[Welcome player [Weiwei] to enter the game "I am the Mayor". Build and manage your own city. Please choose——]
A. Build a new city from scratch
[B. Get an existing city, but you need to change it to make it better]
Weiwei didn't want to start building the city by selecting land and building roads because the progress was too slow.
She has played many infrastructure games, and building a city is not her first time, but the basic gameplay no longer attracts her.
She chooses B.
[You choose to obtain a city with basic construction completed. Of course you know that this city has a lot of problems, that's why you came here, you came to save it. 】
[Randomly——You get the city Gotham]
It seems that Gotham is the name of this city.
The scene of the "Mayor's Office" appeared in front of Weiwei.
This is a large room, but it does not seem empty. Half of the wall is made of transparent floor-to-ceiling glass, and the sunlight shines across the long table.
The long desk in the "mayor's" office is curved, and the wood texture is very beautiful. Behind the desk is a glass curtain wall, and opposite the long desk is a dark red carpet. There are small rooms on both sides, which are marked as lounges and studies on the map.
The crystal chandelier above the head sparkles with expensive light, and the room is decorated in a low-key yet luxurious manner.
The game is loaded, and the picture in front of you seems to suddenly change from 2D to 3D. Although it is not as real as the real world, the picture is more refined than most holographic games.
Weiwei gained control of her body and appeared directly on the mayor's chair, with the current [Gotham] panel in front of her.
[Current [Gotham City Comprehensive Level -2]]
[The comprehensive level of a city is comprehensively related to "city prosperity", "city population", "city security" and "city reputation"]
Wow... Although she guessed that there was something wrong with this city that "needed to be saved", its overall level was directly negative?
【Current [City Prosperity 8]】
[Gotham is a fairly prosperous city with a developed economy and a full range of buildings and facilities, but it is not necessarily friendly. 】
Current [city population 7]
[Gotham is a large port city. Not only does it have a large population, but it also has convenient transportation. 】
Considering the negative overall level, the high levels of the first two attributes seem to indicate that the following attributes will be terrible.
really--
[Current [City Security -10]]
[The public security in Gotham is not very good, or rather, it is terrible. The instinct to avoid danger seems to have been ingrained in the blood of the people of Gotham, but the danger is always there. 】
[Current [City Reputation -7]]
[Gotham is a great city, but not everyone thinks so. 】
[All attributes are settled once at the end of the month]
"I feel the same way," the option named [Newbie Guide] flashed wildly, expressing its presence to Weiwei, "but now I'm the mayor."
This was her city now, of course she was going to change Gotham.
Before that, she needed to get to know her city.
The novice guidance is nothing more than guiding the players to adapt to the operations, such as how to open the map, call up the panel, check other characters, etc. Weiwei is experienced and got everything done in just over ten minutes.
The last step is -
[Checking the world background, verifying the world difficulty, searching for the silver wall...]
[The current world difficulty is relatively high.] 】
[——Players have one chance to draw special abilities. 】
[You gain basic ability (this ability cannot be removed): special glasses]
[Basic Ability: Special Glasses]
【Put on "special glasses" and you will become a person of a different 'identity' in the eyes of others. 】
【Description: 'Putting on glasses makes you a different person'. In your current worldview, this behavior is allowed by the rules. 】
[How to obtain "special glasses": diamond pool extraction, system rewards, achievement packages]
Just when Weiwei finished reading the introduction of the abilities, the system also gave her a novice reward corresponding to her status and put it directly into the package.
【Mayor's glasses】
[Description: Wear it and you will be the mayor. It is so easy to become the mayor of Gotham City]
[Bound item, indestructible]
The mayor's name is ____
She put on her glasses, a pair of gold-rimmed glasses without prescription. It seemed that in addition to the player's registration name, she also had to give a name to the identity of mayor. Weiwei casually entered "AA", and just like her name "VV", the system automatically expanded it to "Anna Alec".
The novice guide was almost done. She put on her glasses, stood up, looked around, and walked to the French window at the back to look out into the distance.
There was a drizzle outside the window. The spires of Gothic buildings could be seen in the distance. On the elevated road, trams shuttled through, casting blurry dark yellow taillights in the rain.
At the top of a tall building a few hundred meters away, something seemed to suddenly flash by, or like a ray of light was refracted by glass.
——Weiwei’s eyes blurred.
"Bang--"
The glass suddenly shattered, and thousands of pieces of glass reflected the rain, and her body fell backwards on her back.
You are dead
Weiwei: “……?”
Are all cities in [City Security-10] like this?
The screen turned gray, the rain and falling glass outside the window stopped at this moment, and Weiwei was presented with a choice -
[Do you choose to revive (please complete the selection within 30 seconds)? 】
[Resurrect immediately][Wait a moment]
The perspective was still in the room, unable to get out. Apparently, she was shot directly from several hundred meters away when she was standing by the window.
She opened the map first.
The [Killer] on the map is a small red dot with no name.
The system does not provide a marking function, but since it is a red dot, it should be quite obvious, right? If the other party appears again later... Weiwei thought about it and zoomed out. The scale of the map became larger and more buildings could appear -
At least 1/3 of the citizens in the entire city are red dots representing enemies.
Weiwei: “?”
Is something wrong with Gotham?
And if the killer is not caught immediately after resurrection, the opponent will immediately disappear like a swimming fish, hiding himself in the red school of fish - how can such a description make Weiwei feel as if she is the dictatorial villain who should be killed?
She had no choice but to resurrect, and once again appeared on the chair, but the fragments of the window were still at her feet. Considering that she was currently unarmed - even not all the people in the city hall were her own people (...), she did not go to the window to look for the rampant sniper.
Weiwei's toes moved slightly, then she kicked something, and she lowered her head——
“……”What is going on?
In front of me was a familiar female corpse.
She was clearly resurrected...but her body that had just been shot did not disappear, and she was just kicking her own "corpse".
This feels really weird.
There was a big hole in the head of the corpse. It was a girl with medium-length brown hair and wide-open eyes. When she used the identity of the mayor, her hair was actually blonde. The moment she was resurrected, the [Mayor Glasses] automatically entered the system package. Without the blessing of the glasses, the corpse became the appearance set when she first entered the game. However, there were no bloody scenes that could not appear in the game, and there was no blood on the carpet.
However, perhaps because no additional appearance was purchased for the initial identity, the corpse was wearing a simple white robe of the default style in the login space, and did not even have a pair of shoes.
The corpse doesn’t disappear after resurrection... Is this a game bug?
I've never heard of any game doing this, has anyone else experienced this?
Weiwei dragged the back of the chair and touched "her own" body through the cover of the chair——
[An unidentified corpse with the word "VV" carved on the back of its neck]
[Players can choose -
a. Spend 1000 gold (personal property) to burn
b. Spend 2000 gold (personal property) to buy an ordinary tombstone
c. Spend 5,000 gold (personal property) to buy a luxurious tombstone (there is a chance to meet investor Cobert)
d. Spend 50 diamonds (personal property) to buy a super luxurious tombstone and publish an obituary in all Gotham newspapers (there is a chance to meet investor Wayne)]
"…Personal property?"
Weiwei turned her gaze to her personal panel.
【Municipal Government Property: 1.5 million gold (not activated)
(Loan from No. 1 Bank at the beginning of each month, repay at the end of the month, monthly interest rate is 3%. If you cannot repay, the interest rate will double next month)]
Personal property: 0
(At the end of each month, the mayor will receive a salary of 5,000 gold)]
[The current time is April 1st.] 】
"So I'm so poor that I don't even have the money to collect my own body..." She rubbed her brows helplessly. She couldn't just let her body lie on the ground like that before the BUG was fixed. Weiwei put on the [Mayor's Glasses], picked up the body with one hand (it felt almost weightless), opened the movable cabinet on the desk, and stuffed the body in for the time being.
After making sure that no foot had fallen out of the cabinet, she summoned her NPC assistant on the system interface.
She is the mayor after all.
The new mayor, Ms. Anna Eleck, is aloof.
Almost no one knows her, her past is quite mysterious, and there are many rumors -
Some said that she was forced to be "demoted" to the unfriendly city of Gotham for political reasons, while others said that she came from a wealthy family in New York. The truth and falsehood soon became the topic of conversation during tea time.
But, to be honest, as an airborne mayor, it is uncertain how long she can stay - at least those who originally had ambitions to get this position may not be satisfied, and Gotham does not welcome outsiders.
In this situation, Ms. Anna did not bring a secretary with her. Before the mayor came, the main work of the city had actually been divided up by certain people.
As a marginal figure in the city hall, Millie inexplicably became this lady's secretary in the process of passing the buck - God knows she had never met Mayor Anna!
Now the mayor has sent her a message asking her to come to the mayor's office immediately.
Millie hurried to the destination, but as she was just an ordinary clerk before, she was not familiar with some of the roads. While she was rushing on her way, she bumped into Sherk, the secretary general of the previous mayor - currently the former secretary general.
The other person was at least a head taller than her. He took a step back and looked at her coldly.
Millie's breathing stagnated and she quickly apologized. Seeing that the other party didn't react, she quickly lowered her head, walked around him and went to the mayor's office.
She didn't know that Sherk turned his head to look at her back and suddenly laughed.
[There's nothing wrong with letting this girl discover the mayor's death... She's just an ordinary person, it's more appropriate. ]
He walked forward with steady steps.
[But...] Sherk was suddenly stunned [Who asked her to go to the office? ]
His impression of Millie, no, he had no impression of her at all, which meant that she was an invisible person in the office, who would not shirk her work, but would also never take the initiative to do anything - if she didn't take the initiative, she wouldn't make mistakes.
So who was calling her and making her so hurried?
Sherk suddenly had a bad feeling and made a hasty phone call.
Millie knocked on the door, pushed it open after receiving a response, and was stunned.
There was a big hole in the glass, and drizzle poured in. Near the door, a young lady was staring at an antique vase beside her, wondering what she was thinking.
She was wearing a royal blue uniform suit without a single wrinkle on it. She had platinum curly hair that was neatly tied up, and the gold-rimmed glasses made her look even more ladylike.
——It doesn’t look easy to approach.
"Secretary," the lady was obviously the mayor. She waved her hand, "Contact the best engineering team. I want to build all the windows in my office into walls."
Millie: “…Okay!”
all? Not leaving a single window?
But her wisdom in life was not to refute her boss's words, but to immediately lower her head and start making a phone call.
Weiwei glanced at the tool secretary and the system screen between her and the NPC.
[Task: Summon your secretary once (completed)]
[Office door is open]
【Mission: Visit the City Hall】
[Reward: Open the fund allocation module]
[You have allocated 5,000 gold (government funds) for office renovation. 】
You don’t need to use your own personal account to change the layout of your office; you can directly transfer money from the public account.
But Weiwei remembered...the public account was a loan.
So the current government funding should be -5000.
Excellent, she thought deadpanly.
Now that I have already spent the money, I might as well spend it all at once.
"Don't build the wall," Millie suddenly heard the lady say, "put on the strongest steel bars instead."
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