After offering a brief explanation, Fu Mo had no intention of saying anything more to Qingque.
He took out his Stone Pickaxe and carved a staircase into the stone wall beside them, digging upward one level at a time.
Standing behind him, Qingque anxiously squeezed her knuckles before finally resigning herself to her fate and following him up the steps he had dug.
Fu Mo glanced back at Qingque, whose face was still full of worry.
“If you’re scared, you can wait down here.
Once I get out, I’ll seal the entrance.
Those monsters won’t be able to get in.”
The moment Qingque heard this, she pictured herself huddled alone in the pitch-black mine, trembling uncontrollably.
She couldn’t help shuddering.
“No!
Bro, I’d better come with you!
There’s strength in numbers!”
Fu Mo didn’t object and nodded in agreement.
Qingque was the first person he had met in this other world.
If possible, he would protect her as best he could—not because he coveted her beauty, but because he needed information about this world from her to help him grow stronger and develop in the future.
“All right.
Once we’re outside, stay behind me.
Do exactly what I do.”
“Got it!”
In less than two minutes, Fu Mo had dug all the way to the surface with Qingque.
After breaking through the final Dirt Block, he cautiously poked his head aboveground with his Stone Sword in hand.
If he encountered an unbeatable monster, he could immediately seal the entrance and retreat underground.
Fu Mo carefully looked around, only to spot a baby zombie and a spider from Minecraft standing nearby.
“Damn, why did it have to be these two?”
Fu Mo had never imagined that the terrifying monsters Qingque spoke of would turn out to be Minecraft zombies and spiders!
He was disappointed yet relieved.
Disappointed because he wouldn’t get to see what the native monsters of this world dropped, but relieved because baby zombies and spiders were old acquaintances.
Although they were now in the real world, they still acted according to Minecraft’s rules.
That gave him absolute confidence that he could kill them.
Below the entrance, Qingque saw Fu Mo poke his head aboveground and then remain completely still.
Unable to resist, she reached out and poked him in the waist.
“Bro, what’s going on out there?
Why aren’t you moving?
Are you okay?”
“I’m fine.
Follow me up, and remember to stay prone.”
Fu Mo temporarily set aside the question of why Minecraft monsters had appeared in this other world.
He placed a Dirt Block on the ground beside him, then used it as a support to place a prepared Cobblestone Slab directly above it.
As soon as he climbed to the surface, he immediately lay prone beneath the upper slab and began crawling forward while extending the slab ahead of him.
The moment Qingque poked her head out of the hole, she saw Fu Mo lying beneath the slab, wriggling forward like a maggot with his backside swaying from side to side.
The bizarre sight left her dumbfounded.
After extending the slab forward for a while, Fu Mo looked back at Qingque.
Seeing her still standing dazedly in the hole, he hurriedly urged her on.
“Hurry up and follow me, or go back and hide in the hole.”
“Okay, okay!
Coming!”
Qingque no longer cared about dirtying her clothes.
Imitating Fu Mo, she lay prone beneath the slab and wriggled forward after him.
“Bro, aren’t we being a little too…
maggot-like?”
“What are you talking about?
This isn’t maggot-like.
It’s called the Western playstyle.”
“But will this really work?
We only have stone covering our heads.
We’re completely exposed on all four sides!”
Qingque complained quietly, but Fu Mo was the only person she could rely on right now.
She had already hitched her wagon to his, so no matter how ridiculous his behavior seemed, she could only follow his lead for now.
Fu Mo continued extending the slab ahead of him as he wriggled forward.
His targets were clear: the zombies and spiders wandering nearby.
As for the skeletons, he had no intention of provoking them yet.
Even though he could achieve Revival, getting shot by an arrow would probably hurt.
Not long after Fu Mo and Qingque began wriggling forward, the zombies and spiders that had been wandering aimlessly suddenly turned and charged toward them.
“Whoa!
Bro, they’re coming!”
Qingque trembled with fear and pulled several Jade Tiles from her pocket, gripping them tightly.
Even if she was about to die, she would smash a few lumps onto those monsters’ heads first!
“Don’t be afraid.
They can’t get in.”
No sooner had Fu Mo finished speaking than the zombies and spiders closed in.
Qingque thought she was done for, only to discover that the monsters abruptly stopped moving once they reached the edge of the stone.
They kept growling but made no attempt to attack.
“What’s going on?”
Qingque was surprised.
Normally, shouldn’t these monsters crouch down, try to drag them out with their hands, and start gnawing on them?
Why were they just standing stupidly against the wall?
“Simply put, these monsters don’t have knees.
They can’t crouch down to attack us, so all we have to do is hack at their feet.”
Fu Mo switched to his Stone Sword and swung it directly at the zombies crowding around them.
As the Stone Sword swept out, a crescent-shaped wave of white Sword Qi immediately shot from its tip.
Every monster caught in its path let out a roar and was knocked flying.
The Sword Qi didn’t disappear after passing through the monsters.
It continued flying several meters, slicing straight through bushes, branches, and even tree trunks along its path.
Only after reaching its maximum range did it vanish into the air.
Qingque’s small mouth fell slightly open at the sight.
She mechanically turned to stare at Fu Mo’s back.
Unable to hold herself back, she exclaimed in disbelief.
“Bro!
You can unleash Sword Qi, yet you still claim you’re not a swordsmanship grandmaster?!”
This guy was clearly a swordsmanship grandmaster who could casually unleash Sword Qi.
Why was he still making her crawl around on the ground like a maggot?
Couldn’t he just go out, casually swing out a few waves of Sword Qi, and slice all these monsters to pieces?
Fu Mo was also rather astonished by the Sword Qi and glanced at the Stone Sword in his hand.
He had never imagined that Minecraft’s Sweeping Edge would manifest as Sword Qi in the real world.
“Bro, how about we stop crawling around like maggots and just charge out there to slaughter them?
You handle the slaughtering, and I’ll handle the cheering.
How’s that?”
Coming back to his senses, Fu Mo shook his head.
“Forget it.
This is safer.
I don’t want to get hurt.”
The corners of Qingque’s mouth twitched.
This swordsmanship grandmaster was far too cautious.
In his own words, even though he could slaughter them all, he still insisted on using such a Western playstyle…
While Fu Mo and Qingque lay prone on the ground and hacked at the monsters’ feet, Fu Xuan appeared nearby.
The moment she arrived, she saw a group of monsters surrounding a small area.
Through the gaps between them, she spotted two people.
Or rather, two maggots wriggling forward with a ‘wriggle, wriggle, wriggle.’
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T/N: If you spot mistranslation, do tell me!
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Shilling time!