Tom, a very ordinary name, so ordinary that people are reluctant to give their children such a bland name.

But it was indeed a man's name, and the owner of the name was hiding in an alley in fear.

A military vehicle drove slowly through the street, and the people in the military vehicle could not see Tom hiding in the deepest part of the alley, and the soldier's eyes on the machine gun with his hands rested only on the figures that might appear in the light.

The strikes have ended, and military controls have been somewhat loosened and turned into curfews.

For eleven hours from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. the next morning, no one is allowed to appear on the streets without a valid reason.

Originally, the military meant to issue passes to those who needed to go out in the middle of the night, but some people thought that this was a bit like a repressive rule imposed by a country without freedom under a dictatorship, and that it would be in the name of a free country in the Byle Federation, so they canceled this idea and practice.

Those who need to go out on the street instead must provide the military personnel on the raid with their social security number, as well as instructions for their presence outside the bedroom during curfew.

In this way, there is much more freedom, no one interferes with the free will of the people, and they can be there whenever and wherever they want, as long as they can explain why.

This is the sweetness of freedom, long live the Commonwealth of Freedom!

Tom breathed a sigh of relief at the departure of the military vehicle, and after waiting for a moment not to hear the sound of the soldiers' boots on the ground while patrolling, he once again shuttled between light and shadow.

This time, the destination he was going to was Nell's home.

He was Nell's best friend, and they had been classmates since the first grade of elementary school, and until recently, they were both employees in a factory, and they were unemployed together.

To say that it is unemployed, in fact, is not accurate, because it is not unemployment, but the kind that completely shut down the factory, indefinitely.

At that time, their foreman's idea was to take a group of people to pull the raw materials in the raw material warehouse to the workshop and use them directly, and then take out the finished products and sell them for money to make up for their losses.

In this matter, the two brothers, who have always taken the same path, had some disagreements.

Tom and the other workers then pried open the factory's raw material warehouse and hauled the raw materials into the workshop for production, and the resulting products were divided equally among all the workers, who took them home and disposed of them themselves, although most of them were said to be disposed of by the Interstellar Trading Company.

Although it is said that the auction will not operate normally during the general strike, the acquisition has never been a problem, of course, people can abide by the rules and regulations for the recycling of goods, mainly because the recycling place is protected by armed security guards, from their professional level, it should not be fake.

Everyone thought that there would be no follow-up to this matter, and the factory owners did not do anything to them during the general strike, but they did not expect that just after the general strike, their boss took all of them to court and demanded compensation from them, with a total amount of more than three million.

They have already been apprehended by the police and the military, and a new batch of police officers has been put in place, and they are more efficient than the previous ones.

The previous group of police officers thought they would be able to come to work after the strike, but they ignored that they were not the only option, which gave the veterans' office an opportunity.

A large number of veterans filled the missing posts in the Sabine district police station and all the substations, and there was no place for those who had planned to wait for the strike to come back.

In such a situation, it is almost impossible to expect to escape the law, and after Tom narrowly dodged a capture, he plans to ask Nell for help, he has heard that Nell seems to be doing well now, and has the title of some kind of manager, maybe he can help himself.

In fact, all the compensation is not so much when it is distributed to everyone's head, only one or two thousand yuan...... Nothing more!

After narrowly avoiding a few patrols, Tom finally came to the door of Nell's house, knocked on the door, and soon the sound of people moving in the room was heard.

I don't know if the city is as quiet as a cemetery at this time, without the slightest noise, and Tom outside the door even heard the sound of some kind of mechanical spring being pulled from inside the room, the sound of guns.

At the same time, Nell's vigilant voice came from the room, "There's no money here, and we don't want to make trouble......

The evils that arose during the general strike were innumerable only because people's eyes were drawn to the striking labor and management, and they did not notice that at least hundreds of homes had been invaded, some women had been humiliated, and some had even been killed by burglars during this time.

People don't notice it, because it has nothing to do with their vital interests, they can only see what is related to them.

The knock on the door in the middle of the night made Nell highly nervous, and his answer was like the most common answer of people in this class, you come here to rob, you can't grab anything at all, and even he euphemistically expressed his attitude that he admits cowardice no matter what, and he doesn't want to look for trouble.

"It's me, Tom. ”

The door opened, and the light from inside the door gave Tom a sigh of relief, and he looked at Nell, and suddenly there were a thousand words hidden in his chest, and for a moment he didn't know where to start speaking.

"You're the only one?", Nell looked down the dark hallway behind Tom, the pistol hidden behind him not being lowered, not even his fingers leaving the trigger.

Tom nodded, and Nell stepped out of the way, slipping his pistol into his pocket and welcoming Tom in.

After letting Tom in, Nell took another look at the hallway of the black hole, then closed the door and locked it so that it could not be opened directly from the outside.

This is a trick that must be mastered in such a place, and people often do not lock the door when they come to the house, which gives some people outside the door a chance to take advantage of it, but here, Nell will not let those who do not know that existence is not going to get their wish.

After the two sat down, Nell poured Tom some wine, and now it was getting colder and colder, and there was no heating in the room.

If you don't drink a little bit, they will soon be frozen from the inside out, and it won't taste good.

The two didn't say anything immediately after they sat down, but sat silently for a while and drank for a while.

Maybe it was the effect of alcohol, and Tom's expression became ugly, "You can help me, and now you are the only one who can help me." ”

Nell looked at this old friend of decades, and he suddenly realized that he was not as soft-hearted as he had been in the past, and immediately agreed, which may have something to do with his recent experience.

After Lynch commissioned him to become the manager of a construction company, and after working with Asr for more than a month, he finally understood that some things are not as simple as people think.

At first, he felt that capitalists were evil, but when he also became a "lackey of capitalists", he suddenly found that this matter was not exactly as absolute and simple as he thought before.

Outside the job center, he felt that everyone was pitiful, and some even knelt on the ground and folded their hands as if they were kneeling down to the gods and begged him to give them a job so that their family could get through this difficult time.

He wanted to save a lot of people, but in the end, he found that he couldn't.

The budget Lynch gave him was limited, and he had to complete the work that Lynch had given him before those budgets were used up, and he couldn't save everyone.

He picks out some of them he thinks are the most pitiful, but soon he finds himself deceived.

Some people do work hard, but there are also people who are lazy all the time, and there is a guy in his thirties who deliberately injured his finger and not only asked not to work, but also demanded that he be paid the same salary as other labor hours, not the minimum standard salary.

Gradually, he became less indignant, he became calm and indifferent, he didn't know if it was a good phenomenon or a bad phenomenon, he just understood that he knew more about the world.

Nell didn't say anything, and Tom didn't react immediately, he just thought he was too vague.

"The last incident, the incident that Hick said, the boss has called the police and sued us, and I can't accompany the money!"

"He actually asked us to compensate him according to the selling price of the goods, even if I still have those things in my hands, I can't afford to lose so much money, he just needs money!"

The boss they used to work for demanded that they compensate the factory for economic losses of more than 3 million yuan, and about 80 percent of this compensation was valued according to the market price of the commodity.

In other words, no matter how much the raw materials they stole were worth, they had to compensate the factory for the price at which the goods were sold in the store.

In fact, the factory owner himself didn't expect that he would make a lot of money inexplicably, and he would have come back to life in an instant when he was about to go bankrupt.

At the same time, in order to appease the capitalists, the town hall and the judiciary also agreed to sue and crack down on these groups that had caused damage during the strike action, and the city court of Sabin agreed to the demands of the factory owners.

If these people don't make up three million, they will face terrible prison sentences.

Tom's face was full of remorse at this point, "I should have listened to you in the first place, Nell, you have to help me!"

Nell was silent for a moment, "How much is left?"

Tom said something that he himself was embarrassed about, "Twenty-two thousand dollars......

This gave Nell a headache, and he couldn't help but frown, "How much did the ones you get sell for?"

"Fifteen hundred ......"

The room fell silent all of a sudden, and it took Nell more than ten seconds to make sure that his ears were not misheard, "You sold tens of thousands of dollars...... Fifteen hundred?"

He never thought of Tom as a fool, and sometimes he was a little clever, but he hadn't seen him for more than a month, and he suddenly felt that Tom was more than just stupid!