Urban Sims

Chapter 234
Downtown, resource exchange.

Resource: Fenghuang City, District 52; Years: 50 years; Selling Price: 450 million coins; Status: Sold; Whether there is a price increase: None
Resource: Donghai City, District 52; Years: 50 years; Price: 2870 million coins; Status: Sold; Whether there is a price increase: No
Resource: Gangjing City, District 52; Year: 50 years; Selling Price: 160 million coins; Status: Sold; Whether there is a price increase: None
Resource: Yaoxing City, District 52; Year: 50 years; Selling price: 3120 million coins; Status: Sold; With or without price increase: Yes
Resource: District 03; Year: 30 years; Selling price: 3600 million coins; Status: Sold; Whether there is a price increase: None
Resource: District 51; Year: 30 years; Selling price: 240 million coins; Status: Sold; Whether there is a price increase: None
resource:……

Looking at the scrolling transaction information displayed on the information panel, Zhou Ming, with his chin resting on his fingers, fell into deep thought.

"Donghai City is an important transit city for materials. Through ocean-going cargo ships, a large amount of materials are transported into the upper area every year, so the export economy is extremely developed, and the purchase price costs more than 2800 million yuan..."

"Gangjing City has been destroyed by the war a long time ago. Now the population is less than 50, and it can't produce any benefits. It only sold for more than 100 million yuan, which is completely expected..."

"Yaoxing City is actually the city with the highest price among the 52 cities in District 120... But this is also normal. In this city, there are giants such as Vitality Medical, Yuanyue Catering Group, etc., plus my wise management , and now it has become a city where every inch of land is very expensive, and it is normal to sell more than 3100 million yuan..."

Seeing this, Zhou Ming's face showed a little color, and he felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

However, no matter how expensive a single city is, it cannot compare to a complete district. For example, District 5000 has a population of more than 03 million. Its huge population, plus various resources on a land of one million square kilometers, is worth 3600 million yuan. , as it should be.

But there are also some areas with sparse population and few resources, which sell very cheaply. For example, Zhou Ming’s hometown 51 underground mining area only sells for two million yuan, which is the cheapest among the 51 low-level areas.

And on this resource transaction information panel, in addition to the 51 lower-level districts and 52 cities in the 120nd district, Paradise Island in the upper-level district, in addition to the game city, the land of nearly 40 square kilometers on the island is also divided into 40 blocks can be purchased by others.

However, because Paradise Island does not produce resources, each of these 40 pieces of land is priced at a little over 1000 million yuan, and the lifespan is 100 years.

In short, this information panel contains all the resources of the planet from the bottom area, to the civilian area, to the noble area.

Looking at the information on this panel, Zhou Ming secretly calculated, and found that if he wanted to buy all the resources above, it would cost about 15 billion.

Of course, the land on Paradise Island, because it does not produce resources, is a bit of a real estate development property, so even if it can make money, it is not very meaningful to buy.

Therefore, excluding Paradise Island, the price of controlling this world is actually about 10 billion dollars.

With 10 billion dollars, can you control the world of money?

Zhou Ming shook his head. This is only an ideal situation. Because of the existence of the price increase system, there will definitely be a lot of cost to overcome resistance during the purchase process, resulting in an expense far above 10 billion.

For example, when Zhou Ming was the mayor of Yaoxing City, in order to control the entire bureaucratic system, he paid a cost far beyond the benefits that those power positions themselves could generate. For example, a position that can generate 5000 monetary benefits, Under the price hike of competitors, you often have to pay 8000 or even 1.

Of course, most of those price hikers were killed by the killers sent by Zhou Ming. They failed, but what about other cities?What about the other 119 cities?

It is impossible for Zhou Ming to kill all of them like this, and it will definitely attract the powerful intervention of the Balancer.

Therefore, except for Yaoxing City, Zhou Ming gave up his plan to control the bureaucratic systems of other cities, the cost is too high, even if it can bring a lot of benefits.

In the same way, in the upper districts, where one person is punished by ten times the net worth, the cost of killing is greatly increased. Secondly, there are more rich people in the upper districts, and the average life expectancy is longer, and the accumulated wealth is also more, so a certain Some bidders, some with money, prevented Zhou Ming from achieving his goal.

It may cost 20 billion money, but it may not be certain, and all the resources on this trading panel can be controlled.

Not to mention 20 billion, even 10 billion is very difficult for Zhou Ming to earn.

Of course, it's difficult, but it doesn't mean it's impossible.

Because in the upper zone, there are wagering games and zero-sum games!
It can even be said that the existence of these two things provides anyone with a shortcut, a shortcut to success and possession of everything in a short life.

Betting games: can make you rich overnight.

Zero-sum game: Allows you to take away everything from others in a short period of time.

This process does not require a long accumulation, as long as you have superb game skills and a little bit of luck.

Moreover, Zhou Ming also found that in the upper district, if he wanted to realize his dream of breaking through 10 billion dollars, it was basically impossible to take other paths besides gambling.

Because those resources on the resource trading panel, after buying them, the profit effect is not obvious.

For example, the price of Yaoxing City is 3120 million yuan/50 years. Assume that this city, through the city management system, can generate 70 yuan of benefits per year, multiplied by 50 years, that is, 3500 million yuan, and then deducting the cost, the average In a year, I only earn 7.6 yuan, and the annual rate of return is only 2.4 per thousand... This kind of rate of return is not as good as playing a slightly larger game in the betting game.

Therefore, for future development, Zhou Ming has a rough plan in mind:

First, make a big profit in the basically stable betting game.

Then go to the resource exchange, buy a few cities, or buy two districts, establish your own power, and manage it well.

Finally, if there is no other way, it is best not to become a gambler and play those dangerous gambling or zero-sum games, which will lead to losing everything and never recovering.

After all, to be honest, Zhou Ming is not good at gambling, or in other words, he doesn’t think that with less contact, practice, and familiarity with gambling skills, he will be better than those professional masters who have gambled for decades or hundreds of years .

Because any industry, including gambling, is a science.

……

Three years later.

In the game city, a large building similar to a gymnasium, tens of thousands of seats are filled with spectators in different costumes.

These audiences were facing the center of the gymnasium, the three-dimensional projection equipment that was divided into four sides and unfolded in 360 degrees. The huge projection image played made a noise like a sky-shattering.

The sea of ​​people is deafening!
Noisy, noisy, extraordinary!
In the huge projection with a length and width of more than [-] meters, an extremely explosive scene is being played at this time.

Tracers radiate, shrapnel splash, human slaughter, and flesh and blood fly.

A circle of transparent canopy system with electric flashing inside continuously compresses the range, and sends down lightning, splitting the human beings outside the range into coke.

In just three hours, out of a thousand humans, only seven remained standing within a safe range.

Game 133 of "Games of War" was declared over.

Tens of thousands of spectators in the venue made various voices:
"Seven people survived, I bought eight people, 30 gold, and it's gone." The audience looked disappointed and regretful.

"Out of those seven people, I won three! 88 times, my investment has been multiplied by 88 times!" The audience danced with excitement.

"I only bought one person right, and I just saved my capital."

"The number of people was bought correctly, but only one player's number was correct. Fifty coins can only be turned into one hundred."

"It's a monster! There is a guy who not only bought the right number of people, but also bought all the player numbers, which is 30 times more! He made 3000 million yuan!"

"What? How is that possible?"

"3000 million, grandma's, how about a tenth of it for me?"

"Who is he? I want to meet him, learn a few tricks from him, and borrow some money from him!"

After the announcement of the winning information on the [-]D projection, the audience on the stage exploded and had heated discussions. They all expressed their desire to see who the winner was?
And Zhou Ming, who was wearing a fake mask, took the 3000 million money card from the staff of the organizer, and left the stadium quietly.

"3000 million, the biggest sum of money in the past three years."

This amount of money even exceeds the sum of money earned in the past three years: 1800 million.

Adding in the 3000 million earned from this game, Zhou Ming now has a full 4800 million in his account.

Some people may wonder, didn't Zhou Ming know the final winners of many competitions in advance?Why is the money coming in so slowly, only 4800 million in three years?
Even if the median odds are 1:10, if he bets 5000 dollars each time, as long as he buys right [-] times in a row, wouldn't he be able to earn [-] million dollars?

And with the average frequency of betting about 1 times a year, making a small profit of [-] million a year, shouldn't be a big problem, right?

That being said, in reality, this is not the case.

Because Zhou Ming's betting accuracy rate is less than [-]%, and it gets lower as you go to the back.

The reason for this situation, Zhou Ming believes, may be the butterfly effect caused by the mutual influence of related events, resulting in the process and results of many competitions, which are completely different from what Zhou Ming expected. Those players who would win in the previous life, this life, Maybe ten seconds into the game, it will become tragic cannon fodder.

And most of the players he bought are strong players with stable performance. They don't rely on luck to win, but rely on their strong strength to win without any luck... Such players are not just Zhou Ming, other bettors, There is also a lot of money betting on him, causing the odds to drop to only 1:5, 1:3 or even below 1:2, and there is no huge profit.

In addition, for some players who are [-]% sure to win and have high odds, after Zhou Ming places a heavy bet, the odds will drop a lot, resulting in not much profit...Because the betting odds will vary with the amount of money bet However, the player who bets the most money will of course have the lowest odds, achieving a dynamic balance.

In the end, Zhou Ming discovered that only "Game of War", which is similar to lottery games, is more likely to achieve sudden wealth.

Because "War Game" has a variety of ways to play, you can guess the number of survivors; you can also buy ten player numbers to see how many survived in the end; you can also guess the number of survivors and the number of survivors together...Three kinds of betting methods, place a bet The stakes are 30, 50 and 100 money respectively, and the corresponding maximum odds are 5 times, 1 times and 30 times respectively... The more complicated the betting method, the higher the odds.

In addition, "Game of War" also has a concept of "bonus pool": if the number of bettors who bought in the first few games is small and the bets taken away are not much, the remaining bets will continue to accumulate to In the following games, which leads to the maximum odds, it will go higher.

Naturally, seeing the tens of millions or hundreds of millions of money accumulated in the prize pool, the envious punters will definitely bet even more frantically.

So during these three years, Zhou Ming bought a total of 18 games of "War Game". Although the probability of winning was not high because of the butterfly effect, he still made a small profit of 500 million.

In addition to this explosion of character and 3000 million dollars, Zhou Ming discovered that as long as the number of people participating is more, the probability of a lucky individual getting rich is higher!
(End of this chapter)