My territory is filled with block creations.

I should be able to handle the problem with the line in Chapter 9... right?

For Thorne, it would be much easier to first build the rough outline of the walls around the village with shovels and stones, and then have his people fill in the rest with stones, than to draw a sketch on paper.

The village is not large; there are only about six houses in the entire village.

All you need to do is enclose these six houses, then leave space for future warehouses and open areas where sunlight can stream in without feeling cramped, and leave two exits leading to the opposite bank of the river and the forest. That's how a simple city wall is planned.

Given its pitiful size, it's more accurate to call it a miniature fortress, encompassing both the walls and the entire village.

He quickly picked up a stone shovel and began digging one meter wide and one meter deep trenches around the village, then filled them with square stones.

If viewed from mid-air, the village can be seen to be surrounded by a ring of square stones.

Since buildings are constructed using blocks that he has converted, there is no need to lay a foundation.

Therefore, this circle of stones can simply be regarded as a rough sketch to guide the people so that they do not build the city wall crookedly.

With the general shape and area of ​​the city wall defined, Thorne then used stones to mark out four five-meter by five-meter square areas next to the east gate facing the river and the west gate facing the forest, to serve as the towers on both sides of the city gate.

In addition to the four towers at the east and west gates, four square towers also needed to be built at the four corners of the city wall.

Knowing that the village was going to build a city wall today, Alex started gesturing with Thorne's serrated stone sword on the wood after her morning routine of waking up.

When Thorne drew lines on the ground with stones, she also looked at the two gates of the village, one leading to the forest and the other to the wheat field across the river.

She had already made some plans for the construction of these two city gates. The east gate, facing the river, would definitely be a drawbridge gate, while the west gate would be a lift gate.

I don't need to worry about the construction of the city gate and the corresponding counterweights. I have Thorne's amazing alchemical abilities, well... let's just call that ability alchemy for now.

Forget wooden or stone doors, if you gave him enough iron, he could probably build a pure iron door. Anyway, it's in Thorne's field, otherwise he wouldn't have been exiled. Hmm.

Thinking of this, Alex's lips twitched slightly, but she quickly smoothed them out and began to plan her work.

My current job is simply to manufacture the necessary pulley systems and winches for raising or lowering doors.

She gripped the stone sword with both hands and diligently carved strange, abstract patterns on the wooden board in front of her. It's truly a mess that there's no paper in this godforsaken place.

Soon, she painstakingly carved the winches and gear sets needed to build the two city gates into the block.

Next, all we need to do is wait for Thorne to have time and have him make it out of planks or stones.

After doing all this, she stood up, stretched her body vigorously, and then looked at the two empty spaces Thorne had left in the city wall as city gates.

This is something she habitually does before building any machine. Observing the machine's working environment in advance allows her to avoid many problems.

However, this observation led her to discover something very strange: the two gates in her design were driven by winches and pulleys to hoist or pull up the city gates.

Such a structure would require ropes or chains, but unfortunately, they have neither nowadays.

Although the villagers by the forest were diligently twisting hemp thread by hand, the thin thread broke with the slightest pull, making it rather comical to use it to pull the city gate.

She glanced again at the area where the city wall framework was still being built not far away, but did not see Thorne.

Soon she heard a series of thumping sounds. She looked up into the air and saw the tall figure making a very puzzling movement.

Thorne simply pushed off with his feet and jumped nearly a meter high. Then, while he was in the air, he quickly placed a one-cubic-meter stone block under his feet.

He used this method, which could be described as stepping on his right foot with his left, to send himself nearly nine meters into the air.

If all he did was do that, one could only marvel at how extraordinary his physical abilities were.

But when he felt that the height he was at was about right for the city wall, he directly used stones to build a wall to the right from a height of nine meters.

After he placed a stone on the right side of the pillar, the balance of the 9-meter pillar, which was originally standing on one leg, was broken, just like a candy cane stuck to a table.

In Alex's eyes, this kind of unbalanced building should not stand so stably on the ground. It only has one fate: to fall to the right or break in the middle.

But the reality was almost exactly as she had seen.

A candy cane, firmly stuck to the ground like a rooster standing on one leg, is becoming increasingly bizarre, eventually transforming into a strange zigzag shape, standing there silently.

Thus, in Alex's eyes, Thorne used a construction method that madly defied gravity to connect the bottom and top of this poor city wall with a pitiful stone pillar.

All the villagers needed was to build the central section of these walls and fill the surface with stones to make it smooth.

After completing the construction of the base and top of the city wall, Thorne jumped into the river from a height of 9 meters and then swam ashore.

After getting ashore, Thorne shook his head to dry his face and head, then looked at Alex, who was looking completely bewildered.

"Is there something you need?" he asked.

"I've just designed the gate's opening and closing mechanism, but right now we lack ropes, or chains would do, but we don't have those things." Alex quickly banished those strange ideas from her mind and got down to business.

Upon hearing this question, Thorne instinctively thought of making a piston door to control its opening and closing. However, he realized that he currently had neither redstone dust nor slime balls, nor even iron, so he couldn't make one at all.

He stroked his chin, thought for a moment, and then suddenly asked, "Would hemp rope work? A thick hemp rope woven from hemp threads."

Alex nodded, but still said with some surprise, "If it's the kind as thick as an adult's fist, that's fine, but where are we going to get hemp rope now? If we have the villagers start hand-twisting it now, it'll probably take them half a month. And most importantly, that means we can't have them do anything else that's more important."

Thorne nodded, then reached out and patted Alex on the shoulder. "Isn't that what you're here for? I think the rope-weaving machine shouldn't be a problem for you, right?"

"Weaving hemp rope with a machine structure is indeed quite simple for me, but... what about the hemp thread?" Alex asked while rubbing her slightly numb shoulders.

Thorne stroked his chin: "The cable issue... I should be able to handle it."