Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 222 Construction Site
After leaving the test site, Sun Hang did not drive home directly, but took a detour to Xindu District in the north of the city.

At the intersection of Xingcheng Avenue and Fenghuang Elevated Road, there is a commercial housing complex covering an area of ​​more than 5,000 acres that has just begun construction... I don’t know whether the developer is lucky or unlucky, but the foundation of this complex has not even been dug, and the eternal night has come without any warning.

House prices in all areas of Shuzhou plummeted to freezing point overnight, and the developer of this real estate project naturally gave up the subsequent construction plan. According to federal government regulations, a real estate project must reach one-third of the expected construction progress before it can officially start pre-sales... and this real estate project, which has not even a completed foundation, naturally cannot recover any funds from the future owners.

The money spent on buying the land has become a sunk cost. If they continue to build, not only will they not be able to recover the money spent on buying the land, but they will also not be able to recover the construction materials and workers' wages. The locals are all thinking about selling their houses and settling in other city-states. And outsiders would be crazy to come to Shuzhou to buy houses at this time.

Houses in other places, no matter how small the distance between buildings, how low the floor heights, or how narrow the windows, still have some daylighting rate... But now the houses in Shuzhou - wow, no matter which floor you live on or how big the windows are, the daylighting rate is all zero.

Even the most daring speculators would not dare to bet their money on an eternal night that would take who knows how many years to disappear.

Just when the developers were racking their brains to explain the hundreds of billions of sunk costs to shareholders, the Tianfu City Management Committee brought them "good news" at this time.

The Tianfu City Management Committee is willing to reclaim this nearly 50-acre land at % of the selling price and take over the subsequent construction work.

Although it was both a huge loss, the difference between a 50% loss and a 100% loss was huge... The developer, who was almost forced into a desperate situation, agreed to the proposal without hesitation and sold the land he had just bought to the Tianfu City Management Committee at half the price.

As for the use of this land, it will naturally not be used to build commercial housing that can no longer be sold... This place will have a new name in the future, a name that will attract the attention of the entire federation.

"Tianshu Tower Comprehensive Talent Training Base".

As the first "Honorary President", Sun Hang naturally had the obligation to inspect the progress of the project - during the time when he left Tianfu City, the special engineering team of Tianshu Tower had already started construction. Logically speaking, the foundation should have been almost dug, right?

However, when Sun Hang drove along Xingcheng Avenue to the construction site, he found that a fortress comparable to a military fortress had been built. A wall more than 20 meters high surrounded the entire construction area. From Sun Hang's perspective, he could only see tower cranes hundreds of meters high and large drones that were assisting workers in transporting construction materials.

"This... is being built too fast, isn't it?" Sun Hang was stunned for a moment. He suddenly remembered that Yang Qi seemed to have mentioned to him that this engineering team seemed to be involved in the expansion project of Chunming City.

Compared with that miraculous and magnificent city, everything before my eyes seemed to make sense again.

Sun Hang wanted to take a few more looks, but suddenly he heard a horn sounding urgingly from the back. He glanced at the rearview mirror and saw a dozen heavy trucks loaded with construction materials driving towards him.

Sun Hang quickly started the car and made way, watching the convoy of trucks drive into the ramp.

With a sharp friction sound, the heavy wall began to move, revealing a gap more than 30 meters wide. The trucks drove into the construction site in an orderly manner through the gap, and then the wall closed again. On the top of the wall, there were even heavy sentry guns and a large hangar for drone takeoffs and landings. High-lumen searchlights continuously swept around, and from time to time, a few armed helicopters with flashing signal lights flew over from the air. They were just short of moving the air combat platform code-named "Garuda".

The nearby roads had long been closed, and Sun Hang was only able to drive in thanks to the special license plate of the Tianfu City Weird Things Research Institute on his car - even so, the checkpoint at the intersection still wasted nearly five minutes of his time.

To be honest, Sun Hang often saw major media outlets touting how terrifying and exaggerated the Xiazhou Federation's infrastructure capabilities were, but this was the first time he had personally experienced what the media was touting... The truth would only be more outrageous than what was described in words.

At this rate, this talent training base will probably be operational within a month, right?
It can even catch up with the traditional school opening season in September.

I just don't know how many students can be recruited... The annual "College Entrance Examination" has ended, and the time for filling in the application form has passed. Although it is only a matter of words for the Tianshu Tower to let all candidates in the Federation fill in their applications again, it is completely unknown how many outstanding talents will give up their original application and run to such a "literally dark" place to study in a newly built school with extremely narrow employment scope.

Tianshu Tower has a very famous reputation, but Sun Hang still feels that Pei Zongjun is a little too optimistic about the application rate.

"But it's a good thing that there are fewer students." Sun Hang said to himself while driving, "Fewer people means less trouble... Besides, this place... may soon become a battlefield."

Sun Hang was not sure when Chimera No. 17 would come to visit, but for those "proud sons of the emperor" who were about to start a new semester here, they would never have dreamed that they would have an "extremely exciting" "practical class" in the first semester.

The "to die" here has the same literal meaning as the "to never see the sun" mentioned above.

"I need to talk to Old Man Pei about this when I have time." Sun Hang muttered, "We can't have a large number of students die in the first semester..."

……

After inspecting the construction site, Sun Hang originally planned to go back to the community where Tai Sui was discovered and swallowed, but as soon as he got off the elevated road, he received a video call from Yang Qi.

"Why haven't you arrived home yet?" Yang Qi asked Sun Hang directly as the call was connected. Just when Sun Hang felt that the background behind her looked familiar, Miss Zhong Ling wearing an apron suddenly flashed across the screen.

"You're at my house? Didn't you say you had to work overtime tonight?" Sun Hang asked puzzledly.

"...Ahem, I thought about it later and decided that work should be combined with rest." Yang Qi coughed twice and said seriously, "Besides, I haven't eaten ramen for a long time."

(End of this chapter)