Cave Refuge

The Thompson family of three easily found the street office for household registration at the Magic Capital Base according to the position displayed on the communicator. Perhaps because the base is still in a state of underpopulation, actually settling down turned out to be quite simple.

In fact, during the flood disaster, the Thompson family of three had already registered their household registration at Water Base No. 3 in Magic City. However, when the flood had subsided, a mysterious Natural Disaster destroyed all the data left in the water bases, and naturally, all information regarding the Thompson family's household registration vanished.

Of course, the Thompsons were not the only ones whose household registration was lost; when everyone's household registration had disappeared, it was natural that after the re-establishment of the base, it was necessary to re-register everyone's household registration.

Because the base is still in need of a large population, even when registering, when Dong Tianyu expressed that they had once been registered to Water Base No. 3 in Magic City, they did not receive any significant preferential treatment.

Of course, there was still a difference between speaking out and not. At least when Dong Tianyu mentioned this, the other party inquired about some details. Seeing Mr. Thompson answer smoothly confirmed that he had indeed lived for a long time in Water Base No. 3 in Magic City, so a small benefit was granted.

They were directly allowed to register as separate households, and they could purchase large flat houses.

Whether before or after the Natural Disaster, real estate has always been the most lucrative industry. The "lucrative" part does not refer to the excessively high prices before the Natural Disaster, but that even when the initial house prices did not rise, the profits from real estate were still substantial. Conversely, when prices increased dramatically, due to the rise in land cost, the profit growth was actually not proportional to the increase in house prices.

Although the Magic Capital Base had just been established and the population that could be housed was far less than the population it was Bearing, because of foresight, all property sales within the base could only be conducted with the Officials. All houses were purchased by household, with each household only allowed to buy one house.

The key point is that all properties for sale by the Officials had clear levels assigned. If one wanted to upgrade to a better property, they could only sell their current property back to the Officials first, then buy a new house from them.

Moreover, if someone wanted to buy a better property, it was not just a matter of having the money but also required making certain contributions to the base. Most importantly, upgrading one's residence wasn't allowed to skip levels; it had to be done level by level, as per the rules.

Even though buying and selling might incur some financial losses, this situation was not overly significant. However, the Tribute required for switching houses was not so easily accumulated.

In fact, the Officials didn't want to create such a complex set of real estate transaction rules, but because of the special period at present, if they allowed free trade of houses, with the current abundance of houses and lack of people in the base, the real estate prices would not be very high. Survivors with even slightly more resources could easily purchase one or two properties.

Although selling off all the properties within the base would bring in a large amount of materials quickly, the base hadn't yet truly developed. If the survivors who had just arrived found the housing prices too high, they might very well leave and seek refuge at other bases.

Therefore, for the long-term development of the base, the Officials imposed restrictions on property sales right from the start of the camp construction. This was done to ensure that more survivors seeking refuge here could settle down for good. After all, even though this base was established by the Officials, it still required a large population to develop quickly.

However, because there were fewer people but more houses at the base, and the Thompson family of three exhibited some capabilities, and had verified that they once held household registration in Magic City and had been long-term residents of Water Base No. 3.

Therefore, after successfully completing the registration, the street office slightly elevated their qualification level for purchasing houses. This meant that as long as the Thompson family of three had enough funds, they could directly buy a better house, silently saving them a substantial amount of Contribution Points.

The reason they were given these benefits, naturally was not because Mr. Thompson started by offering cigarettes, then candy—those 'little favors'. Instead, it was because the Thompson family met all the conditions for welfare, so the benefits were awarded very fairly and justly.

When the staff covered the box of cigarettes that had been opened on the table with documents, and then naturally tidied up the desktop and put the documents into the filing cabinet below the table, they offered with a very kind tone some well-meaning advice: "If your family of three each registers separately and buys houses, although you could buy an extra house, it might look greedy.

While it doesn't violate any rules and others won't immediately know the specifics, over time neighbors and the community committee will definitely learn about your family's situation, so I personally suggest that it would be better to only register two households: one for you old couple to buy a house, and another for your son to buy a house."

Seeing the staff's proficient movements and the kind reminder, Mr. Thompson quickly took out a bottle of unmarked mineral water from his storage ring and spoke very familiarly, "Thank you so much, you have no idea, my family is a hereditary family of brewers.

Even now, I haven't forgotten the skill of brewing. Although during the flood disaster, we cultivated rice with very low yields, it's possible to brew alcohol from sweet potatoes and other tubers, so now I still have a full set of brewing tools."