After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1352

"Damn, these are expensive, I can only buy Class D weapons I already have…" he mumbled, pouting in disappointment. If it were things they could buy for silver elsewhere, then he might as well save up his points.

"Well, it's like you can't do anything about it," the person behind the counter said, leaning towards him. Bart's eyebrows rose as he stared, waiting for him to elaborate.

"Well, the trades here aren't limited to material things," Macky said, making Bart blink. "We also buy and sell some information."

"Are you interested?"

"What?"

There was an extra room at the side with a built-in voice blocker where people could buy and sell information. Of course, this was still guided by a moral code and sensitive information that was not supposed to be spread around would be relatively safe.

Bart blinked at this and happily took the deal! Not only would he sell some more information he knew about the outside world (and probably some networking secrets), but he also ended up buying a few things, too!

However, because he was spending his points for the superior poison, he got his men to spend theirs on a few maps of areas they had not explored even as mercenaries. Heck, they even bought maps from places that were available in their system maps.

The maps bought from Alterra using contribution points could not compare to what they had as default! Alterra's cartography technology was really superior. It even included a rough topography and resource points. Not to mention some flags and danger zones!

Too worth it, really too worth it!

It had to be said: Althea and Ansel could think of various ways to get people to spend their contribution points, thereby getting them to work more and more for the territory to make up for it.

Speaking of salaries, with their upgrade to Town, the salaries had also been increased accordingly, though not too much. The Elders now had a salary of 75 silver and 300 contribution points a day, which—considering the low cost of living in Alterra—made them very rich people.

Supervisory positions like Jun, Silvia, Rowan, and the like were given 40 silver and 200 contribution points a day. The Captains, which was the military equivalent of this position, would get a bit more money at 50 silver, and the same contribution points per day.

The regular workers for the territory were around 15 silver and 100 contribution points a day. Working in private companies would roughly give the same, except there were no contribution points.

The military equivalent for them, the guards, would also receive slightly higher remuneration at 20 silver per day and the same amount of contribution points.

The minimum wage jobs were now 10 silver a day in both private and public sectors, and no contribution points.

However, everyone could receive these points whenever they helped out with wars or with the mobs attacking Alterra, which was why most people tended to be excited when mobs arrived. The only exception was probably the upgrade mobs, which tended to be really scary.

Considering the new contribution point requirement for a temporary residency was 2000 (a number that would definitely increase as time went on), everyone aimed to get more and more points as soon as possible.

Fortunately, even regular workers for the territory would have no problem reaching this and more after a few months of working hard.

Hopefully, the requirements wouldn't increase during that time period!