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Chapter 1509 The Game Arena 59
These lords feared that if they wasted resources building underground cities, they would lose their status as city lords after their territories fell, and their efforts would benefit others. For this reason, their reluctance to build underground cities was reasonable. However, when people on the forums found some comfort in the fact that Linlang and others were building underground cities in their territories, the people in these lords' refusal to build underground cities naturally felt no comfort.

The people, whose minds are not being comforted, will naturally cause trouble, forcing some territorial lords to build underground cities to prevent these people from causing trouble. Otherwise, they might either run away to territories with underground cities, making it even harder for them to level up in the future, or they might simply attack their territories. In that case, they don't want their own territories to be breached by their own people before the monsters even break through their territory.

For these two reasons, some lords who originally did not want to build dungeons had to spend manpower and resources to build them.

Although it was built, it was forced upon them, so they were obviously building it unwillingly. At the same time, they were cursing Linlang and the others for wasting their time and money and manpower.

So some people, in order to fool the people in their territory, said they were building an underground city, but it was just for show and they never actually built it because they didn't want to spend the money.

Linlang didn't care about any of that. Anyway, she had enough money, so why bother with these things? Even if her territory was destroyed in the future, she should be able to survive with her abilities. After all, she had little bees that could predict powerful monsters and avoid them, only fighting monsters she could eventually catch. That way, even if she lost her territory, she could survive in the wild, though her quality of life would be much worse.

Since survival shouldn't be a problem in the future, she doesn't need to keep a lot of copper coins and various materials on hand; she can use them all.

Unlike other lords, some of them, though capable of managing their territories, dared not fight outside. Therefore, they valued their wealth and thought that if their territories were destroyed, they would still have to rely on their wealth to make a living. Naturally, they did not want to spend all their wealth and then not be able to live a good life.

This is why some people do things carelessly and fool the public, because they don't want to spend too much money.

Since upgrading her territory to level nine shouldn't be a problem, and the territory won't be in any immediate trouble, Linlang isn't in a rush to build the dungeon; she can take it slow and steady.

To prevent cheating in the game, and to prevent monsters from digging tunnels while she was building dungeons, Linlang specially reinforced the dungeon walls. Although she knew that such walls would not be very useful against high-level monsters, she hoped that, together with other traps and measures, they could save the lives of most people in the future.

She's just taking it one step at a time.

Time flies, and more than ten years later, Linlang painstakingly upgraded her territory from level nine to level ten.

A level 10 territory requires five million official residents, which would be the size of a large city even before the apocalypse.

If it weren't for Linlang's skillful combination of talents, it would have been impossible to upgrade all of his territories to level 10.

A level 10 territory can last for at least ten years, but it becomes difficult to upgrade beyond that.

Because a level 11 territory requires ten million official residents.

Now, the distance between any two territories is so great that it's difficult to get residents from one territory to fill in for those in another.

Moreover, Linlang successfully upgraded her territory to level ten by simply transferring people from one territory to another to reach the required number, exploiting a bug. This was roughly the limit she could achieve with each territory. To then transfer another five million people from various territories to reach ten million and upgrade to level eleven was practically an impossible task. In other words, she might be stuck at level ten.

In fact, many level 9 territories that had not yet reached level 10 had already been breached by various monsters or other territories.

It doesn't matter if other territories conquer our lands; at worst, we'll just go from being a subject of one lord to being a subject of another, and life will go on as usual.

However, those territories that failed to reach level ten in time and were subsequently breached by monsters are doomed, and their inhabitants will have to embark on a wandering adventure.

Since each territory is now very large, it takes a lot of time to even leave one's own territory. After leaving one's own territory, it takes even longer to travel to other territories. Being exposed to monsters for so long is very dangerous.

Especially for some people, if they stay in their territory for too long without fighting monsters, they are really likely to be wiped out by monsters when they suddenly need to fight them.

So now a new situation has arisen.

Some level 9 lords, if they have any conscience and see that they can't upgrade their territories to level 10, will approach neighboring lords who have already upgraded to level 10 and offer to hand over their territories. As long as the lord hasn't been killed and the territory hasn't been conquered, they can give up their territory if the lord is willing. They can ask the lord of the neighboring level 10 territory to send people to help them upgrade their territory to level 10.

Such a conscientious person can protect their territory from destruction, prevent the people from suffering, and avoid the risk of wandering to other territories. In fact, this is the best choice.

However, such people are a minority. Most people have a lust for power and are unwilling to relinquish it until the very last moment. In such cases, their territories are often breached, and they are forced to flee like the people in their territories.

If someone like Linlang is good at fighting, that's fine. But if someone just stays in their territory and doesn't dare to fight, they'll end up being killed by monsters with a huge pile of copper coins and materials, wasting all that copper coins and materials they've accumulated.

Leaving aside the fact that others haven't even reached level ten, even though Linlang has, it's not exactly a cause for celebration. At most, it only delays her death by more than ten years. If she still can't find a solution during these ten years, the territory will still perish.

Unfortunately, she has been searching for the owner of the arcade all these years, but has not found him.

She investigated those who had offered good advice and found that most of them were still alive, having not been deliberately killed by any accident. Clearly, the person behind the scenes was not afraid of good advice that could lead to everyone's survival.

The kind that lies still is the most troublesome, because as long as it moves, you can follow the clues and find the source. But if it doesn't move at all, you can't find where the enemy is, which is very troublesome.

Linlang pondered that if she couldn't find the enemy like this, she might have to return empty-handed this time.

If she returns empty-handed, Linlang plans to report the situation in this world to the time travel department in her own world. After all, regardless of whether the other party is from a higher dimension and is harming people, or whether their technology is more advanced than that of Linlang's world, it is something that needs special attention.