I Become a Landlady in the Game World

The following day, which was the 80th day since the Doomsday Game began.

Early in the morning, Zhou Bai had people send messages to Ningshan Village as well as Glasgow Village.

Barnes Village had lost over three thousand people, among them nearly two thousand were soldiers and Professionals; for Barnes Village, this was absolutely a crippling blow.

This made dealing with Barnes Village seem much easier now.

For those three thousand plus people, to Barnes Village, they might just represent a starting point, the beginning of a decline.

She believed that among those like Zhong Yongnian, there must be some who had left behind schemes within Barnes Village.

Because everyone knows the principle of kicking someone when they're down.

Then, Zhou Bai's thoughts returned, and she opened the control panel to check the current construction status of the territory.

Indeed, she had to start preparing for the arrival of the three thousand plus people from Barnes Village.

Most of this group of over three thousand people should have the ability to settle in Hope Village; naturally, to keep them here, she needed to provide them with suitable living accommodations.

After opening the map, the distribution of the territory's buildings was clear at a glance.

The population numbers residing in the dwelling buildings were not visible, but one could see whether the dwellings were occupied; both purchased and rented dwellings were considered occupied.

The population had been growing rapidly during this period, and she had added several residential blocks in succession.

At present, there were 16 blocks in total, 200 buildings each, making up 3200 buildings in all. Most of them were Level 3 Residences, hence most people had opted for renting, which barely met the housing requirements of the territory's residents.

So, at a glance, not a single house was unoccupied.

Therefore, to accommodate more residents, construction had to continue.

3000 people.

Following the standard of 10 people per household, 300 buildings would be needed.

Following the standard of 5 people per household, 600 buildings would be needed.

Following the standard of 2 people per household, 1500 buildings would be needed.

After considering her options, she decided to first construct 1000 buildings, 5 residential blocks!

That should basically meet the territory's current needs; she could always build more if it wasn't enough.

She thought that after experiencing a mass defection and giving up all assets in Barnes Village, the former residents of Barnes Village might not necessarily purchase property in Hope Village upon arrival, so renting would become a better choice.

Of course, it would be different once Hope Village was promoted to a town.

By then, she would be able to release more dwellings, because not only would the territory have expanded, but the demand would have increased as well, and she might be able to recoup her investment more quickly.

After calculating, Zhou Bai had made her decision.

Immediately, she began choosing construction.

[Would you like to spend 10,000 Gold Coins to build 1000 Level 3 Residences?]

"Yes."

[Funds deducted, construction complete, please place...]

Zhou Bai directly expanded the residents' area map and placed the dwellings in vacant spots in order.

Once that was done, she issued the task of building residential block walls to the City Construction Management Office of the territory.

Zhou Bai was now accustomed to adding new constructions to the territory on top of the system.

Creating more job positions while also building a better territory, why not?

After all this, Zhou Bai continued to deal with the affairs at hand.

Once that was done, she needed to go to the wilderness to check on the reduction in Demon Beasts as mentioned by Tang Xiuwen.

**

And just as Zhou Bai's construction was completed, it was immediately discovered by someone.

"Heavens! Several new blocks have been built!"

"I just counted, five blocks, that's 1000 houses."

"Why build so many houses all of a sudden?"

"Is the territory going to have more people?"

"1000 houses, that must mean several thousand people at least! This is a characteristic of the new residences in Hope Village."

"Several thousand people, it's not very likely; five thousand is the basic requirement for a Third-level Village, three thousand is already more than half the population of a Third-level Village, it's not very probable that they would all arrive at once, the recent population of Hope Village has been slowly migrating here."

"I bet a large number of people are definitely coming to the territory; based on my understanding of Hope Village."

"That's really possible! Last night, suddenly, over three hundred people came, all dressed in rags and hardly any money on them, most of them ate the cheapest food for one copper coin and even slept outside the city gates."

"Could it be that a nearby territory was taken over in the Territory War, didn't a lot of residents come over after Abo Duowei Village was captured?"

"That's quite likely."

"That would be good for our territory!"

"Indeed, we now have over seventeen thousand people in our territory; if a few thousand more were to come, we'd surpass twenty thousand! Do you guys know what that means? It means that our Hope Village could be promoted to a town!"