Chapter 381: How to own five buildings

Bai Liu opens his eyes.

In front of me is a forest of steel and concrete skyscrapers, the top of the building is so high in the sky that people can't even see it when they lift their heads up, and there is no building shorter than 30 floors as far as the eye can see.

Between the buildings is a highway about three or four meters wide or a one or two meter sidewalk with low streetlights on both sides, and Bai Liu is facing an entryway with seven large letters arranged in red neon tubes: [Welcome to Sunshine City].

Underneath is a line that reads: "Chasing sunshine, chasing happiness, the future is here for you!

Inside the entrance, the streets are bustling with people, dressed in black, white, blue and grey work uniforms, the citizens quickly and numbly walk with their heads lowered in the small steps in this city called Sunshine Metropolis, no one looks up to see the sun above their heads which is almost hidden by the skyscrapers, and no one looks at Bai Liu standing at the entrance of the city.

Bai Liu checks the pocket of his suit pants and pulls out a citizen ID card.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu has been detected to have obtained an important authentication item, Citizen ID Card]

Citizen ID card, the player's daily income, expenditure, storage, mortgage deduction through this card, one person a number of one, can not be more than for, can not be replaced, can not be transferred, can not be arbitrarily destroyed, death on the spot canceled, and the citizen's life, property, authentication, travel lifelong binding.

[Card balance: $2,700]

Bai Liu looked around to make sure he was alone in the neighborhood.

It looks like the others should have been dropped off at another entrance, Bai Liu stepped into the passageway holding his ID card, a toll collector poked his head out with a tired face and a bucket of uneaten instant noodles on his desk, "Going to enter the city are we?"

"Entry fee 1200," this toll collector reached out and shook his hand, "ID card bring it."

Bai Liu paused for a moment and handed over the ID card, the toll collector took it and swiped it on the computer, gave a hmmm, and turned around suspiciously, "You're not a resident of our city?"

"No." Bai Liu smiles politely, "I'm new here today."

For some reason, the toll collector's gaze became hostile as he looked Bai Liu up and down and shoved the ID card back forcefully, "Foreigners are not welcome here."

"But outlanders do get to come in, right?" Bai Liu didn't answer, pointing to the entry requirements on the toll collector's computer desktop, "I see that outlanders are allowed to register as citizens here."

Bai Liu's eyes moved to the complaint number on the license of the toll collector: "If you don't follow the rules, then I will immediately file a complaint against you, and your job may be affected, so you won't let me enter the city?"

This fee collector's face stiffened, unwillingly withdrew the ID card, the tone was still hard: "...... Registered Citizen Fee 1,400, a total of two thousand six, you still have one hundred left."

"Entering the city need to know, you do not have a house in Sunshine City, not a full citizen just a temporary resident, living in Sunshine City have to pay the land use fee, 10 yuan per hour, directly go to your card deduction, if the card is finished, can not deduction of the land use fee, after an hour will be your ID card marked red, within fifteen minutes there will be a patrol will be evicted out of you. "

Bai Liu raises an eyebrow, "Land use fees? What's this?"

The toll collector couldn't help but roll his eyes at Bai Liu's ignorance, "Of course it's for your use of the land."

"Every inch of land within Sunnyside is owned by five major real estate developers, and you're paying to use their land every second you stand on it."

Saying that, this toll collector revealed a wistful look, "Of course if you have your own house within Sunshine City, it's your own place, you don't have to pay the land use fee when you're in your own house."

"One hundred dollars, if you can't find a job you can still stay in Sunshine City for ten hours at most." This toll collector swiped Bai Liu's ID card from next to the computer and handed the ID card to Bai Liu along with a copy of the [Notice of Entry into the City] notification form, looking contemptuous, "Here, take it and go in."

Bai Liu took the card and saw that there was an extra line of embossed words in the lower right corner - [Sunshine City Temporary Resident Card].

[System prompt: Congratulations to player Bai Liu for formally entering Sunshine City and opening the main quest - first go to the job market today and look for a job to your liking!

Bai Liu took his ID card and went in, he could still hear the toll collector behind him complaining in a low voice:

"Another out-of-towner has entered the city and is coming to grab a house with us again, it looks like the prices of the properties opening this week are still going to go up, and the competition for jobs has gotten bigger, it's so annoying ......"

Bai Liu walked into the gray-toned Sunshine City, but none of the pedestrians on the side of the road gave a single glance to this new citizen of Sunshine City, walking quickly on the street, making phone calls or dealing with various things, Bai Liu noticed that there were also the same outsiders who had just entered the city trying to ask for directions, but they were all dismissed by these people with impatience and indifference.

After all, standing outside on the ground costs ten dollars an hour, and no one wants to waste time they are spending to help strangers.

Bai Liu held the 【Information for Entering the City】 and walked slowly along the street, reading it while surveying the surrounding scene with his afterglow, out of place with the busy crowd around him.

[Instructions for entering the city] states that there are three types of residents in the city, one is the type of resident who has successfully purchased a home, which is known as a first class citizen, also known as a [homeowner].

Residents of the [homeowner] category will be able to enjoy different stages of discounts or concessions on public services such as health care, education, social shopping, etc., depending on the location, price and type of zoning of their homes, and the cost of land use will be reduced from $10 per hour to $5 per hour.

The second type of resident is the type of resident who has made a down payment and is repaying the type of loan, and this type of resident, because he or she has acquired a suite of rooms, gets rid of the title of temporary resident and is promoted to a second-class citizen, which is also known as a [house slave].

Because they haven't fully acquired a house yet, [the householder] doesn't have as big a welfare policy as [the homeowner] in every way, and the land-use fee has only been reduced from $10 to $8. But [the householder] has one considerable advantage and that's employment.

Sunnyside's main business is real estate, and ninety percent of the city's residents derive their economic income from the five major real estate developers, and all of the houses in the city are owned by the companies of the five major real estate developers.

In other words, if you want to buy a house, you can only buy it from one of the five realtor companies, and if you have a certificate of occupancy for a house owned by one of the five major real estate companies, when it comes to employment, the five major companies will give you priority.

The last type of resident is Bai Liu, a temporary resident.

The whole [into the city instructions] is like a real estate promotional advertisement, which is all about the benefits of buying a house, the happy life of a family with a house, the price of the house and so on without mentioning a word.

Bai Liu flipped over and looked at the back of the [Instructions for Entering the City].

On the back of the [Notice of Entry] are warnings:

Sunshine City prohibited matters: prohibit any individual, collective, the name of the company to rent, prohibit the individual sale and purchase transactions housing, prohibit the occupation of a fixed location for a long time of public land (such as sleeping in the street), violators of the minimum fine of 100,000 yuan, depending on the specific circumstances of the formulation of the fine, the upper limit is not.

Bai Liu raised the end of his eyebrows when he saw this.

By prohibiting individuals from buying and selling houses privately, this rule basically cuts off ordinary citizens from buying houses from sources other than the top five real estate developers, and it also cuts off the avenues for small real estate developers to make a go of it.

This means that if the general public wants to buy a flat, they can only do so from the five major developers.

And banning all forms of renting cuts off the way out for those who don't buy.

People who have no way to buy a house and no way to rent have to find a place to make do, but the third rule also cuts off such people - the prohibition on occupying fixed-location public land for extended periods of time is the equivalent of forbidding you to stay in a non-housing area.

Simply put, there's only one way to survive within Sunnyside - and that's to buy a home from one of the top five developers.

Seeing this Bai Liu has basically made it clear that this is a city completely ruled, or monopolized, by open merchants for survival.

Strangely enough, it would be logical that the population of such a city, which is extremely squeezed for human existence and has very low expectations, would be very small, and the fertility and marriage rates would be so low that people would have no desire to reproduce their offspring without being able to secure their own survival.

But on the contrary, the city has a permanent resident population of ten million, with fertility rates rising year after year, and a very high number of expatriates immigrating here.

And as soon as a resident enters Sunnyside, few ever leave again.

Bai Liu, look at the slogan on the "Information for Entry into the City", "A happy city with a marriage rate of over 50 percent for three years in a row!

It was completely against the objective laws; there must be something else about the city that he was currently unaware of that was affecting the operation.

[System Note: You have been loitering in the public area of Sunshine City for one hour, deducting the cost of using the land by 10 yuan.]

Bai Liu swept a glance at the prompt on the system panel, put it down and then looked towards the crowded, bazaar-like place in front of him that was about to overflow, and then glanced at the doorway display sign - [Talent Market].

As soon as you walk in, there is a whole row of scanning printers on both sides of the doorway, with [Facial Scanning Resume Automatically Generating Apparatus] written on it, and [Swipe Card to Print, Ten Dollars at a Time] written next to it.

There was a line in front of the machine, everyone holding a resume anxiously weaving back and forth through the crowd, some people squatting in the corner of the hall with their heads hanging down and drinking mineral water, others staring blankly at the phone waiting for a reply, and the restrooms lined up outside, with hissing cries coming from inside from time to time:

"I didn't pass, they didn't want me, what should I do, I can't get a job!"

"Dropped to over 3,000, passed the written test, failed the interview, was all set to take me, but they ended up taking one with a real estate license in the family ......"

The scene is familiar enough to give Bai Liu, who has experienced the job market, a subtle ...... sense of discomfort.