My Post-Apocalyptic Shelter Levels Up Infinitely! Chapter 685: First arrived in the territory, money city!
Chapter 688 Arrived in the territory for the first time, the city of money!
The vast wasteland, after eight years of transformation, the overall terrain has changed under the influence of disasters.
Those human beings who used to live in the deep sea, the alien races of the sea, have basically moved to the new continent due to the increase in the intensity of the disaster.
It's a pity that the area of the New World hasn't increased much in the past eight years.
With less land and more people, there are disputes everywhere in the mainland.
Although the Tianyuan territory is not warlike, it is often attacked by alien stragglers because the northernmost part of the territory is close to the coastline.
So according to the location distribution, the division of labor of the three major cities is also very clear.
Hope City, which focuses on the territorial economy, is located in the center of the entire territory and has the safest geographical conditions to drive the economic development of the territory.
Tianyuan City, which focuses on military development, is located on the west side of the territory close to the dwarves of all nations. There are a large number of military industrial research institutes and large-scale war facilities to prevent dwarves from sneaking attacks.
The Murloc City, which focuses on the special economy, is located in the northern part of the territory where small wars are most frequent, and its main responsibility is to protect the back of the territory.
Driven by these three cities, there are four major super monopoly companies as enemies, plus hundreds of small and medium-sized development companies.
Tianyuan Territory is extremely balanced and strong in all aspects, even if the number of people is much smaller than other super territories, it can firmly occupy a vast land.
At the same time, some small human territories near the surrounding area, although they are independent on the surface, have long been turned into subsidiary cities of the territory in the dark.
Every once in a while, these territories will send caravans with various goods to Hope City for trading.
Territories in other remote places will also come here especially, and enter Hope City, eager for opportunities for territorial development.
Around this group of "true" migrants, Hope City expanded and expanded, and gradually formed three areas outside the real core city circle.
One is called "Pojun", which is responsible for the garrison of the city defense army.
One is called "Mingyue", which is responsible for trading, temporary residence, catering, etc. It is a trading place specially opened for immigrants.
One is called "mulberry field", which assists in farming, and has hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land, as well as experimental fields for various novel varieties.
It seems that the current station is located in Mingyue Town, the outermost city of Hope City.
Although it was just after noon at this time, the sun was in the sky, bringing a roiling heat wave.
But outside the huge hope station, there are quite a few people who go to other territories, come to pick up relatives, sell small commodities around, and bring passengers into the city.
Come out from the back door guided by Wang Quan, lead Huang Xiaojuan and Oreo, and be mixed in the dense flow of people. It was not until he squeezed out to the exit to verify his identity that Su Mo took off the simple mask on his face and loosened it. Take a breath.
Just arrived in Hope City, and he was already a little uncomfortable.
Compared with Hope Village eight years ago, the development of Hope City today is so huge that he can't recognize any connection between it and the past.
Whether it is Guoshu Mountain or Iron Stone Mountain, these landmarks have all disappeared.
Nowadays, as far as the station can see, there are planned asphalt roads everywhere, as well as six or seven-story high-rise buildings, giving people a feeling of returning to the age of civilization.
And the more familiar one is.
"Hey, buddy, you're new to me?"
"Take a taxi? Take a taxi?"
“Mo’s, Mo’s~~”
"Go to Mingyue Town or Sangtian Town. I have a three-seater car that can just sit on you. It only needs 1 transaction point to drive you there, and the ride experience is guaranteed to be full."
“.”
As soon as the crowd poured out of the exit gate, the "drivers" who had been waiting at the gate rushed over like bees smelling the fragrance of flowers.
Among them, after seeing that although Su Mo has an ordinary face, his walking posture and temperament are extraordinary.
Most of the drivers in capable cars surrounded them and began to solicit customers with various tricks.
Finding someone who was a little more pleasing to the eye, Sumo raised his brows and cupped his hands.
When the other party saw this, he immediately led the way with joy in his heart. After a while, the two of them went through the twists and turns of the station, and came to a slightly worn-out tricycle in the parking lot.
"Hey, don't look at me as an old car, it has many functions!"
As he spoke, the dark man walked over to insert the key first.
As he pressed the button in front of the kinetic car, he saw that the rear seat began to change slowly.
First four poles were raised, and then another curtain-like thing was propped on both sides. When the man pulled it, it just wrapped the open-air carriage and blocked the vicious sunlight from the outside.
"Ha, this is really easy to use!"
touched the supporting rod, and found that it was not an ordinary iron rod, but an alloy-like substance, so Su Mo couldn't help but take a high look.
The factors for judging the development of a territory, one is to look at the ceiling of cutting-edge technology, and the other is to look at the civilian use of ordinary technology.
Allowing this kind of passenger drivers outside the station to use alloys is enough to show how fast the current Tianyuan Territory is developing.
"Brother, go to Mingyue Town or Sangtian Town, if Mingyue, you two and one dog, according to the pricing standard, it is 0.3 trading points"
"Going to Sangtian is farther away, and you get 0.5 trading points"
Waiting for two people and a dog to sit behind the carriage, the dark man took out a sign with "Hope City Public Passenger Price List" and handed it over.
"Seeing that you are here for the first time, don't worry, everything is strictly supervised by the territory now, like the business of black car drivers on our earth has long been impossible!"
"If I charge you an extra point, you turn around and report me to the transportation department, and I will be arrested tomorrow to do hard labor, which is not worth it!"
Seeing that Su Mo was concentrating on the explanation behind the price list, the dark man was not in a hurry, took out the water bottle in the back seat, and patiently explained while drinking.
"Okay, let's go to Mingyue Town"
The distance between the two places is 40 kilometers, and the heat wave is rolling, and the scalp of the sun is numb. The fee of 0.3 points is not high.
Seeing that this dark man is young, maybe twenty-four or twenty-five years old, but his attitude is so gentle and courteous.
Sumo handed back the sign, and his impression of this strange City of Hope improved a bit.
"Okay!"
Not afraid of Sumo running away, after hearing the destination, the dark man turned his head and started the car, and started driving on the asphalt road towards Mingyue Town.
Along the way, seeing some novel things along the route, Su Mo didn't pretend, and kept asking questions.
It didn't take long for the two of them to get acquainted.
The dark man's real name is Yang Wu, and he joined the territory in the second year of Wasteland.
It was only at that time that he was only seventeen years old. He was still young and did not have any skills, so he failed to catch up with the bonus of the first wave of take-off in the territory.
This led to five or six years of being mixed up. In addition to having a territorial status, he also worked as an extremely ordinary truck driver.
"I am content, with this status, I have surpassed 99% of ordinary people in the wasteland. It is useless to think about anything else!"
"Besides, now that I solicit customers every day, eat and drink, and save some money, how can I have such a comfortable job in the wasteland!"
Blowing the oncoming hot wind, Yang Wu shouted in enjoyment.
It's the same as the aborigines who lived in the imperial capital in the previous life.
Although they do not have a prominent family background, nor do they have high-paying jobs that everyone envies.
But with only one identity, a dilapidated house, they are enough to surpass the efforts of ordinary people for ten or a hundred years.
"Brother Su, you just came to the territory, I'm afraid you were not a small person before, otherwise you wouldn't be able to afford the status of our Tianyuan territory"
"Me? I'm just an ordinary person, just lucky enough to make a fortune"
Seeing Yang Wu turning his head and asking curiously, Su Mo shook his head angrily, and turned his gaze to the rolling farmland beside the asphalt road.
has the magical plants left before he left, plus the subsequent harvest from the treant territory.
The fields in the Tianyuan Territory grow very well, and they are completely self-sufficient and have a certain surplus.
In addition to importing food from outside, even if there is a disaster, the territory is estimated to have enough surplus food to survive.
"Hey, are these people selling watermelons?"
In hot weather.
Looking all the way along the road, Su Mo couldn't help being amazed when he realized that there was a watermelon stand on the side of the road. There were many people standing in front of the door.
This road is the only road from the station to Mingyue Town, and there must be many travelers passing by on the way.
In the hot weather, even if this watermelon is sold at a little more expensive, there must be no shortage of sales.
Sure enough.
After hearing the word watermelon, Yang Wu hadn't spoken yet. Huang Xiaojuan, who was sitting on the other side, was sticking out Oreos on the ground.
One person and one dog all raised their heads, their eyes full of desire.
"Okay, I'll buy one too"
Directing Yang Wu to pull over and stop, Su Mo jumped out of the car vigorously and walked all the way to the watermelon stand.
"A catty of watermelon sells for one dime, which is equivalent to 0.05 points in trading points."
"Based on this, a 15-jin large watermelon costs 0.75 trading points, which is a bit expensive!"
For ordinary people in Qingguo Territory, earning only one point a month is enough to support them.
In Tianyuan Territory, although the income has increased, watermelon is still a relatively expensive consumer product. Most people are probably not willing to buy one for a month except for the holidays.
However, for Su Mo, he couldn't take these points with him, so he didn't feel bad about spending them.
"Sixteen catties, 0.84 trading points, I charge you 0.8 trading points, thank you for your patronage!"
Compared with the currency "yuan currency" in the territory, the purchasing power of the trading point is stronger, and the possibility of depreciation is lower.
So after seeing that Su Mo was willing to pay with the transaction point, the store cheerfully wiped out the zeros, and also helped cut teeth by the way.
"Excuse me, Brother Su is really willing!"
Watching Su Mo walking back with a big bag of watermelons, Yang Wu licked his dry lips, his eyes full of envy and complexity.
recalled that the last time he ate watermelon was last year.
At that time, when the watermelon was about to go out of the market, Yang Wu was willing to buy half of it to satisfy his hunger.
Going forward, the high price has always been a difficulty in front of him. Many times, even the money in his pocket can afford a whole meal.
He will never be as willing as Su Mo is now.
However, these complex emotions disappeared without a trace when Sumo came back and pushed Sanya in front of him.
Looking at the ice **** that is still exuding a trace of white gas on the outside, and the shiny red inside.
Just one bite into the stomach, and the heat will disappear immediately, and you will fly away with refreshment.
Three people and one dog, the sixteen-pound watermelon shouldn't be finished.
But in the end, under Yang Wu's distressed eyes, Oreo ate the remaining watermelon which was over ten catties.
"Brother Su, you have to save some money on this money, we use money everywhere in our territory."
Start the car again, compared to before, Yang Wu's attitude has improved a bit, and he started chatting earnestly about the expenses in the territory.
"You are a newcomer, even if you have a job with your identity, you will definitely not be able to afford the houses in the city that cost hundreds of thousands of trading points and require various restrictions in the short term, right?"
"So, you see, renting a house costs a lot of money"
"Let's not talk about the cheapest houses in the city that cost 500 points a month. In Mingyue Town alone, a single room costs 80 trading points a month, and you get 960 trading points for a year of living!"
"After renting the house, you have to pay for meals, right? The minimum standard for the two of you and a dog is about 0.6 transaction points a day. This year, it will be in the early 200s."
With the hot air blowing, Yang Wu was still nagging at first, but later he complained as if complaining.
"Actually, it's okay to rent a house and eat. These expenses can be calculated, but other miscellaneous expenses are even more terrifying"
"We hope that although residents in the city do not have a living tax, they have a fixed identity maintenance fee. Depending on the price of your identity, you have to pay a tax of 0.8% of the identity price every month"
“Although there is no depreciation fee for the house, the water and electricity fees, maintenance fees, and foundation taxes are also quite a month.”
"When you travel to other places, you can't walk on your feet, you have to pay for a taxi, you have to charge the car, and you have to pay road taxes"
“.”
kept talking about more than a dozen places that need to be charged, and when Huang Xiaojuan's head was about to grow big, Yang Wu stopped talking:
"In addition to these, the most important thing is. Every month, 25% of the salary you earn in the territory will be included in the natural disaster defense funds of the territory, and 25% will be included in the residents' medical insurance"
"The real one is only half!"
After complaining about the existing system of the territory in one breath, Yang Wu breathed a sigh of relief seeing Su Mo's slightly changed expression, and felt much more at ease.
In the eyes of outsiders, these super-territorial people live a very comfortable life. They have a big room to live in, no worries about food and clothing, safety is guaranteed, and they live a life like a master.
But only they themselves know what a miserable end will be if there is no money in this territory that only cares about "money".
"We old residents are alright, we can maintain our identity for one year to raise funds after the trading points are cleared"
"But newcomers like you, once the trading points on your body return to zero for more than three days, your identity will be confiscated directly and you will be kicked out of the territory"
"And... you have to be careful of some foreign people who only have temporary identities. Once they fall into the scam set up by them, the consequences will be unpredictable"
As a large-scale town appeared in sight, Yang Wu's chatter gradually stopped.
"Mingyue Town is ahead, it's getting late, brother Su, if you want to rent a house, you have to plan early"
"Good"
The car stopped at the entrance of the village, the two of them got off the car, and Su Mo raised his hand to pay the fare.
"Received, come to me anytime if you need a car"
Handing over a handwritten business card, Yang Wu showed a bright smile, jumped into the car and drove away.
Obviously, even if he has no ambitions, the rules of this city force him not to lie flat.
"Brother Zong, shall we rent a house first?"
After being informed by Yang Wu of the cruelty in the territory, Huang Xiaojuan looked a little timid after looking around.
Here, there is obviously a big gap with the beautiful life she imagined before.
Prickly Pear Town and Mingyue Town, although they are both towns.
But in comparison, the tallest buildings in Cili Town are only four floors, and most of them are bungalows, while the lowest buildings in Mingyue Town have three floors!
At the same time, even standing at the gate of the town, the noise and hustle and bustle inside can be faintly transmitted to the outside, which is enough to see the prosperity here.
"Don't worry, let's go for a while"
Looking at the bright moon sign ~IndoMTL.com~ hanging above the gate of the town and the energy car going to the city at the gate of the town, Su Mo took a deep breath slowly, suppressing the impulse in his heart.
According to what Yang Wu said before, if you live in the urban area, the monthly miscellaneous expenses will add up to at least a thousand points.
In addition, because renting houses accounted for a large part, status taxes and meals accounted for a small part.
As a result, in order to save money, many outsiders who bought identities basically rented their houses in Mingyue Town and Sangtian Town outside, and went to work in the urban area by car every morning.
"I want to save money, so it seems that I have to rent the house here first"
"Compared to the previous two relic missions, this time is really a **** mode!"
It's like a poor boy who came to the imperial capital from a remote mountain village with a huge sum of "one thousand yuan".
Su Mo thought he could persist for a while, but unexpectedly, it was difficult to persist for a month.
And when I think that I want to develop into the center of the city with a car and a house in such a capacity, I even have to take control of the entire city within a year.
Su Mo couldn't help laughing, and strode into the town.
(end of this chapter)