MC's career as foreign lord

"These guys always manage to surprise me in unexpected ways!" Zhou Ren said.

In this new virtual world, intertwined with illusion and reality, there's still something a little different. These guys with their own collective consciousness always manage to create some special surprises for him.

He flew upwards alone, without using his administrator privileges, acting like an ordinary resident of the virtual world. He created a simple mask for himself and leisurely floated into the sky.

That person didn't deceive him. He indeed saw a place with a very dense population, but upon closer inspection, most of the people were virtual, with only a few being real.

This group has already learned to connect their minds together and jointly create a relatively large area.

It's really interesting. Zhou Ren saw several scattered huge spaces as he flew over. Some were vast grasslands where different people were galloping together on horseback.

He also saw a very interesting combat space where some ordinary people, who didn't know anything about combat, were playing the roles of legendary mages in their minds.

The reason for saying this isn't just empty talk. He could clearly feel that the items these so-called mages were projecting were all the combat power of their imaginations, not legendary magic or techniques.

In a sense, these settings are also very interesting. He wondered how much enlightenment the legendary mages would gain if they saw this scene?

This virtual world is very similar to the early days of the internet, where countless people entering the group dreamed of changing the world with their ideas, knowledge, and thoughts.

And this world is even more open, because everyone's ideas are infinite. These infinite ideas are different from each other, and ultimately one will fail, while the other will win.

"It is in this constant competition and development that the world can truly evolve!" Zhou Ren said, looking at this scene like a hundred flowers blooming, he smiled, "I'm waiting for the day you completely grow and blossom!"

He directly exited the virtual world. Right now, it's just a prototype. Whether it's the information collected by the Mushroom People or the fantasies generated by the people in this virtual world, they are all at a very immature and basic stage.

This is certainly not what he wants. What he wants is sufficient vigorous development and a sufficiently vast world, and in the future, these things will give him a lot of help.

Zhou Ren's idea is very broad. When this virtual world truly takes shape, it will be a huge virtual network, a virtual kingdom built on the network!

The power of the mind did not exist in his original world, but in this world, the power of the mind is real. As long as everyone who can enter can provide faith, then Zhou Ren can even waive their entry fee!

Because faith is the best stepping stone!

He just didn't know if his collection of faith to shape the world would be disturbed by the gods. Probably not, right?

Because compared to faith, this is more like a belief or a test. The power from spiritual belief will become the pillar of the world!

"At least the things I initially envisioned have been successful," Zhou Ren thought, a smile hanging on his lips again. This alone is enough, as for other things, they can be handled slowly.

After the Tree of Life occupies this entire area, the issue of defense here can be considered to have stopped. At least until the elven rangers shoot all their arrows, probably no one will want to attack here.

He now needs to rethink the construction of the territory, such as the great furnace built by the dwarves. Before, in the virtual world, he saw that there were already many dwarves in that world.

This shows that most people are still very idle. After all, it is not night now, but a real day. When there is no mine to dig and no weapons to forge, the dwarves may enter the virtual world to enjoy themselves.

Although entering the virtual world now has no cost, the initial statements have made it very clear that in the future, if you want to enter for a long time, you will inevitably need to pay a considerable price.

Moreover, their racial camp has just been established, and various territorial facilities and buildings have not yet really begun to be prepared. Where do so many people need to enter the virtual world?

On the contrary, he is not too worried about the Mushroom People. This group of carefree ancient races has their life's trajectory engraved in their blood. They will only spend 1/3 of their time in the virtual world every day, no more and no less.

So in the next moment, he had already arrived next to the huge lava lake and found Moradin, the dwarf patriarch, who was reprimanding his people.

He was also very curious, why would the lord, who is usually very busy, take the time to come to him?

"Are you talking about this matter?" Moradin was a little stunned when he heard Zhou Ren's words. "I have to explain this to you. It's not that they specifically want to go in, but that I requested it!"

"You requested it?" Zhou Ren was stunned. He originally thought that some dwarves who had just learned about the spiritual world were disregarding the needs of their own race and specifically running over to enjoy the conditions. Now it seems that it is still a pre-request?

The dwarf patriarch seemed to have anticipated Zhou Ren's statement, so he patiently explained it to him again.

"You don't know, this virtual world is a very powerful improvement for our entire race, so everyone is very interested and wants to gain your favor!" The expression on his face was somewhat nostalgic.

"This world is like the world the Gods of Forge gave us in ancient times. In ancient times, all dwarves could not care about damage and their own dangers, nor did they need to care about the scarcity of materials and flames. Everyone could forge many artifacts!"

"And in this world, through the replication of the entire forging flame and various materials, we found that we can actually forge exactly the same things there!"

The expression on his face seemed to reveal a fanaticism that a ruler should not have. "As long as we set up all the things in that world, then in the current world, we can express them all!"

"Forging artifacts will no longer have obstacles, and making various tools will no longer have barriers!" Moradin's expression began to change, "And this is the true pursuit of our dwarf clan for many years!"

“I think I understand what you mean…” Zhou Ren nodded. It seemed that he wasn't the only one who regarded this world as a virtual network and a place for learning; the dwarves also saw it as an automatic, natural learning machine and simulator.

Extending this thought, could ordinary people learn excellent real-world forging techniques in this virtual furnace, thoroughly forged by the dwarves' dreams?

Since Leah could learn to use magic in the virtual world, it seemed reasonable that ordinary people could learn dwarven forging techniques in the virtual world as well, right?

He suddenly discovered a new trick for the virtual world: selling knowledge.

This was similar to the network world, but this world had no so-called piracy. All permissions were in his hands, and anyone who wanted to acquire knowledge through permissions could only do so through him.

Of course, stealing network permissions was still simple, such as through another mushroom person tribe. However, the main machine they were using now was the Tree of Life, and the Tree of Life itself possessed self-awareness. This cut off the invasion of other consciousnesses, returning the relationship to Zhou Ren's hands.

At least it could ensure the fairness of knowledge dissemination, the safety of the races granted knowledge, and the amount of money they obtained.

The experience points that he had previously discussed with Mosa and implemented to grant attributes could be used for currency delivery and purchase in the network world. Through experience points, they could obtain online currency and transfer it to each other through the virtual network.

The exchange of this currency could take place at the Goddess of Wealth churches and Tree of Life planting points around the world. Moreover, through the Tree of Life, Zhou Ren could open a vast teleportation network that spanned the entire world.

The Tree of Life's immense vitality and connection to the World Tree could make spatial teleportation more than just a false advertisement.

“You've done well. This is exactly the spirit I need. What about the others?” Zhou Ren said, suddenly understanding the mystery of why so many dwarves were wandering around the virtual world. It seemed they also wanted to learn more knowledge.

Moradin also looked helpless. He probably hadn't considered what kind of situations his clansmen would encounter when planning this.

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“Half of them are underground, mining. They have already mined a lot of ore and sent it all to your warehouse!”

This was also what Zhou Ren had requested. All forged metal had to be distributed through him because all the smelted ore would be doubled in the Tinker's Construct, which was a very good increase in mineral production.

If the dwarves were allowed to forge on their own, the ore yield after removing the impurities would not even be 1/10 of what they produced. Such waste was naturally unacceptable.

“Oh?” Hearing this, Zhou Ren suddenly became interested. He wondered what had become of the huge forging area, half for dwarves and half for gnomes, that he had asked them to build.

After announcing his departure to the dwarven patriarch, he once again boarded the minecart, departing from this underground area and arriving directly near that vast open space.

This open space used to be a pasture, but the cattle and sheep had long been moved to more distant aerial pastures.

That's right, even the cattle and sheep were raised in the sky. They built many layers of pastures in the sky, laying the soil layer by layer, and then lighting various lanterns overhead so that the cattle and sheep could develop in a stable environment.

Each layer housed a different kind of animal. Now, there were not only cattle and sheep but also pigs, rabbits, and even horses. Some alpacas that had accidentally developed on the grasslands were also brought to the pastures, becoming part of the ecosystem.

This huge aerial pasture was much larger than the farm. Although it only had seven or eight layers, each layer was hundreds of meters long and wide.

To feed and breed the creatures in the pasture, the skeletons had ingeniously created a feeding rail system.

This system helped to scatter food throughout the pasture without them having to run over and feed them themselves. Similarly, this system also facilitated the gnomes' operations. They combined the building system with this feeding system, creating a very interesting distribution site.

In the gnomes' words, this was also a very meaningful architectural practice activity, and it could also link with the farm in the sky, directly transporting the food produced there.

At the same time, this delivery system would also link with the warehouse, similar to the way the item sorter was used. After the boxes sent to the pasture were filled, they would continue to be transported to the warehouse.

When the delivery boxes were not full, they would continue to be filled until the boxes were completely full, ensuring that as long as the farm's goods were not out of stock, the pasture's creatures would continue to be fed.

It was just that he lacked saddles, so he had no way to create a very complete cavalry team, but it was good for breeding, taking meat, and materials.

These things ensured the food, clothing, housing, and transportation of thousands of different people in the territory. Most of the supplies needed to be controlled by these two huge farms and pastures.

Similarly, the tea fields on the farm had also been completely planted. People would regularly collect and store the tea leaves in the warehouse of Zhou Ren's cottage.

This tea, like potions, was a strategic resource unique to the territory and had to be carefully guarded. So far, only Zhou Ren and Mosa could brew tea.

He controlled this very clearly. After all, the great affairs of a nation are only sacrifice and war! Only these strategically important things could not be entrusted to others, because even a little bit of these things leaking out could lead to an extremely terrifying bloody storm.

The farm was set up very reasonably and interestingly, which also led Zhou Ren to stop and watch for a long time before turning his attention to another place.

That is, the forging place that he had been thinking about, which would be a large-scale armory in the future. Unlike the bustling market next door, this area could be considered deserted.

But this was exactly what he wanted. This future military-industrial institution would become a truly hidden location. Next time, he would plant a row of Trees of Life here to completely block the entire building, and everything would be carried out in secret.

Just as he arrived, the gnomes were preparing to leave.