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Chapter 42

Author: Hugh White
The next morning, Hayley started clearing the area in front of her shelter's wire fence.

This time, she tried something different. She wiped out every zombie from the fence all the way to the road, then planted a sign that read, "Private Property. Beware of Dogs!"

That sign became her boundary marker.

At this point in the apocalypse, barely anyone was still alive, let alone alive enough to argue with her over land ownership.

She staked the claim, and that was that. Who was gonna complain?

Ding! [Territory expanded by five acres! Reward: 500 points!]

Hayley grinned the moment she heard the system chime. She had been right.

She could claim these empty areas, even places that technically used to belong to someone, as long as she and her dogs had cleared and scouted the land themselves.

That morning, she and the pack had marched from her base to where she planted the sign. That stretch covered about five acres.

As long as she walked the area with her dogs, the map in her mind li
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