The Linking Book

After wandering through the dim End for a while, Fang Mo jumped into the portal with little enthusiasm.

The desolate, lingering Poem of the End slowly played in Fang Mo's ears, accompanied by a brief moment of weightlessness and dizziness. When he opened his eyes again, he was already back in the Overworld.

"...Sigh."

Fang Mo let out a sigh, went straight home, and lay down on his bed for the first time in ages, closing his eyes.

This MC world he was in didn't seem to have those nether creatures like Phantoms, and Fang Mo, along with Steve, hadn't slept in a long time while grinding for progress.

Nothing happened that night.

The next day, the angular sun slowly rose.

Fang Mo woke up from bed, walked out of the room, and the warm sunlight spilled over him.

Under his mental command, Steve walked to the farmland, dug up some potatoes, and stuffed them into the Furnace to bake.

Fang Mo placed a wooden slab on the ground, sat at the door eating baked potatoes, and watched everything unfold before him. Steve had opened up another patch of farmland, this time planting Wheat—not for food, but to hold in hand and attract animals.

This world was as peaceful and tranquil as ever.

Nothing would happen, nothing would change, as if everything would remain forever still.

Time in the MC world flowed very quickly.

Even Fang Mo himself didn't know how long he had been living here.

His house had been expanded three times, and the farmland had grown from a simple potato patch into a farm of potatoes, Wheat, Carrots, and Beetroot. There was even a dedicated area for Nether Wart.

The ranch had also raised cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens.

Aside from not finding rabbits, Fang Mo had nearly collected all the livestock from vanilla survival.

Even the underground mines had been hollowed out by Steve, forcing Fang Mo to build a large underground warehouse to store all the ores and metal ingots in Chests.

On top of that, Fang Mo had even made an underground Oreberry Bush farm.

The Tinkers' Construct mod added something called Oreberry Bushes to the game. These bushes, after staying in the dark for a while, would automatically produce a metal nugget, and after harvesting, they would continue to grow.

Besides the regular Oreberry Bushes, Fang Mo also planted a special type of Experience Berry Bush.

This bush would produce a small cluster of experience berries every so often. Eating them wouldn't restore hunger but would increase experience points.

As everyone knows, Steve's experience points are useless for anything other than enchanting.

And because of that, Fang Mo made himself a fishing rod with Mending, Lure, and Sea's Favor, spending every day sitting at the door fishing and daydreaming.

Fang Mo thought this kind of life would go on forever.

Until one day, Steve brought him a surprise from a Dungeon Chest again.

It was a strange book page.

"Huh? This is..."

Upon discovering this odd item, Fang Mo was taken aback.

The item was called a Linking Panel Page, and its suffix was Mystcraft, not Minecraft.

Fang Mo already had the Chinese Language Mod installed, so he instantly Recognized that the suffix corresponded to The Lost Cities Mod.

"A Linking Panel Page?"

Fang Mo frowned, trying to recall how this thing was used.

Unfortunately, he knew very little about The Lost Cities Mod; at most, he had only played it casually. Suddenly, he couldn't figure out what this thing was for.

But not knowing right away wasn't a problem.

Fang Mo had nearly infinite time to figure it out.

"A Linking Panel Page..."

Fang Mo pondered its specific use while fishing: "Right-clicking it does nothing. A page... a page... so it's just one page from a book. Since it's not a complete book, it can't be used?"

Thinking this, Fang Mo seemed to vaguely grasp a clue.

"A Linking Panel Page... Linking... Panel Page..."

Fang Mo rubbed his chin thoughtfully: "The name has 'Linking' in it... Wait, could this be a page from a Linking Book?"

At that thought, Fang Mo instantly perked up.

The Lost Cities Mod has two books, as mentioned before. The Age Book allows players to travel to other worlds. The golden book in Fang Mo's hand, titled 'Marvel Comics', was an Age Book.

As for the other book in The Lost Cities Mod, the Linking Book, it was a convenient teleportation scroll that allowed players to return to the Overworld.

The reason Fang Mo hadn't used the Age Book called 'Marvel Comics' again was that he was afraid of getting lost in the Marvel Universe.

After all, the chance of getting a Scroll of Town Portal from a Lucky Block was too low, and Fang Mo didn't want to gamble.

But now it was different. If Fang Mo had a Linking Book in hand, then without a doubt, the Marvel world would become his backyard.

Being able to freely travel between two worlds...

What a wonderful thing that would be.

After living countless days and nights in the MC world, Fang Mo had to admit that he was ultimately not Steve. He was a living, breathing person, and sometimes a sense of loneliness would indeed creep into his heart.

He craved interaction and communication with others.

Because only that could fill the inexplicable emptiness inside him.

"Hmm... looks like it's time to challenge the Crafting Table." Holding the Linking Panel Page, Fang Mo fixed his gaze on the Crafting Table not far away.

Facing his lifelong nemesis, a fierce fighting spirit burned in Fang Mo's eyes.

This time, Fang Mo took inspiration from the original book's crafting method.

In his reasoning, since it was a book, it must be leather binding the pages, right? That's how the original book worked—leather sandwiching paper. So now, all he had to do was replace the paper with Linking Book Pages.

With that thought, Fang Mo directly killed a few cows, took a deep breath, and then patiently crouched in front of the Crafting Table, beginning an endless cycle of trial and error.

To be fair, Fang Mo was exceptionally lucky this time.

After dozens of experiments, he finally succeeded in crafting a Grey Book.

"Success!"

Seeing the 'Unlinked Book' in Steve's hand, Fang Mo couldn't help but laugh uproariously.

After the initial joy subsided, Fang Mo quickly had Steve take the Unlinked Book. The two of them jogged all the way back to his bedroom, where he had Steve right-click the book.

With a slight shift in Fang Mo's thoughts, an invisible force surged out from the Grey Book. This force instantly anchored the spatial coordinates of the location, and then the book's cover turned a pale green.

The next second, the book's name changed from 'Unlinked Book' to 'Linking Book'.