As the dark fog gradually dispersed, the two of them returned to the MC world.
Unlike Fang Mo, Xiao Yao was visiting this place for the first time. Seeing that this was the home Fang Mo had described, she immediately started curiously observing her surroundings.
However, it is worth mentioning that this is not the main world of the MC universe.
Back in the Chainsaw Man instance, Fang Mo touched a hell steel door which unlocked the Dimensional Door mod. He then moved his home into the pure white void.
After all, this place is incredibly convenient. Not only is it boundlessly vast, but it is also set to not naturally spawn monsters. The whole map is permanently fully lit, eliminating the need for torches. Moreover, even falling into the void doesn't lead to death but merely transfers one to a dimensional prison, allowing one to teleport away at any time, which is extremely safe.
Unlike Fang Mo, who is a PvP player skilled in quick actions, Xiao Yao has always been a dedicated player of large modpacks.
She is quite knowledgeable about many mods, so she didn't need Fang Mo to explain anything; she quickly realized what this space was.
"The pocket space of the Dimensional Door..."
Xiao Yao thoughtfully nodded her head and then summoned her stand, Alex, to start touring this vast platform.
As mentioned before, after moving his home here, Fang Mo also expanded it several times.
Now, rather than calling it his home, it would be more accurate to describe it as a base. Originally, the pure white void had no material presence, but Fang Mo managed to lay out a vast platform using stone steps.
The light grey stone steps are arranged in a haphazard fashion.
Fang Mo has designated different functional zones within this layout.
There is a central warehouse specifically for storing various resources and a Tinkers' Construct workbench for forging new weapons.
To the west of the central warehouse is a wooden villa he uses for resting.
To the south lies Fang Mo's ranch and plantation.
Towards the northeast, chaotic large-scale power-generating devices have been constructed, where countless monsters are bred en masse, killed collectively, and their drops continuously collected by hoppers, ultimately stored in box after box.
The only survivors are probably the villagers continuously toiling in the Tinkers' furnace.
They were not killed outright but had their lives preserved to repeatedly extract emeralds from them, which might be the only kindness Fang Mo has shown them—at least they are still alive.
On the eastern side of the platform,
an area has been left deliberately empty, without any stone steps laid out.
Xiao Yao casually strolled around this platform, first inspecting the Tinkers' furnace, then the wooden villa, and when she saw the massive statue, she suddenly paused in surprise.
However, she didn't say much, just pursed her lips and continued her tour.
It was not until she reached the central warehouse and saw the resources Fang Mo had accumulated over this period that she was utterly stunned, her eyes wide open in disbelief.
"No way, you didn't..."
Her face was full of astonishment as she turned to Fang Mo: "Did you really mine tens of thousands of blocks around the Twilight? You have way too much ore… Oh my! And there's so much sticky resin!?"
"Oh, that was all Steve's doing, it has nothing to do with me."
Fang Mo shrugged his shoulders: "You should be able to master this skill too. Just lie in bed and daydream, and Steve will go mining on his own."
"I don't think that will work..."
Hearing this, Xiao Yao instinctively furrowed her brows: "I can use all these things here, right?"
"Of course."
Fang Mo responded with a casual wave of his hand and then pointed towards a vast expanse of white in the eastern area: "See over there? That spot is reserved just for you, for you to come and start the industry…"
Hearing this, Xiao Yao instinctively turned to look east.
She quickly turned back, meeting Fang Mo's intense gaze, and a familiar feeling rose from within her.
"No problem, it's arranged."
Feeling a sense of inner peace, Xiao Yao also revealed a confident smile.
The following steps were quite straightforward.
After all, the tacit understanding between the two in Minecraft did not require any verbal communication.
Fang Mo first helped the other party get familiar with the capabilities of the stand-in, and then he controlled Steve to go out and map, hoping to find a few more Book of Ages by chance.
As for Xiao Yao.
After briefly familiarizing herself with the capabilities of her stand, Alex, she quickly rolled up her sleeves and got to work.
Fang Mo's warehouse was very well-stocked, having even prepared nearly a thousand sets of stones during his free time. Now, Xiao Yao controlled her stand to make some of the stones into stone steps, then went to an empty space in the east and started laying out the platform needed for the industrial area.
And just as Fang Mo had mentioned earlier.
His partner was weak in PVP, easily killed by Endermen in the wild with only an iron suit, a shame among players. However, she was incredibly knowledgeable about various mod technology processes, inter-mod interactions, and the crafting lists.
For instance, right now.
It seemed only a moment to Fang Mo.
The other party had already started assembling machines on that platform, with over a dozen furnaces simultaneously smelting different items like rubber, glass, red bricks, and various other things...
Xiao Yao stood on the platform, her eyes somewhat vacant.
Controlled by her, Alex was quickly running around, flipping furnaces, placing boxes, using scissors and hammers to manufacture iron plates, cables, then combining them with rubber to make copper wires, assembling circuit boards, then hammering tin casings and wires, making batteries, followed by wooden energy storage boxes.
It was just in the blink of an eye.
And already, they had unknowingly entered the low-voltage era.
When Fang Mo, controlling Steve who had mined a large amount of ore, returned home, he saw that a pile of Industrial Era 2 machines had already appeared there, a shocking scene that left him stunned.
"Wow..."
Fang Mo rubbed his eyes in disbelief.
He then found Alex starting to assemble items for thermal expansion.
Various metal gears, redstone reception coils, redstone transmission coils, and mechanical frames, servers—many recipes that Fang Mo could hardly remember, seemed effortlessly easy in the hands of the other.
In the blink of an eye, another row of light gray machines was laid on the ground.
And after finishing these tasks.
Xiao Yao suddenly snapped back to reality.
She stood there thinking for a moment, then quickly walked over to Fang Mo.
"Need anything?"
After all, they were long-time partners. Even before his partner spoke, he had already understood what she meant: "I'll have Steve get it for you."
"Get some lava for power generation, it's good for the early transition."
Xiao Yao said, controlling Alex to come over, directly throwing several groups of empty cells on the ground.
Fang Mo's thoughts flickered, and he immediately had Steve pick up the empty cells. But after a closer look at the suffix, he realized these were not Industrial Era modules' cells, but from TechReborn… the Technological Renaissance module's empty cells.
"Uh... did you make a mistake?"
Fang Mo thought about it and still asked tentatively: "These aren't the empty cells from Industrial 2, right?"
"What you're thinking of is more like the Industrial 2 Experimental Edition, and those things are called Universal Fluid Cells."
After listening, Xiao Yao looked at Fang Mo as if looking at an idiot: "The Universal Fluid Cells require four tin casings and a glass pane to make one, they can be reused but making them by hand now is too material-intensive, and the forming machine is terribly inefficient, so it's better to use these empty cells, even though they're single-use, but... you're not short on that bit of tin ingot, right?"
"You're the expert, you decide."
Fang Mo's head was buzzing, he quickly gathered up the empty cells and had Steve rush to the Nether.
Although there weren't many ores in the Nether, fortunately, the lava resources were abundant. It wasn't long before Steve returned the filled lava cells to Xiao Yao.
Meanwhile, she hadn't been idle either. Her expression once again became vacant as Alex kept running between the Tinkers' furnace and the industrial area, carrying items like redstone, nickel, iron, silver, copper, lead, and platinum back and forth, tinkering with them.
Before long, Alex's hands were filled with a variety of upgrade kits.
Fang Mo took a glance and saw not only Hardened Kits but also Reinforced, Signalum, and even Resonant Kits.
Normally, Thermal Expansion (TE) can't skip technology tiers, but after getting the Reinforced Kits, if you want to upgrade to Signalum, you have to use a Fluid Transposer, first melt the redstone into destabilized redstone in a magma crucible, then use the transposer to bucket it and mix it with copper and silver dust in a 1:4:1 ratio.
But as mentioned before.
This gadget is filled with the effects of module interactions in its mind.
The Tinkers' smelter can melt redstone, and then if you place a bucket in the casting basin, you can bypass the original process entirely. You could even say that synthesizing essence directly in the furnace is also feasible.
Of course, Fang Mo himself didn't understand any of this.
He initially figured it out entirely through a method of infinite trial and error.
At this moment, as he watched the other party busy themselves for a long time, the only words in his mind were "awesome".
However, it wasn't long before Fang Mo suddenly noticed the true form of the Xiao Yao not far away. The other's stunned expression seemed inexplicably cute, and Fang Mo was also curious about their state at the moment. After all, he could multitask and control Steve, but the other seemed... not so capable?
After thinking it over, Fang Mo sneakily moved closer.
He reached out and tapped the other, yet this little fellow had no reaction at all.
"…Hmm?"
Seeing this, Fang Mo was momentarily stunned, but soon his lips slightly curled up into a smirk.
"Hehehehe..."
During this risky moment for Fang Mo, not far away, a thermally expanding machine quickly took shape, and Alexis once again dived headfirst into the pile of industrial machines. She fiddled around for a long time and inexplicably dressed herself in a set of orange... something resembling a hazmat suit.
Not long after that, a block with a radiation symbol appeared on the ground.
"Um, right, did you add the nuclear engineering to this suit…?"
After completing these tasks, the spiritless Xiao Yao suddenly snapped back to reality and subconsciously turned to say something. However, she immediately noticed Fang Mo in front of her: "…What the hell are you doing!?"
"Ah, it's nothing, I was just caring about you."
Fang Mo nonchalantly withdrew his hand and then seriously said, "It's mainly because your body seems a bit distracted when you control your avatar. That can be very dangerous in a battle... Try not to do that next time."
"I've always had difficulty multitasking. I only excel at concentrating on one thing."
The Xiao Yao adjusted her clothes, feeling something was slightly off but couldn't pinpoint what exactly. She opened her mouth to scold Fang Mo, but in the end, she didn't speak up and just sighed helplessly: "...Did you forget? I told you before, I don't even listen to music when I play games."
"Oh, you mentioned that."
Fang Mo nodded in agreement. This was indeed true; the little fellow in front of him seemed only proficient in concentrating, a trait completely different from his own.
Logically, Fang Mo could even listen to cross talk, audiobooks, and play LOL simultaneously.
Most importantly, this didn't hinder him from criticizing his teammates.
Hearing his partner say this, Fang Mo now also understood more clearly that he could control both the avatar and the body to do different things... This was probably a talent? Or perhaps a privilege of the MC's master?
And the other did not possess this talent.
So both the body and the avatar could only control one at the same time?
While Fang Mo was thinking about this, the Xiao Yao spoke up again: "By the way, did you add nuclear engineering here?"
"Oh, yeah."
Fang Mo came back to his senses and nodded, asking, "What about it?"
"I remember you said you could modify the configuration files to some extent," the Xiao Yao pondered and said, "Nuclear engineering has a radiation setting. Can you turn that off?"
"What is that?"
Fang Mo curiously asked, "If you turn it off, will it stop deducting health when handling uranium-235?"
"Uranium-235 deducting health is an IC setting." The Xiao Yao rolled her eyes, "What I mean is, nuclear engineering interacts with the Industrial Era, and the effect of the interaction is... using nuclear power from the Industrial Era generates block radiation, and you must manufacture machinery from nuclear engineering to remove the radiation."
"Meaning, you would suddenly start losing health while standing still, or other debuffs might occur."
"Oh, I see."
Hearing this explanation, Fang Mo nodded, "Then you keep busy, I'll go check it out…"
After saying this, Fang Mo found a corner to sit down, his mind wandering into the core realm of the MC world, where various module configuration files were placed.
However, he had barely started browsing when he suddenly noticed a brand new configuration file, and his expression immediately showed surprise.
"Holy shit… a server configuration file!?"
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