Shadowing Practice: Something Followed You Here... - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I don't think he's gonna chase us in here.
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Oh my god!
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No, no!
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Holy shit.
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Holy shit!
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Dude, I don't care.
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I'm gonna dig to the end of the world if I have to.
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Holy shit.
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Oh my god!
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No, no, I'm done with that.
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Oh my lord.
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I'm getting out of here right now.
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Please, lord almighty.
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We're just gonna dig straight up and then right
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when we get there we're dipping dude I can hear him outside man if he changes sizes right now.
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We're goners.
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Oh my god.
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Oh my god, please Yes, yes, we're out.
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All right.
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Come on.
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Let's go.
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We're almost out of here Holy shit.
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No. Oh My god, it just snapped its neck to turn to me.
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Holy shit.
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Come on, please.
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Oh, there's the ocean.
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Thank God Let's go.
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Okay, I think we're good.
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I don't think he's gonna chase us in here.
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Oh my god.
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No, no Yo, he's already in the water.
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Fuck yo Dude, I ain't no bloodbath Godzilla could swim.
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I'm just going straight through the ocean.
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Please lord.
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Oh, no, this is so bad Wait, I think I think we might be able to do this.
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Just keep going this way.
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Oh my god.
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Oh Oh no, I can't see him in the distance anymore.
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I think he's fully underwater now.
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Dude, it's been like, what, a whole 10 minutes now of just rowing forward?
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I think we're actually safe now.
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I don't see him anywhere at all.
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I think we're actually good.
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Okay, I don't care though.
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I'm swimming forward for thousands of blocks.
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Until I find an island far, far away, I'm not stopping.
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All right, I think I just found a good spot to stop off at.
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All right, here we go.
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This is this place.
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Wait, this looks pretty good, actually.
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Honestly, I think we're just going to stay here.
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I've been boating for a while, and if he catches up, it means distance doesn't matter at all.
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So what's the point?
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I guess for now, I'm going to just explore this place, get some more gear.
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Right now, my axe and pickaxe is almost gone.
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I've got a bunch of trash in my explore because I want to see what we're looking at.
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And honestly, let me just throw away some of the trash I have here.
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All right, there we go.
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Let's just see what this place has over here.
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Hopefully we can find like a good spot with a cave or something.
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Oh, shoot.
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Oh, wait.
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Oh my god.
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Thank the lords.
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Let's go.
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We found a full village.
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Yes.
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This is like exactly what I needed.
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Yo.
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What are y 'all doing in here?
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Okay.
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I don't like this village anymore.
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I'm not even gonna lie.
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Yo, not all of you are like that, right?
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Because I don't know what type of village I just found.
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Yeah, I'm definitely not doing none of those trades.
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Okay.
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But yeah, for now, I guess I actually kind of like this place.
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I'm not gonna lie, bro.
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This is nice, bro.
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After spending like 10 days straight in the ocean, I actually feel good to be on land again, bro.
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Oh my.
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And we got a cave.
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Wait, that's perfect because my tools are about to break.
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So we'll go in there later.
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Thankfully, bloodbath isn't here.
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So I think we should be fine for now.
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There's more houses up there though.
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Let me check those out.
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And we got hay bales too.
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I might as well grab these too.
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iron golem you know i'm not even gonna kill him
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or anything who knows maybe maybe he'll save our life like
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you you don't know man all right we got some more bread i could make a farm too
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but honestly i don't really have the time for
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that right now come on i'm looking for something bro y
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'all gotta have some iron over here only have like three
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on me right now all right what's over here oh oh
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my gosh dude what are you doing over here you you good oh okay we have another cave thing over here.
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All right.
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Oh, thank God.
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I just noticed I have raw iron in here.
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I completely forgot.
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I had 18 pieces.
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Let's see what's over here.
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Oh, we've got a little thing over there.
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I don't know what that is.
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All right.
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Well, I'm actually liking this place, bro.
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Kind of reminds me of what we had before, but you know, without bloodbath, it's actually kind of peaceful.
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I'm not going to lie.
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I also need to start smelting my iron too, because we need to make some new tools.
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Well No way.
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There's no way!
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I spent all that time!
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Oh my gosh, no. Okay, no, I need to stop wasting time.
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Hold on.
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Let me get this.
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I knew it, dude.
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I had a feeling we just wasted so much time.
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It doesn't matter how far you go, bro.
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He's gonna be there.
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Okay.
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I need to build a base right now because these village houses are not gonna suffice at all.
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Running away isn't gonna do anything.
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I might as well make one good secure base that we can stay at.
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Let me find a decent place.
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Okay, I guess we'll build it right here.
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This doesn't look too bad.
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All right, well, I've got a decent amount of wood, so hey, we might as well get started on this.
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It's already...
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Oh, no. The sun's starting to set, too.
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I gotta get this done quickly.
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While I build, I'm also gonna make some iron.
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Just smelt some really quickly because our tools are really close to breaking.
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Also might as well make a shovel too because we're gonna need to clean out some of this dirt.
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Oh yeah.
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Oh, wait, I have a bed.
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Oh, thank God.
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I thought I was gonna have to go back to the village.
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Alright, let me head to bed too.
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Alright, I've cleared out most of the dirt on top here.
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I might not worry about making a floor because that's gonna take...
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way too long.
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I think I'm just going to have like a kind of two -story house here, little balcony, and a safe room we can hide in.
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I think that should be fine.
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Oh no, we're running out of oak.
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I got to grab some more.
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I'm also going to make some windows so we can see outside because that could save our life, okay?
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Being able to see him first, that would be great.
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Okay, I need some more wood.
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All right, all of our iron's melted, so that's good.
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Our base is looking
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on time our base is almost done i also need some sand too because i want to make glass windows
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okay i've almost got like yeah two stacks of wood i think
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that should be fine for now i think with this we
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can finish up our base i'm just gonna grab a bit of sand
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and we'll be good from there i think we'll need like
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i guess we'll just get like half a stack i think that should be enough
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all right there we go that should be good i'm speed running this we're almost done with the There we go.
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Okay.
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I think next we're going to work on the second floor.
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Let me just get some glass getting ready over here.
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All right.
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That should be good.
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Okay.
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Nice.
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Now I'll need to continue working on this right here.
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We're almost done.
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Thankfully, I haven't heard much.
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Maybe he went another direction or something.
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I have no idea.
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All right.
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This is, whoa.
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Okay.
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I'm not going to lie.
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That looks kind of ass so far, but you know what?
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It's fine.
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It's not about the design.
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the roof and then we're pretty much finished.
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I just got to put glass in the windows and yeah.
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All right.
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The house is pretty much done.
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We just have the final glass pane.
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Oh my God.
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It actually feels nice.
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And we need some doors too.
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There we go.
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All right.
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I think I'm just going to add a few more stuff, but for now, I think it's pretty much fine.
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One thing I do want to add though is a little
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safe room for us just in case stuff gets a little too crazy.
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I think we'll probably do it over here If he does show up, I want a place where we can hide because I have this right here.
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So I can actually have some decent hiding spots.
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Then I can like go down here and hide.
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Okay.
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Okay, finally.
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It is done.
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Oh my gosh.
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Wait, it actually feels so nice to have a proper house over here.
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Oh, and it's raining.
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Dang.
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But yeah, that's the house.
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Okay.
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Completely finished, let's go!
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let me make some doors for the balcony too there we go All right, I'm gonna head to bed now.
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Thank God.
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All right, well, it's the morning now, and we still have one more thing left to do.
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I need to go caving.
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Right now, I'm pretty sure he's far away, so I think it's best that we go and cave right now, get some more iron, because we do have a decent amount,
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but our tools are breaking constantly, so I think it's best we go and get some more. Who knows?
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Maybe we get some diamonds too.
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Let's go.
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I don't think he's nearby.
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Hopefully, I'm praying to God. though.
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I'm pretty sure there was a nearby cave, so that would be nice.
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I just realized I made two axes.
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Yo, what am I doing right now?
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My brain is not awake right now.
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Now you guys definitely know that we need more iron.
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Okay, let's go though.
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So there was a cave near here, I think somewhere in the village, and we're gonna head into that.
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It looked to be pretty deep, so hopefully there will be diamonds down there and a bunch of iron.
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Also need a bit more coal too.
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Alright, yeah, here it is.
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Okay.
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Here we go.
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Okay.
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Let's gather some iron over here.
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Okay.
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Nice.
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We're going to be going pretty deep though.
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All right.
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Let's go down this way.
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Okay.
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We've got a bit more iron over here.
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Let's go.
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Okay.
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So far so good.
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This is good.
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We can use it to make a bunch of iron doors and blocks.
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Hopefully we can reinforce our base better with these.
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All right.
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Where should I go?
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I think we'll go down a bit deeper here.
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We've got a bit of gold.
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Maybe we could make some gold Oh, wait.
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Okay, hold on.
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We've got a pit of water.
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I think diamonds can spawn in here though, right?
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Alright, let's see.
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Oh, no. Yo, I didn't even plan that.
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I swear.
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I swear to God I didn't plan that.
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Oh my gosh.
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Hold on.
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Please, please come on.
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All right, there we go.
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That's one.
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Oh my Lord.
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Let's go.
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All right, let's grab this other one.
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Oh my gosh.
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I was actually not expecting that to happen.
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What the heck?
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All right, there we go.
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Okay.
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Wait, is there more?
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Oh my god, there's four.
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Oh my lord.
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Okay, wait.
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Yo, I'm about to bust.
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Oh my god, four diamonds?
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Holy.
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We can make a diamond axe and pickaxe.
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Yo, this is beautiful.
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Wait, I think I might just end the mining sesh here, bro.
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We got what we needed.
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All right, hold on.
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Whoa, where is that coming from?
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Shit.
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Okay, hold on.
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Let me just, let me grab these diamonds and then we're leaving.
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There's no shot.
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I'm staying in here with that.
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Come on, please, please, bro.
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Dude, if I had a door, I could have done that.
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Water strap.
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Okay, whatever. Who cares?
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I'm not going to waste time crafting.
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Okay, there we go.
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Just one more left.
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All right, come on.
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One more left.
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Let's go, let's go.
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Oh my god.
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Let's go.
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Let's go.
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Oh no, no, no. Holy shit.
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Run, run.
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Oh my god.
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Yo, yo.
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There's no way.
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The light's there.
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Please, we just gotta make it there.
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We're almost out.
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We're almost out.
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Oh my god.
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Oh no, no. Please lord, please lord.
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Oh no, I can't build out.
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I can't build out.
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Oh my god Please please I'm going in here.
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I'm going in here.
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Oh my gosh.
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Oh my gosh Holy shit,
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I've been here for like 10 minutes now.
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I think we're actually safe.
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Hold on.
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Oh my god, it's night now.
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Hold on, I gotta get out of here.
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I'm not even joking.
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I literally stayed there for like, I think like 10 minutes at least.
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Holy crap.
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That was horrifying.
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Wait, whoa, the village is fine?
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Shit, I don't think he left the cave then.
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Oh no, we need to get back home right now.
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Wait, which way is home?
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I literally forgot.
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I think it's over there.
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I mean, we got - Eight diamonds, so I'm happy, but dude, that was way too horrifying.
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We've got to get home right now, because now it's fully confirmed that he's here where we are.
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Wait, hold on.
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He might be camping at our house.
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Okay, no, I don't think he is.
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I actually think he's in the cave, because I think if he came out of there, he would have destroyed the village for sure.
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Oh, finally.
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Oh my gosh, that was horrifying.
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I need to stay in here or something.
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Oh my lord.
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That was not normal at all.
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experienced something that horrifying in a
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while at least i guess i'll just make some diamond tools
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why not let's make ourselves a pickaxe should i make a
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sword sure dude here we go i think this should be fine
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and let me smelt the extra iron i have here all
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right i think i'm just gonna head to bed again all
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right it's morning now thank the lord almighty man i don't know what that was last
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I've never seen him act that aggressively, honestly.
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But yeah, for now, we're gonna need to work on reinforcing the base because he's here.
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And listen, I'm sure you guys didn't click on this video to see me play running simulator.
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So I'm not running away.
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I'm not boating away.
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We're staying right here.
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I'm gonna make some reinforcements now.
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But yeah, I've already started working on walls to reinforce the main house a little bit here.
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But I'm also going to make a second watchtower all the way over there and reinforce one house in the village.
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Then we'll have like a triangle offense.
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You see, like we can go there, there, there.
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Just keep running in circles, right?
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We'll always have a base to go to.
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But yeah, I think right now, best thing we can do is work on the treehouse or whatever.
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The watchtower.
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Yeah.
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So yeah, let me get as much wood as we possibly can.
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I think we'll need about like five stacks of oak.
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I'm not going to make it too fancy or anything.
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It's just going to help us get the job done and my axe broke.
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Great.
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All right.
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I think this should be...
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Yeah, fine for now.
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I guess we'll take that.
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Okay.
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Let's go.
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And let me fill this with water real quick.
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I'm probably going to build it, build it up on a hill somewhere.
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That should be the safest option for us.
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Yo.
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Oh, yeah.
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All right.
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That spot looks perfect over there.
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Then we'll get a nice view over everything.
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All right.
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Here we are.
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OK, let's go.
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Ten blocks tall.
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Nine, ten.
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There we go.
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And I'll spread it out like this.
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
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All right.
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Yeah, this should be good.
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Jeez Louise, that was the worst water bucket clutch I've ever seen.
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Alright.
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Alright, they're kinda uneven, but that should be fine.
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Alright, there we go.
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Frame is done right here.
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Just gotta connect this last little piece here.
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Alright.
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Oh, okay.
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Yo, wait, they're kinda, they're kinda, okay.
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You know what?
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I don't even care.
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We don't have time for that.
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Remember, it's not going to be beautiful or anything.
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All righty, there we go.
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Floor is done.
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Now, let me just make some walls around here
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and we'll make some stairs and then we should be done with the watchtower.
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All right.
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I think this should be good.
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Okay, there we go.
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Nice.
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All right.
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Okay, we might need a restock on wood.
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I hope not, dude.
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I'm not trying to do all of that right now.
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Okay, after this, I'm just going to build some walls and a pit.
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Around the base Yeah, I'm sure you guys can tell who I got inspiration from, but if it works, it works, you know.
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All right, there we go.
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Now we just got to make the roof.
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Please tell me I have enough wood for this.
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All right, let's go.
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We're done.
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Yes.
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Oh my lord.
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No, wait.
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We need stairs, dude.
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I forgot about that.
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All right, there we go.
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Thank God.
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All right, we can make a doorway right here.
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Let me block this up.
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Yeah, this is not good at all.
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Oh my god, this looks horrid.
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But you know what?
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That doesn't matter.
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And okay, this should be fine for now.
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The night is already about to come soon.
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So that's not good at all.
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We're going to need to hurry up.
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main base.
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Shoot.
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I just realized we didn't even put a door on the watchtower.
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Yo.
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Okay.
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Hold on.
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I'll come back and do that later.
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All right.
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There we go.
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There should be enough wood for the walls.
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I already had some of them done.
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Okay.
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Thank God I did these earlier, bro.
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Cause we would not have been in a good position right now.
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Oh shoot.
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Oh, look at y 'all.
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Now you're getting a little too cocky, bro.
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Okay.
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I've, I've fought a whole giant eldritch monster.
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Okay.
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Zombies are nothing to me.
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Alright, nice, okay.
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I'll take this.
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Alright.
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We need to make a pit really quickly and then I'm gonna head to bed.
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Nothing crazy.
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Just my main hope is his foot gets stuck down here
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or something and he gets slowed down if he's ever chasing us.
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But I know this is gonna do barely anything.
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Alright, hold on.
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I think I'm just gonna head to bed now and finish this up later.
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Because I'm not trying to get jumped by zombies again
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and we're out of bread - I'm gonna go into the village and get some more Once we wake up, I'm gonna get this bread as quickly as we can finish the base off
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and while I'm there I'll also make the village base stronger.
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All right.
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Come on.
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Here we are Okay, let's be quick with it.
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I think there was some hay bales up here.
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I And I think, yeah, I think we'll make this our base.
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This should be good.
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Let me gather some wood over here.
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All right, let's go.
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Holy shit.
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Holy shit!
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Oh my god, where'd he go?
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No, no. We gotta go.
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Oh my god!
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Run, run!
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Holy shit!
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He destroyed everything.
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We gotta go to our house right now.
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Oh my gosh.
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Shit, bro.
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I didn't even finish the reinforcements.
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Oh my gosh.
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Come on.
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Oh my god.
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No, no, no. Wait, there was a secret.
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Oh, I gotta go in here.
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Please, please, please, please.
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Oh my gosh.
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I'm staying here the whole night.
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I don't care.
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Holy crap, it's been night.
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Wait, what?
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Wait, our bass is perfectly fine.
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What the hell?
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I'm so confused right now.
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Dude, our bass is in pristine quality right now.
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I'm actually so confused.

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This video offers a thrilling narrative filled with suspense and urgency, perfect for English speaking practice. The speaker expresses intense emotions and quick reactions, which can help learners understand how to convey feelings in conversations. By mimicking the speaker’s tone and pace, you can improve your own speaking skills and develop a more natural rhythm in your speech. Additionally, this is an excellent example for IELTS speaking practice, as the narrative style allows for expressive language use and an exploration of vocabulary related to fear and excitement. Engaging with the content through a shadowing app can enhance your listening and speaking capabilities, making it easier to articulate similar sentiments in your own discussions.

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