Chapter 155 Published



During this time, Vivi has actually been worrying about the development direction of South Hinckley. Even if she relies on Professor Daisy's academic connections to attract her alumni and students in Blythechester, and discusses with the president of the University of Blythe to build a branch in South Hinckley, relying on one school to drive the economy of the entire town is not a long-term solution.

The most famous thing about Blythe is the University of Blythe, which is well-known internationally. However, it does not necessarily mean that Blythe has become an economically developed town. On the contrary, in the impression of Blythe students, it is always rainy and dark. Everyone walks hurriedly under the rain, immersed in a strong academic atmosphere.

Weiwei doesn't want South Hinckley to become like that. If the only goal is to revive the town, then a branch of the University of Birmingham would be enough. But to make the town vibrant and keep the economy flowing, these are not enough. The town also needs other pillar industries. It used to be mining, but now it can have something else.

Her ideas were still crude, but she didn't have to think about them alone.

Several of them, including the Wayne brothers, the supermarket manager, Ms. Nora, Professor Daisy, and William who suddenly appeared from the corner, all held a meeting at the orphanage.

This was also the first time Dick and Jason met the lady who invested in the town. Daisy Diamond obviously didn't care much about things. The lady was sitting in a wheelchair, holding a Spanish pirate adventure novel. The nurse next to her was a little worried. It was already past eleven o'clock in the evening, which should be the professor's bedtime. Lack of rest would affect her health.

Does this young mayor not consider time when doing things? The nurse was a little annoyed and picked up Professor Daisy's cape.

"It's just a concept at the moment," Weiwei said, her whole body glowing as she talked about how to build South Hinckley, "...to turn the whole town into a theme park, and the theme of the park is a simulated town."

She pointed out the window. "There is no town hall in the town right now. If this idea is feasible, then the members of our town hall will be all the citizens of Gotham, so there will naturally be no need for a town hall."

Dick tapped the table. "Is this what they call... 'cloud construction'?"

After all, Nora had been frozen for many years, so she could understand the plan for the orphanage alone, but Vivi directly expanded it to the entire town in one sentence, so the specific operation method became much more complicated.

She raised her hand and tried to analyze: "Adopt a room, let them pay for the decoration, then take photos and send them back, and give them virtual decorations on the Internet... I also think this makes people happier than simply donating money or goods, because donors can receive feedback in real time."

“They can see that what they give to orphans is actually helping, but if it’s just about giving back, why the web decorations?”

This time it was the supermarket manager who answered, "For the sake of comparison!"

He only listened to a little bit and was very excited, because he realized that if South Hinckley really became the first cloud construction town, then his coming to manage the South Hinckley branch would not be considered "demotion".

Even if the losses during this period were not related to the manager, he would not be held accountable. On the contrary, all the losses of South Hinckley were made up by Weiwei out of her own pocket. The manager still held his breath - even if this town developed, it would not be more prosperous than the urban area of ​​Gotham, and his career path would have come to an end. He was still young and did not want to retire in a remote town with no future.

But now, everything is different. It has only been a few days, and the future has suddenly become clear. Moreover, only South Hinckley, only this magical town can achieve rapid and large-scale construction, and can also change the town's layout - his eyes looking at Vivi were particularly fiery.

He gestured, "What do the rooms in the orphanage look like? They are all double rooms, right? How many children do we have in total?"

Nora couldn't help but lean back slightly under his expectant gaze: "Currently there are 207, but it should increase."

The manager nodded. "Then we can open 120 rooms as the first batch. The first batch will have avatar frames marked with Ⅰ and special chat bubbles. After the layout and claiming, they can also upload to the website for network-wide voting. Considering aesthetics and comfort, there will be three prizes. Their avatar frames and bubbles will be upgraded as they are..."

The manager looked at Weiwei and said, "But we are not giving away any physical gifts. If we do that... no, the sponsors won't feel real. We can provide the winning sponsors with a free round-trip ticket to South Hinckley to take a look at the room they have claimed."

You were talking about players, right?

Weiwei had a strange feeling, as if she was playing a game within a game, but after hearing what the manager said, she immediately returned the favor: "The cost of mailing furniture is too high. We have a large supermarket with good quality and low prices in our local area. The website will recommend Iceberg Supermarket first."

Nora nodded. "That's certainly true for the orphanage. I'll take care of the children, including follow-up feedback and communication between the children and the sponsors...but what about the other buildings in the town? It seems that the orphanage model cannot be used to fit them."

This is where the difficulty of the problem lies. It is normal for orphanages to accept donations, and schools are also normal, but it is a bit shameless for residential areas to do the same.

"The rest can be done in a different way," Weiwei raised her hand. "This is a theme town under construction, but the construction of the houses does not need to be completed by website users. I will complete the basic framework, and Professor Daisy will provide funding. What the town lacks most is population. The floating population brings the economy, and the town has a very bad reputation. It has no characteristics and no local industries. This is why there are no people in this town. But we can also outsource the construction—"

Professor Daisy nodded: "I have no opinion."

Weiwei continued, "We outsource the nature of construction. Even if we build residential areas, schools, orphanages and nursing homes, fire stations, police stations and other functional buildings here, a city will not only have functional buildings..."

Even if all the buildings redeemed by the system are upgraded to the maximum level, South Hinckley Town cannot be filled up. Moreover, if all the buildings are planned, then although the town has everything, it lacks vitality.

This reminded Weiwei of other buildings in her system——

A lot, and unnecessary.

But just looking at her current tokens, you can tell that by the last day of the event, the powerful people of Gotan City will be able to bring her more than 10 million tokens, sweep the event mall, and redeem all the buildings. In this case, why not auction off the "redemption rights"?

It's not that Vivi uses tokens to redeem buildings.

Instead, other people paid Weiwei to redeem the building.

"For example, the Ferris wheel, the horse farm, the candy house, the haunted house... these buildings are actually not needed in this town right now," she blinked, "but we give the construction rights to others. They can bid for the short-term use of the land for three months, and then bid for the construction rights of the buildings. Then, they can play the game of 'cloud management' and manage their own buildings in person or remotely, and bear their own profits and losses——"

This is equivalent to a simulation business and construction game carried out in reality, and this game can only be effective in South Hinckley.

If things were really done according to Vivi's method, then the main business of this town should be tourism. Only in South Hinckley are there buildings that can be transformed in one second, because these buildings are essentially building blocks and are not easily damaged. They can also be disassembled and reassembled by Vivi and put back into use. If other theme parks want to use this method, they will immediately lose all their money.

"Also," the girl sat down at the table and gestured with her hands, "we can also launch a 'simulated career' service. There are too few people in the town, but people can go to the town to play various careers and experience life. This is a semi-real person interactive game. The data of the participants is uploaded to the website, and the boss who bids for the building rights can also hire them... Well, it's limited to the citizens of Gotan. William can drive them, so it's equivalent to reimbursing our car expenses."

These ideas are just ideas at present, and there are bound to be many unreasonable aspects, but the girl seems very happy, because if the unreasonable parts are removed, it is still feasible, and this place will become a unique town.

Dick rested his chin on his hand. "Then we can also link this part with virtual rewards on the Internet. Excellent employees can get medals from their bosses, and the stores that make the most money after each quarter can also get badges and avatar frames as rewards. Similarly, if a person does a bad job, his reputation will be reduced, and in serious cases, his account will be blocked."

If they are really planning a game, then it is a huge project, but what they are planning is a real game that exists in this world. They are now standing on the "game map". They don't need codes and programs. What they need is to use the Internet as a medium and the power of each person to personally transform the town.

And this kind of bizarre transformation method is only feasible here.

"It looks like I need to contact the game designer," Professor Daisy said with a smile, "I have a friend who would be very interested. With his help, we can complete the website and app structure faster."

This friend is of course Mr. Luther, a good man who is interested in Gotham.

"I can contact Xiaohong for publicity," Dick touched his nose. "This is a good thing. The Wayne Group is willing to help."

After he finished speaking, he felt as if someone was glaring at him from behind, and it seemed like more than once.

Well, Weiwei turned on the projection, projected a map, and then highlighted all the "public toilets" on the map with one click, and then manually removed the reserved positions after the upgrade of other areas. Even so, 2/3 of the public toilets can still be "used". She said: "Then the one for auction is-"

Her words were drowned out by the loud voice.

Bright, colorful fireworks light poured in through the windows, instantly illuminating the entire room with gold. Everyone's face was dyed with dancing light at this moment, but more than half of the people present were not ordinary people. At this moment, what they thought of was not the beautiful night, but attacks, explosions or battles.

Then Nora opened the side door. Outside the door was a quarter-circular corridor located on the periphery of the building. It was made up of one-piece curved floor-to-ceiling glass. The sound of fireworks did not stop. Everyone walked to the corridor and saw...the fireworks were a gift from the city of Gotham across the road and the sea.

At midnight on June 4th, the city of Gotham set off a grand fireworks display. Everyone in the city could see the fireworks painting the sky with brilliant colors. With the sound of "bang, bang, bang", various patterns appeared, including scattered feathers, golden lions, gargoyles, people's smiling faces, and giant bats... The city finally chose to accept everything in the city. Amid the loud noises, they could hardly talk, so no matter whether they were the Claw Killer, the orphanage director, the mysterious assassin, the masked vigilante, or ordinary employees, they all raised their heads slightly.

Weiwei remembered that it was a magic show. She looked up a few magicians on the map and worked out a plan. They organized a charity magic show and used the magic show to identify the scumbag colleague who provided assistance to Owl from the entire Gotan city.

After completing these, it was time to enter the real carnival. She remembered that -

The fireworks faded, and after a few minutes of fireworks show, the light in people's pupils went out, and the city of Gotam returned to peace.

And Weiwei crossed her arms and still looked up.

Nora cried out in surprise.

——Heavy snow fell.

It is June now. Gotam is a coastal city and summer has already arrived early. Snow only falls in winter here.

But now, snowflakes are falling on the green branches.

From time to time, people's surprised voices could be heard in the streets and alleys. Is this magic... or is it witchcraft?

But Nora seemed to realize something. She turned her head to look at Weiwei with a smile in her eyes. She touched the glass with her fingertips, leaving a faint mark.

With the wisdom of Mr. Frozen, he can turn Gotham into a city of ice and snow, or he can cooperate with the little magician to create an unseasonal snowfall here.

Nora knew that her husband was watching this scene from the window of Blackgate Prison, and they were observing the same snow.

Snowflakes reflected the lights, forming a thin layer on the ground. In the city center, Zatanna patted Batman on the shoulder: "Just tonight, at least relax a little."

Then, this real magician appeared on the branch of the giant tree in Crime Alley. Poison Ivy, who was waiting on the branch, snorted softly: "If it weren't for the request of the little cuties, I wouldn't do such a boring thing."

She placed one hand on the colorful tree, and the glittering roses grew around her. Zatanna shrugged: "To be honest, I don't want to see you either."

But not tonight.

Golden spots of light fell on the snow-covered ground. People hiding indoors found that the spots of light bloomed, and branches and flowers crawled out from the ground, blooming with gorgeous, glowing roses of various colors. It was as beautiful as an illusory dream.

Poison Ivy was about to say something when the ugly little girl Harley pushed her. Both of her hands were handcuffed: "Let's go play, Ivy! Movies, shopping, lollipops--"

"Well..." The red-haired criminal lifted his hair, "If you wish."

The catwoman who was driving the car glanced at the two of them speechlessly and complained in her heart, why was she the one looking at these two people?

This is a magic show that only happens tonight. When the clock strikes twelve, Cinderella's crystal shoes do not fall on the stairs. Instead, a corner of the strange world is revealed to everyone... While everyone else is watching the magic, only Jason turns his head away and looks into the depths of the forest.

The future she described was too beautiful, telling Jason that everything had another possibility -

All the power this girl has gained has been used to build and improve the city, while others who gain power often take the path of domination and destruction. Just like Jason himself, doesn't he know that only by taking the upper level of reform can the filth of Gotham be eradicated? But he can't do it. He has to do what he can, such as killing criminals to stop killing.

When all the enemy's blood has been shed, it's time for him to drink the bullet, because Jason Todd is also a criminal who breaks the law.

Now there is another possibility.

…but South Hinckley Prison wasn't on the map that Vivi showed her.

Jason originally wanted to leave, but now he felt that he had to stay and see when new prison locations would appear on the map. Besides, Xiao Chou was already here, so it was even more impossible for him to leave.

As the group returned indoors, small fireworks occasionally appeared in the sky, but they were too far away from South Hinckley to illuminate this place.

Weiwei continued with the previous topic. She patted the table and said, "We can auction the public toilet."

Under the suspicious gazes of others, she operated twice on her phone, and all the locations marked as public toilets on the map were replaced with "Buildings? ".


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