Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Chapter 1460 The Game Arena 10
The mistress was afraid of dying and never dared to go out and fight monsters, so her level was still level two. She was able to reach level two only because Liu Jie and his parents saw that her level was too low and she was too easy to die. So when they were wandering with her, they would kill the lower-level monsters first and then let her finish them off, which is how she leveled up to level two.

The main reason they helped her upgrade her status was that they realized that with a child in the family, someone had to take care of the child, and the mistress couldn't die. So they gave her a hand. If it weren't for the child, the three members of the Liu family might have gotten rid of the mistress, who was a burden. After all, they were selfish people, and it would be better to have one less person to bear in terms of housing and food expenses.

But no matter how selfish a person is, when they see their fair and tender grandson, they can't bring themselves to abandon the child and dump their mistress while they are still alive. Unless absolutely necessary, they will definitely protect themselves, because as long as they survive, they can remarry and have children in the future.

However, unless absolutely necessary, it's acceptable to bring the mistress and child along.

The Liu family was quite lucky. Soon, they found a level-two territory. Even better, the temporary residents of this territory only paid thirty copper coins a day. They dared not wander anymore, as the outside world was too dangerous, so they settled down in this territory.

In fact, there were places ten kilometers away with even fewer people where you could get twenty copper coins a day, but they really didn't dare to walk another ten kilometers. So when they finally reached this territory where you could get thirty copper coins a day, they quickly settled down.

The Liu family breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the second-level territory could hold out for a while.

So from then on, they went out every day to fight monsters to earn temporary living expenses. If they had extra copper coins, they would buy equipment and weapons. No one saved up money to become a regular resident.

After all, there are four people in their family. If they were to become official residents, the fee for this territory would be two thousand copper coins. And if they could save twenty copper coins a day after deducting all expenses, they would be lucky. Two thousand copper coins would take them forever to save up.

Since they couldn't become official residents immediately, they naturally spent their money on equipment and weapons to improve themselves.

They used very little to improve their lives. The mistress did complain, saying that she was eating the cheapest steamed buns in the territory every day and that life was too hard. She wanted them to buy her something better to eat, or to keep the better food they had hunted instead of selling it. But Liu Jie and his parents refused. The three of them even scolded her, saying that she did nothing but want to eat well and that she should go hunt monsters outside if she wanted to eat.

Having witnessed too many people being killed by suddenly appearing high-level monsters, the mistress was terrified and dared not fight back. So when she saw Liu Jie and his two sons scolding her, she didn't dare to utter a sound. After all, she didn't need to go out to fight monsters, and the Liu family paid her living expenses, so she had no confidence to speak. She just regretted marrying Liu Jie more and more, thinking that if she could meet someone with better conditions, she would go with that person and no longer follow this group of poor ghosts from the Liu family.

After all, things are different now than before the apocalypse. Back then, Liu Jie's family was doing quite well, so she was willing to marry him. But now, Liu Jie is doing so poorly, so of course she's not willing to be with him.

She also regretted marrying so far away. After all, if she hadn't married so far away, her parents would definitely have been by her side when she gave birth and celebrated her baby's one-month birthday. That way, when she was on the run, she would have had her parents' support, and no matter what she said, the Liu family wouldn't have been so insistent and would have refused everything.

Leaving aside the fact that life was tough for the Liu family, and that the mistress had no status within the family and was constantly on the verge of being abandoned, she also disliked Liu Jie's lack of ambition and was ready to abandon him at any time to find someone better. Meanwhile, Linlang was out hunting monsters, following the tips from the little bee to kill as many elite monsters and world bosses as possible. Firstly, these monsters were cost-effective to kill; secondly, any extra blue and purple equipment could be sold in the market to the official residents of the territory, strengthening local cohesion, since other places didn't have as much blue and purple equipment, but Yong'an Territory did, so they naturally preferred to stay there; and thirdly, it was to eliminate potential threats in the surrounding area. If these elite monsters and world bosses weren't eliminated, they would grow stronger and eventually become very powerful, threatening the safety of the territory.

Because Linlang's monster-hunting strategy is extremely cost-effective, she earns much more than ordinary people. In addition, her territory has excellent conditions and is famous far and wide, attracting many people to her territory. She earns as much as those greedy territories by selling in large quantities at low profit margins, and she also has a large number of official residents.

Sure enough, on this day, the number of residents in her territory reached one thousand, and she upgraded her territory to a level three territory.

And without a doubt, she was the first territory in this area to reach level three and received the reward.

Upon reaching level three, the territory became larger, and the health and defense of the level three walls increased significantly. Since the monsters outside were now at most level six on average, they posed virtually no threat to Linlang's territory walls. The walls only needed to be repaired once in a long while, saving Linlang a considerable amount of money. After all, with level two walls, repairs would have been necessary every few days, consuming a lot of resources.

Therefore, you need to upgrade your territory quickly, far exceeding the average level of monsters outside. This is the most cost-effective and money-saving method. The method of squeezing all the money out of players is not sustainable.

Of course, the main reason is that level 3 arrow towers have stronger attacks and a larger attack range, so monsters are killed before they even get close, and they won't scratch the territory walls, causing the walls' health to drop and requiring Linlang to repair them.

Because the territory has become larger, Linlang naturally created more farmland for people to cultivate. She also created several more canteens, tailor shops, and blacksmith shops, so that people living in different places wouldn't have to walk a long way to get to the canteen and other places, and she could also hire more people to work there.

In addition, since there was enough space, Linlang built several more wells, and the free water resources provided to regular residents were increased from one liter per day to two liters per day.

Although the number of official residents in the Linlang territory is increasing, the level-three wells themselves produce a considerable amount of water. In addition, Linlang has built several wells, providing each person with two liters of free water per day, which is still affordable. Any more than that would require them to buy it themselves, which costs only one copper coin per liter, not expensive.

Moreover, since there is plenty of water in the level 3 wells and the territory has several other wells, there is no need to worry about the water being snatched away in an instant.

Previously, the water in the secondary well, excluding the free water, would be snapped up instantly. People who wanted to buy more water to take a bath could not do so.

Now that's great, with so much water, buying some to take a bath is no problem. It finally solves the problem of everyone not having water to bathe. Although there is a river not far from the territory, most people don't dare to go to the river to fetch water, since it's still a bit far and it's a bit dangerous to walk that far.