At present, since Fat Cow and the others had already pledged allegiance, Xu Yuan was also preparing to hand this matter over to them to do.
Furthermore, Fat Cow and the others could help Xu Yuan not only with this remodeling.
Fat Cow and his people were originally free players; they also understood better what free players were thinking.
So Xu Yuan also decided to let Fat Cow and the others act in his place to recruit those free players.
This way, Xu Yuan would also have more time to plan other matters.
Therefore, Xu Yuan quickly agreed to Fat Cow and the others' proposal.
Seeing Xu Yuan so readily agree, Fat Cow and the others were all somewhat stunned.
They had originally asked Xu Yuan with a mindset of giving it a try, and they had already prepared themselves for Xu Yuan to refuse.
They hadn't expected Xu Yuan would actually agree.
Xu Yuan's reaction immediately made Fat Cow and the others feel flattered.
The group didn't think too much and quickly followed behind Xu Yuan's steps.
"Boss, where are we going?…"
"Don't ask what you shouldn't, just follow…"
"Yeah, Boss… The Boss surely has his own arrangements!"
Fat Cow and the others were also very quick to change how they addressed him. Being able to follow Xu Yuan naturally made them very happy.
After all, Xu Yuan had such abundant food resources at hand. This alone already surpassed most players in the Trial Grounds.
In other words, while others were still worrying about food resources, Xu Yuan could already rest assured and boldly go collect other resources.
His development was bound to be far ahead of others.
Although Fat Cow and the others were always very excited, under Fat Cow's reminders, they still remained rather quiet along the way.
After walking with Xu Yuan for a few minutes, they arrived at the entrance of the Meat farm passage outside the forest.
Seeing the passage extending into the depths of the forest, everyone began to feel a little uneasy in their hearts.
"This passage… Where is Boss taking us?…"
"Did Boss also dig a passage himself?…"
"Boss, does this passage need to be connected to the one we dug earlier?…"
"…"
Xu Yuan didn't answer everyone's questions and took the lead to walk into the passage.
About ten minutes later, they finally arrived inside the Meat farm.
When the entire underground Meat farm appeared in front of Fat Cow and the others, all of them were dumbfounded.
"??????????????"
"Damn?!! No wonder Boss is so generous with resources!! So it's because he directly opened a breeding farm here?!!!"
Actually, the first time Fat Cow and the others pledged allegiance, Xu Yuan bringing them to his own Meat farm was quite a risky move.
But Xu Yuan had always held to the principle of, if you use people, do not doubt them; if you doubt people, do not use them.
After experiencing so much, if nothing else, Xu Yuan's judgment of people was still very accurate.
Fat Cow and the others didn't have too many cunning schemes; they were not the kind of people who would betray.
Moreover, Xu Yuan also had enough strength to deal with any betrayal.
The reason Xu Yuan brought them over so quickly was first because time was indeed quite tight. And also to make Fat Cow and the others quickly become loyal to him.
Fat Cow and the others naturally understood the significance of having a Meat farm in the Trial Grounds.
They had only just started following Xu Yuan, yet Xu Yuan brought them to such an important place. From their perspective, they would surely feel that Xu Yuan trusted them and valued them.
For these free players, basically they were very rarely valued by anyone.
Even if in the future they joined those guild alliances, people like them would never access core information; they were destined to be cannon fodder.
But here with Xu Yuan, although they were still doing menial tasks, the information they accessed was relatively core.
By comparison, they would definitely be more dedicated in working for Xu Yuan.
Sure enough, as Xu Yuan expected, after seeing the Meat farm, Fat Cow and the others felt waves of excitement in their hearts.
"Boss… Boss really doesn't treat us as outsiders… Just brought us here right away…"
"Wow… Boss actually trusts us so much… We… we will absolutely not betray your trust!!!"
"Boss… don't worry, we will definitely guard this place well…"
The first reaction of Fat Cow and the others already showed they were trustworthy.
Anyone with ulterior motives definitely wouldn't be so moved at this moment, and would have already been scheming how to seize the Meat farm for themselves.
Xu Yuan had completely grasped Fat Cow and the others' mentality.
Seeing everyone looking flattered and overwhelmed, Xu Yuan hurried to stop them from giving one declaration of loyalty after another.
Then he looked at Fat Cow and said, "Replace all of this here with half slabs to prevent mobs from spawning."
"Keep the noise down; above us live the Pillagers."
Hearing Xu Yuan's words, Fat Cow and the others all took a deep breath and hurriedly covered their mouths.
Seeing this, Fat Cow nodded and immediately started arranging tasks.
"Yoyo, Little Dove, you two are responsible for clearing out those mobs. Be careful, don't let any creepers explode!"
"Orange, Little Swan, you two herd all those animals together first and enclose them for easier remodeling later…"
Seeing Fat Cow's arrangements, Xu Yuan knew Fat Cow indeed had some organizational ability.
Then he continued giving him orders.
"After you finish this here, there is still one more matter."
Fat Cow respectfully nodded. "You say it."
Xu Yuan thought for a moment, then said, "Repair your base later, and bring some animals over there."
"It won't be long before all the factions should gather over by the grassland."
"Your task is to go recruit those free players."
"The work is recruitment first; try not to get into conflicts with other factions, especially not with the monster faction and the animal faction."
If he wanted Fat Cow to act as the face, naturally he needed to package Fat Cow properly.
Their camp looked too shabby, it looked like it was casually built without any intent to survive long term.
It definitely needed to be remodeled.
After hearing Xu Yuan's words, Fat Cow immediately understood Xu Yuan's intention. Xu Yuan wanted to become another force within the player faction.
This was exactly the same as what Fat Cow had thought before when he wanted to pledge allegiance to Xu Yuan.
Thinking of this, Fat Cow immediately nodded and said, "Alright."
"Boss, rest assured, I will carefully screen the players I recruit."
Saying this, Fat Cow paused to think and added, "Boss, I will come to the Meat farm once a day and write the list of recruited people and our progress on a notice board…"
"If you have anything to tell me, you can also use the notice board to leave a message."
The Trial Grounds were different from the Overworld, there was no regional channel or world channel for players to communicate.
There was also no friend system or such things.
This was also to achieve absolute fairness, because aside from the player faction, the other factions couldn't use the network to exchange information.
Obviously, this change was very inconvenient for players.
It was equivalent to suddenly falling from a technologically advanced society into a primitive society.
However, players' ability to adapt was still very strong. If they wanted to communicate, even if they didn't meet, they could use notice boards to leave information.
After hearing Fat Cow's words, Xu Yuan nodded and didn't say much more.
Fat Cow's few sentences already showed he understood Xu Yuan's intentions.
That sentence about carefully screening the recruits also showed Fat Cow knew where the boundaries were.
Xu Yuan naturally didn't need to worry that Fat Cow would tell the new recruits about the Meat farm.
After all, Xu Yuan had also mentioned earlier that they should repair their camp. The meaning behind that was already very clear.
"Mm, pick up the pace."
"After you recruit people, continue digging to connect all the regions together."
Xu Yuan also assigned quite a lot of work to Fat Cow in one go.
After all, the purpose of recruiting people was to get labor.
One had to say, Xu Yuan really had the makings of a ruthless boss.
But Xu Yuan had previously always done everything himself, and now he only did this because he really had no other choice.
Even though he was ordering people around, he was still giving them benefits that no one else could offer.
After reminding them, Xu Yuan left. While passing through the tunnel, Xu Yuan was sorting out the things he needed to do.
'The Meat farm and the recruitment matter are already settled…'
'The most urgent task now is still to find a 'middleman' to facilitate trading…'
The fastest way to take control of the Trial Grounds' situation was definitely still the trading chain between the Villagers and the Pillagers.
Thinking of this, Xu Yuan pondered for a moment.
"Looks like I have to go check the rainforest."
From the habits of monsters and animals, you could tell roughly what kind of areas they would choose to develop in.
The Pillagers chose the forest area because, in the Overworld, most woodland mansions were in forest areas.
They were familiar with the forest environment, and the forest region was perpetually sunless, which was good for monsters to develop.
As for the rainforest area, it also had plenty of vegetation cover, and the terrain was even more rugged than the forest area, making it good for hiding.
Such an environment, for monsters and animals, was relatively already quite a good refuge.
So Xu Yuan also planned to go check the rainforest situation.
First, to look for the trading chain's "middleman." Second, to explore the advantages of the rainforest area.
Inside the Trial Grounds, every area should have its own advantages.
The earlier you understood these advantages, the sooner you could make use of them.
Relying on memory, Xu Yuan immediately started hurrying in the direction of the rainforest.
At this moment, in the Trial Grounds, most players heading to the grassland were either already established forces, or players preparing to join those established forces.
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