Chapter 45 House Viewing
Floors nine through seventy are residential areas, with floors nine through thirty-five being apartment buildings. These are all one-bedroom units without individual bathrooms, but have shared bathrooms and public toilets.
Renting costs 10 Ya Jing per month, while purchasing costs 500 Ya Jing per room.
The bathroom requires payment via a payment service, limited to one use per person per month. Water resources are scarce, with priority given to drinking water.
Floors 35 to 55 are residential, with two-bedroom and one-living room and three-bedroom and one-living room apartments, each with a private bathroom. The three-bedroom apartments also have a kitchenette.
The rent for a two-bedroom apartment is 30 NT dollars per month, and the purchase price is 1500 NT dollars; the rent for a three-bedroom apartment is 45 NT dollars per month, and the purchase price is 2400 NT dollars.
Floors 55 to 70 are divided into two areas: one is a garden apartment area, and the other is a detached villa area, located at opposite ends of the corridor, ensuring privacy and a comfortable lifestyle.
The villa has four bedrooms, two living rooms, and one bathroom. The rent is 80 Ya Jing per month, and the purchase price is 4500 Ya Jing per room.
The detached villas are currently only for sale, not for rent, and there are not many remaining units. The purchase price is 9900 Ya Jing.
You two seem to be planning to buy a house? Given the current situation, the sooner you buy, the sooner you can enjoy it. The number of survivors in this base will only increase, and eventually, there will definitely be a shortage of housing.
As you all know, the capital is teeming with high-ranking officials and nobles. If you don't act quickly, you won't be able to snatch up any good houses later.
The middle-aged real estate agent looked like a professional; he must have been in sales before the apocalypse. He was incredibly eloquent, speaking fluently without even taking a breath.
Finally, he also looked at Yu Miaomiao and Lu An's clothes. Seeing that they were both dressed neatly, unlike most homeless people who looked travel-worn, he concluded that they had the ability to buy things.
Of course, they also don't forget to use professional sales techniques to arouse the customer's tension and urge them to buy as soon as possible.
"Can we go take a look at the house?"
Yu Miaomiao wasn't falling for it. At this point, there might be some people who could afford to spend a huge sum of money on a house, but there couldn't be many.
They are all survivors of natural disasters and apocalypses. Just surviving is a struggle, let alone buying a house.
She didn't explicitly state whether she was renting or buying; she needed to maintain control to have more room for negotiation.
"Of course, which area would you like to see?"
"Let's take a look at the townhouses and villas."
With the Asian Crystal Points they had, plus some supplies, they were already close to the threshold for buying a villa, but she didn't intend to make a decision easily.
Based on her experience in her previous life, the military underground city in the capital had detached houses with courtyards and built-in lighting equipment, so there was no need to go to the base to pay for simulated sunlight. In the long run, this would be a considerable expense.
Furthermore, the courtyard can be modified on a small scale by oneself. However, although it is called a detached house, in reality, in addition to your front, back, left and right, there are still other neighbors above or below you, after all, the underground city is built vertically.
Each situation needs to be analyzed individually. Buying a house is not like buying cabbage; of course, you need to go to the site to inspect it before making a decision.
"Please take a look at the map first. All the houses that are not marked are either for sale or for rent."
My name is Xu Tai. May I ask how you two are addressed?
Xu Tai handed over a tablet with dynamic information about all the houses.
Whether it's moving out or moving in, buying or reselling, there are clear labels.
"Yu Miaomiao, Lu An"
"Alright, Miss Yu and Miss Lu, this part is the villa area, and the other side of the elevator shaft is the villa area."
Please take a look and see if there are any locations and floors that appeal to you. Mark them, and I'll apply for a dynamic password to view the apartment for you.
The villas consist of two floors forming one room, while the underground houses have smaller floor areas compared to the ground level, primarily catering to basic needs with smaller usable areas.
A single room is less than 15 square meters, a two-bedroom room is 45 square meters, a three-bedroom room is 65 square meters, a townhouse is 80 square meters, and a villa including the courtyard is only 160 square meters.
In terms of area, villas are definitely the most cost-effective, but not just anyone can easily come up with such a large sum of money.
Yu Miaomiao calculated that if she wanted to exchange for 6,000 sub-crystals, she would need 600 kilograms of grain.
Compared to Yu Miaomiao's tons of supplies, this is really not much.
However, for most of the base survivors, having just handed over most of their supplies to enter the base, they had very little left. Therefore, most of them chose to rent accommodation after entering the base, and ensuring their survival was their top priority.
The base provides a certain amount of sub-crystals as a wage, but it's far from enough.
The cheapest apartment rents for 10 Asia Crystals a month, while manual labor or service work at the base only pays 25 Asia Crystals a month.
The base canteen provides meals, each costing 0.25 sub-crystals. If you eat two meals a day, after a month of hard work, you'll receive almost nothing.
So most people lived a life of just getting by at the base. If they couldn't afford the rent, they would sleep in the square to save money. The public areas had deck chairs or other flat places, which were often full of people sleeping there.
As long as they don't do anything outrageous, the base won't stop or interfere. In this apocalyptic world, surviving is already a difficult thing, so why make things harder for these people?
"These two sets will do."
Yu Miaomiao pointed to a 66-story villa in the villa area and a villa on the same floor near the inner passage on the edge of the villa area. She didn't want to attract too much attention, so she found a corner but a convenient place to put her things to do, where she wouldn't easily get noticed or affected.
"Okay, please wait a moment, have some water, I'll go apply for the dynamic password in the backend right away."
While Yu Miaomiao was struggling with her decision, Xu Tai thoughtfully provided them with drinking water. There are more than 30 underground water outlets in the base, 13 of which are already in use. Currently, the base has a limited water supply, so the drinking water supply for all survivors is still relatively guaranteed.
If water resources become scarce later, the remaining groundwater will be accessed. The groundwater is about ten meters away from the bottom of the base, and can be extracted by digging deeper when needed.
"Come, you two, follow me."
Xu Tai applied for the password, took three helmets, and handed one to Yu Miaomiao and one to Lu An.
"You can ride electric scooters, right? I'll take one, and you two can ride the other, following behind me." Xu Tai pointed to two gray electric scooters in the corner of the hall.
"It's the apocalypse, is it really okay for the house-hunting process to be so down-to-earth?" But the underground city is very large and complex, and having a small electric scooter can indeed save a lot of time.
The two weren't being coy; they put on helmets, Lu An drove while Yu Miaomiao sat in the back, and they sped off alongside Xu Tai.
The underground city has many roads, including elevators and stairs, as well as layers of ramps and floors, wide enough for two cars to drive side by side.
It is truly an underground city.
After riding for more than ten minutes, the electric scooter arrived at an elevator entrance. Xu Tai explained, "The elevators here are arranged side by side on both sides, with eight elevators in each row. Six are for living rooms and two are for freight. There are also elevators on the streets behind, near the central square, and they are the same size as here. The electric scooter can't go into the elevator, so we'll have to walk from here, but it's not far."
Xu Tai stopped the car, took out a lock, and was about to lock both cars together and then lock them to the iron railing next to him.
"No need for all that trouble." Yu Miaomiao waved her hand, and the electric scooter disappeared from the spot.
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Xu Tai swallowed hard. "Space-related, huh... Hahaha, Miss Yu is truly young and promising."
The group entered the elevator, selected the 66th floor, and the elevator descended quickly, arriving in less than 3 minutes.
The first thing you see is the gate to the community, which really does look like a community from before the apocalypse, except that the gate is electric and facial recognition is still required at the entrance.
Anyone who is a legitimate citizen of the dungeon can enter by scanning their face.
"This villa community offers much more privacy compared to apartments and residences, and there are also separate elevators within the community, making it convenient to visit each other. If you and your girlfriends each live in an apartment on the same floor, it's very convenient to meet up."
Xu Tai began his long explanation again. After passing through a passage, they arrived at the door of 6603. Pushing the door open, they found the house to be decorated in a simple and rugged style, with earthen walls and gray bricks. However, in the post-apocalyptic world, being able to live in such a house was something that many people would never even dare to dream of.