Minecraft: Deep Dive (Minecraft Woodsword Chronicles #3). Nick Eliopulos

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СКАЧАТЬ awesome,” Po answered. “Team, we just discovered a shipwreck!”

      They approached the old

      shipwreck cautiously. The

      moon was getting lower in the

      sky, but night wasn’t over yet.

      Any number of hostile

      mobs might be lurking

      nearby.

      The ship was big. It looked as though it had run aground, crashing into the beach. It showed signs of damage, but it was still in one piece. Its masts rose high into the sky.

      “Can we board it?” Po asked. “I want to see what’s in there.”

      Morgan and Ash shared a look. While they all loved Minecraft, Morgan and Ash knew the most

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      about the game.

      “What do you think?” Morgan asked her. “I’ve never found a shipwreck before.”

      “Me neither,” said Ash. “But they’re supposed to hold treasure chests.”

      “Well, now we have to check it out,” Jodi said.

      Harper quickly constructed a staircase out of dirt and stone. It would allow them to hop from the beach to the deck of the ship. “We could hack our way in,” Harper said. “But the ship looks so cool, I don’t want to break it.” She peered through a hole in the hull. “Any more than it’s already broken, I mean.”

      They all gathered on the deck. Po immediately pointed out the treasure chest at the front of the ship. He knew from reading non-fiction that the front of a ship was called the bow. It was spelled like a bow and arrow but rhymed with now and wow.

      “There’s another chest at the stern,” Jodi said, pointing to the back of the ship.

      They split up to open the chests. There was a lot of useful stuff inside both chests: carrots

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      and potatoes, gunpowder and gemstones, and even a couple of pieces of enchanted leather armour.

      “Not bad for a night’s work,” Po said.

      “And we’re not done yet,” Morgan said. “Check it out.”

      Morgan led them down a short staircase to the interior of the ship. There was one more treasure chest waiting to be opened.

      “Po, why don’t you do the honours?” Ash suggested. “Since you found the boat.”

      Po rubbed his blocky hands together. It was like Christmas morning.

      He approached the chest, opened it, and looked inside. He saw a faded map, all orange and yellow with a big red X. There were also several bottles filled with a dark blue liquid.

      “It’s a treasure map!” he said, excited. “And some potions.”

      “Those are potions of water breathing,” Morgan said. “And the map leads across the ocean.”

      “Good,” Harper said. “If we decide to follow the map, those potions might come in handy.”

      “We are so following the map,” Po said. “Right?”

      “Morgan?” Ash said. “You seem unsure about this.”

      Morgan brought his square hand up to his chin. He pondered silently for a moment. Finally, he said, “The contents of a chest are supposed to be somewhat random. And this feels . . . not very random.” He paced around in the

      cramped quarters.

      “It’s way too convenient

      that we would find these

      water-breathing potions

      right here at the

      edge of the sea.”

      Ash nodded

      slowly in agreement.

      “I see what you mean.

      It’s certainly

      suspicious. On

      the other hand, maybe

      we just got lucky.”

      “We are due some luck,” Harper said. “After all, I got blown up a few minutes ago.”

      “And the fact that we are here, actually in the game, means that THIS MINECRAFT IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM THE MINECRAFT WE THOUGHT WE KNEW,” Po added. “We’ve already seen some mobs acting strangely. Maybe treasure chests are less random in this version of the game.”

      “Maybe,” Morgan said, still thinking.

      “DO YOU THINK IT’S A TRICK?” Jodi asked. “A trap?”

      Po thought about that. There was a lot they still didn’t know about this place. The five of them accessed this virtual world with special VR headsets their science teacher had created. There had been six headsets, but the sixth headset had gone missing.

      And there had been clues that someone else was in here with them. Someone had stolen materials from them and then used those materials to spell out a warning in big blocky letters: BEWARE THE

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      EVOKER KING!

      And someone (or something) had recently caused a huge migration of zombies and skeletons. The kids had crossed several biomes over the last few visits in their search for answers. They had run out of land now. All they’d found was the ocean.

      It felt like a dead end. But the ocean could be crossed. Po wanted to know what was on the other side.

      As if reading his mind, Harper quickly expressed that she did not feel the same way. “MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST GO BACK,” she suggested. “I liked that village. We could raise some more sheep. I could get more practice with the enchanting table.”

      “Or we could go all the way back to our castle,” Jodi added. “We could make it even bigger! And I could create more sculptures.”

      “That’s not really what Minecraft is all about, though – at least for me,” Ash said. “Sure, building is fun . . . BUT I DON’T WANT TO STAY IN ONE PLACE. I ALWAYS WANT TO SEE WHAT’S OUT THERE, BEYOND THE HORIZON.”

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      “Yes!” Po said. “Especially if there’s a treasure map pointing the way. Who knows what we might find?”

      “IT COULD BE A TRAP, THOUGH,” Morgan said.

      Po shrugged. “Then we’ll СКАЧАТЬ