614 The Second Immigration Wave (1/2)

The term ”Penglai” was first seen in ”Lie Zi (The Tale of Lie Zi)” and later in ”Shan Hai Jing (The Tale of Mountain and Sea)” and appeared in books such as ”Records of the Historian” and ”The Ten Continent of the Sea” (1).

With the thought of spreading traditional Chinese culture, the giant floating city on the ocean was named Penglai by Jiang Chen. As to if the name was the same as a city across the ocean… this is not within his consideration range.

When the advertisement in virtual reality was pushed to the global virtual reality system, the mysterious underwater construction first entered the sight of the public.

The entire main structure of the island was a ring five square kilometers in diameter and it looked like a ”lifesaver”. Arm-thick graphene cables intertwined within the middle, just like the metal skeleton of a skyscraper. Though it was not filled with concrete in the middle and it was relatively light. It was like a special foam aluminum that was more ductile than graphene but less strong. The bearing capacity of the graphene could easily withstand the enormous tidal force without the fortress being shredded apart.

The finished construction from afar resembled a ”Gyro” inserted into the ocean.

A tall tower standing above the ocean surface; the conical on the bottom was submerged in the ocean.

It was the most expensive place in the entire city; it was like an inverse pyramid. The more toward the tip, the more expensive it was. And the ”tip of the tower”, the top and bottom, were not sold to the public because they were private rooms for Jiang Chen himself.

Three-dimensional island structure, five square kilometers of the island can accommodate up to one million people! Unit population per area could be described as insane.

The exterior of the ring was designed with connectors which could be used to construct sub islands to connect with the main island via graphene tunnels.

Even before that, the commotion created by Future Group in the ocean already built up enough hype for them. F first accused Future Group of constructing missile silos with the intention of threatening world peace, then UA's skepticism was followed by the United Nations' intervention. When the world's media zoomed their cameras to the quiet ocean, Future Group gradually unveiled the trump card hidden for a long time and it stood in the eye of the public criticism storm.

”This is impossible. Don't believe that the computer-generated cinematic could fool us, the Hexagon will closely monitor the situation of the West Pacific Ocean—” The UA spokesperson told the media, Jiang Chen then sent an invitation to the Rainbow Mansion, inviting Hill to personally tour the region.

Hill didn't attend the trip due to schedule conflicts, but did send out a FBA Agent and an UA experts for investigation.

But just as they were bringing back first video footage, Future Group conducted the first update of the Phantom Helmet. They installed the voice communication system inside the chat software while installing an advertisement interface below the menu that would not interfere with the user's usage of the system.

And the first advertisement was the concept map of the ocean city – Penglai.

Although the viewing experience was limited to thirty minutes, almost everyone's heart followed the witty mermaid guide to the west Pacific Ocean thousands and even ten thousands of miles away. The sci-fi island; the magically ocean city!

Like an explosive thunder, ”Wall Street Journal” first expressed their exclaimed opinion!

”The Atlantis of the East! Future Group is creating a miracle!”

Then, it was ”Christian Newspaper”.

”An unbelievable project. If they are not joking with us, then it must be God that's joking with us.”

But doubt still existed for the construction of the century. Jealous people who underestimated Future Group's ability to repeatedly create miracles were still unwilling to accept its marvelous technological abilities.

The Economic News persistently criticized Future Group and highly suspected the existence of the underwater city. Future Technology defeated Nippon's best corporations in the robot and artificial intelligence fields, which was viewed as humiliation by extreme right wing parties. With the media controlled by them, they of course did everything they could to slander Future Group.

”An ocean city? That is just a gimmick! Our material scientists stated that no materials could complete the construction of the illogical design! And before the completion of product to sell high risk products to investors is an extremely irresponsible move! Our people will not pay for such a stupid thing!”

But their own people slapped their face with the high number of purchases for property on Penglai.

They had enough of the crowded Yoto. Especially the despairing unemployment rate and the widely criticized economic conditions built on printing money.

Of course, the majority of the immigration source came from Hua with over 50% of the buyers from the maritime region of Hua.

The halo of high benefits disappeared in Europe that was in a period of unrest, the high barrier and low benefit North America was too difficult, and people with money or technical skill began to look at Xin that was growing incredibly fast. The small country with Han's culture was evolving into the second Singapore.

Most critically, housing was cheap!

Ten thousand US dollars was not a small number for most people, but equating to a property, most Han people were willing to open their wallets.

Why?