"Okay." Chu Cheng nodded. Ye Miao continued, "We can leave once we're all here. If we want to set a time, it'd be best in the evening."

Arrange some other tasks at night so as not to delay players' daily monster hunting, and everyone will be more motivated.

After the two of them came up with a rough plan, Ye Miao left Chu Cheng's villa. A few minutes later, she received a notification from the reception hall requesting a public announcement. The applicant was Chu Cheng.

Ye Miao clicked "pass" without looking at it carefully. The next second, all members received a pop-up notification.

[Chu Cheng] Recruiting 30 combat team members for territory battles, with priority given to combat/healing skills above level 65. (0/30)

So fast.

Ye Miao smiled when he received the pop-up window, and decisively pressed "Join". The number in the brackets immediately changed to (1/30).

Chu Cheng then sent messages to recruit many familiar players. Now, in the Overnight Rich Village, in addition to the players he often fought alongside, there were also several high-level players recruited by Chu Cheng. When it came to "mobilizing people for group fights," he had it much easier than Ye Miao.

By noon, Ye Miao clicked on the notification again, and it had become (14/30). Many players who had been out monster hunting when the announcement was released, unsure of the reason, hadn't dared to join in. Now, returning for lunch, they inquired with astonishment, "Territory war? What's going on? Even if you get rich overnight, you're going to fight other territories?"

The female assassin who asked the question thought to herself: Where is the "Pure Land" that was promised???

The stall owner in front of her was He Kailai, who was busy making the recently popular crab-flavored eggs. He smiled without even looking up at her words, "You're new here, right? A territory war? It must be a fight with the Fearless Village! Our boss has been holding it in for a long time. This is a long, winding road, so the sooner we're done, the better."

The female assassin wasn't from Fearless Village, but after joining the territory, she'd heard a bit about the conflict between the two factions. She understood, yet also felt a bit puzzled. "I heard there aren't many people left in Fearless Village anymore. Why bother arguing with them? I think it's better to just forget about it and save your energy for monster hunting."

"You're right." He Kailai turned around, his face full of amusement. "This is the end of the world. Who can feel at ease if they keep enemies around? Besides, although I haven't participated in the territory war, the Fearless Village was so powerful before, so they probably have accumulated a lot of resources. If I participate, the rewards may not be less than killing monsters."

"That makes sense!" The female assassin suddenly realized it, waited a moment longer, took the rice bowl she had ordered, and ran with the box in her hand. "Before the place is full, I'll go sign up!"

The notice said "Combat/Healing above level 65 preferred," and she happened to be a level 66 assassin. Since there was a chance of a good reward, she had to give it a try!

"Tsk." He Kailai looked at the female assassin's receding back with mixed feelings.

To this day, he still remembers the first night he joined the Get Rich Shelter, when the territory was suddenly attacked. Back then, the territory didn't have so many members, and no one was very good at fighting. When they heard about the "night attack", everyone's scalp went numb.

If Ye Miao hadn't been able to fight...

It was conceivable that all of them would die that night.

Later, Xu Wu, who was clearly in the wrong, actually dared to bring people to seek "revenge" on them!

He Kailai suddenly became very angry. When another player approached him, he waved his hand and said, "Sorry, we're closed today!"

The player looked surprised: "Why did it suddenly close down?"

"Something else." He Kailai said perfunctorily, put all the prepared dishes into his backpack, which added up to nearly a hundred servings, and then carried the backpack to find Ye Miao in the residential area.

He'd never been good at fighting. Ever since joining Get Rich Overnight, he'd barely fought. Initially, he'd devoted himself to cooking for the territory, then to cooking and setting up shop. Now, Ye Miao had decided to take on Fearless Village. He couldn't help with the fighting, but he could donate! He could make sure the big guys who could fight had enough to eat!

In the red brick house, Ye Miao was packing medicines. Seeing He Kailai coming over, she thought he was busy and quickly invited him into the living room. However, before she could ask what was going on, she saw He Kailai taking out lunch boxes one by one.

In just a dozen seconds, the lunch boxes formed a small wall on the table. Seeing He Kailai still digging, Ye Miao asked blankly, "What are you doing?"

He Kailai didn't stop working: "I heard that the boss is going to clean up the Fearless Village. I can't fight, so I'll donate some food to everyone! Don't let the boss and the team members starve!"

"..." Ye Miao was tense for three seconds, "We are going to fight, not to obtain Buddhist scriptures from the West."

He Kailai glanced at her absentmindedly: "I know, huh?"

"...Only thirty people! Going to have a fight! Why all this food!" Ye Miao didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "You take it back. We'll try to go and come back quickly so we don't have to eat on the way..."

As she spoke, she picked up the lunch box and put it back into He Kailai's backpack. He Kailai quickly hugged the backpack and glared at Tongling: "Cleaning up Wuwei Village is not just your job. It will be better for everyone if you clean it up. Anyway, I have to do my best. It's up to you how to deal with it. I don't care! Goodbye, don't see me off!"

Then he turned and ran, nearly tripping as he ran out of the room. When he reached the gate, he almost bumped into Zhu Yihua.

Zhu Yihua quickly dodged and let him out, then seeing that the door was not closed, she walked in: "Ye Miao."

"Hey, Pharmacist Fang!" It's not just because patients have a natural fear of doctors. Although Ye Miao's own healing skills are also full, every time she faces Fang Shuqin and Zhu Yihua, she still feels a sense of awe like a student facing a teacher.

Ye Miao subconsciously went out to greet him, and Zhu Yihua also took a few quick steps, and the two of them returned to the house together.

Walking around the pile of lunch boxes on the wooden table, Zhu Yihua found an open space and began to dig into her bag. "Doctor Fang told me that you were attacked. If it weren't for you, she would definitely be dead. Tsk, tsk, we were college classmates and good sisters for nearly 30 years. If she doesn't bear a grudge, then I must! Come on, let me show you, I have some medicine here..."

Then he started piling bottles and jars on the table.

"No need... Pharmacist Zhu, please listen to me..."

"There are only thirty of us..."

"I'll be back soon..."

Ye Miao advised dryly, but it was not clear whether Zhu Yihua listened to him or not, but he did not stop his hands.

After taking out the last bottle of medicine, Zhu Yihua smiled with satisfaction, put on his backpack, and walked out happily: "Good luck, I won't bother you anymore."

"Pharmacist Zhu..." Ye Miao chased after her and tried to persuade her, but just after taking a few steps, another person ran in from outside the courtyard gate: "Boss!!!" Zhang Xu's face was full of excitement.

Zhu Yihua took the opportunity to say, "Oh, there are guests again. Go and do your own thing." Then he took two quick steps and slipped away.

"Zhu——" Ye Miao wanted to call her, but was stopped by Zhang Xu.

Zhang Xu said earnestly, "Boss, I need your help! Territory War, if I'm not mistaken, it's the Fearless Battle, right? Come on, I still have some equipment I saved up..."

…

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Ye Miao was forced to issue an announcement in the reception hall:

[Ye Miao] The territory war has suspended material donations. Thank you to all members for your help.

The members' enthusiasm for this matter was unexpected, but one "expected" thing didn't happen - that is, there were already quite a few old members of Fearless Village in the territory, and even a significant proportion of them. It's true that these people came to "join" her because they disliked Fearless Village, but Ye Miao had been online for many years before her time travel and was used to seeing those who tried to smooth things over. This time, while she asked Chu Cheng to post the announcement, she was also preparing to deal with the members who came to make a request. In the end, she waited patiently for a long time, but not a single one came.

Ye Miao thought: Okay, Fearless Village, you are really so honest that you make people hate you!

The 30-man team was recruited the next morning. Not counting Ye Miao, there were three priests. Including Ye Miao, there were ten melee fighters, six of whom were warriors and four were melee mages. The remaining assassins, archers, and ranged mages made up the remaining number. When Chu Cheng presented the list to Ye Miao, she was surprised to see Fang Yuming's name on it.

"Is Fang Yuming already level 65?!" She suppressed her thoughts secretly, and then clicked on the attribute bar to see that he was already level 72.

Leveling up so fast! Ye Miao was amazed.

In the pen not far away, Su Xinran and Lu Weiwei led the team to harvest beef, mutton and milk in the morning. At noon, they saw the duck eggs that had been left behind earlier cracked and a bright yellow duckling hatched!

"It turns out that it can really be hatched!" The members were all very excited. They held the furry little ducklings in their arms and couldn't let go. Even Su Xinran and Lu Weiwei's sika deer came to join in the fun, using their heads to nudge the little ducklings. The little ducklings couldn't stand steadily and kept falling over.

"In this way, we don't have to go out to catch ducks anymore? We can just keep a few eggs and a few pairs of adult ducks each time, and we can keep raising them continuously?" Sun Yuanyuan's eyes sparkled.

"That should be the case." Su Xinran nodded. "And the same goes for the geese. After we raise these newly captured geese, we'll keep the eggs and adult geese and let them hatch them!"

"That's great!" Sun Yuanyuan smiled.

For her, being able to live a peaceful life in the territory was the best thing. Back in Fearless Village, she and her mother had to kill monsters just to survive, living in fear every day. Now that she's here raising ducks and geese, and her mother is selling medicine at the small market, life is much more peaceful!

In the wild, Chen Ling hid behind a big tree and prayed that Zhang Tingting's monster-killing team would clear out the wolves in the woods as soon as possible.

Zhang Tingting lived up to expectations. Three minutes later, she led the team to kill more than a dozen wolves, picked up the drops from the monsters, and left.

Chen Ling finally breathed a sigh of relief and scurried towards the bushes before new monsters spawned. This patch of bushes bore a variety of berries, which were her main source of daily harvest.

However, as she got closer, she saw that each of the six bushes had only three or four fruits ready for picking. Although Chen Ling was disgusted, she could only pick them with a frown, and then walked towards the rice fields without delay.

The rice paddies near the territory aren't cultivated by the player, but rather farmland on the system map. The advantage is that the yield automatically refreshes without any effort. The disadvantage is that you can only harvest rice, unlike the territory farmland where you can decide what to plant. Furthermore, you'll occasionally encounter monsters while gathering, making it less friendly for players who specialize in gathering.

But at this moment, Chen Ling couldn't care less. She had left Su Xinran and Lu Weiwei's herding team that day in anger, and now she could only rely on collecting crops from the wild. She had initially thought the boss's claim of "soil erosion leading to reduced harvests" was an exaggeration, even if true. But after a few days, she discovered that the yields of wild crops were even lower than expected, and were actually declining.

Arriving at the rice paddies today, Chen Ling was dismayed to discover they hadn't been refreshed at all. Players had already plucked almost all the rice, leaving only a few scattered around. If she'd forced herself to collect and sell them, they might not even be worth a single gold coin.

Chen Ling had no choice but to return to the territory dejectedly. As she walked, she couldn't help but count the accounts in her mind:

If you only eat the cheap three meals a day in the territory, it will cost 30 gold. If you want to eat better, you can spend more than 100 gold or even several hundred gold.

In addition to eating, buying medicine and equipment also requires money. If you occasionally ask priests to restore health and replenish mana, it will also be an additional expense.

Sometimes she feels that the end of the world is no different from her life at home before. The biggest similarity is that "there is never enough money to spend." It seems that life never goes according to plan. She has clearly arranged where to spend the money, but there are always extra expenses that appear unexpectedly, and then before she is careful, her savings are depleted.

The more Chen Ling thought about it, the gloomier she became. She opened her backpack and tried to reorganize the supplies in her hands, but inadvertently saw goose legs, goose wings, and goose eggs in the backpack.

That day, she was dissatisfied with Su Xinran and Lu Weiwei's exploitation of them, so she took it upon herself to kill the geese they had reserved for hatching eggs, and then parted on bad terms.

Now, she regrets it.

After returning to the territory, Chen Ling did not go directly to find Su Xinran and Lu Weiwei, but went to find Ye Miao.

Ye Miao had just finished a meeting with his team members and announced that they would set off for Fearless Village tonight. Just as they were about to go to dinner after the meeting, Chen Ling arrived.

"What's the matter?" Ye Miao looked at Chen Ling and had no impression of the person in front of him.

"Boss..." Chen Ling forced a smile. "I'm a gathering player. My harvest has been very poor recently. I wanted to ask if there is anything else I can do."

"Huh?" Ye Miao asked in surprise, "I reassigned everyone's work a few days ago. Weren't you here? Then let me see the attribute panel. I want to see what I can ask you to do."

"Okay, okay..." Chen Ling selectively avoided her question and directly opened the panel for her to see. Ye Miao smiled when she saw that she had the animal taming skill: "If you have the animal taming skill, then go find Xinran and Weiwei. They are raising chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, and it's going pretty well!"

Chen Ling's face suddenly fell, she looked embarrassed and stammered, not knowing what to say.

Ye Miao frowned when he saw this: "What's wrong? What other difficulties do you have? Tell me."

"I..." Chen Ling struggled for a while, and finally said in a low voice, "I... originally followed Su Xinran and Lu Weiwei, but later we had some unpleasantness, so I left..."

"Is that so?" Ye Miao nodded heavily, then raised his hand and made a "please" gesture, "Then go back, I can't help you."

"Boss?!" Chen Ling was stunned.

She was originally afraid that Ye Miao would ask her what "unpleasant" thing happened, and she was still nervous about how to explain it.

Unexpectedly, Ye Miao didn't even ask?!

Ye Miao shook her head and turned to head to the bedroom. "I know Su Xinran and Lu Weiwei's tempers; they won't arbitrarily chase the team members away. Besides, 'helping the members find jobs' isn't my obligation. I'm just worried that everyone's having a hard time these days, so I'm stepping in to help. If you cherish this kind of guaranteed work, we'll naturally have a happy collaboration. But if you don't, I have no responsibility to help you over and over again."

"Boss!" Chen Ling quickly caught up and stopped her before she entered the bedroom. "But, but there's really no income from collecting in the wild right now! If you don't care about me, I'll have no money to eat... What if I starve to death?"

Ye Miao frowned, revealing undisguised disdain. She'd previously read online gossip and seen poverty alleviation officials complain about the strange people they encountered during their work, describing a type of person who "doesn't do their job properly but still thinks you're their real mother and must help them to the end." Back then, she'd wondered how such a strange person could exist, but now, looking at Chen Ling, she'd finally seen through it.

"The low-priced meals in the territory are very cheap. That's the guarantee I provide to everyone as the lord. If you can't even afford that, and you lost the job I found for you..." Ye Miao sighed softly, "You did it yourself. I can't help you. If you really can't survive, I suggest you try another territory."

"Hey——" Chen Ling wanted to say something else, but Ye Miao walked past her indifferently, walked into the bedroom, and closed the door.

She hopes that everyone in her territory can have enough food and clothing and live and work in peace and contentment, but this does not mean that she is in the mood to serve the giant baby.

At nightfall, Fearless Village.

Today, two more members of the village withdrew. No one knows whether they joined the group to get rich overnight, and Xu Wu has no intention of chasing them.

The core members were dejected for the entire day, and everyone wanted to come up with a way to rebuild the territory as quickly as possible.

The apocalypse has begun for a long time now. After being destroyed, dismantled, and reintegrated, the territories that were originally scattered around T City have become much smaller. The corresponding change is that every surviving place is growing stronger and the population is increasing.

Under such circumstances, the territory with only about thirty people left was completely unsafe. Especially since they had already offended many people, if the news of the territory's fall spread, there was no guarantee that they would not be sought after.

Under the moonlit sky, a few scattered members sat by the campfire, eating and chatting, occasionally glancing at Xu Wu's brightly lit villa. Someone whispered, "Shouldn't we just leave... It's already like this, I think they can't take care of themselves."

In the villa, Xu Wu leaned on the back of the sofa, with disheveled hair and a haggard face.

"We shouldn't have tolerated the caravan's lies and misleading people from the beginning!" She gritted her teeth in hatred. "If we had killed those merchants earlier, this situation wouldn't have gotten so out of control!"

Outside the territory, Ye Miao quietly led her men closer. When the protective shield of the barrier was right in front of her, she felt a sense of desolation through the shield.

The last time she was here, the territory was bustling with activity. Wang Yong and Ren Guoqing, after visiting here for business, both said business was booming, suggesting it was a bustling place not long ago.

The contrast was so stark that Ye Miao felt a surge of inexplicable regret. He shook his head and ordered, "Begin."

The next second, countless attacks hit the protective shield.

According to the system settings, the barrier stone has a total of 10,000 health points, and each attack only takes 1 point of damage, whether it is a skill or a normal attack. Therefore, players don't need to waste mana here, and can even put away their equipment for the time being and just use normal attacks.

However, since there was a ranged mage in the team, and the ranged mage's normal attacks could not reduce the durability of the magic wand, so they continued to use the magic wand to attack. The magic wand's normal attacks also had a colorful magic effect, which immediately exploded the protective shield with colorful spots of light, which was very eye-catching.

The players who were eating by the campfire panicked and hurriedly stood up to look around. They saw Ye Miao and Chu Cheng's archer team at a glance.

These people looked very familiar to them. They came here again and again to pick people up, and they were so arrogant that they didn't even take Xu Wu seriously.

So a swordsman subconsciously drew his sword to fight, but was stopped by the pastor next to him: "Are you going to work for Xu Wu?!" the pastor asked in shock.

"...Of course not!" The swordsman was bewildered. "But they've already reached the door. If I don't resist, I'll die!"

"Don't be silly." The priest laughed angrily. "They even accept people from here joining their territory, so they may not bother with ordinary members. I think it's better for us to just run away. We may not be killed!"

"Really?" The swordsman felt uneasy. Looking at the fierce firepower over there, he said angrily, "I dare not. There are so many of them. If one of them wants to kill us all, I will be dead!"

"Well..." The pastor thought about it and felt that it made sense. He added, "Then let's stay here and pretend not to resist. If they really attack us later, we will act accordingly!"

Outside the protective shield, although each attack dealt only 1 point of damage, the siege of over 30 people still caused the barrier stone's health bar to drop rapidly. A few minutes later, the core members of Xu Wu's small building noticed something was wrong and rushed downstairs together.

Almost at the same time, the protective shield was breached.

With a snap, the barrier stones placed not far from the bonfire shattered, and the frail fence collapsed with them. Several people by the bonfire stood stiffly, their eyes fixed on the menacing crowd. Ye Miao glanced at them, ignored them, and walked straight towards Xu Wu, who had just emerged from the gate in front of the small building.

"...Does this mean they don't want to bother with us anymore?" The swordsman beside the campfire asked the priest carefully.

The pastor hesitated: "I think so..."

The wizard next to him made a quick decision: "What are you waiting for! Run! It would be unfair if you get accidentally injured later!!"

Everyone woke up as if from a dream and ran away.

In front of the building, melee fighters from both sides stepped forward, ready to engage. Archers in the back row drew their bows, assassins, and mages also prepared themselves, the battle imminent.

Xu Wu's face turned pale: "You are kicking me when I'm down!"

A gust of wind blew up, and a sense of solemnity spread among the swirling wind and sand.

Amidst the solemnity, the girl with twin ponytails in the center of the front row across from her slightly twisted her neck, her face devoid of any guilt. "No one is blind. I don't want to compete with you for the moral high ground!"

After she finished speaking, she jumped up with a somersault and stabbed Xu Wu with both swords!

Following her footsteps, the two teams also started fighting, and the territory was immediately in chaos. Everyone seemed to have a tacit understanding, and the team members worked together to finish off Xu Wu's men so that Ye Miao could fight Xu Wu in peace.

I have to say that Xu Wu's combat effectiveness seems to have improved a bit compared to last time, which shows that she has been seriously leveling up recently.

Ye Miao had no intention of delaying: "Shadowless Sword."

The next second, Xu Wu saw figures flashing around her, and waves of excruciating pain enveloped her entire body. The effects of the wound continued to appear all over her body, accompanied by the number above her head, which represented the blood loss, jumping wildly.

Relying on her assassin's agility, she initially tried to run, but the Shadowless Sword's 5.25x speed made it difficult to outrun it. As the skill finished, Xu Wu's health was reduced to just over 3300. Ye Miao seized the last half second to dodge in front of her. Panicked, Xu Wu flinched, only to be grabbed by Ye Miao's arm.

Ye Miao suddenly pulled Xu Wu's arms and twisted them behind her back: "Thank you for making me realize clearly how many hidden dangers there are if we don't settle our enemies in the end times!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she put away her sword and stabbed Xu Wu in the back.

【-3200】

"Ah—" Xu Wu's eyes widened as she screamed heartbreakingly. The sound was very similar to those of the players she had hunted, and it was certainly familiar to her own ears.

There is still more than 100 health points left.

Ye Miao casually turned the sword that had stabbed in.

Xu Wu fell straight down and died instantly.

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