After leaving the test range, Sun Hang did not drive straight home. Instead, he took a detour to the New Capital District in North City.
At the intersection of Xingcheng Avenue and Phoenix Elevated Road stood a newly launched commercial housing development spanning over five thousand mu... Whether the developer had been lucky or unlucky, the foundations had not even been excavated when the Eternal Night descended without warning.
Property prices throughout Shu Province had crashed to rock bottom overnight, and the developer naturally abandoned all subsequent construction plans—under Federal Government regulations, a development had to reach one-third of its projected construction progress before presales could officially begin... Since this development had not even laid its foundations, there was no way it could recoup a single cent from future owners.
The money spent buying the land had become a sunk cost. If they continued construction, they would not only fail to recover the land purchase costs, but would also be unable to recoup the costs of building materials and labor—locals were thinking of selling off their homes and settling in other city-states, while outsiders would have to be out of their minds to buy property in Shu Province at a time like this.
Homes elsewhere, no matter how narrow the spacing between buildings, how low the ceilings, or how cramped the windows, at least still received some sunlight... But homes in Shu Province now—good lord, no matter what floor you lived on or how large your windows were, the sunlight exposure rate was a uniform goose egg.
Even the boldest speculators would not dare gamble their money on an Eternal Night that might not disappear for who knew how many years.
Just as the developer was racking their brains over how to explain this hundred-billion-plus sunk cost to their shareholders,