10: The wonder is done! One year!

The fourth problem Fang Yun had to face was the food problem.

Because in the early stages, the farm hadn't developed yet, the tree farm wasn't large enough, and Fang Yun didn't have time to fish, he didn't have enough food to eat.

You ask, isn't fishing in MC very simple? Why didn't Fang Yun have time to fish?

To that, Fang Yun can only reply, he couldn't catch fish, absolutely no fish.

Two hours of fishing yielded not a single edible fish, only pufferfish and various junk, as well as fishing rods, vanilla weapons, and vanilla armor that were of little use to Fang Yun anymore. Moreover, there wasn't even an enchanted book or an enchanted tool or weapon!

So, after silently calculating that it would take nearly a year to complete the entire wonder, Fang Yun decided he wouldn't fish again until the wonder was built.

As for whether he would miss the Edge Runner and 2077 plot due to building the wonder, Fang Yun said that after enabling the time display, he found it was currently 2074, so there was no need to rush.

In short, Fang Yun severely lacked food in the early stages.

Therefore, in the early stages, when his satiety was low, Fang Yun would use his sword to decapitate himself, not only fully restoring his satiety but also getting a free Player Head.

The reason Fang Yun could commit suicide so decisively was that he wasn't afraid of death. More accurately, it was because he had no feeling of pain or death at all.

For Fang Yun, when he took damage, he would only receive a notification of injury, without experiencing the sensations a normal person would have after being injured (such as the feeling of pain, etc.).

When Fang Yun died, he would only receive a notification of death, without experiencing the feeling of death (such as palpitations, panic, etc.).

At the same time, Fang Yun would not have the experience of death (such as thought cessation, thought interruption, idea disappearance, consciousness turning into nothingness, body gradually cooling, life force continuously draining, etc.).

For Fang Yun, death was like "closing and opening his eyes, and changing from a living state to a state of consciousness body."

Therefore, Fang Yun could be ruthless towards himself.

Of course, with the development of the farm and tree farm, Fang Yun gradually stopped lacking food.

With bread whose taste could be freely customized and apples whose texture could be freely adjusted, Fang Yun no longer relied on suicide to restore satiety.

After all, constantly committing suicide wasn't ideal, and he had already collected many Player Heads (this was the main reason. Confirmed.jpg).

Besides the food problem, Fang Yun also encountered and solved various other problems.

For example, to better improve the structural strength of the wonder, Fang Yun converted stone blocks into the hardest and most earthquake-resistant stones found during excavation.

Initially, it was Andesite stone, later Ancient Basalt stone, and still later High-Density Molten Non-Newtonian Fluidic Cascading Layered Ancient Mantle Support Rock stone.

For example, because the volume of some underground water and lava was too large, Fang Yun had to risk drowning in water and burning in lava to build excavation tunnels downwards, block by block.

And for example...

...

Time is like quicksand in hand; people want to hold onto it, but cannot stop it from slowly and steadily flowing through their fingers.

While Fang Yun was slowly but continuously excavating and constructing the wonder that went straight to the Mantle—the "Mantle Tower"—he also simultaneously completed the construction of many other buildings, machines, and production lines.

During the construction of the Mantle Tower and various other buildings, Fang Yun had thought of giving up more than once, and had countless times felt annoyed, irritable, depressed, melancholic...

However, Fang Yun persevered through all of it, and then continued to build with unwavering determination!

Fang Yun found a suitable location in the geologically harder crust layer to build a base, and then placed various buildings, machines, and production lines in this base.

In the center of the base, there was a portal, next to which was a water elevator that went straight up to the Shelter's base transfer room.

(ps: In addition to the base transfer room, the Shelter also included the following functional rooms: the Shelter passage leading to the surface. A material storage room for storing a small amount of resources. A bedroom with functional blocks such as a crafting table, furnace, bed, etc. The Mantle Tower transfer room, whose main structure was the Mantle Tower spire base. The Shelter hall connecting the various functional rooms.)

As various buildings, machines, and production lines were established and expanded, the base also became larger and larger.

The base had the following main buildings:

A Nether Portal in the shape of a "sword" reaching hundreds of meters high. From a distance, it looked like a Nether Sword emitting a purplish-blue glow, standing in a corner of the base, awe-inspiring.

An artificial swimming pool hundreds of meters deep. When Fang Yun was excavating in the high-temperature underground environment and felt irritable and stuffy, he would come here to swim a few laps.

The cool pool water could wash away the stuffy feeling on Fang Yun's body and calm his heart. Then, he could regain his spirit and continue excavating.

Next to the artificial swimming pool was a small fishing platform. The artificial swimming pool served as both a swimming pool and a fishing ground.

A super large semi-automatic multi-layer tree farm and a semi-automatic multi-layer farm. Although not yet fully automated, ever since they were successfully built, Fang Yun had never lacked wood and food.

Several large flowing multi-layer mob grinders. Fang Yun built them for fun when he had nothing else to do. Since building mob grinders in the Nether was too troublesome, Fang Yun only built them in the "Overworld."

Because he didn't have time to obtain sugar and mushrooms, even when Zombie villagers spawned, Fang Yun couldn't convert them into normal villagers.

However, Fang Yun kept some Zombie villagers alive instead of killing them, so that when conditions were met in the future, he could convert them into normal villagers.

With villagers, he could then build a villager breeder, a villager trading hall, and most importantly, an iron golem farm.

A production line for quartz crystals. Since sand could only be obtained by mining at the moment, the production line for quartz crystals was not built very large.

A large coal production line stacking tower. A production line for coal built using Redstone Blocks, Redstone Components, Wood-to-Coal Machines, and other blocks.

A large stacking tower series for bark, paper, and blueprint prototype blueprints production lines. By opening blueprint prototypes, Fang Yun had obtained blueprints for all basic materials, as well as blueprints for all First Order to Fifth Order ordinary/error-correcting prosthetics, all ordinary/error-correcting equipment, and some zero-error prosthetics and zero-error equipment.

A large stacking tower series for parallel production lines of oil, rubber, and rare element mixtures. A production line for oil, rubber, and rare element mixtures built using Redstone Blocks, Redstone Components, Fabricators, and other blocks.

A super large material storage warehouse. All the materials Fang Yun had ever obtained, except for the materials stored in the Shelter's material storage room, were here.

Besides the main buildings mentioned above, there were also some other small buildings in the base. For example, Fang Yun's bedroom where he usually rested, a small storage room for scattered materials, etc.

When the base was nearing completion, the Mantle Tower was also in its final stages of construction.

The bottom layer of the Mantle Tower was a small space connected to the excavation tunnel. Four channels extended outwards from the four sides of the small space for collecting lava.

Safety measures were implemented in the channels, which were essentially multiple iron doors and water source blocks used to react with lava and block the channel openings.

After completing the construction of the Mantle Tower's bottom layer, Fang Yun teleported back to the Shelter and synthesized a batch of Automatic Pickups, chests, and torches.

Then, according to the plan, Fang Yun first set the pickup range of the Automatic Pickups, and then placed the combination of chests, torches, and Automatic Pickups at the designated location in the Mantle Tower, completing the task of picking up the dropped items generated by excavation.

(ps: Recipe for Automatic Pickup: Iron Ingot, Empty, Iron Ingot; Iron Ingot, Hopper, Iron Ingot; Iron Ingot, Empty, Iron Ingot.)

Automatic Pickups required Iron Ingots. Fang Yun's reserve of Iron Ingots was originally running low, but fortunately, he discovered many Iron Ores during the process of excavating the Mantle Tower.

So Fang Yun obtained sufficient Iron Ingots by smelting Iron Ores, which allowed him to synthesize enough Automatic Pickups.

After Fang Yun finished placing the Automatic Pickups, chests, and torches, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have nothing left to do.

Thus, Fang Yun was suddenly startled, realizing that he seemed, perhaps... had already completed the construction of the Mantle Tower!

Fang Yun looked at the time display interface, and in a trance, realized that a year had passed since he began building the Mantle Tower.

At this moment, all the past events, like passing clouds, dissipated, yet left an indelible mark in Fang Yun's heart.

Just today, October 16, 2075.

After one year... and ten days, Fang Yun finally completed the construction of the wonder that went straight to the Mantle!

The System's prompt also sounded at the right time.

"Ding! Congratulations, Host, the <Wonder Quest: Journey to the Mantle> has been completed."

"<Mod: Portal 1.0 (Easy Edition 1.0: Player Head Specialized Edition 1.0)>, has been permanently loaded."

"<Mod: Automatic Pickup 1.0 (Easy Edition 1.0)>, has been permanently loaded."

"The 'Infinite Capacity Water Hopper' recipe and 'Infinite Capacity Lava Hopper' recipe from <Mod: Infinite Hopper 1.0 (Easy Edition 1.0)>, have been permanently loaded."

"Quest Reward Issued: 500 System Points, <Plugin: True Damage and True Drop>."

After quietly listening to the System's prompt, Fang Yun put all the blocks on his body back into the chests, leaving nothing on himself.

Then, he stood at the very top of the Mantle Tower—the Mantle Tower spire base located in the Shelter's Mantle Tower transfer room, silent for a long time.

On the surface, Fang Yun was just silent, but in reality, in his mind, the various things he had experienced over the past year were gradually emerging from his memory one by one.

Past events continuously emerged and then faded away, and the data of the Mantle Tower also appeared from his memory and finally came before Fang Yun:

"Mantle Tower, shaped like a regular square prism, with a cross-section of a square 5 meters long and 5 meters wide, the internal passage spirals downwards, 3000 kilometers deep, straight to the Mantle!"

"This wonder construction is a miracle in this world, on this planet, unprecedented from the birth of human civilization until today!"

"And this miracle was created by me!"

"I believe that the miracles I can create are definitely not limited to just the Mantle Tower."

"The Mantle Tower is just the first intra-planetary wonder construction I have built. One day, I will build planetary wonders, and even planetary system wonders, stellar system wonders, star field wonders, galaxy wonders, and universal wonders!"