MC's career as foreign lord

However, when Zhou Ren opened the book, he discovered that what was inside wasn't what he had imagined – a series of instructions – but rather a series of options that could be toggled on and off, along with some blank spaces for names.

In reality, this book was more like a permissions manual. As the owner of the territory, he could use this book to control the usage rights of the entire territory, including but not limited to: entry, attacking entities, destroying blocks, placing blocks, opening and closing doors, using chests, and interacting with entities.

Theoretically, as long as he didn't agree, no intelligent creature could enter his territory. Zhou Ren suddenly felt an immense sense of security.

He immediately maxed out all the permissions. When he pressed the permissions on the book, he could even feel the strange changes occurring on this land spanning a full two hundred miles!

A faint repulsive force appeared in the territory. Some passersby who had been wandering in this area suddenly found themselves at the edge of the territory, and then left in a bit of panic.

Zhou Ren naturally didn't know this. He put away the book of territory permissions, thinking that nothing could possibly enter now. According to the details of the territory he had researched before, anyone who forcibly entered the territory would be teleported out, maximizing the safety factor.

He could finally breathe a sigh of relief. He took an apple out of his backpack and ate it while observing.

This territory was actually very desolate. A river from afar ran through it from north to south, and a dirt road from Pine Leaf Town abruptly stopped at the territory's entrance, halting right at Zhou Ren's territory's doorstep.

The three wooden blocks he had just placed happened to form a simple two-way passage.

Zhou Ren thought for a moment, knocked the three wooden blocks down again, and then, in the built-in toolbar, decomposed them into twelve wooden planks, and then rearranged them.

The previous tree was indeed an oak tree. Some yellowish planks appeared in Zhou Ren's hands, and he used them to build a simple gate at the entrance, adding two ingenious overhangs on top to shelter stray birds from the rain. (Because humans don't have permission to enter.)

Then he turned all the remaining wood in his hand into wooden planks, used four wooden planks to make a crafting table, and then used two wooden planks to make four wooden sticks. In the crafting table, he used the wooden sticks and wooden planks to make a wooden axe, a wooden pickaxe, and three signs.

He wrote on a sign next to the gate, "Private Territory, No Trespassing!" (What he wrote was still not the language he knew, but a strange character.)

He placed a sign on top of the gate, simply writing the character "Zhou," which this time was very proper Chinese, which was also very magical.

The last sign was placed at the entrance in the other direction, to prevent anyone from trying to pass through his territory for convenience.

Zhou Ren finished his work and found that the sun was already setting. "This is good news," Zhou Ren said to himself, "At least I know that this world seems to still follow the law of universal gravitation!"

He continued forward along a weedy path. This was indeed a wasteland. The clerk obviously wasn't good at math. The map he drew only mentioned the length, but not the width. Only when he got here did Zhou Ren realize that this was a huge square territory, 20 miles long and about 10 miles wide.

"Two hundred square miles, thinking about it that way, it doesn't seem to be a problem?" Zhou Ren thought self-deprecatingly, passing by a barren farmland. Soon he came to a forest closest to the road.

Compared to the distant hills and the Black Forest, this place clearly looked more like it had been inhabited. There were some houses that were already close to collapsing, and in the trees not far away, there were some vines and remnants of treehouses. It seemed that at least a long time ago, this was a good place to live.

Zhou Ren thought of some of the half-elves he had seen in the village and had some guesses. Of course, none of this was important. Since the clerk dared to sell this place to him, the entire area must be unclaimed territory.

He raised the axe in his hand and chopped hard at the tree trunk. There was no one else here, so he didn't need to pretend to be using magic or anything.

As the axe blade contacted the tree trunk, visible cracks appeared before Zhou Ren's eyes. He chopped hard again, and the white cracks became clearer and more obvious. After only three chops, the piece of wood had already fallen off and was suspended in the air.

Zhou Ren continued his efforts, and once again raised his hand, chopping down the second piece of wood, which completely violated Newton's laws.

Soon, this small tree of seven or eight meters turned into seven or eight wooden blocks in his hands with the help of the wooden axe, and entered Zhou Ren's inventory.

He also discovered a benefit of the axe. If he used his hands to break wood, he probably couldn't get more than five blocks or so, but with the axe, he could easily chop down seven blocks of wood.

The remaining canopy did not fall down like the previous tree, but slowly disappeared into the air like in the game, occasionally dropping two fruits or saplings.

"I can understand apples, but why would a lemon fall from the tree?" Zhou Ren was puzzled. He didn't remember any mods that dropped lemons, but even in version 1.16, oak trees only dropped apples and saplings.

But having more items drop was a good thing no matter what. At least Zhou Ren could know that his MC shouldn't just be the original version.

He continued to chop trees. There weren't many trees in this forest to begin with. Except for the few particularly tall trees that still had some remnants of treehouses hanging on them, which he didn't plan to touch, Zhou Ren planned to clear the other areas.

Originally, in MC, Zhou Ren was an extremely obsessive-compulsive person. Everything had to be categorized and placed properly, all the houses, buildings, and trees had to be regular and orderly, even the farms were separated into blocks, so he naturally couldn't stand the situation here.

He continued to diligently chop trees, and only stopped when all the small trees around him had disappeared.

It has to be said that chopping trees really has a strange magic. Zhou Ren clearly felt that he was tired enough and couldn't chop trees anymore, but he was still constantly waving his axe. He broke three axes in a row before stopping.

"Huff, huff!" Zhou Ren gasped for breath, looked at the nearly two stacks of wood in his backpack, wiped the sweat from his hands, and nodded in satisfaction. "Good harvest!"

He chopped down about a quarter of the area and also cleaned up the messy ground well. Now, the only obstacles in front of him were those broken walls and ruins.

These houses seemed to be pieced together from mud and stones. They didn't look like houses where big shots had lived, but rather like temporary shelters built by homeless wanderers. Looking at it this way, demolishing them should be very simple.

Zhou Ren took out his wooden pickaxe and started digging furiously at the ruins. Fortunately, excavating the mixture of soil and stones was much easier than chopping trees. Even though Zhou Ren didn't have much strength left, he was still able to complete the clearing of the ruins with relative ease.

At the same time, he also obtained some dirt and cobblestone, which looked like they would be useful for building a house later!

The sky gradually turned dusky, and he naturally noticed this. He didn't rush to clear the ruins and weeds in other places, but instead set up the workbench he had made earlier again. He used eight cobblestones to make a square furnace, and then put some wood in the furnace, burning it with a few wooden planks.

This was to make charcoal. Pine Leaf Town wasn't a particularly large town, so naturally there wasn't a place that specialized in selling coal.

Zhou Ren had also asked around, and the wealthy basically used magic lamps or alchemical lamps for lighting. Of course, no one in this town could actually afford them; it was just a rumor.

After completing this work, he continued to dedicate himself to dividing the land. After planning this forest, he would still plant trees, but he would limit the height of the trees and the distance between them, making them straight and orderly.

As for the previous area, from the gate to the forest, it was right next to the big river. Zhou Ren planned to place the initial farm there, which would also solve his food problem. The previous meal had been an unexpected torment for him.

Now that it wasn't quite dusk yet, he took an apple from his backpack and ate it bit by bit with the white bread he hadn't finished at noon.

He now needed to think about the problem of sleeping. He hadn't paid attention when he was in town, but now he realized that he didn't have any wool and couldn't make a bed.

The only good news was that the weather was good, not rainy, and the temperature at night shouldn't be too terrible. At least, the feeling he had in the territory was neither cold nor hot, but very comfortable.

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Taking advantage of the afterglow of the setting sun, Zhou Ren quickly finished the food in his hand. The apples in MC were still good, for example, there was no apple core.

The other white bread was still a little warm. It seemed that the inventory perfectly inherited the characteristics of the game, that is, the characteristic of time stopping. Whenever it was taken out, it was in the state it was in when it was put in.

It seemed that many people had seen this scene today, but thinking about it, it wasn't incomprehensible. After all, this was a magical world. Saying that, maybe space equipment was already commonplace?

After all, almost everyone in those Xianxia worlds had a storage bag, and there were also many space mages and time ability users in other worlds. In a world with mages and ability users, it shouldn't be too strange to have some space equipment, right?

He took out some cobblestone and wood from his backpack and took this opportunity to build a house! He might have to live here for a long time in the future!

But now it was really late, and the trees in the mountains were like monsters bowing slightly, as if they would let out a terrifying howl in the next second, which made Zhou Ren a little nervous.

He broke four wooden planks into eight wooden sticks, and then randomly took out the charcoal burned in the furnace. One charcoal could be combined with one wooden stick to make four torches about the thickness of a human arm, with flames as big as a fist.

This torch was also very interesting. When held in the hand, it looked like the flame was burning wildly, but it didn't feel painful at all, and it wouldn't burn anything, let alone itself. However, the brightness was indeed not low, and it had already lit up the surrounding space.

He took a look at the torch, and it was indeed the same as the original. The stack of torches in the backpack and inventory didn't have any characteristics, but in the hand or stuck in the ground, it would suddenly burst into flames, looking very realistic.

Zhou Ren tested it, and it was indeed the case. The brightness emitted by the torch in his hand was difficult to detect beyond seven blocks, but it was just enough to illuminate his area.

Sticking a few torches on the large trees that had not been cut down, Zhou Ren began to build a small house where he could rest temporarily tonight. He himself was a very organized person, so the small house was also built in the location of the bedroom he had planned during the day, so that he would only need to expand it in the future and not demolish it.

Simply assembling a foundation and two narrow stairs with stones, Zhou Ren began to build pillars with solid wood. Four pillars were erected, and then wooden planks were placed on top of the pillars and around them, leaving a few openings for ventilation and light. A simple but comfortable matchbox-like hut was built!

Zhou Ren lit the inside of the wooden house with a torch. Although he didn't know if there were monsters in this world, for safety, he still kept the brightness of all places within a certain range to avoid spawning monsters.

Finally, he moved the furnace and workbench in and began to make the final things, that is, a simple bed.

This world was not short of sheep. Zhou Ren had seen many sheep being raised in the sheepfolds of those manors during the day. Tomorrow, he could buy two sheep from them to raise, so that he could start considering the problem of pastures.

As for now, he skillfully put together several half-meter-high wooden steps to form a simple bed, and then took some fallen dead leaves and spread them on it.

Zhou Ren went up and tried it. It was very fluffy, so he could sleep!

He looked at the black world outside, shook his head, got up and made a door, blocking the darkness and wind outside, and then lay down again, covering himself with the black robe and falling into a deep sleep.

Outside, a mercenary team was slowly walking towards the town. They all had some small wounds on their bodies and were carrying large and small packages, moving slowly by the river.

They held up torches, pulled their wooden carts, and told some vulgar jokes, looking happy.

Leading the team was a burly man with a giant axe. He flicked his beard and shouted loudly, "Hey! You bastards! It's all your fault, it's so late, even that old witch at the tavern is probably lying in someone else's bed!"

"Captain, what can't we have after we sell these things? At worst, we'll add two call girls for you tomorrow!" These words caused a burst of laughter from the surrounding mercenaries.

They walked forward noisily, completely unaware of the sign Zhou Ren had written at the intersection...