2: What is this? Leather!

Fang Yun climbed out of the sand pit, stood by the edge of the hole, and weighed the miniaturized sand block in his hand.

"It doesn't have much weight, I can just feel a block in my hand."

Then, Fang Yun threw the miniaturized sand block onto the ground, and the sand block remained in its miniaturized state without changing.

"So that's how it is. It seems I have to perform the action of placing it for the block to return to its original state after being dug up and dropped."

Picking up the sand block again, Fang Yun aimed at the hole and performed a placing action with his mind.

Then, the sand block in Fang Yun's hand instantly grew larger, steadily filling the hole he had just dug.

Fang Yun bent down and carefully observed the surface of the sand. "Excluding the impact of sand particles blown by the strong wind, from the measurement accuracy of the naked eye, the surface of this sand block is absolutely flat."

Next, Fang Yun stood up, stomped hard on the sand block, then bent down to observe it again before continuing to summarize:

"Stepping on the sand block gives the feedback of stepping on sand, but the sand block does not undergo any deformation."

"So, since it won't be blown by the strong wind and won't deform, it should also possess some other block characteristics."

"For example, anti-gravity characteristics that would make Newton's coffin lid fly open, or in a sense, spatial anchoring characteristics."

Fang Yun dug down two blocks right next to the sand block, then dug out the sand beneath this sand block as well.

As Fang Yun expected, the sand block remained completely still, floating in mid-air.

"It seems that before the blocks I place undergo reality conversion and become real, they possess all the block characteristics, just like blocks in the MC game."

After refilling the hole, Fang Yun returned to the surface and then restored all the sand blocks to their real state.

"Before I'm sure whether monsters will spawn on the blocks I place, I'd better not place blocks randomly."

After speaking, Fang Yun fixed his gaze on the dilapidated house behind him from when he transmigrated.

"Now, it's time to verify the other abilities of being data-ized."

Although this dilapidated house is called "dilapidated," it wasn't actually so simple that only the load-bearing walls remained; it just gave a sense of being worn out.

On the side of the house facing Fang Yun, in the middle was a broken iron door that already had several holes in it. On both sides of the door were pitted walls that would crumble and shed debris with every gust of wind.

Fang Yun walked up to the door, gave it a gentle push, but the broken iron door didn't budge.

"It seems this broken iron door is locked from the inside. That makes sense; if the door wasn't locked, it might have been blown away long ago by the strong winds."

Fang Yun raised his fist, thought for a moment, then lowered it. "Unlike in games, it feels weird to keep swinging my fist in reality. I should get used to performing actions with my mind."

Fang Yun stared intently at the broken iron door, performed the digging action with his mind, and a crack immediately appeared on the broken iron door.

As the duration of mental digging increased, the crack on the broken iron door also grew larger, until a faint "bang" sound occurred, and a miniaturized iron door block dropped onto the ground.

(ps: Friendly reminder: In MC, digging an iron door with bare hands does not yield any drops.)

Fang Yun continued to perform the action of picking up the dropped item with his mind, and then a miniaturized iron door block appeared in his hand.

"Fortunately, my System has been modified based on the MC System. If it were the MC System, digging an iron door with bare hands wouldn't even give me a single hair."

Putting the iron door block into his inventory, Fang Yun stepped into the dilapidated house.

Because the broken iron door had been dug up by Fang Yun, the wind and sand from outside fiercely poured into this room that they had long wanted to enter.

The strong wind mixed with sand stirred up all the dust that had accumulated for a long time inside the room, making the entire room now "murky and chaotic."

Fortunately, Fang Yun had a data-ized body. Although he needed oxygen, he didn't necessarily need to breathe. So Fang Yun had already held his breath tightly to avoid inhaling sand and dust.

Of course, even if Fang Yun didn't hold his breath tightly, he wouldn't actually inhale the sand and dust into his body, because Fang Yun's current body was data-ized and had no internal structure at all.

However, if he didn't hold his breath tightly, Fang Yun would feel like he was inhaling sand and dust. Just like when he first transmigrated, because Fang Yun had his mouth open, he felt like he was eating sand.

sand and dust wouldn't get into Fang Yun's eyes either, because his eyes weren't eyes now; they were just the eye part of the skin named "Fang Yun" that he was using.

However, similarly, if he kept his eyes open, Fang Yun would feel like the wind and sand were blinding him.

Therefore, before entering the room, Fang Yun also narrowed his eyes in advance. Of course, this did not affect his ability to see clearly inside the room under the sweeping wind and sand.

Not paying too much attention to the wind and sand raging in the room, Fang Yun's gaze continuously swept across the inside of the room.

["In the middle is the living room, to the left are the kitchen, dining room, and bathroom, and to the right is the bedroom. Further inside, to the left is the bathroom, and to the right is the storage room."]

(ps: The content inside 「」 is thoughts in the consciousness.)

"Small as a sparrow, yet it has all the vital organs. Based on the fact that this house was locked, it can be inferred that the people who once lived here might have thought about returning to live here again in the future."

After glancing at the dilapidated state of the room again, Fang Yun couldn't help but sigh, "But, it seems now that he or they, who were here before, obviously couldn't come back."

There were iron doors separating the living room from the other rooms, and they seemed to be locked as well.

However, the walls between them had collapsed, creating large holes, and through these holes, Fang Yun could get a general idea of the situation inside each room.

After successfully understanding the general situation inside the room, Fang Yun's gaze fell on the sofa in the middle of the living room.

"Although it's not natural animal leather, artificial leather should work."

Fang Yun walked to the side of the sofa, bent down, and used his hand to tear off the artificial leather surface of the sofa, which had become dry and brittle.

"Ding! Leather detected. Proceed with block conversion?"

Block conversion, like reality conversion, was one of the abilities Fang Yun gained after being data-ized.

Fang Yun nodded and said, "Convert."

A flash of light passed, and the leather in Fang Yun's hand was converted into an MC leather block.

Fang Yun held up the leather, his face showing an expression of joy. "Look, leather! This is the raw material for my first set of armor in this world."

"Right now, I'm wearing the shirt, underwear, pants, and slippers I wore while playing games in the dorm. If I meet someone from this world, they'll definitely notice that my clothes are wrong."

"After all, what normal person wears these kinds of clothes in the harsh environment of the Badlands?"

While complaining about his current outfit, Fang Yun continued to tear off another piece of leather from the sofa to convert.

"But with leather, it's different. Leather can be used to craft leather armor, and when armor is converted from its block state back into reality, its appearance can be designed to some extent."

"As long as the armor's appearance is designed in a style suitable for the Badlands, it can cover up the illogical aspects of my clothing."

"However, there are still many illogical things about me. For example, my instantly fixated innocent eyes, my harmless demeanor, my fair skin, and so on. I'll deal with those later."

Fang Yun successfully tore off all the leather from the sofa.

"As long as the area of the leather is no less than a quarter of a square meter, it can be converted into one piece of leather. This is a great help, otherwise, there definitely wouldn't be enough leather."

Fang Yun gave a thumbs-up for the conversion mechanism, and then crafted leather armor for the five parts: head, chest, hands, legs, and boots.

(ps: There is no hand armor in MC.)

(ps: The crafting recipes for head, legs, and boots remain unchanged. The recipe for chest armor replaces the last row with only one in the middle. The recipe for hand armor is placing two pieces of leather diagonally next to each other.)

"For the style after the armor is reality-ized, let's reference the clothing style of the Wanderers in the 2077 game. Tong Zi, help me convert it."

"Ding! Armor reality conversion complete."

Fang Yun found a broken mirror in the living room, then held the mirror to observe his current appearance.

"Not bad, black shirt, black pants, and Wanderer-style leather armor, it's quite a match. It's just that having slippers inside these leather boots is a bit much. It's a bit abstract, folks."

"Tong Zi, help me turn off the display of the slipper part of my skin."

"Ding! Display of the slipper part of 'Skin·Fang Yun' has been turned off."

"Hmm, that's much better now."

Putting down the mirror in his hand, Fang Yun looked at the sofa, which was now just springs and an iron frame, and scratched his head. "Tong Zi, is the volume of this thing enough to be converted into iron ingots?"

"Ding! Upon detection, the volume of the iron material is no less than one-eighth of a cubic decimeter and can be converted into iron ingots. A maximum of 24 iron ingots can be obtained through conversion. Convert?"

"Convert. With these iron ingots, as long as I get wood, I can craft weapons, shields, and tools."

The iron frame of the sofa was converted into iron ingots, and some non-iron parts were scattered on the ground.

Fang Yun straightened up, stretched his neck, and looked into the other rooms through the collapsed walls, discovering a large wooden bed in the bedroom.

Fang Yun clapped his hands happily. "Got it! Didn't the wood just arrive?"