MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 220 Mutualism

The three people present all turned their gazes to Kyubey, the little animal that always seemed to have a faint smile, appeared harmless, yet brought about the birth of the magical girl.

“You’re right,” Cupid replied in a clear, childlike voice.

It casually scratched an itch with its hind leg and continued, "From a human perspective, the so-called Lament Seed can indeed be understood as a kind of virtual currency."

"It has no physical form; it is merely a medium used to symbolize the state of something. The Seed of Lament that humans see is nothing more than a carrier of related information."

“Just as I thought.” Fang Zheng nodded, then turned to Mami Tomoe and Kyoko Sakura. “Well, while I can’t provide the Seed of Lamentation, providing the Witch herself isn’t out of the question.”

"However, for you, it seems to make no difference whether I directly provide the witch for you to attack and obtain the Seed of Lamentation, or you find it yourselves."

"Based on your conversation, it seems that witches spawn in the area where you live, right? So, would you prefer to hunt them yourselves, or would you like me to provide you with a sufficient number of witches?"

"Of course, I can't guarantee the strength of the witch I can provide, so I don't know if you can kill her."

"Hello! Hello! Hello!" Sakura Kyoko was completely confused. Having not even finished elementary school, the only part of the conversation she understood was Fang Zheng saying he could provide witches. "You, didn't you just say you couldn't provide Lament Seeds? How come you're saying you can provide witches now?"

Fang Zheng explained, "Because I possess more than just the Boundary Sea Battleship."

"The World Sea Battleship and its upgraded version, the Time-Space Battleship, and even their corresponding spacetime structures, reacted in some way after being attacked by you, resulting in them being marked, making it impossible for me to copy and place them in this world."

"This abstract change is like when you're playing a game, your character is killed and in a dead state, or your account is banned. No matter who's behind the account, since it's already marked as banned, it naturally can't continue to appear..."

"Watch out!" Suddenly, Sakura Kyoko shouted, interrupting Fang Zheng's words. She brandished her spear, trying to deflect an arrow that was shot at Tomoe Mami from behind.

The blocky moon in the sky has begun to rise, and with insufficient light, monsters naturally start spawning everywhere.

In Minecraft, the arrows fired by the skeleton skeleton aren't very fast, but receiving so much shocking information in a short period of time stunned even Mami Tomoe, who usually has extremely sharp combat intuition. She completely ignored these attacks that she would never normally pay attention to.

Of course, the moment she heard her companion's reminder, she immediately reacted. Without even looking, she used ribbon magic to conjure several flintlock pistols and instantly killed the numerous skeletons and zombies that spawned in the darkness.

"Ah!" But immediately after the launch, Mami Tomoe let out a painful scream.

Trusting her companions and finding that they had already intercepted the attack, Mami Tomoe naturally didn't make any unnecessary dodges.

However, the pixelated arrow ignored the gun's obstruction, piercing straight through and embedding itself in the back of Mami Tomoe's head, exiting through her mouth.

"Mami! What's wrong with you? Don't scare me!" Sakura Kyoko was stunned, followed by a tearful plea. She looked helplessly at Tomoe Mami lying on the ground, at the arrow piercing her head, and a wave of grief surged in her heart.

"I...I..." Her hands trembled, causing the spear to fall to the ground. She knelt down, her eyes glazed, and tightly embraced Mami. "Why didn't I imbue it with magic? Why didn't I realize this thing could penetrate!"

Although she was preparing to part ways with her senior magical girl Mami for various reasons, the friendship they had forged over time had not faded.

She should have realized long ago that many witches' attacks are extremely unreasonable, unilaterally imposing their own rules to restrict intruders, making it impossible to fight back without using magic.

She'd seen attacks like this before, capable of piercing through obstacles. Simply adding a layer of magic to her defenses was enough to accurately strike such ethereal attacks. Why had she overlooked it?
Because of her own negligence, her best friend and her seniors died tragically, and she was on the verge of a breakdown.

"Ah! Ah?" Mami Tomoe cried out in pain twice, but then realized the pain had subsided immediately. Somewhat embarrassed, she pushed Kyoko Sakura away and got up. "I'm not dead?"

She opened her mouth, looking at the pixelated arrow emerging from it, but felt no pain whatsoever; it was as if a phantom was stuck in her head.

"It hurts!" She tried to reach out and touch the arrow, but was immediately attacked by an invisible force.

He tried to touch the arrow shaft, but couldn't reach it at all. He wrapped his hand in a layer of magic and managed to grab it, but he couldn't pull it out. Even though his head was pierced, he couldn't find any wound.

"Mami? Are you alright?" Sakura Kyoko's cries and pleas stopped abruptly. She just wiped away her tears helplessly, looking at her somewhat frightened and comical appearance.

Suddenly, the sky, which had turned dark, was restored to daytime, and the zombies, skeletons, and other monsters in the distance were scorched away by the sunlight.

After adjusting the shortcut to daytime, Fang Zheng said to Mami Tomoe, "If you can't pull it out, just leave it alone. The arrow will automatically refresh in five minutes. Don't touch the arrowhead before it refreshes to avoid further damage."

He continued, “Your world is very interesting. It can completely and unilaterally ignore the space-time warship, ignore me, and on this basis, use what you call the witch's barrier to seal me off, preventing me from appearing directly in your world.”

"You can also enter the barrier by transforming into magical girls and perform abstract operations on the things within it, completely shattering a vast world and turning it into an abstract authority, which is then condensed into a Seed of Lamentation."

“But similarly,” Fang Zheng pointed to the pixel arrow that Mami Tomoe was holding in her hand, trying to pull it out but to no avail, “such abstraction operations should also be bidirectional.”

"Fang Zheng, after you came into this barrier, you must have encountered monsters that respawned in the cave, right?"

"Huh?" The pensive boy looked up when he heard the call and replied, "Oh, right, when they came in earlier, the two of them killed a lot of zombies and skeletons. I even tried to pick up the dropped items, but I just couldn't pick them up."

“Interference is mutual.” Fang Zheng pointed at Mami Tomoe. “You guys didn’t try melee attacks when you attacked the respawning monsters before, did you?”

“Of course!” Sakura Kyoko said, “When facing witches and familiars whose rules we don’t understand, we should try to use ranged attacks instead of melee combat. Isn’t that basic common sense?”

Fang Zheng: "So, until just now, this was the first time you were hit by a monster's attack, right?"

"Based on my own experience in different worlds, whether it's me or the zombies and skeletons you see, when directly attacking other things, it's a kind of data-driven, abstract attack."

"It overrides its own rules, causing the attacked object to have non-existent life points to be attacked."

"Then, the damaged life points will be forcibly mapped to the corresponding structure, causing physical bodies, souls, or machines—anything judged as living beings—to suffer corresponding damage simultaneously."

“In other words,” Fang Zheng looked at the three of them, “my attack and the damage you caused to the World Sea Battleship when you treated it as a witch are probably similar in nature. They both ignore its structure and treat it as an abstract concept to be operated on.”

"You may not be far off in viewing me as a witch, at least my abilities are similar to those of a witch."

(End of this chapter)