My Post-Apocalyptic Territory

Territory, in front of the castle.

Several blue halos lit up, a flash of light appeared, and three figures emerged.

It was Tang Yu and his two companions who had just returned from Lindong.

After seeing Yilian and Huiren off, Tang Yu returned to his large bed in the room and lay down on his back.

"Ah, three days apart feels like an autumn..."

"The smell of a big bed is definitely the best; it's something I long for."

Suddenly realizing that his clothes were dirty, Tang Yu frowned but continued to lie down.

Anyway, the castle has an automatic dust removal and purification function, plus various fully automatic and semi-automatic facilities. It would definitely be a blessing for lazy people before the apocalypse.

It's a bit of a pity that his laziness was almost cured by the apocalypse.

"I wonder how Lin Wei is doing, whether he's dead or not..."

Despite saying this, Tang Yu knew that Lin Wei was definitely not dead.

Tang Yu had no intention of confronting Lin Wei head-on as soon as he realized that Lin Wei was leading a large number of awakened individuals to arrive.

Even clearing a small Crimson Hand dungeon is this difficult; Lin Wei's side has more awakened beings and is stronger. He said he didn't intend to make a fool of himself.

We can wait until we have home-field advantage, then we can play however we want.

But he was also a little reluctant to just leave.

Coincidentally, a large quantity of explosives was discovered in the Crimson Hand's vault.

Things proceeded as expected.

Lin Mingjie became a typical example of someone who let his father down.

I took a break.

Tang Yu went to the storage room and first took out the small box containing the source crystals.

Looking at the constantly fluctuating source crystal values ​​on the panel, Tang Yu felt even more pleased.

Life is good because we have money to spend.

If you want a better life, you have to spend other people's money.

The final statistical result from Yuanjing settled on a five-digit number starting with the number eight.

Looking at the amount of Source Crystals, Tang Yu... fell into deep thought.

It wasn't that he was unhappy, but he felt that he might have misdirected his talent for making money.

Hunting demonized beasts is clearly the most legitimate way to earn source crystals, but after careful consideration, he realized that since the establishment of his territory, the amount of source crystals he had obtained from demonized beasts was probably, really, really not much.

On the contrary, a few windfalls became his main source of income.

"This won't do. We must hunt demonized beasts properly, earn source crystals, expand the market, and get on the right path... How could someone as upright as him have such a misguided talent for making money? It's an illusion, it must be an illusion."

Tang Yu already had several ideas in mind.

First of all, you'll definitely need to spend some source crystals.

With over 80,000 Source Crystals, plus the Source Crystals Luo Zhe earned leading the patrol team these past few days, and the Source Crystals earned from the occasional shooting of mutated beasts by the territory's defensive structures, the total comes to around 90,000.

This is undoubtedly a huge sum of money.

However, it doesn't last long either. Whether it's upgrading existing buildings or constructing new ones, it can easily cost thousands or even tens of thousands of source crystals. These tens of thousands of source crystals can't actually last very long.

Spend your money on the key things...

"First, you need to upgrade your castle level. Many important buildings require a level 3 castle to unlock..."

More importantly, after upgrading the castle, the territory will expand significantly. According to his estimate, the territory can extend to the edge of the source crystal mine in the back mountain.

He's been eyeing that source crystal mine for ages.

Unfortunately, we didn't get any advantage when we went there with Number One and Number Two last time.

Even those that rushed forward were only a small portion of the demonized beasts hidden beneath the roots of the giant tree. Tang Yu had no idea how many demonized beasts were still at the bottom of that pit.

Even if Number One and Number Two are stronger, they can't eliminate them. Moreover, with a large number of demonized beasts, there must be many high-level demonized beasts among them. Judging from the situation around the Abyss Rift, Tang Yu felt that he was probably just lucky to have returned unharmed last time.

This time, Tang Yu needs to make thorough preparations.

For example, defensive structures were built around the pits.

That's wonderful. When he used to play strategy games, he also loved to place defensive buildings in front of the enemy's base.

So...

Open the long-unused system panel, select the most important section, and upgrade the castle.

"Ding! Upgrading from level 2 to level 3 castle, consuming 10000 Source Crystals. Upgrade? Yes/No?"

The intention was then made.

The next moment, Tang Yu was stunned.

Inside the castle, he felt no tremors, yet somehow, he could sense changes within it.

The original layout remained unchanged, except that many new buildings were constructed outside the original castle, connecting them to form a castle complex.

Tang Yu did not see all of this with his naked eye; it was as if he should have known it.

"Ding! Level 3 castle, new feature unlocked: remote control."

[Remote Control: Even when the lord is not within the territory, they can still remotely control the area, such as constructing territorial buildings, visiting functional buildings, etc.]

Tang Yu's eyes lit up.

Heaven knows how much it pained him to waste the daily tavern refresh summoning opportunities during those days in Lin Dong... even though, given the tavern's summoning probability, he couldn't actually summon the adventurers he wanted.

But with this feature, things will be much more convenient in the future. Even though he spends most of his time staying in his territory, he can't help but go out occasionally.

"In other words, that inexplicable sense of territory is this remote control ability."

Tang Yu was looking at the territory map in the system panel when he suddenly realized that he no longer needed to look at it from the panel. Instead, he closed his eyes, sensed it carefully, and the territory map appeared in his mind.

It includes small yellow-green dots.

This map is even clearer than before, showing some of the terrain outlines within the territory.

He suddenly remembered something, and with a thought, a crystal ball floated over.

Initially, this crystal ball served as a detection and warning device, displaying images that were far more detailed than territory maps.

And this time...

As he controlled it, the crystal ball lit up, and a scene appeared.

It's no longer a map, but a complete picture, like looking down from the air, encompassing the entire territory.

"It seems like we can get a little closer..."

As Tang Yu zoomed in, he saw the survivors at work, patrol members carrying guns, and even a few mutated beasts wandering on the outer perimeter.

Through the crystal ball, Tang Yu's gaze could fall upon every corner of his territory.

After circling around, the crystal ball's camera returned to the sky above the castle.

Tang Yu zoomed in, wanting to properly appreciate the beautiful scenery of the castle.

then……

The camera pans through the castle walls and into a room.

The room was filled with mist.

Tang Yu was dumbfounded. Did this camera have a built-in wall-penetrating function?

And what exactly is this place, shrouded in mist? Are there places like this inside the castle...?

His eyes suddenly widened.

I could almost hear the sound of rushing water.

Inside the room, in the bathtub, there was a graceful figure with blue hair and skin as white as snow.

Tang Yu couldn't help but stare intently at it.

He saw that the fog was thick and obscured his vision, like a holy light that was particularly dazzling.

Looking up at the sky.