Minecraft: Is this still the Minecraft I used to play?

Shi Qian walked aimlessly on the ice, having already descended two layers of ice.

I still didn't see anything, but there was some water here.

Although there were still no living organisms, it gave Shi Qian some hope.

At least this place isn't all ice and snow.

Although the snow and ice scenery is beautiful and has high aesthetic value.

But what truly worried him was not being able to find anyone or any living being to ask about the new portal.

Along the way, he saw nothing but ice, ice floes, and snow.

The ice layer is about two or three layers thick, interwoven.

It's like a bottle of water that's been frozen halfway in the freezer, and then the water is poured out, leaving only ice.

Shi Qian went straight down at every turning point.

The ice seems to get thicker as you go down, while the snow layer becomes less.

The water quality here is fairly normal.

They are interspersed on the ice layer, one square at a time.

Shi Qian went down two more floors.

There was more water here, and Shi Qian also saw new things besides those.

This is a section of deactivated staghorn coral growing on the ice.

There was no dissolved water around the staghorn coral.

"Coral... Could this really be the ocean?"

Shi Qian had thought that the underwater portal would lead to the ocean, but what he saw after entering was a frozen world.

It looks like the ocean now, but I don't know what happened to make it look like this.

Several thoughts flashed through Shi Qian's mind in an instant as he guessed the cause of this place.

He probably knew what he was there to do.

Restoring this place to its normal ocean state should be enough, right...?

However, Shi Qian had no ideas at the moment, so he decided to see if he could ask the indigenous people for information.

Shi Qian now feels like he might really be turning into a blond-haired guy.

He was very familiar with this routine, arriving in unfamiliar territory.

Go help someone solve a problem, and then you get some information.

Although this information wasn't exactly what he wanted, it was closely related to what he desired.

Then, based on that information, go to a new location...

This cycle repeats itself endlessly, with no end in sight.

Just thinking about this makes my head hurt. If this world is really like this, then going home seems like a distant dream.

He would go absolutely crazy if every faction had a portal.

Shaking his head, Shi Qian decided to search this floor some more to see if he could find anything else.

My current altitude is still above sea level in the main world.

I don't know how tall this ocean world is, or if there are any height restrictions or anything like that.

However, after walking a long distance, there were no more corals except for a few that had lost their vitality.

"Looks like this is how it is on this floor..."

Shi Qian felt that if he wanted to find creatures, he should definitely go to places with more water.

Marine life can't survive in just one or two bars of water.

This time, he went down three floors and saw a type of cube he had never seen before.

This is a luminous blue light source, several of which are stacked together.

It was embedded in the ice.

The cube looks a lot like fluorite and mycelium, but upon closer inspection, Shi Qian feels that it looks more like a coral block.

The store didn't have this block, so it seems the store can only use original Minecraft items.

Shi Qian put his hand on it, hoping to knock it off and put it into his system inventory.

However, as soon as it was placed, a purple subtitle box appeared at the top of the field of view.

Deep blue-green algae clusters

"Oh my god~ Is this the highlighting feature added after the update?"

Even though he knew the name of the block, Shi Qian still knocked it down.

Unfortunately, dropped items cannot be stored in your inventory.

Shi Qian had no idea what this thing was used for.

However, it seems to appear as a source of light, just like in Hell.

After all, it's already descended quite a distance here, and it's not as bright as it was when we first came out of the portal.

I wonder if there's a day-night cycle here...

But there should be some, after all, it's the ocean, not the lower realm.

Shi Qian went down a little further and finally saw living creatures in the water.

Even though it was just a salmon.

"It's not easy—we can finally see something alive in this place."

Shi Qian went to the edge of the pond to watch the fish swim there, and watched for a full ten minutes.

They even put the leftover aquatic plants into the pond.

Besides the fish, you can also see some dark blue algae on this floor, and the glowing light makes people feel quite at ease.

Shi Qian glanced at the coordinates and realized he was almost at sea level in the main world.

It seems that life can only exist at similar altitudes here.

If the ocean is about this deep, then where do those seemingly endless ice floes above us come from...?

However, there don't seem to be any intelligent beings on this level, and no one capable of communicating with them.

Currently, no other structures have been observed to form besides the ice layer.

I wonder if this dimension only has this one type of group.

The deeper Shi Qian went, the more clearly he could feel the changes in temperature.

It was freezing cold when I first stepped out of the portal, but it's better now, if you don't look around.

These ice blocks visually convey the coldness of the place.

Shi Qian went down a bit further and found that the water-bearing area was getting larger and larger.

The water has already reached a depth of three blocks, although there aren't many fish in it.

But from here on, at least the organisms became active again.

As Shi Qian was looking for a way down, he suddenly saw a sea turtle crawling forward in the distance.

He followed, but soon the sea turtle disappeared from sight.

Shi Qian immediately sped up and ran over.

They discovered that they were facing a canyon filled with water.

The ice layer he was on was several blocks higher than the water surface, so he couldn't see the turtle after it went down.

The canyon, which contained water, was not visible from the outside, but Shi Qian plunged into it in one go.

He was stunned as soon as he went down, and couldn't help but let out a sigh.

"This is the ocean!"

Various fish swim happily inside, and colorful live corals grow on the sides and bottom of the canyon.

The area where the canyon meets the ice layer below is blocked by a light green block.

Some water is allowed to flow out onto the ice, but not all of it rushes over.

Shi Qian's arrival did not disrupt the tranquility of the place.

He swam downstream along the edge of the canyon to the light green blocks.

Touch it with your hands.

Waterstone (can be used to craft stone tools)

Shi Qian didn't expect that the highlighted information was so comprehensive this time. It seems that the function of the water stone is the same as that of the black stone in the Nether.

The bottom of the canyon is just a normal seabed, consisting of sand and gravel.

There's nothing new...

Shi Qian thought of the sea turtle from earlier, which seemed to have come looking for him on its own.

It's probably not purely AI; it might contain some information.

My eyes searched for the green figure and finally found it next to the coral diagonally opposite.

After finding it, Shi Qian discovered that the sea turtle seemed to be looking at him as well.

As he swam over, the turtle emerged from a layer of ice, carried by the flowing water.

Shi Qian quickly followed suit.