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

But God is gone...

After investigating the entire situation, the eyes gathered together.

They seem to be discussing countermeasures.

But one of the eyes simply shut itself off.

No longer participating in the conversation.

The same applies to the other eyes...

Finally, they left through the portal opened by the humans.

After they left, the portal closed...

No one knows which bottomless abyss that core has fallen into...

The entire dimension is in a frozen state.

There are small water layers in the ice, and all living things live in the remaining water.

Those rare canyons became the last home for marine life.

All the creatures in the snowfield... are dead...

Communication on the seabed relies on amphibious sea turtles.

We traveled through the canyons divided by ice.

Although there is a fair amount of water, there doesn't seem to be a single, continuous aquifer in this dimension; it's more or less divided by ice.

Some sea turtles have reached the entrance to a deep, icy abyss where water is not visible from above.

No marine life can venture into those abysses to search for the energy core.

After the core collapsed, there were no more earthquakes in this dimension.

But the boiling springs that used to gush out still exist.

It is said that they will melt some of the ice, but only in areas with warm water.

They are mostly occupied by hostile creatures.

The nearby boiling springs are all separated by ice.

The only group of sea turtles capable of traversing those areas lacked the fighting prowess to rival the hostile creatures.

And after those sea turtles returned, they were all much more irritable than before.

No creature was willing to let its only companions risk their lives to explore the boiling springs and the icy abyss.

The entire dimension fell silent.

The marine creatures that managed to survive huddled in small puddles or rare overturned canyons.

Every now and then, we ask the turtles to check on the situation in other canyons.

Or they might look around to see if they can find new companions.

They lived like this for who knows how long.

Until Shi Qian, this human, opened the portal again and came to this world.

After the dolphin finished telling the story, Shi Qian understood what he had to do.

If you choose to help them rebuild their homes...

We need to find the fused energy core first and then figure out a way to separate them.

Then they were buried underground, just like before.

Let's leave this place as it was before, even though the snowfield may be devoid of any life.

Or should we throw one to the ground and the other to the sky?

Turn this place into a pure ocean of snow?

The dolphin didn't understand what Shi Qian was thinking; he only knew that the human in front of him had been deep in thought ever since he finished speaking.

He began to doubt whether he had exaggerated the situation, and whether this human would actually help him.

After all, he had never seen this human before, and it seemed that he was unaware of their previous interactions with other humans.

Is it because I didn't offer enough compensation...?

After all, humans only need the coordinates of the next portal, but they need help solving such a huge problem.

"You can take any resources from the ocean as you please! Just don't harm my companions!"

"That's roughly where the energy core crashed. If possible, I'll set off now!"

They both spoke almost simultaneously, but the atmosphere became even more awkward after they finished...

They both knew what the other person meant, but also understood that the other person had misunderstood them.

Seeing the awkward atmosphere, the other dolphins dared not make any rash moves.

They brought the same sea turtle that Shi Qian had brought, and it swam in from above, blocking their way.

The sea turtle and the dolphin said something to each other, and the dolphin nodded.

"Humanity, the last energy core we saw was here, heading in that direction."

The dolphin turned around, nodded in one direction, and even blew a bubble.

Shi Qian nodded to indicate that he had remembered.

The dolphins also helped the sea turtles migrate to other areas.

However, there is an ice delta in that direction, so the turtles can probably only reach the new biome.

Because the ice delta is still quite difficult for sea turtles to traverse.

The rest of the journey is up to Shi Qian himself.

Shi Qian understood; he was just about to leave when the dolphin called out to him.

The dolphin blew a large bubble at Shi Qian, which burst upon touching him.

Inside was a cube that looked somewhat familiar to Shi Qian, but he couldn't quite place where he had seen it before.

After touching it, I found that it had been put into the system inventory.

It looks like a special prop.

"If you see us dolphins or turtles elsewhere, this cube can ask them to help you, although you may not really need it..."

Okay, I get it. It's a pass token, which can be used as a pledge when necessary.

Shi Qian waved to the dolphin and then left with the sea turtle.

After Shi Qian left, a group of dolphins inside the room circled around the large dolphin.

It sounded like he was asking about the situation.

The dolphin felt that this might be the real hope.

He initially asked about the Heart of the Ocean because he felt that if God's eyes had been brought back...

Perhaps we can seek God's help again.

What if they come back to save me?

But after he finished recounting the history of this place, he suddenly felt that God didn't seem so credible after all...

After all, before the incident, gods had always existed only in legends.

The only people who believed in them were the guys guarding the temple.

They didn't actually call the guardians guardians at first; they just called them spiky fish.

Until one day, a fish wanted to go inside their temple.

Those guys killed the fish without hesitation.

They also warned the other fish that they were the guardians of this place, and that if such a thing happened again, they would use lasers to kill any trespassers.

Since then, few fish have visited the area near the underwater temple.

The name "Guardians" spread, and no one wanted to call them "Spiky Fish" anymore.

Now, the gods are in trouble, and the guardians have only allowed them into the temple once.

He never showed up again.

No one knows where they've hidden themselves; no one has seen them since.

We haven't heard from them since they were frozen in ice.

All the fish felt that God had taken them away or abandoned them.

They were killed.

But the dolphins don't see it that way; the guardians always remain hidden.

While they were curious about the temple, something appeared out of nowhere and drove them away.

This time, perhaps they've hidden themselves in some unknown corner beneath the ice plains, waiting for the day the gods reappear.

The dolphin silently prayed that humanity would not be affected by those creatures.

Hopefully, humans won't run into those guys.

Humans will help them see the light of day again; they won't leave them permanently under the ice.

Humans have always been this way, friendly and warm...