[Martial Arts] Infinite Chamber Game

Shen Bijun never thought that she would encounter such a thing just sweeping the streets!

This was her second day at work. She was wearing an orange vest and holding a large broom made of bamboo strips. It was not yet the season for falling leaves, so she just swept up the sand particles and garbage thrown away by some people.

In addition, dissuading pedestrians from throwing garbage into the trash can is also part of her job.

But not everyone in the world listens to advice, especially when you are big and strong, and the other person is a beautiful and elegant woman.

"You can let me throw it in if you want." The man used his foot to pick up the drink bottle, took out his phone from his pocket, and said with a playful smile: "Let's add each other as friends, and then you can let me throw it in anyway you want."

Shen Bijun said: "I don't have a mobile phone."

The man waved his hand and said, "It's okay. There's a mobile phone store not far ahead. I'll take you to buy one. Let me kiss you..."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand.

Of course Shen Bijun would not indulge him anymore. Before being touched by the man's hand, the broom in her hand had already hit the man's head.

The man fainted on the spot, blood gushing from his head.

The armed police arrived ten minutes later and, after comparing the two people’s body shapes and the surveillance footage of the road section, they characterized the incident as “verbal harassment” and “self-defense.”

However, no matter how "self-defense" it was, the person still had to be sent to the hospital, so Shen Bijun had no choice but to go to the hospital with him.

She didn't want to kill this man, but she still didn't understand how he managed to survive the apocalypse with such a fragile body.
What surprised her even more was yet to come. According to the newly amended law in Chongdao, Shen Bijun had to compensate the man for 30,000 yuan in medical expenses and lost wages.

——Cash is circulated on the island, but everyone uses virtual currency. All the money earned from work is kept in a virtual account. If you want to buy something on the island, you just need to scan your face.

Needless to say, the balance in Shen Bijun's virtual account was still zero, and the account showed that the maximum loan amount was 60,000 yuan.

Now several staff members were negotiating with her, asking if she needed to borrow money. There were many opinions on the interest rate of the loan, and Shen Bijun was confused. In the end, the problem returned to the basics.

"Me? Compensate him?" She was puzzled: "Didn't you say it was self-defense?"

This is how the staff explained it to her:

"Because it's the end of the world, the laws have changed. He is a man and needs to take on the responsibility of defending the base, while women need to be responsible for childbearing. From the perspective of gender value, your values ​​are equal.

The current situation is that he verbally harassed you, but you did not suffer any substantial harm, yet you beat him up and put him in the hospital, which is equivalent to undermining his value. Based on this, you need to pay compensation. "

For a moment, Shen Bijun didn't even know what to say.

She couldn't even refute the theory.

At this time, there was a commotion in the obstetrics and gynecology department not far away. A pregnant woman and a doctor were hugging each other and crying, attracting a lot of people to watch.

"Xiao Hui'er, it's really you! I thought I would never see you again!"

Guan Minghui also hugged the pregnant woman and cried: "It's great that you are still alive! But Xiao Xu and the others... they are all dead..."

Shen Bijun walked over and asked: "Do you know each other?"

City C is more than a thousand kilometers away from Chongdao.

"Sister Jun, you're here." Guan Minghui wiped her eyes and took the hand of the pregnant woman beside her and said, "Her name is Li Xuxi. She was my college roommate. We both studied clinical surgery. She went back to her hometown during the summer vacation. I didn't expect that zombies would break out on the third day after she left. I thought she was dead."

As she was talking, the pregnant woman named Li Xuxi came back to her senses as if she had just woken up from a dream. She looked at the photo on the wall, then at the name tag on Guan Minghui, and asked in horror, "Are you an obstetrician and gynecologist now?"

"Yes!"

The pregnant woman looked at the number she had taken again: "Attending physician?"

"Yes!"

The pregnant woman screamed, "Are you kidding me? How did you become a chief physician? Did you invent a drug to fight the zombie virus?"

Living in the same dormitory, how could she not know Xiao Hui'er's weight? What if something happened on the operating table, would she still be alive?
Meeting an old acquaintance in a foreign place, and the old acquaintance is the attending physician, is like running naked and encountering zombies.

"I... I think..." Guan Minghui was a little lacking in confidence, but with so many people watching, she could only bite the bullet and say, "I also passed the basic exam to get in! Even if you don't believe me, don't you believe in the country?"

It would have been fine if she hadn't said anything. Once she did, the pregnant woman became even more agitated: "Don't say anything. Even you can get in. Now I'm skeptical about the entire medical system!"

Guan Minghui was a little hurt.

A big part of the reason for this hurt was that she was telling the truth.

The pregnant woman screamed for a while, and maybe her emotions had calmed down. Looking at the crowds of people watching, she felt a little embarrassed: "Hui Er, you can't blame me for not trusting you. The problem is, let alone regular training, you haven't even graduated yet, and you even failed two subjects in the final exam!"

Guan Minghui stammered in defense: "I failed English and microbiology..."

Even so, she was still surrounded by the crowd's stares and pointing fingers. Even a few pregnant women holding pregnancy test reports quietly turned around and went to other departments.

After some hesitation, Guan Minghui took off the badge representing her position as attending physician.

"I worked very hard during the zombie outbreak..." She wanted to explain, but she opened her mouth but said nothing and walked out dejectedly. Shen Bijun chased after her, and Li Xuxi, holding the pregnancy test form, stomped his feet and chased after her.

"Xiao Hui'er! I don't mean anything against you, just listen to my explanation..."

The three of them sat side by side on a bench on Central Street, looking at the beauty and richness of the island and sighing at the same time.

Shen Bijun spoke first: "We also had a long period of peaceful life. Xiaoguan worked really hard. I think she is very different now. There are many pregnant women in our team who are taken care of by her. She also prescribed medicine for people who were sick before. We all trust her very much."

Li Xuxi smiled bitterly and shook his head: "How can being a doctor be that easy? If you can treat diseases and perform surgery just by reading a book, then doctors will have to run around everywhere, right?"

Maybe it was because she was more sensitive during pregnancy. She cried as she spoke: "Xiao Huier, I really wasn't angry with you just now. I was just too scared. When I was pregnant, people in the community told me that the doctors in the hospital were very professional, and I believed them."

"But I didn't expect...Xiao Hui'er, tell me yourself, tell me honestly, how difficult is the exam? Do you have the ability to be a chief physician? As long as you say you do, I will believe you."

Guan Minghui was silent for a long time and finally shook his head.

"The exam was very easy. The questions were all common cases from textbooks, and it was like an amateur testing an expert."

Li Xuxi touched her belly, not knowing whether to cry or laugh for a moment.

Shen Bijun also felt disappointed. Two girls in the team were about to give birth and were admitted to the obstetrics and gynecology department on the first day. She trusted Guan Minghui, but she was afraid that the doctor the two girls met would be worse than Guan Minghui.

We finally arrived at Chong Island and thought we could live a peaceful and stable life, but who could have imagined that we would hit landmines one after another in just two days?

Then again, it's not easy to survive in this precarious apocalypse. Compared to the outside world, this place is still heaven.

Guan Minghui suddenly said, "Come to think of it, the Doomsday is so dangerous, why did you get pregnant? Didn't you claim to be a non-marriageist before?"

Li Xuxi smiled bitterly: "It's a different time now. Actually, this is already my second child. I was planning to have a third child after giving birth to this one."

Guan Minghui gasped and stood up: "Are you crazy? Why?"

"Because pregnant women don't have to work, they can get money." Li Xuxi said slowly in a calm tone, "The law on the island says that as long as you give birth to ten children, you don't have to work forever, and there will be someone special to take care of the children. I only need to be responsible for giving birth."

Guan Minghui thought there was something wrong with her ears: "Do you still want to have ten children? Getting pregnant again and again just to avoid work?"

"You don't understand. You've only been on the job for two days, so of course you don't feel anything. I guess that staff member must have told you that there are no days off on the island, right?"

"Yes, but..."

"But men do. Men here work five days a week and have two days off, so they only need to work eight hours a day, but women work all year round, work 12 hours a day, and get only half the salary of men."

"But there is one type of woman who is an exception."

"Pregnant woman?"

"Yes, pregnant women do not need to participate in any work as long as they are pregnant. Children on the island are taken care of by someone from birth to school age."

Who will take care of it? Of course, it is the woman who does not bear children.

After hearing this, even Shen Bijun understood what was going on.

"They are forcing women to have children in disguise."

Sadly, she also knew the reason for this rule.

If zombies do not eat, they will lose their mobility within a few years and then slowly become no different from ordinary corpses. However, humans can continue from generation to generation.

As long as we can survive the most difficult few years, the world will eventually be dominated by humans.

Everyone knows this truth, but...

But not everyone has the determination to devote their body so selflessly, especially when they are forced to do so.

Shen Bijun asked: "Can we leave here?"

"You can leave." The voice came from behind, desolate and calm: "But once you leave here, you can never come back."

Lin Shiyin walked over slowly, still wearing the work clothes she wore for cleaning public toilets.

Shen Bijun asked curiously: "Have you asked? Do you want to leave?"

Lin Shiyin said, "It's not me who wants to leave, it's a lot of girls who want to leave. They've been living here for a few months and are almost driven crazy by the heavy workload. They were talking about this in the toilet cubicle and I just happened to hear it."

She looked up at the sky. More than a dozen planes were circling overhead every day. The entrances and exits to the island were strictly guarded. At each checkpoint, there were at least four hundred armed police officers patrolling day and night.

It is indeed very safe here, so safe that it makes people feel suffocated.

(End of this chapter)