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Chapter 1506 The Game Arena 56
This is why, despite the increasingly advanced development of each territory, they still fight each other – it's because of the existence of such ambitious individuals.

In fact, Linlang also longed for peace and an end to constant fighting, but reality is always cruel. She didn't want to fight, but there were always others who wanted to.

If others want to fight, Linlang can only deal with them. After all, she still wants to see what kind of "surprise" the game will give her as she continues to level up.

If her territory is destroyed and she becomes an ordinary player living in someone else's territory, she might not know the final fate of the lords. After all, some inside stories are only known to those involved.

Therefore, even if her territory is breached, she won't die and can escape to someone else's territory, but she doesn't want to, because she wants to keep leveling up and see how many levels her territory can reach, whether there is a highest level, and what the final outcome will be if she reaches the highest level.

To survive, one must naturally manage their territory well.

This is different from when she first started her territory, where she could go out and fight some wild bosses to get some materials and support the territory all by herself. Now, it's impossible for her to earn the necessary materials and copper coins for leveling up by fighting monsters alone. She needs to manage the territory well and rely on the strength of all the residents to achieve this.

To upgrade a territory to level eight, you need 500,000 official residents.

This is a huge number. Fortunately, the scope of a level 7 territory is very wide, and many territories can be merged with surrounding territories. Linlang merged quite a few territories to successfully upgrade some of them.

At this stage, those who are not good at management are either eliminated by the monsters or defeated by the enemy. Those who remain are not fools.

According to the rankings, the country where the original owner lived now has less than two thousand territories left.

This is quite normal, after all, an eighth-level territory requires 500,000 residents, and 2,000 would be a billion people.

In a country with 1.5 billion people before the end of the world, after deducting minors who cannot be counted as official residents, the number of people who can be counted as official residents would be around 1.2 billion. Adding those who died, the number would definitely be less than 1 billion.

Even if some minors grow up and become gamers in the past few years, there are probably only about a billion adults left.

With around a billion adults, there's simply not enough space to supply two thousand territories.

Even if some territories haven't reached level eight yet, this thousand or so territories is the limit.

Apart from some conquered territories, most people are now official residents of a territory, and very few are still temporary residents.

In this situation, if you can't secure incremental upgrades, it will become increasingly difficult to upgrade as time goes on.

However, the territory cannot be upgraded, but the monsters are still leveling up. If the territory is not upgraded, the monsters will still be able to break through the city after a certain period of time. What to do after that has stumped many people.

Many people suggested that they should directly attack nearby territories. Once the nearby territories were conquered and their residents were acquired, everyone could level up.

If there's no incremental growth, why not create it?
So even though territories are dwindling, the struggle between territories is far from over. They will fight endlessly, even for the sake of grabbing residents to upgrade their territories.

However, this method can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause. After all, if you only have one territory left, and the monsters continue to level up, how will you deal with it?

Although that moment hasn't arrived yet, if things continue to develop this way, it will happen sooner or later.

Now everyone's level is quite high, and they can speak on the world forum. But there are countless people posting, including ordinary people, smart people, and even scientists and politicians, but they have no idea what will happen in the future.

Scientists, politicians, and even ordinary people all realize that we must develop science to see if we can find the person behind this game and end it, otherwise the final outcome will inevitably be our mutual destruction.

Developing science now is really difficult because the world has become gamified, so how can we conduct scientific research?
Putting everything else aside, we haven't even had internet access yet, so how can we talk about developing science?

Now everyone posts on the forums run by the people behind the scenes, and everyone can see what they say. So even if everyone comes up with a good method that can end the apocalypse and even find the person behind the game, they might just be targeted and eliminated by that person.

Even if everyone is not afraid of death and is willing to discuss these methods, there is currently no better way.

The idea that humanity has no future and will inevitably become extinct spread among the population.

Because everyone knows that they will die sooner or later, many people begin to live a passive life.

Now that they've got the money, they don't save it like before; instead, they eat and drink it all up.

Fortunately, the territory has security measures in place; otherwise, some people might have gone into despair and committed acts of arson, murder, looting, and destruction within the territory.

When people realize that they can't survive no matter what, they will try every means to cause destruction. Everyone is going to die eventually, so what's the point of causing destruction if you don't cause destruction? But some people just like to cause destruction, purely as a way to vent their emotions.

Others thought, "Since I'm going to die anyway, and I was doing poorly before, I should rob those who are doing well and then spend the money on eating, drinking and having fun. That way, I won't have died in vain."

Some even harbored wicked thoughts towards women, wanting to have a good time before they died.

Before the apocalypse, these people's ideas could have been realized, but after the apocalypse, they naturally cannot be realized, because the territory can directly eject some garbage from the territory.

I don't know if other territories would tolerate this kind of phenomenon, but at least in Linlang's territory, she would not allow it to exist. As long as she can live, she needs order.

She also informed all her territories of the situation, so that no one was in Linlang's territory for the time being. Even if someone tried to steal from others or harm women, she blocked and kicked them out.

Linlang didn't care that this group of people had gone to other territories and threatened her that if she didn't let them have fun, they would go to other territories and increase the population of those territories.

She would rather not have such trash.

Linlang is also thinking about future development.

She felt that this was the final battle. Even if it wasn't the absolute final battle, it was a matter of life and death for humanity at the moment, so it was already the final battle, or at least the first one. After all, if this matter wasn't resolved, humanity would perish.

For Linlang, the final battle was how to resolve the situation where the territory was about to stop upgrading, but the monsters were still leveling up and would eventually break through the territory. Once this was resolved, at least the temporary crisis of death would disappear, if not completely smooth sailing.

As for what happens next, we'll see how the people behind the scenes at the gaming venue make their move.