This city simulation game can affect reality.

After more than two hours of studying and deliberating, Chen Jun, based on his understanding of the game, redesigned the entire resort's architecture on a piece of paper.

When the old man started his business, due to a lack of relevant experience and the questionable quality of the designers he hired, the layout of the entire resort was traditional and outdated.

The division of all regions into sprawling, pancake-like areas makes them appear particularly fragmented.

This is why many negative reviews mention that "toilets are hard to find".

In reality, the resort's public restrooms are not small, but because the buildings are far apart, tourists need to travel a long distance to meet their needs.

Now, Chen Jun has rearranged the accommodation, commercial, and scenic areas, using a main road to connect several secondary paths, forming a chain structure.

He wouldn't call himself a professional, but with the cheat, the cost of trial and error was almost zero.

After drawing a rough blueprint, Chen Jun returned to the game and began looking for his first entry point.

Considering practical reasons, he did not immediately carry out drastic changes, but only demolished some sparsely populated areas.

Demolition time: 47h59m59s

Unexpectedly, a countdown appeared on the screen, something not present in the original game.

"Two days is manageable; it's much more cost-effective than hiring someone to do the work."

While demolishing, construction also had to be carried out. Chen Jun found an open space that the employees and tourists wouldn't notice and replicated the original restaurant model.

The game is currently in its early stages, and there are no additional options besides the existing building models of the resort.

Similar to the demolition rules, construction also requires 48 hours.

[City attractiveness increased to 9]

Similar to the original gameplay, the city's attractiveness is closely related to the number, style, and overall layout of its buildings.

What Chen Jun needs to do is to continuously replace resort facilities and enhance competitiveness while ensuring a reasonable layout.

"This did save me a lot of labor and material costs, but the resort's current problems cannot be solved simply by infrastructure construction."

In the two weeks since taking over the resort, Chen Jun has studied many failed cases of his peers, including some high-end industries with impeccable infrastructure and service quality.

However, these companies eventually went bankrupt for various reasons.

Given the current circumstances, it's already quite remarkable that someone like Hita can barely survive like this.

......

"If everyone has no objections, the new system will be implemented starting tomorrow. Lao Zhou will repost all the regulations in the group later."

"Let's adjourn the meeting."

At 3:30 p.m., all the management of the Hita Resort gathered in a meeting room.

As Chen Jun's voice faded, the two-and-a-half-hour discussion finally came to an end.

Now that he has the powerful tool of "City Simulator", his thinking is very clear: all the plans and regulations are designed to improve "resident satisfaction" and "city attractiveness".

According to the game's settings, every employee, merchant, and tourist in the resort is considered a "resident".

To improve satisfaction, the immediate priority should be addressing the shortcomings in visitor numbers.

Therefore, Chen Jun modified and added some items to the resort's management rules in order to enhance employee motivation and provide better service to tourists.

After everyone left the meeting room, Chen Jun also prepared to get up and go to inspect the buildings that were being demolished or under construction.

Just as he sat up from the chair, Manager Zhou suddenly turned around and said, "Something's happened, Young Master Chen."

"What's wrong?"

"The warehouse just called; a new batch of fruits and vegetables arrived this afternoon, and almost all of them are rotten. Manager Li is arguing with the deliveryman, and he's hesitant to sign the delivery slip. He'd like to ask you for your advice..."

Pushing the chair back under the desk, Chen Jun stood there for a moment, pondered, and calmly said, "Let's go take a look first."

The two rode their electric scooter and soon arrived at the warehouse.

The resort's catering operates on two models: the first is through restaurants brought in by investment promotion, and the second is through internal canteens and restaurants built by the company.

Although the latter is not very large in scale, its daily food needs are definitely not small.

"Mr. Chen, you've arrived."

As soon as I arrived at the door, Li Liang, the supervisor in charge of the warehouse, came to greet me.

He usually has a smiling face, but today, although he was grinning, he looked a little stiff.

"Who wants to tell me the details first?"

Chen Jun's gaze shifted between Manager Li and the young man behind him.

The resort has changed its food suppliers quite a few times over the years, but apart from grains and oils, most of them are small farmers from nearby villages.

This fruit and vegetable supplier was no exception.

Just as Li Liang was about to speak, the young man behind him stepped forward and pointed to the truck next to him, saying:

"Boss, these tomatoes and celery were just picked from my field. They won't rot under normal circumstances. My family and I are honest and law-abiding farmers. We would never do anything against our conscience..."

Without responding to the other party's statement, Chen Jun walked to the truck, pulled out a basket, and casually picked out two or three tomatoes to examine.

He frowned: "It's obviously damaged from being covered up. The sun was hot today, but it shouldn't have gotten this fast."

The young man didn't deny it: "If we follow the normal procedure, it's only a 40-minute drive from my field to your place, so it really won't break down."

"But the problem lies at the intersection in front of your resort."

"Intersection?" Chen Jun looked at him.

"What should have been a few hundred meters of road took me more than two hours to drive. No one could have done anything about it."

The young man looked helpless: "Besides, the traffic jams here aren't new. Last time my dad came to deliver goods, he waited for more than half an hour."

Li Liang then stepped in, saying, "That's true, but aren't these things your suppliers should have considered beforehand? Are you expecting us to take the responsibility?"

Chen Jun understood the crux of the matter.

While the transportation to the resort entrance is a point of contention among tourists, it's not worth elaborating on compared to other issues.

Therefore, this topic was not discussed in detail at today's meeting.

But now that the matter has become related to the catering system, we have no choice but to take it to heart.

"Well then, we're old friends, so we'll definitely have to continue cooperating in the future. We definitely can't accept this batch of goods today, but it's not easy for you to have come all this way."

Chen Jun didn't want to waste too much energy on such a trivial matter; he just wanted to resolve the transportation issue quickly: "So, let's each bear half of the loss, and in the future, whenever the resort has needs, we'll prioritize sourcing from you. What do you think?"

After thinking for a while, the young man had no choice but to agree to the plan.

Although this order definitely won't make much money, the problem occurred before the goods were delivered, so I'm definitely not in the right.

"But this constant traffic jams aren't a sustainable solution."

"We will resolve this matter as soon as possible. If there is traffic congestion again during the next delivery, we will pay the full amount regardless of the condition of the goods."

"readily."

......

After seeing the young man off, Chen Jun offered Li Liang and Lao Zhou each a cigarette. The three of them sat at the warehouse entrance and discussed how to fill the food shortage.

After getting the results, Li Liang thought of Chen Jun's promise earlier and said with some concern, "Traffic jams are an old problem. Old Chen has been thinking about how to solve it for a long time, and the only solution seems to be to widen the roads."

"But that would mean... the nearby buildings would have to be demolished and rebuilt."

Old Zhou nodded in agreement: "If anyone is to blame, it's the designer who was too careless when planning the area back then. He only thought about formulaic solutions and didn't consider the actual terrain."

Both of them clearly felt that Chen Jun's promise was too hasty, but putting themselves in his shoes, they really couldn't think of a better solution.

"However, the issue of ingredients is easy to handle. We can adjust the delivery time for perishable foods to weekdays. After the peak season, when there are fewer people, there won't be as much congestion."

Old Zhou threw the cigarette butt in his hand on the ground, stepped on it with his toe, and rubbed it hard a few times.

Chen Jun shook his head: "The transportation problem is unavoidable. No matter how difficult it is, we have to come up with a solution. Tourists are not a renewable resource; they will eventually run out."

After saying this, he got up to say goodbye to the two of them and rode his electric scooter in a certain direction.

......

Before returning to his residence, Chen Jun went to the site of the building that was being demolished.

Just like in the game, these buildings were surrounded by a metal wall, and there were occasional knocking sounds coming from inside.

"That way, my residents won't be frightened."

After making a joke, Chen Jun didn't linger and quickly rode his bike home.

It's called a home, but it's actually just a two-story wooden house next to the office, maintaining the same style as the surrounding buildings.

After his grandfather's funeral, he moved into the resort and devoted himself entirely to his career.

After locking the door, Chen Jun returned to his room and spread his laptop out on the bed.

I don't know if it's a system bug, but ever since the game changed, this computer can't return to the desktop, and it doesn't need to be plugged in to run anymore.

[Resident satisfaction rises to 20, new skill acquired: population mobility simulation]

[Tip: Please manage city traffic to ensure your city functions normally.]

As soon as he returned to the game interface, Chen Jun noticed these two paragraphs of text.

Perhaps due to the new regulations, employees are optimistic about the resort's future, and resident satisfaction has actually increased by two percentage points.

The interface also provides a detailed introduction to this new skill.

[Population Flow Simulation: When you're preparing to make an adjustment to your city, you can use this skill to simulate population flow to verify if the results meet your expectations.]

This skill is undoubtedly the icing on the cake for Chen Jun's next move.

Based on past gaming experience, even in the later stages of the game, the motion simulation is one of the most useful skills, especially for beginners.

Although Chen Jun was already very familiar with how to solve most situations in the game, it was better to be cautious now that it involved reality.

He dragged the camera to the intersection inside the main entrance of the resort and immediately began to think about how to overcome this problem.

Structurally, this is a standard T-junction and the only road leading to the core of the resort.

As a veteran player of City Simulator, Chen Jun is already very familiar with various traffic problems. He can analyze the general problem by simply simulating it in his mind.

"Due to the lack of left-turn lanes, vehicles turning left must wait for a clear gap in the oncoming traffic before daring to proceed."

"Traffic efficiency is greatly reduced because vehicles going straight also need to slow down to avoid obstacles."

"Sometimes, when large vehicles like trucks are involved, it can cause periodic traffic jams."

To verify his hypothesis, Chen Jun activated the skill [Population Flow Simulation].

Soon, the entrance to the resort model automatically generated some ghost images of people and vehicles.

Just as he expected, as time went on, traffic jams naturally occurred when the traffic flow at the intersection reached a certain scale.

If left unattended for an extended period during normal gameplay, the city will quickly develop various problems, eventually leading to complete collapse and a lost save file.

While there is a higher margin for error in reality, the butterfly effect caused by traffic jams will all be reflected back on the resort.

"Generally speaking, installing traffic lights at the intersection and widening the road will completely solve the problem."

Chen Jun pondered silently.

However, games are ultimately linked to reality. If a sensitive area like the entrance to a resort is subjected to major renovations, it will inevitably attract everyone's attention and cause unnecessary panic.

Fortunately, there is another solution to this problem.

Thinking of this, Chen Jun felt much more relaxed instantly.

Instead of rushing to do anything, he first ate dinner in the kitchen, then went out for a stroll around the resort until late at night before returning to his bedroom.

At this moment, the number of people at the entrance has almost reached zero.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chen Jun began his micro-management.

The whole process is quite simple; it simply involves using existing guardrails to set up a median strip several tens of meters long at the intersection to eliminate space for vehicles to turn left.

They then found a location downstream of the median strip that would have minimal impact on traffic and created an opening to serve as a dedicated U-turn lane.

In this way, Chen Jun completed the redesign of the entire intersection.

All vehicles wishing to turn left into the inner area must proceed straight for a short distance before turning right through the U-turn area.

"On the surface, although the travel time for a single vehicle has increased, the conflict points at the intersection have been completely eliminated."

Using population flow simulation, Chen Jun validated his masterpiece.

As he expected, the traffic jam was gone.

"Perfect."

[City attractiveness increased to 12; new building acquired: Woodcutter's Hut.]

At the same time the changes were made, the rewards window popped up on the interface.

Along with this, new hints and rewards for the next stage will also appear.

[Tip: The city has a relatively small population; please continue to enhance its attractiveness to retain more residents.]

[Reaching a city attraction level of 20 unlocks the new building: Spring Hub]

[Achieving a resident satisfaction rate of 30 unlocks a new skill: Terrain Editing]

Feeling increasingly tired, Chen Jun shut down his computer after a busy day.

All he needs to do next is get a good night's sleep and wait for the feedback from reality.