Urban Sims

The aircraft slowed down and approached.

There was a cliff in the middle of the mountain ahead, and a huge rectangular cave passage opened a door. After the plane flew into the passage, it flew more than a thousand meters and landed slowly on a parking platform.

After getting off the plane, the staff responsible for picking him up was not cold to him. He pointed to the elevator in the corner and asked him to take the elevator up.

After entering the elevator, it went up about four to five hundred meters. After the elevator door opened, the lights in front were bright, and we entered a pure white world.

Walked some distance forward.

A glass wall blocked the front.

There is a transparent door in the middle.

"Please insert your money card, check the account balance, and confirm whether the entry criteria are met." A box-shaped device on the middle edge of the door emits a prompt sound.

Zhou Ming took out the money card from his pocket and inserted it into the card slot of the device.

"Dip~"

"The balance is 11859401206 money, which meets the entry requirements. Welcome to the top floor area." The transparent door opened automatically.

Zhou Ming walked in and walked no more than three or four hundred meters. A circular door appeared on the right side of the passage ahead. Sensing that a creature was approaching, the door made a prompt sound: "I am a medical professional." "Do you want to accept the life extension service? This device can provide you with a long-term life extension, adding 500 years to your life."

"How much is the fee?" Zhou Ming asked.

A few rows of lights above the medical door flickered like breathing, and a voice sounded: "Only 100 million dollars, and everyone only has one chance."

Zhou Ming shook his head and said: "It's too expensive, I won't do it!"

There are also many life-extending drugs in his system warehouse. It is easy to extend his life for four to five hundred years. There is no need to enter this medical door.

100 million dollars, the price of killing a fat pig. If this were in Area 52, it could complete life extension treatment for millions of people. The total life extension period would be hundreds of millions of years, but here it has shrunk to 500 years.

“Welcome next time.”

The lights at the medical door dimmed.

Zhou Ming continued to walk towards the front of the passage.

…

upper layer.

In the center of a mysterious hall.

Five people stood in front of a projection screen, staring at the upcoming newcomer in the screen. There was no expression on their faces.

"A fresh flea jumped up." After a while, someone said.

"Do you want to shoot him down?" another person asked.

"Of course, this hall is too small to accommodate so many people."

"He came here with more than 10 billion in money and three districts. He may be bouncing around for several days."

"You dare to come here with this little money. Nowadays, newcomers are becoming more and more courageous."

In the unkind tone of the five people, no one showed any sign of welcoming the newcomer who was about to arrive.

…

the next day.

Zhou Ming lived in a three-story independent villa in the building complex inside the transparent cover on the top of the mountain. The internal conditions and facilities were very complete, and he was served by housekeeping robots for three meals a day. Zhou Ming quickly adapted to life on the top floor.

Standing on the edge of the transparent cover on the top of the mountain, holding a pair of telescope equipment in his hand, Zhou Ming observed the surrounding environment of the mountain at his feet.

It is surrounded by towering snow-capped mountains.

Farther south, some plains can be seen.

In the north, there is a brown and yellow plateau landform.

The mountain at his feet was roughly located in the center of the continent, among a tall mountain range. With an altitude of over 10,000 meters, the mountain at his feet was the highest peak on the planet - equivalent to Mount Everest in his world.

Zhou Ming is not sure why the designers of this world placed the top floor area at such a high location. Is it because the physical altitude is used to set off the high status?

However, standing at the highest point on the planet's surface, experiencing the natural artistic conception of "being at the top of the mountain and seeing all the small mountains at a glance" every day, and enjoying the totalitarian taste of standing above hundreds of millions of people and controlling the fate of countless people... It feels really good. .

Even when the weather is fine, standing here, Zhou Ming can even see: the eggshell-shaped canopy system covering many areas. Since it will reflect part of the light, he can clearly see its tall inverted pot-shaped top. It is almost parallel to the mountain peak at your feet, as if there are several huge transparent tents set up around the mountain peak.

But there is a slight difference:

People living in the transparent tent could not see him, but standing at the highest point, he seemed to be able to see everyone in the tent.

The difference between the two is that one is an ant in a mound, and the other is a god in a temple.

…

The third day.

After getting familiar with the environment, Zhou Ming met the five "owners" who had been living here.

In the resource hall, these five people showed no sign of his arrival. They didn't even bother to look at him, as if they regarded him as air.

Zhou Ming found his workspace and found that there was not even a chair for him to sit on. He immediately asked: Who has an extra chair? Can you lend him one to sit on?

"Sorry, there are no extra chairs in this hall."

A man who was tired of being asked said something to him.

Zhou Ming raised the corner of his mouth, glanced at the other people, and said in a higher tone: "Oh, you mean that one of you will leave here soon and give me his chair?"

No one paid any attention to him.

None of the five people reacted to Zhou Ming's somewhat provocative words, and there was no expression on their faces.

In addition, Zhou Ming was also very surprised that these five people not only wore zombie faces every day, spoke as mechanically as a repeater, and showed no expression on their faces, even their eyes were The ancient well has no waves and nothing can be seen.

He used the ability of "soul clairvoyance" in the hope of seeing something from their souls, but he only saw a blank and could not dig out any information at all.

Even if someone with innate clairvoyance came to see it, this would probably be the case, because these five people are all "desireless ones."

The so-called "desireless person" means that by sealing part of the mind and adding some auxiliary "drugs", he suppresses all his emotions, desires, personality, habits and other characteristics, making himself emotionless, without mood swings, and A person who is extremely calm, objective and rational under any circumstances and will not expose any of his flaws and weaknesses to any opponent.

Therefore, Zhou Ming could not think of any way to deal with these five "desireless persons" who had almost no flaws or weaknesses.

It's impossible to blend in with them, because Zhou Ming is completely incompatible with these desireless people.

What's more, the conflicts of interest between them are simply impossible to reconcile.

It can even be said that everyone in the top zone has irreconcilable conflicts with each other in terms of interests.

Because there are too many chairs in the resource hall, and there are too many people sharing resources, and every "desireless person" has the same tacit ambition: this planet.

So the fewer competitors the better, preferably only one.

…

"Your resource area 50 is being purchased with a price increase of 1 million. Do you want to follow the price? If there is no reply within five minutes, the transaction will be successful."

On the sixth day after entering the top zone, someone attacked Zhou Ming and wanted to buy the 50 zone from him.

Zhou Ming does not have many resources at hand. In exchange for entering the top-level area, all the resources he controls in the upper-level area resource exchange, with a total value of more than 1.6 billion, can only be exchanged in the resource hall of the top-level area. Arrived at three ground floor areas.

These three bottom districts are District 49, District 50 and District 51 respectively.

The reason why the prices in the three areas are so expensive is that their holding periods are permanent and unlimited.

That is: once the top-level area resources are purchased, the owner has permanent profit rights and absolute control.

This is compared to the resource exchanges in upper-level areas where those who hold various resources for a limited period of 30, 50, and 100 years can own them permanently, which is equivalent to changing from a tenant farmer to a landlord.

But that doesn't mean you can sit back and relax.

Because the rules of the game in the top zone are even more cruel.

The top zone, like the bottom zone, civilian zone, and upper zone, also follows the most basic rule of the game: those with the best will be promoted, and those with the lowest will be eliminated.

The "Top Zone Rules" stipulate that under three circumstances, "elders" will also be ruthlessly eliminated.

Situation 1: In the resource hall, if the number of resources controlled is 0, it will be eliminated immediately.

Scenario 2: During the reshuffling period, the person who controls the least resources will become the target of purging, deprived of all assets, and one person will be purged every hundred years.

Scenario 3: After the elder dies (whether natural or unnatural death), all the resources and money under his control will be cleared and recycled by the system.

There is only one way to rise: there is only one person left in this resource hall and he controls all the resources. This person controls the world and has the qualifications to dialogue and negotiate with the top designers of this world.

In other words, only those who control the entire top zone can truly own this world.

Or even become the next “top designer”.

So Zhou Ming concluded: The top area is still not the highest point in the world, because there are still rules here, there are various restrictions on him, and... there is also a cruel last-place elimination rule.

Only those who control the rules, become rule changers and makers, and are not bound by any rules, are the real masters of this world.

Zhou Ming calls it the "master".

Below the ruler, there are the six strongest Gu Insects competing in the resource hall on the top floor, and the six elders are competing for the "King of Gu" every moment.

Unfortunately, Zhou Ming is the weakest among the six Gu insects.

And became the first choice for elimination in the eyes of the other five people.

There is no other reason: he controls the least resources, and he has the greatest chance of being eliminated. He has nearly satisfied two of the three elimination situations.

Moreover, it is less than a month before the "reshuffle". When I think that after the reshuffle, all resources will return to the lowest price, and the money in everyone's account will be equal, the five "desireless people" are no longer in trouble. No matter how much money is left on hand, let's bleed the newcomer first.

then.

Less than a minute later, Zhou Ming received two more messages through the money instrument in his hand.

"Your resource area 49 is being purchased with a price increase of 1 million. Do you want to follow the price? If there is no reply within five minutes, the transaction will be successful."

"Your resource Area 51 is being purchased with a price increase of 1 million. Do you want to follow the price? If there is no reply within five minutes, the transaction will be successful."