Debt After Awakening

It has to be said that the supporting facilities of the shelter of Haiwei Group are very complete, and Tom enjoys no different treatment in the hospital compared to the past.

The villain needs all kinds of things, including needles, medicine bottles, medicines, cups, and so on. It can be said that Haiwei Group has a wide coverage of early layout, construction, and manufacturing of various small objects.

The female nurse who came over later checked his body with the doctor and said that after only two days, he had recovered very well and only needed to rest.

The most dangerous wound among the 12 is the one closest to the heart. If Tom gets stabbed in the heart, he won't be able to survive. The remaining perforations in the small intestine and other internal organs have been basically sutured after a day of surgery.

What surprised Tom was that they made thin threads as big as hair to sew his wounds, which shows how cutting-edge and comprehensive the advanced layout of the Haiwei Group is.

Of course, as Tom is an Awakened One, he will receive additional premium medical services. But this was not completely free either, and then a staff member came in to read out a document stating that Tom's rescue treatment had cost 3313 contribution votes in the early stage.

The subsequent recovery treatment in the hospital will continue to charge contribution ticket fees. If Tom doesn't want to delay payment, he can also apply for transfer to a rehabilitation center that provides free assistance to patients. The environment there is a bit poor, but it can still ensure the recovery and treatment of patients,

As Tom belongs to the Awakened, he has a limit to owe 5000 contribution tickets to the hospital. Once this limit is exceeded, it will be forcibly transferred to the patient's free assistance center.

After he entered the shelter, the manager of the shelter issued him an identity card, and his personal information will be registered in the shelter's database, which also includes the debt owed in the name of the contribution ticket.

Every time he consumes in the paid service facilities inside the shelter, he will need to repay the debt equally. For example, if he goes to a cafeteria to buy high-end food and needs 4 contribution tickets, he needs to pay 8 contribution tickets, of which 4 are used to repay his debt. If he repays the same amount of debt, he cannot consume it.

Each consumer facility that collects contribution tickets is equipped with a device that can read the storage chip on the identity card, which records the user's identity information and debts. Once the identity carries a debt tag, his expenses will be doubled, with one portion used to repay the debt of the shelter.

The salesperson does not need to know the user's debt situation. They only need to collect additional fees and write the repayment list on their ID card in front of the user. Afterwards, the salesperson will send the daily bill to the finance department of Haiwei Mini Industry for unified settlement.

Users can regularly go to specialized debt centers for reconciliation and synchronize debt information. If there are any errors, the finance department will compare them one by one based on the repayment list in the chip to ensure that there is no human concealment or omission in the intermediate process.

After the miniaturization disaster, the signals of telephones and networks were greatly weakened, so most long-distance communication cannot be used, and only very short distances can be barely connected. So this method is the best identity management tool to compensate for the inability to connect to the internet.

However, due to the limited tools available to humans after shrinking, even if some people have the technology and do not have dedicated devices, they are still unable to counterfeit or modify chip cards. The devices that can make chips in shelters are strictly controlled, and ordinary people have no access to them.

Regarding Tom's debt, Liu Lian immediately stated that Tom will continue to stay in the hospital and enjoy special recovery treatment, and he will bear all the expenses.

Tom refused the proposal and decided to move out of the hospital to a free patient assistance center. After all, his life was saved by Liu Lian and others. Although he is not very clear about the value of contributing votes, he still does not want Liu Lian to bear too much burden. Anyway, Liu Lian still has a girlfriend Zhao Yingying to take care of.

Now Liu Lian won't do it anymore, constantly shouting that Tom saved his and Zhao Yingying's lives. If it weren't for Tom, they would have died in the rental community long ago.

This one doesn't want to, that one insists, and it's difficult for everyone to persuade the other, making the staff waiting on the side a bit impatient. But at that moment, a yellow haired man walked in and said, "Alright, since An Shitou insists on not wanting it, let him move out. At best, buy him more nutritional supplements."

Liu Lian was furious upon hearing this and said, "Ouyang Haotian. Why are you like this?"

"Hey, I'll help you save..."

"No!" Tom said with a smile, "My intuition tells me that you must have accumulated a lot of contribution tickets. I have decided to continue living in the hospital, and you can pay for the contribution tickets."

"What?" Ouyang Haotian was very unhappy and asked in a long, dissatisfied voice, "Why?"

"Just because you owe me," Tom calmly squeezed out Ouyang Haotian's labor income.

Ouyang Haotian sighed and said, "Okay, who should I owe you so much?" He walked over and reached out his hand.

Tom also reached out his hand, clapped their palms, and then clasped them together, "I knew you must have slipped to the safest place in the first place."

"Hey, I have a clear mind and a flexible mind. On the third day of the incident, I discovered the rescue plane of the Haiwei Mini Industry, and naturally came here, haha."

Watching the tense atmosphere of the creditor's debt collection just now turn into a reunion of brothers, Liu Lian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"How are the others doing?" Tom asked after completing the registration with the staff.

Liu Lian thought for a moment and said, "Cheng Fuhua and Xiao Gao entered the logistics department, while Ying Ying worked as an assistant in the rehabilitation center. Li Zexin, that bastard, led the security guard named Wang Dong and started a black market business under Zhang Pangzi's command. Since we were awakened, Xiao Mei and I joined the temporary search team established by the security department of the shelter. Xiao Mei... Xiao Mei had an accident in the laboratory..."

"Unexpected?"

"Hmm!" Ouyang Haotian took the words and said, "The unscrupulous laboratory violated the rules in the experiment, and the result was that they made mistakes and found the theory that two crystals can explode together. They learned to make a deadly crystal bomb. At that time, Xiaomei was affected nearby, and now she is still a vegetative in the intensive care room upstairs."

Tom stared into his eyes for a while, and the straight and sharp gaze made Ouyang Haotian very uncomfortable. He could only glance to the side with a flickering gaze, afraid to meet Tom.

"So you playboy caught Xiaomei, right?"

"Anla... I... I have already cultivated myself and my character. I won't do anything that involves promiscuity anymore."

"I'm skeptical," Tom said to Liu Lian after drawing a conclusion. "What about the issue of subsequent treatment costs?"

"Mr. Shen from Haiwei Group personally assured me that all her treatments are free."

Tom nodded and said, "I believe Xiaomei will wake up."

"An Ge," Liu Lian asked, "Where is Li Qiang?"

Although Li Qiang was initially a bit bad, after being tamed by Tom, Liu Lian found that Li Qiang was a good person. In just 7 days of being together, coupled with Liu Lian being seriously injured and unconscious by Ah Huang at the time, it was Li Qiang who risked his life to drag him back to the shelter. Now that Tom is rescued, he naturally cares about Li Qiang.

When it comes to Li Qiang, Tom feels a bit disappointed. "When our aircraft took off, Li Qiang was thrown out. At that altitude, it's probably more or less unlucky. But why is Number 3 on the same plane as me okay?"

"It is said that No. 2 and No. 3 were thrown onto the exterior wall of a building and only returned when the Jingwei number rushed to them later."

Tom nodded and said, "Well, I think it's also possible for Li Qiang, but we can't care about him for now. We can only hope he's okay."

So the three men shared their experiences during the separation period.

After waking up, Ouyang Haotian was attacked by a few mosquitoes. He regained control of the Red Crystal and immediately regained his speed enhancement, running all the way. By the way, I picked some cheap items and mixed them with a few crystals. Finally, I successfully intercepted the passing Jingwei on his rooftop and flew to the shelter of Haiwei Mini Industry.

As the first group of awakened survivors admitted to the shelter, he was taken notice of by Captain Zhang of the security department and recruited into the security department to take action. Later, the Security Department established a temporary search team, and Captain Zhang was assigned to lead the team. He naturally became a regular member of the search team.

That day, he met Xiaomei in the security department who came to inquire about Tom's news. He immediately fell in love with Xiaomei and chatted with her for a few words. When he learned that Liu Lian was also an awakener, he immediately took the contract and ran over, pulling both Liu Lian and Xiaomei into the search team.

As for Liu Lian, his life is very simple.

On the contrary, Tom told them about his series of experiences at the old clinic, which amazed the two of them. Liu Lian also sighed, realizing that someone really had the idea of turning their own kind into insects in order to harvest crystals.

When he learned that Tom could use his abilities to forge armor, Ouyang Haotian was the most excited and kept shouting for Tom to give him a set of warrior armor.

They just don't have any crystals on them, and Tom can't even show off his abilities.

Since the discovery that red crystal and yellow crystal can produce explosive reactions, the security department has issued crystal control regulations. Everyone's crystals need to be collected uniformly, which can be converted into contribution tickets based on their volume and color depth.

At first, some people were dissatisfied, while others were awakened and had a commotion. However, it was quickly suppressed because the entire distribution of supplies was in the hands of the shelter, and anyone who wanted to confront it had to weigh it.

Not to mention facing security guards with live ammunition, the limited abilities of the Awakened cannot stir up a big storm and can only obediently submit.

Liu Lian has heard that if you spend a lot of money, you may not be able to get crystals from the black market in the refugee area, but they are all very small.

For Tom at present, recuperation is still the most important thing, because the injuries inside his body are more serious than they appear on the surface, and it is even very difficult to get out of bed. Apart from lying down, he can't do anything else.

So Tom seemed to go back to the days when he first arrived at Uncle Wei's clinic more than two months ago. At that time, the conditions were relatively simple, but now, returning to the embrace of the civilized world, that sense of dislocation made him occasionally feel that his experience outside was just a nightmare.

After lying down for two days, a staff member in a suit approached the door. Originally, he represented the Haiwei Mini Industrial Research Department to inquire if he had obtained any technical processes outside. The research department will contribute 500 yuan in votes and purchase them with subsequent application dividends.

In the past two days, Tom has learned about the value of contribution tickets through Liu Lian. The shelter provides free food and water to all survivors, but there are limitations on the taste and quantity of the food. But if you spend 10 yuan in contribution tickets, you can get a better meal offer of 14 meals a week from the small kitchen.

Joining the temporary search team earns a contribution vote of 7 to 5 yuan per day, while awakened individuals receive 10 yuan.

So the acquisition price of 500 yuan is quite good, after all, the entire shelter belongs to the Haiwei Group, and it is very rare to be able to accommodate you and provide safe protection and food.

Although Ouyang Haotian took on a portion of his hospitalization expenses, Liu Lian and others pooled together and were able to pay off most of it. But Tom still hopes to earn it back on his own and give it back to them. After all, they are not single anymore. In Tom's opinion, having a girlfriend is quite expensive.

After thinking for a moment, Tom signed the contract and sold the "Crystal Energy Conducting Material Manufacturing Process". At the same time, he stated that he would make metal armor for psychics who could wear it with red crystal. If the research department is interested, he is willing to contribute for free, provided that the hospital's treatment costs are waived for him.

As for the newly acquired mind controlled metal technology, he kept it for the time being.