"Drip, drip..."
"Rumble~~"
Beneath the gloomy, roiling sky, the rain came down harder and harder.
The occasional peal of thunder seemed to quicken everyone's heartbeat.
"Boss, is this stuff... actually useful?" Tang Zhishang and several others stood at the hospital entrance, lighting cigarettes. Looking at the [hell money] in Tang Zhishang's hand, his teammates asked curiously.
"Useful?" Tang Zhishang raised an eyebrow. "You really are frogs in a well. Never mind what this stuff can do—the mark left on it by that big shot isn't a joke. Even if it were just a piece of scrap paper, it'd still be worth a fortune."
The team members' faces lit up. One of the younger ones asked, "Boss, does this mean I might have a shot at advancing?"
"Of course!" Tang Zhishang said, then realized that might have been a bit much and hastily added, "I'm not sure exactly how much we can trade it for."
"Boss, communications seem to have been restored yesterday. Your classmate works at the Provincial Company, right? Why not give him a call and ask?" another teammate suggested.
"Communications are back already? That was fast."
Tang Zhishang was surprised. Their area had always been among the last to get communications restored. Surely the limited resources available would have gone to the major cities first.
"Heh, we're benefiting from those big shots inside."
Tang Zhishang nodded. "That's true. Looks like we're benefiting this time. If it weren't for those two inside, who knows when communications would've been restored here."
As he spoke, Tang Zhishang took his phone out of his spatial storage. He hadn't used it in a long time, so he had to turn it on again.
But when the screen lit up, Tang Zhishang took a closer look. "That's not right. There's no signal."
"That can't