I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!-Chapter 62 - 36 Baby Kes Value Continues to Soar_1

he had built way too many industrial and commercial zones, which took up a whopping 80%.

Residential areas were left with a mere 20%.

Keep in mind, both commercial and industrial zones rely on the population from residential areas.

Citizens need to have their living arrangements sorted out first before they can put energy into going to work or opening up businesses.

“Yo, why is this little boss scooting off with a bag? Giving up on the store? Truly ignorant.” Dasima played without a clue, until loads of shops started closing down and factories went bankrupt. Seeing many citizens packing up and leaving, he realized something was wrong.

The bullet screen started to make fun.

“Noticing just now? Barely scratching the surface.”

“Citizens: Our mayor is so clueless, sending us to work without even providing places to live, so we’re bailing out.”

“How can Mr. Ma eat anything with anything? Can this game make me wolf down three big bowls of rice too?”

“How to pronounce bankruptcy? Wait till the red-skinned duck gets the plague.”

All the money had been invested, but the citizens kept leaving one by one, and the city was not just failing to make money, but also bleeding cash crazily.

Bankruptcy was just a matter of time.

Just as everyone was eagerly waiting for Dio City to close down for good and preparing to mock viciously,

Dasima randomly clicked and somehow opened an operational interface.

This operational interface was straightforward, which prompted Dasima to give it an extra look.

Upon inspection, he discovered,

that this UI frame seemed to be for adjusting city taxation and managing city expenditures.

The higher the taxes, the greater the city’s revenue.

But the citizens’ burden would increase, and their happiness would drop rapidly.

Currently, the city’s comprehensive tax rate was set at a default by the system, at around 11%.

Seeing bankruptcy looming, without a second thought, Dasima maxed out the tax rate.

As a result, every remaining citizen in Dio City had to pay 90% of their income in taxes.

Can’t afford it? No worries, there’s a bank next door that can offer loans to the citizens.

Dasima could also control the loan tax amount.

Without a thought, since the city was nearly bankrupt, why bother with the details?

He maxed out the loan amount at once.

The repayment amount soared to 900% instantly!

In an instant, the city’s GDP skyrocketed!

Just when it was about to plunge below zero Korang and go bankrupt,

In just a short span of three minutes, it spiked to 100,000 Korang!

This move left the bullet screen audience absolutely stunned, as comments flooded the screen.

“What???”

“He managed to turn it around? How did he do it?”

“Damn, there’s a ponzi!”

“Ponzi? You mean loan!”

“Citizens: Damn your loan, Dio here has a freaking bank charging ninety freaking percent interest; it’s an outrageous loan!”

“Mr. Ma always attacks from angles I’d never expect, aww/pout.”

“How to describe bloodsucking? Just say bloodsucking.”

“Not just bleeding us dry, this is marrow extraction!”

“Earlier people talked about disposable chopsticks, disposable bowls, does that mean Ma’s city is a disposable city? Completely drying up the pond to catch all the fish.”

“A what kind of city? Can I visit it? /coverface/coverface”

Amid the wave of comments on the bullet screen, Dasima continued operating.

Watching the money crazily skyrocketing,

He finally began to appreciate the fun of this game.

An almost bankrupt city could, through unexpected and nonsensical means, unscrupulously squeeze out the last drop of value from its remaining citizens.

No wonder the bullet screen was flooded with messages urging him to play this game.

This game indeed was different from other simulation and management games.

And this game designer… must be a devil, right?

Allowing taxes to be raised to 90%, is that on purpose?

…

Meanwhile, in another live streaming room on the Shark Platform.

“OMG! Guys, can you even do that?” Famous abstract and mischief-making streamer Zhou Shuyi was secretly watching Dasima’s live stream when she discovered that you could crank up the tax rate to 90% and instantly squeeze the value out of the citizens, leaving her utterly shocked.

The barrage of comments also began to fly.

“The streamer should keep her mouth shut, thanks, I’m coming out.”

“Is Miss Zhou still streaming today, or why is she always watching Mr. Ma? Got a secret crush, eh?”

“Zhou Shuyi doesn’t understand this game, so she can only keep popular by watching other streamer’s broadcasts.”

“This is what happens when your brain shrinks. You’re fine until you talk and then even your pitch changes, emitting an abstract smell.”

“Who are you calling brain-shrunk? I—… Thank you, ‘Baby Shuyi’ for the Fire Arrow, love ya, mua~” Zhou Shuyi, about to unleash a streak of Sichuan dialect to respond to the black sheep in the comments, caught sight of a soaring Fire Arrow and instantly switched faces, blowing a kiss with a pinched voice at the screen.

The popularity of the live room surged even higher, with screens full of ‘6666’ floating by.

Seeing her own live room’s popularity growing higher and higher, Zhou Shuyi decisively downloaded “Skyline”.

At first, she indeed was a bit worried that she wouldn’t understand the game, as she had never played a city management simulator before.

But after watching Dasima’s live stream for a while, she realized the game wasn’t that difficult.

So she boldly made her move.

As a result, she got stuck in the early stages as her city’s financial expenses were about to hit zero.

The main reason was that Zhou Shuyi’s steps were too big.

Even the suburbs got roads when she was building them initially.

Then she layered them with water pipes and power poles, looping the city with a dense network of poles.

This caused the financial deficit pressure to spike instantly.

Seeing the citizens only beginning to settle in sporadically, but the daily city expenses incurring over a debt of 100+ Korang/day.

Zhou Shuyi was getting anxious and quickly asked the viewers for advice.

“Guys, how do I fix this? I’ve got a pretty big population in my city now, almost 500 people, but I’m about to run out of money.”

Since her live streams tended to be abstract, all her viewers were there for fun.

There were no serious answers to the question, and one by one they all burst into laughter.

“You’re asking me? I suggest you restart.”

“My suggestion is, don’t play, just build a village and have some peace. Naruto unifying the Hidden Leaf didn’t make as much noise as you.”

“Go be a voyeur and watch Tree Treasure play; Tree Treasure could play better with her feet than you.”

“Feet? Tree Treasure’s divine feet!”

“Miss Zhou just said she had a pretty big population. I’m asking because I don’t get it, why does even Miss Zhou have so many people, but I don’t have any?”

“You better mean ‘population,’ kiddo!”

Seeing that she couldn’t rely on the viewers’ playful comments, Zhou Shuyi began to think of solutions herself.

The best way was to increase revenue and cut expenses.

Roads that were built could not be demolished for a refund, so they were left untouched.

Water pipes were a necessity for every household, so it seemed like if she removed them, she would just have to reinstall them later.

Eventually, her gaze landed on that circle of power poles around the city.

“It seems I can demolish these, huh.”

“Not only can I get some money back, but providing electricity with two fewer poles shouldn’t be a problem, right?”

As she spoke, she began to act.

After removing two poles, she found that there actually was no problem, and the electricity was flowing smoothly in several areas.

“Then, I’ll demolish a few more, getting some money back shouldn’t be a problem,” she said.

While she talked, there were fewer and fewer power poles left in the city.

Until in the end, Zhou Shuyi had demolished them all but two.

One stood next to the power station on a hillside in the outskirts.

The other was strung all the way to the city center.

The two poles were connected by a long stretch of electric wire.

But wire itself is a free accessory that comes with the power poles; the game doesn’t charge players extra for it.

What stunned Zhou Shuyi even more was.

She found that this was actually enough to power the city…

The audience was even more dumbfounded upon witnessing this.

“Holy crap, this works?”

“A ‘single line’ city, right?”

“God-tier single line city, hahaha!”

“So you’re saying this city has just one wire line, right? /Dog Head”

“No, I went from Lao Ju’s stream to Ma’s, and now to Miss Zhou’s, why does everyone play in such bizarre ways? How many more ridiculous methods does this game have?”

“Don’t ask. Baby Ke’s value keeps rising!”