Urban Sims

City center, resource exchange.

Resources: Phoenix City, District 52; Period: 50 years; Price: 4.5 million dollars; Status: Sold; Price increase: None

Resources: Donghai City, District 52; Period: 50 years; Price: 28.7 million gold; Status: Sold; Whether there is a price increase: None

Resources: Gangjing City, District 52; Period: 50 years; Price: 1.6 million gold; Status: Sold; Whether there is a price increase: None

Resources: Yaoxing City, District 52; Period: 50 years; Price: 31.2 million gold; Status: Sold; Whether there is a price increase: Yes

Resources: Area 03; Period: 30 years; Price: 36 million gold; Status: Sold; Whether there is a price increase: None

Resources: Area 51; Years: 30 years; Price: 2.4 million gold; Status: Sold; Price increase: None

resource:……

Looking at the scrolling transaction information displayed on the information panel, Zhou Ming held his chin with his fingers and fell into deep thought.

"Donghai City is an important material transit city. A large amount of materials are transported every year through ocean-going cargo ships into the upper area. Therefore, the export economy is extremely developed. The purchase price is more than 28 million dollars..."

"Gangjing City has long been destroyed by the war. The current population is less than 500,000, and it can't produce any benefits. It was sold for more than one million yuan. It was completely expected..."

"Yaoxing City is actually the city with the highest prices among the 120 cities in District 52... But this is normal. This city has corporate giants such as Biosperm Medical and Yuanyue Catering Group. Coupled with my wise governance, , has now become a city where every inch of land is at a premium, and it is normal to sell it for more than 31 million yuan..."

Seeing this, Zhou Ming's face lit up slightly, and he felt quite accomplished.

However, no matter how expensive a single city is, it is still not as expensive as a complete district. For example, District 03 has a population of more than 50 million. Its huge population, coupled with various resources on millions of square kilometers of land, is worth 36 million. Money, of course.

But there are also some areas with sparse population and few resources, which are sold very cheaply. For example, Zhou Ming's hometown 51 underground mining area only sells for two million yuan, which is the cheapest among the 51 bottom areas.

On this resource trading information panel, in addition to the 51 lower-level districts and the 120 cities in District 52, the Paradise Island in the upper-level district, in addition to the game city, the nearly 400,000 square kilometers of land on the island has also been divided into All 40 blocks can be purchased.

However, because Paradise Island does not produce resources, each of these 40 pieces of land is sold for just over 10 million yuan and has a lifespan of 100 years.

In short, this information panel contains all the resources of this planet from the bottom areas, to the civilian areas, to the aristocratic areas.

Looking at the information on this panel, Zhou Ming secretly calculated and found that if he wanted to buy all the resources on this panel, it would cost approximately 1.5 billion.

Of course, because the land on Paradise Island does not produce resources and is a bit like real estate development, even if it can make money, the purchase is not of great significance.

Therefore, excluding Paradise Island, the price of controlling this world is actually about 1 billion dollars.

With 1 billion money, can you control the world of money?

Zhou Ming shook his head. This is just an ideal situation. Because of the price increase system, there will definitely be a lot of cost to overcome resistance during the purchase process, resulting in an expense of well over 1 billion.

For example, in Yaoxing City, when Zhou Ming became the mayor, in order to control the entire bureaucracy, he paid a cost that far exceeded the benefits that the powerful positions themselves could produce. For example, a position that could produce 5,000 monetary benefits, When competitors raise prices, you often have to pay 8,000 or even 10,000.

Of course, most of those who raised prices were killed by the killers sent by Zhou Ming. They failed, but what about other cities? What about the other 119 cities?

It is impossible for Zhou Ming to go on a killing spree like this, which will definitely lead to the strong intervention of the Balancer.

Therefore, except for Yaoxing City, Zhou Ming gave up his plan to control the bureaucracy of other cities. The cost was too high, even if it could bring a lot of benefits.

In the same way, in an upper-class district where killing one person is punished by ten times one's net worth, the cost of killing is greatly increased. Secondly, there are more rich people in the upper-class district, and the average life expectancy is longer and the wealth accumulated is more, so a certain person Some of the bid raisers had money to stop Zhou Ming from achieving his goal.

It may cost 2 billion, but it may not be possible to control all the resources on this trading panel.

Not to mention 2 billion, it would be difficult for Zhou Ming to earn even 1 billion.

Of course, it's difficult, but that doesn't mean it's impossible.

Because in the upper area, there are betting games and zero-sum games!

It can even be said that the existence of these two things provides a shortcut to anyone, a shortcut to success and having everything in a short life.

Betting games: can make you rich overnight.

Zero-sum game: It allows you to take away everything from others in a short period of time.

This process does not require long accumulation, as long as you have superb gaming skills and a little bit of luck.

Moreover, Zhou Ming also found that in the upper-class area, if he wanted to realize his dream of being worth more than 1 billion, it was basically impossible to take any other path except gambling.

Because the resources on the resource trading panel, after buying them, the profit effect is not obvious.

For example, the price of Yaoxing City is 31.2 million gold/50 years. Assume that this city, through the urban management system, can generate benefits of 700,000 gold every year. Multiplied by 50 years, that is 35 million gold. After deducting the cost, the average In one year, you only earn 76,000 yuan, and the annual rate of return is only 2.4% per thousand... This kind of rate of return is not as good as playing a slightly bigger game in a betting game.

Therefore, Zhou Ming has a rough plan in mind for future development:

First, make a fortune in betting games that are basically guaranteed to make money.

Then go to the resource exchange, buy a few cities, or buy two districts, build your own power, and run it well.

Finally, if there is really no other way, it is best not to become a gambler and play those dangerous gambles or zero-sum games, which will lead to losing everything and being ruined.

After all, to be honest, Zhou Ming is not good at gambling, or in other words, he does not think that he will be better than those professional masters who have been gambling for decades or hundreds of years with less exposure, practice, and familiarity with gambling skills. .

Because any industry, including gambling, is a science.

…

Three years later.

Game City, a large building similar to a gymnasium, has tens of thousands of seats filled with spectators wearing different costumes.

These audiences were facing the ground in the middle of the stadium. The three-dimensional projection equipment that was divided into four sides and spread out 360 degrees played a huge projection image, making a huge noise.

The crowds are huge and deafening!

Noisy and lively!

In the huge projection with a length and width of more than 100 meters, an extremely exciting scene was being played.

Tracers are everywhere, shrapnel is flying, human beings are being slaughtered, and flesh and blood are flying everywhere.

A transparent canopy system with electric light flashing inside continuously compresses the range and rains down thunder and lightning, chopping humans outside the range into coke.

In just three hours, out of a thousand humans, only seven were still standing within a safe area.

The 133rd game of "War Game" is announced to be over.

Tens of thousands of spectators in the venue made various noises:

"Seven people survived. I bought eight people for 30 dollars, but they are gone." The audience looked disappointed and regretful.

"Out of those seven people, I won three of them! Eighty-eight times, the money I invested has increased eighty-eight times!" This audience member danced excitedly.

"I only bought the right person, and I just saved my capital."

"The number of people was bought correctly, but the player number was only correct for one. Fifty gold can only be turned into one hundred."

"It's a monster! There is a guy who not only bought the right number of players, but also bought all the player numbers correctly, which doubled by 300,000 times! He made 30 million!"

"What? How is that possible?"

"30 million, grandma's, how about giving me one-tenth of it?"

"Who is he? I want to meet him, learn a few tricks from him, and borrow some money from him!"

After the winning information on the three-dimensional projection was announced, the audience on the stage exploded and had heated discussions. They all expressed their desire to see who the winner was.

Zhou Ming, who was wearing a simulated mask, took the 30 million money card from the organizer's staff and quietly left the stadium.

"30 million, I made the largest amount of money in the past three years."

This amount of money even exceeded the total money earned in the past three years: 18 million.

In addition to the 30 million earned from this, there is now a full 48 million in Zhou Ming's account.

Some people may be wondering, doesn’t Zhou Ming know the final winners of many competitions in advance? Why is the money coming in so slowly, only 48 million in three years?

Even if the middle odds are 1:10, if he bets 100,000 dollars each time, as long as he bets correctly fifty times in a row, wouldn't he be able to earn 50 million dollars?

With an average betting frequency of about a hundred times a year, and a small profit of 100 million per year, it shouldn't be a big problem, right?

Having said that, in reality, this is not the case.

Because Zhou Ming's betting accuracy is less than 30%, and it gets lower as you go further.

The reason for this situation, Zhou Ming believes, may be the butterfly effect caused by the mutual interaction of related events, which has led to the process and results of many competitions being completely different from what Zhou Ming expected. The players who would win in the previous life, in this life, Maybe in the first ten seconds, he becomes a tragic cannon fodder.

And most of the players he bought were strong men with stable performance. They did not rely on luck to win, but relied on their strong strength to win without any luck... This kind of player is not just Zhou Ming, but also other bettors. A lot of money was bet on him, causing the odds to drop to only 1:5, 1:3 or even below 1:2, with no huge profits to be made.

In addition, for some players who are 100% sure to win and have high odds, after Zhou Ming places a heavy bet, the odds will drop a lot, resulting in not much profit... because the betting odds will increase with the amount of money bet. When changes occur, the player who bets the most money will of course have the lowest odds, reaching a dynamic balance.

In the end, Zhou Ming discovered that only "War Game" with a lottery-like gameplay was more likely to make a fortune.

Because the gameplay of "War Game" is diverse, you can guess the number of survivors; you can also buy ten player numbers to see how many survive; you can also guess the number of survivors and the number of surviving players together... There are three betting methods, place a bet The principals are 30, 50 and 100 gold respectively, and the corresponding maximum odds are 5 times, 10,000 times and 300,000 times respectively... The more complex the betting method, the higher the odds.

In addition, "War Game" also has the concept of a "bonus pool": if the number of successful bettors in the first few games is small and the bets taken away are not much, the remaining bets will continue to accumulate. In subsequent games, resulting in the maximum odds, it will go up.

Naturally, seeing the tens or hundreds of millions of money accumulated in the prize pool, the jealous and enthusiastic punters will definitely bet even more crazily.

Therefore, during the past three years, Zhou Ming bought every game of "War Game" for a total of 18 games. Although the probability of winning was not high due to the butterfly effect, he still made a small profit of 5 million.

Coupled with this explosion of character and 30 million in money, Zhou Ming discovered: as long as the more people participate, the greater the chance of a lucky individual becoming rich!