The topic of Penglai continued to ferment on major media and online platforms around the world, and the most direct impact on Xin was the surge in tourist traffic. From 200,000 visitors at the beginning of the year to 410,000 visitors in June, the number of visitors increased by 205%.
Future Tourism's CEO, Wei Yun, was overjoyed. Based on the increase in tourist traffic, the Heart of the Sea's annual financial report would easily exceed the 200 million USD he promised Jiang Chen!
The remaining 200,000 square meters of business space was snatched up by major international merchants. The merchants who already moved in were secretly glad that they made their move early and bought the space when there weren't many tourists on Coro Island. Otherwise, they would be fighting over a few square meters of space like their peers.
The massive tourist traffic made the luxurious coastal landmark overcrowded, but people still enjoyed the luxury and comfort here. Not only the Heart of the Sea, but people were also interested in Coro Island's beaches, long and narrow coastal sandbanks, and the sea maze.
The tourists all uploaded their vacation photos on their favorite social media and expressed their thoughts on the trip.
For example, WeChat Moments.
"This place is no different from our hometown. The air is fresher, the environment is more beautiful, the roads are more spacious, the internet speed is faster, and the housing prices are incredible … The official language here seems to be Mandarin. It feels like I'm in Hawaii. "
Or Twitter.
"There's permanent free Wi-Fi that covers the entire state! Oh God, this is heaven for the UA. Hill really should learn from Jiang Chen. Michigan should also have free Wi-Fi coverage! Doesn't she know that UA will die without Wi-Fi? "
Or a certain Facebook.
"It's so hot, it's much hotter than Moscow. I have to drink champagne all day to cool down … Burp. I'm really just trying to cool down, I'm not drunk! Can't you have some? I heard it's all made from tropical fruits, it's so addictive … "
Of course, people were most interested in the legendary Penglai City!
The city under construction, was it really as magical as Future Group said?
Smelling business opportunities from people's curiosity, a lot of smart travel agencies set up diving programs near the western Pacific.
And the theme of diving was to explore the mysterious Penglai City!
Although because it was a military site, the construction site did not allow unauthorized personnel to approach, Celestial Trade didn't drive away the civilian ships cruising outside the restricted zone.
This was Jiang Chen's decision.
There must be many people full of curiosity or doubt about the mysterious Penglai City. If the curiosity of these tourists was satisfied and their suspicions that Future Group was creating hype were dispelled, they would certainly pass this information back to their respective countries and become firm supporters of the legend of Penglai City.
If Celestial Trade prevented these tourists from watching, it would dampen their enthusiasm.
And Xin needed these tourists!
What's more, ordinary diving equipment could not dive to a depth of 500 meters, so there was no need to worry about the tourists interfering with the construction. But if they approached the material delivery area or tried to enter directly above the construction site, Celestial Trade's submersibles would still drive them away.
In the name of safety hazards.
Later, because there were too many passengers, the soldiers were overwhelmed. Ivan had to report the situation to Jiang Chen.
That was easy to say.
After listening to Ivan's report, Jiang Chen immediately summoned all the travel agencies that cooperated with Xin and held a meeting with these people.
You can visit the Penglai project, but you can only visit the periphery. If a traveler under the name of a travel agency was caught trespassing into the forbidden area, the traveler would not be punished, but the travel agency would be recorded. After three times of being recorded, the travel agency would be blacklisted by Future Tourism.
Being blacklisted by Future Tourism meant that they could no longer make a living as a tourist in Xin.
After the meeting, the owners of these travel agencies immediately returned to their companies for an internal meeting. From now on, all diving equipment in Penglai City would be tied with a rope. Although the rope was widely criticized by free diving enthusiasts, it was strictly enforced by all travel agencies.
There was no other reason other than no one wanted to offend the behemoth Future Group!
It was soon the middle of June.
With the arrival of summer, the tourism industry also ushered in a peak period.
What was even more exciting was that on Future Tourism's official website, the first level four property was finally put up for auction!
It was a three-story sea-view mansion on the beach, located in the outermost ring of Penglai City. It was equipped with a private garage, swimming pool, and a private berth that could accommodate a small boat! The starting price was 5 million USD!
Penglai City's housing prices skyrocketed. The terrifying rate of appreciation made people who missed the first few days jealous. This time, almost no one wanted to miss the rush to buy this property. With Future Tourism's meticulous operation, the not-so-luxurious mansion was sold at a terrifying price of 70 million USD!
Level three and above properties were not limited to purchase, and its investment value made all investors interested in Penglai City drool.
Combined with the level one and two properties sold earlier, as well as the commercial spaces sold, it brought Future Group a terrifying one-time revenue of 61.7 billion USD! Using Xia Shiyu's words, it was like robbing money.
The tight cash flow problem caused by the construction of the New Malaysia Special District and the Penglai City project was quickly alleviated with the injection of this batch of funds.
Just as the pre-sale of Penglai City created a miracle, Future Heavy Industries' Xiao Lin was not far behind.
With the completion of the New Malaysia Special District, Xiao Lin's monthly shipments exceeded 500,000, and the monthly net profit exceeded the one billion USD mark. Xiao Lin completely occupied half of the world's home robot and adult products markets.
With the consideration of striking while the iron was hot, Future Heavy Industries announced in front of the media that the next step would be to cooperate with Future Biology to jointly develop medical robots and invite doctors into everyone's home!
Phantom helmets, housekeeping robots, pure electric vehicles with high endurance … A lot of people already smelled the breath of the future in their daily lives.
While enjoying the feeling of rapid progress, everyone couldn't help but speculate in their mind.
What would Future Group change next?
Back to Future Biology that had already entered the medical industry.
The T virus vaccine was sold to 11 countries around the world. Although people's panic had subsided, the 200,000 vaccines per month were still in short supply.
The entire vaccine market was divided between Future Biology and Takeda Pharmaceutical.
It had been more than five months, and a lot of other pharmaceutical companies also developed similar anti-viral drugs.
Some companies even claimed that they mastered the technology to turn zombies back into humans, but there were no zombies to prove their technology. Jiang Chen scoffed at this. Even the apocalypse didn't have the technology to resurrect the dead, let alone the pharmaceutical companies in the real world. Zombies were dead. The moment the immune system was destroyed by the T virus, the infected host was already dead.
The people who claimed to be able to resurrect zombies were just a gimmick.
The Kurofune organization that didn't surface seemed to have gone dormant. The Ghost Agents stationed in Yoto didn't find any traces of the Kurofune, but they provided an interesting piece of information. The CIB had contacted the Nippon government and was currently investigating Takeda Pharmaceutical.
At the same time, the CIB agents searching for the F35 pilot on MLL Island also gradually withdrew.
The UA seemed to have noticed something.
Jiang Chen didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, and he didn't have the energy to figure it out.
He had focused on the modern world for too long.
Based on Sun Jiao's statement, the apocalypse was almost finished. If they continued to rest, the muzzles of the soldiers would rust.
It was time to take the first step of expansion!
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