Resurrection Empire
Chapter 344 - 145: Showing Talent, Overnight Wealth of President Yang

Chapter 344: Chapter 145: Showing Talent, Overnight Wealth of President Yang

Ren Zhong and the five others walked out of the villa, leisurely heading to the parking lot.

While everyone was having breakfast, Yang Bingzhong had already sent a notification informing Ren Zhong that his two Qingfeng Heavy Trucks were left in the VIP garage of the parking lot, and the keys were deposited in the auto custody machine for them to collect themselves.

Chromium Carbon Town was still bustling in the early morning.

Above the sky, various models and functions of flying devices continued ceaselessly back and forth.

The streets were bustling with people.

The air carried a faint smell of gunpowder mixed with hints of human life.

Compared to Starfire Town, where almost all the wastelanders could only fill their stomachs with cheap synthetic food, many kitchens in the homes of wastelanders in Chromium Carbon Town exuded the aroma of cooking oil.

Ren Zhong and the others passed through the White Wall gate, walked past the Town Government Tower, and then walked out another hundred meters, just passing by the neatly arranged eight hemispherical fortress concentrated sleep pods.

In the 21st century, these eight hemispherical fortresses would look like a group of commercial buildings of unique design.

But here, it was the safe zone for the wastelanders at night.

At this time, seven of them were intact, while one had a huge hole on the lower side, with a diameter of about seven or eight meters.

The edge of the ruptured hole was inwardly sunken, with twisted metal edges showing signs of corrosion.

As for the shape of the depression, it seemed like it had been violently hit by a large Ruined Beast.

Over a dozen engineering machines were busy around the hole.

Through the break, Ren Zhong could see the damaged iron beds inside, as well as the bloodstains on the ground.

Other passersby didn’t bother to spare it a glance, as if they were used to it, thinking it as common as sunrise and sunset.

On the street, a small number of houses on either side of the road showed obvious damage and collapse.

Some airborne robots were buzzing around these buildings, performing cutting, welding, painting, and other work.

The streets were crowded and bustling.

Most pedestrians appeared stronger than the wastelanders from Starfire Town, and there was a much higher proportion of scavengers equipped with weapons, as well as many workers in uniforms moving hurriedly.

The expressions of the pedestrians looked more spirited, often with three or five people huddled together walking side by side, engaging in lively conversations.

Ren Zhong activated the auditory monitoring system built into his armor.

A large amount of conversation flowed into his ears through auditory resonance.

He discovered a subtle phenomenon.

When people discussed last night’s "incident" at the concentrated sleep pods, they only briefly mentioned who had died, felt a bit emotional about the unpredictability of life, noted that one should enjoy their wealth as they earn it, and then quickly shifted the topic, not dwelling on it.

Because death in one’s sleep is something beyond control, no amount of talk can avert danger, so why waste words.

The most talked-about topics were their work, life, and gossip.

For example, about who found an unclaimed Ruined Beast carcass while going out, who dared to venture into a Ruined Beast’s habitat and came out alive with a small fortune, and who finally passed the mechanic assessment of a certain N-level subsidiary under Purple Crystal Mining and got a prestigious official job, and this person immediately took a mortgage on a small alloy building near the White Wall.

Hearing this, Ren Zhong checked some data. _{fre.eweb novel\.c om}

He "surprisingly" found that there was actually a real estate industry in Chromium Carbon Town! And you could even mortgage in installments!

Unbelievable.

But real estate here is different from the real estate he remembered, it’s a characteristic of Source Star, or perhaps a specialty of Chromium Carbon Town.

Wastelanders can’t get loans, and buying a house in installments has its own intricacies.

Before the buyer settles the full house payment, the ownership of the house still belongs to the seller.

If the buyer dies before settling the house payment, and their designated heir is unable to continue paying the installment,

then the seller will be able to reclaim full ownership of the property and can resell it, without needing to refund any contribution points the buyer had already paid, only requiring the payment of a wealth income tax to the Town Government of Chromium Carbon Town by proportion.

Additionally, the property owner must periodically pay a certain amount of tax based on the value of the house, known as the property holding tax.

Under such bizarre town rules, home buying is essentially a gamble.

The gamble is on how tenacious the buyer’s life is, and how tenacious the buyer’s heirs’ lives are.

Oddly enough, this real estate market is quite prosperous.

Especially the houses in the outer district near the White Wall are in high demand and very valuable.

According to statistical rules, the closer the area is to the White Wall, the less impact it suffers from Ruined Beast attacks, and the safer the houses are.