Chapter 1267: Live Healthily and Happily
Game Government Base.
The Game Government Base in District 001 was much larger than the one in District 011, and because Carol Field, as the overall chief of the entire wormhole point, resided here, the base in Fresh Flower City was also incomparable to those in other districts.
The Game Government Base was not far from the government institutions of Fresh Flower City, only about two or three minutes away by underground transit.
Xu Huo was in no hurry to leave. He browsed through the relevant information about the Game Government Base again. If the base had only been expanded without major renovations, He Pu, who had foreseen this, might have placed things inside. Compared to other residential areas, this seemed like a more suitable place. Although it appeared dangerous, the players working inside probably wouldn't imagine that someone could freely enter and leave the base, let alone use it as a storage locker.
However, since the diamond key might not necessarily open a door or a safe, he specifically searched for materials on the staff working there.
But information about the staff was extremely scarce. Not even basic details were available. For the person responsible for changing the cleaning agent for the robots every day, there was only a name—and that was only because he needed to procure supplies externally and had to have a specific contact method. Even the name might not be real.
Taking the Game Government Base in District 011 as an example, the main staff were all players from other districts. Moreover, most of them were not ordinary players. They seemed to come from districts with a long history of evolution, having grown up in the player world from childhood, with no longing for the ordinary world before the game's intervention.
They appeared to align with the game's stance. Even if they didn't, they wouldn't necessarily stand on the side of ordinary people or ordinary players.
However, District 011 still used high benefits to lure contract staff to do work, while District 001 didn't need to at all, because they had enough people.
Therefore, almost everyone working in the Fresh Flower City Game Government Base was a player from other districts, possibly even from high-level wormhole points.
A place with such tight personnel security and comprehensive defenses made it nearly impossible to sneak in disguised, let alone find something inside.
Of course, what He Pu left behind might not be inside.
He had checked the recent news, and nothing major had happened in Fresh Flower City. Bai Kou had come looking once before, but apparently hadn't found anything. It was unclear whether she had pinpointed the location or quietly completed the process.
After reading this, Xu Huo also looked at Fresh Flower City's urban policies and related laws from the past twenty years.
Fresh Flower City treated its residents very favorably, covering all aspects of food, clothing, housing, and transportation. As long as you were a local, you could get free housing, free clothes, and fresh fruits and vegetables delivered to your home every day, with a different menu each week to ensure balanced nutrition. Naturally, transportation was also free—you just needed an ID to use the underground transit, which could take you anywhere in the city except the directly administered districts.
Not only that, but the government also distributed a fixed amount of pocket money to residents every month. The amount depended on the size of the family—more people, more money; fewer people, less money. Medical care was also free.
From these points, Fresh Flower City could be called a paradise on earth. Living here, you didn't even need to work to live healthily and happily.
Of course, the problem lay there too: they could only live healthily and happily within Fresh Flower City.
The money the government gave wasn't enough to support them traveling to other cities at will. Moreover, besides laziness, people also had desires. Although living in Fresh Flower City meant you could get by without working, eating home-cooked meals for a long time made you crave food from outside. Living the same life day after day would eventually make you want to break the routine, not to mention the negative emotions that couldn't be released under long-term suppression.
Committing a crime was naturally difficult to pull off, often stopped by robots in the early stages. But other things could be tried, like buying something from outside, going out of the city to see the trees, or buying clothes of a different color.
These very trivial things became hard to achieve under the premise of difficulty in saving money. People without jobs could only exchange the resources distributed by the government, bartering or selling items to outsiders. Since there were mandatory clothing requirements, everything except clothes could be sold.
This was the constraint of being kept by the government. Simply put, it wasn't easy to ask anyone for money.
And job opportunities for ordinary people in District 001 weren't that abundant either, which was why this place produced many artists. The materials cited an example: once, an outsider saw Fresh Flower City and really liked the mutated flowers there, so he wanted a painting of the most beautiful scenery in Fresh Flower City, offering only ten thousand White Notes. In the end, he received nearly fifty thousand paintings, and they were all quite good—to cultivate healthy and correct hobbies, Fresh Flower City residents could choose an art form to learn, with the government footing the bill.
Robots that had no autonomy and only executed orders were everywhere, but there wasn't a single perfect saint, let alone ordinary people who had to make choices with some helplessness. Even using your toes, you could tell that Fresh Flower City was an extremely boring city.
"How could everyone be the same?" Xu Huo shook his head slightly. He put down these materials and then looked at the famous people of Fresh Flower City over the years. Most were artists, followed by botanists.
This wasn't surprising. Fresh Flower City valued flowers for their beauty, barely even planting trees. For the sake of life, many people were eager to study mutated plants. But what was lamentable was that most of these famous people eventually died from plant mutations.
It couldn't be said they had no contribution, but it wasn't necessary.
After flipping through some other materials, Xu Huo exited the reading pod and prepared to look at paper documents.
The player who had warned him about the scam earlier was also nearby. Seeing him come out, he smiled and nodded at him.
Xu Huo nodded back. Just as he stood in front of the bookshelf, the other person walked up to him and lowered his voice, asking, "What kind of instance materials are you looking for?"
"Are you selling instance guides?" Xu Huo asked casually.
"No guides. Besides, if you want to buy guides, it's best to go to Under Dimension." The man smiled. "But I have some fresh instance news here, definitely from the last three days. It's hard to buy this kind of thing at Under Dimension. Instance changes are unpredictable—more news means more security."
"I'm not interested in instance news." Xu Huo turned his head, slightly serious. "Wait and see if there are other buyers."
He was about to leave, but the other quickly followed. "If you want to buy weapons that can't be bought outside, I have introductions too!"
Players couldn't carry weapons onto the train, and although there were no explicit bans on large weapons in the districts, generally, powerful firearms weren't sold publicly. Modern hot weapons had achieved unprecedented lethality, with certain limitations smaller than those of items, making them very popular. The underground market had always been bustling.