"It seems... he has a point?"
"I was confused before, but after Soren Park's explanation, everything is clear!"
"He's only done these things; replacing the blocks must have caused the monster spawning zone to shift!"
"Yeah, no one else replaced their blocks, only him!"
"So lucky, he just happened to build the stone house in the spawning area!"
"I thought he really was the player who understood the game best, but it turns out it was all luck!"
"Without luck, Galen Yu is just trash!"
"Right, he can't compare at all to our handsome Oakmoor!"
Following Soren Park's logic further, the more the audience thought about it, the more they felt he was right.
He didn't know the dangers of the night, so he stayed outside and made a dilapidated room that lacked a proper entrance door.
Isn't this clearly a display of a complete novice?
Since he's a novice, the stone generator might have been made using some minor cleverness.
He definitely wouldn't understand the rules or how to exploit the mechanics!
Having understood the cause, the audience fell into another question.
Why did Soren Park say Galen Yu wouldn't survive the night?
"On the surface, he's currently suppressing the Samurai Nation and Freedom Nation to take first place, looking very impressive."
"Look closely, does Galen Yu have any food on his island?"
"His only remaining three apples were eaten long ago; there's nothing but stone!"
Sneering, Soren Park spoke in a sarcastic tone.
"Maybe this Nine Provinces player just likes eating abnormal food—perhaps he'll swallow rotten flesh or stones?"
Hunger depletion is related to what the player is doing; when the hunger bar hits zero, the player suffers various negative effects and faces a high risk of starving to death!
Combat and mining are the things that consume the most stamina and hunger!
Rotten flesh looks like meat and increases hunger points when eaten, but it grants the Hunger status effect.
The more a player eats, the hungrier they get, accelerating the depletion of their hunger bar. It's no different from drinking seawater when thirsty; it only speeds up death!
To maintain first place, he is constantly pushing himself into exhaustion.
It's still a long time until daylight; in the end, there is only one path: death!
"Replacing blocks is indeed among the inferred possibilities, if we follow Soren Park's reasoning."
"Immersed in the killing rankings, Galen Yu is in a very dangerous situation!"
Fries's expression changed drastically.
When he first entered Civilization, he was also very afraid of things like Zombies, until he defeated them for the first time.
A wave of immense joy had rushed to his heart then; he understood very well how that felt.
Especially since this matter was now tied to rankings, it was easy for someone to get trapped in that emotion!
By the time they realized it, their stamina would be exhausted—it would be too late!
But his items had been exhausted in previous rounds of Civilization; he didn't have anything like a Sign in his hand, so he could only worry in silence.
Watching Galen Yu kill more and more monsters, gradually going from a hundred to a hundred and fifty, then breaking the two-hundred mark.
Mark and Jett gradually felt despair rising in their hearts.
They could still compete at the start, but at this rate, Galen Yu's kill count might exceed a thousand by dawn.
What the hell were they even competing for?
A thousand Zombies! Even if they worked themselves to death, they wouldn't catch up to half that!
"Damn the Nine Provinces!"
Just as they were about to give up, a Sign suddenly appeared nearby.
On it was an encouragement for them.
[DO NOT GIVE UP! THE FIRST-PLACE REWARD IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!]
[THE NINE PROVINCES PLAYER IS JUST LUCKY. REPLACING HIS ISLAND BLOCKS CAUSED A SPAWNING ERROR. HE HAS NO FOOD LEFT!]
Stopping in his tracks, Mark turned his head to look at the monsters.
He knew, of course, that the difference between the first and second place rewards was like night and day; first place would grant a decisive advantage over others.
Since someone went as far as using a precious Sign to tell him this news, Galen Yu definitely wouldn't hold out for long!
"Jett, hang in there. The Nine Provinces won't last much longer."
"Victory will eventually be ours!"
...
Just as Soren Park expected.
After hacking away for who knows how long...
Galen Yu felt famished, incredibly hungry.
'I've already killed over two hundred Zombies?'
Looking at the ranking data, he felt slightly surprised.
He took back what he said about there being few monsters; the spawning efficiency was indeed much better than he had imagined.
Thanks to the Hand of Steve, if he had swung a sword a thousand times with his previous physique, his arms would definitely be too tired to lift now.
Now, aside from being hungry, his condition was simply fantastic.
Even if he hacked through another ten thousand Zombies, he wouldn't feel fatigued.
This... is the power of us Block People!
'There really is no food on the original sky island, nor are there tools to produce food.'
However, just because the island didn't have any didn't mean the Zombies didn't.
The drop rate was very low; killing two hundred Zombies had only yielded a total of three Potatoes.
With a drop rate of about one percent, it was almost the same as Iron Ingots.
Very few people killed so many Zombies at once; seeing the Potatoes, the audience finally remembered.
"I remember now, Zombies have a chance to drop food!"
"I remember there are two types, Carrots and Potatoes, but the drop rate is extremely low!"
"He doesn't plan on using Potatoes to satisfy his hunger, does he?"
"The idea is nice, but unfortunately, it's too late!"
"After so much slaughter, I bet his hunger bar is already at rock bottom, and each Potato only restores half a unit!"
"Without a furnace to heat them, three raw Potatoes can only add one and a half units—a drop in the bucket compared to the long night!"
"Haha, our Freedom Nation is the true number one!"
Galen Yu knew, of course, that Potatoes provided limited hunger restoration.
So from the very beginning, he didn't plan to eat them directly.
If he could see the barrages outside, he would definitely ask a question.
'Have you people never farmed? Are you all just foolishly waiting for crops to mature naturally?'
Even an idiot should know you need to fertilize and water, right?
Minecraft didn't require fertilizing or watering; it had much more convenient materials.
Bone Meal.
He didn't even need a Crafting Table; he just had to put the Bones dropped from killing the Skeletons into his 2x2 personal crafting grid.
Soon, a concentrated white powder model appeared in his hand.
He placed a Grass Block next to the stone generator's water source and then crafted a Hoe out of wood.
With a few symbolic hoes, an incredibly neat plot of farmland was formed.
Planting the Potato, a tiny green sprout emerged from the surface.
Now, he just needed to sprinkle the Bone Meal on it, and he could see.
The green sprout began to grow vigorously, changing from initial green leaves to small potatoes, and then the potatoes gradually grew large and matured.
When the foliage rose above his head and the potatoes underneath were clearly visible, Galen Yu knew.
It was time to harvest!
Grasping the foliage and pulling it out, one Potato planted resulted in four Potatoes harvested.
On average, each Potato could yield three to four tubers. He planted three.
In an instant, eleven Potatoes were recovered.
He ate a few to fully restore his hunger bar and then planted the rest back.
Refreshed and energetic! Galen Yu returned to his peak state!
The barrages that were flooding the screen just now seemed to have hit a pause button; the entire place went silent.
"Magic, it's magic!"
"Galen Yu has magic; he made the potatoes mature instantly!"
"Yes, those green sparkles are the manifestation of magic!"
"Oh my God, I've seen a miracle!"
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