Master of Kaidan
Chapter 111

Chapter 111: Chapter 111

After leaving the black market, Feng Xue followed Huo Mu to learn how to use work cards to search for self-operated stores and apply for remote jobs (ordinary filling areas require employment agencies because there are no work cards; with a work card, one can apply for remote jobs), became acquainted with some mid to low-tier raw material merchants, visited several so-called "official" stores, namely pawnshops, identification offices, and auction houses set up by the local lords of the residential areas, and gained a certain understanding of the prices in South District.

The identification price of 200,000 per item meant that your Pseudo Artifact must be at least a Fine Level Top-Grade or even an Excellent Level not to incur a loss, which resulted in the official auction only featuring Pseudo Artifacts of Fine Level or above.

Compared to the scrimping and saving transactions in the black market, the higher-end Equipment was more likely to appear in the official auction house. For instance, Feng Xue saw five or six pieces of Perfect Equipment and Inheritance Equipment here that she had never seen in the black market, and there were even more than twenty pieces of Excellent Level Equipment—however, the auction periods for these items were quite long, and, with no fixed prices, acquiring the desired items required plenty of time.

Upon learning this, Feng Xue couldn’t help but maliciously speculate—was it the officials’ intention for these people to face some accidents so that they wouldn’t have to return the deposits?

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"Alright, boss, this is pretty much all the basic knowledge you need to live in South District. Is there anything else you don’t understand or want to know?"

After taking Feng Xue on a final tour around the spaceport heading to Garbage Mountain, Huo Mu finally asked with a smile, and Feng Xue nodded:

"I need a property. Any recommendations?"

"Uh, are you not satisfied with the employment dormitory provided by Infinite City?" Huo Mu was slightly taken aback by the question, as normally, as long as one holds a job, Infinite City will provide an employment dormitory no matter where one is. Concerning Feng Xue not having a job, she had never considered this issue. For people living in South District, a work card is a necessity of life; without employment, where would one get a work card?

Feng Xue was out of options. After losing his Corpse Collector job, he had never sought a new job, although presently he could use the tags Chef or Assassin, but undoubtedly, neither was suitable for Infinite City.

Being a Chef would mean cooking frequently, but setting aside the fact that people in Infinite City don’t need to eat, all meat ingredients in the city are "toxic"—eating them directly causes calamities. And as an Assassin... one must know that the job tags in Infinite City are awarded based on their benefit to Infinite City. Corpse Collection, for example, increases the stability of the filling areas and hence has its tag, but causing calamities brings no benefit to Infinite City, so he didn’t get a new tag for that.

He didn’t expect that after getting this job, his assassination targets would be other Inhabitants or Kaidan; more likely, they would just throw him on the border to assassinate those super calamities.

Seeing that Feng Xue didn’t speak, Huo Mu, being very professional, didn’t ask further but nodded and said:

"House trading isn’t popular in Infinite City, but there are still some people who will do some unnecessary renovations on houses and then rent them out to..."

At this point, Huo Mu paused, forcibly swallowing the words "rich idiots with money to waste" that were on the tip of his tongue, replacing them with "people who enjoy luxury."

"What’s the price?" Feng Xue asked, feeling uneasy about this description. Despite earning fifty to sixty thousand daily, after an earlier round of purchases, he had only about one hundred fifty thousand left. From the general perception of a flower bunny like him, even renting what practically amounted to a capital villa could cost a fortune.

However, what he heard from Huo Mu was—

"About eighty thousand Ta a month."

"What?" Feng Xue gaped, thinking he had heard wrong, but Huo Mu misunderstood and explained:

"After all, the cost of laying pipes and decorations needs to be covered, and because it’s a niche market, they can’t reduce the price of a single house by selling in bulk. Even haggling would only save a few hundred Ta."

"Is this what housing prices look like in a world where you get a house upon employment?" Feng Xue wondered internally, then said:

"Let’s go have a look. Hmm, I’m not too fussy about the number of floors, but I’d prefer it to be close to the middle level."

"No problem," Huo Mu nodded, his impression of Feng Xue being wealthy growing stronger.

It’s a pity she’s also a ’None,’ otherwise he might have added some recognition to Feng Xue’s ’Money Printer’ tag.

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Renting turned out to be easier than expected; Feng Xue signed the housing contract after hardly a few words. The other party didn’t even take a deposit and didn’t ask him to pay half a year’s rent upfront, but actually, this was normal because Infinite City’s contracts could complete payments remotely.

This was just like VIP automatic renewals—once the contract was signed, every month, Infinite City would automatically deduct the funds until Feng Xue decided to stop the auto-renewal.

That’s right, renting in South District was just that capricious; Feng Xue could terminate the renewal anytime. Were it not for the fact that Infinite City’s contracts were free from ambiguity and wordplay, Feng Xue might even feel as if it was a scheme to "watch over the mansion for the villa owner, secretly renting out the house."

But it had to be said that the interior decoration of the house was genuinely nice. It had two floors, a bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, gym, gaming room—equipped with nearly everything except a toilet. Unfortunately, the gaming consoles in the gaming room were Pseudo Artifacts and required burning ’Identity’ to operate. At ten Ta per hour, it seemed not too much; however, considering that the minimum consumption for a None’s survival was merely one hundred Ta, he again felt he was perhaps being a bit extravagant.

After inspecting his future "domain," Feng Xue nodded in satisfaction and then said:

"If I were to consider buying this house, how much would it cost?"

"Uh, well, sir, there really isn’t a need to buy it," Huo Mu immediately shook his head, "The selling price of this house is about ten million plus, which is enough to buy a Perfect Level Pseudo Artifact. Even converted to rent, it would cover ten years of living here, and who knows if this house would still exist in ten years!"

"Alright then." Feng Xue’s rationality agreed that Huo Mu’s advice was sensible, but as a habitual flower bunny, he still harbored some attachment to owning property.

Shaking his head to dismiss the somewhat foolish idea of buying a house, Feng Xue turned to Huo Mu, who was still following him, and asked:

"When will the purchased items be delivered?"

"The fabrics need to be tailored; they should arrive by tonight." Huo Mu, noticing that Feng Xue was no longer constantly asking questions like before, knew his job for the day was nearly done and thus started:

"I’ll go take care of the delivery address now. Also, if there’s anything else, you can contact me directly. I’m at your call."

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