"Even Endermen can be trapped!"
At the Research Institute, Dean Qi's eyes widened.
Witches and zombies at least followed certain scientific principles and walked along the ground.
Endermen were pure Magical Creations.
If you left them alone, that was one thing. But once you provoked them—
they'd fight to the death!
Their ability to teleport at any moment meant you never knew where they'd attack from next.
If you managed to hit one by chance, it wouldn't give you another opportunity to strike. It would teleport again immediately.
Even with top-notch gear, encountering one was a headache.
No matter how powerful your attack was, you still had to hit it. And the thing simply refused to fight you head-on!
Even with ranged weapons like bows, as soon as you loosed an arrow—
the Enderman would teleport away as if it had seen it coming. You simply couldn't hit it!
Figuring out how to kill Endermen was a problem that had stumped experts around the world.
Now, Gu Yu had provided the answer.
A tiny wooden boat could pin down these teleporting nuisances!
"Against their individual abilities, there really is no solution. But if it's a feature of the Block World..."
It might not be scientific, but it worked!
Even if it couldn't be used in the Block World later, could it be used in reality?
Just place a wooden boat nearby to stop monsters from invading when the monster penalty was triggered.
It would definitely greatly improve the survival rate of ordinary people!
In Hell, Yamamoto Rokuko stared at the scene, dumbfounded.
"Where does he keep finding all these weird features?"
From the Stone Generator to deflecting fireballs to wooden boats.
Could it really be an overwhelming advantage in intelligence?
"Definitely not. In the Samurai Nation, I'm recognized as exceptionally intelligent, one of the smartest people around!"
Otherwise, how could he have made it through the Hunter Civilization, obtained the Hunter's Bloodline through clever strategy, and earned rewards for his country?
He'd seen the candidates for this Large Civilization challenge!
Every country had sent its elite. At the very least, they'd all participated in a civilization challenge before, so the candidates had clearly been specially selected.
To stand out among the hundreds of millions of people in his country, he had to be capable!
He reassured himself like this.
"Since he's just arrived in Hell, he'll definitely get curious and head into the fortress up ahead!"
"I haven't explored it much myself, but the monsters inside... Huh?"
He'd found the Golden Apple outside the fortress.
Yamamoto Rokuko knew there were many monsters inside, and they were extremely dangerous, so he'd only explored a small part of it.
Just as he was about to predict what would happen to Gu Yu, he saw Gu Yu head to the edge of the area and pick up a stack of blocks.
"I knew it. He's relying on luck and picking up discarded junk. The people of the Nine Provinces really haven't seen anything good!"
Recognizing the Ancient Debris he'd thrown away, Yamamoto Rokuko secretly chuckled.
Sure enough, when it came to strength, he was still the better one.
Gu Yu was only good for picking up his trash!
"Wow, wild Ancient Debris?"
Going by his gaming experience, Ancient Debris was about as rare as diamonds. Gu Yu had thought it would take him a while to mine enough.
He hadn't expected—
"A whole forty pieces!"
He'd found almost a full stack right after entering Hell!
Judging by the mining marks, it definitely hadn't been there naturally. Someone else had discarded it here.
He didn't know who, but now that he'd found it, it was his!
Gu Yu felt as if he'd just found the Imperial Jade Seal at a roadside stall for two yuan.
This was amazing!
He set up a furnace right there and started smelting.
Each piece of Ancient Debris could be smelted into one Netherite Scrap. Four Netherite Scraps and four gold ingots could be crafted into one Netherite Ingot.
Sixty pieces of Ancient Debris could be smelted into ten Netherite Ingots.
That was just enough to upgrade his Diamond Armor and Diamond Pickaxe!
He'd brought plenty of gold ingots to trade with Piglins. Now he could forge an Alloy Set right away.
As he waited for the smelting to finish, the Bullet Comments flew fast and furious.
"What a loser. All he can do is pick up the trash our Samurai Nation doesn't want!"
"That stuff's heavy and useless. Yamamoto-kun wouldn't even use it as a stepstool!"
"You people are treating it like a treasure. This is hilarious!"
"Where'd this idiot come from? Can he just get lost?"
"Exactly. Who was the genius who spent all that time in Hell without even figuring out how to deflect fireballs?"
"You keep saying it's luck, but what use is picking up those trash blocks?"
"I'm with Yamamoto-kun on this one. If it's actually useful, I'll eat my desk!"
"A furnace? Wait, maybe it really is useful!"
At first, even the Nine Provinces viewers were a little confused by Gu Yu's trash-picking.
It didn't take long for them to see what Ancient Debris was really for.
Smelt it, then put it in the smithing table.
One Netherite Ingot could upgrade one piece of equipment, which you could then wear.
Ancient Debris was actually used to make armor after being smelted!
"Go on, keep talking! How come you're quiet now?"
"Hey, the guy who said he'd eat his desk—I remember your ID. Don't run away!"
"If I'm not mistaken, this stuff is unique to Hell. Its quality should be higher than diamond, right?"
"Definitely. You can tell it's something special just by looking at it!"
"Trash? That's obviously a divine artifact!"
"No way. Is the Samurai Nation so rich that it throws away armor more valuable than diamond?"
"Another overwhelming display of intelligence. Hahahaha!"
There was no need to think twice.
In a new dimension full of powerful monsters and gold, a rare mineral that could be made into armor had appeared.
How low could its quality possibly be?
"What an idiot!"
On the other side of the screen, Sato Taishi's face turned red with anger.
Thinking back over Yamamoto Rokuko's journey, he remembered all the Ancient Debris he'd come across without mining.
After finally mining a stack early on, he'd actually thrown it away and given it to Gu Yu?
Not knowing what it was for was one thing, but now Gu Yu was demonstrating how to use it right in front of him!
"You tried the Crafting Table, but didn't think to smelt it in a furnace?"
How could their Samurai Nation have someone so stupid?
Having witnessed everything in secret, Yamamoto Rokuko felt a little embarrassed.
He'd been in a hurry to get home, focused on finding obsidian, and had really forgotten about the furnace.
"It's fine. It was only a few pieces of Ancient Debris. I remember there are a few more around here that I haven't mined."
He found a familiar cave. Sure enough, there were five pieces of Ancient Debris inside.
He quickly mined them with his Diamond Pickaxe, then set up a furnace and smelted them using a lava bucket.
A few Netherite Scraps were smelted in no time.
The crafting recipes for weapons and armor all worked the same way. If you knew one, you could figure out the rest from the materials.
"Armor? Who doesn't know how to make that?"
Following the recipe for boots, he arranged the scraps in a V shape.
Then Yamamoto Rokuko was dumbfounded.
"Where's the armor?"
He'd clearly arranged the materials on the Crafting Table. Why couldn't he make boots?
Or was it because the name had the word "scrap" at the end?
When smelted, other ores became iron ingots or gold ingots, with the word "ingot" at the end.
Did Netherite also have to be turned into ingots before it could be used to make armor and weapons?
He'd guessed the answer, but Yamamoto Rokuko still couldn't bring himself to try.
Usually, you just smelted ores. Nobody had told him how to turn Netherite Scraps into Netherite Ingots!
Fortunately, the audience couldn't see his Crafting Table, so no one saw his predicament.
Yamamoto Rokuko pretended to cough twice, quietly put away the Netherite Scraps, and gave up crafting.
"Sure, the gear has become more powerful. But in Hell, does having strong gear really make you invincible?"
"Remember that skeleton? I can tell you for a fact that skeleton attacks ignore armor!"
Knowing that countless eyes were watching him, Yamamoto Rokuko turned the audience's attention elsewhere.
"Gu Yu doesn't have a Withered Body to protect him from lethal damage."
"The Wither effect kills instantly!"
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