So his goal was very clear, even if Fat Cow's players came to cause trouble, he would still carry out his own plan without hesitation.
So at this moment, he must have already entered the forest region, and even already gone underground.
This was also why Xu Yuan asked the Pillager King how many layers underground his garrison camp was.
From Xu Yuan's question it could be guessed that Xu Yuan did not actually know the specific details of the garrison camp.
In fact, no one had ever told Xu Yuan about there being a garrison camp in the forest region.
This was only Xu Yuan's own judgment, from the situation of the forest region, normally speaking, the Pillager King would definitely have a garrison camp.
After all, this is the normal preparation strategy of a leader. If he couldn't even think of this, the Pillager King would never have become the leader of the Pillagers.
Hearing Xu Yuan's question, although the Pillager King was still a bit surprised, he didn't show it too much on his face. After all, Xu Yuan had already sent people to monitor the forest, so it wasn't strange that he knew about his garrison camp.
"The garrison camp is on the shallow level…"
"About at around the 10th underground floor…"
Actually, when Xu Yuan asked the question, the Pillager King was already drenched in sweat.
When he had ordered the construction of the garrison camp back then, he had carefully calculated the depth.
Because in his mind, the possible enemies who would attack the forest had always been the players.
According to the habits of players, digging usually used the method of digging three and filling one, at most they would only dig to the fifth or sixth floor.
Precisely because of this, the Pillager King chose this depth.
However, no matter how carefully he calculated, he still overlooked the iron golems.
Iron golems have huge bodies, if they wanted to hide themselves completely, they would have to dig much deeper.
At this moment, the Pillager King could already imagine the scene of the garrison camp being dug through by the iron golems. Thinking of this, the Pillager King could not help but feel endless regret.
"Back then I really did overlook the iron golems…"
The Pillager King originally thought the current situation was already extremely urgent, but when he raised his head, he saw Xu Yuan's face seemed to show a trace of a smile.
"Maybe that garrison camp has already been discovered."
Hearing Xu Yuan's words, the Pillager King's heart that had been hanging high completely sank. But the smile on Xu Yuan's face really made him feel confused.
With the situation already like this, Xu Yuan could still smile? Could it be that Xu Yuan had already thought of a countermeasure?
Thinking of this, the Pillager King tentatively asked Xu Yuan.
"If we bring soldiers over now, will it still be in time?"
Xu Yuan only shook his head, denying the Pillager King's idea, then patted his shoulder and said, "Let's go, I'll go with you."
Hearing Xu Yuan didn't seem to have any intention of sending troops, the Pillager King couldn't help but be stunned.
"Huh?"
"Just the two of us?"
The Pillager King didn't mean to look down on Xu Yuan. If this happened in the main world, then Xu Yuan alone would be enough to easily settle it.
However, in the Trial Land, everyone had lost their special abilities. Even if Xu Yuan's equipment and skills were outstanding, it was absolutely impossible to fight many with few.
What was worse, now the garrison camp had most likely already been detected by the iron golems. They clearly wouldn't give the Pillagers a chance to release these reserve troops.
Even taking a step back, even if the Pillager King managed to release those reserves, it might still be useless.
After all, those monsters and iron golems and villagers were hostile, but they also held hostility toward players.
In this situation, even if all the forces of the Rainforest region were sent to the forest region, winning this battle would still not be easy.
After all, the iron golems had all hidden underground in the forest already. They were in the dark while our side was in the open, and they very likely even held the advantage of the garrison camp.
This battle would be extremely difficult to win.
But what was puzzling was that Xu Yuan not only had no plan to send troops, he even intended to go alone into the forest.
The Pillager King really could not understand what Xu Yuan was thinking, that he would make such a decision.
Hearing Xu Yuan's words, the Pillager King felt a trace of hesitation.
He instinctively swept his gaze over the others nearby, hoping to find some support or hint from their expressions.
At this moment, Black Blade, Blue Demon, and Barbeque Sauce, standing to the side, didn't show the slightest worry on their faces.
Perhaps for these three who had long ago devoted themselves to Xu Yuan, they were already used to following his orders, and naturally wouldn't question his decisions much.
The Pillager King thought, if only Black Blade and the others reacted this way, that wouldn't be strange.
After all, they had followed Xu Yuan for a long time, their trust in him was deeply rooted.
But right now, he turned his gaze toward Mustard. He and Mustard had only recently joined Xu Yuan, so maybe Mustard would hold a different opinion.
Just as he was thinking this, Mustard seemed to sense the look the Pillager King cast toward him.
The two locked eyes, and Mustard instantly understood the meaning in the Pillager King's gaze.
He thought for a moment, as if weighing the pros and cons in his heart.
After a moment, he opened his mouth and said, "At present, it really isn't suitable to rashly send troops."
As the saying goes, "The onlooker sees clearly." Compared to the impatient Pillager King, Mustard could look at the current battle situation more calmly and objectively.
Although he didn't fully know Xu Yuan's calculations, after rationally analyzing the situation, he knew this battle would be abnormally difficult.
Also, although Mustard had joined Xu Yuan's side relatively late, he already understood well the principles Xu Yuan stood for.
The peace Xu Yuan pursued was not a false peace brought by war, but a true harmony of coexistence.
He would never use force to oppress other factions and make them submit.
In fact, Xu Yuan had already planned carefully, placing Barbeque Sauce and Blue Demon as his insiders, successfully infiltrating Mustard's and the Pillager King's factions.
Not only that, he also had firm control over the entire trading network, able to easily use force to crush Mustard's and the Pillager King's factions.
Yet Xu Yuan always held to his principles, and never chose to do this.
Precisely because of this, Mustard believed firmly that Xu Yuan absolutely wouldn't personally take part in this battle.
However, not waging war didn't mean the problem couldn't be solved.
From Xu Yuan's expression, it wasn't hard to see, he already seemed to have found a good solution for the forest crisis. Mustard knew Xu Yuan wasn't an arrogant man. Since he had already said he had a way, then surely he already had full confidence.
So Mustard chose to trust Xu Yuan.
Even Mustard said so, so the Pillager King didn't struggle with it anymore.
Even though he didn't know what Xu Yuan's plan was, seeing everyone choose to believe Xu Yuan unconditionally, the Pillager King had no more hesitation.
Although the Pillager King didn't say anything more, Xu Yuan still noticed the worried look on his face.
Seeing this, Xu Yuan explained, "Let's set out first, talk as we go, if we delay any longer the situation might change for the worse."
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[Inside the Pillager Base]
Fat Cow stood in the middle of the warehouse, panic written all over his face, watching the Pillagers full of hostility, step by step pressing toward him.
"I…"
"No… hostility!!"
"I… am not… not an enemy!"
Fat Cow said this while also trying to translate his words with exaggerated body language.
But at this moment, the Pillagers didn't seem to understand what he was saying, and still pressed closer step by step.
"Qiu dou mada!!… ah pui…"
"I…"
"Friend!! Friend!! Friend!! Good friend!!"
Seeing the Pillagers looking puzzled, not understanding what he meant at all, Fat Cow grew anxious beyond belief.
He felt he was about to go crazy. He had already used up all the languages he knew.
Even though he had been trying so hard to explain to these Pillagers, their hostility toward him had not lessened in the slightest.
Fat Cow felt despair surge in his chest, but he still refused to give up.
So Fat Cow used everything he had, playing out all his acting talent to the extreme. He suddenly puffed out his chest, then started moving his joints like a robot, while deliberately lowering his voice to say.
"Roar roar… iron golem…"
Then he quickly pulled out an iron pickaxe from his bag, and started furiously digging the ground.
"Dig… dig… underground!"
"They're underground!!"
"Danger!!… danger!!!…"
Fat Cow kept digging the ground while also exaggerating his voice and actions, signaling to the Pillagers where the danger was.
He hoped in this way he could draw their attention, make them understand his intentions.
At this moment, Fat Cow had exhausted every trick he had. If the Pillagers still couldn't understand him, then he truly had no way left.
It had to be said, Fat Cow's performance was indeed very "spectacular." His efforts weren't wasted either.
The Pillagers finally stopped advancing step by step.
One of the Pillagers, standing in the middle, stepped forward. From the look of it, he seemed to be the captain of this group.
The Pillager Captain walked up to Fat Cow, looked him up and down, then finally spoke.
"The players outside who are fighting the iron golems, are they your people?…"
Hearing the captain's words, Fat Cow instantly turned to stone.
"No way?!!!"
"Bro, you f***ing understood me?!!!!"
Hearing the Pillager Captain's clear and proper question, Fat Cow's mentality completely collapsed.
In order to communicate with these Pillagers, he had racked his brains, used everything he knew, nearly broke his entire language system.
He had even awakened his inner dancer, busting out robotic moves, his joints had never been this flexible before.
And after all that, turns out the Pillagers not only understood him, but could even talk to him normally.
At this moment, he only wanted to go argue with Batman.
Turns out, the real clown was himself.
Although thinking back to what he just did made him feel so embarrassed he could dig out a whole three-bedroom apartment with his toes, he knew very well this wasn't the time to vent his feelings.
He looked at the captain in front of him and explained.
"We got the mission to guard near the forest, to protect your safety."
"Just now we discovered a villager bringing a group of iron golems preparing to attack the forest."
"Their plan was to attack from above. I told my men to delay their attack as much as possible."
"At first I thought they would retreat or fight us, but unexpectedly, they went straight into the forest…"
"They're underground now. It's only a matter of time before they dig to here."
"I've already reported the situation here, our side should be sending support soon."
"The reason I came here was to take you away..."
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