MC's career as foreign lord

Zhou Ren seemed determined to play coy, unwilling to reveal the secret no matter how much the two elves pleaded. Instead, he insisted they plant the spirit flowers first.

Seeing that he wouldn't budge, the two elves, one big and one small, gave up trying to make him talk and began their planting journey with a huff.

Compared to the Tree of Life, planting spirit flowers was a playful affair. These flowers were meant for amusement, making them exceptionally easy to grow.

All it took was scattering the transparent seeds onto the grass. The seeds would find their own spot to burrow into the ground, and then a seemingly ordinary flower would sprout in its place.

Zhou Ren watched the flower with curiosity. Driven by the Tree of Life, the flower quickly emerged from the ground, gradually taking root and sprouting. The initially plain flower slowly revealed its own unique beauty.

He finally understood why these flowers were loved by all elves. The once inconspicuous blossoms gradually unfurled their petals in the sunlight, displaying a rainbow of colors. However, the flower fairy that Leah spoke of did not appear.

Zhou Ren voiced his thoughts, then looked at the two elves, one big and one small, who were giggling uncontrollably.

"Hahaha!" Shia laughed. "Flower fairies are a type of sprite. As a kind of magical creature, their chances of appearing within these flowers are low. It's just a possibility, not a certainty!"

Leah picked up Dagg. "Bear-bear seems to increase the chances of flower fairies appearing, but we don't know when a little cutie will show up!"

At that moment, the small bear, who had seemed a bit listless, perked up. He lay on a flower, his fur seemingly covered in pollen.

Then, he jumped vigorously onto another flower, spreading the pollen. These flowers were quite large, as big as a palm, allowing the bear to lie on them easily.

"Um… it wouldn't be relying on this bear for pollination, would it?" Zhou Ren asked, not expecting Leah to nod happily. "Yes, yes! We rely on Bear-bear for spreading the pollen!"

By now, the flowers seemed to have reached their maximum growth, ceasing to grow further. However, on this cleared patch of grass, these beautiful flowers resembled colorful auspicious clouds, radiating intense light.

From a distance, this patch of grass seemed to be enveloped in a dream, filled with fantasies and dreams that ordinary people couldn't comprehend. It was truly the dreamland from his memories, where people could run through the flower sea, and petals would fly everywhere with the waving of their arms.

"Do these flowers need daily care?" Zhou Ren asked. "Besides attracting flower fairies, what else are they good for?"

"The dew and nectar from these flowers can be used as food for elves, and it's high-grade food that only elven nobles can afford!" Shia said. "If it weren't for the Tree of Life, it would take a long time for these flowers to even grow!"

She gently touched a flower, and a bowl automatically formed in her hand. Then, she shook the dew from the flower into the bowl.

It was said to be dew, but it was actually some water hidden in the center of the flower. The water looked crystal clear, seemingly filled with all kinds of beauty, and it revealed a rainbow of colors as it flowed into the bowl.

"Try it!" Zhou Ren took the bowl. As soon as he tasted it, he felt a very comfortable sweetness. No wonder it was the food of elven nobles; the sweetness seemed to be filled with magic.

Shia took another cup and handed it to Leah and Dagg, who were bouncing around. "Mmm, mmm, this water is tastier than the ones in the elven lands!"

The little girl didn't understand what restraint was. She said whatever came to mind. Shia was surprised by this and quickly took a sip herself.

"It really is. Your territory is filled with very rich magic. After these flowers were planted, all the magic entered them. The taste of this dew is much better than the ones in the elven lands!"

"If it's tasty, then drink more!" Zhou Ren said. He tasted the water in his hand, then looked at the cup, and a set of data appeared in his eyes.

[Dream Flower Dew]: Dew from the miracle flower—the spirit flower. It can effectively refresh the mind, make potions, and improve the taste and effect of potions.

"It really is a good thing!" Zhou Ren nodded. It seemed that some of the elven race's good things would be recognized by the system and then taken over and turned into his own.

After playing for a long time on the flower-filled lawn, the three finally embarked on their return journey. The little girl remembered the pork she had ordered earlier and happily stood in front of Zhou Ren, saying she wanted to participate in today's food preparation process.

Zhou Ren nodded. Of course, there was no problem with that, at least there would be no danger in the kitchen.

The three of them rowed a boat through the forest and river, and also through the rice paddies by the river—with the Tree of Life taking care of them, the rice grew very quickly, so he didn't need to harvest the rice every day. He only needed to come over and plant two crops when the rice was scarce.

Leaving the cooking to Shia, both elves were very interested, and with the help of a new synthesis manual, it shouldn't be too difficult.

Zhou Ren then followed the steps behind him all the way to the underground. As mentioned before, they had placed all the track-laying machines in the underground cave, after all, the warehouse had nothing but boxes.

Now, with the storage drawers, even the boxes were useless. Rows of drawers were very conspicuous, especially the materials on them, which looked unusually diverse.

Whether it was ore, all kinds of stones, or a lot of crops and other production materials, there were already a lot of them now, and he had made many more drawers as a precaution.

If there weren't not enough wood, he would even want to fill the entire 500-grid wall. Those rows of wooden storage drawers would be truly impactful.

Zhou Ren had a sudden idea. Since Leiqiu could turn a pickaxe into a lightning iron pickaxe, then he should also be able to enchant an axe to turn it into a real chain-cutting wood axe, right?

But after thinking about it, it was not necessary. After all, he already had Tinker's Construct. If he wanted to get a tree-cutting axe, he could just make a mold to make a lumber axe, and it wouldn't be so troublesome, right?

Of course, he didn't come down here to play. Now, there was no one here except for the gurgling water and the items transported from the underground in reverse.

And the Lich Mosa seemed to understand his own position and did not appear in front of Zhou Ren. He was the chief housekeeper of this territory, and he had many things to be busy with.

After all, there are still various monsters appearing throughout the territory. Although they have cleaned up most of them, both above ground and underground, and have set up various torches.

Moreover, the monsters from the outside are also being cleaned up by groups of elves, but this cleanup is limited. Before the monster spawning tower is built, this place cannot be truly safe.

So, Mosa was waiting not far away for the completion of the iron rail machine. Seeing Zhou Ren arrive, he bowed slightly, "Master, there is a problem with this thing. When it's running, I feel the world is trembling!"

"The redstone iron rail machine is a utilization of the world itself, so it's not strange that this happens!" Zhou Ren said, after all, it was a machine made using world loopholes.

In the original game, doing too much could even cause the server to crash. The main material world is relatively tough, but under the exploitation of this machine, it probably won't last long.

"So, this machine can't be left on. We are fleecing the world. We can stop it after making enough rails!" Zhou Ren said, the main material world is good to him, so there's no need to keep fleecing it.

Next time, he'll take these iron rail machines to the Nether to fleece the will of the abyss. That should be fine, right?

He also learned in detail about the new monsters in the Nether. There are no more zombie pigmen from the past. Now they are all called Piglins.

Zombie Piglins still exist, but neither of them will actively attack people wearing golden armor. As long as he doesn't do all kinds of digging or courting death in the Nether, he can live for free for a long time without being actively attacked by monsters.

This is good news for him. Next time he goes to the Nether, he'll wear a full set of golden armor and put the iron rail machine there. It shouldn't be a problem to make a simple automatic collection device, right?

"How many rails have been made?" Zhou Ren asked.

The first few rails were naturally synthesized by himself using iron ore and gold ore. Ordinary rails require 6 iron ingots and a wooden stick, while a powered rail requires 6 gold ingots, a wooden stick, and a redstone dust.

After he spent some resources to make both rails and powered rails, he could start farming them. Now he opened the box next to him.

Mosa also understood and made several storage drawers next to it. In addition to the full box of rails, the two wooden storage boxes seemed to be full. He was making the second set of boxes.

"Actually, you can spend some ore to upgrade the storage drawers, but making two more drawers is also fine!" Zhou Ren said, "You can lay the rails in the underground world. Next time, we'll take the minecart to mine!"

There's no need to think too much about the minecarts. Didn't he say that he found a man-made mine? There are many minecarts in that mine, not to mention the minecart chests, also known as transport minecarts, which can directly transport some of the mined minerals to the upper floor for unified processing.

He took a little more rails and two minecarts, and returned to the ground. He had just teased the two elves a little bit, and now he naturally had to deliver.

But before he even reached the house, he heard the voices of a big and a small elf inside, "Liya, help me get a bucket of water!"

"Teacher! This meat seems to be cooked!"

"If it's cooked, hurry up and bring it over. Don't throw it around in your hands like a rice ball!"

"But... I didn't throw a rice ball, it was Dagg! He stole food again!"

"This gluttonous bear, he'll be thrown into the forest sooner or later!"

"That's right, that's right, he eats my things every day, leaving me with no fruit to eat!"

The two elves' back-and-forth conversation sounded especially fun. Zhou Ren walked in with a smile, "Two beauties, I wonder how lunch is going?"

Xia took some food from the smoker outside the kitchen, then took three bowls of rice from the workbench, and then took two lively fish from the box and put them on the campfire outside.

She picked up Dagg, "As a punishment for your gluttony, go eat outside for this meal!"

Hearing this news, the others didn't react much, but the Raichu on Zhou Ren's head woke up quickly and was clapping its hands happily.

This little guy has only recovered a little bit of energy now, and is pulling on Zhou Ren's sleeve, seeming to want to eat something good.

It is an elemental life itself, and what it needs is mostly a collection of elements, so now its food has been changed to elf fruits with a higher concentration of elements.

"It smells so good!" Liya said, the little elf felt that the food she made seemed to be more fragrant than the good things she usually ate.

Zhou Ren put a fish in the little elf's bowl, and was very gratified to see that she was already using chopsticks very skillfully.

The elf princess on the other side didn't have this worry. She had powerful magic, and simple learning was enough to master chopsticks skillfully.

Even things like magic can be mastered quickly, so there will naturally be no problem with chopsticks. After all, some techniques and gestures are much more difficult than holding chopsticks.

"When you found Raichu, did you feel anything unusual?" Zhou Ren asked, looking at the little guy who was working hard to eat the elf fruit.

He always felt that the disappearance of this little thing was not literally going out to play. After all, its elemental perception is terrifying. Both the Grand Canyon and those demons were related to this little guy.

"Unusual?" Xia frowned, "When we found it, it was lying on an open space, just like when I summoned it for the first time, as if it had lost a lot of lightning power!"

Zhou Ren looked at Raichu, "Lost the power of lightning? But it seems to be fine!"

"What it looks like is meaningless," Xia shook her head, "Because of the existence of the thunder element realm, any life that can communicate with elements can quickly restore energy. This little thing really has a secret!"

"It looks like it's very tired!" Zhou Ren said, touching Raichu's head. This little thing also seemed to enjoy his caress, leaning on his hand and squeaking.

"Are you saying you went back to your world and wanted to find some helpers?" Zhou Ren asked curiously, how could it be bringing its family?

"But having a few more happy lightning elements like this doesn't seem bad. At least it's not so lonely!" Zhou Ren thought for a while and drank the milk in his cup.