"It seems like that makes some sense?"
"I was confused at first, but Smida's explanation cleared it right up!"
"He's only done those things, so the monsters must have started spawning in a different area because he changed the blocks!"
"Yeah, nobody else changed any blocks. He's the only one who did!"
"He got so lucky, building his stone house right in a monster-spawning area!"
"I thought he was really the player who understood the game best, but it turns out it was all luck!"
"Without luck, Gu Yu would be useless!"
"Right, he can't hold a candle to our handsome and dashing Gangcun-kun!"
The more the audience followed Park Sam-chang's line of thinking, the more convinced they became that he was right.
He didn't know how dangerous nighttime was, so he'd stayed outside. And he'd made his room a shoddy mess, without even a proper entrance or door.
Wasn't that textbook beginner behavior?
Since he was a beginner, he might have used a little ingenuity to make the Stone Generator.
But he definitely wouldn't understand the rules well enough to exploit the game mechanics!
Now that they understood what had happened, the audience began to wonder about something else.
Why had Park Sam-chang said Gu Yu wouldn't survive the night?
"Right now, he looks like he's crushing the warriors and putting the Free Nation in first place. He's really something."
"Take a good look at Gu Yu's island. Does he have any food?"
"He ate the last three apples ages ago. All he has left is stone!"
Park Sam-chang sneered, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Maybe this Kyushu player likes eating weird stuff. Perhaps he'll gobble down rotten flesh and stones?"
The player's hunger meter depleted depending on what they were doing. Once it hit zero, they'd suffer all kinds of negative effects and face a serious risk of starving to death!
Combat and mining were among the most exhausting activities, rapidly draining both stamina and hunger!
Rotten flesh looked like meat and could replenish hunger, but eating it also caused the Hunger effect.
The more the players ate, the hungrier they became, and their hunger drained even faster. It was no different from drinking seawater when thirsty—it only hastened their deaths!
In order to hold onto first place, he kept pushing himself until he was exhausted.
There was still a long time until morning. His only possible ending was death!
"Changing blocks is one possible explanation, of course, if we go by what Park Sam-chang said."
"Lost in the thrill of killing and climbing the rankings, Gu Yu is in a dangerous situation!"
Fries's expression changed dramatically.
When he first entered a civilization, he'd been terrified of zombies and the like, until he defeated them for the first time.
An overwhelming rush of joy had washed over him. He knew exactly what that feeling was like.
Especially now, with the rankings on the line. It was easy to get carried away by those emotions!
By the time you noticed, your stamina would already be gone. Then it would be too late!
But he'd used up his items in earlier rounds, and didn't have anything like a notice board. All he could do was worry.
As Gu Yu killed more and more monsters, his total climbed from a hundred to a hundred and fifty, then broke two hundred.
Mark and Jet gradually began to despair.
At first, they'd still been able to compete. But at this rate, Gu Yu might kill more than a thousand monsters by dawn.
What was the point of competing with him?
A thousand zombies! They could work themselves to death and still not catch up to half that!
"Damn Kyushu!"
Just as they were about to give up, a notice board suddenly appeared nearby.
It carried a message of encouragement.
[Don't give up! The first-place reward is extremely important!]
[The Kyushu player got lucky. He replaced blocks on his island, which caused monsters to spawn in the wrong place. He's out of food now!]
Mark stopped and turned to look at the monsters.
He knew full well there was a world of difference between the first-place and second-place rewards in the trial. First place meant gaining an advantage that ensured victory over the others.
If someone had gone to the trouble of using a precious notice board to tell him this, Gu Yu definitely couldn't hold out much longer!
"Jet, hang in there. Kyushu can't keep this up much longer."
"Victory will be ours in the end!"
Just as Park Sam-chang had predicted.
After hacking and hacking and hacking and hacking and hacking and hacking and hacking and hacking and hacking and hacking...
After who knew how long, Gu Yu started feeling ravenous. He was starving.
"I've killed more than two hundred zombies already?"
He glanced at the rankings and felt a little surprised.
He took back what he'd said about there being too few monsters. The spawn rate was much better than he'd expected.
Thanks to Steve's Hand, if he'd swung his arms a thousand times with his previous physique, he'd be too exhausted to lift them now.
But apart from being hungry, he felt incredible.
He could hack at another ten thousand zombies without getting tired.
This was the power of us block people!
"There really isn't any food on this original Skyblock island, and there aren't any tools for producing food either."
But just because there wasn't any food on the island didn't mean the zombies had none.
The drop rate was low. After killing two hundred zombies, he'd gotten only three potatoes in total.
With a drop rate of around one percent, they were about as rare as iron ingots.
Not many people killed this many zombies in one go. Seeing the potatoes reminded the audience.
"I remember now, zombies can drop food!"
"I remember two kinds: carrots and potatoes. But the drop rate is really low!"
"Is he planning to use the potatoes to stave off hunger?"
"Nice idea, but it's too late!"
"After all that fighting, I bet his hunger meter has already hit bottom, and each potato only fills half a bar!"
"Without a furnace to cook them, three raw potatoes only fill one and a half bars. That's nothing compared to the long night ahead!"
"Haha, the Free Nation is the true number one!"
Gu Yu knew perfectly well that potatoes didn't replenish much hunger.
That was why he'd never planned to eat them as they were.
If he could see the Bullet Comments outside, he would have asked:
"Have none of you ever farmed? Are you all just sitting around waiting for crops to mature on their own?"
Even an idiot should know you had to fertilize and water them, right?
Minecraft didn't need fertilizer or water. It had something more convenient.
Bone Meal.
He didn't even need a Crafting Table. He just put the bones dropped by the little white skeleton he'd killed into his four-slot personal crafting grid.
In no time, a model of a clump of compressed white powder appeared in his hand.
He placed a Grass Block beside the water source in the Stone Generator, then used wood to make a hoe.
After a few perfunctory swings, a perfectly neat patch of farmland took shape.
He planted the potatoes, and a small green sprout poked above the grass.
All he had to do now was sprinkle Bone Meal on it, and he could watch.
The green sprout began to grow, transforming from a tiny green shoot into a small potato plant, then growing bigger and ripening.
When the leaves grew above his head and he could clearly see potatoes beneath them, Gu Yu knew.
It was time to harvest!
He grabbed the stems and pulled. For every potato he planted, he harvested four.
Each potato plant yielded an average of three to four tubers. He planted three.
In an instant, he'd harvested eleven potatoes.
He ate a few to refill his hunger meter, then planted the rest.
Full of energy! Gu Yu was back in peak condition!
The Bullet Comments that had been flooding the screen fell silent, as if someone had pressed pause. The whole place went quiet.
"Magic! It's magic!"
"Gu Yu has magic! He made the potatoes grow!"
"Right, those green sparkles are proof of his magic!"
"Oh my God, I'm witnessing a miracle!"
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