CHAPTER 636: ALLOCATING ACCOMMODATION

"As for food... Boss Lu, since you have 200 people staying in the New World, could you please supply us with some food?" Jun Jia asked directly.

Boss Lu, the person Jun Jia was referring to, was half-reclining in a reflective glass room with an openwork design on the second floor. Hearing the voice, Boss Lu, clad in a bathrobe, lazily got up, took the microphone, and said, "Sure, no problem at all. We’ve got a big restaurant on the second floor that can provide different kinds of food. However, I am a businessman. I’ll have to sell each meal at market price. It doesn’t matter that we don’t have internet right now; we can just keep a tab. Not raising prices during these special times is already an act of charity."

"That’s fine. We’ll go by market price. How much water do we still have?"

Regretfully, Boss Lu shook his head. "Someone just reported that a water pipe has burst. Although some water was saved, not much was left, and the filtration equipment is all broken too."

Jun Jia nodded and continued, "I know many of you are temporary workers and don’t have Virtual Coin to buy food. Don’t panic. We’re going to dig pits outside to filter muddy water, and these tasks will be compensated. Those who have money can stay in the building; those who don’t can choose to work. Our people will keep the accounts."

A sigh of relief could be heard throughout the hall. In the apocalypse, food was the most expensive commodity, but as long as there was work to be done and food to eat, it was enough for the moment.

"Alright, now let’s arrange the accommodation issue... It’s foreseeable that we might have to stay here for several days. Honestly, this is a commercial building, and right now over two thousand of us are trapped here, but there are only about fifty vacant rooms with beds. Who gets to stay? Who doesn’t?"

"To be fair, let’s auction them off now. The highest bidder wins. We’ll use the money raised to pay for tasks like digging pits and filtering, as well as some labor reformation. Boss Lu, is that okay with you?"

Boss Lu waved his hand dismissively. He had planned to auction off the building today anyway, but who would have thought that it would be swept away by a mudslide? Honestly speaking, he was bankrupt with substantial debts, so the building no longer belonged to him.

Do you want to live in a room with a bed, or are you willing to sleep in the cold, hard, dirty hall with many others crowded together?

The hundreds of people from the Celebrities Gathering were real auction bidders, and right now, for those fifty rooms, they started bidding immediately.

Gold Dominator clearly didn’t want to inconvenience himself; he quickly raised his bid and added, "I’ll bid for a room for you girls. You can all live together, which is better than sleeping on a hard floor."

"Brother Tyrant is mighty! Brother Tyrant is awesome!"

"Brother Tyrant, you’re my idol."

Gold Dominator became even more proud.

Liu quietly asked from the side, "Boss, do we need to bid?"

Jing Shu shook her head. "We have a ready-made villa." She never expected that the mobile villa, which was bought for future unforeseen needs, would come into use on the very first day of the auction.

Liu’s eyes lit up with understanding, and he gave a thumbs-up. The boss is truly incredible!

The fifty rooms were quickly auctioned off. Just then, someone asked, "What about these three villas? They can accommodate a lot of people, right? There are dozens of rooms inside. Can we arrange an auction for them?"

Jun Jia frowned. Right, there are three villas readily available here. Then he said, "The ten villas have all been auctioned off and the handover is complete, so we won’t be auctioning them to the public."

"But there are only three villas. How are we going to split them?"

"Yeah! If only three families can get them, wouldn’t the others be at a disadvantage?"

Only three villas were on display here. The rest were with Greenland Company.

Jun Jia waved his hand and explained, "We’ll divide them according to who has spent the most money in total. First is Jing Shu, who bought three villas for a total of 3.6 million, and second is..."

This method was somewhat fair. After all, Jing Shu alone had bought three villas, so she definitely had the right to one of them. The other two were allocated, one to Qian Duoduo’s group and one to a family of three whom Jing Shu did not know.

In any case, during the days they were trapped here, Jing Shu finally had a large private space to live in and wouldn’t have to sleep on the floor.

At this time, even Gold Dominator was looking enviously at Jing Shu. Such a large two-story villa, with so many beautifully decorated rooms... Living alone in there is truly a luxury!

Having divided the villas, Jun Jia started organizing living arrangements for everyone.

The New World followed the layout of a large mall, so the open counters and clothing stores without actual rooms could also be used for sleeping. Larger shops could accommodate more people, smaller shops fewer. Wang Miao, along with the logistics director, started assigning spots and carefully recording them.

Where everyone stayed was meticulously documented. If anyone wanted to move, they needed to state their intention in advance. Crossing boundaries and roaming around were not allowed. Each floor and each designated area had supervisors from the Township Government to prevent chaos, poetically referred to as ’Life Coaches.’

"During these days we’re trapped, to ensure everyone’s safety, we will gather daily for roll call and hold a meeting in this very spot. We will report on our current situation.

"Moreover, everyone must report daily information to their Life Coach. All matters regarding clothing, food, accommodation, and transportation fall under the Life Coach’s purview. Each floor is equipped with a military instructor, whom you can contact in case of any danger. Fighting and brawling are prohibited, and violators will be punished according to the new law."

Soon, everyone trapped in the building found themselves under a military-style management regime.

However, with thousands of people involved, dividing accommodations wasn’t going to satisfy everyone so easily.

Jun Jia passed the subsequent issues to Wang Miao. "Alright, let’s leave it at this for now. If anyone needs to make a change or has other issues, you can go see Wang Miao."

Suddenly, the hall buzzed as many people went to find Wang Miao, including those who wanted to change their living placements, those who wanted to work, and others with various miscellaneous issues.

At this moment, Young Master Lan stood up and said, "Jing Shu, with so many rooms in your villa, how about you let some of the girls from our class stay there? That way, we can give the room Brother Tyrant won to our principal. I just heard from the list that our principal is here too, but he didn’t manage to get a room and has been assigned to sleep in a common sleeping area."

The private room once again fell silent, all eyes turning to Jing Shu. In fact, Jun Jia had divided rooms according to teams, so there were, overall, no major issues. All the people in their section, including the hundred or so volunteers Young Master Lan had brought, were grouped together.

Liu frowned, about to say something when Jing Shu opened her eyes and said indifferently, "Sorry, I have a bit of germophobia. I don’t like other people touching my things."

Young Master Lan’s face soured as he pressed, "Our principal is a good man, and at his age, sleeping in a communal area could easily make him sick. Can you bear to see the principal suffer? Otherwise, since your villa has so many rooms, why not give the principal one?"

"I’ll say it again: I don’t like other people touching my things. If you enjoy playing the good Samaritan so much, why don’t you find a room for the principal?" Jing Shu replied offhandedly.

"It’s such a waste to leave the rooms in your villa empty..."

"Never mind us. The principal is such a good person."