedily demanding fresh air.
Opening the trading hall, Li Zheng directly searched for nanorobots. The player, after reclaiming the robots, had put them back up with new terms.
Trading Terms: Tasty food*20, no meat.
A rather unreasonable trade, if exchanged for Luoshen Flowers, a frugally eating twenty would last Li Zheng five meals!
As for whether they were tasty.
Li Zheng thought anything was tasty compared to concentrated nutrient liquid!
Even though Luoshen Flower was actually one of the ingredients for making nutrient liquid.
"I can trade, but I only have a Power Core with 65% energy left. I wonder if I can last until the end of the treatment."
Li Zheng struggled to get up, walking with difficulty to his capsule shelter to retrieve it.
In the trading hall, you can directly operate transactions, but upon receiving the nanorobots, Li Zheng had to extract the Power Core from it, risking aggravating his injuries.
"Cough, cough,"
Li Zheng coughed lightly twice and used twenty Luoshen Flowers to rent the nanorobots again.
"Gulp."
The silver granules were swallowed, and as expected, the nanorobots concentrated entirely in his abdomen, awaiting recharging.
"Heh heh."
Li Zheng gave a bitter smile: "Sure enough, the remaining energy from last time was because the previous user hadn't used it up, so I picked up a leftover."
He extracted the Power Core originally intended for the water purifier and placed it in the abdomen for wireless recharging of the nanorobots.
At this point, Li Zheng noticed the player who had come in later slowly getting up, in a much better state than him.
"After all this hard work and taking such risks, am I going to hand the spoils to someone else?"
Li Zheng gazed at the player, feeling bitter in his heart.
If it weren't for swiping the card and waiting for the door to open taking time, Li Zheng would have left at the first sign of trouble and wouldn't be in this predicament.
Moreover, he wasn't sure if he could swipe the card to open the door during combat or before eliminating hostile entities in the room.
Last time in the room with the rock ice giant, the leader of the rock ice giants was in an unconscious state when Li Zheng swiped the card, equivalent to scene decoration and naturally posed no threat to Li Zheng.
If he didn't find a chance to clarify this point, Li Zheng wouldn't dare risk getting shot to try opening the door.
After all, he was immune to cold and heat, not explosions.
"Forget it."
Li Zheng sighed: "As long as he doesn't kick me when I'm down, I don't mind giving him the corpse of the Infinite Transformer."
With one hand charging the nanorobots and the other hand behind his back, Li Zheng waited for the player's decision.
...
Xiao Siyuan got up, shaking his somewhat dizzy head, trying to clear his mind.
He had been knocked over the last time, and his head hit the ground as he rolled, causing him to pass out.
After a brief loss of consciousness, his head was still heavy, and his thoughts started to slowly function.
"I... right, where's the monster?"
Xiao Siyuan was shocked and looked up at the humanoid creature in odd armor, finding it frozen in a gun-holding stance, motionless.
"Dead?"
Xiao Siyuan wasn't sure, but at least the danger was temporarily cleared.
He didn't go to decompose the corpse of the Infinite Transformer, instead turning towards Li Zheng, hesitated, and walked that way.
...
"Ah, a wrong decision."
Li Zheng sighed internally, as he loaded a magazine into the Desert Eagle with one hand behind him.
As the other approached, the detector dutifully provided information about him:
[Name: Xiao Siyuan
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Height: 178cm
Weight: 72KG
Status: Sub-health (nerve damage)
Equipment: Kinetic Micro Uzi (Black Iron Level), Tungsten Steel Triangular Spike (Black Iron Level)
Ability: High-density bones, Proficient in medical skills
Modification: None
Remaining exploration count for today: 5]
Xiao Siyuan didn't walk fast, and Li Zheng quietly watched him, suddenly feeling that Xiao Siyuan's movements seemed a bit awkward.
It's hard to say exactly where, but Xiao Siyuan's walking seemed a bit uncoordinated.
"Stop!"
Seeing Xiao Siyuan within about seven paces and showing no sign of stopping, Li Zheng raised his gun to halt him.
As the saying goes, people's hearts are unpredictable and can change at the sight of money.
Even without the system's information, just by looking at the Infinite Transformer's appearance, one could guess its grade was definitely not low.
After decomposition, whatever materials were obtained, it would be worth at least as much as a first prize lottery ticket to players at this stage.
Now, between Li Zheng and Xiao Siyuan, it was like both of them walking along and spotting such a lottery ticket.
Nobody knew what the other was thinking.
However, since the detector didn't indicate any danger, Li Zheng only stopped him without shooting.
"Don't misunderstand!"
Xiao Siyuan stopped immediately, raising both hands to show he had no ill intentions, explaining, "I just saw that you're in poor condition and wanted to see if I could help."
Li Zheng skeptically looked at him but didn't easily believe him.
Before encountering Zhan Zhouzhou, Li Zheng had a brief interaction with her and often saw her speaking in the regional channel, so he had a basic understanding and could guess her character.
Thus, despite some minor disagreements between them, under Li Zheng's intention to resolve them, they could quickly put aside past grievances.
However, it was Li Zheng's first time seeing Xiao Siyuan.
He hadn't even seen him speak in the regional channel before, knowing nothing about him.
So naturally, Li Zheng treated him with much more caution.
Xiao Siyuan had an honest appearance, a well-defined face with thick eyebrows and big eyes.
Noticing Li Zheng's expression, he quickly said, "Let me introduce myself. My name is Xiao, Xiao Siyuan, and before entering this place, I was a retired border guard.
Rest assured, as a soldier, the safety of the country and its people is above all else, and I truly mean no harm."
"I swear by the honor of a soldier!"