'Da, da, da'

In the underground passage, which was illuminated by the firelight and was finally a little bright, there was a sound of footsteps from the depths, and if you listened carefully, the footsteps were a little messy, and it was obvious that it was not a person. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Accompanied by torches along the way, Akai and I had already reached the depths of the earth, and I knew that our underground journey had only now truly begun.

"It's dark." I stuck a torch in the crevice of the rock wall, thinking about looking at the still dark mine in front of me, like a big mouth, constantly devouring the creatures that wanted to enter.

Akai was next to me, and it had been two hours since we had come down from the ground.

Now ahead of us is the place that Akai had explored the previous week, and right here, the torches stretching all the way to the end.

However, it is better to have me and Akai with me now than to explore alone in solitude.

"There's a lot of forks in the road... Well, that's where I stopped." Akai pointed ahead.

In the faint glow of the torches, I could vaguely see that the pitch-black cavern ahead seemed to divide into several forks.

Among them, there is a fork in the road that goes up, but if you want to go up to that fork, you have to use something to pad your feet, because it is not connected to our mine.

The other two roads are extended downwards. One passage is steep and dangerous to go down, while the other is much gentle.

"So... what now?" Akai stopped and asked my opinion.

I looked at the uneven rock wall, looked around, and saw that the space in this place was quite large, and the passage here suddenly widened to twice the length of the road we had walked before.

"Let's build a temporary stronghold here, it's a nice place, and there's a fork in front of it." Out of an abundance of caution, I decided to build a stronghold here.

There aren't many materials and tools needed for a simple base.

A couple of beds, a workbench (or a tool table is fine, it's all the same thing anyway), and then a stone seal on both sides and a door on both sides would be fine.

Oh, and a chest and a stove.

Such a simple stronghold is complete. As for the bed, we used scissors to shear the sheep every day.

At present, we have only seen sheep in the animals of this world, but the appearance of these sheep is not flattering, and they are still square in general. But the wool is a good wool, at least soft enough. Then use enough wool and planks to craft a bed out of the tool table. Of course, we didn't have anything like cloth, and we didn't know how to get it, so we didn't have a quilt to cover when we went to bed.

Fortunately, from the current season, it should still be spring, so the weather is basically warm, and we haven't considered the problem of heating for the time being, but I have also secretly written down this matter, and I will find a way to solve this problem in the future.

After a busy while, we set up our first underground stronghold here.

I took out the clock from my backpack and checked the time, the yellow circle representing the sun was a little above the horizon, which meant that it was evening, and it would be dark in a short time.

Since we have a lot of supplies in the mine belt this time, we can explore this place for about two days, and then we have to go up to the surface because of the supply problems.

By that time, it is expected that the wheat will be ripe and ready for a second sowing.

As for the lighting underground, I have prepared nearly two hundred torches, so I don't have to worry about anything at all.

With this place in mind, we began to choose where to go.

"How to choose?" I pointed to the two paths below. Actually, I'm more inclined to go down, because all the good things are underground.

"Let's get some sesame seeds!" Akai thought about it for a long time before he came up with this idea.

“=。 = I pour. ”

After some discussion, we decided to continue going down and chose a route that looked like a larger cave, which was on the left.

―――――― dividing line of all evils――――――

"Akai, we should be on the right route, right?" It's been a while and I've always felt a little weird, this road.

It should be explained that it was clearly a downward road, but now it is going upward.

"Do you want to go back?" Akai asked for my opinion.

The walls along the way were already filled with torches, so we didn't have to worry about monsters sneaking up in the dark, and it was currently a one-way street.

Fortunately, at the current level of the world, there will be no cheating incidents such as mining accidents, and there is oxygen underground, so there is no need to worry about the lack of oxygen, and there is no dangerous area such as flammable and explosive gas or biogas. That's why we two rookies dare to explore underground.

After thinking about it for a while, we decided to move on, after all, we were all here, and it would be useless to go back.

The underground is an endless treasure trove, and as long as you dare to explore, there is always something to gain.

This is a very true phrase here.

All in all, when we came to the end of this road, that is, when we came to the end of the road, we had a decent harvest in this mine.

Half a group of coal, a dozen pieces of iron ore.

Now, it's time to set off back to the stronghold, and then decide whether or not to explore the other two paths.

"The harvest is not bad, Akai." I carried a stone pickaxe and walked side by side with Akai. The temperature underground is much cooler than above ground, and the further you go underground, the colder it gets.

Although we don't have to worry about oxygen and food, we can't do anything except the cold, and now I estimate that it is 300 to 400 meters underground, but the temperature has dropped by about 10 degrees compared to the outside. It took us a while to get used to the temperature.

However, I have to say...

It's very cool!

The summer resort is underground.

That is to say, the summer is cool, and the winter is crooked~

We are able to withstand temperatures of about -10 degrees Celsius at most, and we are able to move around smoothly at this temperature.

In other words, without any high-tech equipment, we can explore the depths of the earth, which is a thousand meters underground, which is the limit, after all, we are mortals, aren't we?

Like that kind of unscientific thing that goes deeper than three thousand meters underground, what kind of cultivation in the center of the earth, punching lava monsters, and kicking deep-sea monsters can only appear in the Fantasy Immortal.

Hawkers,Are you disappointed in the abilities of the protagonists? Just 1,000 meters of the horse...

The teenagers who look down on such a weak protagonist face me wall! No, I'm going to climb the mountain, bastard! Even if it's a small hill of a few hundred meters, a little steeper one can be tiring you believe it or not!

If it weren't for the fact that the world still retains most of the game's features, we would have had a problem mining and cutting down trees.

Not to mention the super hard items in the future. For example, obsidian can only be pried off with a diamond pickaxe, and the hardness of other manuscripts is not good at all, and it is the kind that has no reaction at all when smashed.

Well, in short, that's the thing, mortals always have limits.

The reason why man can stand tall in all things is not because of how strong he is, but because he has wisdom and can strengthen and make up for his shortcomings with tools, so he can hunt poisonous snakes and beasts that are countless times stronger than himself with weapons, and block invaders with strong houses and castles.

Of course, there are only two people in this world now, me and Akai.

By the time we returned to the base, it was nearly seven o'clock in the evening.

Our base is about 150 meters underground, which is very cool, cooler than the temperature on the ground, but about the level of the most comfortable temperature for the human body.

After putting the iron ore in the furnace and burning it with the coal we had dug up, Akai and I sat down on the bed to rest.

Naturally, the underground is a dull place of dry grass, surrounded by unchanging rough rock walls, and the four walls are filled with torches. Because the dim light of the torches becomes very weak after a certain distance, it is necessary to insert more torches to keep the room bright.

Fortunately, these torches are very unscientific, just like ever-bright lamps, which can burn infinitely, but the light is a little weaker, but it makes the otherwise cold underground much warmer.

The wheat I planted on the ground is almost ripe, after all, I sprinkled fertilizer to make the wheat grow faster.

As for the fertilizer, it's the golden carat, which is bone meal, and the bones dropped by the skeleton archers are ground into bone meal and sprinkled to serve as fertilizer.

Doesn't that sound unscientific... Don't care about the details, the world is so unscientific.

Talking about science in a world full of squares is too too young, too simple for Tucson.

After a short break, we waited for the iron ore to burn out, in small talk.

"Akai, what should I do with these iron ores?" Pushing my glasses, I looked at the stove with a calm face, and the flames in the stove kept churning and rising, and then the sound of melting came from inside.

"Hmm, we should have made another weapon, after all, our equipment was almost broken during yesterday's blood moon." Akai took out the iron sword from his backpack, looked at it and saw that it was already covered with chopping gaps, gaps, and said to me.

I nodded, "Well, yes, after all, these iron swords are synthesized directly in the tool table, and we don't have the technology to refine them, so if you cut too much, they will be broken." ”

Although the tool table is almost a one-size-fits-all product, it still has great limitations, it can only make things, not perfection!

In other words, if we want to obtain a high-quality equipment, we have to rely on other means to obtain, or to build.

This reminds me of a tool in the game.

Anvil!

It is an expensive item that is affected by gravity.

It can be used to repair items, merge item enchantments, and rename items (not just weapons and armor) by spending XP.

Secondly, the anvil has a complete system for calculating empirical values. The placement of tools in the panel and the amount of repair durability will affect how much XP is consumed.

Suffice it to say, it's not worth it to repair a tool, but at the very least, the materials and experience required to repair a tool or weapon are enough for me to build another one.

I don't know the specifics, because we don't have enough iron to make anvils right now.

Because you need 31 iron ingots to make an anvil, you need to use 27 iron ingots to craft 3 iron blocks (1 iron bar = 9 iron ingots, which can be reverse-crafted, so you don't have to worry about wasting anything)

After that, it can be made in the tool table according to the following arrangement:

Iron nuggets iron nuggets iron nuggets

Iron ingots

Iron ingotsIron ingots

・・・It's a luxury...

"There's enough iron for me to make a whole set of iron, and the anvil is a chicken rib."

Well, having said that, if you get rich in the future, you might consider making an anvil.

Because although the anvil is chicken, it has a very important function that can be matched with the enchantment table, which will be explained later, after all, we don't even have diamonds, so we can't make an enchantment table, so I don't think about it anymore.

・・・

It takes a lot of time to wait for the iron ore to burn out, and how the steel is made.

At the beginning, the more than 30 pieces of iron we dug in the mine had to be burned overnight, and although the amount was much less, it was also burned until the middle of the night.

"Let's go to bed first, I'm sleepy..." I got up and walked towards the door, and before I went to sleep, I locked the door firmly and reinforced it with a layer, which can effectively improve the safety factor.

"Ahh Then I'll go to sleep first. "Akai, this thing has no heart and lungs, and he fell asleep first.

After all, the world is still too deserted, so much so that most of the time we are talking to ourselves, or constantly trying to live a better life.

"Why don't you take a break one day and go fishing with Akai..."

The eighth day was spent safely.