Page by page, from top to bottom.
Among the densely packed records arranged from the highest prices to the lowest, it clearly stated that more than three hundred different identities from villages, towns, counties, and cities throughout Tian Yuan Territory were being hotly sold.
The expensive ones, such as county and city management positions, cost as much as twenty or thirty thousand points to purchase—and were valid for only five years.
The cheaper ones, such as a Construction Worker position in one of the subordinate towns, still cost as much as 800 points, enough to make ordinary people back away.
"Before I left, I only said that newcomers had to be strictly screened and divided according to their levels."
"I never expected that eight years later, it would become so distorted."
Su Mo muttered, his face filled with bewilderment.
Having founded Tian Yuan Territory himself, he had been exceptionally careful with every step of his plans.
Before leaving the territory, he had been afraid that lifting the restrictions would cause a massive influx of people after the disaster, leading to unrest among the territory's inhabitants.
Before he left, he had even specifically left Chen Shen and the other administrators plenty of methods for handling various situations.
One of them concerned the management of outsiders.
Su Mo remembered that, at the time, he had only said: start from scratch, establish rules, divide the population, and gradually integrate them—the sixteen-character method of dealing with the situation.
The purpose had been to screen out people with ulterior motives.
But he had never expected this.
On the wasteland eight years later, the method he had left behind had evolved and changed layer by layer until it had become this grotesque.
With identities of varying prices linked to trading points, the population had been divided