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Latis gently tapped the tree trunk a few times, and after confirming that nothing was wrong, he laughed and patted the trunk, saying:
"How could I believe in such supernatural phenomena? Haha, even other worlds have to abide by basic laws... I'm totally super!"
He stared blankly at the wooden block floating on the ground and the tree with a gap in the middle, and shouted in terror:
"Holy crap, Newton? Physics really doesn't exist anymore!"
……
For reasons unknown, Latis smashed the tree into small blocks from top to bottom before finally letting out a sigh of relief.
"I feel much better now..."
He picked up the piece of wood, scratched his head, and asked:
"Miss Soul, is this wood? Do you know how to use it?"
After hesitating for a few seconds, Miss Soul finally spoke:
"...I remember this wooden block, it seems it can be turned directly into planks, and then you can put them together to make a workbench?"
"Turn directly into wooden planks?"
Latis paused, frowned as he looked at the wooden blocks, then suddenly exerted force in his hand, and several planks fell down.
"...This is so unscientific!" He was silent for a while, then picked up the wooden board, squatted down with his brain boiling, and arranged the board in a circle.
A cube-shaped workbench appeared in front of him.
"Haha, I completely understand now! I've got it! I've got it!"
Latis burst into maniacal laughter with a dazed expression. After a long while, he shook his head, looked at the grid on the workbench, and hesitantly placed the wooden board on it.
"What should we make first... a pickaxe?"
He confidently placed a vertical plank, and when he realized he didn't have enough planks, he placed a wooden block on each of the top left and right sides.
"I wonder if they only have the original recipes..."
With a flash of light, a tool with spherical hammers embedded at both ends appeared before our eyes.
"They can actually build it? This thing looks like a hammer..."
Latis picked up the tool, examined the hard, spherical hammer, and scratched his head.
"I don't know why, but I have a strange sense of déjà vu... Oh well."
Suddenly, a series of wolf howls caught Latis's attention. He looked in the direction from which the howls came and frowned.
"Let's hide for now... No, wait!"
His ears twitched slightly, as if he could hear the sound of swords amidst the howls of wolves!
Chapter 118 Pulling Someone's Glutes to Catch a Blade Barehanded
After a rapid run, you see a pink-haired boy confronting a pack of wolves. After parrying several attacks, he pulls out a bone.
He seemed to be trying to stuff the bone into the wolf's mouth, but the wolf resisted to the death. The pink-haired boy was very puzzled. He hit the wolf's head a few times with the bone, and after confirming that it was useless, he silently put the bone away.
"Hey, whose wolf eats bones? It's not a dog!" you couldn't help but complain.
The pink-haired boy glanced at you in surprise, then his expression changed to one of sudden realization. He then retracted the bone, took out some meat, and after several hearts appeared on the wolf's head, you watched in disbelief as collars appeared around their necks. In an instant, the wolves transformed into dogs.
["Damn it..." You were speechless. Just as you were about to approach the pink-haired boy to ask him something, you saw him, undeterred, pull out another bone and stuff it directly into the dog's mouth.]
You remained silent for a moment, then rationally abandoned further thought and stepped forward to approach him, intending to engage him in conversation.
"Uh... hello?" Latis stuck out his butt, about to ask for directions, when an excited voice rang in his mind.
“Mr. Latis! I sense a familiar aura in this child; he may very well be my descendant!”
"Yes, yes, but I can't just ask someone directly, 'What's your great-grandmother's name?'... But let's ask where he's going next; maybe it's on his way?"
As this thought crossed Latis's mind, he saw the pink-haired boy stick out his rear end and say:
"Hey friend, your style seems a bit different. Are you from out of town?"
“Ah.” Latis paused for a moment, then said:
"Yes... Oh right, I wanted to ask if there are any villages or towns around here? Are you a local living nearby?"
“I’m not one of those soulless villagers,” the boy said. “I’ve traveled all the way from the edge of the continent to the Kingdom of Mojito to participate in the strongest farmer competition. Look, I’ve trained a few dogs so they can help me kill skeletons at night.”
"Kill skeletons?" Latis was taken aback again. "Why would you kill those things? Are you trying to farm achievements?"
"What achievement?" the boy asked疑惑地, waving his right hand incessantly. Each wave caused a dog to sit or stand up. Finally, he nodded in satisfaction and said:
"Skulls are a very important source of fertilizer. I hope I can find a monster spawner someday, then I can definitely become the strongest farmer!"
"Okay, being prepared... So what exactly is this Strongest Farmer Competition? Is it a competition to grow crops?" Latis scratched his head, watching the boy make all the dogs stand up, and followed his steps as he asked.
"No, it seems to be a competition that tests overall abilities, right?"
Different cubes appeared in the boy's hand one after another, finally settling on the obsidian. He stared at the obsidian, shook his head, and said:
"Actually, my great-grandfather told me that my family used to come from the Kingdom of Mojito. He said that his sister used to be the current queen's mentor, but after his sister disappeared, the queen gradually lost contact with our family. This time, he asked me to become the strongest farmer and then meet the queen to question her about this matter in person."
“Damn…” Latis, enduring the spirit girl’s inner screams of “I think I remember!”, asked:
Would you mind if I went with you to participate in that kind of competition?
The boy paused, hesitated for a moment, and then said:
"It's possible, but the journey could be very dangerous..."
"It's nothing! It's just a bit dangerous. Life is like your menstrual cycle; the safe period only lasts a few days, and most of the time it's dangerous!"
Latis gave a thumbs up and laughed heartily.
The boy remained silent for a moment. Although his expression didn't change, you could sense a faint sense of regret lingering in his heart.
After some conversation with the boy, you learn that his name is Api, a master of wilderness survival, his great-grandfather is a somewhat mysterious noble farmer, and his great-grandfather's sister is said to be a powerful magic warrior named something like Pockmarked...
"Ahhh! It's Mu Zhi! It's Mu Zhi!" Miss Soul screamed frantically in your mind, finally begging you pitifully not to call her that. After teasing her a bit, you thought for a moment and decided to call her "Mu Mu" from now on.
[Through the combined chanting of Mumu and Api, you gradually piece together the story from back then.]
[It turns out that decades ago, the Kingdom of Mojito was just a large town pieced together from several villages. At that time, in order to resist the monsters that appeared at night, the people began to study manufacturing techniques. Eventually, relying on the tools and construction techniques of the Iron Age, they successfully built the first city on this land.]
Although the world of the blocky people is vast, and this land is only a tiny corner of it, to the locals who have never set foot on the ocean, this city is the largest city in the world.
Based on Mumu's limited memories, you have learned that the current Queen Pallas was a very well-behaved student in her childhood, and under Mumu's tutelage, she tirelessly fought against the monster that appeared out of nowhere every night.
It was through the efforts of the master and apprentice that the city grew larger and larger, and more and more people sought refuge, eventually forming the Kingdom of Mojito.
"But actually, I don't drink alcohol. My favorite drink is warm milk. But with that little guy looking at me with such admiration, it would have been too embarrassing to say I didn't drink!" Mumu kept repeating in your mind. "Sigh, but I regretted it later! Every time I came back from an operation, there was always a cup of prepared mojito at home, and I could only force myself to drink it under that little guy's gaze..."
"Big sister, I have a feeling you've been teased by your apprentice..." This thought crossed your mind, but listening to Mu Mu's enthusiastic recollection, you felt too embarrassed to say it aloud and break the atmosphere.
"Anyway, I don't remember what happened after that. It seems like we discovered something, and then I planned to go somewhere to explore..." A rumbling sound echoed in your mind, and Mumu cried out in a muffled voice, "My brain, my brain! I can't remember!"
"Fine, you're fine as you are..." you couldn't help but mutter, then suddenly your eyes lit up. You quickly patted Api on the shoulder and pointed into the distance, shouting, "Look, a village!"
Api jumped up and down on the spot, and after a moment of contemplation, said, "It's getting late. If we're lucky, we might be able to find a place to stay, but we still need to be prepared to build a tortoise-style fortification."
[While you were still reeling from the realization that the Turtle Flow strategy was indeed an eternal truth, strange noises suddenly emanated from the approaching village. Amidst the sounds of "Hmph~ Ah?" and "Hah~", you watched as a group of villagers with identical, ghostly faces turned to look at you from within the village, and suddenly felt a sharp pain in your eyes.]
"A soulless wretch," Api shook his head and muttered.
You stepped forward and, under the villagers' wise gazes, gestured to express your desire to stay in the village. However, after exchanging glances for a moment, the villagers simply shook their heads.
"Why?! I wouldn't cheat on you with your wives!" you demanded angrily. Honestly, this was the first time you'd said this with such genuine feeling; after all, looking at that row of faces, you couldn't even tell which one was a woman.
"It's alright, let's go." Api was quite calm. He shrugged and led you and the dog away. You walked to an open space, and seeing Api start digging, you couldn't help but ask him something out of curiosity.
"Oh, you're curious about the villagers?"
Api pounded the ground, listened to your words, picked up the blasted dirt block, and stood up.
"Well... there were very few people like this before..." He took out a piece of coal, stuck it into a wooden board, then raised the assembled torch and said leisurely:
“My great-grandfather said that people used to be like me, wandering around, digging up trees and killing monsters. But after his sister and the queen established the kingdom, people probably gathered in the royal city. So, there were more and more villages and villagers like this in the wild. How should I put it? Although they look similar to humans, they are ultimately just a bunch of shells.”
"what?"
Latis scratched his head and started punching the ground like Appi, asking as he did so:
"Did these villagers just appear out of thin air?"
"It didn't exactly appear out of thin air, but although there are clues to follow, it's still very strange." Api shook his head and added:
"Personally, I feel that the villagers and the monsters are somewhat similar. They are both mindless creatures that follow a fixed trajectory and repeat themselves, confined to a fixed area."
"Monster? Are you familiar with monsters?"
Upon hearing Latis's question, Appi jumped into the newly dug hole. After confirming that the hole was about the same height as him, he dug away a block of soil in front of him and jumped out onto the resulting steps.
“You’ll see it soon enough,” Appi said to Latis, who had also jumped into the pit.
"That's why I'm rushing to build the turtle-style fortification. Yes, after you dig down two blocks, you can jump out by digging down the block in front of you... Huh?"
Watching Latis rise straight up from the ground, gracefully rotate in the air, and land smoothly, he couldn't help but ask the first question of his life:
"What... what kind of operation is this?"
"Basic stuff, don't be silly, sit down." Latis laughed, then suddenly did a backflip followed by an aerial split, a landing roll, and a slide tackle, sliding sideways to Api's side, propping his head up with one hand and asking:
"How about it, handsome, right?"
Appi glanced at Latis, then at his own cube hand, took a deep breath, and jumped up suddenly.
...He only jumped one meter high.
“I can’t do it?” Api sighed and said, “You outsiders are really amazing.”
After a flurry of activity, you successfully constructed a turtle-style fortification. Once you'd sealed the space above your head with mud blocks, you couldn't help but exclaim, "I feel like a third dark cloud is drifting down from the top of the edifice of physics..."
After Api finished digging through your tunnel, he had the dogs sit on the ground, then planted a torch and said to you, "Actually, there's another type of surface-based tunnel, the 'turtle-style' tunnel, but because there's a type of monster called a 'Creeper' that explodes upon seeing a person, I chose this underground one."
He suddenly turned to look at the open space above him and said softly, "I hear footsteps. In this open space, the monsters will fall down one level. We can hit them, but they can't hit us. But you have to be careful, there's a kind of baby zombie that might get into the fortifications..."
Before the words were even finished, you saw Api pull out a wooden sword and fiercely chop at the leg of the zombie wearing blue pants that had fallen in front of him. After several slashes, the zombie let out a muffled wail and turned into a piece of rotting flesh.
You take a deep breath, and amidst the cracking sounds of skulls colliding, you pull out your double-hammered mallet and smash it down on the skull's leg. With a soft cracking sound, you find a bone and an arrow.
"Oh, so your tool is a double-headed hammer..."