MC's career as foreign lord

"Looks like Grel is really motivated to save his life!" Zhou Ren said, already having brought Xiya to the villa. He immediately sensed an extremely dense aura of violence and fire, which at least showed that the little imps hadn't been slacking off.

"Then let's go see which other lucky fellows have walked into the trap," Zhou Ren said.

This fishing method really works every time. A portal opens to a completely sealed space, and a bunch of demons all want to come through, but they fight each other every day. Their intelligence determines that this battle will end in failure.

"One, two..." Xiya counted diligently. Trusting Zhou Ren, she directly pulled out all the demons and suspended them in mid-air, arranging them in the yard.

Actually, the scene looked particularly interesting. Zhou Ren thought of a scene from Zi-O, where the time king was stopped in time, suspended in mid-air like this. So from this point of view, time and space still have many merits.

At least they can both restrict enemies in mid-air and let people do whatever they want with them.

The demons finally reacted, only to find that their bodies had been restricted. A human and an elf were standing in front of them, making comments.

"In terms of burning efficiency, the highest should be the Balor, followed by the Six-Armed Naga!" Zhou Ren said, "Stuff the Balor into the smelting furnace. Using these demons for practice should reduce a lot of trouble for you!"

"Their flames are more efficient and purer, which can reduce the loss of ore. One ore material can smelt three metals!" Xiya said, seeming very happy to obtain such materials.

The demons cried out even more fiercely. They seemed unable to accept being allocated as materials.

"Damn humans, I'll turn you into..." A Six-Armed Naga, who was shouting the loudest, had just uttered a few words in Common when it realized that its body seemed to be transforming uncontrollably.

"Not good! It's that guy!" They realized something was wrong. Everything here was strange. They originally thought they were being paranoid, but they didn't expect it to be a trap.

"Too late!" A somewhat shrill scream seemed to come from the abyss. When they opened their eyes again, they saw a completely different scene before them.

The two demons and devils, who should have been mortal enemies, were dividing up his body, giving him a weird smile. Then his body in the overworld was stuffed into a black box.

"These not-so-good flames can be used to burn food and other things!" Zhou Ren said, "They need a lot of stones to build buildings, but stones can only be obtained by burning. Have them burn more so the dwarves can come and get them!"

He was really racking his brains for this territory.

"Why didn't those two guys come out to negotiate terms with me today?" Zhou Ren said, shaking his head in puzzlement, and left with a dozen furnaces full of goods.

The burning tools are ready, and next is to forge weapons. They are going to explore the Nether!

After all, the gold here is ultimately limited. When they find a suitable place in the Nether, they can directly set up a mob farm and use piglins to farm gold.

In a place like the Nether, the best weapons are, of course, ranged weapons. After all, their enemies are likely to be countless piglin armies, many ghasts floating in the sky, and even more zombie pigmen.

If they encounter a Nether fortress, they will also encounter even more crazed wither skeletons and blazes. Of course, magma cubes with fire attributes may also come out to join in the fun.

Most of these enemies either have extremely high melee damage or ranged attack methods. If he goes to the Nether without ranged attack methods, he can only rely on his shield to withstand the attacks.

Using a shield to withstand attacks is certainly a method, but it is not very suitable for him. If he is only going to scavenge materials in a Nether fortress, the shield is a very simple method. Coupled with the slime boots and rubber band slingshot in his hand, he can quickly escape.

But this time, he is preparing to stake out territory in the Nether. He needs to mine netherrack, soul sand, various Nether minerals, and all kinds of Nether materials. He is also preparing to turn the zombie pigmen into recyclable spawning monsters.

At the same time, he may also raise some piglins and trade with them for extra gold, which can obtain some unexpected treasures.

These are all things to be considered after he goes to the Nether. As for now, he should honestly forge weapons.

The 50 skeletons have a set of original crossbows. For ordinary monsters, these crossbows are enough. He doesn't have blaze rods and cannot make an enchanting table, so he can't make all kinds of crossbows with special effects.

But the crossbows made by the Tinker's Construct smeltery can still use different materials to obtain the effect of enchanted arrows, which is also the method he is preparing to use.

So after leaving the villa, he didn't rush back to rest, but took the minecart rail and returned to the underground along the returning road.

Although the later plans were well made, there were actually many, many preparations to be made.

For example, the mining team below, Zhou Ren hasn't seen them for a long time. Logically speaking, they should have finished everything, but recently, not a single skeleton can be seen in the territory. He doesn't know where Jim took them all.

"I'm preparing the templates here!" Xiya said, jumping off the minecart halfway and returning to the smelting area.

Since everything refined here is various metal tools, which basically cannot be stacked, storage drawers are not used for collection. Instead, there are still rows of boxes.

However, you can also see some storage cabinets of different colors, with picture frames or signs on them, marking the items inside.

"Then be careful yourself, don't forget the time!" Zhou Ren nodded. After all, he is going to the deeper underground now, and it's good that Xiya knows how to avoid suspicion.

As the minecart continued to move forward, he quickly entered a very narrow slope. The mineshafts made by these skeletons are really interesting. Two rows of three, the most extreme distance, made two mineshafts, and from the road he came from, he could still see some storage boxes being pushed over.

These minecarts with boxes should be the things they dug out. If they can't fit, they are pushed over in rows.

No wonder he saw a few skeletons at the entrance just now, placing the boxes there. The efficiency is not slow.

These skeletons have really figured out the entire minecart system. Not only did they make all kinds of track systems, make box trains that can transport items, but also, in order to prevent accidents during excavation, they also laid hopper minecarts at the bottom.

Moreover, because they were numerous and didn't require rest, they hadn't even bothered to learn the fishbone mining method. After Zhou Ren had them excavate the entire canyon, this habit became uncontrollable. They directly started creating piles of underground mine tunnels.

These underground mine tunnels were incredibly wide and vast, even more like the truly bottomless mine pits beneath the dark and eerie regions. They didn't even have stalactites; everything was completely cleared out.

This destructive excavation, of course, brought about huge underground spaces and countless stone resources. They didn't even waste the excavated lava and water. A large number of iron buckets were made to store all these excavated fluids into underground boxes.

However, doing so was not without risk. If someone was digging overhead and accidentally broke into such a huge pit, it would cause a big problem.

Of course, the solution was simple: lay a layer of water or something else that could prevent falls on the ground, such as slime blocks or spiderwebs.

But the easiest way was still to avoid digging randomly. They set up some signal signs and placards above to remind those dwarves who liked to dig around not to dig everywhere.

And the area Zhou Ren was currently browsing was a section of the underground mine, where a large number of mineberries were planted.

As previously mentioned, this was one of the few ways to obtain minerals through planting. Zhou Ren even placed some of these mineberries on top of the monster-spawning tower. They didn't have much attack power, but they had the ability to slowly reduce the monsters' health until they died.

This was similar to bamboo spikes. They could slowly decrease the monsters' lives, but they were in a place that the monsters couldn't attack, so they could only endure the beating.

Therefore, one must be especially careful when picking mineberries. If something went wrong, it could lead to being attacked, which was no joke.

However, the solution to this problem was also very simple. They covered the top of the mineberries with a simple half-slab, so that when people were collecting the mineberry products, they wouldn't be pricked by the protruding thorns.

Now, this mineberry farm was no longer the small place it once was. Thousands of areas in the entire underground space were filled with various kinds of ore berry bushes, from experience berry bushes to iron ore and gold ore.

These plants that could produce ore particles filled the entire underground space and were stacked in many layers upwards.

Below these plants, a whole railway was laid, and funnel minecarts were running above the railway. Above the railway and minecarts, soul sand was laid all over.

The characteristic used here was that objects would be directly collected through the soul sand. At the very bottom of the railway minecart system, they focused on creating a place that could transport and classify objects.

A simple item sorting machine had been completed at the bottom of the railway. The only function of this machine was to sort different ore particles into categories and then pass them through the funnel and the passage below, all the way to the ore warehouse at the very bottom.

That's right, it was still the warehouse they had originally designed. Now, this warehouse was even larger. It had even been divided into many levels with half-slabs, each level representing a special category.

Whether it was plants from the farm, trees and saplings from the tree farm, fish from the river, various kinds of creations, or minerals from the mine, all of them could be gathered in this cave through those hidden passages.

This was not the key point. The main thing was that this mine came with a very powerful item sorting machine that could continue to categorize all the collected items.

They would be placed in the lower area and continue to be transferred to the boxes or storage drawers below until an area was completely filled, and then the redstone signal below would wake up.

This red signal would pass through another passage and continue to transmit upwards to the area of his house. Once the light turned on there, he would know which area's boxes were full and needed to be sorted or more boxes needed to be made.

The villagers' trading plaza had not yet been built, so this kind of exchange could not be achieved, and the storage drawers had not been upgraded.

Once the storage drawers were upgraded, the warehouse below could probably last a long time, but it was already enough now. They had three entire walls of storage drawers, one wall of passages and sorting machines, and another passage leading directly to the monster-spawning tower.

Of course, he couldn't let go of the drops from the monster-spawning tower: a large number of bones, redstone dust, glowstone dust, various kinds of glass bottles, and various monster drops were all sorted and placed. These things would be the best materials for him to make other items in the future.

As for rotten flesh, in the upcoming villager trading system, it could be exchanged with the priests to the highest degree. Anyway, the house was free, so he wouldn't feel bad about exchanging as much as possible.

In the future, a large number of emeralds and emerald products would be placed on the heads of farmers and priests. He would have wider farmlands, huge grain yields, and endless monster drop yields. These were all things that would be realized in the future.

Because the Nether piglin spawning tower he was going to make would actually produce a lot of rotten flesh. It would be too wasteful not to use this rotten flesh directly. He couldn't possibly dry all of it into jerky for people to eat, right?

"Hiss..." He suddenly woke up. Why couldn't he do that? There was no practical difference between jerky made from rotten flesh and jerky made from ordinary meat. At most, it was just a bit psychologically unacceptable.

But these players of his could even chew on ordinary zombie meat with relish, so what was wrong with rotten flesh?

You should know that, according to the settings, jerky made from rotten flesh and ordinary jerky restored the same amount of hunger, which meant that he could transform the monster-spawning tower into an economic creation, and even use the monster-spawning tower to support those famine-stricken countries.

Moreover, support was bound to come with a price. He could use this price to promote his economic system, or his virtual world. As long as those countries wanted to pay with any method, this could be a way to get rich.

Zhou Ren's eyes gradually lit up again. This method was not impossible! Although the road seemed to be full of various kinds of bumps, he was confident that he could do better.