I'm a god in the infinite game

Bai Liu opened his eyes.

In front of me is a forest of skyscrapers made of steel and concrete. The top floors of the buildings soar into the sky. People can't see them when they raise their heads. There is no building lower than [-] floors as far as the eye can see.

Between the buildings are roads with a width of three to four meters or sidewalks of one or two meters, with low street lamps standing on both sides, and the white willow is facing an entrance passage, with seven large characters arranged on it with red neon tubes: [ The sun will welcome you].

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

Inside the entrance, there are bustling crowds walking on the street. Citizens wearing black, white, blue and gray overalls quickly and numbly walk with their heads down in this city called Sunshine Metropolis. No one looks up at the high-rise buildings above them. The sun was almost covered, 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 daily 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, and citizens 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 nearby.

It seems that other people should be sent to 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 instant noodles on his table: "To Are you entering the city?"

"The entrance fee is 1200." The toll collector stretched out his hand and shook, "Bring the ID card."

Bai Liu paused, then handed over the ID card, and the toll collector took it and swiped it on the computer, then 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 looked Bai Liu up and down, and forced the ID card back: "We don't welcome foreigners here."

"But foreigners can also come in, right?" Bai Liu didn't answer, and pointed to the notices for entering the city on the toll collector's computer desktop, "I saw that foreigners 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 took back the ID card reluctantly, and his tone was still stiff: "...the registered citizen fee is 1400, a total of [-], and you have [-] left."

"You need to know when you enter the city. 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. 10 yuan per hour, you can directly deduct it from your card. If the money in the card is exhausted, you can deduct it No land use fee, your ID card will be marked red after an hour, and you will be evicted by a patrol within 15 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 are using their land every second you stand on it, and you have to pay for it."

As he spoke, the toll collector showed yearning: "Of course, if you have your own house in Sunshine City, that's your own place. You don't need to pay land use fees in your own house."

"100 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 handed the ID card and a notice of "Instructions for entering the city" Handing it over to Bai Liu together, with a contemptuous expression, "Here, take it and go in."

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

[System prompt: Congratulations to 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 complaining softly behind him:

"There are foreigners coming into the city again, and they are coming to rob us of houses again. It seems that the housing prices of the properties opened this week will have to go up, and the job competition will also increase. It's so annoying..."

Bai Liu walked into this gray Sunshine City, but none of the passers-by on the side of the road gave this new citizen who entered Sunshine City an extra look. They were walking fast on the street, making phone calls or dealing with various As for the matter, Bai Liu noticed that there were also foreigners who had just entered the city trying to ask these people for directions, but they were dismissed indifferently and impatiently.

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

Bai Liu took the "Instructions for Entering the City" and walked slowly on the street. While reading, she looked at the surrounding scene from the corner of her eye, and she didn't fit in with the busy crowd around her.

[Instructions for entering the city] It says that there are three types of residents in the city, one is the type of residents who have successfully bought a house, this type of residents is called first-class citizens, also known as [house owners].

[Homeowner] Types of residents can enjoy discounts or discounts on public services such as medical care, education, and social shopping at different stages according to the location, price, and type of their houses. The land use fee is reduced from 10 yuan per hour 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 policy of [House Slave] is not as great as that of [Home Owner], and the land use fee is only reduced from 10 yuan to 8 yuan, but [House Slave] has a considerable advantage that is employment.

The main business of Sunshine City is real estate. 90.00% 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 the five real estate companies, and if you have a residence certificate for a house owned by the five major real estate companies, the five major companies will give you priority when you are employed.

The last kind of residents are 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 homeowners, and the housing price is not mentioned at all.

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

[Instructions for Entering the City] is a warning on the back:

Prohibited matters in Sunshine City: It is forbidden to rent houses in the name of individuals, collectives, and companies, prohibit individual buying and selling houses, and prohibit long-term occupation of fixed-location public land (such as sleeping on the street). There is no cap on the top.

Seeing this, Bai Liu raised his eyebrows.

The prohibition of private house sales by individuals basically cuts off ordinary citizens from 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 their businesses.

That is to say, 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 have no way to buy a house or rent a house can only find a place to make a living, but the third rule also cuts off the way out for such people-it is forbidden to occupy public land in a fixed location for a long time, which is equivalent to prohibiting you from Stay in non-housing areas.

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

Seeing this, Bai Liu basically understood that this is a city that is completely ruled by open merchants, or monopolized for survival.

The strange thing is that, logically speaking, this kind of extreme squeezing of people's living space should have a very low population in cities with low expectations, and the birth rate and marriage rate will also be very low. People can't live without guaranteeing their own survival. desire to reproduce.

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 other places.

And as long as the residents of Sunshine City entered, few would leave again.

Bai Liu looked at the promotional slogan on the [Instructions for Entering the City] [A happy city with a marriage rate of over 50.00% for three consecutive years! 】

This is completely against objective laws. There must be something else in this city that he doesn't know is affecting the 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, and 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 printers on both sides of the door, with [Face Scanning Resume Automatic Generation Instrument] written on it, and [Swipe card to print, ten yuan a time] next to it.

There is a queue in front of the machine, and everyone anxiously shuttles back and forth among the crowd with their resumes in their hands. Some people crouch down in the corner of the hall drinking mineral water, and some stare blankly at the phone waiting for a reply. After they were lined up outside, hoarse cries came from inside from time to time:

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

"It's dropped to more than 3000. I passed the written test but failed the interview. They were planning to ask me, but in the end they still asked for a family with a real estate certificate..."

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