Bai Liu opened his eyes.
In front of me is a forest of skyscrapers made of reinforced concrete. The topmost part of the building is soaring into the sky. People can't see it when they raise their heads. There is no building shorter than 30 stories in sight.
Between the buildings is a road with a width of about three or four meters or a sidewalk of one or two meters. On both sides stands low street lights. The white willows are facing an entrance passage, on which seven large characters are arranged with red neon tubes: [ The sun will welcome you].
There is a line of slogan below: [Chasing the sun, chasing happiness, the future is waiting for you here! 】
Inside the entrance, the street was full of bustling crowds. Citizens dressed in black, white, blue and gray overalls walked quickly and numbly with their heads down in this city called Sunshine Metropolis. No one looked up at the high-rise buildings above their heads. The sun was almost covered, and no one looked at the white willow standing at the entrance of the city.
Bai Liu checked the pockets of his suit pants and found out a citizen ID card.
[System prompt: It is detected that the player Bailiu has obtained the citizen ID card of an important certification item]
[Citizen ID card, the player’s daily income, expenditure, storage, and mortgage deductions are all through this card, one number per person, no more processing, no replacement, no transfer, no destruction at will, death on the spot cancellation, and the 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 nearby.
It seems that other people should be thrown into another entrance. Bai Liu walked into the aisle holding the ID card. A toll collector came out with a tired face. There was still a bucket of unfinished instant noodles on his table: Is it in the city?"
"The entrance fee is 1,200." The toll collector shook his hand, "Bring the ID card."
Bai Liu paused, and handed over the ID card. The toll collector took it and swiped it on the computer, then turned around questioningly, "Are you not a resident of our city?"
"No." Bai Liu smiled politely, "I am new here today."
For some reason, the toll collector turned his eyes full of hostility. He looked at Bai Liu up and down, and forced his ID card back: "Outsiders are not welcome here."
"But foreigners can come in too, right?" Bai Liu did not answer, pointing to the toll collector's computer desktop to know about entering the city, "I see that foreigners can register as citizens here."
Bai Liu moved his eyes to the complaint hotline on the license hanging by the toll collector: "If you don't follow the regulations, then I will complain to you immediately. Your work may be affected, so you won't let me enter the city? "
The toll collector looked stiff, and reluctantly withdrew the ID card, his tone was still stiff: "... The registered citizen fee is 1,400, a total of 2,600, and you have one hundred 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. If you live in Sunshine City, you have to pay a land use fee of 10 yuan per hour. Without the land use fee, your ID card will be marked red in one hour, and a patrol will expel you within 15 minutes."
Bai Liu raised his eyebrows: "Land use fees? What is this?"
The toll collector couldn't help but rolled his eyes for Bai Liu's ignorance: "Of course it is the cost of your land use."
"Every inch of land in Sunshine City belongs to the top five real estate developers. You are using their land every second when you stand on it, and you have to pay for it."
While talking, the toll collector showed a look of yearning: "Of course, if you have your own house in Sunshine City, it is your own place. You don't need to pay land use fees in your own house."
"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 Bailiu's ID card from the computer, and then sent the ID card and a notice of [Instructions for Entering the City]. Shan was handed to Bai Liu together with a contemptuous expression, "Here, take it in."
Bai Liu took the card and took a look. There was a line of embossed words in the lower right corner—[Sunshine City Temporary Resident Card].
[System reminder: Congratulations to the player Bailiu for officially entering Sunshine City and starting the main mission-go to the job market today and find a job that suits your heart! 】
Bai Liu entered with the ID card, and he could still hear the toll collector whispering behind him:
"There are foreigners entering the city again, and they are coming to grab a house with us. It seems that the housing prices of the real estate opened this week have to rise, and the employment competition has also increased. It is so annoying..."
Bai Liu walked into this gray-toned Sunshine City, but no pedestrian on the side of the road gave this new citizen who entered Sunshine City an extra look, walking fast on the street, talking on the phone or dealing with all kinds of things. Regarding the matter, Bai Liu noticed that there were also similar foreigners who had just entered the city trying to ask these people for directions, but they were dismissed by these impatient and indifferent ones.
After all, it costs ten dollars to stand on the ground outside for an hour. No one wants to waste the time they are spending money to help strangers.
Bai Liu took a [Instructions for Entering the City] and walked slowly on the street. While reading, he looked at the surrounding scenes from the sidelines, and was out of step with the busy crowd around him.
[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. Such residents are called first-class citizens and also known as [homeowners].
[Homeowner] Types of residents can enjoy different stages of public services such as medical treatment, education, social shopping, etc. or discounts according to the location, price, and type of their house. The land use fee will be 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 type. This type of residents got rid of the title of temporary resident because they obtained a house, and became a second-class citizen and became a [house slave].
Because the house has not been fully obtained, the welfare policy of [House Slave] in all aspects is not as big as that of [Homeowner], and the land use cost has only been 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. Ninety percent of the residents' economic income comes from the top five real estate companies, and all the houses in the city belong to the companies of the top five real estate companies.
In other words, 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 residence certificate for a house owned by the top five real estate companies, the top five companies will give you priority when you are employed.
The last type of residents are temporary residents like Bailiu.
The entire [Instructions for Entering the City] is like a real estate agent's publicity advertisement. The above all talk about the benefits of buying a house. There is a happy life for the house owner, and the housing price is not mentioned.
Bai Liu turned his face and looked at the back of the [Instructions for Entering the City].
[Instructions for entering the city] There are warnings on the back:
Sunshine City Prohibited Matters: It is forbidden to rent houses in the name of individuals, collectives, and companies. It is forbidden for individuals to buy and sell houses. It is forbidden to occupy public land in fixed locations (such as Sleeping Street) for a long time. It is not capped.
Bai Liu raised his eyebrows when he saw this.
It is forbidden for individuals to buy and sell private houses. This rule basically kills ordinary citizens from buying houses from channels other than the top five real estate firms, and also kills the way small real estate firms can start.
In other words, if ordinary citizens want to buy a house, they can only buy from the top five developers.
The prohibition of all forms of renting also cuts off the way out for those who do not buy a house.
If there is no way to buy a house, people who cannot rent a house can only find a place to live, but the third rule also cuts the way out for such people-prohibiting long-term occupation of fixed public land, which is equivalent to prohibiting you from being in Africa Stay in the housing area.
To put it simply, there is only one way to survive in Sunshine City-to buy a house from the top five developers.
Seeing here, Bailiu has basically understood that this is a city that is completely ruled by open business, or monopolized for survival.
The strange thing is that it is reasonable to say that this kind of extreme squeeze the living space of people. It is expected that the population of very low cities should be very small, and the fertility rate and marriage rate will also be very low. People cannot guarantee their own survival. Desire to reproduce offspring.
But on the contrary, the number of permanent residents in this city has reached tens of millions, the fertility rate has risen year after year, and the immigrants are also very large.
And as long as the residents enter Sunshine City, they rarely leave again.
Bai Liu looked at the slogan on the [Instructions for Entering the City] [A happy city with a marriage rate of over 50% for three consecutive years! 】
This is completely against objective laws, and there must be something in this city that he does not yet know is affecting its operation.
[System prompt: You have been wandering in the public area of Sunshine City for one hour, deducting 10 yuan for the use of land. 】
Bai Liu glanced at the prompt on the system panel. After putting it down, he looked at the place where there were so many people that they were about to overflow, and at the same place as the market, and then glanced at the display card at the door-[Talent Market].
As soon as I walked in, there were a whole row of scanning printers on both sides of the door, which read [Automatic Facial Scanning Resume Generation Apparatus], and [Swipe to print, 10 yuan per time] beside it.
There is a line in front of the machine, everyone holding their resumes anxiously shuttles back and forth among the crowd, some people squatted down in the corner of the hall drinking mineral water, and some people stared blankly at the phone waiting for a reply. People in the toilet Lined outside, there was a hoarse cry from time to time inside:
"I haven't, they didn't want me, what should I do, I can't find a job!"
"It's down to more than 3,000. I have passed the written test and the interview. They were planning to ask me, but in the end they still asked for a home ownership certificate..."
This scene is so familiar that Bai Liu, who has experienced the talent market, has a subtle... uncomfortable feeling.