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Chapter 1471 The Game Arena 21
Wang Jing said, "I haven't been complaining about being poor in front of your sister's door these past few days. I've also been looking into the territory. There are many jobs you can do there. Once you become a formal resident, you can get one. Then I can go farming, or work in the canteen, tailor shop, or even the patrol team. As long as we get a mission, we'll have money. We don't need to go out and fight monsters to have money and survive. After all, you're still a minor, so you don't need to pay any fees. You just need to eat and drink a little every day. The expenses aren't high. The money you earn from those missions can support you. If you don't believe me, I'll go and get a mission first. You'll see I have a job, so you don't have to worry."

After hearing her words, Wang Jing's son said, "Then you should find a job first. As long as you can earn money and we can survive, I'm willing to leave with you. I've wanted to leave that home for a long time."

Wang Jing was overjoyed to see that her son was willing to leave with her, so she quickly went to take on tasks to earn money.

She and her ex-husband divorced because of personality clashes. Back then, she was young and impetuous, and in order to remarry a good person, she abandoned her child, not wanting to have a burden on her.

Now that she's older, even if she gets divorced, she can't remarry and have more children. So, she can't just abandon this child. Although we don't know what tomorrow will bring, what if the apocalypse ends someday? She can't have two children and then be left without any of them. Who will take care of her in her old age? So, she's going to discuss it with her son and ask him to take him with her.

If her son doesn't want her to divorce, she might not dare to divorce for the sake of her future care, lest she leave alone and have no one to care for her in her old age, which would be very tragic.

Thinking about this, Wang Jing regretted not contacting her eldest daughter back then. After all, if they had kept in touch and developed a bond, she wouldn't be worrying about having no one to take care of her in her old age.

But regret can't change reality, so Wang Jing can only accept reality now and keep the child by her side. After all, things have already fallen apart with her eldest daughter, and the relationship can't be restored, so she can only let it go.

There are quite a few missions in the Linlang Territory, especially now that it's a level 3 territory, there are many more missions than before. You need to become a formal resident before you can accept missions; temporary residents can't. Don't worry about not having enough copper coins to become a formal resident; the territory's official government can lend money to temporary residents now, one hundred copper coins each. Once you become a formal resident, you can pay it back slowly.

There's no need to worry about anyone borrowing money and not paying it back. Unless someone dies, you've signed a contract with the system, and they can deduct the money as soon as you make a profit.

Linlang introduced this method in order to quickly acquire 5,000 residents and upgrade her territory to level four.

Most people probably wouldn't lend money, fearing they wouldn't be able to repay it, but Wang Jing had no other choice at the moment. She had no money on hand and couldn't rely on her husband's family to lend her money to become a formal resident, so she could only borrow from the territory.

Borrowing money is quick. After signing the loan agreement, one hundred copper coins were quickly deposited into the account. However, these one hundred copper coins were locked because the contract stated that they were used to buy official residents. Therefore, the funds had to be used for this purpose. Otherwise, if a temporary resident borrowed the money and then used it for other purposes instead of buying official residents, Linlang's plan to quickly increase the number of official residents to five thousand would not be able to be completed. That would be unacceptable. So, the one hundred copper coins that were deposited into the account were locked and directly used to buy official residents.

Wang Jing immediately purchased a formal resident quota.

After becoming a formal resident, Wang Jing quickly went to find territory missions to complete.

Because there weren't many official residents in the territory yet, and there were quite a few tasks available, Wang Jing quickly received a task to cultivate medicinal herbs, which paid twenty copper coins a day.

Don't be fooled by the low pay; the job is very easy—it involves managing the planting, fertilizing, watering, pest control, and harvesting of twenty medicinal herbs.

Don't think it's difficult, like working hard in the fields before the apocalypse. It's not like that at all. This is a game world where you can fight monsters, so managing herbs is just like playing a game—it can be done with a single click, which makes it much simpler. So, Linlang can do this work in the background, but it takes time. Linlang doesn't have time to do it herself, so she delegated the planting rights to the residents of her territory. It only costs one copper coin a day to hire someone to take care of a herb.

Linlang usually assigns twenty herbs to care for. This allocation is to allow more people to receive tasks and earn money to support their families. Otherwise, one person could easily take care of a hundred herbs a day, since it only takes a few taps on the system panel.

Linlang saved time, and the residents of the territory could easily earn twenty copper coins a day, making everyone happy.

Twenty copper coins are enough to survive in Liu Jie's territory, let alone in Linlang's territory; one could live quite well there.

After all, once you become a formal resident, you no longer need to pay the temporary residence fee every day. So, your daily expenses will only be accommodation and food. In extreme cases, you don't even need accommodation. You can buy a tent in the market, set it up in an empty spot in your territory, and survive. In that case, all you need to do every day is eat and drink.

Food and drink are very cheap in Yong'an territory. Official residents get two liters of free water every day, so they don't need to buy water. They can just buy some food, the cheapest of which is steamed buns, porridge, and bread, which cost one copper coin each. The minimum standard is three copper coins a day, and they can save up seventeen copper coins a day. Soon they can save up a lot of copper coins, buy some equipment for themselves, and find some people to help them level up, so that they won't be afraid to go out when the monsters outside get stronger and stronger.

Look, life is going to be really good now. Even if Wang Jing has to take care of her son's food and drink, she can still afford it.

Wang Jing wouldn't go without renting a place to stay. After all, the rent for a thatched hut in Yong'an Territory was only one copper coin per person per day, which she was willing to spend.

After getting a job, Wang Jing told her son that she had solved the income problem, and then took her son home to discuss the separation with her husband.

Unlike Liu Jie's furious reaction to Wang Min's departure, Wang Jing's separation from her husband was unusually simple.

Over the years, the couple's conflicts have increased, and Wang Jing's husband has been caught in the middle, mediating between his wife, parents, and son. So when Wang Jing said she wanted to separate, he was a little surprised, since he had never thought she wanted a divorce. He immediately asked, "You said you want to take the child with you. Can you support him?"

Wang Jing said, "I've already found a quest in the territory. The money I earn isn't as much as what you guys earn from killing monsters, but it's enough for me."

Seeing that Wang Jing had already planned her escape route, Wang Jing's husband remained silent for a moment before agreeing to let her leave with the child, saying only, "You can come to me if you have any difficulties."

Wang Jing nodded.

This husband of hers, aside from being easily swayed and obeying whatever his parents and son say, is actually a decent person. However, this one trait is what she can't stand. After all, she doesn't want to be ostracized by her husband's family, so she naturally wants to leave.