Blood

Blood

(From unpublished)

There was no money in this world. Everything was paid for with blood: wages, fines, food, gasoline, plane tickets, ship tickets, enrollment in school or a club, movie tickets, concerts or theater tickets, taxes, pensions, cemetery plots, deposits into a bank account. And the banks themselves were essentially blood banks.

Blood was borrowed and lent at interest, invested in securities, invested in businesses and social projects. This is where the concept of "bloody money" (meaning earned with your own blood) came from. Business was built on blood.

When people took out blood loans, they received someone else's blood and returned their own bloody money.

People literally transfused blood from one person to another, from person to organization and vice versa.

All prices and tariffs were measured in blood.

For convenience, people had a catheter inserted into their vein. At first it was uncomfortable, but over time people got used to it. Did they have a choice?

There was a blood balance in this world. If in other worlds wars were fought for territories, natural and artificial resources, in this world everything was paid for with blood - both wars and peace. The losers simply pumped it to the winners in huge tanks or through underground or underwater blood pipelines. These wars were predatory, everyone was taken prisoner. No one was killed, because as long as a person is alive, he can produce blood.

This is how this world has existed since time immemorial.

By the way, geneticists in this world solved two problems: one was related to genetic blood diseases, the other was how to give birth to a baby with a built-in catheter. To make life easier for new people.

Problems started when people with "bad" blood or simply sick people knowingly and consciously (or unknowingly) transfused their blood to others.

This was the cause of multiple financial crashes. Banks went bankrupt, people stopped trusting payment systems. They asked the question, is it possible to have a different world order? And they tried to find the answer in information about life in other worlds.

20.11.2021, original (Russian) version