Trickster Hunter

Chapter 222 Construction Site

After leaving the test site, Sun Hang did not drive home directly, but took a detour to the Xindu District in the north of the city.

At the intersection of Xingcheng Avenue and Fenghuang Elevated Road, there is a commercial housing estate covering an area of ​​more than 5,000 acres that has just begun construction... I don’t know whether the developer is lucky or unlucky, the foundation of this estate has not yet been excavated, and the eternal night has come without warning.

House prices in all areas of Shuzhou plummeted to freezing point overnight, and the developer of this estate naturally gave up the subsequent construction plan-according to the regulations of the federal government, the estate must reach one-third of the expected construction progress before it can officially start pre-sale...and this estate that has not even built a foundation is naturally impossible to recover half a cent from the future owners.

The money for buying the land has become a sunk cost. If it continues to be built, not to mention the money for buying the land, even the construction materials and workers’ labor costs cannot be recovered-locals are thinking about selling their houses and settling in other city-states; and outsiders, only when their brains are broken will they come to Shuzhou to buy houses at this time.

Houses in other places, no matter how small the distance between buildings, how low the floor height, and how narrow the windows are, still have some daylighting rate... But now the houses in Shuzhou - wow, no matter how many floors you live on or how big the windows are, the daylighting rate is all zero.

Even the boldest speculators dare not bet their money on the eternal night that will not disappear for many years.

Just when the developers were racking their brains to explain the hundreds of billions of sunk costs to shareholders, the Tianfu City Management Committee brought them "good news" at this time.

The Tianfu City Management Committee is willing to reclaim this land of nearly 5,000 acres at 50% of the selling price and take over the subsequent construction work.

Although it is also a blood loss, the difference between a loss of 50% and a loss of 100% is still very big... The developer, who was almost forced into a desperate situation, agreed to this proposal almost without hesitation and sold the land he had just bought back to the Tianfu City Management Committee at half the price.

As for the use of this piece of land, it will naturally not be used to build commercial housing that can no longer be sold... This place will have a new name in the future, a name that can focus the attention of the entire federation.

"Tianshu Tower Comprehensive Talent Training Base".

As the first "honorary principal", Sun Hang is naturally obliged to inspect the progress of the project - during the time he left Tianfu City, the special engineering team of Tianshu Tower had already started construction. Logically speaking, the foundation should have been dug almost, right?

However, when Sun Hang drove all the way to the construction site along Xingcheng Avenue, he found that a fortress comparable to a military fortress had risen from the ground. The more than 20-meter-high wall surrounded the entire construction area. From Sun Hang's perspective, he could only see the tower crane hundreds of meters high and the large drone that was assisting the workers in transporting construction materials.

"This... is it built too fast?" Sun Hang was stunned for a moment. He suddenly remembered that Yang Qi seemed to have mentioned to him that the expansion project of Chunming City seemed to involve this engineering team.

Compared with the miraculous grand city, everything in front of him seemed to make sense again.

Sun Hang wanted to take a closer look, but suddenly there was a horn full of urging from behind. He glanced at the rearview mirror and saw more than a dozen heavy trucks loaded with construction materials coming towards this side.

Sun Hang quickly started the car and made way, watching the truck convoy enter the ramp.

Accompanied by a harsh friction sound, the heavy wall began to move, revealing a gap more than 30 meters wide. The trucks drove into the construction site in an orderly manner through this gap, and then the wall closed again.

On the top of the wall, there are even heavy sentry guns and large hangars for drones to take off and land. High-lumen searchlights continuously sweep around, and from time to time there will be a few armed helicopters with flashing signal lights flying through the air, just short of moving the air combat platform code-named "Garuda".

The nearby roads had been closed for a long time. Fortunately, Sun Hang's car had a special license plate from the Tianfu City Weird Research Institute, so he could drive in. Even so, the checkpoint at the intersection wasted nearly five minutes of his time.

To be honest, Sun Hang often saw major media touting how terrifying and exaggerated the infrastructure capabilities of the Xiazhou Federation were, but this was really the first time he personally experienced what the media touted... The facts would only be more outrageous than the description in words.

At this rate, I'm afraid this talent training base will be able to start operating within a month, right?

It can even catch up with the traditional school season in September.

I just don't know how many students can be recruited... The annual "College Entrance Examination" has ended, and the time for filling in volunteers has passed. Although with the authority of the Tianshu Tower, it is only a matter of words to let candidates from all over the federation fill in their volunteers again. But how many outstanding talents will give up their original volunteers and run to such a "literally invisible" place to study in a newly built school with an extremely narrow employment scope, that is completely unknown.

Tianshu Tower is well-known, but Sun Hang still thinks Pei Zongjun is a little too optimistic about the application rate.

"But a small number of students is also a good thing." Sun Hang said to himself while driving, "Fewer people means less trouble... What's more, this place... may soon become a battlefield."

Sun Hang was not sure when Chimera No. 17 would come to him, but for those "proud sons of heaven" who were about to start a new semester here, they would never dream that they would have a "practical class" that was "exciting to death" in the first semester.

The "to death" here, like the previous "never see the sun", is a literal meaning.

"I have to talk to old man Pei about this matter when I have time." Sun Hang muttered, "It's impossible for a large number of students to die in the first semester..."

...

After inspecting the construction site, Sun Hang originally planned to go to the community where Tai Sui was discovered and swallowed, but as soon as he got off the elevated road, he received a video call from Yang Qi.

"Why haven't you arrived home yet?" As soon as the call was connected, Yang Qi directly questioned Sun Hang - just when Sun Hang felt that the background behind her was familiar, Miss Zhong Ling, wearing an apron, suddenly flashed across the screen.

"You are at my house? Didn't you say you would work overtime tonight?" Sun Hang asked in confusion.

"...Ahem, I thought about it later and decided that work should be combined with rest." Yang Qi coughed twice and said seriously, "Besides, I haven't eaten ramen for a long time."