Finding Food

"Grr... " Fang Bie rubbed his stomach as it made a series of meaningless noises, unable to hide his frustration.

Yesterday, he had been so absorbed in chopping down trees that he couldn't stop, and he had also spent a great deal of time building a house. He had only four or five apples on hand, but hadn't felt particularly hungry.

Unfortunately, that couldn't last. The moment Fang Bie woke up, he felt weak and exhausted. The warning from his stomach was unmistakable: he needed to eat.

Fang Bie had no choice but to pick up the last apple beside his bed and wolf it down. After hastily taking care of his personal hygiene, he set off in search of food.

The beds in Minecraft were quite extraordinary. No matter what time you went to sleep at night, you always woke up just as dawn broke, and you'd feel completely refreshed.

Fang Bie carried the tools he had made from wood earlier: a Wooden Axe, a Wooden Pickaxe, and a Wooden Sword. He immediately felt much more at ease.

From the Personal Slot and Inventory in front of him, Fang Bie could basically tell that this was probably a version of Minecraft from before 1.9. The signature off-hand slot was nowhere to be seen, which meant there wouldn't be things like shields.

Holding his sword, Fang Bie gave it a couple of casual swings. After all, he was just an ordinary person with no particularly powerful combat skills. More than anything, the sword was there to give him courage.

However, from what he knew, the monsters in this game were all rather clumsy and wouldn't pose too great a threat. The exception was the Skeleton Archer, who could shoot arrows half an inch into Stone—better known as Little White.

Fang Bie closed the door. He had spent the whole day yesterday building a house that was finally halfway decent. This mountaintop was higher than the surrounding slopes, so as long as he didn't wander too far, he should be able to find his way back.

Although this world was called "My World," it wasn't actually all that different from an ordinary world. The ground still sloped naturally; it wasn't made of staircases of one-by-one blocks like in the game.

The trees, on the other hand, were exactly like the ones in the game. But Fang Bie hadn't seen anything particularly blocky yet—except, of course, for the sun overhead.

This world felt just like the wilderness he had visited before. If he hadn't been holding a Wooden Sword, Fang Bie might have wondered if he had somehow returned to the modern world.

Unlike yesterday, when he had walked along chopping trees, today he had a clear goal: find enough food to keep himself alive. So Fang Bie soon left the barren mountain and reached a seemingly flat grassland.

A few sheep were grazing there. Grass nearly as tall as a person obscured them, and Fang Bie hurriedly raised his sword and crept toward them.

Yesterday, he had killed sheep using brute force, but they hadn't dropped any Mutton or anything like that. He didn't know whether it had something to do with this world's rules.

If he hadn't gotten two pieces of Wool, he wouldn't have known where to sleep last night. Without a bed, he would probably have had to hide inside the house, listening to the monsters howling outside.

He had fought sheep yesterday and knew they wouldn't simply let him attack them. That was different from how things worked in the game.

In Minecraft, animals ran away after being attacked, but they usually fled without much direction and weren't especially fast. Most people could catch up and land another couple of blows to finish them off.

But in this real world, he didn't know whether Fang Bie was too slow or the animals had some kind of speed boost. He usually had to chase them for a long time before he could catch up and land the final blow.

So Fang Bie had learned from yesterday's lesson. He wasn't as energetic as he had been then, and he had to kill these sheep in a single strike.

That brought him to another difference between himself and the characters in the game. The animals in this world seemed to have no weak spots. Yesterday, he had struck a sheep in the head again and again, but that still hadn't killed it right away.

Today, however, he had deliberately made his way to a very unusual spot. Three sheep stood there quietly grazing on the grass.

Fang Bie didn't attack them at once. Instead, he quietly tore up the grass beside him. His hands seemed to possess a kind of magic governed by this world's rules. Before long, the grass around him had turned into Dirt Blocks in his hands—seventeen or eighteen of them.

Then Fang Bie slowly climbed onto a higher patch of ground and placed the blocks one by one, enclosing the three sheep in a cramped little 2×2 area.

This was another way the world differed from the game. In the game, every block was a standard 1×1×1 cube, and any creature could easily step over one. But in a world like this, which resembled reality, things were quite different. Each block was a full meter high. Even Fang Bie had to struggle to climb one, so how could sheep that only came up to his waist possibly escape over those one-meter blocks?

Fang Bie stood easily atop the Dirt Blocks and killed all three sheep with a few swings. And this time, unlike yesterday, in addition to a few pieces of Wool, he also saw Mutton drop.

"This shouldn't be version 1.7.10—not at least in its pure form," Fang Bie thought slowly. "Sheep in that version don't drop Mutton unless a Food Mod has been added..."

Once again, Fang Bie found himself thinking about other possibilities. He was desperate to know which version of the game this world belonged to—or whether it was some kind of mixed world. That was especially important to him.

"Since there's no way to find out now, I'll have to wait until later, when I can make an Enchantment Table..." Fang Bie thought, putting the pieces of Mutton and Wool into his Backpack.

The Enchantment Table was an extremely useful item in this game, especially in the mid-to-late stages. By using the experience you gained from killing monsters, you could enchant equipment with special properties.

That equipment often had strange or powerful effects, which could greatly help you live, survive, and explore in this world.

Fang Bie remembered very clearly that different versions had different requirements for Enchantment Tables. He just needed to click on one after building it, and he should be able to figure things out.

For now, though, he needed to find some more food.