Chapter 508: Chapter 377: Finally Have a Home_2
Even so, when Dong Tianyu offered a discount, the property manager shook his head and refused, "As for the price, it’s been set in stone by the higher-ups. Not a penny less can be accepted, and not a penny more will be charged.
But since you’re a friend brought by Yara, it would be rather inappropriate if I didn’t offer any discount at all.
Here’s what I’ll do: the site is currently vacant. If you want to build a villa with three floors above ground and one floor underground according to the standard, I have architectural plans here. You can choose any design you like, as long as it’s from the plans. I’ll waive the labor cost for you; you just need to pay for the materials listed on it.
Of course, if you have better architectural plans, I can also waive some of the labor costs. However, I should remind you that Kyoto is different from other places: underground, you can only dig two levels, and above ground, you can build up to three levels."
Hearing what the property manager said, Yara immediately said, "Old Li, that’s not very fair. You say you’re offering free construction, but you’re only waiving the cost of four floors. Since you’ve said that you can build up to five floors here, you might as well waive the construction cost entirely and just charge for the materials."
After hearing Yara’s comment, the property manager hesitated for a moment before responding, "Since you’ve put it that way, it would seem bad if I didn’t agree. But you can’t let me suffer the loss alone; at least 30% of the payment has to be in materials instead of just credit points."
Hearing this, Dong Tianyu immediately asked, "What if I pay with materials only?"
When the property manager heard Dong Tianyu’s question, his eyes lit up, and he said excitedly, "If you pay with materials only, you just need to bring out materials worth 1.2 billion. We’ll buy at the sale price listed on that day’s trading station, any type marked is fine.
And if more than 50% of the materials are food, I can apply for a further price reduction."
Upon hearing the property manager’s words, Dong Tianyu casually asked, "Do you have today’s list of material exchange prices?"
Hearing Dong Tianyu’s query, the property manager, while saying "Yes, yes, I do," hastily took out the tablet from the drawer.
Looking at the price list displayed on the tablet, Dong Tianyu felt a sense of familiarity. After reflecting for a moment, he remembered the scene when he was buying canaries in Peach Blossom Paradise and preparing to pay, which was pretty similar to the current situation.
Dong Tianyu immediately opened the price list, and whether it was because Kyoto’s cost of living was high or because the Imperial Court had already anticipated the impending production disaster, food prices in Kyoto were more than twice as expensive as those in Pengcheng.
Nevertheless, this was good for Dong Tianyu as it would save him a considerable amount of resources.
The price of a pound of fresh vegetables was around five hundred credit points. Using fresh vegetables as the standard, he would need approximately 1,200 tons of fresh vegetables.
Dong Tianyu did have them in his storage space, but if he really wanted to take out so much fresh produce, it would essentially wipe out all the vegetable categories in his storage space.
Because of the bug disaster, Dong Tianyu believed that food prices would skyrocket later on. After all, the appearance of Soldier Bugs meant the gradual disappearance of the ancient creatures that wandered the wild.
Without those ancient creatures as a source of meat, fields outside the city were periodically attacked by the Bug Race, leading to crop failures. In the future, food might become scarce like in the early days after the disaster struck, when special grain bricks and earthworm mushrooms were the main sources of food.
After pondering for a while, Dong Tianyu decided to use a large portion of his food and cover the remaining amount with other types of resources.
This decision by Dong Tianyu also cleared out a small part of the unused miscellaneous items in his storage space.
When Yara heard Dong Tianyu list the quantity of materials one by one, she suddenly felt that Dong Tianyu didn’t seem to come from a small town, but rather was as inexperienced as a yokel who had never seen the world.
Only after Dong Tianyu and the property manager had confirmed the value of the materials did he notice Yara’s intense gaze upon him. Feeling a chill, Dong Tianyu turned to Yara and said, "What exactly do you want? Just say it instead of looking at me with that strange look."
Hearing Dong Tianyu’s words, Yara wasn’t shy and directly said, "Boss, take me under your wing. Where did you get so many materials? If you need to establish new sales channels in Kyoto, may I have the honor of becoming a distributor?"
Once Dong Tianyu understood Yara’s intent, he felt it was just the right opportunity. He had been intending to ask Yara to help with networking and now Yara was taking the initiative to speak up.
Seeing the two talking more and more enthusiastically, the property manager immediately interrupted, "Let’s focus on business first. If you two want to chat, go back home and chat. Don’t stimulate me here.
There’s still work to be done. Dong Tianyu, you need to choose the architectural style, and then..."
After arriving in Kyoto, Dong Tianyu took out his hard-earned black car again. Originally, after driving it to Saxon County for various reasons, he had put it aside. But now that he was in Kyoto and because the roads had been widened, the black car could make its appearance again.
Although the black car had a carrying capacity far exceeding most automobiles, it was, after all, not a truck, so its loading capacity was still much less than that of a truck.
Even when Dong Tianyu was unloading the vehicle, taking some goods out of the storage space, it still took him three days to complete the delivery of all the items.
By the time construction of Dong Tianyu’s house had started, five days had elapsed since the two went to buy the house.
For some reason, no cracks appeared in the sky during this period, and the bug swarm that had once attacked Kyoto City seemed to vanish as quickly as it had appeared.
There hadn’t been much change on the surface of Kyoto, but the environment underground had become unsafe.
The earthquakes had already caused several underground passages to collapse, and now that the Bug Race had learned to dig, the already unstable subterranean spaces became even more dangerous.
Because clearing the underground passages was too difficult, the officials simply blew up most of the subway entrances and exits to prevent survivors from wandering around underground.
After sealing off the underground entrances and exits, no more Soldier Bugs appeared within the city.
It seemed calm for now, but any perceptive person knew that during the last bug swarm invasion, it was not so much that the survivors had united and eliminated the enemy.
In fact, perceptive people knew that Kyoto had lost during the last bug swarm invasion, and the loss was utter and complete.
In the last bug swarm, the officials seemed to have destroyed many Soldier Bugs, but the Flame Bugs and flying insects didn’t have a high mortality rate.
It was understandable that Soldier Bugs were wiped out, but not many of the flying insects and Flame Bugs had died. In the last bug swarm invasion, aside from a small number of flying insects and Flame Bugs that participated, the rest of the Bug Race had vanished to some unknown place.
Dong Tianyu’s new house construction coincided with a period without sky cracks or bug swarm assaults on the city, so the construction proceeded very quickly.
When he saw only two architects were involved, Dong Tianyu could hardly believe it and wore an incredulous expression on his face.
Seeing Dong Tianyu’s expression, the property manager spoke up, "Don’t underestimate these two. They are Awakeners with relevant abilities; their construction speed is beyond your imagination."
One of the two had the ability to quickly mold material, while the other could turn mud into stone.
Working together seamlessly, one of them would construct according to the exact specifications on the blueprints, and only after his teammate had finished shaping the materials would the other one start his work. With just a single spell, what was originally a mud house was transformed into a sturdy and durable granite structure.
In just two or three days, the house’s main structure was built, and then, according to the area specified in the deed, they erected a wall over two meters high around the yard.
Looking at the house built in less than a week, Dong Tianyu checked it a bit more forcefully during the acceptance inspection. After confirming the house was sturdy and durable, he then entrusted the property manager to find workers for the interior decoration.
With the participation of Awakeners, the new house decoration also progressed rapidly. From starting construction on vacant land to completing all the decorations, the entire process took less than thirty days, which would have been impossible before the disaster.
