minecraft: top of the last hope

Chapter 3 The First Night
"It's not a stone, what is that?" I asked him.

"It's coal!" He was so excited that his voice was trembling. It was as exciting as digging oil on the first day.With coal, torches can be made, without consuming the limited wood on the first day to burn into charcoal, and without enduring the terrifying darkness of the long night.

I took over the coal that Bu Xin had just mined.Coal has a feeling of powder particles in the hand.I took out another wooden stick and put the coal on it. With a "hiss", the flames sprang up, and I shrank my hands in fright, and almost got burned.

The torch is ready, and the surroundings become bright.A piece of coal and a stick can make four torches. After I made it, I held one in my hand, and the remaining three went into my backpack automatically.

I took out a torch from my backpack and gave it to Bu Xin, and stuck one on the cave wall by the way.Bu Xin took the torch and looked at it, and asked, "Is it hot? Why doesn't it feel warm?" After speaking, he reached out and touched the burning fire on the torch.

"Hey!" I was taken aback, this guy didn't play like this if he wanted to die!But I saw his hands moving in the burning fire, as if playing with fire, and looked at me with a mocking smile on his face.

"It's warm and comfortable. Seeing how scared you are. The torch is just a simple lighting tool in this game. It won't go out and can't be used to burn things, hahaha!" Bu Xin said with a smile.

Tch, this guy made me worry like that.I ignored him, turned around and put the workbench on the ground.

When I just plugged in the torch, I saw a lot of black coal mine blocks around, which is really lucky.Minerals are one of the important elements of the game "Minecraft" and are essential for players.In this game, there are a total of 8 types of minerals, namely coal mine, iron mine, gold mine, diamond mine, redstone mine, lapis lazuli mine, emerald mine, and quartz mine.After the coal mine is mined, coal is obtained, which can be used as fuel in addition to being used as a synthetic material.Minerals are usually distributed in sheets, generally several mineral blocks are in the same place and connected together, sometimes more and sometimes less.

Bu Xin continued to dig coal and mined another piece.When the coal mine cube was smashed by him with a "bang", in addition to a piece of coal popping out, there were also three green, crystal clear, shining balls.

"Experience ball!" My eyes were straightened.

Three small balls flew up, shining green light, flickering on and off, spinning around Bu Xin's body, like three flying green elves, causing ripples in the air.One of them sank into Bu Xin's body, making a crisp and pleasant sound of "ding".Immediately afterwards, another small ball entered Bu Xin's body with a "ding" sound, glowing a little, and then another... three experience balls were absorbed by Bu Xin.

Bu Xin smiled triumphantly: "Upgraded!"

"How old is it?" I asked him.

"Level 1."

"Okay, okay, good, keep working hard. By the way, you can dig three rocks first, and I will dig the stone pick together." I said.

He waved his hand quickly: "No, I can do it myself."

This kid is so hardworking so suddenly?Are you addicted to eating experience balls?Digging coal can get experience balls, and he should be able to upgrade to level 2 after digging these few pieces of coal.It's a pity that in this game, skills are still the focus. Level experience is only used to repair items and enchant equipment, which is useless in actual combat.There is no difference between level 100 and level [-], the key is to look at personal equipment and skills.

Bu Xin said it was useless, but in fact he also dug up a dozen stones for me.I took the stone and made a pickaxe on the workbench, and I dug with him.The stone block is hard, and it feels completely different from the dirt block, and it is a bit difficult to knock.Bu Xin used a wooden pick to knock a stone many times, and he knocked very hard. Although I used a stone pick, it was quite difficult to knock, but a stone block could be done in three or two strokes. Sure enough, advanced tools are cool.

"You are too tired like this, change to a stone pick." I said to him while knocking.

He nodded, and ran back to the workbench to make a stone pick.It's a pity that he can't memorize the synthesis formula, so he had a hard time flipping through the books there, and finally made the stone pickaxe.

After he came back, he knocked on the stone with the pickaxe, and immediately sighed: "A divine tool, the wooden pickaxe is nothing but scum!"

That is, the grade of stone tools is higher than that of wooden tools.The so-called higher-level tools refer to tools with higher efficiency and greater durability, that is to say, stone tools can dig faster and last longer than wooden tools.Among the 5 different grades of wood, stone, iron, gold, and diamond tools, it is recognized that diamond tools are the most advanced (fast and easy to use), then iron tools, then stone tools, wooden tools, and finally It is a tool made of gold.Why are the gold tools in the last place?Because it is really different.In terms of efficiency, it ranks first among all tools, and in terms of durability, because the hardness of gold is too low, even wooden ones can't compare.But gold mines are difficult to dig, and fuel has to be wasted for metallurgy, and the tools made out of them are worn out at once, which is really useless.Therefore, gold tools are definitely "local tyrant tools".

The two of us dug for a while and stopped digging, because no other minerals were found except the coal we had just dug.

We checked the backpack, and there were more than 2 groups of stones dug (a group of 64), but the stones dug out were broken cobblestone cubes, not the original hard stone cubes. To change back to the original shape, you have to go to the furnace Burn hard.

Not much wood left.The durability of the tool was not bad. Bu Xin picked up the wooden pick and sensed it, and a message came that the durability of the wooden pick was only 10%, while the two stone picks were still above 50%, but the two wooden shovels It's less than 5%, and it's almost broken.

Other than that, there are some miscellaneous things like clay torches.

I looked at the entrance of the cave, and it was pitch black outside, probably already midnight.I wanted to poke my head out to have a look, but after thinking about it, I decided to forget it, and I felt a little nervous.There's zombies and stuff out there that I don't want to run into.

Bu Xin sat on the ground and flipped through the book. He said he wanted to memorize all the synthesis formulas, and he struggled with making a stone pick for a long time.I have nothing to do, so I plan to make a furnace first.

I took out the cobblestone cube, put it on the nine-square grid synthesis slot of the workbench, and according to the synthesis formula of the furnace, left one slot in the middle empty, and put the cobblestones in the rest, and then pressed hard, "snap"

A furnace block pops out with a bang.

The furnace cube is heavy and cold in the hand, like holding a jade seal.I put it on the ground and took a look at its construction.Bu Xin saw that I had built a furnace, so he also put down his book and came over. He wanted to see the furnace.

The entire furnace is made of stone, so it can only be recovered with a pickaxe to take it away.It has a hole in the upper part and the lower part, the upper hole is for burning and smelting things, and the lower part is for fuel.To see how much stuff is in the stove, you just need to put your hand on the stove and feel it, you don't need to put your hand in the hole and take it out to see.

I said a few words to Bu Xin, and then sat down against the cave wall to rest.The cave became very quiet in an instant.I can hear the whistling wind outside, mixed with the looming monster's voice, it looks very scary.Suddenly, a spider passed near our cave entrance and made two strange "hissing" sounds, which scared Bu Xin and I to stand up and stare at the cave entrance together for a long time.

"No, I have to make a sword." I made two stone swords, and held each of them tightly in my hand, so I felt more at ease in my heart.But I felt that there was still no sense of security, so I blocked the hole a little bit.

We sat down again.Bu Xin smiled awkwardly and asked me, "Are you sleepy?"

"Not sleepy. How can you be sleepy in the game world? You must not be sleepy either." I replied.

"That's right." After he finished speaking, he continued to read the book. When he turned to the next page, he suddenly exclaimed:
"There is less garbled code!"

"What gibberish?" I stood up and walked to sit next to him.

"This is it, the black crystal ball!" He pointed to the book and showed it to me.

I took it over and saw that it was a little less!Originally, there were only three words "shaking" on it, and the rest were all garbled characters. Now there are many more words on it, but there are still garbled characters.

The extra words are:

"Row [-]: Survivors
The second row: the number of connected devices
The third row: the number of tasks completed
Fourth Row: Ranking"

I immediately took out the black crystal ball, and the four rows of dark red numbers on it were:

116
changed!It was originally 124, 100, 0, 0!That is to say, we are not just two people playing, but 124 people, all 100 virtual machines released globally are connected, and in one night, 8 people died!

I frowned and thought for a long time, pacing up and down in the cave.Bu Xin told me a lot of things, but I didn't listen, I was full of thoughts about it.Not one of the 100 devices in the world is left behind. Who can do such a thing with such a big hand?
As I was walking, I seemed to have figured it out a bit. I stopped, took a look at Bu Xin, and said:

"We may have entered a game, I'm afraid life in the game will not be easy in the future."

Bu Xin doesn't understand, let me explain.

I was actually guessing wildly myself, and I told Bu Xin that we might be involved in a business competition.Microsoft has developed such a powerful virtual machine, its competitors must be extremely panic, because this technology is too advanced, Microsoft can use this technology to completely defeat them and become the only overlord in the game market.

Therefore, they will inevitably try to break through this virtual machine system, create a little chaos, make the virtual machine a dangerous item, and even cause a murder case, causing Microsoft to suffer a severe blow because of the virtual machine. Competitors can jump out to promote their products, telling players that Microsoft's technology is dangerous, or they are safe.

This is called using the other's spear and attacking the other's shield.Use the strengths of the enemy to attack the enemy.

"This..." Bu Xin asked back after listening, "How do you know? Maybe it's some crazy hacker."

I shook my head: "I'm just guessing. I have thought about hackers."

But I explained to him that it is impossible for Microsoft itself to let its own players die, only others would do so; and to crack such an advanced and huge virtual machine system, it is absolutely impossible to complete it in a short time by one's own strength Yes, so it must be done by the organization.

But there are so many organizations in the world that have this kind of motivation, nothing more than cults or terrorist organizations, as well as companies that compete with Microsoft.Since players come from all over the world, organizations like "ISIS" that only target Western societies are unlikely to do it, and they also have a flaw, that is, insufficient technology.

In this way, it is obvious that the only organizations with both technology and motivation are Microsoft's competitors.And their goal is only Microsoft, our 124 players are just tools that can be used in their eyes.

"What you said also makes sense." Bu Xin nodded, "But your ability to lust is really strong, and you can think of so many things."

"These things I said are irrelevant. The point is that we have to find a way to quit the game!" I said excitedly, waving my hands in the air, "but the only way we know to quit the game is the book Written in: Pass the test of this 'game'!"

Bu Xin said with a bitter face: "Can I just resign myself to fate?"

I sighed.

When we came out of the cave, it was already daylight outside.I looked around vigilantly to see if there were any monsters left at night, because the dense leaves in the black forest would block the sunlight, and undead monsters like zombies and skeletons are afraid of the sun. They will catch fire all over and eventually die, while the thick foliage will allow them to find shelter from the sun.Spiders can't see clearly under strong light because of their dark-adapted eyes, so if you see them in the daytime, just don't provoke them, and they won't take the initiative to attack you.

Fortunately, I didn't find any monsters nearby, but I did see some items dropped by monsters after they died-the thread dropped by spiders after they died.

I put the thread away, and Bu Xin went to cut trees, because we didn't have enough wood.At this time, the black crystal ball in my backpack lit up, and a message came: "Congratulations, you have successfully survived to this day, then I will tell you how to start this 'game':
First of all, since you are willing to spend money to buy such an expensive virtual machine, it can be seen that you are already very addicted to this game.The virtual world is really wonderful, how many people have been entrapped!I warned you about it years ago, but you all took it as a joke.That being the case, you like this virtual world so much, so now, I will let you stay in this game forever.

Complete what I have entrusted to you, whoever completes more is more likely to quit. "

"Pretending to be a ghost!" I cursed.

But when I was listening to the message carefully, I didn't know that the danger was approaching.

A thunderous roar came, which startled me!
"Ei Ouyi, it's dangerous!"

I turned around and saw a green square face covered with cyan tumors, two eyes were round and deeply sunken black holes, and the corners of the two mouths were tilted exaggeratedly downwards, like a crying face.When the mouth is opened, there is also a black hole, and there seems to be a fire flickering inside.White smoke was coming out of its mouth and eyes, and the strong smell of gunpowder came to my nostrils... What I heard in my ears was the sound of "hissing" burning, but my brain became blank... …

(Yes, the cutest creature in MC has appeared!)

(End of this chapter)