Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

After all, this kind of harassment is quite annoying, and the patrol team definitely needs to maintain order to prevent people in the territory from being harassed like Linlang. They can't fight back, but if they don't, the other party is as annoying as a fly, affecting the living comfort of the territory's residents.

The patrol personnel that Linlang recruited were clearly quite capable; as soon as Linlang made the report, patrol personnel received the message and came to handle it.

Once you reach level three territory, you can set up a guard team; patrol teams are the guard teams.

The guard team is responsible for the security of the territory, so if anything happens anywhere, residents can report it, and the guard team members will receive the message on the system panel and go to handle it nearby.

Those who joined the patrol team cherished their job. After all, if they didn't do their job well, they would be stripped of their patrol team membership, and then they wouldn't be able to earn this kind of safe money. So everyone naturally did their job well, lest they be found out if they didn't do their job well and were removed from the patrol team. In that case, they would have to go out and fight monsters to earn money, which would be too dangerous.

So at this moment, a patrol team in the vicinity received the news and quickly came over to make the Zhang family, who were harassing Linlang, leave.

When the Zhang family saw the patrolmen chasing them away, they became anxious and said, "The woman inside is my daughter. She won't see us. We just want to see her."

The patrolman said, "We don't care about that. All we know is that she reported you for harassing her. If we don't handle it within the stipulated time, and she reports it to higher authorities, we'll be in trouble. You'd better leave now. If you don't leave, we'll report to the lord that you've been harassing other territory members and that you can't be driven away. If the lord confirms what you've done and expels you from the territory, don't blame us for not warning you."

The Zhang family heard from the patrol team that if they didn't leave, the patrol team would report them to the lord for harassing Linlang. They had just arrived in the territory and dared not cause trouble for fear of being driven away by the lord. So they could only leave reluctantly, thinking that it wouldn't be too late to think of another way. Anyway, the benefits of this territory were quite good, and the territory level was high. They might stay for a long time, so there was no rush. They couldn't let themselves be driven away by the lord just to teach Linlang a lesson. Otherwise, they would not be able to find a territory with better benefits than Yong'an Territory.

After watching the Zhang family leave, Linlang nodded to the patrol team, thinking that this patrol team was not bad.

Because the Zhang family couldn't harass Linlang, even if they knew where she was, they couldn't do anything about it. They could only be secretly angry, thinking that this was the bad thing about the apocalypse: whatever the lord said went. If it were before the apocalypse, even if they went to Linlang's house to cause trouble and Linlang called the police, since they were a family, the police would most likely try to smooth things over. After all, even an upright official can't settle family disputes, and the police are too lazy to get involved in the petty affairs of each family.

But things are different in the territories. The lord's word is law. As long as the lord determines that they are harassing Zhang Linlang, he can simply blacklist them and drive them out of the territory. This is the bad thing that has happened since the apocalypse. The lords of each territory have the final say, which is equivalent to local emperors. If the other party is someone who doesn't like to meddle in family affairs, it's a little better. But if someone does like to meddle in family affairs, they won't be able to harass Zhang Linlang.

What they're talking about is indeed the bad situation in the territory right now. In most territories, the lord is acting like a local emperor, and there's no law at all. Whether a territory is good or bad depends entirely on the lord's personal character.

Some scoundrels use the lure of waiving temporary accommodation fees or even providing supplies to easily establish a harem in their territory.

However, for Linlang, being spared harassment from the Zhang family was a bonus; she still preferred the post-apocalyptic territory. After all, before the apocalypse, just as the Zhang family suspected, even if she reported them to the police, it probably wouldn't have mattered much; the Zhang family would still have continued their harassment. Having resolved the Zhang family's problem, Linlang didn't bother with them anymore. She figured if they dared to harass her, she'd just report them and have the patrols drive them away—it was easy to handle. There was no need to kick them out; that would only arouse the Zhang family's suspicion and make them think she was the lord.

Linlang didn't want to reveal her identity unless absolutely necessary, so once she saw that the Zhang family couldn't harass her anymore, she stopped bothering them.

Her territory was quiet for the time being. After all, other people's territories were still at level two, while hers was already at level three. In the short term, monsters wouldn't pose a threat to her territory, so it was safe. Only when those level two territories were in danger, and she hadn't yet upgraded to level four, would her territory be at some risk. But that was still a long way off, because the monsters outside were currently below level ten on average and wouldn't cause her any trouble at level three. What she needed to do now was to gather more materials so that she could upgrade later.

The higher the level you reach, the more materials you need to build walls, arrow towers, and other structures; you can't afford not to accumulate them in advance.

It's obviously unrealistic for her to fight alone, so she keeps a mission in the mission hall to buy various materials. Anyway, she has money now and can afford those materials. At the same time, she has also helped everyone find a market for some of the worthless materials she has acquired. You know, if it weren't for her buying, few people would need things like wood and stone. It would be a waste to throw them away, but if they weren't thrown away, they would take up space. So Linlang's long-term buying has really helped everyone.

Linlang never told anyone about her identity. People in the territory might know her, but they didn't think of her as the lord.

The reason she didn't tell anyone her identity was that, apart from losing her lord status when her territory was conquered, she would also lose her lord status if she was killed outside her territory, and the killer would automatically gain her territory.

This is scary. There will definitely be people who don't have a lord's token but still want to become a lord, so they will kill other lords to gain territory.

A lord cannot be killed within their territory, as they possess immunity to damage within their territory and no one can attack them.

But outside the territory, others can attack.

Since that's the case, Linlang naturally can't tell anyone her identity, lest someone with ulterior motives covet her territory, ambush her, and kill her.

As long as others don't discover her identity as a lord and only think of her as an ordinary citizen, the chances of her being ambushed and killed are much smaller. This is because the territory has a rule that even if someone kills and steals treasures outside the territory, they will be blacklisted by the territory once discovered.

Most people didn't want to be blacklisted by their territory and sent to other territories that demanded too much money and had poor benefits, so they obediently followed orders. After all, who knew if these people outside had spies from the territory? The lord had previously sent a message to everyone saying that there were spies planted outside as well, and if anyone dared to kill someone and was discovered and reported by a spy, they would definitely be expelled. (End of Chapter)