Old Zhang was a little dumbfounded.
He had imagined that Su Mo would assign him an extremely dangerous task, the kind where he might lose his life at any moment.
He had even decided that after Su Mo finished speaking, he would agree without a second thought to show his loyalty.
However, when he heard that Su Mo planned to establish a territory on the mountain and make him its lord,
Old Zhang still couldn't control himself. He froze, losing the ability to think.
The coming disaster would target every territory, but it hadn't been made clear whether it would affect unaffiliated survivors.
But if they established a territory now, they would definitely have to face the disaster head-on.
After a long while,
he finally came to his senses and asked blankly, "Establish a territory here. Will the Golden Giant Eagle agree?"
Su Mo answered with a smile, "That question probably requires asking the Niu Brothers."
"Them?"
Old Zhang didn't quite understand. After a while, he blurted out, "Could it be that these people aren't leaving because they plan to establish a new territory here?"
"Otherwise? You don't really think that a group of healthy, capable, and somewhat courageous adult men would stay in this village doing nothing just because they're afraid of hardship, do you?"
Before Su Mo could speak, Luo You curled his lips at the side and revealed what he had observed the previous night.
After the group had left, he and Luo Jiao had nothing to do, so they had simply wandered around the village several times during the latter half of the night.
They wouldn't have known if they hadn't looked, but what they saw had startled them.
There were simply too many adult men staying in Stone Village—so many that it seemed abnormal.
Moreover,