The dragon just wants to stay at home, but the players are frantically upgrading their technology.

However, she was also assigned a task: to pick wild fruits while simultaneously using a mud slab to record the terrain.

At this point, the player enters the primitive society.

After the conversation, the group finally noticed Siegel, who was dozing off to the side.

"Fellow villager Long, we'd like to ask if you have any knowledge about the surrounding forces?"

Zhan Shuai turned around and asked, with a "what the heck" attitude.

"On this issue?"

Siegel jolted awake from his half-dream, glancing at the four of them.

"Now that I've finished talking, I'm going back to sleep."

"Ah."

The four nodded.

Siegel's laziness is well-known, and expecting him to provide much information or help is wishful thinking.

"Let me think... I haven't traveled far from home for several years, and I don't remember much about those little things."

Siegel rummaged through the memories hidden in the nooks and crannies.

"Hmm... Heading south towards the Blackrock Mountains leads to the border of the Kingdom of Kosia, human territory."

"They were very strong, with five or six ranks inland, and they were fighting with several other countries at the time."

All four of them could understand what was being said.

Although Baicaoyuan was not very proper today, it still did a good job of introducing the extraordinary system.

"Go north, that's the territory of demi-human races and magical beasts, gnolls, goblins, ratmen, centaurs! There are a lot of them."

Siegel shook his head, too lazy to continue reading, then, remembering something, pointed to the northwest and said again.

"I remember the closest one to here was a group of goblins. They occupied an abandoned mine and even knew how to smelt iron."

Upon hearing about iron smelting, the four men's eyes lit up instantly, and they grabbed Siegel and bombarded him with questions.

But they're just a bunch of goblins; they don't deserve any special attention from Siegel.

Siegel remembered them because they were not far from the dragon's nest.

In the end, the group could only get vague information such as that the goblins were very weak, some were at the first rank, and some might be at the second rank.

After asking a few more questions and learning the approximate locations of some forces, the group let Siegel go to sleep.

If they don't let Siegel sleep soon, his resentment might kill them.

After discussing it, the five decided to send Copperhead with a belt to make contact with the goblins first, then set up a smart AI reminder and went offline.

The next day.

Players logged in one after another.

This time the scene is different. Beside the remaining campfire ashes, the War Master and Caliber Justice lead the team, inviting players to join one by one.

Most players did not refuse the invitation to dinner last night, even those who were somewhat confused accepted it.

Of the 20 players, 18 accepted the invitation, and only 1 declined.

As for the remaining player, they're still AFK at the entrance of the Dragon's Nest.

Siegel saw that his subscription card was still being charged, so he didn't kick him out.

With organization, players who are united are different.

Over the next few days, several earthen kilns were built, and timber was collected to burn bricks.

As agreed, Siegel used dragon's breath to help raise the temperature of the earthen kiln and quickly fire the bricks.

According to Siegel's request, the "caliber is justice" approach found a civil engineering player and had a bed built using the highest quality bricks.

However, Siegel had only been helping for two days when Justice, the caliber, used tanned animal hides to make bellows, which Siegel then improved.

With the upgrading of tools, brick houses filled with clay and grass roots sprang up along the riverbank at a visible speed.

However, due to limitations in the materials used in the tools, players find it difficult to cut down large trees, making it slow to build brick houses.

The houses are not tall, and the roofs are just made of tree branches, barely enough to keep out the wind and rain.

However, this was enough for the short-statured kobolds.

Meanwhile, the technology tree illuminated by bricks also contains poison, hemp rope, and simple bows and arrows.

Miss White Bear is credited with unlocking the Poison and Rope tech trees.

She would eat a bite of wild fruit and grass before picking them, and then she poisoned herself the day before yesterday.

When it was brought back to camp, the polar bear was already crooked in the mouth and eyes, and there was no way to save it.

After being resurrected, the polar bear turned it into poison.

The hemp rope was created when the polar bear found a plant similar to hemp and wove it into rope to make clothes, but it was requisitioned by the caliber of justice to make bows and arrows.

These bows and arrows are not very durable and have a low draw weight.

Only when using bone or stone arrowheads can one barely pierce the flesh of ordinary small animals.

However, this also led to a significant increase in the number of prey caught by the hunting team led by Baicaoyuan.

Besides the changes brought about by bows and arrows, the Herb Garden taught players some hunting skills, how to make traps, and even led the hunting team to kill three Tier 1 monsters.

Based on their contributions, the hunting team selected three players to advance to the rank of Tier 1 Apprentice Dragonblood Warrior.

When hunting monsters, one naturally needs the help of copper-headed belts and warriors.

Moreover, players have made many subtle improvements, but these are not counted in the statistics of "Justice and War Master".

As for the copper-headed belt, he had already led his men to roughly figure out the location of the abandoned mine and the general distribution and routines of the goblins.

That day.

While helping the gloomy war general forge stone tools, Kouchiji was also discussing the camp's development and future direction.

Just then, Miss White Bear suddenly emerged from a small brick house next to the dragon's nest.

"Smugglers have arrived on the abandoned trade route!"

Chapter 10 Smugglers

"Boss, smugglers have arrived on the abandoned trade route!"

The polar bear ran while shouting.

She looked excited, as if she wanted to quickly inform the voice of justice.

This not only attracted the voices of Justice and Warlord, but also instantly drew in players from the entire camp.

Players put down what they were doing and came over to join in the fun.

Seeing the righteous voice with a dark expression approaching, along with the War Master and the other players, Miss White Bear realized something was wrong.

She suddenly remembered the secrecy issue that the "line of justice" had mentioned, and hurriedly reached out to cover her mouth.

But the words have already been spoken, so what good will covering your mouth do?

"Boss, I was wrong."

Miss Polar Bear pitifully lowered her hand that she had been trying to cover her mouth, lowered her head, and looked utterly dejected.

"It's okay, we're all in this together anyway."

"Caliber is Justice" sighed and patted Miss White Bear on the shoulder.

These past few days, she's gotten to know Bai Xiong's personality better; he's easygoing and a bit naive.

"Tell me in detail what happened."

The caliber of justice is what matters; he withdrew his hand and began to ask questions.

They had already inspected this trade route.

The trade route was very large, large enough to allow horse-drawn carriages to pass through, which required a great deal of effort.

There were no traces of soldiers or large convoys passing through, only some small convoys.

It is obvious that this trade route was left behind by a large chamber of commerce or the government, but was abandoned for some unknown reason, making it convenient for smugglers.

The reason these analyses are possible is not because there are professionals among the players, but because the players use AI.

After concluding that they might encounter a merchant, they sent people to stake out the area.

But the person lying in wait wasn't a polar bear!

"...Also, why did you come out of the respawn point? Was there a battle?"

Zhan Shuai looked at him strangely and pointed to the small house behind Miss White Bear.

That was set up by Siegel a few days ago.

Rumor has it that someone resurrected next to Long while he was reading comics, thus disturbing his enjoyment.

I just don't know if the comics my fellow villager Long reads are legitimate.