Mei has lived in Rhode Island for a while and knows a little bit about the place. She has not left since she was sent to Rhode Island in the far future. Of course, she can't leave now if she wants to.
"I actually owe so much money?!"
This was Mei's first reaction when she saw the bill. Her second reaction was to find a way to escape from here. Are you kidding me? Rhode Island Pharmaceutical Company is not a good company. The original Penguin employees all worked here, so she continued to stay. Here, the outcome may not be any better.
Later, she discovered that Rhode Island did not require her to repay these debts. The most important thing was that she did not know where to go after leaving Rhode Island. Some employees also proposed to her a plan to repay the debts by working part-time, which seemed reasonable. Reasonable.
"But if you are like this, are you really not worried that the patient will refuse to pay the medical fee and then run away?"
She got this answer:
"The gate is right there, and patients can leave at any time. The question is, who can guarantee that they will never get sick in the future? Especially for Originium Disease, the only medical institution that can properly treat it now is Rhode Island. But all infected people who have been here, None of them wanted to leave.”
Everyone wants to live.
Even if a patient intends to plot against the doctor, Dr. Gavel's staff is waiting for him.
So Mei settled down in Rhode Island with peace of mind. She accepted various tests from the Personnel Department, and finally joined the sniper department and officially became an operator.
"Have you all heard of the undead? He is a very powerful sniper, much more powerful than me anyway. I am not saying that I am weak. Don't look at me like this. I am Victoria's Royal Detective! "
Mei chirped, and it was obvious that most people didn't take her words seriously.
Until one day later, she saw the snow pheasant sent by Bai Xue.
Faced with an old friend she hadn't seen for a long time, Mei was very happy in her heart, but Xue Pheasant didn't want to pay attention to her. To be precise, Xue Pheasant fell into self-isolation.
"What's wrong with you, Xue Pheasant? You can tell me and we can solve the problem together. Are you also being debt-collected by Rhode Island?"
Mei's noise did not attract any attention from the snow pheasant, and she was quickly carried aside by the passing iron-eating beast.
"There will be no results if you do this. We in Yan country have a saying that a heart disease needs a heart medicine. Only if she is willing to open her heart, others will have the opportunity to help her. Otherwise, she can only continue like this until one day she comes out. .”
Mei nodded as if she understood something. Something must have happened to Snow Pheasant to become like this. She actively conducted investigations in this area, but the results she got surprised her!
It turns out that the suffering that Saint Martin suffered during this period came from the former boss of Brave New World, and Snow Pheasant's research topic indirectly caused the suffering. In other words, she was an accomplice.
"What should I do? What's the best way?"
Mei thought for a while, but couldn't think of a way. She asked Anbil, whom she was already familiar with, for advice. Unsurprisingly, she didn't get the results she wanted. However, Anbil was not without ideas. She suggested that Mei seek help from Dr. Kelsey. .
"Dr. Kelsey, I heard that she is a very strict person. Should I ask her for advice..."
Just when Mei was confused, Zhou Jinru watched Amiya put a stack of banknotes and scattered coins on the bedside table and wondered: "What are these?"
He didn't remember losing any money.
Amiya counted the money with her slender fingers, counted it and put it away, and said: "This is when the doctor was in Saint Martin, he lent money to a man named Dunbar, but the person who owed the money disappeared, and the rest Returned by his colleagues."
Zhou Jinru thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case. A few days after the Prohibition Act, he and Yinhu once stopped in another outer city. On the road, they met a man who was robbing him because of hunger, so he lent him some money. He thought there would be no results, but he didn't expect to come back. It was incredible.
"I have some impression of the man named Dunbar. He disappeared? What happened? Did he disappear in the distant future?"
Amiya sat next to Zhou Jinru. After a busy day's work, she always spent her free time with the doctor.
Although there was a sofa in the doctor's room, Du Lin was covered with his coat and sleeping soundly. Zhou Jinru did not refuse her request to rest here, because he still hoped that Du Lin would be able to abduct Myrtle back from outside on a whim. …
"At present, it is like this. A considerable number of people in Saint Martin have disappeared in the distant future. The total number is no less than a thousand. This number is enough to attract the attention of the authorities. After all, in such a special environment, a group of more than a thousand people wants to If you want to travel, you will inevitably leave traces, but..."
Amiya made a bubble bursting gesture: "Nothing is left, they disappeared without a trace, and no one can find them."
She glanced at the canned fruit placed on the bedside table and couldn't help complaining: "Doctor always likes to eat these things. It's very unhygienic. You should eat something fresh."
As she spoke, she picked up the apples in the fruit basket and began to peel them, her skills were admirable.
"This Dunbar has also disappeared in the distant future. Even if he is dead, I hope this clue will not be cut off. What kind of family does he and his colleagues have?"
Zhou Jinru was a little curious about what weird things happened on that distant date when the thick darkness descended.
Amiya peeled the apple carefully: "I knew the doctor would dig deeper into them. When Dunbar's colleagues came to pay back the money, I asked the record-keeping operator to ask a few questions. They were originally from Workers in the Rust Belt, former working-class families, where there are many factories and manufacturing industries, have lost their original jobs due to the rapid development of mobile cities, so they came to St. Martin to look for opportunities. Now they all want to go back. "
“In the Rust Belt, does Colombia also have a steel city in the traditional sense?”
Amiya peeled the apple, cut off a piece with a fruit knife, handed it to Zhou Jinru, watched him eat it, and then said with satisfaction: "Doctor, you need to study the history carefully. The Rust Belt is just a title, it is moving. In the era when cities had not yet emerged, heavy industrial cities were the foundation of a country. Later, natural disasters became more and more frequent, and mobile cities began to be built on a city-by-city basis. Heavy industry ushered in its most glorious moment, and their productivity was fifty percent higher than in the past. It has increased hundreds of times in the past year, corresponding to a large number of workers."
"It's easy to imagine how glorious it was to build a city-sized ship. That era was also called the Era of Set Sail."
