Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 216 75. The Price of the Manor

Westbrook-North Oak.

"Just deliver it here. I'll see if I can bring you some oranges when I come back."

After saying goodbye to his companions who had brought him here, Carl set foot on the land of North Oak District alone.

Repairing the car would take some time. Jack and Oliver were going to the Badlands to help V today, so they did not delay after dropping Carl off. After a while, the car disappeared from Carl's sight.

They said in advance that if they worked late today, they would have to stay in the motel for one night and would not be able to pick up Carl. After Carl's visit today, he might have to find a way to get home by himself, but this didn't matter to Carl at all.

At worst he could just call a taxi.

"The address, I remember it is"

When Carl was about to go to the villa that Haruko had just moved into according to the address she sent him, a Renfield Excalibur slowly approached him from a distance.

[Renfield Excalibur]: Produced by Renfield, this luxury car places more emphasis on explosive speed than the noble Sword of the Lady of the Lake.

Carl has some impression of this car because both Oliver and Jack love cars. He remembers that it was produced and launched in 2070, which is five years earlier than the Sword of the Lady of the Lake which was just produced in 2075. It was also the vehicle that Oliver coveted the most before the Sword of the Lady of the Lake was released.

This luxury car is made of the latest and most expensive alloy material of military technology. Even if it is hit by a rocket launcher, it may not be damaged. Although it is not as precious as the Sword of the Lady of the Lake, not many people can afford it in Night City. Just when Carl was curious about who was in the car, the door of Renfield's Excalibur slid open like a sliding cover, revealing a somewhat strange yet familiar figure.

I say strange because Carl is sure that this is the first time he has seen this young woman with neatly short hair and an oriental face. I say familiar because Carl feels a sense of threat from her. This is not an active display of hostility, but a sense of threat brought by strength. Carl is quite familiar with it.

Sense of threat. Among all the people he has met, there are not many who can give Carl this feeling, and there is only one female.

Karl instantly realized who this unfamiliar-looking woman was.

"Chiyoko?"

Carl asked tentatively, receiving a nod in response from Chiyome.

"Get in the car, Carl. Miss Haruko wants me to take you there."

"Is this so?"

Carl would not refuse the opportunity to ride in a luxury car. What's more, he didn't have to walk. For a lazy man like him, this was the most comfortable thing. He quickly sat in the passenger seat of the Excalibur.

The Sword in the Stone and the Sword of the Lady of the Lake in the Renfield series are both two-seater cars, but Carl, who hates two-seater cars, had the only feeling after sitting in one.

It’s so soft and comfortable. This crystal ball technology is so amazing. There are no windows, but from inside the car, you can see almost the entire scene clearly.

While feeling a little bit happy about the luxury car, Carl was trying to recall whether there was a four-seater car in the Rayfield series. If there was, he could buy a four-seater car when he had money in the future.

But immediately, Carl discarded the idea that had just arisen.

It was obvious that Hera in the Sky was still being transformed by V, Jack, Oliver and others, but he had already thought about driving a luxury car. It was too much.

This kind of thing is fine to sit in, but if you think about it carefully, you'd still have to go for a Sky Hera if you want to do missions or run around. A luxury car driving down the street is too eye-catching, and it's quite comfortable for a group of people to get together in the car, rocking and chatting about this and that.

Because the North Oak District is a wealthy area, the quality of road construction is quite good, and vehicles will not encounter any messy roadblocks when driving. So when Carl was thinking about the topic of cars, Chiyo had already driven the Stone Sword to the place. When Chiyo passed the verification and talked to the security personnel wearing Arasaka uniforms at the door, Carl looked around from the car to roughly see the size of the villa.

It is called a villa, but in Karl's opinion, it is more like a manor, because its area is definitely beyond the scope of a villa.

A quick look around will reveal that this place almost occupies the entire hilltop area. Compared with this size, Fujiwara no Yoshinaga's villa is at most a wall-mounted toilet in the manor, and it is the kind that is specially used for pets. Of course, this description is an exaggeration. According to Carl's visual estimation, Fujiwara no Yoshinaga's villa should be the size of a room in an eight-story building.

Carl remembered that the land in the North Oak District was more expensive the higher up you went.
The value of this manor might be enough to buy twenty or thirty villas where Fujiwara no Yoshinaga lives.

After talking with the guard, she restarted the Sword in the Stone and slowly drove into the open gate of the manor. Chiyome was on the middle lane of the lawns on both sides. While looking at the surrounding security situation, she observed Carl. When she found that Carl was looking around and seemed to be calculating something, she saw his valuation idea at a glance and told him the price of the manor.

"This estate is worth 10 million euros and covers an area of ​​100000 hectares ( square meters)." (Adjusted based on modern American estate prices)
"10 hectares"

Carl listened to Chiyome's introduction and made a quick calculation in his mind.

The size of an ordinary football field is 7140 square meters, and 10 hectares is almost fourteen times that size, which means that this manor is as large as fourteen football fields.
Carl remembered that the super skyscraper he lived in was probably only half the size of a football field, or even smaller, and it had 51 floors. If 10 households lived on each floor, even if there were only two people in each household, excluding the rooftop, the number of people living on the floors that soared into the sky would have reached (referenced to the North Riverside Building, which may be the prototype of the super skyscraper design).

A thousand people are squeezed into an area the size of half a football field, and those who can live in an apartment are considered capable of surviving in Night City. This manor is about twenty-eight times the size of that area, which means that theoretically it can accommodate 28,000 prominent Night City residents, just to serve Haruko.

And in terms of value.

The monthly rent of a super skyscraper is 1,000 euros, and the monthly rent of 500 households is 500,000 euros. The difference between 500,000 euros and 150 million euros is...
While Carl was calculating the relevant differences in his brain, he heard Chiyoko continue to say something with a hint of complaint: "Is it all the fault of that negligent person that made the young lady live in such a humble place? When the young lady was in Japan, she lived in the Arasaka mansion. Compared to the mansion, this place in Night City is too small."

Carl asked tentatively: "Is the Arasaka Mansion very big?"

"Fortunately, according to the calculation method used by Night City, the area is 20 acres. The surrounding 3 kilometers where outsiders are not allowed to approach is also Arasaka's territory."

Do the math.

20 acres is about 121 mu, or 80666 square meters, or about 8 hectares. The house alone is almost as big as the current 10-hectare manor, and the surrounding 3 kilometers is all Arasaka land.
If we calculate it based on a square, the length and width are both three kilometers, or three thousand meters, so its area is 900 hectares, which is ninety times the size of this manor.

If you think about where the Arasaka Mansion is located, it must be an incredibly expensive location.

Carl felt a heavy sense of oppression coming up.

It would have been fine if he hadn't compared them, but after a careful comparison, Carl discovered that his room in Fujiwara Yoshinaga's villa could only be considered a toilet, and Fujiwara Yoshinaga's room in this manor could only be considered a toilet, and this manor could only be considered a toilet compared to the Arasaka mansion.

Ok?
Think about it carefully.

They all live in the toilet.

Carl figured it out.

Everyone actually lives in the same place, which is the toilet.

Carr called this the toilet theory.

(End of this chapter)