After a while, the eg ughter iribe finally subsided.

  Almost instantly, all sounds vanished.

  Because the leader at the entrance of the throne cave stopped ughing.

  "Boss, boss, they're all here!"

  Gobu Sheng hurried over, a fttering smile on his face.

  Li Meng g the male Lizardmen not far away.

  "Have them bring all the axes and saws, let's move out! Head to the Northern s!"

  With that, Li Meng strode forward, heading out of the tribe.

  Wherever he passed, the Goblin underlings made way.

  They looked at the t figure of their leader with nothing but awe.

  Nearly a thousand Goblins followed Li Meng like a wave sweeping out of the tribe.

  At the gate, Bai Ling got up from the ground.

  She wiped the blood from the er of her mouth.

  The female Lizardman who had returned with her quickly stepped forward to support her.

  "They're heading to the Northern s?"

  Watg the departing Goblins, Bai Ling thought to herself.

  She had just heard what the master said.

  She was certain the master's destination was the Northern s.

  Why was the master heading to the Northern s at this time?

  "Could it be that reinforts from the Bck Mountain tribe have arrived?"

  This possibility brought a hint of joy to Bai Ling's heart.

  But it was quickly followed by worry.

  Uhe entire Bck Mountain tribe attacked, there was no ce of defeating the master.

  "High Priest, go bad rest!"

  Two female Lizardmen helped Bai Ling into a wooden house.

  The otion iribe sted only a short while.

  Soon, the tribe quieted down.

  In the following days, Li Mehe team westward.

  They traveled during the day, hunted in the first half of the night, aed in the sed half.

  Ohird day, in the forest north of the Goblin River.

  "Where are the Goblins taking us?"

  "This dire... could it be to the Northern s?"

  In the dim forest, a rge group of Lizardmen moved westward.

  Around them were many Goblins unig with "wa wa" sounds.

  Green-skinned figures of various sizes filled a rge part of the forest.

  Gray Scale and Bck Scale exged gnces as they walked through the forest.

  The rotation period roag, giving them a sense of foreboding.

  Time passed bit by bit, day after day.

  Oernoon of the fifth day, in the forest east of the Northern s.

  "We're finally back!"

  Looking at the endless s before them, the Lizardmen on the shore looked at each other.

  After nearly a year, they had finally returned.

  This ce they were familiar with.

  As long as they dived into the water, they could escape the Goblins' trol.

  But they dared not, and could not do so.

  Because their families were still in the hands of the Goblins.

  Because their home was in the Northern s.

  "Wa wa!"

  At this moment, a group of Goblins rushed over, shouting.

  They snatched the axes and saws from the Lizardmen.

  And began chopping trees in the forest by the shore.

  Anroup of Goblins prodded the Lizardmen with long spears.

  Driving the Lizardmen to cut down trees.

  For a time, the "thud thud" of logging echoed in the forest.

  Occasionally, there was the "crash" of trees falling.

  Meanwhile, Li Meng led a group of Goblins into the s.

  In the vast s, Li Meng and his Goblin underlings ventured westward.

  Oernoon of the third day.

  On the eastern shore of a piece of nd not submerged by water.

  Li Meng and his Goblin underlings set foot on the nd.

  "Well, this pce isn't bad!"

  Standing on the soft ground, Li Meng gazed into the distance.

  Along the way, they entered many simir isnds.

  But those isnds were either too small or had rugged terrain.

  The isnd before them was a ft expanse.

  It risked being submerged at high tide.

  Such a pce was ideal for Lizardmen to live.

  "This is it, we're going to build a wooden stronghold here!"

  A hint of disappoi fshed in the eyes of Gobu Yi, Gobu Zhang, and Gobu Sheng behind Li Meng.

  They had inally thought the boss was taking them out for a fight.

  They hadn't expected to be doing hard bor.

  "Gobu Yi, do you know where the Gray Scale tribe is?"

  The map ihrone cave clearly marked the locations of the three Lizardmen tribes.

  Although Goblins were rather foolish.

  They had a great sense of dire and never fot a pce they'd been to once.

  Gobu Yi looked around.

  He pointed southwest with his right hand.

  "Boss, in that dire!"

  "Good, go, head to the Gray Scale tribe and bring all the Lizardmen here."

  With that, Li Meng gave a sinister smile.

  "If they resist, then kill them until they 't resist anymore!"

  Gobu Yi grinned, resting his spiked club on his shoulder.

  "Alright, boss, I'll bring them back."

  Then Gobu Yi hurriedly led his Goblin underlings southwest.

  The Goblins on the isnd watched as Gobu Yi departed.

  "Gobu Zhang, you go to the Bck Scale tribe and bring all the Lizardmen here!"

  Gobu Zhang nodded and tinued walking.

  The Goblin underlings quickly followed behind him.

  "Gobu Sheng, return to the forest immediately and transport all the timber here."

  Transp timber was much easier where there was water.

  After all, timber floats.

  Gobu Sheng turned with a grim fad headed back the way they came.

  Ohe three Big Goblin underlings left.

  Only a dozen Goblin underlings remained behind Li Meng.

  "Three months left, just enough time!"

  Li Meng took a deep breath.

  Inhaling the s's air with a hint of decay, he looked pleased.

  The purpose of building the wooden stronghold was singur.

  To gather all the Lizardmen from the three tribes together.

  This way, the Bck Mountain tribe's army would lose the ce to tact the Northern s.

  Even if they found the wooden stronghold, it wouldn't matter.

  Li Meng didn't mind engaging in a defetle with the Bck Mountain tribe's army.

  He had enough forces to guard the Northern s's wooden stronghold and the tribe.

  Li Meng's goal wasn't to annihite the Bck Mountain tribe's army.

  But to make them retreat i, leaviy-handed.

  At the same time, he couldn't push the Bck Mountain tribe too hard.

  To avoid them summoning the Barbarian God "Aqua."

  As for the human adventurer couple, avoiding their appearance was easy.

  The adventurer squad line was the easiest to resolve.

  Let them plete their mission and leave obediently.

  As long as he didn't interfere with the adventurer squad, no further events would be triggered.

  "Simply perfect!"

  Li Meng grinned with some pride.

  With the Life Simution System, avoiding dangerous future lines was retively easy.

  "Letting the adventurer squad go won't trigger some unknow, will it?"

  Li Meng suddenly recalled four words.

  The "butterfly effect."

  Letting the adventurer squad go didn't mean the event was over.

  It might lead to a bigger event.

  "Just have to wait and see, solve the immediate problem first."

  Shaking his head, Li Meng muttered to himself.

  He wasn't a perfeist.

  Achieving the most perfeding wasn't so easy.

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