Reborn as a Cube Man in the Late Ming Dynasty

"A deity, truly a deity."

"We're saved! We're saved!"

"Waaaaah, honey, did you see? Little Stone is growing up healthy!"

Upon hearing Bai Li's words, a glimmer of light appeared in the refugees' eyes. They struggled to their feet, knelt down, clasped their hands together, and kowtowed to Bai Li.

This time, Bai Li did not avoid it; he quietly accepted the kneeling worship of the crowd.

To be in the right place at the right time.

When it was about time, Bai Li told the refugees to get up.

After that, their energy and spirit were significantly better than before.

Then, Bai Li looked at the girl and smiled gently: "Beautiful lady, please allow me to perform a magic trick for you."

As he spoke, he bowed slightly to the girl, and with a flick of his wrist, produced an apple.

"Here, have this fruit."

"Thank you," the girl said softly.

As the little girl took the fruit, a bunch of pink peonies appeared in Bai Li's hand.

Bai Li slowly squatted down, looking the girl in the eye, and gently placed the bouquet of flowers in her hair. With a sincere expression, she said, "Here, you don't have to be afraid, you don't have to worry about going hungry, and you don't have to worry about not having enough water. I will protect you. Take good care of yourselves."

The girl nodded vigorously: "Yes! Thank you, fairy brother!"

"Let's go back," Bai Li said with a smile.

To his left, an old man was protecting several children, anxiously watching the girl.

Bai Li watched the girl run towards the old man, lost in thought.

The children all looked different, and they probably had no blood relation to the old man whatsoever. Their parents were likely...

Thinking of this, Bai Li couldn't help but sigh.

Let's build them a school.

Playing together more with peers can help them be more outgoing, and education is also important.

Following the mushroom house, Bai Li quickly found Liu Wusan, who was accelerating the ripening of red mushrooms.

As soon as they got close to Liu Wusan, something suddenly flew out of his body and fell to the ground.

Bai Li picked up the item and examined it in her backpack.

Isn't this a cookie?

Seeing Liu Wusan's puzzled look, Bai Li knew that he didn't know what was going on either.

It seems that the gifts will still be delivered, even if the villagers themselves don't have any.

That makes sense.

What kind of gifts would other professions send?

Bai Li wondered curiously, so he quickly asked Liu Er to gather the villagers who had already changed jobs. During this time, he exchanged all the wheat for emeralds.

At this time, Liu Wusan had become a farmer's apprentice. The two newly added exchange items were one emerald for four apples and six pumpkins for one emerald.

They're not very useful for now.

When the villagers who had changed jobs arrived, they threw out all sorts of things: cooked mutton, cooked pork chops, cooked rabbit meat, and steak from the butcher.

The armorer Bai Li has relatively few job changes, and plans to upgrade to the highest level to exchange for an enchanted diamond set later. Therefore, he has collected a complete set of chain chest armor, chain leggings, chain boots, and chain helmet, as well as a second helmet, a first boot, and a second leggings.

Keep one set for yourself as a collection, since chain sets aren't something that can be synthesized. You can give the others to Wei Shi; those who perform meritorious service in the militia can be given them as rewards.

The arrow maker had various enchanted arrows, the leatherworker had leather, Miao Zhiming had a book, the stonemason had clay blocks, the fisherman had raw cod and raw salmon, the weaponsmith had stone and iron axes, and one of them even gave a golden axe.

What a waste! What a complete waste! It would have been so much better to just give them gold!

Give me a silver axe too, I'll go cosplay as the River God.

Bai Li sucked all the items on the ground into her backpack.

The toolmaker's stone axe, stone hoe, stone pick, and stone shovel.

"Wait, what's this?"

Bai Li looked at the lava bucket in her backpack in surprise and doubt, feeling that she was extremely lucky.

Another bug in Minecraft.

Lava has the same properties as water; as long as it flows from high to low, it is endless, and it has the property of forming round stones when it comes into contact with water.

On the one hand, it can be used to make stone-brushing machines, and on the other hand, it can be used to build city walls.

By building upwards along a trapezoidal shape, all you need is a bucket of water and a block of lava to construct a three-meter-thick, hollow, and infinitely tall city wall.

Moreover, magma has the property of destroying all objects incorporated into it without damaging itself.

What does this mean? If Bai Li had this bucket of lava, on a smaller scale, he could open a garbage dump to dispose of trash.

If we broaden our perspective, once nuclear waste is cleaned up, there's no need to worry about eating mutated seafood.

Furthermore, magma has another crucial role: it is used to create obsidian, which is then used to create Nether portals.

I don't know what it's like inside hell, or if it's even possible to build a gate to hell.

"I never imagined that this magma would be obtained in this way," Bai Li muttered to himself.

He had originally planned to see if he could find a volcano later and dig inside to get a bucket of stuff. But digging deeper would be much more difficult, as he would have to search in the asthenosphere between the Earth's crust and mantle.

With just a pickaxe, it would take forever to dig.

Why don't you try triggering it a few more times?

The moment this thought crossed his mind, the pitiful sight of those refugees flashed before him.

Bai Li immediately dismissed the idea.

This is the only one that absolutely cannot be done!

Besides, even with just one bucket of lava, there's a way to obtain an infinite amount of lava; it just might take a while in the early stages.

With just these two items—a cauldron and a dripping stone cone—you can create an endless supply of lava!

The alchemy cauldron is easy to make; it only requires seven iron ingots to synthesize. But what about the dripping stone cone? How do you make that?

Perhaps we should go into a cave to look for it, or try digging a hole to see if we can find a natural pit.

This is much better than directly digging into the magma.

However, now that we have magma, we can build the city walls first. Tie Shan alone cannot build the earthen walls, and Bai Li always felt that the mud walls would not be able to withstand an attack.

We'll talk about the dripping stone cone later; a bucket of lava is enough for Bai Li to do a lot of things.

"There's no time to lose, let's get the city wall repaired today!" Bai Li said impatiently, then muttered, "And the repaired wall, I'll call it, the Wall of Mary!"

By the way, Miao Zhiming and the others are going to Chengcheng today. I should remind them not to get their heads drenched in lava, that would be troublesome.

"Zhiming, when do you plan to set off?" Bai Li asked Miao Zhiming.

Miao Zhiming replied, "It should be half an hour later."

"Okay, keep an eye on the sky on your way back. If you see anything red, stay away from it," Bai Li instructed.

Miao Zhiming was puzzled.

What could be the red thing?