A year ter.

  Northern forest by the Goblin River.

  Throribe, m.

  "The boss is back!"

  "It's the boss!"

  "That's great!"

  Early in the m, Li Meuro the tribe amidst the cheers of the goblin underlings.

  Although he hadn't returo the throribe for a year, not much had ged.

  The goblins were still the same goblins.

  The newboblins, once grown, wouldn't stay ihroribe.

  They would follow their boss to establish new sub-tribes elsewhere.

  When the familiar throne cave came into view, Li Meng stopped at the entrance.

  "Gather all the high-ranking goblins to meet me!"

  The goblin guarding the door quickly scurried into the depths of the forest.

  "Benben, what's wrong?"

  Seeing Benben lying on the ground staring at him, Li Meng asked, puzzled.

  Could it be that Benben didn't reize him?

  That's impossible; ogres aren't like fish.

  "Boss, you feel kind of strao me."

  Benben scratched his head and said sullenly.

  "A strange feeling?"

  Li Meng grinned and flexed his arm muscles.

  "Maybe it's because your boss has gotten stronger."

  Benben plopped down on the ground to the right of the entrance, occasionally gng at the boss.

  Before long, the tribe was bustling.

  Hundreds of high-ranking goblins gathered from all dires in front of the throne cave entrance.

  "What I'm about to say, you must remember. If anyone doesn't listen, I'll eat them!"

  The high-ranking goblins shrank their necks at the sight of the boss at the door.

  After a year, the boss's oppressive aura was even stronger.

  It was as if a terrifying magical beast stood before them, its menag jaws open, ready to swallow them whole.

  "First, from January to April is the groundhog's closed season!"

  "A closed season means no hunting groundhogs during this time."

  "Sed, from July to December is the forest boar's closed season."

  "Third, from May to September is the forest deer's closed season."

  "Fourth, from April to July is the forest rabbit's closed season."

  "Fifth, from January to April is the lownd dragon's closed season."

  "Sixth, ..."

  For the half hour, Li Meng's voice echoed throughout the tribe.

  The high-ranking goblins listened until they were fused.

  "Did you all uand?"

  Faced with the boss's fierce gaze, the goblins looked at each other.

  If they said they uood, wouldn't that be deceiving the boss?

  If the boss asked, wouldn't they be eaten?

  Gobu Tian shook his head vigorously.

  The oblins quickly followed suit.

  Li Meng gri the goblins' rea.

  "Good, if you don't know, you don't know. You learn, but if you deceive me, you won't have a sed life."

  The boss's menag smile made all the goblins shiver.

  "In a while, I'll have Gobu Ge deliver the 'Goblin Codex' to you. You must follow the rules in the 'Goblin Codex'. If you don't uand, I won't bme you, but if you 't read it, you're only fit to eat dung."

  Although goblins had nguage, they had no writing.

  Therefore, the Goblin Codex was in animal illustrations.

  Li Meng had long taught the high-ranking goblins Arabiumerals and the dar.

  The high-ranking goblins would rey orders to the loblins verbally.

  "Boss, we uand, we uand!"

  The high-ranking goblins nodded vigorously.

  "Go bad wait. You have three days to figure out the tents of the 'Goblin Codex'. If you have any questions, you ask me."

  "In five days, the bosses of the tribes return."

  "High-ranking goblins with over two hundred underlings should e to me in seven days."

  After a year away, the tribe was set to embark on a new phase of development.

  There was much to do, but it could be doep by step.

  "Disperse!"

  The high-ranking goblins outside the throne cave scattered.

  They ran in all dires.

  The green-skinned figures, rge and small, disappeared into the depths of the forest.

  "Benben, go find some yellow d water!"

  Benben got up and walked into the depths of the forest with a thud.

  He had dohis before and knew where to find yellow cy.

  Watg Benben's tall figure disappear, Li Meng turned aered the wooden house.

  Ihe wooden house were the female Lizardmen, still thirteen of them.

  Li Meng didn't know what status they held in the Yue or did he want to know.

  Regardless of their status, in Li Meng's eyes, they were merely breeding tools.

  Li Meng's arrival caused the female Lizardmen in the wooden house to show signs of fear.

  Ign them, Li Me straight to the sand table.

  Sitting beside the sand table, Li Meng stared ily at it.

  A year had passed, and it was time to expand the map.

  Over the past year, besides iigating the ecology of the Goblin Forest, Li Meng had explored every er of it.

  He had gained a general uanding of the geography of the Goblin Forest.

  The Goblin Forest was located in the southeastern er of the ti.

  The southern and southeastern sides were coastlines.

  To the northeast y a wastend.

  The Pigmen tribe came from there.

  The western end was a steep, barren mountain range.

  The Goblin Forest spanned about 700 kilometers north to south and over 1100 kilometers east to west.

  The source of the Goblin River was in the western mountains.

  There were two tributaries at the estuary.

  One was at the northeastern border with the wastend.

  The other was he mountains to the southwest.

  Besides magical beasts, Li Meng also discovered the Barbarians.

  "Those things are really ugly, even uglier than goblins!"

  Li Meng recalled a tribe of Barbarians he found outside the western mountains.

  Their appearance was very simir to that of mice.

  They were like enrged, upright-walking mice.

  The system identified them as the "Ratmen tribe."

  Their individual attributes were slightly strohan those of goblins.

  Their average attributes ranged from 10 to 20.

  There were also some stronger mutant individuals, but they were retively rare.

  After disc the tribe, Li Meng observed them for half a month before leaving.

  The Ratmen tribe not only looked like mice but also liked to dig like them.

  Their tribes couldn't be seen on the surface.

  Their s were all underground.

  Only when they went out to hunt did they leave the underground.

  Unlike goblins, who only ate meat, the Ratmen tribe were omnivores.

  Meat, pnt roots, stems, leaves, and fruits were all part of their diet.

  "Strange, where have all those Barbarians gone?"

  Li Meng's face showed a ptive expression, a hint of doubt fshing in his eyes.

  Besides the Ratmen tribe, Li Meng discovered something strange.

  Over the past year, Li Meng found many Barbarian tribes in the Goblin Forest.

  But those tribes had long been abandoned.

  Only a pile of broken remnants and traces of Barbarian life remained.

  Moreover, the further west he went, the more it seemed that the goblins scattered throughout the Goblin Forest had disappeared.

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