A little over two hours later, Fang Bie returned to the mountaintop with a Stone Sword in his hand that had already lost half its durability. His exhausted spirits immediately lifted!
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Earlier, he had only leveled out part of the hill, clearing a space of about four hundred square meters.
Since MC didn't really care about physics, he had actually built many of his blocks in midair. Luckily, there were no coffins in his world, so he didn't have to worry about holding Newton's coffin lid down.
But he'd only been gone for two hours. How had the mountaintop changed beyond recognition?
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The area he'd set aside for growing trees had changed. The few Oak Trees that had already grown had been cut down, and a row of Saplings had been planted farther away.
His tiny little wooden shack had also doubled in size. It now had a doorway framed with Stone, and someone had even gone to the trouble of putting a sloping roof on it.
Before, the house he'd built had been little more than a box someone could live in. Now, it looked like a proper wooden cabin.
Yinsen stood not far from the cabin, holding a Wooden Plank and seeming to ponder something.
Some blocks were piled up in front of him. Across from them, the playboy Tony Stark was firing at the blocks with a strange gun that seemed to be made of mechanical parts and wires.
"Tony, Stone can withstand gunfire fairly well. Wood can hold up too, but it'll be damaged quickly. Wooden Planks, on the other hand, are easily pierced by bullets, so they probably can't be used to defend against attacks. But there seems to be a problem with our gun. It won't fire..."
Yinsen held a notebook and wrote down his observations in detail as he spoke. But Tony raised a hand to stop him.
When Yinsen looked up in confusion, Tony casually set the gun down on the Wooden Planks and walked toward Fang Bie.
Fang Bie still looked wary. He couldn't bring himself to completely trust a stranger. Even the fact that the two men were speaking English while they chatted seemed like a way to keep him in the dark.
Still, compared with the hostility of their first meeting, they could now talk to each other fairly amicably. Fang Bie gave his wrist a slight flick and put the sword away in his Backpack.
"Fang, we've made some pretty major changes to your home. I hope you don't mind," Tony said. When the playboy set aside his usual airs, he was a pretty good friend.
Fang Bie shook his head. "Of course not. If I minded, I wouldn't have let you modify my house."
He glanced up at the sky, but didn't ask about the gun experiment they'd been doing. "It's getting late. Let's get inside. We'll be in trouble once it gets dark!"
"Sure!" Tony nodded, beckoned to Yinsen, then opened the nearby door.
Fang Bie hadn't taught them how to make doors, but he'd left one behind earlier, so the wall still had the door he'd placed there.
On the other side of the room, the Stone portal still stood firm, unchanged.
"I found some carrots and ordinary mushrooms. We can have some Mushroom Stew tonight, or make something like carrot-roasted meat," Fang Bie said with a smile. But before he could finish, his expression suddenly tightened!
Tony watched his face change in confusion. Before he could react, Fang Bie suddenly moved.
He rushed forward and shoved Tony aside, then shut the door without hesitation. His fingers trembled slightly, and a Stone Sword appeared in his hand.
"What?" Tony blurted out. He pressed a hand to his chest, where the small generator still glowed blue, and looked at Fang Bie's grave expression and Yinsen's almost ghost-struck face. Then he turned around, suspicion written across his own.
"Hiss!" Even Tony couldn't help drawing in a sharp breath.
He no longer cared why Fang Bie had suddenly shoved him to the ground. Right behind the closed wooden door, a grotesque monster with a square head was slamming wildly into the doorframe.
Its nose was several times larger than an ordinary person's, and its whole body was a dark bluish green. Though it didn't look human, it still had unmistakable human features.
"What is that thing?" Tony asked as he got back to his feet. He was still recovering from his injuries, and his condition wasn't great. After taking that hard knock, he leaned weakly against the wall.
"That's the Zombie I told you about earlier. They're monsters in this world, and they spawn automatically in dark places. When you built this house, did you forget to put up Torches?" Fang Bie quickly figured out what had happened.
Then he remembered something else. "You didn't know how to craft Torches, either. I should have explained it more clearly. Never mind. Let's kill this monster first, then we can go inside and talk!"
Fang Bie took another careful look through the doorway. The house wasn't very large, and he could make out three or four Zombies behind the door, their heads faintly visible. He couldn't see Little White or any Creepers, so there probably weren't any.
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"Th-this monster... does it have any weaknesses? Is it like the creatures in Eastern legends, with bodies as hard as steel and impervious to blades and bullets?" Yinsen was a scholar who knew most of the world's languages, and he'd studied subjects like this before.
He quickly thought of the terrifying creatures described in the books he'd read and asked, trembling.
Fang Bie smiled. "Don't worry. These monsters can be killed. Follow my lead. When one comes out, we'll all hack it to death together!"
He pulled a Crafting Table out of his Backpack and set it on the ground. Then he used the materials he had left to make two Stone Swords and handed them to the other two men.
"These monsters aren't actually very strong. If each of us hits one once, that should be enough to kill it. But there's one thing you must remember: don't let them hit you. Their attacks won't turn me into a monster, but if they hit you, they might turn you into Zombies!"
Fang Bie was now fairly sure he had the same tough-as-nails constitution as Steve. But Tony and Yinsen didn't. In reality, they seemed more like two Villagers with minds of their own.
In MC, Villagers had the same abilities as Steve, but they were incredibly frail. If a Zombie attacked them, they would turn into Zombies themselves.
Tony and Yinsen took the swords and nodded gravely.
"We have to hurry. The sun's about to set. If we don't want the whole mountain crawling with these monsters, we'd better get inside soon!" Fang Bie warned them. "Now! Attack!"
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