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Chapter 1502 The Game Arena 52
Since it's just a transit point, people naturally won't buy official residents there. Even if the other side panics because the monsters are attacking the city faster and faster, and lowers the price of official residents to the same level as Yong'an Territory, they won't stay. Instead, they plan to continue moving to territories with better benefits, such as Yong'an Territory and other territories under Linlang's control.

The reason why they are so determined to advance towards the territories under Linlang's banner, such as Yong'an, is that once someone is over level 20 and can access the local forum, the first thing they do is check if there are any strategy guides posted by other players.

Of course there are benefits, because many people have shown off the benefits of their territories, and then some people have discovered that Yong'an Territory and other territories under Linlang have the best benefits among all the territories in the vicinity.

Everything was cheap, but there were many quests, and you could make money without going out to fight monsters. As a result, Linlang's territory became the place everyone wanted to go.

Even if other territories temporarily lower the fees for official residents in order to upgrade to level four, only a few people are willing to stay in those territories. Most people still want to go to the territories under Linlang's control because they can live better in those territories. After all, welfare benefits need to be compared in all aspects, and it's not enough for the price of official residents to be the same.

Of course, they didn't know that these territories were all of great value. They only thought that there were many territories around them with good benefits. Since there were many territories with good benefits, they had a choice and naturally didn't need to stay in these territories with poor benefits.

Those territories with poor welfare benefits, seeing that they couldn't retain their people, had considered maintaining the same level of welfare benefits as the territories under Linlang's control. However, they found that they couldn't collect much money—because they had fewer people, while Linlang had more, and they could still make a lot of money through high volume and low margins. They were greedy, and when they saw that the money they collected was too little compared to before, they became unhappy and canceled the better welfare benefits.

Unfortunately, most people don't yet realize how important the number of official residents is, so they're currently focused on collecting more money. They don't even consider that if there aren't enough official residents, they won't be able to upgrade their territories to higher levels. What good will all that money do if their territories are overrun by monsters?

Because many people want to go to the territories under Linlang's control, it is difficult for some territories with poor welfare to accumulate 5,000 residents. Of course, in some territories, the price of official residents is very high, so it is even more difficult to accumulate 5,000 residents.

In Liu Jie's territory, the other party calculated that a level one territory could be used for ten days, a level two territory for twenty days, and according to this pattern, a level three territory could be used for at least forty days. Therefore, there was no need to rush the number of residents. He could at least earn enough for thirty-five days at a high price. When it was time to upgrade in the last five days, he could lower the price of official residents. By then, he could accumulate enough official residents to upgrade before the territory ran into trouble.

Even if it's a bit rushed to accumulate enough official residents in the last five days, making a profit for thirty days and keeping ten days for upgrades should be enough, right? In short, they just don't want to give up the opportunity to make big money.

As a result, Liu Jie's territory was lucky enough to be upgraded to a level three territory. He passed thirty days peacefully without anyone attacking his territory or encountering any higher-level bosses. Therefore, his territory maintained the previous fees of 20 copper coins for temporary residents and 500 copper coins for regular residents. Needless to say, all other fees in the territory were expensive. Since many people stayed at his place and then went to Linlang's territories, he collected a lot of tolls. He was in a good mood, thinking that the transit station business was really good.

However, due to the poor welfare, during those thirty days, almost no one bought his official residence. Of course, the main reason was that five hundred copper coins were too expensive. They couldn't afford it, and even if they could, they felt it wasn't worth it. They would stay with him for a day or two and then leave for Linlang's territory.

In other words, Liu Jie felt that the outside world was too dangerous and he didn't want to continue taking risks. He thought that a level three territory should be able to hold out for a long time, and it would be worthwhile to spend 500 copper coins to buy a formal resident status. After all, he would have to stay in this territory and pay a temporary fee of 20 copper coins every day, which was too expensive. So he saved up 500 copper coins and bought a formal resident status.

People like Liu Jie are rare. Most people, even if they find the outside world too risky and don't want to continue taking risks, will go to Linlang's territory. They won't take any more risks, since the benefits in other territories are too poor to endure. If they're worried about the dangers of continuing to Linlang's territory, they can find some experts to escort them there; it just costs money.

But when Liu Jie asked about the price for the escort, he refused to pay, feeling that he would rather live in this territory than spend that money.

Indeed, escorting people to the Linlang Territory is expensive because there are so many people wanting to go, so the price naturally goes up.

However, if the escort is going from Linlang territory to other territories, the price is much lower, because few people would make such a request. Therefore, many caravan escorts to Linlang territory are one-way trips, meaning they can only bring back goods to earn some money, and basically cannot bring people back. As a result, they include this cost in the one-way trip. If someone asks them to escort them from Linlang territory to their territory on the return trip, they usually just give them a ride and don't charge much.

It was precisely because the price was high to travel from Liu Jie's territory to Linlang's territory, and he was afraid of the dangers outside, having already been terrified by his wandering journey, that Liu Jie stopped taking risks after arriving in this territory.

As it turned out, this territory was unreliable. It never lowered the price of official residents until 35 days after the territory was upgraded to level 3. Before the territory could accumulate 5,000 residents, a big boss appeared outside the territory and breached it, forcing Liu Jie to continue his wandering adventures with his parents.

Having heard on the forum that there were several territories nearby with good benefits—referring to the territories under Linlang's control—Liu Jie followed the main group and went to Linlang's territory.

Then something strange happened—everyone else could enter normally, but he couldn't see the territory or enter it. He wondered what was going on, and when he asked on the forum, he found out that he had been blacklisted.

This puzzled Liu Jie. He had no connection with these territories, so why would they block him, and even his parents? Yet, his relatives were allowed to enter.

He sent his relatives in to inquire about who the lord of the territory was and why they had blocked his family. However, they couldn't find out, and no one knew who the lord of the territory was.

This left them completely baffled, wondering who could hate them so much that they had blocked them.

Liu Jie's family started thinking about who they had a grudge against in order to figure out who might block them, since someone who would treat them like this must be someone they had a grudge against.