The truck bumped along for four and a half hours before finally entering Zone B territory.
There are a total of twenty plots of land, distributed horizontally and vertically, the smallest being 200 mu and the largest being over 300 mu.
Six columns vertically, four rows horizontally.
Because the town's original terrain was not a perfect quadrilateral, the sixth row only had one separate, protruding plot of land, plot number 6, which was located at the northeasternmost corner of the town.
The rest is just barren mountains and piles of rocks.
The patrol team is located in the center of Area B, with Territories 13 and 14 to its left and right, and Territories 9 and 18 to its top and bottom.
To make things easier for every lord, the official cleanup team has created a '目'-shaped road network in the area, connecting every piece of territory.
The town entrance is located in the southwest corner. Trucks enter from the town entrance, first dropping off the lords on the western outskirts to their destination, and then proceeding from the northernmost section towards plot number 6.
Then it turned and began to meander through the middle territory, making sure to deliver every lord to their destination.
Because Territory No. 13 was the second plot of land on the east side of the first main road leading into town, Zhao Xiaoxiu and her father got out of the car very early.
Also getting off the bus was Dongfang Ling, the youngest and most silent and aloof ponytail girl among all the lords in the region.
The truck dropped off the passengers and continued on its way, leaving Zhao Gang and his daughter with their large and small bags of luggage by the roadside, and Dongfang Ling, who only had a backpack and a hunting rifle, staring at each other.
Zhao Xiaoxiu glanced at the sign across the street that read "Territory No. 12," then turned to look at the sign behind her that read "Territory No. 13," and suddenly realized what was going on.
It turns out these two plots of land are directly opposite each other, separated only by a four-meter-wide dirt road.
However, being close to the edge of a territory does not mean that the place to live is close.
Zhao Xiaoxiu didn't know if there were houses in other areas.
However, in Territory No. 12, it seems that only one small, three-room, one-story house remains, with half of its roof collapsed.
The mutated plants are extremely destructive, especially to low-rise houses in villages and towns that were not properly laid with foundations. If the ground moves, the entire house will tilt.
However, the house in Territory 12 is right by the road, facing the road, and located at the intersection of two roads, making transportation convenient and close to the patrol team.
Dongfang Ling had no intention of greeting Zhao Xiaoxiu and her father, nor did he want to show any kindness to the father and daughter, who were surrounded by a mountain of luggage.
She slung her backpack over her shoulder, turned around, and entered her territory number 12.
Instead of going inside to prepare for the night, they headed straight for the depths of the territory, heading towards the mountains and forests on the western edge.
Lord's Handbook, Article 1—
[A lord enjoys complete autonomy within his own territory. If someone enters a lord's territory and intentionally harms or damages it, the lord may kill them without penalty.]
Zhao Xiaoxiu closed the Lord's Manual, put it back in her small backpack, and looked up to meet her father's gaze for two seconds.
The father and daughter looked back at their own territory, number 13, with perfect understanding.
Their house was not on the main road, but on a side road to the north, below the second road from the top of the character "目".
They are now stopped at the intersection of the main road on the left and the third branch road from the top.
"We got off too early," Zhao Xiaoxiu sighed. She should have followed the truck and taken a longer route.
I don't know who put the number 13 license plate here, it's very misleading. She got out of the car excitedly, thinking she had arrived.
Plot No. 13 covers an area of 300 mu. It is a relatively square plot of land located in the middle of Zone B, which is also the concentrated residential area of the town.
There is a river flowing from north to southeast, which runs across the northeast corner of Territory 13, dividing the neat piece of land into a large trapezoid and a small triangle.
There is a bridge on the side road, an old stone bridge in the town, just wide enough for one car to pass.
However, there are no bridges within the territory.
To get to the triangle area, the only current option is to take a side road, cross the bridge, go around to the other side, and then enter the area.
Fortunately, this land was not farmland, but a poplar grove.
Because the mutation level was below C, the cleanup team stayed behind.
The mutated plants and animals on the territory have all been cleared away, and now all that can be seen is the scorched black earth.
Occasionally there is one or two earthen slopes, and scattered lower-grade variant trees.
Such land cannot be cultivated directly. A lot of preparation work, such as tilling, needs to be done later. Without machinery and relying solely on manual labor, it will certainly be a difficult task.
The sun was setting in the west, and the father and daughter didn't have much time left to continue their journey.
After learning about the general layout of their land in front of the land registration number, the father and daughter shared their luggage and pushed their bicycles toward the housing area to the north.
After a 20-minute walk, I arrived at the north side, where there were seven or eight houses, but the ones closest to the road were uninhabitable.
But considering that these houses are all on her own land and are part of the available resources, Zhao Xiaoxiu is still very happy.
It's better than having only half a bungalow on Territory No. 12.
The only house with a roof and a relatively stable main structure is near the stone bridge.
It is located to the east of plot 13, near the water, about a five-minute walk from the river.
But it's a 15-minute walk from the road.
The distance wasn't actually far, but there wasn't a decent road, and the father and daughter, pushing bicycles loaded with supplies, felt that the road was very, very long.
Fortunately, the two-story self-built house at the end of the road was relatively intact, and the glass in the windows was not completely broken.
Most importantly, it also has a gate.
Although this ordinary aluminum alloy frame and glass door offers little protection against the ferocious attacks of the mutated animals.
But it can ward off backstabbers!
Zhao Xiaoxiu discovered that she seemed to be more afraid of people than of mutants.
Zhao Gang parked his bicycle outside the house, placed other supplies on the cracked cement ground in front of the house, and then opened the door of the house in front of him.
The door was only slightly ajar, and the lock was already rusted.
The metal scraped together, making a grating "creak" sound. The door was wide open, revealing the mottled walls, the dark floor, and a pile of messy clutter inside.
The house has been searched by the cleanup team several times, and no one knows what's left inside.
Because it has been uninhabited for many years and was previously hidden by mutated plants, it has never seen the light of day.
Zhao Xiaoxiu followed her father carefully inside, and a damp smell immediately hit her.
Zhao Xiaoxiu quickly covered her mouth and nose, and it took her a long time to get used to it. She almost suffocated herself.
This is a typical self-built house with a yard in the back and a drying area in the front. The main building covers an area of more than 200 square meters, with two floors, plus a small attic on the top floor and a spacious terrace.
Every room in the house is very large.
There is a spacious living room on the first floor, and a bedroom on each side.
Behind the living room are the kitchen, dining room, and a storage and woodshed with a back door.
The staircase leading to the second floor is between the living room and the kitchen. Upstairs are two clearly separated master bedrooms, with much more refined decorations than the simple decorations on the first floor.
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