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Chapter 1459 The Game Arena 9
The people around were all relatives of Liu's parents, and they naturally sided with their relatives, not with the mistress. Liu Jie himself was terrified; he still wanted to enter the territory. A selfish person like him, who had deceived so many girls' feelings to satisfy his physical needs, would he let his mistress enter the territory while he stayed outside at this critical moment? How could that be possible! In fact, he himself wanted to move in, after all, he was terrified by what had just happened.

So Liu Jie listened to his parents and agreed, saying, "Let's wait until we find a cheaper place to stay. With so little money, we can only stay for two days. What's the point?"

The mistress was naturally unhappy and wanted to get angry, but seeing that the Liu family and even their relatives were all on their side, she couldn't fight against the whole group. She could only resentfully give up, but she already regretted it a little. She thought that maybe she shouldn't have become a mistress and stolen Zhang Linlang's boyfriend. Otherwise, Zhang Linlang would be the one in this pitiful situation now.

Actually, she didn't regret being a mistress; she only regretted it because the Liu family wasn't treating her well. If the Liu family had treated her well and been well-off, she might have acted very differently.

She was stupid. A man who can cheat on his wife must be a bad person. Why didn't she realize this? Why did she still rush into it?
The Liu family eventually moved into an expensive territory.

However, compared to the territory in the city center with an entry fee of fifty copper coins, this territory's entry fee of forty copper coins is slightly better.

The reason they still entered an expensive territory was naturally because they encountered a powerful monster again, someone died, and Liu Jie's health was reduced to less than half, which terrified Liu's parents. So the family found a nearby territory to live in.

Fortunately, this territory only cost forty copper coins per person, and the four of them managed to get in—the baby system didn't recognize them, so they didn't have to pay.

But the four of them had spent all their copper coins and supplies on 160 copper coins. If they paid the money today, how would they survive if they had no money to pay tomorrow? The whole family was filled with anxiety.

Liu's parents felt they couldn't continue like this, so they decided to risk going out to fight monsters. Of course, they stayed near the territory, and if there was any danger, they would run into the territory. Anyway, they had paid the fee, so they could enter the territory at any time if there was danger.

As mentioned before, many people are afraid to go out and fight monsters now, so even here it is still a relatively densely populated area. However, because there are fewer people fighting monsters outside, the old couple still have monsters to fight. In addition, Liu Jie recovered and also went out to fight monsters. The three of them combined their earnings and barely managed to make ends meet.

Of course, it was only a barely manageable continuation; saving money to upgrade equipment was practically impossible.

Moreover, they renewed their contracts only because, like others, they only entered the territory when there was danger and spent money to do so. Otherwise, if they renewed directly, they wouldn't have enough money.

They had always wanted to change territories because they saw territories further away that only charged thirty copper coins a day. They wanted to go there, but they didn't dare to venture out and take risks. So they were stuck in this expensive territory, living a miserable life, but unable to get out.

As a result, even in such an extremely poor territory, they still couldn't live in peace.

After the seven-day newbie period ended, the territory was overrun by monsters before it even reached a hundred residents. Everyone began to wander, searching for a new territory to join. The reason this territory was destroyed was simple: they had been collecting too much money, draining most people's savings. Now, the lord was demanding more money to become official residents, and nobody had any extra money left to give him.

Unlike the Zongheng Territory, where the entrance fee was twenty copper coins, but everyone still had some left over, and when the lord needed it, there were still a hundred people who could afford the official resident fees, the people in this territory were only charged forty copper coins by the lord normally. The monsters they killed in a day were only enough to cover the temporary accommodation fee and the cost of food and water. When it came to the critical moment, who had so much money to pay the official resident fees? Naturally, because there weren't enough people, the territory fell.

Many territories in the city center that had previously been heavily taxed have also collapsed for the same reason: because too much tax was collected, the temporary residents ran out of money. No matter how many people there were, it wasn't enough to pay the fees to become official residents. In the end, the territories collapsed, and the lords could no longer remain lords. They had to go to other people's territories to become ordinary residents.

These people regretted their actions after their territories were destroyed. They regretted being too greedy and collecting too much money, leaving the people around them penniless and unable to pay to become official residents. This prevented them from becoming powerful lords and forced them to live in other people's territories like everyone else.

But it's too late to regret it now. After all, who can blame them for squeezing the players too much and making it impossible for them to save any money? It's their own fault for being too greedy.

This is also why Linlang charges a lower temporary residence fee. She wants temporary residents to have some money in their hands so that when needed, they can readily take out 100 copper coins to become official residents. Unlike the territories in the city center, which charge too much and drain everyone's copper coins, leaving them with no money to pay when they need official residents.

And some people, after reaching level two, knowing full well that the next level requires a thousand official residents, still raised the price of official residents. Isn't it because they think that there won't be any trouble outside for a while, and they plan to lower the price when the monsters outside are of a higher level, so they want to make more money now?

But everyone knows now that upgrading requires official residents, so who would pay a high price to become an official resident now? Everyone plans to wait until the territory needs to be upgraded again and the price of official residents drops before becoming an official resident.

This is a lose-lose situation. Otherwise, if the lord doesn't exploit the territory too much and upgrades it ahead of time, the territory's walls and arrow towers will be at a higher level, making the walls less prone to damage and saving a lot of money and materials.

However, many lords are short-sighted and cannot see this; they only want to make more money.

Ordinary people who want to pay less to become official residents often wait until the lord upgrades the territory before paying. However, this can easily lead to situations where monster attacks are too intense, the lord doesn't have time to upgrade the territory to level three, and the territory is destroyed, leaving them to wander. After all, gathering a thousand residents temporarily is not as fast as gathering a hundred. Linlang doesn't think these people can gather a thousand residents at the last minute to upgrade.

After their territory was destroyed, Liu Jie and his family began to wander again, mainly heading towards territories with lower fees.

Fortunately, in the previous territory, Liu Jie and his parents worked hard to fight monsters every day to earn copper coins to pay for the territory's living expenses, so their levels went up, and their wandering situation was a little better than before.

Of course, the monsters outside have reached an average level of five, and if they are unlucky, they may be attacked by monsters that are even higher than level five, so it is still very dangerous. If their territory had not been destroyed, they would never have risked wandering.