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"Chief, where do we go next?"

Penny followed Heo out of the Social Security Building, looking at the setting sun in the sky.

"No Christos! No Christos!"

Just then, a group of people in a procession slowly walked past them.

"We don't want this extreme new mayor!"

They carried portraits of Christos marked with red crosses and huge banners that read "[No Christos]", and the crowds marched through the streets in dense numbers.

He glanced around and noticed that York, the wilderness hunter who had struck up a conversation with them last night, was also among them.

"Pah!" came a curse from behind. "Those bastards who parade for money will do anything for a pittance."

He Ao turned around and found a group of young boys and girls standing behind him. The cursing had just come from one of them.

Leading the group was a girl who looked to be eighteen or nineteen years old, with a camera hanging around her neck, a high ponytail, and a face full of freckles.

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It's not worth getting angry over these people.

The freckled girl gently shook her head, then said softly, "Let's go. We've arranged a social gathering with students from several nearby schools today. Let's try to get them to agree with our philosophy."

"it is good!"

The group of teenagers immediately became excited.

The group walked forward together.

“Jessie,” a girl next to the freckled girl tugged at her and asked softly, “Did Joey really drop out of school? I haven’t seen him for months. Did he leave Dawn City?”

Upon hearing this question, Jessie paused, as if she had remembered something.

Then she gently shook her head, "The school said he dropped out, but I don't know where he went. I haven't seen him since then."

Just then, she paused and looked up ahead.

A handsome, lean, and tall man wearing a fur coat was leading a cute, short-haired girl with dark skin into a taxi.

"what's wrong?"

The girl next to Jessie looked up curiously and followed Jessie's gaze, only to see the taillights of the departing taxi.

"It's nothing, it's probably just hallucinations from staying up too late lately,"

Jessie shook her head, clearing her mind of those thoughts. For a fleeting moment, she felt that the unfamiliar middle-aged man seemed vaguely familiar.

"Let's go, we're going to be late."

-

"Chief, so where are we going now?"

Sitting in the driverless taxi, Penny looked at He Ao with a puzzled expression.

He Ao had just pulled her into the car without telling her where they were going.

"Real estate agency".

He replied calmly.

Living in a city, besides income, is about basic necessities, which can be summarized as food, clothing, housing, and transportation.

Food, clothing, and transportation were all taken care of. According to Ronald's previous recollections, the wilderness wanderers were not affected in shopping, taking public transportation, or eating in the city. As long as they paid, they could buy services.

Short stays are not affected either, as almost all chain hotels accept guests from the wilderness.

Now we're just looking at the place for a longer period.

Home purchase and long-term lease.

Soon, the two arrived at the largest real estate agency in the vicinity.

They were greeted by a neatly dressed, thin young man. After a brief exchange, He Ao roughly understood the rules for buying and renting houses in Dawn City for the wilderness wanderers.

The first thing is buying a house. Dawn City does not restrict homeless people from buying and selling property in the city.

Because they don't have a social security card, homeless people who want to buy a house in the wilderness must first apply for a 'personal tax identification number' from the tax bureau.

This personal tax number can replace the social security card number as a unique identifier for the number owner, and can be used to register property transfers at the city hall.

However, this personal tax ID can only be used for a limited number of cases, such as purchasing real estate, and the tax rate you pay after applying for a personal tax ID is higher than that of a normal resident of Dawn City.

For example, the property transaction tax that must be paid when purchasing a property in the federal government.

In Dawn City, the property transaction tax rate for properties under $500,000 is approximately %. However, if a homeless person with a personal tax ID wants to buy a property, the property transaction tax will be higher.

The tax rate then becomes %.

The extra percentage cannot be paid by the seller; the buyer must pay for it themselves.

This means that homeless people in the wilderness have to pay more money to buy a house than others.

Similarly, because they lack social security numbers and credit records, homeless people in the wilderness cannot obtain housing loans from commercial banks and must pay in full with cash.

This is about buying a house.

While there are no explicit rules regarding renting, there are actually many unspoken rules.

For example, apartments rented out by a group, except for some particularly bad ones, usually require tenants to show their social security number to check their credit.

While many individual landlords do not have the ability to check tenants' credit through social security groups, most will require tenants to provide their social security number when signing the rental contract, and require tenants to provide proof of income of more than three times the rent.

If you cannot provide proof of income, you will have to pay an extra one to two months' deposit or purchase rental insurance. If you cannot even provide a social security number, you will have to rent in some particularly bad areas of Aston District and pay rent that is much higher than the average rent in the surrounding area.

Rent and housing prices in Dawn City are already high; if people pay even more, they'll likely be overwhelmed by the pressure.

To summarize the 'rules' of buying or renting a house, it's basically 'it's possible, but you'll have to pay a lot more.'

Moreover, even if one can achieve long-term residence in Dawn City, whether by buying or renting a house, the issue of visa expiration cannot be avoided. The city defense force's immigration office will not grant a certain wilderness wanderer more visa time just because he or she bought a house in Dawn City.

He Ao originally thought that he could get a residency permit by purchasing property, but even if a Wilderness Wanderer buys a house in Dawn City, he cannot obtain a passport from Dawn City.

The social security group will not issue a social security card to a homeless person in the wilderness because of their property ownership.

After talking for a while, He Ao left the real estate agency with Penny.

Then they contacted several real estate agencies in different districts, inquired on some real estate websites, and even went to some apartments in person to inquire, but the results were all similar.

It wasn't until the sun set and night fell that the two began their journey back to the hotel.

Penny remained silent the entire way, staring blankly at the dazzling lights around her as one exquisitely designed car after another sped past her.

Pedestrians on the street laughed and played, while flower girls carrying baskets of roses weaved through the crowd.

She looked up and her gaze fell on a girl in front of her who was acting coquettishly with her parents.

Fortress City is really safe; there are no monster attacks, no blaring alarms, and no need to worry about food for tomorrow.

Don't worry that one afternoon, a huge monster will suddenly break into the camp, and everyone will be running and shouting, while you can only helplessly and desperately watch your parents, who are protecting you, turn into flying limbs.

Everyone in the city speaks gently, making you feel no malice.

But countless gentle words strung together formed a cold rejection.

After a long day of travel, Penny had lost the excitement she had when she first arrived in the city.

She deeply felt that 'the city doesn't welcome the wilderness'

The meaning of the phrase 'wanderer'.

On this bustling street, she felt like an outsider, experiencing only a cold loneliness.

After walking a few steps forward, she suddenly saw a familiar figure.

The wilderness hunter who struck up a conversation with them last night, claiming to be from York, is now chatting with another person who looks like a wilderness hunter.

A new hope rose in her heart.

Because this person had told He Ao that he could help them find jobs, and since he could help them find jobs, he could also help other homeless people in the wilderness find jobs.

"leader."

She looked at He Ao, but before she could speak, a large hand covered her mouth.

Immediately afterwards, she was pulled into a corner of the alleyway next door.

She stared wide-eyed at He Ao, bewildered, not understanding why the leader would suddenly cover her mouth and pull her away to hide.

He released his hand from her mouth, made a shushing gesture, and then gestured for her to look at another wilderness hunter who was talking to York.

The wilderness hunter was dressed similarly to York, except that he was wearing several pieces of jewelry that looked very expensive.

Penny's gaze was quickly drawn to a gold ring studded with gemstones on the man's left middle finger.

This ring is exquisitely crafted and looks stunning with its set gemstones.

However, Penny wasn't attracted by the ring's 'beauty'; she was focused on it because she was very familiar with it.

This ring should have belonged to Penny's cousin, with whom she had a very close relationship at the camp.

The ring took all of the woman's savings to make. She once declared that even if she died in the mountains, she would swallow the ring before she died, and she would rather die than let anyone else pick it up.

Based on Penny's understanding of that older sister, she was capable of such a thing; she valued this ring more than life itself and would never give it to anyone else.

The sister's convoy got separated during the previous wave of attacks by the bitter apes.

By then, they were already very close to Dawn City.

That's an area frequented by wilderness hunters.

Next, Penny turned her gaze to the other jewelry on the wilderness hunter's body. The jewelry looked familiar. Although Penny couldn't remember who the jewelry belonged to, she was certain that it had once been worn by the wilderness wanderers in the camp.

At that moment, she suddenly felt a chill down her spine.

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