The caller told Xia Chuhe a sad story.
An ordinary family of three, whose child has contracted a very serious illness.
When the mother heard that Twin City had the technology for mechanical ascension, the family sold all their possessions and came to Twin City.
However, the prerequisite for mechanical ascension is that the subject must be an adult.
Children's brains have a lot of room for development, and the self-iteration of chips cannot be compared with human growth.
Doctors advised the family to have the brain transplanted into a mechanical body and have an external survival system installed inside.
In this way, the brain can develop normally while also getting rid of the dying body.
The downside is that the subsequent maintenance costs are very high, and the mechanical body needs to be replaced every three years until the brain is fully developed.
The family's savings, converted into credits, were still a little short of the cost of their first surgery.
Therefore, the parents chose to stay in the city to work and earn money, and the two of them found a high-paying but dangerous factory job.
Unfortunately, on his second day at work, his father accidentally fell into a pool of extremely hot liquid and suffered severe burns.
The level of treatment isn't the problem; the problem is money.
The woman became the sole breadwinner in the household.
She didn't break down; the factory owner was willing to cover the man's medical expenses. As long as she worked hard, she still had hope of getting treatment for her child.
However, the boss's compensation has not yet arrived, and several batches of goods that were recently shipped out have been robbed, making it difficult to keep the cash flow and raise enough money for medical expenses in a short period of time.
Perhaps because of an accident at the factory, the compensation cost was higher than the cost of hiring robots. Out of consideration for risk control, the boss decided to dismiss all the biological workers in the factory.
Women were also among those dismissed.
In order to save her husband's life, the woman temporarily transferred the money she had prepared for the children to her husband's account.
After paying, her account showed that she did not have enough for today's temporary deposit. The patrol officer warned her that if she could not deposit 30 credits into her account today, she would be deported from the city that night.
The 30 yuan temporary stay fee became the last straw that broke the woman's back.
"Please help her, I don't want her to commit suicide."
The person making the call seemed to be the woman's mechanical friend.
This family's situation is quite complicated, and there is no corresponding solution in the work manual.
Xia Chuhe recorded the caller's contact information and called the hospital, labor bureau, and other relevant departments one by one.
At the same time, I would like to ask Liu'er how to handle this.
Liu'er looked at her with sympathy: "It's going to be difficult to handle, and it might become an unsolvable problem."
Xia Chuhe was at his wits' end and once again came up with the idea of ​​exchanging farm supplies for credits. Didn't Twin Cities have a black market or something similar?
The labor bureau quickly responded: part-time workers are not covered by civil rights protections, and besides, the boss didn't say he wouldn't pay compensation, but rather that he genuinely couldn't afford to.
Officials investigated the factory and found it to be in dire financial straits. The owner owed money to suppliers, goods were lost, and no money was made; it's estimated that the factory will soon go bankrupt and be liquidated.
Liu'er suddenly said, "I can talk about this online, maybe I can help them raise some money."
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Faced with the suffering of others, Xia Chuhe, who was penniless, said he was powerless to help.
She temporarily put aside her work and asked her supervisor for leave before leaving get off work.
The supervisor didn't approve: "Your health is perfectly fine, you can come to work tomorrow."
Xia Chuhe: "I need to take personal leave. I have something to do."
Supervisor: "No, you're fine."
Xia Chuhe tried everything to get leave from his supervisor, pleading and arguing, but he couldn't get the leave.
Xia Chuhe said, "I've paid back the money the company advanced for me, and I'm resigning."
"Okay." The supervisor pretended to check Xia Chuhe's work, but after checking, he changed his mind and said, "No, you can't resign. You have an unfinished job that you can't hand over."
Xia Chuhe: "???"
It wasn't until she was about to leave the company that she realized its most vicious hidden rule.
The coordinator must complete all the tasks assigned to them before leaving.
Preventing the tragic woman from committing suicide became a task that had to be accomplished.
Xia Chuhe returned to his office with a gloomy face.
She remembered saying that morning that she would accompany Liu'er to exchange the money tree for money. Sure enough, that strange piece of dead wood had not only sprouted buds, but also blossomed.
They've been waiting a long time with the supervisor; Liu'er might have already left.
However, Liu'er was still in the office. Not waiting for Xia Chuhe, but because she hadn't finished dealing with a phone call.
Liu'er kept repeating "Please use polite language" with a blank face.
After saying it so many times, it really did have the air of someone gritting their teeth and cursing "Fuck your father."
Xia Chuhe waited for a while before Liu'er hung up the phone.
She looked at Xia Chuhe and suddenly said, "Hello, this is the citizen interface. How can I help you?"
"You're too kind!"
Liu'er smiled awkwardly: "Sorry, my professional habit kicked in. Let's go exchange some money. When I have money, I can help that family out."
Xia Chuhe raised an eyebrow, surprised that Liu'er was quite kind-hearted.
With Li Qiusheng by their side, the three of them went to the company where Liu'er bought the money tree years ago to exchange it for money. Liu'er lavishly called a driverless hovercar.
On the way, Xia Chuhe mentioned that her supervisor wouldn't let her resign.
Li Qiusheng was furious: "I'm on the phone every day, and I have tasks every day. How can I possibly complete every single one of them?!"
"Do you know what we did when colleagues wanted to quit?" Liu'er smiled mysteriously and whispered in Xia Chuhe's ear, "If you can't solve the problem, solve the person who raised it. Just get rid of the robot that makes the phone call! If you think getting rid of the robot is too difficult, you can get rid of that family of three too!"
Liu'er smiled, took a sip of diesel fuel to replenish his energy.
Xia Chuhe nodded thoughtfully.
Liu'er seemed to have immediately thought of a solution...
Are robots fast at calculating and thinking?
Or had she thought about this question before?
The hovercar arrived at the Money Tree Company, and the three went inside to handle their business. Liu'er then presented the flowering money tree that she had been protecting in her palm.
The tiny white stamens hid among the green buds, delicate and fragile, like a flame in the wind.
"Please help me exchange them for credit coins. I need to use them for something very important," Liu'er said.
The receptionist didn't even glance at the flower: "I'm sorry, the money tree blooming event you mentioned was two years ago. That event has long since ended, and your flower is now worthless."
The receptionist paused for a moment, then said, "No, it's not worthless. You can choose to sell your flowering money tree for around 100 credits. Would you like to sell it?"
Liu'er's world has collapsed.
The dream is shattered.
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