Urban Sims

June, the third year since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Wan Chengguo, Zhenlin City.

In the industrial park on the southern outskirts of the city, inside a factory building.

Next to the shiny mechanical equipment, a group of inspectors walked by, looking at it as they walked.

"Director Ding, how many pairs of sky-defying boots can this air-defying equipment manufacturing factory produce each year?"

Walking to the product display stand, Zhou Ming picked up a pair of running shoe-style flying boots. Zhou Ming turned around and asked Factory Director Ding beside him.

"The current annual output is 5,000 pairs."

"What about this kind of air control technique?"

Zhou Ming picked up another fist-glove-connected wristband-style device and asked Director Ding.

"The annual output is 4,500 pairs."

Zhou Ming nodded with satisfaction. This output can be said to be quite impressive.

The function of the air defense boots is to replace the air defense flying sword, allowing monks to fly in the air. The built-in psychic jet of the air defense boots allows each shoe to generate a maximum thrust of 200 kilograms, with a thrust-to-weight ratio of over 100.

The functions of the Airborne Wrist are similar to those of the Airborne Boots, but the main purpose of production is to match the Airborne Boots to enhance the flight experience and better maintain balance. The thrust of a single Airborne Wrist can reach a maximum of 100 kilograms.

If a monk wears the air-defying boots and the air-defying wrist, the total thrust of 600 kilograms can allow a monk weighing no more than 100 kilograms to experience the feeling of 6-8 G acceleration acting on his body.

Then put on a helmet with windshield and a protective clothing made of strong material that can prevent rain, cold and ventilation. At the most suitable altitude for flying, a neatly dressed monk will have no problem breaking through the speed of sound as long as the body can withstand enough. .

The price of the sky-controlling boots and the sky-controlling wristbands is not expensive either. A complete set only costs 1 million spirit coins.

"What's the cost? What's the current production cost? Such a complete air-control suit." Zhou Ming asked the question he was most concerned about.

"About 100,000 spirit coins. The price of soul stones has increased by 30% this year, otherwise the cost would not have exceeded 80,000." Director Ding said.

100,000, 1 million...

The selling price is ten times the cost, and the profit is at least 800,000 spirit coins.

I took a deep breath, huge profits, absolute huge profits.

It’s just that the price is so expensive, how many people can afford it?

"Many, very many!"

Director Ding nodded affirmatively, "Each batch of goods leaving the factory will be sold out within a few days. There are also some wealthy monks who come here to customize the styles they need at high prices. Personal customization business The order has been scheduled for three years."

The requirements for monks to use the fourth-generation air-control boots and air-control wrists have dropped to the late stage of Qi refining. Monks in the early stage of liquid condensation can fly thousands of miles after wearing them, and their speed is faster than some immortals who fly with swords. It was fast, so it was very popular.

Although the price of Yukong boots and Yukong wrists is astonishingly expensive, 1 million spirit coins is an income that ordinary families cannot earn in a lifetime, but for the monk class, 1 million spirit coins is really not a big number.

Nowadays, in Wancheng Country, the monk class is a veritable "high-income" class.

The income gap between monks and ordinary people is more than 50 times.

The reason lies in the ability of the monks, which indeed allows them to make such money.

For example, a psychic machine "guide" in a psychic factory can get an hourly salary of 80-180 spiritual coins as long as he can make a medium-power psychic machine operate normally for one hour.

For example, in the Orbital Railway Company, the average annual salary for monk drivers of psychic locomotives is 270,000 spiritual coins.

The highest paid ones are propeller cargo aircraft pilots, with the average annual salary being twice as much as that of a psychic locomotive pilot.

The monks in the above-mentioned positions want to buy a "air-control suit" worth millions of spiritual coins, and they can save it for 2 to 5 years at most.

The higher your cultivation level, the shorter the time it takes to save money.

In fact, the customer group with the largest number of buyers of the "Air Control Suit" is the students of the training academy, especially Daxian Academy. Among the tens of thousands of students, almost one out of every two people has bought the Air Control Suit. .

The problem is that these students don't have jobs, they are all in school, and most of their families are not in good condition. How can they spend hundreds of thousands or millions of spiritual coins to buy such expensive air-control suits?

Could it be that there are places in this world where kidneys are sold?

of course not.

Work an extracurricular job.

Most of the income sources of these students come from extracurricular jobs.

There are two main forms.

One is to add "spiritual energy" to the spirit stone, which is called "spiritual replenishing work".

One is to replenish "spiritual power" to the soul stone, which is called "energy replenishing work".

The reward for a spiritual replenisher is one spiritual coin for every ten units of spiritual energy replenished.

The remuneration for the energy replenisher is three spiritual coins for every ten units of spiritual power replenished.

Generally, students can do these two kinds of extracurricular jobs, and the income is quite considerable.

Students with the lowest cultivation level in the early stage of Qi refining can earn 50 spirit coins a day if they work hard; students in the early stage of liquid condensation can even earn 500 spirit coins a day.

If the customer does not buy the complete set, but only buys a pair of imperial boots, it only costs 400,000 spirit coins.

If you apply for loan services from some private banks, as long as your cultivation reaches the liquid condensation stage, you can buy it with confidence and boldness.

Therefore, the sales of air-control suits are extremely hot.

Zhenlin City has also gained huge benefits from it, such as spiritual stones and soul stones for lighting street lamps, psychic taxis that ordinary people can drive, and psychic tools that ordinary people can use at home... Relying on the "spiritual energy" added by these students " and "mental power" were used frequently.

This activity and prosperity are obviously due to one product - the Sky Control Suit.

Zhou Ming thought to himself: "This is a benign interaction. In order to get what they want, the monks have changed from immersing themselves in cultivation to working hard to make money and export their aura and spirit. This has increased the factory's operating rate and production. More 'psychic' products have been produced, accelerating the development of society."

"Ordinary people have also benefited from this. More and more psychic products such as psychic lamps, psychic cars, psychic aircraft, and psychic tools have entered thousands of households and come into contact with ordinary people."

"This was unimaginable before. A monk from a high position would begin to provide services to mortals."

"But it will become the norm in the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Chengs, especially as the number of monks continues to increase and accumulates a huge number, the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Chengs will become an even more magical country."

"The mortal world will also undergo earth-shaking changes."

And this change is closely related to the factory Zhou Ming inspected today - Yukong Equipment Manufacturing Factory.

This factory was classified as an emerging industry by Zhou Ming, and the importance attached to it reached a strategic level.

Seeing that the factory was gradually getting on the right track, and the output of Yukong Equipment increased steadily, Zhou Ming was satisfied and said in his heart: "The success of Yukong Equipment Manufacturing Factory is enough to show the development of emerging industries in the mortal world. The prospects can be said to be infinitely bright.”