Tyrant HIM might not fully understand the current situation, but Annoying Village HIM understood it very clearly.
Before meeting Tyrant HIM, although Annoying Village HIM had guessed that most players had already joined Xu Yuan's camp, it was only Annoying Village HIM's guess. He didn't have any actual proof.
So before meeting Tyrant HIM, Annoying Village HIM still held onto a bit of hope.
He felt that Tyrant HIM shouldn't be able to avoid cooperating with players either. Maybe some players had submitted to Tyrant HIM's side.
But after arriving at this plains area, the dozen or so subordinates sent out by Tyrant HIM to "welcome" them completely shattered Annoying Village HIM's hope.
It was obvious that Tyrant HIM had not taken in many players, and this indirectly confirmed Annoying Village HIM's guess about Xu Yuan's troop strength.
So Annoying Village HIM understood very clearly that even if he cooperated with Tyrant HIM, defeating Xu Yuan would not be an easy task.
Because of that, he said those words to Tyrant HIM earlier.
Those words weren't something Annoying Village HIM said just to stabilize Tyrant HIM. In fact, everything Annoying Village HIM said just now came straight from the bottom of his heart.
Annoying Village HIM and Tyrant HIM were leading teams that faced the same problem, internal conflict. Annoying Village HIM understood that whether it was his team or Tyrant HIM's team, the reason they gathered together was nothing more than profit.
However, if they gather for profit, they will also scatter for profit.
A relationship built onprofit alone is destined to be fragile. Once it touches core interests, the team could instantly fall apart.
Whether it was Annoying Village HIM's team or Tyrant HIM's team, although their scale was large, they lacked real cohesion.
Now, if these two originally unstable teams were to merge into one new team, it would undoubtedly intensify internal chaos.
What would follow would be endless scheming and suspicion.
A team that can't even achieve the most basic unity, even if it's powerful, is just a pile of loose sand. It wouldn't even need wind. Just walking a few steps would scatter it.
Therefore, Annoying Village HIM would never foolishly pin the hope of defeating Xu Yuan on such a team.
He knew very well that if he wanted to defeat Xu Yuan, he had to resolve the internal disputes within the teams.
Only when the entire team has no divided intentions and twists into one rope is there any chance of winning.
Based on the current situation, the Void Iron Golems were extremely likely to be converted.
If that really happened, then the internal contradictions on Annoying Village HIM's side could be solved smoothly. The next problem to resolve would be the conflict inside Tyrant HIM's team.
The disputes within Tyrant HIM's team were much simpler to deal with than converting the Void Iron Golems.
Tyrant HIM's team was smaller, and only a dozen or so could speak.
These people were gathered solely because of profit. As long as their profit was guaranteed, the team's stability could be maintained.
Their one and only wish was to win the trial land, so they would unconditionally follow whoever had the ability to win, regardless of who that person was.
It was because of this reason that Annoying Village HIM proposed a one-on-one fair duel with Tyrant HIM after defeating Xu Yuan.
This duel would take place only between the two of them and would not involve members of either team.
In the end, the entire team would follow the victor and win the trial together.
In this way, not only would it resolve the problem of divided hearts within the team, it would also eliminate Tyrant HIM's worry about becoming a "tool person."
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At this moment, hearing Annoying Village HIM's words, Tyrant HIM couldn't help being stunned.
After understanding the situation earlier, Tyrant HIM indeed had the intention of going all out, giving up and dragging everyone down with him, but he knew clearly that unless absolutely necessary, he wouldn't actually do such a thing.
So everything he said to Annoying Village HIM just now was simply telling Annoying Village HIM that the initiative was not in Annoying Village HIM's hands, but in his own.
His earlier behavior was just pressuring Annoying Village HIM.
If Annoying Village HIM wanted cooperation, fine, but he had to show sincerity.
Tyrant HIM predicted that Annoying Village HIM would compromise, but he didn't expect Annoying Village HIM to compromise this much.
Of course Tyrant HIM could accept Annoying Village HIM's proposal.
As for scheming, tricking, and playing mind games, although Tyrant HIM could see through them, he wasn't good at using such tactics.
Given his personality and style, he preferred to solve problems directly rather than through complicated plotting.
He also didn't want to enter cooperation with Annoying Village HIM only to constantly guard against him and use his brain nonstop.
The plan Annoying Village HIM gave now indeed avoided these troubles entirely and was also sufficiently fair.
Furthermore, for the final one-on-one duel, Tyrant HIM supported it wholeheartedly.
Scheming wasn't Tyrant HIM's comfort zone. Talking with fists was.
Thinking this, Tyrant HIM thought carefully for another moment, triple-checking that Annoying Village HIM wasn't setting a trap for him, and finally nodded, agreeing to Annoying Village HIM's proposal.
"Alright, I agree to this proposal."
After speaking, Tyrant HIM looked again at Annoying Village HIM and said, "Of course, the premise of cooperation is that the Void Iron Golems can be smoothly converted."
"After that, I'll trouble you to repeat today's proposal again in front of everyone."
Hearing this, Annoying Village HIM nodded.
"That's only natural."
After speaking, Annoying Village HIM seemed deep in thought. Then he looked at Tyrant HIM again,
"Since cooperation is confirmed, let's exchange information first."
About five minutes later, Annoying Village HIM finally finished telling Tyrant HIM all the information he currently had about Xu Yuan's side.
"I've already sent people to the rainforest to check the situation. Right now we still can't confirm whether all the player camps have submitted to him… but this possibility is quite high."
"The Iron Golems I brought are basically all my troop strength, plus over 100 Pillagers."
After saying this in one breath, Annoying Village HIM looked at Tyrant HIM and asked, "What about your side?"
Hearing Annoying Village HIM's question, Tyrant HIM frowned tightly. The troop information about Xu Yuan that Annoying Village HIM revealed was truly beyond Tyrant HIM's expectations, and no wonder Annoying Village HIM was so eager to seek cooperation.
After thinking for a moment, Tyrant HIM answered honestly, "3413."
"That's the total number of monsters I've gathered."
"There are basically only three monster types, zombies, baby zombies, and skeletons."
After speaking, Tyrant HIM looked at Annoying Village HIM with a worried face and said, "I'm not trying to weaken morale, but based on your description of Xu Yuan's troop strength…"
"Did we really win against him?…"