Chapter 217 A day in the life of a real estate developer in the Metaverse
Alpha plane.
Zhang Miao stared at his construction site as soon as he went online. The red bricks he just pulled from the player's brick kiln yesterday broke into pieces after being placed there overnight. He chatted privately with Brother Ruoran angrily about this matter.
Said.
"Don't worry, NPC said that bricks need to be made of soil containing special ingredients and then fired at high temperatures to adapt to the special environment there. I'm watching the brick kiln right now, and I'll be able to restock it right away!"
"Are we going to spend money again?"
"No, we signed the contract and we won't pay you a penny if the product is not up to standard. This time I switched to a professional company. They are engaged in building materials offline. They have developed a very special formula and have already sold it elsewhere.
I’ve tried it and it works pretty well!”
"I don't understand. What's wrong with using wood? Do you really expect to get your money back?"
"This is not necessarily true. Anyway, so much has been invested, so we can get it right at once. Didn't the city lord say that the dangerous environment is not static? With the expansion of players' footprints, the current wild land may become... in the future...
"
"Do you believe the pie painted by the NPC?"
"So what if you don't believe it? We have invested most of our wealth, how can we withdraw?"
"Wipe it! What's the matter with this!"
After the call ended, Zhang Miao wandered around the No. 404 construction site again. Looking at the piles of building materials randomly discarded on the ground, she felt extremely distressed.
This is all money, money, real money!
Some NPC workers were laying foundations in the dug pits, and some newbies hired by the NPCs saw him, an old player and boss, there, and some were eager to come over and get close. What can they do in a 5 square meter place, so this area
The construction site is actually a dozen landmarks connected together. Seven or eight unlucky guys who took photos of the landmarks gathered together to keep warm, and jointly formed a so-called Yuanshi Real Estate Development Company. This was their first business.
It seems that this is the last one. A few days ago, two of the partners couldn't bear the bottomless pit of investment. They told the system that they had given up on the bid, and while throwing the bidding funds into the water in vain, they also gave
The remaining people had a huge problem.
The land they gave up was located right in the middle of more than a dozen land parcels. There was no way around it, so only the remaining people bought it.
Damn it, this little Yuanshi Real Estate Development Company almost went bankrupt. Several partners, you blame me, I blame you, you push me, I push you, but they just won’t pay more to give away these land parcels.
Come back to the auction.
Nowadays, no one is trying to grab it, and you can get it at the base price of 20,000 merit points, but is this the same thing as before?
There are very few meritorious deeds still in circulation. Even if there are, the price... well, let’s not talk about it.
But what can we do? After so much money has been invested, can the system take it back for free?
The few brothers and sisters in distress were almost crying and hugging each other. There was really no other way, so they gathered together a little bit and captured those few landmarks.
What Zhang Miao is most worried about now is not the construction period, but that if someone cannot withstand the pressure and accepts compensation and leaves the project, then there will be no chance at all.
Others are making noises because of the various unsatisfactory results of this test, such as dog walking, explosion rate, congestion, punk city is a system specially designed to hack players, and the extraction of tourist identities. They are the only ones making a fuss.
Unlucky guy, for this construction site, I have devoted all my time and energy online and offline day and night.
It is 20 meters long and 12 meters wide. The place is not big, at least it is much smaller than the unlucky family that has given up on the land. The land is just opposite, separated by a dirt road into the canyon, and has become an unfinished construction site.
, a few days ago I saw someone coming over and pointing out where it was, as if some organization was preparing to take over. However, when they came over to inspect the project, nothing was said about it, which made Zhang Miao feel quite chilled.
Private lands and family lands in other places are definitely not like this. They are prosperous. Even if the location is a little remote, they are still lively and joyful. You can see players like this and that kind standing on their own construction sites every day and pointing.
point, full of excitement and longing.
Some well-located areas and some well-funded organizations brought in rockeries, strange trees, and strange rocks, and planned flowing water, orchards, and well-connected roads without the intervention of the system. A feverish wave of construction began around Alpha City.
It is a city gate, corresponding to four markets, four commercial streets, and four CBDs. There are also real-life successful experiences that have been moved online, apartments have been built, and advertising has moved from offline to online. That is called
An overwhelming room that is as big as a pigeon cage is priced at a sky-high price, and the supply exceeds demand. I heard that many players who have been "definitely" qualified as tourists have already made a home for themselves in the Yuan Universe in advance.
Damn it, I am a first-time beta player who has invested all his wealth and is struggling on the edge of bankruptcy. You, a tourist who has not even logged into the game, can have your own three-bedroom apartment?
What the hell is this!
The more he thought about this, the more unbalanced Zhang Miao felt. He really made a mistake and regretted it for eternity. If he hadn't taken this piece of land, how cool would his family be? If you say you want to play games, you will play games, and if you move bricks, you will move bricks. What trend are you following?
, what kind of Yuanverse real estate is being done, now it’s over, the trap is stuck in this dead land, and there is no hope of unwinding it.
After waiting for more than half an hour, Brother Ruoran came back with a convoy.
More than a dozen horse-drawn carriages were loaded with a kind of green-green bricks with a metallic luster. Brother Ruoran was covered in dust and looked like a contractor, and he was shouting at the hired Sicha Mengxin to move all the bricks down.
"What price!?"
Zhang Miao picked up a brick and asked.
"Two coppers and one piece"
Zhang Miao was shocked, "So cheap?"
"It's not the same as before. Prices are falling. Only the price of copper coins is rising. You say it's cheap, but I still think it's expensive."
"How much is this?"
"50 silver"
"ah!?"
"As for the advance payment, let's pay it later gradually. Now who can come up with a lot of money at once?"
"Yes, another debt!"
"Haha, don't worry if you have too much debt. It's all the uncles who are in debt. Now when I go wherever I go, I'm greeted with smiling faces. Who wasted on us before?"
Brother Ruoran is much more optimistic. Unlike Niu Er and Xie Changting, they no longer come to the construction site. They say that their hearts can’t stand it every time they come. Now the joint account of the five-person team has long been empty. Zhang Miao, Brother Ruoran and Hu
Xinmin invested more than one million yuan in it. Niu Er and Hsieh Changting neither said they would give it nor said they would not give it. Anyway, they are still holding off until now.
Seeing that if things continue like this, the morale of the team will dissipate, and the day of disbandment is approaching.
well!
It would be better if I didn't jump into this fire pit.
"Stop sighing. There is no end to the road. Haven't you noticed that the surrounding environment has improved a lot?"
After being reminded by him, Zhang Miao discovered that the surrounding dense fog had indeed dispersed a lot, and the visibility had increased to about fifty meters. The canyon in front was faintly green, and the previously inaccessible areas also exposed barren rocks and soil...
…
"I feel...this place seems to have gotten a lot bigger?"
"Haha, I just heard the news that this Alpha battlefield is actually a demiplane. Demiplanes can grow. In the newly grown territory, there may be some amazing mineral deposits, or water sources, or something special.
The situation... In short, we haven't reached a desperate situation yet. If we keep persisting, we may be able to turn around one day."
"I hope so...did you listen to that NPC again?"
"Don't worry about it, work, work...fuck, there are even lazy NPCs. What time has it been to do so much?"
It seems that Brother Ruoran has devoted all his energy to this mess.
well!
How long has it been since there was no mission to spawn monsters? When the server was launched, it was level 18, and it is still...
I don’t know what my cousin is busy with. He didn’t come to the construction site today. Could it be that he can’t hold on anymore?
After chatting privately with my cousin, Hu Xinmin took a while to reply: "...The jackal camp has been discovered for a long time and has been hidden secretly. This time it can't be hidden... The refresh time of the boss is relatively fixed. Come on.
If you don’t come, a lot of people are waiting here to be refreshed.”
"A regional lord-level BOSS?"
"Well, something is bound to explode. Someone released a purple weapon a few days ago, and the offline community went crazy. You didn't even know?"
"Fuck, you know what the heck, I'm busy with all the work at the construction site every day, how can I have time?"
"If you ask me, just admit your losses and leave the game. If Brother Ran is crazy, well, I can't say."
"You're not going to... give up, are you? No, most of my net worth is invested in it."
"...Just wait...will you come?"
"Have a place."
"Wait a minute. I'm a group I don't know. I'll ask the group leader."
After the BOSS was cleared, Zhang Miao no longer stayed in this miserable place. He told Brother Ruoran and walked to Alpha City.
The nearest teleportation array is more than ten kilometers away, and the mount mission has not been completed, so I can only rely on two legs.
After walking for seven or eight minutes, I walked out of this barren land. The environment became much more normal. In the sparse jungle, some newbies from the fourth test and level 11 and level 1 life players could be seen wandering around. Check it out here
Look, poke and poke there, stopping from time to time to use the appraisal technique on something.
There are also monsters in the Alpha plane, but they are all hidden. There are also some very rare products, such as some kind of magic plants, some kind of mineral deposits, some kind of bird eggs, and some of them can be made into food.
, living materials such as drinks, purchased from aboriginal shops in Punk City.
The most valuable place is the place where the Devil Farm came to raise various monsters and magic plants. The teleportation array is located in a valley that was originally used to cultivate [Screaming Vine]. I saw groups of carriages coming and going.
, pulling all kinds of building materials, on the private property on both sides of the valley, a very earth-style building rose from the ground. Below is a very exotic-style commercial street, which is beginning to take shape.
How long has it been?
Compared with the bustling and lively place here, and looking at the quiet place in his house, Zhang Miao felt really tired.
As I was walking forward, I suddenly heard a loud crash. I looked up and saw that the five-story brick building had collapsed.
The scene was filled with dust and hit people, which was troublesome.
It's easy to hit the player, but at worst you'll lose a little experience, and you're afraid of hitting the NPPC. It's okay if you hit the player to death, but if you don't, you'll have a lot of trouble later on.
"It collapsed again, it collapsed again!" A player clapped his hands and laughed happily. Zhang Miao went up and asked, and heard from him that this was already the fourth time.
"The NPCs have told me not to build too high, not too high, but they don't listen, hahaha, now some of them are suffering."
There is a difference between a magical environment and a non-magic environment. The most intuitive reflection is in the buildings. There is a reason for the earthen fences like Buck City and Punk City. In this world, except for temples, there are no too tall and towering buildings.
, even if there is, magic is involved.
Bei Gaoyang's mage tower had to pay attention to this and that at the beginning of its construction, let alone them.
Zhang Miao also became worried. If Brother Ran insists on overturning the original design plan and starting over, the new plan will also be built with bricks and tiles higher. Otherwise, the cost cannot be recovered. The site is so big, and the only way to find space is to look upwards.
If this collapses, they can try a few more times, but they will go bankrupt. They quickly talk to Brother Ruoran in private about this matter.
"Haha, don't worry. I've thought of it a long time ago. The bricks I brought back this time are all specially made with a secret recipe. I signed a contract and everything will be fine. Don't worry."
"How many floors are you going to build?"
"At least the fifth floor, right?"
"Damn it, just those bricks? In reality, building such a high building requires steel and concrete, right?"
"Well……"
"Listen to me. Build the third floor first. We'll see what happens later. Even my old cousin has the idea of quitting. Don't worry about it until you end up alone. It's a huge trap for you to fight alone. You can resist.
Do you want to stay?"
"Why should I carry it alone..."
"If you continue to be obsessed like this, I will quit, and the money I invested in you will be thrown into the water."
"Don't, don't, you, Xiaoer, you can't do this!"
"Third floor!"
"The third floor is too small. There are other people sharing it...Okay, okay, okay, I will change it, I will change it."
"Only three floors. If you add one more floor, we will break up!"
"...Okay, I'll listen to you."
After all the talk, Ruoran, who had finally gotten into trouble, turned around. Zhang Miao was so tired that she didn't want to see or say anything. While queuing up for teleportation, she saw several bloody bodies dug out from the collapse site.
The player's body will be recycled by the system as soon as the time is up, which is naturally an NPC.
Cries rang out, and a group of NPCs rushed in, indicating that something happened to the most troublesome NPCs in Punk City. The players were not too worried about the trouble. Only the person in charge of the construction site, an agent of a certain organization, and the players were crying, and were beaten by a group of various people.
NPCs are surrounding, and the Sheriff of Alpha City is working hard to clean up the aftermath. The scene is the same as in reality.
well!
When he teleports, the destination teleport point enters maintenance time and can only be teleported to Dawn Town 2, the "main city" closest to the Jackal camp.
"I heard that the BOSS refresh caused line congestion, and everyone is rushing over there. Let's hurry up and try our luck!"
Hearing people in the crowd say this, Zhang Miao felt that everyone seemed to know that the Jackal Lord was about to be refreshed.
"Everyone knows what caused the trouble!?"
Chapter 217: A day in the life of a Yuanverse real estate developer
