Urban Sims

Biotechnology has been jointly blocked by major medical groups, and has also launched similar "20-year life extension" packages, which cost about 20 yuan. With its comprehensive technical advantages, it has regained most of the life extension market. .

Technology can be blocked, but cheapness can never be blocked. Since the "20-year life extension" package you launched is also 20 gold, well, I will cut the price by half and only charge 10 gold. Do you want to follow suit?

Not only that, but biotechnology has mastered a large number of life extension principles. As long as we don’t relax our investment and adopt the human sea tactic, I believe that every ten years, we can iteratively develop longevity technology with further life extension effects, extending life by 30 years, extending life by 40 years... …until the technical level is equaled to the level of extending life span by 50 years.

And the launch price is even cheaper!

Some people may wonder: Just trying to tie up is meaningless. Biotechnology, can’t we develop more advanced life extension technology? Achieve life extension of 100 years, 200 years, and even the ultimate...eternal life.

Zhou Ming shook his head. A life extension of 50 years was already the upper limit of life extension allowed in Area 52. If it were extended any longer, the nobles in the upper areas would take action to take away this kind of medical technology.

You must know that after the establishment of this utopian world, its starting point for scientific and technological development was several years ahead of Zhou Ming's earth. Later, it existed stably for 500 years, and focused on the medical field for 500 years. It can be said that It is said that the mysteries of life have been deciphered long ago, and we have even entered the "gene coding era" where the genetic code can be modified, added, and deleted at will. The limit of life span should have been broken long ago, and we have entered the immortal era where everyone lives forever.

but……

Area 52 is just a "civilian area" one level higher than the lower-level area. Only by entering the upper-level area can you enjoy medical treatment with better life-extending effects and be qualified to have more "slaves" in the lower-level area and "civilians" in the lower-level area. Things that cannot be owned, or in other words, are not “qualified” to have.

Therefore, Area 52 is not the top of the world, not even the so-called "upper area".

Even people living in upper-class areas can be called the noble "noble class".

At first, Zhou Ming, who had just arrived in Area 52, did not know the existence of the upper area. In other words, more than 90% of the local people in Area 52 did not know that in this world, in addition to the 52 areas, there is another The upper-class area, an upper-class area where a group of nobles lived.

Zhou Ming also learned about the existence of the upper-level district from the mouths of those high-level people after his Yuanyue Group grew bigger and bigger, entertaining more and more distinguished guests, and making friends with more and more high-level people.

A distinguished guest who had been mayor for 48 years once said to him:

"A noble from the upper-class district communicated with me through the city's intelligent management system. He said that I managed his city in an orderly manner. He admired my talents very much, so he asked me to save more money and collect enough money. If you want to go to the upper-class district, you can even give me the authority to regulate the city's tax rate, give me the overcharged tax, and say that when I go to the upper-class district, I will be assigned a new position..."

"But I refused. Although he told me that if I go to the upper-class area, I can live to at least 300 years old, and I can live twice as long and enjoy a more unrestrained life... I still refused. I love that city. I cherish my family, and more importantly, there is no food I like there..."

"So I lost my job."

He shook his head, took another bite of the food in front of him, spread his hands, and laughed at himself: "I can't help it, I'm just such a fool."

It was from this distinguished guest that Zhou Ming obtained a lot of little-known information about the upper-class area.

Such as management system, city tax rate, 300 years old, etc.

Similarly, just like entering Area 52 from the lower area, you have to pass through a door to enter the upper area from Area 52. This door also requires money to enter.

How much does a ticket to become a noble cost? Zhou Ming asked this distinguished guest.

The distinguished guest did not directly tell the answer, but just raised a finger to him and asked him to guess for himself.

100,000!

Zhou Ming guessed the answer immediately.

100,000 money.

For a mayor who has been mayor for nearly fifty years, no matter how crazy he is about amassing money, the money he can save is probably only 100,000 at most.

Since you only need to save 100,000 yuan to go to the upper class area, then the Yuanyue Group was established, through a restaurant, a condiment company, a college, hundreds of high-quality agricultural product production bases, and multiple gourmet research institutes , Zhou Ming, who has completely controlled the entire catering industry in Area 52, can he afford so much money?

He can take it out.

Before the Odorless Virus broke out on a large scale, he sometimes had as much as 330,000 yuan in his hands, enough for three people to enter the upper zone.

But after the outbreak of the virus, Yuanyue Group, which entered the medical field, burned more than 500,000 yuan in more than thirty years. Zhou Ming not only burned almost all the money reserves in his hands, but also spent more than thirty years. , most of the profits generated by Yuanyue Group have also been invested in the bottomless pit of vitality technology.

Until the launch of the life extension package by Shengsheng Technology, after completing life extension treatments for more than 50,000 customers in the past two years, Shengsheng Technology, which had earned a net profit of 600,000 yuan, finally injected a considerable sum into Zhou Ming's nearly depleted wallet. benefits.

However, the 600,000 yuan does not belong to him alone. The Yuanyue Group has a huge shortfall that needs to be filled. In the Yuanyue Alliance, some strategic partners' loans have to be repaid. After all these shortfalls and debts are filled, Zhou Ming has The money flow left only a little over five thousand.

In addition, after Shengsheng Technology lowered the price of the life extension package, the price dropped by half, resulting in a meager profit margin of only 20%. It could originally make a net profit of 300,000 yuan a year, but now it is probably only 50,000 yuan.

Of the 50,000 yuan profit, 20,000 yuan has to be invested in the research and development of new life extension technology. The actual net profit is only 30,000 yuan.

Fortunately, due to too severe price cuts, competitors have withdrawn due to unprofitability. Biotech, which has almost dominated the entire "20-year life extension" market, believes that the number of customers it has will increase to 50,000 or 80,000 per year within a period of time. Ten thousand, one hundred thousand, or more. Even if Zhou Ming personally earns one dollar from these customers, the amount is quite considerable.

It's just that Zhou Ming is now 95 years old, and his body in the outside world can already receive some anxious urgings from time to time. Although the system does not issue an "insufficient energy" alarm, Zhou Ming predicts that he will not be there again at most. If you stay in this copy for 20 years, you must quit the game.

In the past twenty years, he needs to increase his money savings as much as possible, reduce extra expenses, and strive to save 1 million money when he quits the game.

"In the next time, we should seek stability, make less fuss, and complete the primitive accumulation of money."

Of course, there must be regrets, and some regrets even made him deeply annoyed, and he often sighed in his dreams.

For example, his hometown from childhood to adolescence is the 51 underground mining area. Even after winning "The Hunger Games", he made bold statements in front of his relatives and friends that he would open the "Door to Heaven" for them, but unfortunately Unfortunately, he failed to fulfill this bold promise and had no ability to fulfill it. He made those who had expectations for him gradually become disheartened during the long wait.

Later, after he had a certain amount of money, he found someone to help him with his connections, hoping that there would be a way to bring his parents, brothers and sisters from his hometown to Area 52. If he brought someone with him, he would give him 100 coins. There should be no problem, right?

As a result, this way is just a fake way to defraud him of money even if there is no way.

As a result, Zhou Ming began to change from finding a way to "inquiring about information". From those lower-class areas, he entered the new population of Area 52 (also known as 'rats' by the locals) to inquire about information. Not to mention, Kung Fu As expected, when Zhou Ming was 44 years old, he found out information about his family from a "fellow fellow" from Area 51, whose hometown also happened to be the third mining area of ​​Area E7.

A piece of news like a bolt from the blue:

The third mining area was raided by the company, the Iron Brotherhood was wiped out, the water storage rock formations were destroyed, the Tie family repair shop was closed, and all 27 members of the Tie family died.

And this incident is not something that happened recently. It is an old incident that happened fifteen years ago. Many of the people involved in this incident have begun to forget about it.

In other words, after Zhou Ming left his hometown, within just ten years, the mining company started to slaughter the fat sheep of the Tie family, except for Zhou Ming, the stray grass, and all other roots were removed.

Zhou Ming hates!

Gritting my teeth with hatred!

But what's the use? He can't even break through the interception of the canopy system, so how can he get revenge?

Therefore, this became a regret that could never be undone and made up for in his life.

There is also the upper level area. If he wants to go, he can still go there if he saves money for two more years, and his lifespan can be greatly extended. There is still hope for this game to get a higher rating.

But he still gave up. The experience of this game was just a game of his primitive accumulation. The more resources he accumulated, the greater the initial advantage he would have in the next game, and the higher his final score would be.

And when you have almost no innate advantages and are completely unfamiliar with the unknown future, it is impossible to desire to get it right in one step and clear the level in one go.