Tubbo… doesn’t actually have many things he needs to do. Being president of L’Manberg comes with far fewer day-to-day responsibilities than someone used to more conventional governments would expect. That said, he will gratefully accept redirection.

…And then he will come right back. “Jingyan? Dream’s gone. —The walls aren’t, I think he’s just taking a break. Dunno if you wanted to be updated whenever he leaves or only once the walls are gone, but that might— be a while? So, yeah.”

"It would be useful to know his movements." All tactical data is useful, even if you don't know how yet.

“Cool. I’ll keep you updated. —I can, like, follow him if you want, but he’d notice, so actually, scratch that, bad idea. I’ll let you know if I see or hear anything though.”

"We probably only really need to know the status of the walls at this point, anyway."

“Yeah, makes sense.” In that case he will head back out!

In which case Jingyan will keep tunneling until its the end of the day, or something happens.

Nothing happens! He can tunnel to his heart’s content. 

bleedfierceforever was shot by a skeleton!

...and seeing as he is already in his bed and it is night, he may as well sleep.

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Dream’s not around the next morning, but this isn’t unusual; he’s been working on and off. Someone else (The_Eret, who Jingyan hasn’t met) is currently mining them instead. 

He's not sure if he's meant to know them and just got lost in the flurry of names. At least the walls are still coming down.

... There may be some dark muttering about people getting others to do the difficult work.

He can darkly mutter as much as he wants; predictably, if it’s not in earshot of anyone, there’s no response. 

He goes to find Ranboo, if he's around.

Ranboo’s around! “Hey, what’s up?”

"Would today be a good time to go into the Nether?"

“Yeah! Yeah, sure. I mean, I didn’t really have any other plans, so.”

"Neither do I. ...technically there is the big hole, but the big hole can wait."

“Cool. Cool cool cool.” Then Ranboo can take Jingyan mining for netherite (either bed mining or strip mining, his choice).

...strip mining seems much safer than bed mining, so strip mining it is.

Strip mining! Woooo! Ranboo thinks strip mining is relaxing and will default to doing it for around four hours but can go longer or shorter if Jingyan wants. 

Jingyan does not find it relaxing, per se, but it is Productive and he is quite willing to be Productive for fours at a stretch.

Cool. Four hours of netherite strip mining it is, then. 

Which is not that much netherite, but is also more than zero, so.

Well if he's gotten four or more ancient debris then he can make an ingot and if he has a netherite ingot he can upgrade one piece of diamond gear to netherite, that's not nothing. And now that Jingyan has a strip mine set up he can come back and do more mining whenever he wants.

Preparations are Happening. This is good.

When they head back, they notice another group going through the nether in the distance.

Dream and another man (labeled Sapnap) both have what Jingyan can recognize as full enchanted netherite armor and weapons. Tommy and Ghostbur have… Approximately nothing? But they sure do seem to be allowed in the Nether, at least.

That said, Tommy keeps stopping to look into the lava, which Dream responds to by physically hitting him away from the edge.