I Become a Landlady in the Game World
Chapter 274 - 171: The New Phase of Hope Village

Chapter 274: Chapter 171: The New Phase of Hope Village

The 52nd day of the apocalypse dawned.

Early in the morning, at the gates of the territories of Barnes Village, Glasgow Village, and Djibouti Village, groups had gathered.

Locke of Barnes Village and the others, as soon as daylight broke, had packed up their belongings and assembled at the territory gate with their teammates’ families; after counting the number of people, they set off without delay.

And there were several groups like Locke’s from Barnes Village.

The soldiers guarding the gate didn’t think much of the first group, since it’s normal for a merchant team to have many people, and it was common to have the elderly, women, and children in the group; perhaps some people were taking their families for a visit to another territory, which was nothing out of the ordinary.

But as the second group, third group, and even more groups kept arriving with lots of ordinary people, the soldiers finally sensed something was wrong.

"Why are so many of you leaving, what are you up to?" one of the soldiers stopped a merchant team and asked sternly.

"There’s good food in Hope Village, we’re just taking our families on a trip," the person in charge of the merchant team quickly spoke up.

"All of the people in your group have brought their families!" the soldier exclaimed with severity, the numbers were too suspicious!

And as this sentence came out and he saw the discomfort on the face of the merchant team’s leader, the soldier suddenly realized he had hit the nail on the head.

A merchant team taking all its mercenaries and their families—there was only one possibility!

It meant this merchant team was planning to leave the territory to pledge allegiance to another.

On a normal day, a soldier would not care if a merchant team did this.

But today, there had already been several groups with the same telltale signs; adding them up, that was several hundred people!

And nearby this city gate, there were still several hundred more.

Suddenly losing one-sixth of the population, if discovered by the Lord, would certainly spell death for them.

"You can’t go!" the soldier declared outright, then looked toward someone beside him, "Report to the Lord."

"Yes," another soldier promptly replied.

He too had seen the signs!

Just then, the stopped merchant team leader also seemed to realize what was happening, and if the Lord arrived, their departure would become difficult—in a flash, he signaled the people behind him with his eyes.

The next moment, chaos erupted at the scene.

"Why can’t we leave?"

"What’s wrong with taking our families?"

"I’ve never seen any territory that traps people and prevents them from leaving."

"What do you want to do?"

"I’m going to leave today no matter what."

With various voices, several mercenaries confronted the soldiers.

While pushing and shoving, the leader of the merchant team, with the rest of his people, broke through the barrier; once they reached the city gate, they would be free.

Since they had prepared to move to Hope Village, they wouldn’t give up at this final juncture.

Locke was right; staying in Barnes Village, no matter how much money they made, it was like earning it for someone else.

"Don’t... go!"

"Ah! Don’t fight."

"How dare you lay hands on us!"

Seeing this, the soldiers instinctively tried to stop them, but were obstructed one after another, and could only watch helplessly as a group of people quickly breached the gate and left.

Although the city gate was guarded by soldiers, there were only about twenty of them, no match for the hundreds at the scene!

And there were also dozens of Professionals holding the rear to obstruct.

Moments later, when the Lord of Barnes Village, Robin, received the news and rushed over, there was no one left at the city gate, only wounded soldiers and some residents who had come to see what the commotion was about.

"What in the world happened?" Lord Robin looked at the chaotic scene with a grim expression.

"They’ve fled, they’ve fled!" the soldier hastily reported, "Those merchant teams who returned from Hope Village have left with their families."

"How many?" Robin’s complexion shifted.

Taking a few people meant they would never come back!

The financial income of his territory depended on these merchant teams.

"There’s more than a thousand!" the soldier said with desolation.

Robin, grinding his teeth, asked, "Where did they go?"

"Not..." he began to say he didn’t know but suddenly, as if remembering something, he corrected himself, "Hope Village, they must have gone to Hope Village."

Then Hudson, who had come with Robin, also spoke up quickly, "It must be correct that it’s this territory, yesterday Locke and the others were selling goods from Hope Village in the territory, it must be that Hope Village has promised them something."