MC's career as foreign lord

Canyon terrain is one of the more unique terrains in this game. It can appear on the surface or underground, but generally, the underground levels are relatively low.

That is to say, the location where canyon terrain appears is basically the diamond layer at its lowest.

This is why Zhou Ren was particularly happy when he saw this. Before, in this area, no matter which level he dug for diamonds, he was just relying on luck. If he chose the wrong level, it would be like wasting a whole day's effort.

But now he could be certain that this was the diamond layer because the lava pool he had just dug out was located at the very bottom of the canyon.

However, this happiness didn't last long. He quickly retreated from the pit and sealed the path he had come from.

If he hadn't seen it wrong, the roaring creature wasn't some terrifying native animal hiding underground, but a creature he was very familiar with.

A zombie!

Listening to the familiar roars and faint scraping sounds from within the wall, Zhou Ren couldn't help but sigh. Although he had made many preparations and had many ideas, he still felt a bit surreal when this kind of thing happened before him.

"Oh well! What's meant to come will come!" Zhou Ren said as he retrieved his longsword, put on his armor and shield, and dug through the stones in front of him again.

The creature was still persistently digging at the stones in front of it, and its eyes glowed green when it saw the newcomer. Its large nose had already revealed its identity, but it also gave Zhou Ren a sudden extra thought.

At first, he knew it was a zombie, but because it was hidden in the darkness, he couldn't clearly see its appearance. But now it seemed that it was much more useful than a regular zombie!

This was a zombie villager! That was different from ordinary zombies.

After all, besides being used as a tool to lure villagers into chaos, ordinary zombies only had one other option: to be killed and have their meat taken.

Zhou Ren remembered that among the many universal small tools he had synthesized, there was a drying rack that could be used to hang jerky.

Zombie meat could also be dried into zombie jerky, which could also eliminate toxins and restore a lot of stamina.

Back then, when mining, he had completely relied on zombie meat to survive. Thinking about it now, it still felt a bit satisfying.

Having said so much, it's still necessary to talk about the difference between ordinary zombies and villager zombies. In fact, apart from the difference in appearance, the biggest difference is their use.

Although zombies are randomly spawned, zombie villagers have two ways of appearing. The other way is that native villagers are infected by ordinary zombies, and they will transform back into zombie villagers after being infected.

Therefore, with the cooperation of some special potions, zombie villagers can also be turned into ordinary villagers, which is a special use.

Before, no monsters came out, so Zhou Ren had no way to confirm his guess, but now... it seemed that he could try something else.

You should know that a zombie villager is useless to him, but a villager is very useful to him.

When playing skyblock, they don't have any mineral resources, but as long as they have enough villagers, they can obtain all kinds of equipment, weapons, and even various materials.

This is because villagers also conform to the characteristics of MC, that is, the long-standing... characteristic of creating something from nothing. They can trade at will and then obtain their favorite tools.

The cost of the transaction is generally emeralds. As for the exchange conditions for emeralds, it is also very simple. Villagers of different professions will have different exchange conditions, most of which rely on farmers to exchange a large number of crops.

But if in a skyblock environment, a mob farm can also be used to exchange a large number of emeralds with rotten meat by priests, and then trade with other villagers using emeralds.

This trading method can even obtain a large number of diamond equipment, weapons, and various materials that cannot be obtained otherwise.

This is just one function. Villagers can use cluster characteristics to refresh unowned iron golems, and then repeatedly obtain iron ingots.

In this world, iron golems are naturally even stronger, and can become all kinds of powerful combat forces. Even ordinary high-level professionals will not be their opponents.

This means that Zhou Ren can even create countless thugs and bodyguards for free, which is a great thing!

The topic is a bit off, which is to say that Zhou Ren suddenly thought of so many things the moment he saw this zombie villager.

Originally, he was going to kill it directly, but he suddenly changed his mind and no longer insisted on killing it, but simply raised his shield.

There is no need to kill the zombie villager directly. He can lock this strange guy up first and use it later.

Zhou Ren thought for a while, retreated again with his shield, and then sealed the opening where the zombie villager was advancing to ensure that it would not break through and could still see him. Only then did he feel at ease to make a simple cage in this area he had dug out.

This cage was too simple. He only needed to put a door in this area, make a two-block-high ladder, lure the zombie villager to jump down from the ladder, open the door and walk out, and then close the door.

Ordinary villagers can open wooden doors, but zombie villagers cannot. They will only wander and swim in front of the door.

When they don't see their target, they won't even try to destroy anything around them.

So Zhou Ren made a pit with peace of mind, and also cleverly made only one opening, and then put a trapdoor on it.

This is also one of the characteristics of MC. Monsters cannot distinguish between trapdoors and ordinary blocks.

When they encounter a square that is directly empty, they will bypass it and choose a way to continue forward, but when they encounter a trapdoor, whether it is open or closed, they will default that it is a solid block, and then walk straight over.

This gives many players special operating opportunities. They pretend the fire plate door is a solid block and put it in an area, and then lure the monster to walk down from it, and then fall down, and then they can make all kinds of tools and traps.

Different types of mob farms are made in this way. Of course, some are actually very complicated, and will use more complex mechanisms and more ingenious benefits, but this will be discussed later.

After making such a simple pit, he opened the opening direction of the trapdoor.

This pit is actually very close to the door, so he doesn't even need to go over, just dig out the stone outside the pit.

"Roar!" Still a somewhat low roar, the zombie villager walked slowly towards his target. Zhou Ren stood there with his arms crossed, watching the zombie fall down with a thud as it was about to walk in front of him.

He casually closed the trapdoor of the pit, completing the simple zombie villager containment well.

For now, he'd leave it there. There was no need to expend the effort to transform it into a real villager until he encountered a second zombie villager.

Moreover, transforming villagers required brewing potions, and brewing potions required blaze rods, which could only be obtained from the blazes in the Nether.

So, for now, it was just planning for the future. Only when the zombie had completely fallen in and started roaring did Zhou Ren slowly cover it with the cobblestone in his hand.

Now, gazing at the dark mouth of the canyon cave, he began to ponder.

"I thought monsters wouldn't respawn anymore, so why are they suddenly appearing again? What's the key to triggering this?"

Zhou Ren stroked his chin. Just like when the previous two modules appeared, things appeared and disappeared silently and strangely, and he couldn't find any pattern!

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He stopped thinking about such profound questions. Anyway, he wouldn't get an answer no matter how long he thought about it. Next time a module or something new appeared, he could design an observation system, and maybe he could find a solution.

But for now... Zhou Ren had no desire to enter the canyon. He slowly sealed the entrance with cobblestone, stuck two torches in it to indicate the difference in the area, and then walked away.

Before, because he hadn't discovered any monsters, he was relatively relaxed. But now that monsters had appeared, many of his previous ideas needed to be adjusted.

The monsters in MC, barring any unforeseen circumstances, should have the same strength as in the game. That is to say, if the number of zombies and skeletons became too large, he wouldn't be able to resist them.

And now, in his territory, there were actually quite a few dark and desolate places. Once the monsters truly gathered in groups, it would be terrible!

Zombies were the weakest monsters. Their short attack range and ordinary movement speed posed no danger to almost any low-level warrior.

However, their attack power was extremely high, with each hit dealing a full 8 points of damage, which was equivalent to the attack power of a diamond sword.

Moreover, zombies often moved in hordes. Encountering one meant that there were many others around you. If you were entangled by one, you would be instantly overwhelmed by the other zombies.

Compared to zombies, which were relatively harmless monsters, skeletons were the real trump card.

The arrows in the hands of these white skeletons could pierce through any block, which meant that they could inflict considerable damage on anyone.

Skeletons didn't care if you were a legendary powerhouse or a top expert. Their arrows would only be aimed at the living.

What Zhou Ren was most worried about now was that the skeletons would gather in groups and then raid the town. He didn't know if the people in the town would be set as NPCs when they were outside, or as neutral creatures?

If they were set as villagers, then it would be really bad! He didn't want to wake up tomorrow and find that the nearby town had been slaughtered by monsters!

Such things often happened during certain siege modules, but the area he had assimilated should only be within the territory, so other monsters shouldn't run out casually, right?

Zhou Ren was a little worried. He hadn't even started searching the canyon before rushing to find Mesa and Jim.

If the two of them didn't remember to place torches, the monsters would probably be patrolling everywhere in this mine.

Zombies and skeletons didn't have much room to maneuver in this narrow mine. At worst, he could just go over with a shield and kill them all. However, what Zhou Ren was afraid of was creepers!

Creepers, generally called "creepers" or "ssssss" by players, were a type of monster with a peculiar appearance, a green body, and a rustling sound while crawling, and they would chirp.

This type of monster had no attack power and posed no threat to other creatures, but they would launch a suicidal charge against players.

After approaching the player within a certain range, they would automatically start to glow in place, and then explode.

The range of this explosion was about 3-5 blocks, and it had the terrifying power to instantly kill an unarmored player, which was a full 20 points!

Moreover, compared to zombies and skeletons, which were undead creatures that would be burned to ashes by fire in the sunlight, creepers were truly indiscriminate. Once they were spawned in the dark, it was difficult to eliminate them.

So, Zhou Ren quickly walked back along the fishbone tunnel he had dug out. This was the third path of his fishbone tunnel, and he had specially placed another torch at the entrance of the tunnel, two torches that were different from the other areas, which were very conspicuous.

This was also to remind himself of the different reactions in this area. Continuing back along the main trunk of the fishbone, he didn't forget to pat Raichu on his head as he walked.

"You've done a great job again this time, little guy!" Raichu's movements were still related to the sensitivity of the elements, but he was still very curious, what kind of elemental sensitivity did these zombies have?

Thinking about these questions, he had already arrived at Mesa's section of the fishbone. In this systematic tunnel, he could see many minerals, including but not limited to redstone and lapis lazuli.

As he walked, a faint blue light caught his eye. The faint blue glow was not conspicuous, but it did make his heart accelerate.

He had always felt that in underground mines, there was probably nothing more exciting than diamonds!

Even in MC's overly simple module, mithril, ancient metal, and adamantite had higher attribute values than diamonds, but this was, after all, the strongest metal in the original version.

You had to know that in the original version, before Netherite came out, diamond equipment represented the strongest equipment and combat power in the world.

Moreover, what he valued more was not the strengthening attributes of the diamond equipment itself, nor those things that could increase combat power, but things that could increase attributes!

In the mining just now, he had also obtained some mithril. Although adamantite still seemed very difficult to find, it meant that he could already make tools that could mine obsidian.

Mithril's mining level was already higher than diamonds. This special mineral seemed to have magical properties, emitting a faint light.

"One, two..." Zhou Ren counted the ores in front of him, and the joy in his heart became more and more obvious, "A full 8 diamond ores! Things are looking up!"

PS: Working overtime, posting one chapter first, there should be another chapter later!