Lu Ban needs manpower.

These people are not the numb and silent townspeople, nor are they the knights who have no fighting power, nor are they the nobles who are addicted to entertainment and indulging in wine and sex.

Not even the court mages.

What Lu Ban needs are professionals who have subjective initiative, can assemble, propose plans, and implement them in a short period of time.

What Lu Ban needs are builders and soldiers who are not afraid of sacrifice, are hardworking and brave, and constantly strive for self-improvement.

Thinking of this, Lu Ban quickly came up with an idea.

If there is anyone who can quickly adapt to an environment that is different from the reality, and can make changes in the fastest time, start building and developing, and is not afraid of failure and death, then there is only one answer.

Lu Ban asked the knights to wait where they were and immediately ran to the baron's house.

Lu Ban shouted while running.

"I thought of it. I thought of it."

After hearing Lu Ban's words, Xia and Trist came out, followed by Baron Jello.

When Baron Jello saw the red knight, his face suddenly changed. He hid behind Xia and seemed to be quite afraid of the knight.

"What's wrong?"

Xia looked at the crawling red knight, then looked at Lu Ban, wondering what he had done.

"I've figured out how to save the Kingdom of Darkness together with this bunch of insects."

Lu Ban said.

"Insects?"

Baron Jello began to wonder.

"I mean these kind and lovely townspeople, and these fully armed knights."

Lu Ban changed his words.

"Did you find anything?"

Trist asked, he had long been accustomed to Lu Ban's strange ideas.

"Baron, is there any swamp or similar pool of water nearby?"

Lu Ban asked.

"Swamp? Pool?"

Baron Jello obviously didn't understand what Lu Ban wanted.

"...If we talk about quagmires, there is one. It's in the forest outside the field. Someone accidentally fell into it before, so a sign was put up there."

After thinking for a moment, he pointed to the fields in the distance.

"Oh, take me to see it."

As Lu Ban spoke, he glanced at the knight Brown in red.

"You come along too."

Hearing this, Brown immediately jumped up and followed Lu Ban with great interest, as if it was an honor to breathe the air that Lu Ban had once breathed.

Baron Jello walked in front, and Lu Ban and others followed behind him. The people busy in the fields did not look up at this side, but continued to immerse themselves in their own lives.

There is no curiosity in the eyes of the people here.

Although curiosity is often not a good thing in a foreign land, curiosity represents expectation and hope in life. If you lose your curiosity, the rest of your life will just be a pile of time.

Crossing the fence, Baron Jello walked into the Black Forest.

The trees here are polluted and have twisted and weird shapes, like ferocious demons that seem like they will move at any moment, grab passers-by, and suck them dry.

About fifteen minutes later, when everything around him became quiet and he seemed to have entered an abyss of endless darkness, Lu Ban saw a little sunlight.

The faint light leaked through the gaps between the trees, and I could see that the trees in front were becoming sparser, and in the middle, there was a puddle of mud.

At first glance, this was just an ordinary mud puddle formed by rain or soft soil. Lu Ban moved closer and smelled a stench of decay. Upon closer inspection, he discovered the corpses of some unknown small creatures in the mud.

It seems that they were all trapped in it, unable to escape, and eventually died here and turned into nutrients.

Lu Ban carefully poked the water in the mud with his fingers.

Cold and sticky, like some living creature's body fluid.

He pulled his finger out and tasted it.

"?"

Baron Jello was stunned when he saw Lu Ban’s actions.

Is this drinkable water?

“It’s not tasty.”

Lu Tan came to a conclusion and turned around.

The next moment, ripples suddenly appeared in the originally calm quagmire.

Several long tentacles stretched out from the dirty mud and water, causing Baron Jello to retreat hastily with disordered steps. The knight Brown's legs had already gone weak and he fell to the ground, unable to move.

However, before those tentacles could touch Lu Ban, they were blocked by some invisible object. With a slight bang, the tentacles exploded out of thin air.

Mystra's Void Blast.

Xia stretched out her hand, and then the thing in the water was pulled out of the muddy water as if it was dragged by something.

"If I were you, I'd suggest you close your eyes."

Drizzt took out the revolver from the holster and half-knelt down to speak to the stunned Baron Gerald.

"ah?"

The next moment, the thing completely revealed its true form.

It was a ball of flesh made up of the heads of various animals, including humans.

The faces of every creature were filled with extreme pain and distortion. From the gaps between the heads, the colorful hairs turned into tentacles and were drilling around madly. The hairs were moving very fast. One of them rushed towards the surrounding trees and actually dug a deep, tattered hole.

“Ah, ah…”

The monster made a whimpering sound, like a child crying. Hearing the sound, Baron Jello, who had covered his eyes, felt a panic in his heart, and his body seemed to tremble uncontrollably.

On the other side, the red knight Brown had completely fainted.

Xia took her time and punched the monster with her other hand.

A slow and powerful force floated in the air, and then a dent appeared in the ball of flesh. Then, the whole ball exploded, and the heads, hair, and broken limbs were scattered, blocked by an invisible barrier.

"It looks like this is a monster lurking in the mud. What are you looking for it for?"

Xia clapped her hands and asked curiously.

On the side, Stone looked at Xia's actions just now and felt ashamed. When he thought about how he had been her opponent when he was young, he was glad that Xia was still kind enough at that time and did not kill her.

"Not really, I just want some atmosphere."

Lu Ban squatted down next to the mud pit again. Countless text messages appeared. He confirmed them and then began to write on them.

Unlike before, Lu Ban wrote for a long time and revised it repeatedly. Half an hour later, when the unconscious Red Knight Brown woke up and fainted again after seeing the bloody corpse of the monster, Lu Ban stood up and clapped his hands.

"What did you do?"

Xia vaguely felt that the quagmire seemed to have undergone some changes, but she couldn't put her finger on it.

"We need manpower now. We need some motivated laborers."

Lu Ban answered and he stood up.

"And I happen to know some of these people. In my world, they are called 'players'."