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Chapter 1501 The Game Arena 51
The number of residents is sufficient for now, thanks to the city where the original owner lived.

Before the apocalypse, the city where the original owner lived, while not a super-first-tier metropolis with tens of millions of people, was still considered a first- or second-tier city with a permanent resident population of around ten million. With so many people, a level 5 territory only needs ten thousand people. Even if all one hundred of her territories were upgraded to level 5, it would only require one million people, which is still a long way from ten million. Therefore, her territories naturally do not have the problem of population for the time being.

If this were in a small city, especially in some less densely populated cities in the northwest, even the largest area wouldn't have many people. It would be incredibly difficult to gather enough residents to upgrade the territory level. As a result, many territories would likely go bankrupt. After all, monsters don't care if you're in a desolate place. Monster density is evenly distributed on this planet, and there are roughly the same number of monsters in both good and bad places.

Moreover, Linlang doesn't need that many official residents, because they can be merged. After merging, although it will cause the enemy to break through a territory and obtain more than two lord tokens, there are also benefits. Before merging, there are two territories. If both are upgraded from level four to level five territories, then 20,000 official residents will be needed.

However, if two level-four territories are merged, their combined population will be 10,000. As long as there are enough copper coins and materials, they can be upgraded to level-five territories immediately, thus saving 10,000 residents.

Therefore, although Linlang has a hundred territories, once they are merged to upgrade to level five territories, it does not require a million people. Not to mention merging two or more, just merging two can turn the demand of one million into the demand of five hundred thousand. And for a large city with ten million people, a mere five hundred thousand is still easy to gather.

Linlang has already made a plan. To avoid exposure, Yong'an territory will not be upgraded to level 5 for the time being, unless someone else upgrades to level 5 territory, in which case she will upgrade as well.

Of course, that's only if no one comes to attack Yong'an territory. After all, she needs to keep Yong'an territory at a lower level to fish for opportunities. If it were upgraded to a level 5 territory, who would bother attacking it?

If many people around have upgraded their territories to level 5, but still no one comes to attack Yong'an's territory, then it's not too late for Linlang to upgrade.

After all, everyone else has reached level 5 territory, and she has also reached level 5 territory. Everyone is at the same level, and ambitious people may still dare to attack. As long as her territory level is not higher than others, she can continue to fish.

Linlang's prediction was correct. Linlang's Yong'an territory had never been upgraded to a level 5 territory. A territory about 30 kilometers away from Linlang was upgraded to a level 5 territory. Then it began to attack the surrounding territories and eventually attacked Linlang's side, allowing Linlang to upgrade to a level 5 territory. At the same time, it defeated the opponent and successfully expanded its territory.

Despite the fact that Linlang has conquered many territories in recent times, the Yong'an territory is not located in the exact center of her territories, and some areas are still exposed.

Of course, the main reason is that some of the conquered territories were too close together, and Linlang merged them. Therefore, the merged Yong'an territory still has areas bordering other territories.

This is why, despite Linlang's long-standing presence, Yong'an Territory is still able to remain a safe haven. Unlike Linlang's other territories, which are surrounded by Linlang's own territory and are therefore very safe, Yong'an is not a place to fish for monsters. After all, it's impossible for those people to bypass Linlang's other territories and come to Linlang's heartland to fight. What if they do fight and Linlang sends people to surround them from behind?
No players will fight, but monsters will still be fought because they can't be completely eliminated. After all, this is a game setting; monsters will respawn and there will always be some. Even if you're in the middle of another territory, if you don't level up properly, you'll still be overrun by monsters once you reach a certain level.

Therefore, regardless of whether players come to attack, each territory still needs to work hard to upgrade. If you think that you are in the middle of the territory under Linlang and will not be attacked by players, and you want to stop upgrading and save some copper coins and materials, that is impossible.

Obviously, the game arena won't allow lords to take such a shortcut.

There must be a reason why the world has become like this, and she felt it was very much man-made. After all, things like the evolution of plants and animals, or even a zombie world, could be caused by some local circumstances. But a situation like this, where it suddenly turned into a game arena, she simply couldn't believe it wasn't man-made.

In other words, this world is very likely manipulated by a higher-dimensional world, and it is precisely because of this feeling that Linlang came to this world to find out.

However, Linlang has been keeping an eye on what's going on behind the scenes at this game arena, but so far she hasn't found a single clue. She wonders if the person behind it is more advanced than the civilization she lives in.

Therefore, Linlang could only continue to upgrade her territory and see what would happen to the game field as it got higher and higher.

Just as Linlang was expanding her territory, her ex-boyfriend Liu Jie discovered something strange about Yong'an territory and even Linlang's other territories—he found that while others could enter these territories, he couldn't see them. Some people said that this was something that would happen if someone blocked him.

So here's the question: he's never been to those territories, so why did they blacklist him?
Meanwhile, Liu Jie, the original owner's ex-boyfriend, fled to a place not far from the Yong'an territory after one of his territories went bankrupt.

This territory, which had not yet reached level four, was recently breached by monsters, forcing Liu Jie to continue his wandering.

He was also secretly cursing his bad luck. Why was the lord so disappointing in every territory he went to? Everyone else had upgraded to level four territories, but his own territory was still only level three.

Five thousand official residents is a lot, but surely it shouldn't have taken this long to gather enough? It's still the leader who's incompetent.

But the other people in the territory didn't think so. They all said that the welfare benefits in their own territory were too poor. Some people heard that the welfare benefits in other nearby territories were better, so they went to those other territories. These territories with good welfare benefits were mostly the Linlang Territory.

It's normal that this territory can't gather 5,000 official residents because many people have gone to territories with better welfare.

Although this place is considered close to the city and there are quite a few people around, there are also many territories in the vicinity, and many of them have generous benefits—most of them are dazzling territories—so the competition for people is fierce, and it is naturally difficult for territories with poor benefits to gather five thousand formal residents.

In fact, many people come to Liu Jie's new territory as a temporary stepping stone.

They mostly come from places with worse welfare, and they are afraid of dying on the way after a long journey, so they usually jump to territories near better territories first, like the territory where Liu Jie is, to rest for a while before continuing to jump to their target territory.