“The sling ring is equipment for sorcerers,” Captain America said in a deep voice.
“To open a cross-dimensional portal, a sorcerer must use a sling ring.”
Steve didn’t understand at all.
“But we don’t even know where that sorcerer zombie is,” Hawkeye said, sighing with his arms crossed.
“We’ll just have to wait for next time,” Captain America said, his eyes burning with intensity.
“The next time a portal appears, I’m going in, finding that sorcerer zombie, then kicking its ass, and taking its sling ring.”
Then Captain America shifted his gaze to Steve.
Professor X knew what Captain America was thinking without needing to ask, and he also unconsciously looked at Steve.
Seeing the two of them staring at Steve, Hawkeye didn’t understand why, but he also cast his gaze toward Steve.
Steve: ◨ ▂ ◧ Huh?
What are you all staring at me for?
“Block Hero, I have a request,” Captain America said earnestly.
“If a portal appears in the sky next time, could I trouble you to use stone blocks to get me up there?”
Steve thought it was no big deal, so he nodded without hesitation.
Captain America felt relieved and took a deep breath.
“Then, Steve, to make it easier to contact you quickly when a portal appears later, take this.”
As he spoke, he took a watch-shaped object from his pocket and handed it over.
“This is a portable alarm. Wear it on your wrist…”
Steve: ◨ ▂ ◧
Captain America:…
The rest of his words were swallowed back down.
With these big block hands, how is he supposed to wear a watch??
Steve said nothing.
He poked the watch on the table, and with a “pop,” the watch turned into a floating pixelated cardboard cutout, which he then sucked into his backpack.
Captain America felt his brain glitch.
Can this alarm still work after turning into that thing??
“Just in case, let’s verify it…” Captain America said, pressing a button on his own watch.
The meeting room was terrifyingly quiet.
“So it doesn’t work… looks like I’ll have to…”
Before Captain America could finish his sentence, a pixelated cardboard cutout of the watch suddenly appeared in Steve’s hand, and a loud “beep-beep” sound erupted.
“It only works if you switch to the corresponding hotbar slot,” Steve said.
Captain America, Hawkeye, Professor X:???
Forget it, they were used to Block Hero occasionally spouting things they didn’t understand.
Hawkeye suddenly realized.
“So, are you saying that if this thing is to alarm normally, you have to hold it in your hand?”
Steve nodded.
“That won’t work. Give it back to me for now,” Captain America said, reaching out helplessly.
Steve tossed the watch out.
The watch-shaped pixelated cardboard floated on the table, rotating slowly.
Captain America stared blankly for a moment, then hesitantly reached out.
Can this thing… still work?
The moment his finger touched the pixelated cardboard cutout, it actually turned back into a watch!
Captain America rubbed the watch strap with his fingertips, marveling in his heart.
He looked Steve up and down while holding the watch, then tried extending the watch toward him.
He pressed the watch against Steve’s chest plate.
This time, the watch didn’t turn into a pixelated cardboard cutout.
Captain America pondered for a moment, then had a flash of inspiration.
He found some tape and, in a few swift moves, stuck the watch firmly to Steve’s chest.
He triggered the alarm through his own watch again.
This time, the watch on Steve’s chest worked normally, sounding a “beep-beep-beep.”
Captain America said “Hello” to the watch, and a “Hello” came from Steve’s chest as well.
“OK, when the portal appears again, I’ll call you using this watch.”
Steve nodded.
Seeing that everything was settled, Professor X advised at the right moment, “You must be careful from now on. The camp suffered heavy losses last time, and Ms. Miller says that manpower is already severely lacking.”
Captain America rubbed his forehead helplessly.
“How big is the manpower shortage?”
“At least 30 people. The engineering team and medical team have the most severe shortages. Especially the medical team; there is only one doctor, Hansen, in the entire camp now.”
Steve understood now; it turned out the camp was short of people.
He suddenly had an idea.
“I have a way,” Steve said abruptly.
The three of them simultaneously: O_o
…Seriously?
“You… have a way?” Captain America asked hesitantly.
“You guys, come with me.” Saying this, Steve walked out of the meeting room.
The three looked at each other, confused, and followed him out.
Steve went all the way to the outside of the apartment gate and started placing stone blocks with a “beep-beep-beep” sound.
A few seconds later, a four-block-high stone building rose from the ground.
Looking from above, it was a “U” shape, with the gap in the middle about five meters square.
Steve had Captain America and Hawkeye stand inside the groove, then ran and jumped back to the apartment.
The two stood in the groove, with stone walls on three sides and the sky above, looking at each other.
“What is this for?” Hawkeye scratched his head.
Captain America shook his head.
How would he know?
A few minutes later, Steve came out of the apartment, running and jumping.
In his hand was a square bed, exactly like his own, only a different color—this one was white.
He placed the bed next to the two of them, then started building a wall on the open side of the “U” shape, block by block, building himself higher and higher.
When the last stone block fell into place, the “U” shape became a closed box.
Captain America and Hawkeye were firmly sealed inside a 25-square-meter stone room, with the top open.
Steve stood on top, looking down at them, and then threw a few pieces of bread at them.
Captain America caught the bread and looked up as the square head disappeared from the edge of the roof.
What does this mean??
Hawkeye suddenly had a flash of insight and violently thought of a possibility.
“Wait, he wouldn’t be trying to get us to…” He twitched at the corner of his mouth and pointed to the square bed on the side.
Captain America’s eyes widened suddenly…
Is Block Hero trying to make them have a baby???
After the two of them thought of this possibility at the same time, they both froze, and at the same time, felt a numbness from their soles to their scalps.
The next second, they climbed onto the wall with perfectly synchronized movements and scrambled out in a few swift moves.
Outside the cage, Steve was hunched over, looking at them.
For some reason, Captain America could actually see anticipation and confusion on those abstract, expressionless, blocky facial features…
“You guys, why did you come out?” Steve asked.
“No matter what you want to do,” Hawkeye jumped down from the four-meter-high stone wall, “this won’t work!!”
“Why?” Steve didn’t understand.
“Why…” Captain America’s head hurt.
“Because we are both men! Two men can’t have a baby!!”
Steve felt a bit confused: “Then what kind of villagers can have babies?”
What is this about two men not being able to have a baby?
This kind of thing is unheard of.
Isn’t it just locking two adult villagers together, putting down a bed, and throwing a few pieces of bread, and then hearts will pop up over their heads and they will produce a baby villager?[N: HAHAHAHAHA!]
Captain America rubbed his forehead helplessly: “It has to be one man and one woman… No, even if there really were one man and one woman, it’s too late now, okay.”
Steve naturally didn’t understand.
Anyway, if this Steve villager says it won’t work, then it won’t work.
He seems to know more about this aspect.
…
Two days later, 8:00 AM.
Steve was lying flat on his small bed like a corpse, and the wooden door beside him was suddenly knocked.
He suddenly appeared on the ground as if teleporting, then turned around and opened the wooden door with a “snap.”
Outside the door was Taylor.
“Morning, I’m here again.” Taylor pushed up his glasses.
“Let’s continue yesterday’s experiment.”
Steve nodded, a stone block appeared in his hand, and he followed Taylor out of the cabin.