Chapter 622: Full-Authority Agent of Territory Two

Tang Rui and Tang Zheng's arrest completely shattered the hopes of Tang Zhengrong's branch for a comeback.

Unable to bear the blow, Tang Zhengrong's mother, whose health had long been poor, died of illness in the hospital.

Among her descendants, the only one not imprisoned—Tang Lu—ran to Tang Zhengpo's house, weeping as she begged him to step forward and preside over the funeral, then seized the opportunity to bring her suitcase and brazenly squeeze herself under Tang Zhengpo's roof to take refuge.

"Tang Zhengsu's mansion was smashed up until only an empty shell remained, and Tang Zhengrong's house was also sealed. She's an ordinary person with no ability to protect herself—if she doesn't shamelessly go to Tang Zhengpo's house, where else can she go?"

Xu Juan called Xia Qing to talk about Tang Lu's current situation, thoroughly gloating: "She doesn't even dare leave the house now, because the people her father, she herself, and her brother offended over the years are simply too many—they all want to find her for revenge or compensation. Even those who have no grudge against her want to grab her and squeeze out the last drop of the Tang family's wealth."

Xu Juan sat in her newly rented little room, took a blissful sip of thick porridge made from ration grain, and continued chatting with Xia Qing: "Tell me, how much wealth does Tang Lu actually have?"

Xia Qing also sat at the table finishing her meal, though hers was green-light rice paired with delicious scrambled eggs with Chinese toon sprouts: "The Red One investigation team and the base have investigated for so long without catching Tang Lu, which shows that although she's been arrogant and domineering all these years, she never did a single illegal thing. Someone that shrewd definitely has plenty of wealth. Maybe claiming Territory Two back then was a fallback she left for herself."

Anyone who survived to the eleventh year of the apocalypse is indeed no fool.

Xu Juan took another sip of porridge and continued chatting gossip: "Too bad her methods weren't good enough to catch up with Yang Jin or Zheng Chen. Otherwise, even if Sufeng and the Tang family collapsed, she'd still live comfortably. Heh, unless the territory can really develop and the lord becomes a hot commodity, the man she finds definitely won't be as capable as the one your mother found."

After consuming the high-grade green-light python meat Xia Qing traded her, Xu Juan's hearing evolution ability rose from level four and a half to level five and a half.

The gulf between level five and level six is also the watershed between ordinary evolvers and high-level evolvers, and it's not so easy to cross. Take hearing ability for example—a level-five evolver has hearing five times that of an ordinary person, but a level-six evolver has hearing eight times that of an ordinary person.

So, after consuming dozens of jin of green-light python meat over more than half a month, raising her hearing ability to level five and a half had already made Xu Juan ecstatic.

It was precisely by relying on her enhanced hearing evolution ability to monitor Chen Dongyang and Yang Shanshan that she managed to successfully avoid the pits they dug and smoothly extract herself from the quagmire of the Dongyang Squad.

Now she was seizing the opportunity of the base management's major reshuffle to secure a formal position with good benefits in the inner city of the safe zone. Once the job was settled, she would rely on her formal job and level-five evolution ability to find a suitable level-six evolver to marry, pool money with him to exchange for inner-city residency rights at a twenty-percent price, move into the inner city, and live a normal life.

Thinking of this, Xu Juan couldn't help but laugh happily again: "Xia Qing, when Zhong Tao's patrol car passes by next time, can you have him bring me some of the green-light vegetables grown in your territory? Any variety is fine, as long as it's green-light, any amount will do."

Xia Qing agreed very crisply, then asked, "Tang Lu has been staying at Tang Zhengpo's house these past few days?"

"Should be. Tang Zhengpo's house is in the residential area with the highest security defense in the inner city, so it's hard to find out specific news." After finishing talking about Tang Lu, Xu Juan eagerly brought up another person: "Oh right, you don't know yet, do you? Feng Wen, who ran off with Tang Rui back then, has also been caught and brought back by Yang Jin—no idea how long before she can be released."

Xia Qing didn't care about Feng Wen's situation; what she was concerned about was whether Tang Lu would be unable to bear living under someone else's roof and, in a fit of anger, come running to Territory Two.

Xu Juan wasn't clear on this matter, but Xia Qing knew who would definitely be very clear about it: Tang Huai.

"Xia Qing, Xia Qing—"

The next morning, as Xia Qing jogged while inspecting her territory, she heard Tang Huai's joyful shouts coming from Territory Two.

Tang Huai was very happy to hear Xia Qing running, but the sick wolf and Sheep Boss running laps with Xia Qing were not pleased—some bared their fangs, some shook their heads.

Xia Qing told the two of them to keep running, while she herself walked through the wild-grass wall and came to the south gate.

Tang Huai, wearing protective gear, ran from under the Territory Two road sign to outside the south gate of Territory Three, peered over Xia Qing's shoulder a few times, didn't see Sheep Boss and Wolf Lao Er, and greeted Xia Qing with slight disappointment: "Xia Qing, long time no see!"

She and Tang Huai indeed hadn't seen each other for several days. Xia Qing nodded calmly: "Something going on?"

"Yes!" Tang Huai smiled so hard her eyes narrowed into slits, and announced great news to Xia Qing: "Tang Lu has sublet Territory Two to my family. From now on, I'm the full-authority agent of Territory Two, and we can be neighbors again."

Hmm? Xia Qing asked, "Full-authority agent?"

"That's right! Tang Lu won't manage anything about the territory—how to manage the territory is entirely up to me."

Leaving over a thousand mu of wasteland in her own family's territory uncultivated, only to come serve as an agent for someone else's territory, and still being able to be this happy about it—probably only Tang Huai could manage that.

Xia Qing offered congratulations and began probing for information: "I thought Sufeng's people would continue to occupy Territory Two."

Never expecting that the usually cold and bad-tempered Xia Qing would actually be interested in this matter, Tang Huai immediately shared the latest news with her: "Of course they want to! You know Kou Changzhi, right?"

Xia Qing nodded.

Kou Changzhi's father was Kou Fanming—one of Sufeng's core combatants who was struck by lightning inside Territory Two, leaving him paralyzed. Like his father, Kou Changzhi was also an evolver who wore a suit of sharp steel armor and fought with extremely bloody methods.

"He came to my house to court Tang Lu, trying to woo her." Tang Huai lowered her voice: "Tang Lu went out with him once, and when she came back she earnestly asked my dad to take over Territory Two—the condition being that he protect her safety."

Kou Changzhi was ugly as sin, and was only a level-three elasticity evolver—Tang Lu, who had always set her sights on Yang Jin and Zheng Chen, naturally wouldn't look twice at him.

Xia Qing guessed that Kou Changzhi's pursuit of Tang Lu wasn't pure in its motives either, which was why Tang Lu got scared enough to offer up her most valuable asset right now—her territory—and seek Tang Zhengpo's protection.

Xia Qing continued to ask, "Tang Lu is living at your house?"

Tang Huai snorted: "How could that be possible? Letting her stay at my house wouldn't just be giving my grandma, my mom, and my sister a hard time? You don't know how many disgusting things she's done to my family over the years... Oh right, have you heard? A lot of people are fighting to claim Territory Eleven, and the Territory Management Department doesn't want to offend anyone, so they've decided to use a public lottery to decide the new owner of this territory. No matter who ends up claiming this land in the end, it's still better than dividing the territory into dozens of plots and bringing in a huge batch of people..."

After listening to Tang Huai finish her rambling, Xia Qing immediately sent a message to Lord Huo Lei, telling him to move things along quickly. The lottery method just gave "little devils" like Zhou Qianpeng an opportunity to operate behind the scenes—Territory Eleven might really end up in the Huo family's hands.