MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 2: Mortal Struggle

After experiencing the initial despair, Fang Zheng tried hard to calm his anxious heart.

The little knowledge he learned from the science and education channel made Fang Zheng aware of the crisis.

Humans are animals that cannot tolerate loneliness. If they are locked in a small dark room for more than three days, they will generally begin to develop mental problems.

And now, Fang Zheng's situation is no different from being locked up in a small dark room.

"I have to find something to do, or I'll go crazy!"

Out of fear, in order to avoid going crazy and insane, he began to try his hand at architecture, using blocks with different functions in MC as building materials to construct novel and beautiful buildings, trying to alleviate the despair deep in his heart as much as possible.

The Forbidden City, the Great Wall, the Palace Museum, the Pyramids, the Paris Opera House...

For every building that Fang Zheng had a vague impression of from watching TV, he would use blocks to reproduce them one by one while trying to calm himself down.

He tried hard to put aside all distractions, suppressed his inner despair and anxiety, and devoted himself to the process of building a building with blocks.

In this way, he got through the first three months with difficulty.

At the beginning, such actions had a certain healing effect on Fang Zheng's mind.

Fortunately, whether he traveled through time and space to become Steve, the protagonist of the game MC, or was made into a brain in a vat by a crazy scientist, Fang Zheng did not feel any physical fatigue at all, nor did he feel the kind of confused feeling that theoretically must exist after the brain has been working continuously for a long time.

This is also what allowed him to persist for so long.

However, as time went by, as all kinds of strange buildings and wonders, whose heights reached the upper limit of the placed blocks, began to rise from the ground in the three dimensions of MC - the main world, the netherworld, and the end of the world, Fang Zheng's suppressed anxiety became more and more difficult to suppress.

His spirit collapsed to the limit several times, and he began to scream and cry continuously, and then used TNT, lava, flint, wither and other methods like crazy to destroy the buildings that he had spent a lot of time and energy to build.

After destroying it, it was rebuilt again, and the cycle continued, destroying and rebuilding, destroying and rebuilding...

In this crazy outburst, the anxious and desperate mood was relieved, and several more months passed slowly.

More than half a year of Earth time and more than 15000 days in the MC world have passed.

At some point, Fang Zheng discovered that, despite being an ordinary junior high student with a limited memory, he could now vividly remember every block he had seen and every action he had taken over the past 15000 days, even down to the texture of the pixels on each block, and the precise timing of every action down to the frame...

At this point, Fang Zheng was finally able to confirm that he had truly traveled through time.

He really traveled through time and space and became Steve, the protagonist of the game MC, who is immortal and can create almost everything.

But this immortal and indestructible body of the so-called "God of Creation" that countless MC players dreamed of became a prison for Fang Zheng's mind.

Although Fang Zheng found that he could clearly remember all his memories during this period, he also found it despairing.

The personality of the person named "Fang Zheng" is slowly being eroded under such torment.

There are huge flaws in the minds of intelligent beings like humans, and humans cannot tolerate this monotonous and boring immortality.

Watching the sun set over the square, Fang Zheng, who hadn't spoken to himself in over a month, muttered, "This is the 16867th time the sun has risen and the moon has set..."

From the sunrise of the next day, Fang Zheng stopped building and destroying those strange and bizarre buildings that were designed to stimulate novelty.

Fang Zheng began to try, trying to save himself, to save his own soul.

He began trying to build a redstone circuit computer.

In MC, a sandbox survival and construction game, redstone circuits are a skill that only veteran players can master.

For those extremely rare hardcore players, redstone circuits can be used to create even more unique experiences.

They can use the characteristics of various blocks, and even various special bugs, to design and manufacture various monster spawning machines and automated industrial lines for spawning supplies, thereby achieving semi-infinite supplies in survival mode.

For a very small number of top-level players, redstone circuits can be used as programming tools.

In the MC game, they can use redstone circuits to create a redstone computer that works on the same principles as real-world binary computers!
In the redstone computer, god-level players can edit various programs in it just like programmers edit codes in a computer, so as to calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, play videos, play music, and even play games!
However, redstone computers, which are something that only god-level hardcore gamers can make, are still too difficult for ordinary players like Fang Zheng who just play games to kill time.

He just knew that such a thing existed, but had no idea about the details of its specific construction.

He could only try again and again to calm his suppressed, desperate, and on-the-edge-of-collapse mind, constantly recalling and thinking about the computer binary logic gate principles he had seen in videos, and thinking about how to reproduce them with redstone circuits.

Time passed slowly, and another 3000 blocks of time passed by. Fang Zheng succeeded, but also failed...

As early as the first few days of thinking, Fang Zheng had already figured out how to construct a redstone computer. The rest of the time was just a process of continuous construction and adding logic gates.

However, it is difficult for ordinary people to imagine how complicated it is to run something like a computer without specialized knowledge.

On Earth, the most rudimentary early computers were huge machines made up of a series of components such as vacuum tubes, relays, punched cards, etc., and they occupied a room of hundreds of square meters.

With the continuous advancement of computer technology and the invention of silicon transistor chips, the size and computing power of computers have shown leaps and bounds.

However, if we want to replace chips, which are extremely sophisticated among human creations and require the world's most advanced production lines to manufacture, with astonishingly large blocks like redstone circuits, how much area will it occupy?

What a huge workload that is?

The answer is that even for the most common mobile phone chip for the elderly, even if we ignore the various complexities of the redstone circuit itself, just enlarge the mobile phone chip proportionally and use the redstone circuit for 1:1 replication, the basic logic gate can be at least one meter, which is the size of a block.

That would also be a huge monster that could be placed on the ground and occupy an area of ​​tens of kilometers!

Fang Zheng could calculate how long it would take him to create a behemoth of this magnitude, but he simply couldn't hold out any longer. After the 3000th rotation of the sun and moon, Fang Zheng temporarily stopped placing the blocks in his hand.

Looking at the huge redstone computer in front of him, which was of an extremely large size and stretched as far as the eye could see, and whose height also exceeded the upper limit of the height that could be placed on blocks in the MC main world, Fang Zheng began to clumsily try to debug it again and again, checking for errors in the redstone circuits.

And starting from scratch, try to write binary programs by referring to the computer programming principles seen in the video in memory.

This is a painful and difficult process.

When the programming was completed, the test began. A simple multiplication and division data was input, and the redstone computer began to operate slowly with a clicking sound. Finally, after a long time, it successfully calculated a simple addition and subtraction that even kindergarten students could calculate instantly.

Fang Zheng cried.

The expressionless, immortal mortal inside the cube-man let out a wail of collapse.

Theoretically, if Fang Zheng were given enough time, he could indeed use this seemingly infinite main world to build a redstone computer that was unimaginably large and had computing power far exceeding the total of all computers on Earth.

However, Founder had already tried it at the very beginning.

In this block pixel world, apart from simple instructions that can directly transfer coordinates and change weather and time, it does not support complex instructions like the computer version of MC, and it is impossible to lay out redstone computers through instructions.

You can only build it yourself, block by block.

However, Fang Zheng is a human being!

He is human!
He is just an ordinary student in junior high school with average academic performance!

It is not a machine that can be programmed and run continuously as long as it has enough power.

His mind was being worn out by this constant work.

Fang Zheng can estimate the speed at which he places blocks, and thus calculate how long it will take him to build a redstone circuit system with computing power comparable to even a single-core 1Hz CPU in reality.

Even if we eliminate all possible errors that might occur during the construction process, and exclude the time it takes to program the code, it would still take at least several months of non-stop construction, several months of Earth time...

If one wants to make computing power comparable to that of more advanced chips, then one would need to work tirelessly for hundreds of years...

Furthermore, redstone circuits have huge flaws.

It takes 0.1 seconds for a redstone signal to propagate for every standard distance. Even if an ideal giant redstone computer is really built, its running speed will be astonishingly slow.

Fang Zheng, who didn't even know how he had persisted for so long, finally gave up and was completely desperate.

Although his memory was still crystal clear, and he could clearly remember every pixel on every block during his work, Fang Zheng could clearly sense that his personality, his mind as a human being, and his mind as a mortal being were finally facing the final collapse.

"What will become of me when I completely break down?"

"Will I completely become a corpse frozen in this immortal pixelated body?"

Fang Zheng didn't know.

He howled and howled...

He kept calling out to his family, his friends, and everyone he knew...

Gradually, he stopped again. His mind was broken and he couldn't even cry.

Before he sensed the final collapse of his personality, Fang Zheng left the redstone computer that annoyed him.

He found a beach with pretty nice scenery apart from the blocky style.

Watching the pixel blocks of sea water flow stutteringly and washing away the soil blocks, quietly watching the block sun rising from the ocean at the end of the vision.

The sun rose and the moon set, and after watching the rotation of the sun and the moon for 3000 times, Fang Zheng's mind was almost completely stagnant in this immortal cube body.

He just stayed here quietly, as if it would last until the end of time.

however……

The weather changed to a rainy day again. Not far away from Fang Zheng, one of the massive hell portals that he had built to try to crash the server was struck by lightning from the sky.

As the familiar activation sound that made Fang Zheng want to vomit rang out, a white light curtain lit up in the obsidian door frame, and milky white particle effects like flying snow kept moving in and out of the light curtain.

Then, looking at the milky white light, the block-like body that had stood by the sea and remained stagnant for 3000 days and months began to move.

The stagnant mind was awakened by this sudden change!
"Here……"

Fang Zheng's voice sounded hesitantly.

"A white hell gate?!"

Unlike the regular purple hell gate leading to Mc Hell, this hell gate that was suddenly struck by lightning has a white light curtain.

This means that what lies behind it may not be the hell that Fang Zheng is familiar with, but a completely new world!

Without hesitation, Fang Zheng started sprinting, rushing in at the fastest speed his cube body could!

(End of this chapter)