"How much?!" Qin Siyang's eyes widened as he stared at Li Tianming in disbelief.
"Hundreds of silver coins just to rent a place?! I may not have seen much money in my life, but you can't pull one over on me like that!"
"For hundreds of silver coins, why wouldn't I just buy a place?! Wait, even buying one wouldn't cost that much, would it?!"
Li Tianming gave a disdainful chuckle and casually fastened his belt again.
"Kid, you're still too young. You don't know much about the world inside the safe zone."
"Did you think everywhere else was like this rundown edge of the safe zone, where one silver coin is more than enough to buy a Private Suite?"
"Let me tell you, the gap between different districts in the safe zone is even bigger than the gap between you and your classmates."
"To put it simply, we're in Safe District 14121. Do you know which districts the eight colleges are in?"
"...No."
"They're all in the first thirty districts."
"District numbers work just like the numbers on the safe zone's exits. The lower the number, the more powerful and influential people you'll find."
"The residents of the first thirty districts are either rich or powerful. Strike up a conversation with some random person on the street, and they might turn out to be a division chief or bureau director. Even the director of the Department of Education has to keep his head down there."
"So what do you think housing prices are like in those places?"
"Now, you might ask why all the colleges were built in the first thirty districts."
Qin Siyang nodded. "I was just about to ask that."
"Have you ever thought about what those eight colleges supposedly built for ordinary people really are? Are