A common tavern that connects all fantasy worlds

Among these workers, Max should be the most surprised, but he had no room to resist in front of the black hole of the gun. He was forced out of the factory by the robots, and he took out his work card at the door and returned it.

Fortunately, the manager didn't tell them to take off the overalls, otherwise the scene wouldn't look so good.

A group of people left in dismay, Max walked the slowest, and looked back to see the prosecutor of the Administration leaving in a spaceship.

The guy took out a handkerchief to cover his mouth and nose, and complained to the people around him: "The air on the surface, thanks to you can bear it."

Max didn't know where the strength came from, and when he squeezed through the crowd and was about to go there, he was hit in the face by the butt of a gun from the robot law enforcement officer in front of him, and fell down heavily.

"Stop, irrelevant personnel are not allowed to approach the spaceship take-off and landing area of ​​the Administration!"

When Max finally got up, the spaceship had already flown away.

The surrounding workers who were also fired helped him up, and persuaded him, "It's useless. The manager said it clearly. We were fired because we concealed our criminal records. It has nothing to do with today's incident..."

Naturally, Max couldn't explain to the workers why he wanted to rush up. He could only touch the bridge of his nose that was almost smashed, stood up staggeringly, and walked out of the factory with his head down.

Since then, this place has nothing to do with him... Of course, there is no such thing as compensation, not to mention that the reason on the surface is "breach of contract", even those workers who were dismissed without any reason can't get a penny from ARMADYNE .

He even lost money after being knocked down by the butt of the robot's gun. In addition to the few banknotes that were wasted just now, he also had to pay an extra medical fee to go to the hospital for treatment.

He didn't know how to face the female doctor he had a crush on.

It was a lady who lived honestly, by herself, with a little girl, and, unlike him, had never committed a crime, no matter how hard it was.Perhaps because she is a doctor, her life is different from that of people like Max. After all, there is a MEDPOD in Elysium, and people on the surface still have to use "traditional" methods to treat diseases.

With a large population and lack of medical treatment, there are often people who die in the corridors of the hospital without waiting for treatment. Max has seen such a scene many times.

The lady does her handy job every day and can barely support her family.

But Max can't... He doesn't have any strong skills, and he is not qualified to work anywhere except the robot factory. It is no longer possible for him to live like the female doctor Fleur.

Only now did he begin to regret his decision.

For thirty gold coins, he returned to his old business and robbed the factory's supplies. Maybe it was because of this that he suffered fate's revenge?

But at this time, no matter how regretful it is, it may be too late.

Max stood on the street, wiped the blood dripping from his nose, and decided to go to the hospital anyway.

Chapter 11 Human Misfortune

"Fortunately, it's only a mild fracture... just need to reset."

In the hospital, the female doctor Frey checked Max's wound and said so.

"Uh, how much does it cost for treatment?" Max could only ask.

Fleur obviously misunderstood what he meant, and kindly reminded: "It's not too expensive, even if you can't afford it, it's best not to apply for a medical loan... God, the dean must have heard me say this to you." will catch fire."

Max shrugged, of course he could afford it, he just got a lot of money.

Although he was hit by the butt of a gun, his injury was not serious. He only needed to use the reset forceps to move the displaced nasal bone back to its original position across the skin of the bridge of the nose. Fleur in front of him sat on the bedside and finished it for him. Operation.

The local anesthetic was not very effective, and Max still felt the pain at the end of the operation, but he held it back abruptly, even sweating profusely without making a sound.

His attention was entirely on Fleur's face that was very close to him. When this female doctor was concentrating on her work, there seemed to be light in her eyes, and the expression on her face and her beautiful facial features were also fascinating.

But he soon came to his senses and realized that it was impolite for him to stare at people like this, and at this time the minor operation was over.

Fleur stuffed two balls of gauze into his nostrils, fixed the bridge of the nose that had just reset, put on a mask for him, and ordered: "During this period, you have to breathe through your mouth temporarily, and don't touch the injured area. ...better ask the factory for a leave of absence."

"... There's no need to ask for leave..."

Max could only smile wryly.

The female doctor who was packing up the medical equipment looked up at him, thought for a while, and didn't express any opinion... She didn't know what illegal things Max had done before. In her eyes, this was also a diligent man. A man who works and lives with his own hands.However, in this world, being diligent does not mean that you will be able to live a good life, especially when she works in a hospital, she understands it the most.

"So what are you doing tonight?"

Hearing her question, Max regained his spirits and shook his head immediately: "No, I don't have any arrangements."

Fleur smiled and said, "Then you can find me tomorrow morning after I get off work... do something with me."

Max walked out of the hospital wearing a mask blankly, and was still in a daze when he returned home.

But it wasn't until the next day, after Fleur's night shift was over, that he came to the hospital gate to pick up people, and he didn't know that he wanted to go wrong.

The two walked all the way back to Fleur's nearby home. A lively little girl wearing a mask greeted Max. That should be her daughter.Max took a large bag of things that the doctor took out from the house on his back, and went on the road with the doctor, and came to a certain neighborhood that Max was not familiar with.

Pushing open the leaky door of the house made of colored steel plates, a woman with obvious Latin American features on her face and extremely haggard eyes came out. Seeing Dr. Fleur coming, she wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, reluctantly Watching her force a smile.

Frey's expression was not very good, and she asked in a low voice, "How is Olivia?"

"...It didn't get better..." Caroline shook her head and welcomed the two of them in.

On the bed made of cardboard boxes, in the middle of the "mattress" covered with layers of rags and cotton wool, lay an innocent and cute little girl who also had big eyes.She couldn't move from her chest down, only her neck could barely turn twice, and she smiled pleasantly at the two people who came to visit her.

"Doctor, thank you for coming to see us." Mother Caroline was still thanking, but the sadness on her face was hard to erase.

Fleur took out some diagnostic tools from the bag that Max was carrying, knelt down and touched Olivia's small face, roughly checked her body, and didn't say anything in front of her, but He took his mother out the door and stuffed some painkillers.

"...I'll see how much money is left when I go back."

When Max also went out, he heard the female doctor Fleur say so.

Just at this moment, a guy with a bare upper body and full of tattoos walked towards this side, and before he could see him clearly, he yelled: "Caroline, 'Spider' has been arranged, it's tomorrow, get ready Money... uh, you..."

Fleur glared at this guy, and said in a bad tone: "Why, are you sending people to the Elysium with those broken spaceships again? How many people can land alive? What's the difference between what you do and murder for money?"

The guy who should be a soldier of the resistance organization is obviously not easy to mess with. He was about to refute something, but saw Max standing behind the doctor gesturing towards him covertly.

He also met Max...Max had a lot of contacts with "Spider" before, and only recently cooperated in a business. He is an acquaintance, so he can save face.

Anyway, what should be said has been said, why bother to quarrel with irrelevant people?

This guy also simply waved at Caroline, meaning "you heard what I said", then turned his head and left.

Fleur also turned her head around and persuaded her desperate mother, "In Olivia's situation, if you fly rashly..."

"But besides smuggling into the Bliss Space and using the medical cabin, is there any other way?" Facing her kind persuasion, Caroline replied.

The female doctor has nothing to say... It is impossible for the girl's disease to be properly treated on the surface, and even the medical loan with super high interest rate will not be loaned to such a patient-they must pay it off.

Sighing, Fleur and Max bid farewell to the mother who had made up her mind, and went to the next house.

On the way, Max, who had been silent all this time, finally asked, "What's going on?"

Anyway, there is nothing else to do on the road, and Fleur also seriously replied: "I have organized an association with several doctors from other regions to accept donations from the outside world to help those patients who cannot receive proper medical treatment due to economic factors. The patient's treatment situation will be returned to help them regain their ability to work. But this time there is nothing we can do, Olivia... The little girl has myasthenia dystrophy and fell down while helping her mother go out to pick up scrap metal. In the pit, causing multiple comprehensive fractures in the whole body. It is impossible for the hospital on the surface to deal with such a complicated injury... Apart from painkillers, our association can't give her anything."

"Donation...does anyone really donate?"

Max said that he couldn't understand that almost everyone on the surface was living in hardship and poverty, and it was hard to imagine that they would give generously to help others.

"Yes." Fleur nodded, "There are even people who have heard the news and don't want to leave their names to find us... Even if they don't know where their jobs and food will come from tomorrow, they will never come to us. Squeeze out a part of the extra living funds.”

Max could only remain silent. With his growth experience and environment, he couldn't think of why such a person existed in the world.

But he asked himself silently in his heart, what would you do if you were the one who encountered this incident and you only had two dollars left?

Maybe I'll give them a dollar too...

Fleur didn't call him here to date him, but just to find something for him to do, and let him realize that there are still many miserable people in the world, and he should not give up hope because of temporary setbacks.

He followed the female doctor through four or five miserable houses, each in its own way, and waited until her legs felt sore before sending her back home.

Fleur, who stayed up all night and all morning, was already tired. After saying goodbye to him, she went back to rest on her own, not noticing that he stuffed several wads of money into the bag containing various medical tools and a lot of food. .

Brand new American dollars.

Max, who had no money and was light, did not go home to rest, but returned to the hut of Caroline and Olivia.

He didn't know the mother and daughter, but he knew the blue overalls with several holes in the girl's body - ARMADYNE's work uniform.

Caroline told him that the owner of this house was also an employee of the company before, and he was a worker working on one of the few remaining large green lands in the world, the Beverly Hills Green Farm.

When does a company prefer to have people do work instead of machines?

...when the cost of employing people is lower than the cost of mechanization.

But of course people have shortcomings, that is, flesh and blood are more prone to accidents after all.Caroline's man, in what the company called "inadvertent operation," sprinkled compressed fertilizer on his body, causing an electric spark from the fertilizer applicator to ignite his clothing, causing severe burns and losing consciousness for a while.

Although the surveillance video later proved that he did not make any mistakes in his operation and that the accident was caused by the machines being in disrepair for a long time, the company insisted that he would not be responsible for the work-related injuries, even if he was sued in court by the Civil Cooperation Administration.

The person in charge of the farm issued a medical report of "lung disease caused by working on the surface for a long time", and applied to the court to postpone the hearing, saying that he would rest in the paradise space.

The trial was delayed again and again, and half a year later, the case was dismissed because "the plaintiff died and the relevant parties withdrew the complaint."

The so-called related party was a lawyer whom Caroline had never met once.

Caroline, the person in charge of the farm, had seen it before. She saw it from a distance when she went to the farm to claim her husband's belongings back.

In addition to her own affairs, Caroline also told Max another thing... She also met Fleur's daughter, Matilda, the lively little girl was actually a leukemia patient, so She was only wearing a mask when she walked out the door; but if she continued to live in the air environment like the surface, her illness would definitely deteriorate rapidly.

The hospitals on the surface did not have the ability to treat her.

Fleur didn't mention this to him just now... While helping others, she is also the one who needs help the most.

After walking out of Caroline's house, Max let out a sigh of relief.

He definitely doesn't think the air on the surface is dirty... because he has lived here since he was a child.But maybe the people in Elysium Space really think so!

When he returned to his own neighborhood, he found Julio who was using the money he earned to buy meat, and said to him bluntly:

"I'm going to meet the spider."

Chapter 12 Consecration

The spider's lair is not difficult to find, but the Administration has been unable to find it.

He has always been so hospitable to people like Julio and Max who have worked with him and who are not so clean at all.

In fact, Max has always wondered...why has the Agency been unable to find this guy?He clearly exists swaggeringly right under everyone's noses.

But it's none of his business. He didn't come to find the spider today to discuss how to hide it from the management agency.

Through the disorganized furnishings and the crowds carrying cheap beer in search of momentary anesthesia in the crowded world, Max and Julio came to the core area of ​​the so-called "resistance organization".

Among the servers, electronic screens, and various lines all over the hall, a "spider" with a curly head sat there.

Contrary to everyone's imagination, the leader of this resistance organization is not a heroic soldier. He is short in stature, and his face is not handsome. When he looks at people, he always tilts his head, showing a sly expression.He was wearing a tank top, board shorts and had a cane next to his chair because he was disabled in one leg and couldn't walk normally.

At first glance, he looks a little sloppy and not threatening... But Max, who has worked with him several times, knows deeply that this guy must not be underestimated, otherwise he will definitely suffer.

"Max! Old friend, haven't seen you here for a long time. How is it, how is life in the factory?"

Seeing the two walk in, the spider said this, with some sarcasm in his tone.

When Max broke contact with him before, he held the idea of ​​earning wages from his own labor and living an honest life without committing crimes. Of course, Spider scoffed at this.

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In his opinion, Max is a naive and weak guy.

As long as you are not a citizen of the Elysium, then you will definitely not be able to live honestly... The only hope for a more prosperous life is to start changing your mind, plundering the same kind without a bottom line, accumulating resources, and counting on using them before you die. These qualify as an "immigrant".

"Fired because of that thing," Max replied.

The spider shrugged: "You don't want me to pay you anything, do you? The transaction is settled, and I have already paid you. Since you said you want to escape this kind of life, then don't blame me for being inhumane."

Max also shook his head: "No...you can't compensate me either."

is not that right?Could this guy in front of him bypass the Agency, have his criminal record expunged, and turn him into someone else?Since the robot factory can kick him out for "concealing criminal records", he must be registered in the files of other companies and industries.

"Then you must have come to me for another business? You've finally figured it out, brother. While the little information in your head is still useful, hurry up and exchange for something real."

The spider became more interested, and continued talking to the brother in the blue overalls.

You are obviously a genius for finding sideways, why do you have to be like an idiot, for the carrots hanging on the rope, to treat the people in the Elysium Space as cows and horses?

"It's a business, that's right...I buy it, you sell it." Max said, "How much are two places to smuggle into the Blissful Dimension?"

The spider was taken aback, stared at Max deeply for a while, and then said: "...You must not mean those who broke in desperately...then the money you two made this time must not be enough. "

There are two types of smuggling services here, the common thing is that they all forge the identity of citizens.

Usually, those who desperately want to go to the Elysium will only be those who suffer from diseases that cannot be cured on the surface. They want to go to that "paradise" and use the MEDPOD there that can cure any disease; Each medical cabin is connected to the core server of Elysium Space, and citizens need to be verified and authorized to treat patients.

Whether it is immigration or birth, the citizens of Elysium will implant a flexible, thin-film identification card under the skin on their wrists when they "arrive" for MEDPOD to scan; when it comes to the spider, he has to change the method , Using lasers to directly imprint fake information on the body surface of these people.

This alone is definitely not enough, he also has to hack into the database of the household registration management department of Bliss Space, and enter these forged information, so that the "identity" branded on the customer's arm will be valid.

As a genius hacker, in an era when 1000 billion people on the earth didn't even know what a "firewall" is, he mastered this knowledge through his own efforts, built the digital base station around him that can connect to the satellite Internet, and found the counterfeit Elysium citizenship method, that's as hard as fucking getting a normal guy to shoot heat rays out of his eyes.

There is a reason why the fees are expensive, and the wisdom and energy he has paid are worth the price.

However, even if the most difficult and important part is done... it doesn't mean that the matter is completely secure.