864 Reporting At Work, First Job! Part 1

Dawn and dusk pa.s.sed.

In a blink of an eye, Su Mo had been in Luna Town for more than three days.

In the past three days, he did not rush to head to the city to report at his post and earn exchange points. Instead, he used the time to inquire more about the territory’s political situation.

A stack of white paper was placed on the table containing the information he had acquired.

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‘Things aren’t looking too good. I thought I’d be able to show off my skills in the city, but now it seems that staying in the suburban towns will give me more freedom.

‘Plus…the cost here is lower…’

Su Mo leaned back on the chair and tapped his fingers on the table as the sunlight poured inside from the window into the guest house.

The first page of the white papers recorded the territory’s general information.

The information included…

From Luna Town to Mulberry Field Town, there was a distance of 70 kilometers between them.

From Mulberry Field Town to the urban area, there was an ultra-long drive of nearly 150 kilometers.

Hope City did not sound like a ma.s.sive place. However, with the expansion of three additional towns, the total area was far beyond the imagination of anyone on the wasteland.

At the same time, Liberty Town and the urban area were not under the same jurisdiction. Instead, they adopted separate management systems.

Every place and every street may correspond to a different management system.

For example, individuals were not allowed to equip weapons or armor that were of violent nature in the urban era.

Once caught, punishments ranging from fines to direct confiscation of ident.i.ty could be imposed on the violator.

However, this restriction was not applicable in Luna Town. People were allowed openly wear their guns around their waists and would not be punished as long as they did not open fire without reason.

In addition, different places also had different daily expenses.

Su Mo had stayed in a guest house at Luna Town for three days and spent some points on miscellaneous things such as food. He checked his expenses as of today.

27 exchange points.

The expenses were still considered high, but it was nothing compared to the expenses of living in the urban area.

The cheapest rent for a one-bedroom house in the urban area would cost about 500 points. One day’s rent plus tax, water, and electricity bills would cost 18 exchange points.

Additionally, the food and drinks were much more expensive than in the suburban areas. After adding up all the expenses, the total would be about five times more in the urban area. The huge gap was enough to make one disheartened.

Naturally, it was a different case for the locals who had bought houses in the urban areas long ago.

Most of them had decent jobs and did not need to pay rent. Moreover, they were not taxed for their ident.i.ties, land, or other miscellaneous things.

Their fixed monthly income ensured a comfortable life in the territory.

“Going to the urban area to work would mean that I won’t be able to take care of Huang Xiaojuan, nor will I be allowed to bring Oreo with me. I might not even be able to research and make weapons there.

“That won’t be good… It’ll be better if I find a related job in the suburb!”

Not working would mean they would eventually exhaust all their points.

With their current consumption, the 1,000 exchange points Su Mo had saved could only last for two months.

Realizing that the cost would be doubled since he had to buy materials and equipment to research weapons alone, Su Mo could not help but s.h.i.+ver and give up the idea of working in the city.

“Fortunately, I’m an electrical technician in Liberty Market. I’ll just need to find a job there.”

There were dozens of jobs related to electrical technicians for sale on the ident.i.ty sales list, but only this ident.i.ty that cost 10,000 points had the words “Liberty Market” attached to it.

This was the reason Su Mo chose it.

It was better to be able to choose jobs and employers than to let others decide the jobs.

Su Mo was not here to make money. He wanted flexibility in time as well as lots of tools and instruments.

“Hmm? Xiaojuan, you’re awake?”

Hearing the chair shaking, Huang Xiaojuan opened her exhausted eyelids and nodded gently while still in bed.

Su Mo only bought an ordinary farmer’s ident.i.ty for Huang Xiaojuan to save money. After arriving in the territory and reporting for the job, she was automatically arranged to start work.

After two days of work, she found that the work intensity was ten times greater than in Green Fruit Territory.

Huang Xiaojuan’s mentality had also undergone an inevitable change.

“Are you going to the city today, Youzong?”

“Yeah. I should check out a job and see if I can rent a house.”

“What? Are you going to rent a house in the urban area?”

Huang Xiaojuan immediately woke up after hearing the word “rent,” seemingly very sensitive about the topic.

“No, I’m going to look for a job in this town so we can still stay together!”

Su Mo sat before the bed and fondly touched Huang Xiaojuan’s forehead. Su Mo did not say much, but he felt sincerely sorry for her.

When he purchased the ident.i.ty, he never expected Heaven’s Origin to still use the most primitive labor in agriculture eight years later without the help of automated machines.

Due to the lack of the system’s a.s.sistance to upgrade the magical plants he had brought back to the territory, the collected and cultivated seeds had gradually gone down the wrong path.

For example, “Spark No. 3” wheat that was approaching its harvest period could produce a terrifying amount of 1,200 kilograms per acre. However, they were as fragile as was.h.i.+ paper before the drying process.

By using an industrial harvester, collecting 200 kilograms would already be a miracle while the rest would be grounded into dust.

Meanwhile, the “Swimming Fish No.1” rice growing near the river encountered a similar problem.

However, the crops had different problems in which each plant had different growth rates, causing some to mature later than others.

As a result, human labor was needed to manually distinguish and pick the crops in batches to ensure the maximum harvest back to the warehouse.

With such a huge workload, Huang Xiaojuan, a “semi-housewife,” naturally could not get used to the work intensity and hit the sack immediately after coming back from work at night.