Chapter 381

Bai Liu opened his eyes.

In front of me is a forest of skyscrapers made of reinforced concrete. The topmost part of the building soars into the sky. People can't see it when they raise their heads. As far as the eye can see, there is no one shorter than the tenth floor. building.

Between the buildings are roads about four meters wide or sidewalks one or two meters wide, with low street lamps standing on both sides, and the white willow is facing an entry passage, with seven large characters arranged on it with red neon tubes: 【The sun will welcome you】.

Below is a line of slogans: [Chasing the sun, chasing happiness, the future is waiting for you here! 】

Inside the entrance, there are bustling crowds walking on the street. Citizens wearing black, white, blue and gray overalls quickly lower their heads in numbness. They walk in small steps in this city called Sunshine Metropolis. No one looks up at the sky above their heads. The sun was almost covered by tall buildings, and no one looked at the white willow standing at the entrance of the city.

Bai Liu checked the pocket of his suit pants, and took out a citizen ID card.

[System prompt: It is detected that player Bai Liu has obtained an important authentication item, a citizen ID card]

[Citizen ID card, the player’s income, expenditure, storage, and mortgage deduction are all through this card, one number per person, no more, no replacement, no transfer, no destruction at will, cancellation on the spot,  ‌Citizen life, property, certification, and travel are bound for life. 】

[Balance in the card: 2700 yuan]

Bai Liu looked around and confirmed that he was the only one around.

It seems that other people should be thrown into another entrance. Bai Liu walked into the passage holding his ID card, and a toll collector poked his head out with a tired face. There was still a bucket of unfinished squares on his table. Face: "Are you going to enter the city?"

"The entrance fee is 1,200." The toll collector stretched out his hand and shook, "Here's the ID card."

Bai Liu paused for a moment, then handed over the ID card, and the toll collector went to the computer to swipe it, and with a huff, he turned around in doubt: "Aren't you a resident of our city?"

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

The toll collector didn't know why, but his eyes became full of hostility. He measured Bai Liu up and down, and forced the ID card back: "Rural people are not welcome here."

"But it's true that rural people can come in, right?" Bai Liu didn't answer, and pointed to the entry notice on the toll collector's computer desktop, "I saw that rural people can register as citizens here."

Bai Liu's eyes moved to the complaint number on the license plate hung by the toll collector: "If you don't follow the regulations, then I will complain to you immediately, and your work may be affected, so you won't let me enter the city ?"

The toll collector's face froze, and he withdrew the ID card unwillingly. His tone was still stiff: "...the registered citizen fee is 1,400, a total of 2,600, and you have 100 left."

"When you enter the city, you need to know that you don't have a house in Sunshine City. You are not a formal citizen but a temporary resident. You have to pay land use fees to live in Sunshine City. It is 10 yuan per hour, and you will be deducted directly from your card. If the money in the card is deducted It’s over, the land use fee will not be deducted, your ID card will be marked red in one hour, and the patrol team will drive you out within fifteen minutes.”

Bai Liu raised her eyebrows: "Land use fee? What is this?"

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

"Every inch of land in Sunshine City is owned by the five major real estate developers. You have to pay for using their land every second you stand on it."

As he spoke, the toll collector showed a longing look: "Of course, if you buy your own house in Sunshine City, it's your own place, and you don't need to pay land use fees if you buy your own house. of."

"One hundred yuan, if you can't find a job, you can stay in Sunshine City for up to ten hours." The toll collector swiped Bai Liu's ID card from the side of the computer, and took out a copy of the ID card [Instructions for entering the city] He handed the notice to Bai Liu together, with a contemptuous look on his face, "Here, take it and go in."

Bai Liu took a look at the card, and there was a line of embossed words in the lower right corner - [Sunshine City Temporary Resident Card].

[System prompt: Congratulations to the player Bai Liu for officially entering Sunshine City and starting the main task—go to the job market today to find a job that suits your dreams! 】

Bai Liu went in with his ID card, and he could still hear the toll collector behind him complaining softly:

"The villagers have entered the city again, and they are coming to us to grab houses again. It seems that the housing prices of the properties opened this week will have to rise, and the competition for real estate will also increase. It's so annoying..."

Bai Liu walked into this gray Sunshine City, but none of the pedestrians on the side of the road gave this new citizen who entered Sunshine City a look. All kinds of things, Bai Liu noticed that the same rural people who had just entered the city tried to ask these people for directions, but they were all dismissed impatiently and indifferently.

After all, it costs ten yuan an hour to stand on the ground above the ground, and no one wants to waste their time when they are spending money helping strangers.

Bai Liu took the "Instructions for Entering the City" and walked slowly on the street, while reading, he surveyed the surrounding scene from the corner of his eye, seeing that the busy crowd around him didn't fit in.

【Instructions for Entering the City】There are ‌‌types of residents in the city, and one is the type of residents who have successfully bought a house. This type of residents is called a first-class citizen, also known as a "house owner".

Residents of the [homeowner] type can enjoy discounts or discounts on public services such as medical care, education, and social purchases at different stages according to the location, price, and type of their houses. The land use fee starts from 10 yuan per hour Reduced to 5 yuan per hour.

The second type is the type of residents who have paid the down payment and are repaying the loan. This type of residents got rid of the title of temporary residents because they got a house, and were promoted to second-class citizens, and they were also called [housing slaves].

Because the house has not yet been fully acquired, the welfare policies of [House Slave] are not as great as those of [Home Owner], and the land use fee has only been reduced from 10 yuan to 8 yuan, but [House Slave] is quite a big one. The advantage is that it is a career.

The main business of Sunshine City is real estate. Ninety percent of the income of the residents in the city comes from the five major real estate developers, and all the houses in the city belong to the companies of the five major real estate developers.

That is to say, if you want to buy a house, you can only buy it from the companies of five real estate companies, and if you have a certificate of residence for a house owned by the five major real estate companies, when you start business, The top five companies will give you priority in recruiting you.

The last type of residents is temporary residents like Bailiu.

The entire [Instructions for Entering the City] is like a real estate agent's advertisement, which talks about the benefits of buying a house, the happy life of the real estate family, and the housing price without mentioning a word.

Bai Liu turned her side and looked at the back of 【Instructions for Entering the City】.

【Instructions for entering the city】The back is a warning item:

Prohibition in Sunshine City: Prohibition of renting houses in the name of individuals, collectives, and companies, prohibiting individual housing sales and transfers, and prohibiting long-term occupation of fixed-location public land (such as sleeping on the street). There is no upper limit for fines.

Seeing this, Bai Liu raised his eyebrows.

Personal private house sales are prohibited. This regulation basically cuts off ordinary citizens buying houses from channels other than the five major real estate developers, and also cuts off the way for small real estate developers to start.

In other words, if ordinary citizens want to buy a house, they can only buy it from the five major developers.

The prohibition of various forms of renting also cuts off the way out for those who do not buy a house.

People who can’t afford to buy a house or rent a house can only find a place to make a living, but the first rule also cuts off the way out for such people-it is forbidden to occupy a fixed place for a long time Location public land, which is equivalent to prohibiting you from staying in non-housing areas.

To put it simply, if Sunshine City wants to survive, there is only one way to do it - that is to buy a house from the five major developers.

Seeing this, Bai Liuji already knew clearly that this is a city completely ruled by open businesses, or in other words monopolized survival.

The strange thing is that, logically speaking, this kind of extreme compression of people's living space should have a very low population, and the birth rate and marriage rate will be very low, so people can't guarantee their own survival. Under the circumstances, there is no desire to reproduce offspring.

But on the contrary, the number of permanent residents in this city has reached tens of millions, the birth rate has been rising year after year, and there are also a lot of immigrants from the countryside.

And as long as the residents of Sunshine City enter, they rarely leave.

Bai Liu looked at the promotional slogan on the [Instructions for Entering the City] [A happy city with a marriage rate of over 50% for consecutive years! 】

This is completely against objective laws. There must be something else in this city that he doesn't know yet that is affecting its operation.

[System prompt: You have been wandering in the public area of ​​Sunshine City for an hour, and the land use fee will be deducted by 10 yuan. 】

Bai Liu glanced at the prompt on the system panel, put it down, looked at the market-like place with so many people that it was about to overflow, and then glanced at the display board at the door—【Talent Market】.

As soon as I walked in, there was a whole row of scanning and printing machines on both sides of the door, with [Face Scanning and Resume Automatic Generating Instruments] written on it, and [Swipe card to print, ten yuan a time] next to it.

There is a long line in front of the machine, and everyone anxiously shuttles back and forth among the crowd with their resumes in their hands. Some squat down in the corner of the hall to drink mineral water, while others stare blankly. Waiting for a reply on the phone, the people in the toilet lined up outside, and there were hoarse cries from time to time:

"I don't have a job, they didn't want me, what should I do, I can't find a job!"

"It's dropped to more than 1,000 yuan, the written test failed, the interview failed, and I was ready to ask for me, but in the end they still asked for a real estate certificate..."

This scene was so familiar that Bai Liu, who had experienced the talent market, felt a subtle...uncomfortable feeling.