"Hmph, I'll let you go this time since I'm in a good mood."

  Li Meng had initially thought about freezing the ke.

  But since he had already gotten what he wahere was o do so.

  With a pleased expression, Li Meng walked deeper into the forest.

  In the following days, Li Meng tinued upstream.

  He trekked over mountains and through rivers, stopping and starting along the way.

  Five days ter, he reached the northern bank of the Goblin River.

  About twenty kilometers away from the Goblin River stood a rge mountain.

  On the cliffside half the mountain stood a green-skinned figure.

  That green-skinned figure was Li Meng.

  Standing high, he could see far, and the forest at the foot of the mountain was id out before him.

  But the forest was not quiet; it was bustling with noise.

  The forest on both sides of a tributary of the Goblin River was being felled.

  In the forest, many pig-headed, human-bodied creatures could be seen.

  They wielded stone axes, panting as they chopped down trees.

  Their stature was much rger than that of goblins.

  Their average height was around 1.9 meters.

  They looked chubby, giving a sense of both fleshiness and sturdiness.

  They resembled humans more than pigs.

  Apart from their rge noses and ears, their pig heads were more human-like.

  The Pigmen tribe had migrated here some time ago.

  On both sides of the small river stood rows of hatched huts.

  Though simple in structure and somewhat crude in appearance,

  they were adequate shelters from the wind and rain.

  Iribe, some fires could be seen smoking.

  The presence of the fires indicated that the Pigmen tribe knew how to use "fire."

  "Finally found you!"

  Looking at the distant Pigmen tribe settlement, Li Meng murmured to himself.

  Another purpose of his journey upstream was to find the Pigmen tribe.

  After a month, he finally found them.

  The Pigmen tribe was not small; the visible number alone was han two thousand.

  If Li Meng hadn't seen some ued waste in the Goblin River,

  finding the Pigmen tribe wouldn't have been easy.

  Gng slightly to the south, Li Meng looked in that dire.

  The end of this tributary was the Goblin River.

  At the fluehe Goblin River wound southward, deep into the Goblin Forest.

  The Pigmen tribe's location was about seventy kilometers from the tribe.

  Not too close, but not too far either.

  Li Meng recorded the Pigmen tribe's location on a wooden board with charcoal.

  "Time to head back!"

  Li Meng hadn't fotten about the Batter.

  However, Bck Robe shouldn't appear so soon.

  Although the simuted life predicted future information was quite brief,

  it didn't specify when Bck Robe would appear.

  But some information could help predict the approximate time.

  Before long, the green-skinned figure by the cliff had disappeared.

  It had taken over a month to e, stopping and starting, sometimes going to the southern shore, sometimes returning to the northern shore.

  But it only took Li Meng five days to return to the tribe.

  Oernoon of the fifth day, Li Meuro the tribe.

  "Boss, boss!"

  The return of the boss excited the goblins guarding the entrao the throne cave.

  Two goblins looked at the approag boss with fawning expressions.

  "Go find Gobu Ge and have him send some cy over!"

  Li Meng instructed the goblin underlings as he approached.

  One goblin quickly turned and ran in the dire of the Iron Cave.

  "Where's Benben?"

  Li Meng looked around but didn't see Benben.

  "Boss, Benbe half a month ago, and we don't know where he went. He hasn't returned yet."

  Benbe?

  This news surprised Li Meng.

  But he didn't pay much attention and walked inside.

  Benben was an ogre, and his armor allowed him to roam the Goblin Forest freely.

  Although Li Meng didn't know where Benbe,

  he believed Benben would return.

  "Not here either?"

  Entering the throne cave, Li Meng found that the female Lizardmen were not there.

  He knew where they had gone.

  They must have goo the Iron Cave to deliver milk to the male Lizardmen.

  Li Meng didn't linger ihrone cave.

  Seeing no one inside, he turned a.

  "I wonder how Gobu Da is doing!"

  Walking through the tribe, Li Meng thought to himself.

  More than a month had passed, and he hoped Gobu Da wouldn't disappoint him.

  Before long, Li Meng saw the carpentry workshop.

  "The boss is here, the boss is here!"

  Seeing the boss, the goblins at the door acted as if they'd seen a ghost.

  They turned and ran into the carpentry workshop, closing the door behind them.

  This se gave Li Meng a bad feeling.

  At the door, Li Meng heard the sound of running ihe workshop.

  "Gobu Da, what are you up to?"

  Li Meng shouted, pushing the door open.

  The running ihe workshop came to an abrupt halt.

  All the goblins looked at the boss at the door with fear.

  Especially Gobu Da, who was tinkering with a three-bow ballista in the er.

  "Not bad, very good!"

  Seeing the three-bow ballista in the er, Li Meng's eyes lit up.

  He walked over to Gobu Da with a look of satisfa.

  Praising him generously as he walked.

  Gobu Da chuckled, fawning as he approached.

  "Boss, you... came back so soon?"

  "It's been over a month, and you call that soon?"

  Li Meng gred at Gobu Da and approached the three-bow ballista.

  Gobu Da shrank his neck, worriedly looking at the ballista.

  Looking at the three-bow ballista in front of him, Li Meng nodded repeatedly.

  Although it didn't have the b, it looked like something.

  But the craftsmanship was truly ugly, very crude.

  Both the bow and the ballista's frame were full of dents and bumps.

  "Not bad, not a waste of my teag you for so long!"

  Li Meng was quite satisfied with what they had mao create.

  , he would let Gobu Da and the others slowly refiheir skills.

  Thinking of this, Li Meng reached out to adjust the slightly crooked bow.

  "Crash!"

  With that touch, the three-bow ballista suddenly fell apart.

  With a cttering sound, its parts scattered all over the ground.

  Li Meng's outstretched right hand froze in mid-air, his gaze vat.

  "Uh... boss!"

  Gobu Da took two fearful steps back.

  He wao run, but his body wouldn't move.

  "Gobu Da, you idiot!"

  A thunderous roar echoed through the carpentry workshop.

  The massive roar sent a shock through the goblins iribe.

  They all looked in astonishment towards the carpentry workshop.

  In the nearby forest, a group of female Lizardmen was returning to the tribe.

  "High Priest, it sounds like that goblin's voice."

  Hui Nana shuddered, her expression uain.

  The master had been gone for over a month.

  They had just given birth not long ago, and now the master was back.

  Frequent pregnancies had left them physically aally exhausted.

  Bai Ling's heart sank, and she remained silent.

  A flicker of fear passed through the eyes of the other female Lizardmen.

  In the following days, Gobu Da used up all his luck.

  Li Meng's scolding and the goblins' cries echoed from the carpentry workshop from time to time.

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