I Can Reap Qi Fortune from Players-Chapter 430 - 223: SimCity, Car Manufacturing, and Toll Booth Construction

Chapter 430: Chapter 223: SimCity, Car Manufacturing, and Toll Booth Construction

"Don’t worry, sir."

The Sword Fairy was still mumbling some inexplicable phrases:

"They are just like exhibition phones in a store, tied with strings for display, having a certain range of activity but can’t be stolen easily."

Recently, they’re into training the old AI manager, always saying strange modern words, various incomprehensible memes.

Ning Zheng pretended not to hear them.

And he thought it was quite interesting how they were.

He could get a side-view understanding of their world, local customs, and cultural conditions.

"But it’s good that the Divine Weapon is locked up."

Ning Zheng knew these tourist scholars might appear proper, but behind the scenes, they often engaged in sneaky activities.

The more scholarly someone appears, the more cunning they might be.

In this regard, one can refer to the previous royal family, supposedly Nine-State’s strongest scholarly family; that courteous Saint always seemed suspicious!

And those little blacksmiths thought they were well-hidden.

Previously, in the manor’s hide-and-seek contest, the Dizzy responsible for catching people never caught him...

But now, it’s not the weak Dizzy who will catch them.

"Hope they hold on."

"The first batch of Easter eggs shouldn’t be exposed too soon."

...

Ximen.

A group of little blacksmiths accepted a task and wandered around looking happy.

"That task list, it’s like a job listing full of recruitment information." One blacksmith stroked his chin, "It’s dazzling, blindingly bright."

They whispered, arms wrapped around each other’s shoulders: "Hey brothers, am I playing the role of a passerby well? No one will find me out, right?"

"You really look like a person." Another person gave a thumbs-up, "In this hide-and-seek, we’re definitely hiding till the end."

"Rest assured, our acting has been tested." Another blacksmith boasted proudly.

Passersby occasionally glanced at these few blacksmiths, with a strange look.

They wore stiff, eerie smiles, occasionally nodding awkwardly at other passers-by, giving off a creepy vibe.

Even a few young sect female cultivators were scared and hid away, "Sister, sister! Look, could they be Evil Cultivators? They’re smiling so terrifyingly."

A straightforward young female cultivator said it outright.

Several blacksmiths: "???"

Another beautiful woman was startled too, quickly covering her mouth, shrinking back, "Ghosts grin like this when they go crazy... they must have gone mad."

Eek! Several timid female cultivators instantly fled in fright.

Several blacksmiths: "..."

What ghost madness, we’re clearly human, living human beings!

They all knew Ximen was a walled tomb, a ghost city, but due to the array’s suppression and sufficient food provisions, its Ghost People seldom went mad.

But there are exceptions.

That kind of smile before them must be an exception.

Based on these suspected mad Ghost People, the surrounding cultivators quietly kept their distance.

They pondered.

"Why did they run?"

"They’re so far from us? Our smiles and actions should be quite human-like."

Previously, there was only Zhang Huaping, an NPC, pretending to be calm, they saw nothing wrong.

Now, under the "big data," they’ve finally detected that they might have taken the wrong path from the start.

If it weren’t for the blind box Easter egg not being announced yet and giving them time to hide, their unusual behavior would have already caught someone’s attention!

"Looks like we’re different from the Newbie Village, the NPC intelligence here is high." Someone spoke seriously, stubbornly.

"Yes, the NPCs here are smart, we need to re-observe and mimic human expressions." Whispered a blacksmith.

"Comrades!" Another blacksmith, clearly an expert player, said, "We need to build a hidden faction to prevent enemies from discovering our identity."

"Let’s hide."

"I can already see them not catching us and getting frustrated."

"Yes, we bear a heavy responsibility, we need to blaze a trail here for future comrades, lay a foundation."

"When our pioneering team in this big map is rooted firmly, we can lead new companions out of the Newbie Village!"

They were all full of enthusiasm.

Such a vast sandbox game, filled with NPCs, and this hidden identity main storyline is simply too cool!

...

...

On the second day after the first group of Second Transformation profession blacksmiths successfully settled in the sandbox.

The Sword Fairy secretly observed them and found out those few blacksmiths had no major issues.

They were all moving bricks, working, going to office, chatting with NPCs, bragging, maintaining logic similar to their previous manor.

Moreover, they completely became human-like.

Although they occasionally acted bizarrely, their actions were no different from the local Ghost People, who were equally neurotic here.

This group of Ghosts had perfectly integrated with the native Ghosts.

The Sword Fairy began fantasizing.

In the future, more companions would emerge from the Newbie Village and come to this big map to build a new city together!

We’ll build Ximen just like the manor.

"It will surely be joyful."

"Moreover, we’ll create various new blacksmith shops, clinics, and our high-tech facilities here for guests to visit, making money from them."

The Sword Fairy’s eyes gleamed.

Virtual city management officially on the stage!

According to her virtual city management game, making money like a contemporary He Shen would be most profitable.

Before, when playing, there were toll booths every few meters, all kinds of luxury stores, looped the road dozens of times, thought of a thousand ways to charge crazily...

"We can try that here too." The Sword Fairy’s eyes sparkled.

...

After knowing the general situation from the teleportation info transferred by the Sword Fairy, Ning Zheng paid them no mind.

They were all of the same nature.

Moving bricks, taking tasks, issuing tasks to NPCs, chirping around and finding places to hide.

Though he originally didn’t care too much, the forum was bustling even more than previous incidents.

He glanced briefly at the post.

[Discussion: After the manor in the Newbie Village, the second map is officially open! Will this Ximen map evolve from a text map to a scene map with a version update??]

"I don’t think so, the technological leap is too large, Ximen’s setting is too massive, billions of people."

"Precisely, maybe they’ll open a street?"

"Don’t know, maybe after the production team gets more funds, they’ll make a real Ximen map, becoming like the manor."

"But the design map asks us to mess around with virtual city here."

"Building thousands of toll booths isn’t too much, is it?"

"Indeed, I used to raise city tax that way."

"Those NPCs are Ghosts, low intelligence, shouldn’t be a problem... right? They won’t remember how many toll booths they passed on their way to work?"

"Speaking of toll booths, we have to let cars pass, should we build cars?"

"Are you guys insane? Building cars just to charge toll... isn’t this like having a mouse and deciding to buy a computer."

...

Ning Zheng actually didn’t fully understand what they were talking about with "simulated city," these things.

But he already believed in their abilities, and when they came out with a plan, they still needed his approval.

Days passed by like this.

In the blink of an eye, a week had passed.

This made Ning Zheng a bit at a loss.

"Assassins really lack backbone, come on then?"

Ning Zheng felt things were too calm.

Those guys chickened out?

It was quite different from the apocalyptic vision he imagined, there wasn’t even a sign.

He started wondering if his butterfly effect had changed something, eliminating the apocalypse.

So, Ning Zheng went to Xinyi Continent City to take a look, finding many people’s Qi Fortune hadn’t dropped.

State City was fine?

He couldn’t resist using the Remote Teleportation Array to go to other states.

Other Shore State.

His first time here, it was indeed filled with delicate beauties, Yin Qi was quite heavy.

The street’s gender ratio even reached an alarming one to nine ratio.

This time, Ning Zheng saw their Qi Fortune Value was dropping.

"Indeed, it’s widespread." 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

"Other states have issues, while ours is mostly safe."

"Looks like two months later, once Xinyi Continent City’s tower defense is set up and the Ark is launched, it’ll be safe."

Ning Zheng reflected.

Gathering most human living areas in Xinyi Continent City was truly a wise move.