Chapter 238: The Dormitory Building and Template Function
Sheng Yulan continued, “Fangzhi is very smart. Even though he’s only been studying for half a year, he has no problems with communication or writing anymore. As for Chen Yang… he needs me even less.”
Since last month, when Lin Fangzhi started handling business collaborations and supplies, he had barely attended her classes.
Chen Yang was even more obsessed with shooting practice and training, unable to sit still at a desk.
Now that both of her students were gone, Sheng Yulan was completely free.
Unlike her younger sister, she didn’t have any extraordinary abilities. If she wasn’t studying or teaching, she felt lost.
Recently, she had even started experiencing hallucinations—
She would see books she had read appearing in front of her, but when she reached out to touch them, they would vanish.
She figured she was just too idle and needed to keep herself busy.
Su Tao smiled, “There’s no problem with that. Just let Zhuang Wan know.”
Sheng Yulan hadn’t expected it to be so easy. She happily agreed and ran off excitedly.
Jiang Yu emerged from the shadows after she left and whispered to Su Tao, “It seems like Teacher Sheng still has something on her mind.”
Su Tao was a bit surprised and instructed him to keep an eye on Sheng Yulan for the next few days.
Jiang Yu nodded and once again disappeared soundlessly into the shadows.
After taking a short break in her office, Su Tao got back to work.
She realized she truly had a workaholic nature—whenever she had free time, she felt uneasy. She just couldn’t take it easy.
Resigned to her fate, she opened her system and spent four crystal cores, leaving one as a backup, to expand Taoyang’s residential area by 400 square meters.
Otherwise, there wouldn’t be enough space to build the dormitory building.
She first constructed a single four-person dorm room with a balcony. Inside, there were just four sets of loft beds with desks underneath and a shared storage cabinet near the entrance.
Since this was a practical and economical design, unnecessary decorations were kept to a minimum.
Su Tao was about to enable the rental mode when a system prompt suddenly sounded in her mind:
[Rental is temporarily unavailable. Please meet the rental conditions: Each floor must include at least one restroom, one shower room, and one laundry room.]
Su Tao was stunned. So there were conditions for each floor?
With no other choice, she continued building. Each floor had eight four-person dorms, four on each side of the hallway.
At the end of the corridor, she started constructing a shower room, restroom, and laundry room.
She wished she could just copy existing rooms instead of having to research pre-apocalypse interior designs every time.
Ever since she unlocked the system, she was practically being trained into a part-time interior designer.
As soon as this thought crossed her mind, another system prompt appeared:
[Would you like to spend 1 crystal core to unlock Template Construction? Unlocking this feature will give you access to more templates and allow you to save your own room designs for future use.]
Su Tao had no resistance to this feature. With tears in her eyes, she handed over her last crystal core.
[Congratulations! Template Construction is now available. You can access more templates via the icon in the lower right corner of the construction menu. To save a template, select a room and click ‘Save as Template.’]
Su Tao immediately followed the instructions and saved the four-person dorm she had just built.
Then she discovered that after saving, she could copy the room as many times as she wanted—
No matter how many she built, it only took a few seconds!
This was absolutely perfect for constructing dormitory-style buildings.
Without hesitation, she copied the four-person dorm eight times, arranging them along the hallway.
She made a few minor optimizations, and within two minutes, the entire floor layout was complete.
Before, manually constructing eight identical rooms would have taken her at least 30 to 40 minutes.
Of course, the construction cost remained the same as before—she still had to pay for all eight rooms. But the efficiency boost was incredible.
When she started building the restrooms, she checked the additional template options—
And it was like opening a door to a whole new world.
Oh my god!
There were templates for bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms, balconies, terraces, gardens, sports fields—everything she could think of.
She clicked on the bathroom category and scrolled down, eyes wide in amazement at the endless design styles.
She realized how little she had seen of the world. Among the bathroom templates, there was even a luxurious 20-square-meter spa-style bathroom.
It featured a sunken soaking pool large enough for four or five people at once.
There were massage jets, heated floors, and a temperature-maintaining system to keep the water warm.
After bathing, there was an open-style walk-in closet stocked with towels, robes, and bath accessories.
The dry area had a marble double vanity and an entire wall of mirrors.
Su Tao stared at the template in shock.
Four words popped into her mind: Too extravagant.
Then, three more words followed: I want it.
But when she saw the price, she snapped back to reality.
The whole spa bathroom cost 30,000 federal credits—plus a 10% design fee.
That totaled 33,000 credits.
For that price, she could renovate two three-bedroom apartments or build 40 well-furnished single rooms.
Su Tao immediately scrolled away from the luxury templates.
In the end, she chose the cheapest bathroom template and placed it at the end of the corridor.
Since an entire floor housed a lot of people, she made some modifications—adding five extra toilet stalls, a row of sinks, and two private shower stalls.
With the template system, all she had to do was add furniture, saving tons of effort.
She used the same method to build the laundry room.
The entire floor was completed in just 30 minutes—a miracle.
For the upper floors, she simply saved the first floor as a template and copied it upwards.
Su Tao suddenly felt like her workload had become much lighter.
[Rental conditions met! Please choose a rental model: daily, short-term, monthly, or yearly. Prices and furnishings cannot be changed within the rental period.]
Su Tao selected monthly rent to test the waters.
[Room 001 is now available for monthly rent. Based on its furnishings, the system has set the rent at 2,400 federal credits per person per month. The entire room costs 9,600 credits per month. To increase rental prices, please upgrade the furniture.]
Su Tao sighed. Dormitory-style rent was really cheap.
If a four-person dorm was this affordable, six-person, eight-person, or twelve-person dorms would be even cheaper.
Lower rent would attract more people to Taoyang and help with employee housing.
Excited, she copied two more floors, creating a three-story dormitory with 24 rooms, accommodating 96 people.
Then she discovered she could save the entire dormitory as a template.
In the future, if she wanted to build another four-person dormitory building, she could just copy this one.
It was unbelievably convenient.
