After such an event occurred, the viewers of the Nine Provinces were collectively incensed.
"Damn, these guys are disgusting!"
"An alliance is one thing—it's just a joint effort to resist the zombie horde—but why use the great Galen Yu's name for it?"
"They see Galen Yu doing well and start these petty tricks. Why not rely on actual strength?"
"They probably know they can't beat him. I've never seen such shameless people!"
Meanwhile, the international comments were full of joy.
"Like we said, player actions have nothing to do with their countries!"
"Who told Galen Yu to be so unpopular? No one wants to ally with him."
"This just shows that your so-called 'God' Galen Yu is basically just a petty person!"
"The players formed an alliance because of the zombies, and only one person wasn't invited. I wonder why!"
"Exactly! The alliance is even called 'Anti-Galen Yu'!"
"If he didn't have issues, why wouldn't Mark join him? He should look in the mirror first!"
Freedom Nation had already shifted the blame in advance.
Player behavior is strictly personal; if they didn't invite Galen Yu, it must be his fault!
Using this rhetoric, international viewers laughed gleefully behind their screens.
The view conveniently switched to Galen Yu.
Having obtained redstone and sugar cane, a plan formed in his mind.
As everyone knows.
Sugar cane can only be planted near water, but harvesting it this way is very troublesome.
It requires manual harvesting one by one, which is time-consuming and inconvenient.
This is where redstone technology comes in to help.
Returning to the sky island, Galen Yu first took grass blocks from a chest to build up high.
He hollowed out the center to fill with water and planted sugar cane nearby.
He placed a block next to the sugar cane and then crafted two devices using redstone.
An Observer and a Piston.
An Observer requires two rows of cobblestone, plus two pieces of redstone and one quartz.
A Piston requires three planks of any kind, one iron ingot, one redstone, and four cobblestones.
Thus, the two most important devices were complete.
This was a basic operation, but in the eyes of some foreign viewers, it was particularly grating.
It gave them new material for ridicule.
"What is Galen Yu doing? Is that redstone in his hand?"
"Redstone? The so-called 'shame of minerals,' the most useless redstone?"
"You can't make armor or weapons with it. I really don't see the point of its existence!"
"He's still playing around with it? Does Galen Yu know about our alliance and got scared?"
"He knows he can't beat us, so he's just giving up!"
They didn't understand the function of redstone at all, nor did they grasp what Galen Yu was doing.
In Samurai Nation, Takeshi Sable let out a long sigh of relief.
With two players luckily selected, he was also afraid that Ronan Mountwell and Kira Oakmoor might accidentally die in there.
Fortunately, Freedom Nation had stepped up to form an alliance.
"With most surviving players choosing to ally, this round should be safe!"
With so many players combined, wouldn't surviving the Crisis be easy?
As for Galen Yu.
"He's too clever for his own good. He thinks just because his progress is fast and his score is high, he's secured first place."
"In reality, he's been abandoned by us!"
Being too brilliant can also be a mistake.
The current sky island indeed had high defensive capabilities, could block zombies, and was full of warmth.
But what about later?
When the zombies' health increased further, Takeshi Sable didn't believe a few bosses and stone walls could stop those monsters.
After the Crisis was triggered, experts from his country had specialized in researching it and reached a conclusion.
Only by uniting is there hope of survival. Relying on individual strength alone, the survival rate is less than 5%!
No matter how strong Galen Yu is, he's just one person. Can he be stronger than dozens of players?
"Redstone? He still has the leisure to mess with such useless things!"
"I'd like to see what kind of junk you can make with that!"
Clearly, Takeshi Sable did not think highly of redstone technology.
After obtaining the Observer and Piston.
The construction of the sugar cane machine was very simple.
After setting up the blocks, Galen Yu placed the piston and observer directly next to the sugar cane.
He placed a block behind the observer and laid down some redstone.
With this, an automatic sugar cane farm was complete.
But the efficiency of a single unit was too slow, so he worked systematically, setting up over a dozen machines in a row.
He built it high in advance, leaving space for hoppers underneath.
Five iron ingots and a chest were used to craft a hopper, with chests below to receive the items.
Next, he just needed to soak up the sun and wait for a little while.
"My wise Sovereign, what great invention have you made now?"
The Architect happened to pass by and exclaimed in admiration.
"A sugar cane farm built with redstone? Heavens, I was just about to report to you."
"After upgrading with Runed Bricks, the Great Wall has developed a new ability. It seems to be related to farming!"
Previously, the sky island only had cobblestone, and most structures were built from it.
Since returning from the Twilight Forest, the chunk rewards had provided many block resources.
These items refreshed daily, greatly enriching the environment of the sky island and giving the Architect new construction options.
Runed Bricks were a special construction block from the Twilight Forest; he used them for renovations.
The Great Wall became increasingly majestic and domineering, while its buffs changed.
[SYSTEM: TWILIGHT RUNIC POWER, YOUR CHUNK HAS OBTAINED A NEW BUFF EFFECT.]
[SYSTEM: FARMING CIVILIZATION: BLESSED BY A CIVILIZATION THAT HAS ENDURED FOR MILLENNIA WITH A FOCUS ON AGRICULTURE, YOUR CHUNK'S CROPS WILL MATURE FASTER.]
[SYSTEM: FIRST UNLOCK, OBTAINED EFFECT 'HEAVENLY DEW'.]
[SYSTEM: CHUNK CROPS WILL ACCELERATE MATURATION FOR THREE DAYS.]
Rain is the most common weather in the Block World, but strangely, this rain only fell on Galen Yu's chunk.
Furthermore, the color was a translucent golden, like precious jade or gold.
The saplings matured faster, and the crops in the small farm he had tilled previously grew at a visible rate.
Yet the most striking thing was not the golden rain from the sky, but the redstone structure he had just built.
The sugar cane grew at an incredible speed; as soon as it reached three blocks high, it triggered the observer, which activated the piston.
Redstone triggered continuously; as the pistons pushed, there was no need for manual harvesting.
The sugar cane was automatically knocked down into the hoppers, sliding through them into the chests below.
[SYSTEM: CONGRATULATIONS TO NINE PROVINCES PLAYER, GALEN YU, FOR INVENTING THE AUTOMATIC SUGAR CANE FARM!]
[SYSTEM: CHUNK SCORE +2!]
[SYSTEM: AS THE FIRST CREATOR, THE NINE PROVINCES WILL ENJOY NEW TOOL PRIVILEGES!]
[SYSTEM: UNDER THIS CIVILIZATION, PLAYERS FROM OTHER NATIONS CANNOT USE THE AUTOMATIC SUGAR CANE FARM FOR TEN DAYS!]
[SYSTEM: IN OTHER CIVILIZATIONS, THE NINE PROVINCES HAS THREE DAYS OF EARLY ACCESS TO THE AUTOMATIC SUGAR CANE FARM; OTHER PLAYERS WILL BE ABLE TO USE IT AFTER THREE DAYS!]
The machine was simple, so the rewards were not many.
But as the first redstone contraption, its appearance carried another meaning.
It caused some foreign viewers to break down.
"An automatic sugar cane farm? Redstone?"
"Nine Provinces made another new tool? Didn't they say redstone was a useless ore?"
"It's so convenient! Doesn't this mean Nine Provinces will have an endless supply of sugar cane from now on?"
"Sugar cane makes paper, paper makes books, and books can be enchanted... isn't this a whole process to rake in massive profits?"
"Holy crap, enchantment effects are so overpowered. Does this mean Galen Yu can do infinite enchantments now?!"
"He wasn't giving up; it's another unique feature of the Block World!"
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