Urban Sims

Chapter 250 The Desireless One

The plane slowed down and approached.

On a cliff in the middle of the mountain in front, a huge rectangular cave passage opened a door. After the plane flew into the passage, it flew more than 1000 meters and landed slowly on a parking platform.

After getting off the plane, the staff responsible for picking him up treated him indifferently, pointed to the elevator at the corner, and told him to take the elevator up.

After entering the elevator, we went up about 500 meters. After the elevator door opened, the lights in front were brightly lit, and we entered a pure white world.

Go forward for a distance.

A glass wall blocked the front.

There is a transparent door in the middle.

"Please insert your money card, check the account balance, and confirm whether the entry standard is met." A box-shaped device on the edge of the middle of the door made a prompt sound.

Zhou Ming took out the money card in his pocket and inserted it into the card slot of the device.

"Drip~"

"The balance is 11859401206 money, which meets the entry requirements. Welcome to the top floor area." The transparent door opened automatically.

Zhou Ming walked in, and after walking only three or four hundred meters, a circular door appeared on the right hand side of the passage ahead. Sensing a creature approaching, the door issued a prompting voice: "I am the doctor of medicine." Men, would you like to accept the life extension service, this device can complete a long-term life extension for you, increasing your lifespan by 400 years.”

"How much is the fee?" Zhou Ming asked.

Several rows of lights above the medical door flickered like breathing, and a voice sounded: "It only takes 1 million money, and each person only has one chance."

Zhou Ming shook his head and said, "It's too expensive, don't do it!"

There are still many life-extending drugs in his system warehouse. It is easy to extend his life by 500 years, and there is no need to enter this medical door.

52 million dollars, the price of killing a fat pig, if this is in Area 500, it can complete the life extension treatment for millions of people, and the total life extension time is hundreds of millions of years, which has shrunk to [-] years here.

"Welcome next time."

The light at the door of medical treatment dimmed.

Zhou Ming continued to walk towards the front of the passage.

……

upper layer.

In the center of a mysterious hall.

Five people, standing in front of a projection screen, stared at the newcomer who was about to come in the screen, and there was no expression on the faces of the five people.

"A fresh flea jumped up." After a long time, one person said.

"Do you want to take him down?" asked another.

"Of course, this hall is too small to accommodate so many people."

"He brought more than 100 billion in money, and there are still three districts, and he may jump around for several days."

"Dare to come up with this little money. The newcomers are getting bolder and bolder."

In the hostile tone of the five people, none of them expressed any sign of welcoming the newcomer who was about to arrive.

……

the next day.

In the complex of buildings inside the transparent cover on the top of the mountain, Zhou Ming lived in a three-story independent villa with perfect internal conditions and facilities. Zhou Ming, who was served by housekeeping robots for three meals a day, quickly adapted to life in the top-floor area.

Standing on the edge of the transparent cover on the top of the mountain, holding a pair of telescope equipment in his hand, Zhou Ming observed the surrounding environment of the mountain under his feet.

Surrounded by towering snow-capped mountains.

Further south, some plains can be seen.

In the north, there is a brown and yellow plateau landform.

The mountain at the foot is roughly located in the middle of the mainland, in a tall mountain range. The mountain at the foot is more than [-] meters above sea level. It is the highest peak on this planet—meaning it is equivalent to Mount Everest in his world.

Zhou Ming doesn't quite understand why the designer of this world put the top floor area at such a high position. Is it to set off the high status through the physical altitude?

However, standing on the highest point of the planet's surface, you can experience the natural artistic conception of "being at the top of the mountain and looking at the small mountains" every day, enjoying the totalitarian taste of being above hundreds of millions of people and controlling the fate of countless people... It feels really good .

Even, when the weather is fine, standing here, Zhou Ming can even see: the eggshell-shaped canopy system covering many areas, because it will reflect part of the light, he can clearly see its tall inverted pot-shaped top, the height It is almost parallel to the mountain at the foot, as if there are several huge transparent tents around the mountain.

But there is a difference:

People living in the transparent tent can't see him, but standing at the highest point, he seems to be able to see everyone in the tent.

And the gap between the two, one is the ants in the mound, and the other is the god in the temple.

……

Day three.

After familiarizing himself with the environment, Zhou Ming met the five "masters" who had been living here.

In the resource hall, these five people didn't show any sign of his arrival, they didn't even bother to look at him, as if they treated him as air.

Zhou Ming found his work area and found that he didn't even have a chair for him to sit on. He immediately asked: Who has an extra chair, can I lend him one to sit on?
"Sorry, there are no extra chairs in this hall."

A person who was tired of being asked said a word to him.

The corner of Zhou Ming's mouth raised, he glanced at the other people, and raised his tone: "Oh, you mean, one of you will leave here soon and give me his chair?"

No one cares about him.

None of the five people reacted to Zhou Ming's somewhat provocative words, and there was no expression fluctuation on their faces.

In addition, Zhou Ming was also very surprised that these five people not only had a zombie face every day, their speaking rhythm was as mechanical as a repeater, and there was no expression on their faces, even their eyes were dark. There is no wave in the ancient well, and nothing can be seen.

He used the ability of "soul perspective", hoping to see something from their souls, but he only saw a blank space, and could not dig out any information at all.

This may be the case even for those with innate clairvoyance, because these five people are all "people without desire".

The so-called "desireless person" is to suppress all the characteristics of one's own emotions, desires, personality, habits, etc. by sealing part of the thinking and adding some auxiliary "drugs", so that one has no emotion, no mood swings, and Under any circumstances, he is extremely calm, objective, and rational, and will not expose any of his flaws and weaknesses to any opponent.

So Zhou Ming couldn't think of any way to deal with these five "desireless people" who had almost no flaws or weaknesses.

It is impossible to blend in with them, because Zhou Ming is incompatible with these desireless people everywhere.

What's more, the conflict of interests between them is impossible to reconcile.

It can even be said that everyone in the top zone has irreconcilable conflicts with each other in terms of interests.

Because there are too many chairs in the resource hall, and there are too many people sharing resources, and every "desireless person" has the same unspoken ambition: this planet.

So the fewer competitors, the better, preferably only one.

……

"Your resource area 50 is being purchased by someone at a price increase of 100 million. Do you want to follow the price? If there is no reply within 5 minutes, the transaction is successful."

On the sixth day after entering the top-level area, someone attacked Zhou Ming and wanted to buy Area 50 from him.

Zhou Ming doesn't have many resources. As a condition of exchange for entering the top-level area, all the resources under his control in the upper-level area's resource exchange, with a total value of more than 16 billion, can only be traded in the resource hall of the top-level area. To the three bottom areas.

These three ground-level districts are District 49, District 50 and District 51.

The reason why the prices in the three districts are so expensive is because their holding period is permanent and unlimited.

That is: once the resources in the top-level area are purchased, the owner enjoys the permanent right to profit and absolute control.

This is compared to the resource exchange in the upper area, where those resources with a limited holding period of 30, 50, and 100 years are permanently owned, which is tantamount to changing from a tenant farmer to a landlord.

But that doesn't mean you can sit back and relax.

Because the rules of the game in the top zone are even more cruel.

The top area, like the bottom area, civilian area, and upper area, also follows one of the most basic rules of the game: those who can go up, and those who are last are eliminated.

The "Top District Rules" stipulates that under three circumstances, "elders" will also be ruthlessly eliminated.

Situation 0: In the resource hall, if the number of resources controlled is [-], it will be eliminated immediately.

Situation [-]: During the reshuffling period, the person who controls the least resources will become the target of cleaning, and all assets will be deprived. One person will be cleaned every [-] years.

Situation [-]: After the death of an elder (regardless of natural or unnatural death), all the resources and money under his control will be emptied and recycled by the system.

And there is only one way to rise: in this resource hall, there is only one person left, who controls all the resources. This person controls the world, and has the qualifications to have dialogues and negotiations with the world's top designers.

In other words, only those who control the entire top area can truly own this world.

Even, become the next "top designer".

So Zhou Ming concluded: the top area is still not the highest point in this world, because there are still rules here, there are still various rules and regulations that restrict him, and... there is also a cruel last elimination rule.

Only those who control the rules, become the rule changers and makers, and are not bound by any rules, are the real masters of this world.

Zhou Ming called it the "master".

And below the master, in the resource hall on the top floor, the six strongest Gu worms are competing, and the six elders are competing for the "Gu king" all the time.

Unfortunately, Zhou Ming was the weakest of the six Gu worms.

And became the first choice for elimination in the eyes of the other five people.

There is no other reason: he has the least resources under his control, and he has the greatest chance of being eliminated. He has almost satisfied two of the three elimination situations.

Moreover, it is less than a month before the "reshuffling" of the cards. Thinking that after the reshuffle, all resources will return to the reserve price, and the money in everyone's account will be equal. I don't care how much money I have left, so I'll let the newcomer bled first.

then.

In less than a minute, Zhou Ming received two more messages through the money meter in his hand.

"Your resource area 49 is being purchased by someone at a price increase of 100 million. Do you want to follow the price? If there is no reply within 5 minutes, the transaction is successful."

"Your resource area 51 is being purchased by someone at a price increase of 100 million. Do you want to follow the price? If there is no reply within 5 minutes, the transaction is successful."

(End of this chapter)