MC's career as foreign lord

Anyone familiar with the high-end information industry of the 20th century should easily recognize the term 'information cocoon'.

Long ago, someone said that the amount of information we encounter every second is many times more than that of people in the previous era, and countless times more than that of ancient people.

However, a large amount of this information cannot be verified or falsified. These numerous true and false messages form the information network around us.

In contrast to the reality of the information network, big data often creates an invisible yet real wall around us, composed of personal information.

This wall doesn't hinder our lives, but it unhesitatingly guides our information acquisition. Due to your usual information preferences and low sensitivity to receiving different messages, you'll find that almost all the news you see is what you want to see and what you want to know.

These messages, combined, completely isolate you from channels to obtain other information. This is the information cocoon.

If all your channels are blocked, and all your information is only what others want you to see, then manipulating your thoughts becomes easy for them.

This is what Zhou Ren wants! Compared to liberating the minds of the ignorant commoners in this world, it's extremely difficult because of the existence of the Gods, and might not even succeed!

But what if he changed his approach, using a method that everyone could accept?

This way of freeing thought is easily met with suspicion, but what if he provided an information check carried within the messages he spreads, subtly transforming people's thinking through these cocoons? Wouldn't they become a little different?

"You actually want me to shield the senses of those people? You're really interesting!" Although Anna didn't fully understand what Zhou Ren wanted to achieve, she was very interested.

"Using this method, everyone won't be able to sense my existence, but I can make them unknowingly fall into the trap. Good, good!"

Just as the Silver Dragon girl was clapping her hands in approval, Shia seemed to understand something and gave Zhou Ren a strange look. However, the young man seemed oblivious, giving her a brilliant smile.

The reason he waited for such a long time, besides allowing enough time to test the guns, was also to wait for the villagers to breed.

These villagers seem to breed quickly, but for his vast trading network, it's not enough at all.

Each villager needs a day to grow up, and another day to breed, so after a week, Zhou Ren only had 36 villagers, barely enough to build an iron farm.

He has to ensure that there are always enough villagers in the villager farm for replenishment, in order to maximize the construction of more iron farms in the future.

Because iron farms are not only the main source of metal materials in the future, but also the main source of iron golems. He only needs to build iron farms in a few key locations, and when the monsters are about to arrive, turn off the damage devices there. Then, piles of iron golems will be continuously refreshed and sent to the front lines where they should be.

These durable, numerous iron golems, which also don't affect his resources in any way, are the best source of power in this world.

Hopefully, after those orcs finally manage to break through a city wall, hundreds of iron golems won't cause them psychological trauma. So many high-level professionals, their sheer number should be able to scare many people!

"I'll do it!" Hearing Zhou Ren say he was going to build an iron farm, Anna volunteered. Shia didn't object, just standing beside them, watching the two with a smile.

"If you want to come, let's do it together. It saves me from having to find two dwarven craftsmen to help!" Originally, building these things should be the job of gnomes, but now most of the gnomes have their own things to do. They've been invited by various races to consult on the construction and decoration of their houses and various buildings.

Even though most people live in the newly built high-rise apartment buildings that are as clean as water, those legendary powerhouses or wealthy high-level professionals still took out their savings and bought a piece of land from Zhou Ren, the lord, in the wilderness.

This area can be described as truly prime real estate, because the entire usable area is within the scope of Zhou Ren's system, which is his real and true territory.

This also means that, in the future, no matter what kind of race comes to attack, at least their safety doesn't need to be considered until this territory is completely breached.

Because of this, many people have built their own houses in the wilderness outside the territory, and under strict planning. The already small number of underground gnome clans has suddenly become insufficient, and even those ordinary gnomes who were usually ignored have been invited over by some people.

After offending Zhou Ren last time, these gnomes have really had a hard time. Offending the lord, and still wanting to have a good life? It's already considered him kind-hearted not to be expelled by Zhou Ren.

So now, if they want to build various things, they must go to the dwarves to find some dwarves to help, or else they can only rely on their own hands, or find those skeletons that are working.

"Do you know what Xander's skeletons have been doing recently?" The three of them were heading to the villager residence that Zhou Ren was planning to go to, and he asked subconsciously.

"Lord Xander is building a very tall mage tower at the mine. It's said that he wants to gather all the mages in the entire territory there to form a huge protective barrier!" Shia said.

Although Zhou Ren is the lord, the vast loyal forces around him mean that he doesn't have to do many things himself, and naturally he will lose information about many things.

If he goes to find out himself, of course someone will tell him. As the territory's steward, Mesa will not refuse any of his requests, but if he doesn't go to find out himself, with his style of not being able to find anyone for days, there's no way to report tasks to him.

"Mage tower? It seems that the mine under the mage tower has helped them a lot!" Zhou Ren said.

Gathering more mages is certainly beneficial. If he wants to research various magic modules in the future, maybe these mages can give him some unexpected surprises.

Having a mage tower now is also pretty good. Not only can it form an ultra-long-range strike distance in the future, but it can also give those energetic legendary mages a little work to do. After most of them have run over to study some other tactics, he should be able to relax a little, right?

He really couldn't take it anymore. These legendary mages were surrounding him like a bunch of curious children, poking and prodding him. One asked about the laws governing the world's creation, while another wanted to discuss the gaps between worlds.

They even asked him about the relationship between his block technology and the world's rules, and why certain supreme rules seemed to turn a blind eye to his transgressions. How would he know?

If he knew these things, he would have already run off to chat with those two blocky figures behind the scenes. Would he still need to desperately strengthen his forces in this world?

The reason he was frantically developing his power and gathering manpower, with a team currently underground persuading the races of the Underdark, was precisely because he lacked a sense of security and wanted to build a solid base.

Zhou Ren put down the block in his hand. Before him was a remarkably clean plain. Originally, his territory only had autumn forests and wilderness, with no plains to speak of. But the skeletons were just too energetic.

When they weren't mining at night, they absorbed moonlight in the territory while also acting like bulldozers, completely flattening the entire wilderness area, leaving only the two mountains as barriers. As for the area near the river in the middle, everything was smooth and level.

This made the originally winding rail system even faster. They were either on flat ground or on a slope, with no need for detours or tunnels.

The only thing they tunneled through was the mountain, where they dug a mine tunnel large enough for people to pass through. That mine tunnel, going downwards, led to the giant warehouse that was initially designed.

Now, Zhou Ren could very easily build his iron farm in this territory. Unlike the iron farm that only needed villagers in the beginning, the new version had made significant changes to the villagers' mobility and the iron golems' spawning methods, so he naturally had to make some changes to his iron farm construction methods.

But first, of course, was setting up the building area. This was something that had to be created at any time, requiring a site for diversion, whether it was flowing to the execution ground, leaving only iron ingots, or directly transferring to the front line to meet the enemy.

First, of course, was to observe the villagers. With enough food and a safe enough environment, the villagers were already living in cramped conditions in that small house.

The only fortunate thing was that these villagers wouldn't try to pry open the door and escape on their own. Even in that big pit, they were still living relatively well, constantly carrying out their activities.

Because there were already more villagers inside than there were beds, they couldn't continue to breed, which made these villagers a little restless. Perhaps it was because spring had already arrived, but they still couldn't celebrate the festival?

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Moreover, in the brand-new version, villagers don't come with professions. Only by giving them different profession blocks can they be assigned different professions. It's hard to say whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.

The good news is that when they build a trading place in the future, they can transport all the villagers into place and then assign them professions one by one, which saves the trouble of constantly searching for professions.

The bad news is that if they don't make a profession block or lack some materials, then that profession will probably never be obtained.

"How are you going to transport these silly guys?" Hilla asked.

When the villagers were first created, they surrounded those guys and conducted a series of experiments, including but not limited to investigations into physical fitness, extraction of trading quantities, and acquisition of inherent trading abilities.

The conclusion was obvious. They couldn't investigate the special connection between villagers and trading. There was nothing special about them, and all the traded items seemed to be generated out of thin air. They didn't know what kind of pocket the villagers had that could hide so many emeralds.

Zhou Ren smiled slightly, "Of course, I'll use rails!"

Compared to the very unstable water flow, the stability of rails is much better. Just use minecarts for transportation, and finally break the minecarts to put the villagers in a very safe position.

Anyway, this time it's just to make an iron-farming machine. He plans to build five iron-farming machines on this tower first, to constantly refresh the iron golems.

"Iron golems come from the villagers' own sense of crisis. Once the villagers feel the crisis of zombies, they will summon iron golems to protect their safety. You should understand this, right?" Zhou Ren said.

The MC system is actually never about learning how to make various machines. These methods can be directly copied, so there's no need to study them specifically. What he needs to teach them is the way materials are used.

For example, the rules of water flow, the rules of lava flow, the rules of fire burning, and the rules of various monster spawns.

According to these rules, the skeletons can develop very convenient pipe circulation systems and material classification systems. How could the elves next to them not have any feelings?

After all, it's a real world. In addition to his MC rules, the rules of the ordinary world can still operate perfectly. In this way, they can obtain more effective use.

Just like the methods used by the dwarves before, they used their forging technology to forge machines, and then used MC's special power to directly run the machines and create efficient assembly lines.

They can certainly do these assembly lines outside, but the cost is very high magic crystals or the long-lost Netherese core.

So after the assembly line was built, the dwarves quickly moved on to the next activity. They didn't have the slightest complacency, relying on the lord's power, so what was there to be happy about?

"So, as long as there are zombies nearby, the villagers will keep summoning iron golems?" Hilla said.

"It can't be said that way. The zombies need to keep moving to cause greater panic among the villagers, so that they can summon iron golems!" Zhou Ren said, and then he heard Anna say something shocking.

"You said before that these steel monsters won't drop anything, right? Then let's just make such a device on top of their heads and let the iron golems keep falling down to smash them, how about that?"

Zhou Ren was speechless. You're really applying what you've learned, aren't you?