They definitely still had to gather all the iron golems to discuss together.
Before the iron golem had finished speaking, Annoying village HIM understood his meaning. Without waiting for him to finish, he pointed at the iron golem who had spoken, interrupting,
"You, stay behind."
Then he pointed at the iron golem next to him, "You, go deliver the message."
Annoying village HIM also heard the meaning in the iron golem's words.
Obviously, they were interested in his proposal.
Annoying village HIM naturally had to seize this opportunity.
Leaving one person by his side and sending one person to deliver the message was also because he was worried that if he let both go, they might leave and never return.
Hearing Annoying village HIM's words, the two iron golems were both slightly stunned. Then, after exchanging a glance, both nodded.
The iron golem who was to deliver the message stood up, just about to leave, when Annoying village HIM called him back, and in a deep voice reminded him,
"Two days later, at the same time, I will return here."
"I hope you can bring back good news."
Hearing Annoying village HIM's words, the iron golem no longer dared to stay any longer, and stumbled away running.
Watching the departing back of the iron golem, Annoying village HIM lowered his head and looked again at the iron golem who remained.
On his face was already an expression of victory in his grasp.
Annoying village HIM, having gone through so much, could still see through some aspects of the situation.
From the words and condition of these two iron golems, Annoying village HIM could already tell that they were now in a state like a leaderless group of dragons.
The promise Annoying village HIM gave them, to win the trial, must have been an enormous temptation for them.
Annoying village HIM was confident that this group of iron golems would, with high probability, come over to his side.
Thinking of this, Annoying village HIM pondered for a moment.
"Next is to search for that villager…" As he muttered, a trace of killing intent also flashed in Annoying village HIM's eyes.
Though Annoying village HIM had never seen Mustard, regarding Mustard, Annoying village HIM had only two ways to handle him.
If after finding Mustard, Mustard was willing to follow him, Annoying village HIM would consider making use of him.
But if Mustard was unwilling to follow him, Annoying village HIM would definitely eliminate him.
After all, Annoying village HIM already knew the special characteristics of villagers in this Trial Grounds.
Villagers were resource repositories. If Mustard fell into someone else's hands, then all the dynamics of the situation would change. That would be rather troublesome.
"Under the current lack of manpower, wanting to find him is still too difficult…"
Although Annoying village HIM knew how important Mustard was, at present, when he was alone, blindly searching would definitely be like fishing for a needle in the ocean.
If he wanted to find Mustard, he would certainly have to wait until after he had subdued the iron golem troops.
In other words, the plan to search for Mustard would have to wait until two days later to execute.
But in these two days, Annoying village HIM naturally wouldn't sit idle.
After thinking for a while, Annoying village HIM decided to take the iron golem to the mountainous area.
Annoying village HIM's original plan had been to go to the rainforest.
The rainforest was suitable for animals to survive in, and before, Annoying village HIM thought the best choice for an alliance was the animal faction.
But now, after encountering the iron golems, he had changed his mind.
Annoying village HIM was very confident that the iron golem troops would follow him, so he no longer planned to bother forming an alliance with the animal faction.
The most important thing now was to find enough emeralds.
Annoying village HIM did not know what the ways were to obtain emeralds in the Trial Grounds.
He had only just arrived in this world not long ago, so he could only rely on experience from the world he came from to guess.
The ways to obtain emeralds were nothing more than mining, relic chests, and also Pillagers.
To Annoying village HIM, among these three options, the only one currently reliable was mining.
Searching for relics was time-consuming and laborious, and there wasn't even a guarantee the chests would have emeralds inside.
Although Annoying village HIM could roughly guess which areas the Pillagers would likely be in, obviously, at this point the Pillagers must have already formed a faction.
With Annoying village HIM being so weak in numbers, even if his strength was great, if he rashly went alone, he would definitely end up in disaster.
So he chose the most secure method, mining.
Since this world was similar to Fan Village World, the iron golems' attacks could break stone blocks.
Using iron golems for mining had pretty good efficiency.
So Annoying village HIM planned to go to the mountainous area to try his luck.
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At this moment, more than an hour had passed since the Trial Grounds reopened.
All factions were also slowly gathering on the grassland.
Although quite a few players from different factions had already met each other, everyone still remained rational, doing their best to avoid conflict.
The players all clearly understood that their top priority was solving the food problem.
So although many factions had encountered each other, the grassland was still in a state where everyone left each other alone and all was calm.
But in the rainforest area next to it, things were not so peaceful.
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"Boss… if we don't make a move, I'm afraid we really won't be able to hold out!"
"What's wrong with these monsters and animals?! Haven't they heard the boss's name?!"
"Hey! We didn't come here to fight you! We won't hurt you!!"
At this moment, in the center of the rainforest, Black Blade's group had fallen into a predicament.
They had already been surrounded by those conscious monsters and animals.
The monsters and animals were slowly approaching Black Blade's people, as if they had developed killing intent.
The scene before them was completely different from what Black Blade had imagined.
Black Blade had already calculated that the rainforest was the gathering place of the animal and monster factions.
So he had personally led people here. The purpose was precisely to form an alliance. After all, many animals and monsters in the Overworld knew Black Blade's identity.
Black Blade and Peng Peng often helped animals and monsters. That was why Black Blade had the idea of forming an alliance with them.
Never did he expect that these animals and monsters seemed unwilling to give him any face.
Not long after exploring into the rainforest, they had been surrounded.
At this moment, Black Blade immediately felt caught between advancing and retreating.
It wasn't that Black Blade couldn't win a fight, but rather that he didn't know whether he should fight. If he did fight, everything he had accumulated before would all turn into bubbles.
But looking at the posture of these animals and monsters, if they didn't fight, they would probably really die here.
Seeing the gradually approaching footsteps of these animals and monsters, Black Blade kept observing their behavior, his brain spinning rapidly.
'They should know my identity… otherwise they would have already attacked…'
"Their movements are all uniform… they must be obeying someone!…'
'Not attacking for so long… they are observing us?…'
Thinking of this, a sudden flash of insight crossed Black Blade's mind, and he raised his voice, "We truly have no hostility!"
"I know you are observing us! I promise, we absolutely will not attack you!"
Black Blade immediately discerned the current situation.
If these animals and monsters really wanted Black Blade and his group dead, they could have ambushed them.
Since they had all appeared openly, yet still had not attacked, to put it plainly, it was because they did not yet trust Black Blade enough.
In such a situation, if Black Blade lost his patience and made a move, everything would be ruined.
Sure enough, as soon as Black Blade finished speaking, the animals and monsters stopped advancing.
Black Blade thought he had passed the test and was about to breathe a sigh of relief.
Just then, a trident was suddenly thrown from atop a tall tree to the north, flying swiftly with the wind, attacking the spot where Black Blade stood.
The trident's speed was very fast, but Black Blade was no amateur.
He immediately pulled out a shield and blocked in front of himself. With a loud bang, the trident was blocked by the shield.
But at that moment, an accident happened.
After being blocked, the trident bounced back, and shot rapidly toward the southwest, straight at a Sheep Lord standing there.
Obviously, no one had anticipated such a thing would happen.
The trident was so fast, the Sheep Lord didn't even have time to react.
"Not good!"
"Moo!! Moo moo!!"
"Roar roar!!… Roar roar!!"
Watching the trident about to strike the Sheep Lord's face, in that split second, a fishing hook flew toward the Sheep Lord.
A moment before the trident hit, the line tightened and pulled, and the Sheep Lord was instantly dragged several steps away.
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