Real Estate Tycoon

The Affairs Hall of Baofeng City was the agency that handled all kinds of administrative matters within the city, somewhat similar to a government office in the real world.

Shen Feng's purpose in coming here this time was to check the current real estate prices in Baofeng City. Since he possessed the right to purchase 50% of all properties in Baofeng City, why not take advantage of it to prepare for the future development of his guild?

Before long, Shen Feng arrived at the Affairs Hall. At this moment, those entering and leaving were all NPCs; there wasn't a single player in sight because players did not yet have the qualifications to handle matters here. But Shen Feng did.

He walked straight into the Affairs Hall.

The two guards standing at the door initially wanted to stop him for questioning, but when they saw the dazzling title floating above Shen Feng's head, their expressions changed drastically, and they immediately knelt on one knee.

"Greetings, Honorary General!"

Shen Feng nodded to the guards and walked inside.

"What is going on? Since when did Baofeng City have an Honorary General?"

"And he looks like an Adventurer!"

"Shh, keep your voice down. A prominent figure like that is not someone we can afford to offend. If you don't want to lose your job, just stand straight and do your duty."

The two guards at the door recovered their solemn expressions, their postures becoming even more rigid.

As soon as Shen Feng entered the Affairs Hall, the official in charge came rushing over.

"General, I am the Chief Administrator of the Affairs Hall. Is there anything I can do to assist you?"

At this moment, a chubby middle-aged man named Moore ran up to Shen Feng, speaking with utmost respect.

Shen Feng smiled and said, "I want to buy shops in Baofeng City."

"My Lord, please follow me," Moore said, continuing to smile.

He immediately led Shen Feng into a massive room. In the center of the room lay a colossal sand table model.

The model simulated the architecture of the entire Baofeng City.

"My Lord, above is the property distribution map of our entire Baofeng City. The green buildings represent unsold properties. You may choose to purchase them."

Shen Feng looked over the properties of Baofeng City. Currently, there were still many unsold properties. At this stage, players did not have enough reputation points to qualify for purchasing real estate, and only a few properties had been bought by NPCs.

"So many properties, but not enough money! Let's see how much I've earned from the forum views."

Shen Feng logged into the game forum to check the post he had made.

When he saw the view count of his post, he was stunned.

At this moment, his post had accumulated over 1 billion views, and the amount of gold coins he could withdraw from the post had reached 100 million! After deducting the 30% handling fee, he could receive over 70 million gold coins. If converted to Blue Star Coins right now, that would be 7 billion—an instant fortune.

"Hahaha! I'm definitely not short on money in the game now!"

Shen Feng laughed heartily and withdrew all the gold coins from the forum.

Looking at the prices of the shops and properties, they were basically around several hundred thousand gold coins. However, Shen Feng knew that this was the cheapest time for real estate in the game. In the early stages, properties had no practical use for any faction, and the levels of life-profession players were not high.

However, once a massive number of players flooded into the city and their levels reached a certain point, the prices of weapons, equipment, materials, and potions would skyrocket.

By then, powerful life-profession guilds would begin purchasing real estate.

Some large guilds would even try every possible means to monopolize the real estate industry in the entire game.

When that time came, the prices of houses, shops, and taverns in the city would soar. In the late game, a single shop would cost at least several million, and prime locations could easily reach tens of millions.

And Shen Feng, at this moment, wanted to be the pioneer, buying up all the properties he could to amass even more gold coins.

Once he accumulated enough gold coins, he would go to other main cities to buy up all available properties there as well.

Then, when a massive wave of players entered the main cities, his properties—whether rented out or sold—would allow him to make a massive fortune.

With this thought, Shen Feng said to Moore, "I want to buy all the purchasable properties in Baofeng City. Calculate how many gold coins it will cost."

Hearing Shen Feng's words, Moore was first stunned, wondering if he had misheard.

One had to know that Baofeng City was a major city capable of accommodating millions of players and NPCs. The value of the real estate inside, even at current prices, was an astronomical figure. Did the Honorary General in front of him really have that much money?

"My Lord! Did you say all the properties in Baofeng City?"

Moore couldn't help but confirm once more.

"Yes! Calculate the total cost!"

Hearing this, Moore gasped. How wealthy was this Honorary General?

However, he dared not delay and quickly ordered his subordinates to begin the calculations.

A few minutes later, a subordinate walked over holding a thick stack of reports.

"My Lord, the calculations are complete. Baofeng City has a total of 130 residential land deeds, 230 roadside shops, 15 taverns, and 130 other commercial buildings remaining. The total cost is 120 million gold coins! As the Honorary General of Baofeng City, you enjoy a 50% discount, bringing the total to 60 million gold coins!"

Shen Feng took the report and glanced at it casually.

"Ding! Do you wish to spend 60 million gold coins to purchase all commercial properties in Baofeng City?"

Seeing that it only cost 60 million gold coins, Shen Feng was stunned. He had thought he might not have enough, but it turned out to be so cheap, leaving him with a surplus of 10 million gold coins.

"This is way too cheap!" Shen Feng exclaimed.

In the future, these properties wouldn't necessarily be buyable even with money. This was an absolute steal!

Without any hesitation, Shen Feng clicked confirm.

"Ding! You have obtained 130 residential land deeds, 230 roadside shops, 15 taverns, and 130 other commercial buildings in Baofeng City."

As the system prompt faded, a massive number of land deeds appeared in Shen Feng's inventory, completely filling it. The excess deeds were sent directly into his Spatial Ring.

Naming all these shops and residences would be extremely tedious.

Shen Feng directly spent 500,000 gold coins at Moore's place to establish the New Era Chamber of Commerce.

He placed all the properties in Baofeng City under the ownership of the New Era Chamber of Commerce. This way, all weapon shops would be named New Era Weapon Shop, medicine shops would be named New Era Pharmacy, and other material and grocery shops would be named New Era Grocery Store, and so on.