Acres of Territory

With the well, their quality of life improved to a new level.

Shen Yi worked tirelessly and enthusiastically, filling wooden buckets with well water and carefully irrigating the vegetable garden.

Guan Yue and the others weren't idle either; they all joined in to help water the plants.

Looking at the four vegetable plots after they were watered, Shen Yi was filled with anticipation.

Next, it's time to wait and see how the well water "grows"!

If the mutated red eggplant fruit can ripen faster, their wish to achieve freedom of first-tier spirit fruit will soon be fulfilled.

After finishing the tasks of watering the well and irrigating the vegetable garden today, it was already close to dusk.

Shen Yi then gave up on the idea of ​​hunting monsters in Black Mountain.

"We can expand our territory further."

Now that Wang Tieming is gone, the four of them are probably the strongest in the village.

There's no need to be as timid and hesitant as before.

Moreover, accelerating the development of their territory provides greater security for them.

Before nightfall, Shen Yi ordered Shen Kun and the others to go around and measure the area west of the village, trying to expand the territory as much as possible.

Upon receiving the order, Shen Kun and his two companions immediately set off to carry out the task.

When the villagers saw three figures walking towards them from the west side of the village, they were so frightened that they retreated.

However, it was soon discovered that they were just lingering outside the center of the village, which made everyone suspicious.

What are Shen Yi and his sister planning to do now?

South of the village.

Liu Yu hurried over and found Liao Ning, who was discussing distribution matters with the villagers.

"Ah Ning, someone just spotted Shen Yi and his sister measuring land in the center of the village. I wonder what they're up to this time."

Upon hearing this, Liao Ning pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said, "What they do is none of our business; we don't need to concern ourselves with it."

"Our most important task now is to find a better direction for development and lead everyone to a better life as soon as possible."

She was already the leader of the camp and focused all her attention on its development.

Shen Yi has agreed to peaceful coexistence.

Therefore, there is no need to care about what others want to do.

……

At dusk.

Shen Yi received the information brought back by the three men.

It takes about 300 meters from their house to walk into the village before you can see a few scattered villagers' courtyards, and it takes about 500 meters to reach the center of the village.

I did some calculations.

He could easily fence off a safe area of ​​at least 600 acres on the west side of the village.

"The wall that is built will probably be more than two thousand meters long."

Moreover, it's only a level 1 Yin Wood Wall. Upgrading it would require an amount of Yin Soul Wood that he absolutely cannot afford.

Shen Yi was helpless.

Given his current circumstances, he can only expand the scope a little further for now.

After all, the Yin Soul Wood needs to be used to upgrade the main creations, and it's impossible to consume it all on building walls.

Subsequently, Shen Yi decided to temporarily expand his territory to ten acres, using his family's courtyard as the core, as his outer perimeter.

It's a place that won't disturb other villagers.

As dusk fell, the villagers returned home early, and Shen Yi immediately began building the outer wall of the newly expanded ten acres of land.

After a flurry of activity, 467 units of Yin Soul Wood were used to build a three-meter-high outer wall, enclosing the ten acres of land inside.

The outer wall is only temporarily used to enclose the land and protect against monsters; a height of three meters is sufficient.

It will be demolished and expanded sooner or later anyway, so there's no need to waste too much Yin Soul Wood.

Looking at the little over a thousand pieces of Yin Soul Wood left, Shen Yi pondered for a moment and then crafted four more wooden puppet soldiers.

The remaining Yin Soul Wood will be used to cultivate and upgrade the polluted wasteland for large-scale crop cultivation!

As long as even one more crop can mutate, it will be a good thing for Shen Yi!

When Shen Kun and his group learned that their territory had expanded to include ten acres, they were all extremely excited.

"Big brother, this place is so big, how should we arrange things?" Shen Yuan asked softly.

"I've made up my mind. I'll set aside eight acres for planting crops, and leave one acre for later."

Their yard now covers more than an acre.

Shen Yi assigned the vast majority of the remaining people to farming.

Watching Shen Yi methodically plan all of this, Guan Yue's eyes were full of smiles, and she felt that the future was full of hope.

It was dark.

Seeing that it was getting late, Shen Yi had the three of them place the ten wooden puppet soldiers outside the outer wall.

Now that there's an outer wall blocking the way, most of the spirits and monsters can't get in, so this is the only arrangement we can make.

After that, they no longer fought inside the courtyard, but outside the outer wall.

But now that they have wooden puppet soldiers, they no longer need to fight in person.

Just wait patiently overnight, and you will reap the rewards.

......

The next morning.

Not long after the villagers got up and went out, someone discovered that a new stone wall had been built around the west side of the village.

"What's going on here?"

Soon, the news spread like wildfire.

The whole village of Heishan knew about it.

Liao Ning had finalized all the arrangements for the camp yesterday, and this morning he led everyone to prepare to go into Black Mountain to hunt monsters.

Liu Yu then came over and told her about it:

"Ah Ning, these people say that Shen Yi and his sister have taken over ten acres of land on the west side of the village."

"Let them take it. The west side of the village isn't suitable for habitation. What difference does it make if they take it all?"

Liao Ning grew up in the west of the village and knew that the environment there was not good and that the quality of life was not as good as that in the east and south of the village.

The land there is completely uncultivable, and it is also far from public wells, which is very inconvenient.

"Why did they suddenly fence off such a large area? Is there some kind of conspiracy?"

On the contrary, Liu Yu looked worried.

Liao Ning remained calm: "What kind of conspiracy could there be? Don't overthink it."

"That's not necessarily true. Uncle Liao and Uncle Sun Wen both said that Shen Yi and his sister are definitely eyeing our camp and are just thinking about when to make their move."

"Don't get too close to them."

Liao Ning frowned.

Recalling his father and Sun Wen's behavior over the past two days, it was clear that they harbored great malice towards Shen Yi.

"How could I not get closer? Uncle Liao has been very good to me," Liu Yu said with a smile.

If he and Liao Ning get together, she'll be his father-in-law.

"Let's go, into the mountains!"

Liao Ning waved his hand, not wanting to waste any more time, and led his men straight to Black Mountain.

……

"Big brother! The wooden puppet soldiers killed a total of 1,636 lantern ghosts last night!!"

Early in the morning, Shen Yi and his three companions went outside the new wall to check on the harvest.

Shen Kun could not hide his excitement.

After counting the numbers, he could hardly believe it.

Huge gains!

I reckon the wooden golems almost wiped out this batch of lantern ghosts last night.

After the outer wall was built, they rested in the house at night and could no longer hear much of the noise from the spirits.

They were completely unaware that the battle outside the outer wall would be so intense.

After dismantling 1636 pieces of Yin Soul Wood, Shen Yi devoured them all.

Seeing that the total number of Yin Soul Wood in the collection column had reached 2309 units, he smiled with satisfaction.

This batch of Yin Soul Wood should be enough to upgrade the eight acres of vegetable garden.

"Get to work!"