minecraft: top of the last hope

Chapter 11 Ghost Hit the Wall

We were all very surprised. After walking for most of the day, we were exhausted and bored, but we reached the starting point.This is really the biggest joke in the world!

"Damn it!" Bu Xin didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he shook his hand vigorously, and sat down on the grass, "This is so insane! What the hell have we been doing all day long!"

I also sat on the grass, crossed my legs, and said to them with a wry smile: "We must have lost our direction when we were playing on the road. If we were serious about our journey, we would probably have reached the grassland by now."

"If I knew it, I wouldn't have played..." Nassir sat down against the tree, hugged his legs and said aggrievedly.

"Just in case, I'll put up a tall pillar and stand up to see, don't get the direction wrong again." I said as I stood up from the grass, took out stones and began to pad my feet.Building a high pillar is a very labor-intensive task, and the hunger value will drop very quickly every time you jump.

As I climbed up a little bit, my field of vision gradually widened. From the beginning, I could only see a few trees surrounding it, and it gradually turned into a large oak forest nearby. At the end, I could overlook the entire Black Forest.I stood on the top of the pillar and looked into the distance. The endless oak trees spread a thick layer on the ground, which looked like a large green wool carpet, extending to the far east end, where it was covered by a transverse and The big river passing by is cut off, and on the other side of the big river, you can vaguely see the flat and flat prairie. The light grass green of the grassland spreads until the horizon disappears.

I took out the pickaxe, dug out the pillar and returned to the ground, and told Bu Xin and Nasir the correct direction.

Nasir clenched his fists tightly and assured Bu Xin and me: "I won't play this time, I must concentrate on walking."

"Okay!" Bu Xin and I both patted him on the shoulder, "We don't want to play!"

"Now we all have to make up our minds, and don't relax until we see the big river." Bu Xin looked in the direction of the grassland and said, "Let's not talk while walking, and don't distract our attention."

We have reached a consensus: if you are on your way, concentrate on your way, and refuse to play with bb!
All the way to the east, the goal - grassland!
The three of us are like ascetics, moving forward in the dark forest, step by step, step by step... repeating this monotonous movement.Just like Sisyphus in ancient Greek mythology, who pushed stones uphill over and over again, he endured pain and boredom every moment.

The silence of traveling is really a kind of purgatory torture, especially when we keep silent collectively, so as not to be distracted by talking, this silence is magnified countless times.The surrounding scenery is monotonous, and the trees will always look like that. There will not be a tree with a crooked neck suddenly appearing, nor will a giant tree appear suddenly.It is no exaggeration to describe these trees with stereotypes.

Giant mushrooms can also be seen, but there are pitifully few and abnormally few, and it takes a long time to come across one.I suspect that it might be cut off by other players. After all, they also have to fill their stomachs. It would be foolish not to take natural ingredients.

We don't stop and move forward.The surrounding flowers and trees slowly retreat, and the new flowers and trees in front slowly appear in front of you.How I wish I could go one step further and hear the sound of the rushing river and see the golden river beach!
Go quietly, go quietly.

I don't know how long I walked, but there was a faint crowing of chickens in front of me.It sounds like there should be a lot of chicken in front.

"Chicken." Nasir couldn't hold back anymore, and said a word.He walked very hard, and his face was full of exhaustion.

"Shh!" I quickly stopped him.In the past, it was largely because of the chicken that we got the direction wrong, so we were very taboo. If we made a mistake again, we couldn't afford to hurt it at all!
There are a lot of chickens here, we didn't even take a look, we went straight through and walked forward.But the more I walked, the more I felt something was wrong!
"Damn it!" Bu Xin walked in front, suddenly stopped with a sudden brake, turned his head to look at Nasir and me, his eyes widened, and he looked like a ghost, "Don't you think this place..."

Bu Xin didn't say anything, I always thought that the strangeness I felt was an illusion caused by traveling for too long.But when he said that, I immediately reacted and shivered all over my body.Goosebumps popped up all over his body, and his hairs stood on end!
This slope, this tree!
"We've been here before! Besides, a few steps ahead is a small mound!!!" I was shocked.

Weird!This is too weird!Unbelievable!
"No, I don't believe it!" Nasir was in a hurry, his face flushed, and he pulled my sleeve. "Brother Yi Ouyi, are you sure that the direction you just looked at from the pillar is correct?"

My brain is in a mess right now, and this incident overturned my cognition.Could it be that the grassland and the big river are all fake?Is it a mirage?But no, where did "white birch" come from?Or are we distracted by something again, causing us to go in the wrong direction?But it's not right, we didn't speak from the beginning to the end, and we were walking very attentively.Or do we keep going in circles, going back to where we started over and over again?

Thinking of this, I seem to have caught something.

"Brother Yi Ouyi, answer me!" Nasir's voice interrupted my thoughts.He was so anxious that he almost cried.

"Impossible. Even if Yi Ouyi gets the direction wrong, we will start from the small mound and walk all the way forward, and we will never come back here anyway." Bu Xin comforted Nasir.

I came back to my senses and said to Bu Xin and Nasir: "I think we may be going around in circles without knowing it!"

"How do you say that?" Bu Xin frowned slightly, staring at me and asking with a serious expression.

I walked a few steps on the grass with my hands behind my back, adjusted my thinking, and then asked them: "Have you ever experienced or heard of such a phenomenon, that is, when a person walks alone in the wilderness, deep mountains and forests at night? , I can’t get out, I can’t find a way out, but in the morning, I can get out smoothly.”

"Yes!" Nasir nodded.

"Ghost hits the wall!" Bu Xin said to the point.

"Not bad." I nodded.

"But isn't it only at night that ghosts hit the wall?" Bu Xin thinks the possibility is unlikely.At night, if you can't see your fingers, you can't determine the reference object, and your sense of direction will become poor, leading to the appearance of "ghosts hitting the wall", and you will always spin around no matter how you walk.

"So I'm not sure it's a ghost hitting the wall." I replied.

After Bu Xin finished listening, he lowered his head and pondered for a long time.Afterwards, he raised his head and saw the sun slanting to the west at this time, his frown was loosened immediately, and he said to us: "The black forest is dark, and the trees inside are similar, it should be like a ghost hitting a wall, Because it is difficult to determine the reference point, we always go back." Then he smiled slightly, took out the torch, and continued: "I have a way to prove whether we have encountered a ghost hitting the wall, as long as But there are some troubles, hehe..."

"What way?" Nasir looked expectant.

When I saw the torch in his hand, I immediately knew what he was thinking, and said to him with a wry smile: "We have known each other for so long, I know what you are thinking when you say b - don't you just want to Walk again, sticking torches along the way, and wait for the sun to go down and see the path we have traveled?"

"That's right, you know my heart well." Bu Xin laughed and nodded heavily, "Can you think of another way? If you don't see how we got there, you don't even think about getting out."

Nasir and I reluctantly agreed.So we set off for the third time in the direction of the "grassland". Because the time before sunset is not long, we used to run along the way. The torches were inserted everywhere as if we didn't need money. Fortunately, we dug enough underground before. Only with so much coal can we afford such profligacy.It can be said that the two previous trips to the "grassland" were very tiring, but this time I was "tired physically" because running would consume a lot of hunger points, and I was worried that we would not have enough food.

"Actually, I'm quite strange. Why didn't I encounter this kind of situation when I played "Minecraft" before?" On the way, Nassir was out of breath and asked while running.

"This is because when we played in the past, when we pressed the forward button, the people inside would walk in a straight line. But now it's different, we are immersive, and we don't know whether we are walking in a straight line. ’ I answered him panting.

We ran for a long, long distance, and finally returned to the small mound.When I saw the small mound this time, I didn’t know whether to be happy or to blame others. In short, it’s right to laugh or cry. After all, when I was running, I always fantasized about running out of the black forest and into the grassland.

"Okay, comrades, we are back again." I was so tired that I collapsed on the grass, and Bu Xin and Nasir also fell on the grass.The three of us just lay there panting like cows, watching the color of the sky change from a fire-like sunset red to a light twilight purple, then to a deep blue, and finally to a deep blackness.The densely packed stars are scattered on the sky like beads, making the originally dark night sky look charming and beautiful.

There are also monsters around "Roar", but we are not worried. How can a full set of iron suits be taken lightly?But in order not to waste the durability of the iron armor, we still hide in the small mound honestly.

After entering the small mound, we dug through the ceiling, and then started to build pillars to see what the path we walked along the way was like.As the pillars were built higher and higher, we all saw it-the whole Black Forest was as black as thick ink under the starry sky, as dark as a deep cave.A large circle of slightly yellow flames, intermittently, stretched out from the left side of the small mound, became thinner and more deflected, slowly turned a big bend from left to right, then turned back again, and then went further and further away. It gets thicker and thicker, and turns back to the right side of the small mound.

It can be said that the path we walk is a huge circle!
"That's right!" We all laughed.

In addition to the torches we inserted ourselves, I also saw light in several other places. I don't know if it is an open-air magma lake or other players live there.

Bu Xin also saw it.He gritted his teeth and said, "I don't know if that bastard Jason is there, maybe we can touch him and kill him!"

"I don't think Jason's subordinates should be easy. Do you remember the man in yellow? He turned around and shot an arrow in the process of escaping, and he was able to shoot the pillar we were standing on steadily." I touched my chin and said , "It's not that easy to kill him. Let's go down first."

We dug up the pillars, returned to the small mound, sat on the ground and began to discuss how to successfully reach the grassland tomorrow.After all, judging from the path we took, we have indeed encountered "ghosts hitting the wall".According to scientific research, when a person walks, the length of the two feet will have a slight difference. When they cannot distinguish the direction, generally people will fall into a circle with a radius of about 3 kilometers and keep turning around.Of course, the size of the circle is not necessarily the radius of 3 kilometers.

When we usually walk in a straight line, we rely on our eyes to correct and adjust the walking direction. Once our eyes fail or we cannot find a clear reference object, we will turn into a circle.So the question we are discussing is what kind of reference to find to avoid "ghost hitting the wall".

"Sun! The teacher said that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. It is best to know the direction." Nasir said.

Bu Xin waved his hand, thinking that the sun is not good: "We are in a black forest here, and there are leaves blocking everywhere, so we can't see the sun. And relying on the sun to find the way has to be in a wider area, here is full of trees, and the field of vision is narrow .”

"It would be much easier without these trees." I agreed.

"Why don't you set fire to these trees like Jason did!" Nassir laughed out loud as soon as he said this, and he fell back and lay on the ground.

"Bear boy! No wonder your Arabian Peninsula is full of deserts!" Bu Xin reached out and grabbed his hand, pulling him to sit up again.

"Now it's the tree. As for the reference, I really can't think of anything other than the sun." I said.

"It's mainly the leaves. We can see the sun under the tree without being blocked by the leaves." Bu Xin also feels that the tree is the most troublesome.

"Yeah, we are under the tree..." I fell into thought.There is no doubt that the leaves under the tree will be blocked by leaves. You can’t dig out the leaves above your head while walking to watch the sun, right?

No, wait...under the tree!Why are you under a tree!

I jumped up excitedly and shouted: "We are all stupid! Why do we have to go under the tree! Let's go up the tree! Can't we see the sun and have a wider view!"

In "Minecraft", leaves are also a kind of block, and people can walk on it, just like walking on flat ground, there is no problem at all.

"Fuck!" Bu Xin suddenly realized, and gave a thumbs up, "666666!"

Nassir was also very happy when he realized it, and laughed loudly on the ground. His laughter echoed throughout the small mound, making me a little dizzy from the noise.

But we are all in a good mood, full of food and drink, waiting for tomorrow when we will walk and jump on the treetops like ninjas.

Just think about it!

(End of this chapter)