Alien Relic Hunter

"Why?" Qin Zhao was stunned for a moment and asked, "Isn't our current headquarters very good - a prosperous location, spacious space, and various supporting civil facilities. If we move here, we don't have to start from scratch. ?"

"The current headquarters is good, but the advantages you mentioned are also disadvantages." Ke Lan analyzed one by one, "First of all, the location is prosperous. Yes, the East Fourth District, the Shengtang Business District, can indeed be regarded as an inch of land. The land price in this prime location is even more expensive than most land in the third district. If we have too much money to spend, this is indeed a good choice."

"But it is too expensive. According to the original plan, we did not plan to choose the current address for our headquarters. This building in the Shengtang Business District was half sold and half given to us by the Ye Family Group. Otherwise, it would have been With the funds we had at that time, there was no way we could afford to rent this kind of office building—let alone a whole building. With the rent in this contract, it was estimated that we could rent half a floor as an office in the Shengtang Business District. We can’t even talk about it.”

Ke Lan and others knew in their hearts that the current headquarters building of the God Hunting Group was actually given to them by the Ye Consortium, and asking Thor Heavy Industries to collect the rent was actually just a meaning.

"If the Ye Corporation had known at that time that you would become the person in charge of 'Yagunaktor', it is estimated that the contract was not a lease but a sale at a low price." Thirty-three interjected, "The people of the Ye Corporation are very discerning. It’s vicious, but it’s a pity that they were a little petty when they invested.”

"Even if they gave it directly at that time, we wouldn't dare to ask for it. The recipient is short-handed. Who knows what kind of price it will cost to repay such a big gift at that time..." Ke Lan shook his head, "Although we are now with The relationship between Ye's consortium is in the honeymoon period, but no one is sure what will happen in the future. Allies maintained by interest relationships are not reliable, and we must find a way out for ourselves."

"It makes sense." Thirty-three nodded, while Qin Zhao fell into silence, seeming to be thinking about something.

"Secondly, the land in the Shengtang Business District is almost saturated. Although all supporting facilities are complete, there is no room for continued expansion." Ke Lan continued, "I have previously investigated all the properties within one kilometer of the headquarters. Shops, without exception, are all backed by powerful consortiums. With the support of a steady flow of cash flow, these shops will not go bankrupt even if they operate at a loss... even if those consortiums want to give up. The store will not transfer the store and land, but will digest it internally and let other companies under the consortium take over, or simply transform."

Ke Lan smiled and said: "If the Ye Group is just for 'gifts', how could Raytheon Heavy Industries give up such a prime location store? To be honest with you, the news just came out that Raytheon Heavy Industries plans to sublease this building to us. When it was released, its stock price fell by four percentage points in an instant, which shows how important this store is to Thor Heavy Industries."

"Indeed, we went to the Shengtang Business District when we were purchasing equipment. The Raytheon Heavy Industries store there - which is the current headquarters of your God Hunting Group - had a lot of traffic. At that time, all their new products would be sold Priority is given to displaying it there. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the offline flagship store of Thor Heavy Industries. Transferring the flagship store will definitely have an impact on the stock price." Thirty-three said solemnly.

Although he claimed that he knew nothing but fighting, this was obviously a self-effacing statement.

"Yes, so we want to expand by acquiring other stores, and the money we need to spend will be an astronomical figure." Ke Lan nodded, "Although our current headquarters building has enough space, you must know Our entire hunting group now has less than ten hunters in total. When the hunting group expands, one building will definitely not be enough.

A standard consortium-level hunting group requires at least four or five football fields of land just for the 'three major items' of training camp, equipment warehouse and workshop, not to mention buildings such as employee dormitories - it requires You know, the old subordinates of Hound now all live in the seventh district or even further back. It takes more than four hours for them to commute to and from get off work every day. In addition to the commercial district in the East Fourth District, the rest of the The residential areas are all high-end communities, which are not what we can afford. "

"Uh... I made a rough calculation. If we want to buy four football field-sized land in Shengtang Business District, based on the current quotation per square meter, we will probably need..." Qin Zhao took out his mobile phone and pressed a button , and then began to count the long series of zeros, "Ten, hundreds, thousands, hundreds, thousands... Well, so far, it's hundreds of millions... One billion, tens of billions... It takes almost... four hundred and seventy billion... …”

Even she herself was shocked by the calculated number.

"Four-seven billion is still a conservative estimate. This thing cannot be calculated based on the average price." Ke Lan sighed, "As long as you show your intention to expand and acquire, the surrounding land will directly start to raise prices... Now It will be at this price only if no one wants to buy it. When someone really wants to buy it, it will not be available at this price. Not only that, the more area you acquire, the more expensive the remaining land will be. For example I want to acquire 50,000 square meters of land, and if I buy it per unit of 5,000 square meters, the price of the last 5,000 square meters may rise to more than ten times that of the first 5,000 square meters. This is not an exaggeration at all."

Ke Lan paused and then said: "According to my idea, the building in the Shengtang Business District can be left to serve as an office and liaison station, and the headquarters of the hunting group can be moved to the newly built East Nine District. , and invested in the construction of several communities to serve as dormitories for employees' families... To be honest, although the Arasaka Consortium is our enemy, I quite like their original "national-China" business model, but I guess it will cause trouble. After this incident, Ark officials should strengthen their control over each block."

"The expenses of a consortium-level hunting group are not just a play, and only those large consortiums with strong financial resources can afford to spend this money. Otherwise, they would not be named 'consortium level'." Thirty-three sighed. , “When my brothers and I were thinking about changing careers to become relic hunters, we also thought about registering a hunting group, but in the end, we decided to make our debut as independent hunters.”

"Why? If there is a hunting group organization, will it have the right to have priority when accepting tasks? Most of the tasks that independent hunters can receive are leftovers picked by those hunting groups." Qin Zhaoren kept asking.

"We did some research at that time and found out that to set up a hunting group, the various fees that need to be paid every month are tens of thousands. Of course, if the hunters under the name of the hunting group are very active, they can use the activity gained from exploring the ruins. The money was used to offset most of the fees and taxes. This money was originally intended to prevent someone from using the name of a shell hunting group to obtain information, but the problem was that the few of us did not go on missions frequently, and we did not want to attract a large number of new people. In the end, I can only give up."

"If you choose to join someone else's hunting group, there are exploration targets that need to be completed every month. If you fail to meet them, your salary will be reduced or even fired... We still prefer the feeling of freedom and do not want to be controlled by others, so we became lone hunters. ." Thirty-three continued, "I think most people who regard exploring ruins as a hobby or side job should make this choice."

"For any existing consortium-level hunting group, it is impossible to recover the initial investment costs and turn losses into profits within ten or twenty years." Ke Lan shrugged, "But for the top level Ruins information, we have no choice.”

"You are among the top elite hunters, and you take on the most difficult missions. The reward for one of your missions is enough to equal the harvest of a hundred middle-level hunters for several years... But your method also has obvious drawbacks. It’s just that the risk is too high. As long as there is an accident, the entire army will be wiped out. And this kind of accident is too common in S-class and A-class ruins."

"Ha, of course I know that. I heard the employees below say more than once that we are just rushing to die." Ke Lan smiled, "But it's strange to say that since we started to form a team , so far, there has been no less than one person, which can only be explained by good luck. After all, in A-class and S-class ruins, humans are no different from ants. No matter how strong they are, any mechanism can do it It’s going to kill you.”

"Then why do you still want to explore the ruins yourself?" Thirty-three asked again, "According to the normal development trajectory, your hunting group is like walking on a tightrope, relying entirely on the support of a few of you. As long as you If an accident occurs during the exploration process, the entire hunting group will naturally fall apart... and it is only a matter of time before the accident occurs.

If you maintain the current status quo, I guarantee that your hunting group will not survive even five years.

But now, an opportunity that others only dream of is before your eyes. This is an opportunity that can completely change the fate of the Hunting God Hunting Group. With the development rights of the new S-class ruins, you can recruit others to help you. You work part-time and accumulate a lot of wealth and resources, so that the hunting group can embark on a healthy development trajectory. There is absolutely no need for you to take risks! "

"You are different from us." Thirty-three sighed, "Those of us who want to find out the truth of the matter will do it ourselves, but if it were you, sitting on the sofa in the office, someone would tell you the details The exploration report will be delivered to your desk, right?"

"If you think so, you are totally wrong." Ke Lan stared at the other party and said word by word, "Practice can only give you true knowledge, only what you see, hear, and touch with your own eyes... ...can be considered the truth.”

Thirty-three was stunned, and even the steps under his feet stopped. He paused for a moment, then took steps to follow, and asked in a deep voice: "What is it that you want to find out... the truth?"

"To be honest, I don't know either." Ke Lan shook his head.

The four of them passed through a construction site piled with building materials. This was already the edge of the New East 9th District. Logically speaking, these construction sites should be in full swing at this time, but along the way, they continued to Not a single worker was seen.

Only unmanned construction machinery was parked there—many lighting lines in the New East 9th District were not powered yet, and these machinery looked like giant monsters dormant in the shadows.

On the road that has been completed on the side, there are several no-traffic road signs placed.

"No access? What's going on?" Qin Zhao glanced at the navigation software on his phone, "This road should be passable? Why is it closed?"

"Of course you can walk on this road. If this road is closed to traffic, the construction materials on the construction site will not be transported at all." Thirty-three pointed at several large trucks parked on the roadside and said.

"Then these brands..."

"It was put up temporarily." Ke Lan said, "The East Eighth District is blocked."

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of garrison soldiers suddenly turned out from the corner of the street. As soon as they saw the four of them, a dazzling searchlight beam directly covered their heads and faces.

"Who is that person there?! Where did he come from?" a soldier shouted.

"We are relic hunters, coming from the East 10th District. We missed the train, so we planned to pass through here and go to the East 8th District to find transportation." Ke Lan replied.

"Don't go any further, the front is blocked! Put your hands where we can see, and slowly come towards us, we will take you to the nearest containment facility."

"Blocked? Did something happen in the East Eighth District?" Ke Lan asked, suddenly having a bad feeling.

"Not only the East Eighth District, but the entire Ark is also under emergency blockade. So if you turn around and go back, the East Tenth District won't let you in!" the soldier said.

"What's going on? The whole ship is blocked?" Ke Lan shouted in his heart that something was wrong - at first, he thought that there was another "container" with corrosive seeds mixed on the Ark, but even in this case, at most it was It is impossible to blockade the whole ship after blocking several areas... In his impression, after the Ark landed on Alpha Planet, there was only one blockade of the whole ship: that time it was because a group of extremely fierce flying creatures attacked from the air. Ark, and invaded the interior of Ark. In order to reduce civilian casualties as much as possible, the parliament issued an order to block the entire ship.

But after several large fleets of Ark were established, this kind of thing never happened again.

Could it be that something has invaded again this time? And...is it the kind of thing that even the Undead Crew Association can't handle in a while?

"It says it is an acute infectious disease with high infection and fatality rates." The soldier had a pretty good temper and patiently explained to Ke Lan and others, "Don't ask so many questions, we know In fact, they are not much more than you."

"Where is the outbreak of the infectious disease? This can tell us, right?"

"I don't know." The soldier shook his head, "The order we received is to seal the borders of each block... You are lucky. After a while, the wall will probably be lowered. If you are imprisoned in Xindong In District 9, I’m afraid even eating is a problem.”