Chapter 15: The Apocalypse's Means
A plague almost destroyed the entire Lin Gu Star, which sounded quite ridiculous, and what was even more ridiculous was that such a plague actually did not have any news reports, and everything was limited to Lin Gu Xing. Even at Harden's planetary station, no one knows.
When the plague began to break out, the farmers on Linguxing became helpless. No matter how sophisticated technology has become, once the current treatment methods are no longer easy to solve a disease, it will bring disaster not only to the disease itself.
The high cost of treatment that comes with it will bring down most families.
And this is exactly the problem faced by Lin Guxing's farmers, all the infected families can only support their lives at a high cost of treatment, but there is no cure.
Although Medicare can cover most of the costs, when the value of an injection exceeds a year's income, just 1% of what Medicare can't cover can quickly destroy an ordinary family.
What's even more desperate is that such treatment can't cure it, and in the end, you still have to face death.
It was under these circumstances that Lanf's parents died, and Lanco was also infected.
Just when Lin Guxing's people were already desperate, the medical team of the Apocalypse Company appeared.
They brought with them a special medicine, which was extremely effective against the plague, and soon all the rich people recovered. But the farmers couldn't help it.
Because the Apocalypse claims that they are already selling their own miracle drugs at cost price, but that price is still not something that ordinary farmers can support.
What to do? So the people of the Apocalypse thought of a solution for them again.
After selling the land, the Apocalypse promised to continue to give the land to the farmers to plant, so that not only could they have money for treatment, but they would also not have to pay taxes in the future.
As Kungo said before, interests always make people stupid. Farmers, whether they were desperate or greedy for cheap, gave their fields one after another.
Lanf's parents refused treatment after the infection, and they wanted to keep all the money for their children. They self-disconnected at the beginning of treatment. So the Lan Fu family actually has the money to treat Lan Ke.
But Lanf is the one who is greedy for cheap. This guy is a good older brother, but in other respects he can only be said to be hovering on the edge of the moral line.
So he sold all ten hectares of his family's land to the Apocalypse Company.
My sister's illness was cured, and I didn't have to pay taxes in the future, although the taxes were not high, but they added up to a lot of money over time.
Lanf thought that a good life was about to begin.
But instead of opening the gates of heaven, he opened a fast track to hell.
The Apocalypse Corporation did receive the praise of most people for some time after the plague was over. Although they charge a lot of money, it's much more effective than federal health care, which also charges a fee, isn't it?
And the Apocalypse Company did continue to plant the fields for the farmers as they promised, and they did not let the farmers pay them taxes.
And so everything rejoiced.
In the first year, everyone looked to the Apocalypse as a savior.
A year later, however, the Savior showed his fangs, and suddenly they took back all their property and began to collect taxes for various reasons, which at first were the same as the previous federal taxes, but soon became twice as much as the federal taxes, and now they are ten times as much.
The farmers finally know that they have been fooled, but their fields have already been sold, what else can they do?
What's the use of going to the Federation? They sold it voluntarily.
What's more, the head of the Federation in Lin Guxing had already been bought by the Apocalypse Company, and the farmer had no way to sue, so in order to live, he could only pay the high taxes.
But there are still some people who are not very wealthy and cannot pay the high taxes, so the Apocalypse Company has opened a new way for everyone.
Go to the mines.
The Heyue Star Domain is not allowed to mine polluting minerals, and those uninhabited asteroid belts are okay, but all ecological planets are only allowed to mine non-polluting and renewable mineral deposits.
There are indeed such pollution-free reclaimed mineral deposits on Lingus, but no one has mined them for a long time.
The so-called pollution-free actually refers to the inability to produce pollution under the high maintenance means, which is a cost problem, anyway, the same mineral deposits can be collected in other places with cheaper methods, why do you have to toss in Lin Guxing?
But the Apocalypse Corporation seems to have other plans, and they are going to mine recycled ore in Linguxing.
"Alas, what a misstep into a thousand hatreds. Greedy for cheap, just for the sake of the family! After listening to the story of the three Lanfu, Kun Wu spread his hands and shook his head.
Lanf's face flushed, but he couldn't find a rebuttal.
Mork sighed, "The Apocalypse has also invited a large number of the same gangsters from before, as long as we have the slightest abnormality, they will send people to trouble us!" Many people were hospitalized, and some had their homes burned down and had to go to mining! ”
"I heard from you that the miners didn't come back?" Kungo asked.
Mork nodded: "Yes, we heard that there seems to be something else under that plutonium T4 mine, the radiation is very large, and few people who went to mine can come back alive!" ”
"Lao Bai, it looks like we're going to investigate. Maybe there's something to be found there! Kunwu said.
Bai Shanglu kept his face stiff all the time, and when he heard Kunwu's words, he thought about it and nodded.
"Do what you want. I don't know if we can help you, but we'll find a way to get the news out there, and it's up to you what happens after that. You have to bear your own mistakes! Bai Shanglu dropped a sentence, turned around and left.
Lan Fu seemed to have a different opinion, but in front of Bai Shanglu, he didn't dare to have any nonsense at all.
Kungo tilted his head to look at Lan Fu and smiled, "I'll tell you a chance to make a fortune." You can report us to the Apocalypse, and you'll be rich, and maybe you can move to Mars. ”
Lanf's eyes lit up, and he seemed quite tempted.
"If my brother does this, I will die in front of him!" Lan Ke said with great firmness.
Lanf twitched, his expression darkening again.
Kungo shook his head, he didn't trust this Lan Fu at all, but for the sake of Lan Ke and Mo Ke being good, he wouldn't clean up this guy.
"Then let's go!" Kungo waved his hand, turned around and left.
"Please tell Uncle Bai that Cardamom may have been pulled to mine soul crystals, someone once said that they saw her!" Lan Ke said to Kungo's back.
Kungo paused and nodded.