Linking Book

After wandering the dim End for a while, Fang Mo lost interest and jumped into the portal.

The desolate, distant Poem of the End slowly played beside Fang Mo's ears. Accompanied by a moment of weightlessness and dizziness, he opened his eyes again to find himself back in the Overworld.

"...Sigh."

Fang Mo sighed, went straight home, and finally lay down on his bed, closing his eyes.

The MC world he was in seemed to lack creatures as cursed as Phantoms. And in order to grind progression, Fang Mo and Steve had not slept for a very long time.

Nothing happened that night.

The next day, the sharp-edged Sun slowly rose.

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

Under the command of Fang Mo's thoughts, Steve headed toward the fields, dug up some Potatoes, and stuffed them into the furnace to bake.

Fang Mo placed a wooden stair on the ground and sat by the door, eating baked Potatoes as he watched everything unfold before him. Steve opened up another plot of farmland, planting wheat this time—not for food, but to hold in his hand and lure animals.

This world was as tranquil and peaceful as ever.

Nothing would happen. Nothing would change. It was as though everything would remain forever undisturbed.

Time passed incredibly quickly in the MC world.

Even Fang Mo himself did not know how long he had lived here.

His house had already been expanded three times. The farmland had grown from a simple Potato field into a farm of Potatoes, wheat, Carrots, and Beetroots. There was even a dedicated area for growing Nether Wart.

The pasture now housed cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, and other livestock.

Aside from rabbits, Fang Mo had gathered nearly every livestock animal available in vanilla survival.

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

Besides that, Fang Mo had even built an underground berry bush farm.

Tinkers' Construct added something called Oreberry Bushes to the game. As long as they remained in darkness for a while, they would automatically grow a metal nugget, and after being harvested, they would continue growing.

Besides ordinary Oreberry Bushes, Fang Mo had also planted a special kind of experience berry bush.

These bushes would produce small clusters of experience berries after a period of time. Eating them did not restore hunger, but it did increase experience points.

As everyone knew, Steve's experience points had no use other than enchanting.

And because of that, Fang Mo made himself a fishing rod with Mending, Lure, and Sea's Favor. Every day, he would squat at the door, fish, and stare blankly into space.

Fang Mo had originally thought days like this would last forever.

Until one day, Steve brought him another surprise from a dungeon Chest.

It was a strange page.

"Hm? This is..."

Fang Mo froze for a moment when he discovered the strange item.

It was called a Linking Panel, and its item suffix was Mystcraft rather than Minecraft.

Fang Mo already had the Chinese Language Mod, so he instantly recognized that the suffix belonged to The Lost Cities Mod.

"Linking Panel Page?"

Fang Mo frowned and tried to recall how this thing was used.

Unfortunately, he knew very little about The Lost Cities Mod. At most, he had only played around with it briefly. Caught off guard like this, he truly could not remember what it was for.

But it did not matter if he could not figure it out right away.

Fang Mo had nearly unlimited time to study it.

"Linking Panel Page..."

As Fang Mo fished, he pondered its specific function. "Right-clicking it does nothing. A page... a page... So this is only one page from a certain book? Since it isn't a complete book, it can't be used?"

Thinking that, Fang Mo seemed to have vaguely found a clue.

"Linking Panel Page... linking... panel page..."

Fang Mo stroked his chin thoughtfully. "It has the word 'linking' in its name... Wait, could this be a page from a Linking Book?"

At that thought, Fang Mo instantly perked up.

Mystcraft had two books, something mentioned before. An Age Book could allow players to travel to other worlds. The Golden Book in Fang Mo's hands, the one marked 'Marvel Comics,' was an Age Book.

As for Mystcraft's other book, the Linking Book—

It was a convenient teleportation scroll that could return players to the Overworld.

The reason Fang Mo had not used the Age Book called 'Marvel Comics' again was that he feared getting lost in the Marvel Universe.

After all, the odds of drawing a Scroll of Town Portal from a Lucky Block were far too low. Fang Mo did not want to gamble.

But things were different now. If Fang Mo had a Linking Book in his hands, then without question, the Marvel world would become his backyard.

Being able to travel freely between two worlds...

What a wonderful thing that would be.

After living in the MC world through countless days and nights, Fang Mo had to admit that he was not Steve. He was a living, breathing person, and sometimes a sense of loneliness truly arose within him.

He longed to interact and communicate with other people.

Because only then could he fill that unsolvable emptiness in his heart.

"Mm... 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 the enemy of his life, a faint fighting spirit burned in Fang Mo's eyes.

This time, Fang Mo referred to how books were made in vanilla.

In his view, since it was a book, it had to be leather holding pages together. That was how vanilla books were made, with leather sandwiching paper in the middle. So all he needed to do now was replace the paper with Linking Panel Pages.

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

It had to be said that Fang Mo's luck was exceptionally good this time.

After several dozen attempts, he finally successfully crafted a Grey Book.

"Success!"

Seeing the 'Unlinked Book' in Steve's hand, Fang Mo could not help throwing back his head and laughing.

After his joy subsided, Fang Mo quickly had Steve carry the Unlinked Book. The two hurried all the way back to his bedroom, where Fang Mo had Steve right-click the book.

With a slight shift of Fang Mo's thoughts, an invisible power poured from the Grey Book. It instantly anchored the coordinates of this space, and the book's cover then turned pale green.

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