minecraft: top of the last hope

Chapter 2
It was a very ordinary small wooden box.

"Could it be a reward box?" Bu Xin doubted. The game "Minecraft" has a reward box function. If it is turned on, you can get a reward box near the birth point when you first enter the game, which contains some things needed for survival.

I shook my head: "No. There is a torch inserted in the front, back, left, and right sides of the reward box, and here there are only boxes without torches. Even if there is a bug and the torch fails to be generated on the ground, it will become an item that falls on the ground and is taken away by us. See." After speaking, I approached the box and knelt down to open it.

"Be careful!" Bu Xin reminded me.The current situation is very strange, and I have no idea what will happen next.

To be honest, I was actually a little hairy in my heart, and my hands trembled a little when I opened the box.I touched the lid of the box, and it was terribly cold. The coolness seemed to pass directly from my hand to my heart, which made me tremble, and I suddenly remembered some bad things.

"First dig out the blocks near the box!" I withdrew my hand and said to Bu Xin, "If this is a trap, we will die!"

We dug up all the grass and dirt near the box to make the box float in the air before opening it.This game is anti-gravity, except for non-flying creatures and some blocks affected by gravity, blocks such as grass blocks, dirt blocks, and box blocks can float.Players can use the collected blocks to build a sky villa, and occasionally encounter sky islands in the wild, which is one of the magic features of the game "Minecraft".

Sure enough, when Bu Xin and I dug up the grass block under the box, I saw a bunch of TNT blocks underneath!

Bu Xin was shocked: "Damn it, this is the rhythm of cheating!"

If Mao opened the box rashly just now, Bu Xin and I would have been blown to pieces by now.So insidious, who put this? !
We cleared all the TNT, and the two together collected 20 TNT blocks. If so many TNT were all exploded, a huge pit with a diameter of 20 meters could be blasted.

"Okay, it's all right." The surrounding blocks have been cleared away, leaving only a box floating in the air.I used the dirt cubes I collected as a foothold, and opened the box with a "squeak".

Inside is a book and a round, black crystal ball-like thing. I have never seen this thing before. Is it a unique prop in the real mode?
I took the things out and took the trap box with me by the way.After jumping off the dirt cube and returning to the ground, Bu Xin and I studied the book and the never-before-seen prop.

I opened the book first, and there was a passage written in English at the beginning. Bu Xin and I could barely understand the general meaning:
"It is said that some victims, during the torture period, retreated their consciousness into a fantasy world, a place where they could not wake up. In the psychological state close to the collapse, they still lived the same life as normal people. Life, while constantly being tortured. The only thing that can make them realize they need to wake up is a reminder hidden in the fantasy world. It will let the player know their situation. However, even if they find it, it will take months Only then can we really get rid of that fantasy world, please wake up!"

What the hell?It seems that this paragraph is very nonsensical, what kind of "fantasy world", "reminder", and "wake up"?Bu Xin and I looked at each other in blank dismay.

We turn to the next page.

The content on the next page is written in Chinese:

"You can survive to read this passage, which means that you have the qualifications to participate in this 'game'. I am in charge of everything. Whoever can pass the test of this 'game' will be able to wake up. Please use the black Crystal ball."

The signature is: "A 'person' that you are very familiar with but have never really met in the game"

Seeing this, I seem to understand a little bit, we are locked in this virtual space and cannot exit!
"Damn it, which bastard did it?!" Bu Xin cursed.

I shook my head helplessly. It seemed that if we wanted to quit, we had no choice but to participate in the "game" that "person" said.

I flipped through the next page again, and there were some in-game help information, such as how to check the backpack, how to use items, and so on.

I just turned to the last page.

The last page seems to be a poem, but we can only see the first sentence, the rest are blurred:

"This is the beginning of life and the end of life..."

"Is this a hint?" I couldn't understand.

Bu Xin told me not to think about it. Thinking about it was just giving myself a headache. He picked up the black crystal ball and said, "Didn't he let us use this thing? Let's see how it works first."

I turned to the page in the book that introduced the black crystal ball, and I could only understand the words "shake it", and the rest were all garbled characters.So Bu Xin took the black crystal ball in his hand and shook it desperately, shaking his whole body. The crystal ball made a "ding" sound, and four rows of numbers with dark red light emerged inside:

122
Immediately afterwards, the number "99" suddenly changed to "100"!Bu Xin and I looked at each other, and then felt a heavy blow to the head. When the vision went dark, the body went limp, and we didn't know anything.

When I woke up, I felt dizzy.I looked at the sky and saw that the sun had gradually set to the west.I shook my head and rubbed my temples to wake myself up.When I got up, I immediately found Bu Xin fainted on the ground, and hurried over to wake him up.

"What's going on? Why did I faint?" Bu Xin got up from the ground and rubbed his eyes.

I don't know how to answer.I looked around and found that this was the birth point when I entered the game before.But the strange thing is, didn't we dig out some soil from the place where the box appeared not far away?How did it become a level grass?
This is when Bu Xin suddenly called out: "Huh? Why is my hunger bar full?" Everyone in the game has [-] points of hunger, which will be depleted when exercising or doing some work. It will start to deplete when it reaches zero. Life points, and everyone has [-] points of life points, which will only be recovered slowly when the hunger is full, and will not be recovered when the stomach is hungry, and once the life value is zero, then you will die.

Did we just die?Or is the game restarted?Except for the black crystal ball and the book we got from the box, Bu Xin and I lost all the things we got before, including the 20 TNT.

Bu Xin took out the crystal ball, and the crystal ball suddenly emitted a dark red light, and a message came into my consciousness: live until tomorrow morning, and I will tell you how to start.

Is this an in-game quest?A game with a high degree of freedom like "Minecraft" actually has tasks, which is simply a failure of the game designer!
Another message came: die, the 'game' is over, you will stay in this world forever, and you won't wake up.

When I knew this message, I finally realized the seriousness of the matter.If you don't wake up in the game, it's no different from really dying.The so-called "game" in that book, once you fail, there is no chance to start over!

Must live!

My heart was beating hard, and my palms were sweating.Bu Xin frowned, his face livid, and he didn't say a word.It is almost dusk now, but we are still empty-handed and have nothing. How can we survive tonight? !

The night in the game "Minecraft" is very scary. Because monsters will be generated in the dark, so in the dark night, there will be horror scenes full of zombies, skeletons, and giant spiders crawling around. If there is no If you build a shelter in time to avoid monsters on the first day, then at night you will be beaten by zombies, pushed down by spiders, and shot into hedgehogs by the arrows of skeletons!

Watching the sun go down bit by bit, I clenched my fists and shouted: "Bu Xin, what are you waiting for, let's fight!"

In "Minecraft", a day is 20 minutes, 10 minutes during the day, and 10 minutes at night. At this time, there are only three or four minutes left before dark, and the time is tight.

We cut down trees first, everything starts with wood, and only with wood can we make a workbench and perform complex synthesis and decomposition work.The synthesis system is a major feature of this game. Through the synthesis and decomposition of different block items, more advanced and practical things can be obtained.

We are now in a black forest, which belongs to the black forest biome among the 61 different biomes in "Minecraft". There are a lot of oak trees, rich in wood resources, and apples may drop, which can provide food source.Giant mushrooms can occasionally be seen in the forest, each as large as a tree, and are edible and a great source of food.Mushroom soup is the most nourishing, it can restore [-] hunger points!But the disadvantage is that the forest is full of trees and the light is not enough. If you go deep, it is easy to get lost, and it is not easy to find monsters hiding in the forest.

It took us half a minute to beat some wood with our bare hands and come back.Oak wood is very hard, and it hurts to fight.We also picked up two apples, but unfortunately no giant mushrooms.After returning to the birth point, I flipped through the synthesis operation in the book, and then took out a piece of wood from the backpack.The backpack in this game is very convenient. What is in it, how many things are there, and what you want to take out can be completely controlled by your brain.As soon as I took out a piece of wood, the book I was holding was automatically put into the backpack, which is really simple and fast.

I immediately followed the instructions, broke the wood in my hand, and it immediately became four wooden boards, and then I pressed the four wooden boards together one by one according to the synthesis formula of the workbench mentioned in the book. When it was good, the four planks suddenly shrank in the middle and turned into a workbench block in my hand.

Then I pressed the small and exquisite workbench cube in my hand to the ground, and it suddenly turned into a large workbench, pushing my hands up.It looked very new, and exuded a unique fragrance of wood.The Jiugongge synthetic slots on the stage are concave and convex, very delicate, as if they were just carved out.Gently tap with your fingers, and there will be a crisp wooden board sound of "dong dong".

Workbench, used to craft items.

I looked back at the sky, there was still time, and the sun hadn't set yet.We took out a few more pieces of wood and decomposed them. First, we decomposed them into several planks and sticks, and then put the planks and sticks on the nine-square grid of the workbench according to the synthesis formula of the wooden shovel, and finally pressed the nine-square grid. With a sound, two wooden shovels popped out.Bu Xin and I dug a hole in the ground alone.The burrow is one of the lowest-cost and shortest time-consuming shelters. Since there is really not enough time now, we simply cannot afford to live in high-end goods such as wooden houses.

The efficiency of two people digging the hole is simply excellent. In less than 1 minute, the hole is almost dug.The hole was dark, and I couldn't see my fingers. I dug hard in front of me, and there was a "bang", and the wooden shovel bounced, which made my jaw hurt and I could hardly hold it steady.

"What's wrong?" Bu Xin's voice came from the darkness.

"It should have been dug into the rock layer, this rock is really hard." I said shaking my hands.

"It's strange. Although the stone needs to be mined with a pick, it can also be dug with a shovel. I tried it on my mobile phone before. I will try it." Bu Xin said.

I heard him approaching with a wooden shovel, and then, I received a blow to the left shoulder!
"Ah!" I yelled, and my HP decreased by 1 point, "Nie Ma cheating teammates, do you want me to die before it gets dark?"

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." Bu Xin hastily apologized, "It hurts, right?"

To be honest, it doesn't really hurt at all, but there is that uncomfortable feeling of being injured. This feeling is very strange and makes people feel extremely uncomfortable.

"It doesn't hurt, but I feel very uncomfortable. Fortunately, my hunger bar is full, and it will be replenished immediately."

"It doesn't hurt, how is it possible?!" Bu Xin was surprised.

"Nonsense, think about a game that hurts the players, who wants to play it? Wouldn't it be sour to fall into the magma?" I asked back.

"That's right." I heard Bu Xin's "hehehe" smirk, "Do you want to come again?"

"Get out! Don't waste time, go out and make a wooden pick, and then bring the workbench in."

It was dusk when we went out.I have seen countless sunsets in the game, but when I really entered the game world, I was completely shocked by this fairyland-like scene.The entire ground was turned red by the setting sun, and the nearby trees became unreal under the brilliant sunlight, leaving only a vague outline.Half of the sky is bright and bright sunset red, and half of the sky is dark and deep starry blue, dotted with many shining and charming stars.And Bu Xin and I are standing under the junction of light and darkness, red and blue, as if we are on the dividing line between yang and yin.

Bu Xin and I stared dumbfounded, as if forgetting everything, watching the sunset as the world gradually fell into a deep sleep.

I didn't speak, for fear of breaking the beautiful picture, I walked to the workbench silently alone, made a wooden pick on it, put the workbench into the backpack, and walked into the cave with Bu Xin.

I handed the pickaxe to Bu Xin, and Bu Xin began to strike the stone with great difficulty, and with a crisp sound, a stone block was mined out.

"Huh? Wait, this doesn't seem to be a stone." In the darkness, I heard Bu Xin say.

(End of this chapter)