MC's career as foreign lord

"Before making the smelter, we need to make the initial tools of Tinker's Construct, that is, the tools to make the smelter!"

Zhou Ren said, patiently explaining his ideas to the girl beside him.

No matter how useful or sci-fi the smelter is, in reality, they can only start from the very bottom step by step at this moment.

Making a smelter requires a large amount of scorched bricks, which are a special material that needs to be fired from cement.

Of course, the most basic scorched stone can actually be fired directly in the smelter from stones, but this falls into a paradox.

They need the smelter to fire scorched bricks, but scorched bricks can only be fired by the smelter, so there seems to be no way.

Of course, there is a way.

They only need a few sets of ordinary scorched bricks, and then make a smallest smelter, then they can directly fire the remaining scorched stones through the casting basin.

This is also the most convenient and economical method, and many people do it this way.

The most basic smelter requires a large number of scorched brick blocks, even the smallest one, that is, the smelter with only one hollow in the middle, requires three layers, a full 27 scorched stone bricks.

Even the simplest scorched stone brick requires 108 scorched brick blocks, and it also needs to make those special substances, such as scorched tanks for storing magma, furnace controllers for controlling the input of items, and drain outlets that can drain the liquid from the furnace.

Of course, there are also the exclusive casting spout for the drain outlet, as well as the casting table and casting basin for receiving the cast items.

This series of things adds up to at least 200 scorched bricks, which is equivalent to 200 blocks of cement.

8 blocks of cement require 4 gravel, 4 sand, and one clay block to synthesize, then 100 cement is needed.

Zhou Ren ran to the warehouse and took a look.

Except for the lack of clay, there is more sand and gravel than enough, which is also one of the benefits of a lot of mining.

These basic materials can always be found in his warehouse.

Those tireless skeletons have been mining more and more happily recently, and even seem to be unable to stop.

If Jim hadn't ordered them to stop and dig another area, they would have even prepared to make a simple passage under this canyon and completely dig through it.

They are already used to switching to different pickaxes during the excavation process, from stone pickaxes for digging stones, to iron pickaxes for digging ordinary minerals, to diamond pickaxes for digging diamonds, and mithril pickaxes for digging adamantite ore.

Even the way to save is exactly the same as Jim's.

Zhou Ren definitely doesn't believe that Jim didn't teach them this.

So now what they lack the least is stones and soil.

A large number of basic materials are all piled up in the warehouse, and even the drawers for storing cobblestone are almost filling a wall.

Zhou Ren thought that next time when tidying up the warehouse, he could let Jim and the others open a new warehouse dedicated to stacking raw materials.

Since the open space is not being used, he should store these cobblestone materials first, and then hand them over to the gnomes for construction.

Anyway, the gnomes have plenty of energy and are very satisfied with their current life.

Not only do they have all kinds of food to eat, but also different buildings for them to experience.

Those creations that can directly hang in the air have inspired their infinite imagination.

Zhou Ren has already seen a tall tower built by himself today.

Although it was quickly knocked down by them, it seems that these architects are also very excited.

He quickly told them a few words and made a pair of slime boots for each of these little guys who like to climb high and go up ladders.

Fortunately, the Tree of Life can take effect on the slime tree, otherwise they wouldn't have so many slime materials.

Now, even planting plants requires several people to take care of them specifically.

For the time being, there are a few mushroom people who have nothing to do to take care of them, but the mushroom people are more lazy and not very serious.

Next time, he still has to find a few more careful elves to take care of them.

There are already many elf residents in the town.

Issuing a recruitment order shouldn't be too much trouble.

Zhou Ren's thoughts turned sharply, but he didn't forget the person beside him.

He took Shia's hand, "Let's go to the river to dig some clay first, we don't need too much, one stack should be enough."

For scorched bricks, clay actually plays a more of a bonding role.

As long as they dig a little more, it should be enough for a long time.

His main idea is to make a huge smelter, to the limit, and to fill this 100-block-high space.

In this way, he won't need to change the scorched furnace for a long time, and he also plans to make the bottom two rows of the furnace all into separate drain outlets and scorched tanks.

In this way, the scorched solution inside can be placed separately, and can be discharged independently of each other.

The 4 directions should be able to make 8 different production openings, and then he'll get two real magma sources over.

Then put a box next to it, specifically for copper buckets.

These magma will be used as fuel for the smelter, constantly exerting residual heat.

Of course, if there are abyssal demons who can voluntarily come over to become fuel, he will not refuse.

Thinking of this, he felt that he needed to go to the small warehouse that he had forgotten and take a look.

He wondered how the demon and a devil were doing in the abyss and why there had been no movement for so long.

Following the water elevator here all the way up, he came to this area that didn't seem to be visited often, and then heard the two people shouting at each other.

"You damned guy, don't let me find your body, otherwise I will definitely devour you alive!"

"You are a damned bastard, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't be trapped here!"

The two guys' cursing each other wasn't anything new.

Zhou Ren approached and realized that this wasn't just a simple cursing, it was clearly two automatically turned on loudspeakers that were constantly saying some meaningless words.

They really were treating their projections like separate computers, and their back-and-forth conversations consisted of the same two sentences, offering little effect other than being noisy.

As for the other burning demon's furnace, Mesa had long since moved it to the ground, making it a dedicated burning tool in the kitchen. Anyway, when it wasn't burning, the flames were simply extinguished. This demon had no consciousness and wouldn't move.

Zhou Ren didn't hesitate. Finding people was too easy. Since these two weren't around, he'd just call them over.

A flint appeared in his hand, and he lightly touched the two furnaces with it. Raging flames erupted, and the pain manifested on their souls, quickly causing the two fellows to pop their heads out.

They first took a deep breath before shouting.

“Next time, I'll give you a tool to summon me. Don't light this damned fire again!” said the demon Balo.

The devil, despite already being present, didn't say a word, as if waiting for their conversation to end.

Zhou Ren had anticipated this, so he wasn't uncomfortable. He said,

“You've been very quiet lately, Balo!”

His words might have been plain, but the demon heard a special meaning in them. Balo quickly said,

“I haven't been playing around lately! I clearly sent you two demons, but there's been no reaction in the abyss!”

“You've already sent two?” Zhou Ren was taken aback. “Then it seems I didn't foresee this. I'll go check. If that's really the case, you'll get the reward you want!”

He was about to turn and leave, but just as he reached the door and the demon Balo was resuming his previous roar, the devil's voice suddenly piped up.

“I think you should wait a little longer, perhaps for my news!” His voice was empty and indifferent, seemingly forgetting his earlier panic.

Zhou Ren wouldn't humor him. “Then I'd rather wait for news longer. Let your shell here burn for a month!”

“The worst that could happen is using this body to exchange for the freedom of my abyss body. Do you think I wouldn't dare?” This devil seemed to have some reliance, no longer afraid of being eaten by the demon.

“Ah, I recently acquired a little toy that can burn souls. I suppose you wouldn't mind trying it, right?” Zhou Ren said, taking out a soul sand and lightly touching it with the flint.

“Boom!” In the rising blue flames, countless sinful souls seemed to wail. The devil's originally ruddy face turned pale in an instant, no longer with its previous arrogance.

“My flames won't stop. Tell me your purpose, and maybe I'll be happy and let you off the hook?” Zhou Ren said, the blue flames seemingly about to be extended into the furnace. The devil slowly stopped him but still didn't stop Zhou Ren's hand.

“Stop! I'll listen to you!”

The flames on his body turned into blue soul fire, and it began to burn on his originally solid body.

“Ah! You won't get any benefit from killing me!”

He couldn't bear it anymore and shouted loudly, but still didn't receive any forgiveness. This devil named Grel was being punished for the stupid plan he had come up with.

“Don't worry about your body being burned to ashes and getting relief. I have something that can restore your body and soul. The worst that could happen is exchanging some things with you, using a little of my resources to exchange for your permanent soul burning. I think it's a good deal!”

Killing someone also requires destroying their spirit. Zhou Ren directly threw out something, a spirit fruit with a spiritual light. He wouldn't give any good looks to the guy who offended him. Since he made the wrong choice, he would have to pay a big enough price.

It wasn't until this guy's soul was burned weakly, even a little unable to stand there, that he slowly let go.

“You have one minute to explain your plan. If you can impress me, you can reduce the burning time. If not, the punishment will be doubled!”

Applying both kindness and severity was his method. This method was a bit similar to Stockholm syndrome. As long as his methods were clever enough, the other party would not only not resent him but would also thank him.

After gaining a little breathing space, that is, after the blue flames finally disappeared from his soul, the devil didn't have any time to react and quickly said,

“I know a demon gathering camp and have already negotiated a deal with them. As soon as the time comes, they will directly come here through that portal!”

“They have already believed my words and are already preparing. In three days at most, all the demons will arrive!”

“I don't want to know what preparations they have. I just want to know how many people there are!” Zhou Ren said. Would a capitalist dislike having too many cards in his hand? No, he would only feel that he didn't have enough.

“There are a total of 11 demons, including 6 Pit Fiends, 3 Mariliths, and 2 Balors!” The devil spoke quickly, fearing that the soul-burning flames would burn again, and even revealed his entire plan.

“If you can create projections of those demons here, I will devour their main bodies over there and then be promoted to a more powerful devil. This plan to capture demons for you will be faster!”

His rhetoric was very interesting. Anyway, he didn't consider it from his perspective at all, but sincerely considered it for Zhou Ren.

“Heh!” Zhou Ren smiled, “Even if you rise two levels, you won't be as high as Balo's rank. Why should I believe you?”

“First release everything you should have in your hands. I'll give you one last chance. If you're still like this in front of me next time, I don't mind putting you in a camp full of soul flames as a flag!”

Demons and devils are creatures who only remember being eaten, not being beaten. If there is no strong pressure, who knows what kind of tricks they might play in front of them, so Zhou Ren never hesitated to punish them. He looked at the silent demon furnace. That guy hadn't left yet.

Who said demons were all stupid big guys who didn't know what was important? This one was obviously very sensible!