He thought that with his speed comparable to a human-shaped excavator, he would be able to level the ground in a very short time.
But reality slapped Yun Yi in the face.
Even though he was wielding two shovels.
One clod of dirt per second.
His hands were almost smoking.
But it still took him more than half an hour to dig away just the topsoil.
It's a good thing Steve's body didn't have a fatigue setting.
Otherwise, the amount of work that could have broken an excavator's bucket would have probably made Yun Yi vomit blood.
Fortunately, laying the stones was much faster.
And placing blocks in reality was simpler and more convenient than in the game.
In the game, you had to use the mouse or tap with your finger to place blocks.
But in reality, Yun Yi only needed to switch the rock blocks to the use bar.
Then, with a thought.
The rock block in his hand would automatically detach and fall into place.
Almost instantly.
And the farthest distance Steve could place blocks in the game was 7 blocks.
That's 7 meters in reality.
But in reality.
Yun Yi found that after he leveled up, he was able to increase the block placement distance.
Every time he leveled up, the block placement distance would increase by one meter.
He was now level 7, and he could place blocks up to 14 meters away.
Because of this.
Yun Yi simply ran around the open space, laying down most of the rock blocks stored in his backpack.
However, it wasn't enough. He had only covered a very small area.
It was mainly an aesthetic issue.
The rocks in his backpack were of different varieties.
Granite, diorite, basalt, andesite...
Each one looked different.
If he didn't separate the types and laid them all on the ground indiscriminately.
It would feel like a clean piece of cloth with patches all over it.
Although it wouldn't affect use.
It would affect aesthetics.
Yun Yi wasn't the president of the Appearance Association, but he was a man who pursued beauty.
He had the ability for it anyway.
So he consciously chose the same type of rock when laying the ground.
Granite.
Firstly, his backpack had a relatively large amount of granite.
Secondly, the most common things he mined when going down the mine were cobblestone and granite.
This meant that the granite reserves around the Taihang Mountains were very abundant.
There was no need to worry about running out of granite.
And granite also had a high hardness.
With the technological level of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, as long as he didn't intervene, the ground paved with granite would be difficult to destroy.
"I'm out of granite in my backpack. I should go down and dig some. I'll also dig up the materials I need to build the house later."
Yun Yi opened the crafting table again.
He used iron ingots and logs to craft twenty iron picks.
The items, logs, coal blocks, and iron bars that were originally placed in the backpack space had been transferred to the chest by him.
Except for the nuclear powered torch.
There was no light in the mine. Without a nuclear powered torch, he could only grope about in the dark.
Then.
He started a new round of mining with twenty iron picks, ten iron shovels, and three sets of torches.
He used the iron shovel for dirt.
He used the iron pick for rocks.
An iron shovel in one hand, an iron pick in the other, it had a kind of red revolution feel to it.
Of course, it would be more fitting if it was a sickle and a hammer.
This time, Yun Yi used the straight up and down real man mining method.
After all, he didn't need to dig too deep this time. He just needed to dig to the rock layer.
Perhaps due to the influence of the Taihang Mountains, the soil layer under Zhaojiazhuang was not thick.
Only fifty meters.
Beyond fifty meters, it wasn't directly the rock layer, but a gravel layer formed by the compression and friction of very small pebbles.
Unfortunately, it wasn't sand. Sand could be smelted into glass in the furnace.
With glass, he could make glass bottles, and potions wouldn't be far off.
Of course, gravel was good too.
There was a chance to get flint while digging.
Flint could be used to craft flint and arrows.
Arrows were whatever, the main thing was flint.
If he could get some obsidian too.
Yun Yi could try building a Nether portal.
He was very curious about what the Nether in the MC world would become in reality.
Of course.
Most importantly, many items in MC could only be obtained in the Nether.
For example, nether wart, which is essential for brewing potions.
Gravel and sand are some of the few rock minerals in MC that are affected by gravity and fall down.
So for the sake of his own safety.
Yun Yi didn't dig all the way down through the gravel layer, but instead placed a few rock blocks every few sections to reinforce the sides to prevent the gravel from sliding down.
"Another flint!"
Yun Yi happily picked up the flint that had exploded again and put it in his backpack.
The drop rate of flint was not high.
It usually took about ten gravel to get a flint.
But that was enough.
After all, Yun Yi had traveled to the late Eastern Han Dynasty, not primitive society.
He didn't lack fire.
So, besides lighting the Nether portal, flint was almost useless.
So, it was all up to fate.
If he got flint, he would happily accept it. If he didn't, he would continue to dig down.
The gravel layer was much thicker than the soil layer.
About one hundred meters.
Although Yun Yi was digging straight up and down, he didn't just dig down blindly with one block. He would dig four blocks for each layer he went down.
It might be a bit slower.
But it was safer.
He had also encountered underground water several times.
But because of the long drought, the underground water had also become a trickle.
Yun Yi didn't care about the underground water.
He just blocked the flow of water with a few stones and continued to dig down.
"Ding!"
Finally, he heard a crisp sound of the iron pick hitting the rock.
Yun Yi had reached the rock layer.
The light red rock was a whole with its surroundings.
Finally found you.
Granite!
Yun Yi excitedly rubbed his hands and picked up the iron pick to start knocking.
Ding, ding, ding...
The sound of the iron pick hitting the granite was crisp and pleasant, especially clear in the space of only two meters in front, behind, left, and right.
After finding the granite, Yun Yi stopped digging down.
Instead, he started to expand the excavation nearby.
There was enough granite here.
He had barely dug for a while and his backpack was full of blocks, and he had also formed a huge cavity around him.
Yun Yi quickly inserted the nuclear powered torch.
He looked around.
He realized that he had only dug a tiny part of a huge granite massif.
Or maybe even a corner of the Taihang Mountains buried deep underground.
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