Chapter 214: Property Management Office (1/2)

After saying his goodbyes to everyone in the party, Xinya disconnected from the call and closed his interface. Without the blue semi-transparent screen impairing his vision, he was finally able to get a proper good look at the property management office that was in front of him.

As he took in the building before him, a look of sheer bewilderment crossed his features. With the hastiness that could only be seen in cartoons, he opened his interface back up and pulled out his map once again.

Quickly as he could he double-checked the name that was imputed to make sure that this was really the building he was looking for. It took him completely by surprise when he saw that it actually was.

Because in front of him, in between a busy pottery shop and antique mail office sat a small rundown wooden south-facing three-bay structure that was supposed to be the property management building. This confused him greatly since this wasn't how he expected the office to look like at all.

Although he had never seen one of the offices in his last life, he did read about the one in Arkala on the forums before. Following the update, when needing to eat became a must, a lot of eager people started to want to buy farms.

So a very nice player went out of their way to write a proper guide on the subject. Which detailed everything from how to purchase a farm to the best seeds players should start off planting with. Although he might have not remembered much from the guide, he did recall that the property management office didn't look like the one he was seeing.

Even as he stood there staring at the building in confusion, he couldn't help but wonder if after the update happened if the building would go through an upgrade as well. This sparked a memory in him of his previous life when new restaurants popped up in the town he was staying in during that time, making Xinya think that his assumption was probably correct.

Giving a slight shrug at the establishment appearance, Xinya began to walk towards the main door. No matter how it looked on the outside, as long as he could buy his farm he really didn't care all that much.

Opening the giant brown door, the green-haired man stepped inside only to be surprised anew, at how different the inside looked from the out. It was as if he stepped into another place altogether.

Besides having an NPC behind a counter and three terminals that showed tiny holographic houses above them, the inside of the Property management office was entirely bare. Bare as in the wall, the floor was without any type of detail at all, it gave Xinya a feeling of incompleteness somehow.

'Not like I can blame the devs for not putting much effort into this place, it's not any players will try to use it at this time,' Xinya thought as he walked fully into the office catching the NPC's attention.

”Well aren't you a sight for sore eyes, sonny boy,” the orange eyes Dragonkin beamed from behind the counter. ”I haven't had a customer come in person in years.”

Walking until he was right in front of the man, Xinya asked, ”Really, in years?”

”Yes siree, not in years. It happened after I put in the mailing system, which lets people buy and sell their houses through a catalog.” the man replied regretfully in a southern twang.

Xinya had a feeling that this was something that only NPC homeowners were privy to since he never heard about it before in his last life. Not that the catalogs mattered anyway since most players won't be thinking about selling their homes once they get it, now renting it out was a whole other discussion altogether.

Smiling Xinya said, ”Then I will be very happy to be your very first customer after such a long time.”

”Same here, sonny,” the man told him gleefully before becoming serious. ”So tell me how can I, Lei Tengfei be of service to you?”