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Chapter 577, Crazy Farm
Chapter 10, Crazy Farm
What is life like as a farmer in the United States?Blue sky, snow-capped mountains, green fields, and endless green pastures?
Something to drive huge agricultural machinery to wait for the crops without any effort?Are you free to hunt, ride a horse, or have a barbecue?Laid back and relaxed?
No need to worry about commuting traffic jams and clocking in at work, no need to look at the smelly face of the boss, and no need to worry about the intrigue among colleagues for promotion, enjoying the fresh air and warm sunshine every day.In the afternoon, take a nap on the warm grass?
Um!Maybe hang out and find a way to meet a wild west cowgirl with tanned skin and a toned body?
Comrade Chen Ping, a former Chinese American soldier who moved to Texas, or a visitor from another world, hereby solemnly say that you are all too naive!
His life as a rancher in Texas in the Marvel Universe was almost like being in Afghanistan!Face sandstorms and flying bullets all day long!
Um?how so?It seems that running a farm in Afghanistan or Somalia is nothing more than that, right?
This is a long story.About a year ago, when Chen Ping finally survived his life-long military career and returned home from the Middle East battlefield, he was fooled by some "local novels" before time travel and bewitched by the hype of an intermediary company salesman. He actually cruelly poured out his savings and bought a [-]-acre farm in Texas at an ultra-low price, thinking he had picked up a big bargain.
However, when Chen Ping excitedly took the land deed and went over there to have a look, he realized that "cheap goods are not good" is an eternal and universal truth.
First of all, the farm he bought is located in the westernmost part of Texas, on the border of the north bank of the Rio Grande.This place is close to the Chihuahua Desert in Mexico. The soil is barren, the climate is dry, and the water for irrigation is difficult. Cactus grows far more vigorously than crops... Of course, the agricultural technology in the modern world is far from comparable to that of the ancients. In semi-arid climate areas Growing crops is not too difficult a task.
But the real trouble is that Chen Ping's farm is close to the border, opposite to Mexico's famous crime capital, Juárez!
When you mention Mexico as a country, what basic elements do you think of?
Well, probably desert, cacti, sombrero, hot sauce and tequila...
The above-mentioned elements do exist in Mexico, but in addition, there are all kinds of thieves and violent elements here since ancient times.The legendary thief Zorro who likes to draw a "Z" scar on his enemies can also be said to be one of the representatives.In the modern world, Mexico has become a crazy country where terrorists have been besieging government forces and sweeping up government agencies year after year, and criminals have targeted and eliminated the police chief...
Please note that the above sentences are absolutely not reversed.
No way, who told this sad country to be too far away from heaven, but too close to the United States?
First of all, the United States is the world's largest drug consumer, with more than 3500 million addicts, and [-]% of the drugs in the US market come from Mexico.Therefore, it can bring tens of billions of dollars in net profits to Mexican drug traffickers every year.Secondly, Mexico is also an important transit point for Latin American people to smuggle into the United States illegally, and it is also a large distribution center for American traffickers to collect goods...Using the huge sums of money earned through the above-mentioned illegal channels, Mexican gangs can buy everything from pistols to individual missiles to armored vehicles from the United States Various advanced munitions ranging from armed helicopters to miniature submarines to enrich one's own armed forces—under the temptation of money and drugs, quite a few U.S. military officers and soldiers and managers of arsenal factories are secretly guarding and stealing.Therefore, in Mexico, those rich and murderous gangs are generally better equipped than the regular army.Since the birth of the gangster thing, it has never been without violence.They not only have to fight against the government's encirclement and suppression, but also compete with each other for territory and financial resources, and bloody conflicts often occur.
In northern Mexico, near the U.S. border, there is a city of 150 million people called Juárez.It is not a city in the usual sense, but a notorious "ghost town" that has been plagued by doom. ", "Capital of Violence", "City of Death", "Capital of Murder", "The Most Violent City in the World", "The Most Dangerous City in the World", "The Murder Capital of the World"...because this city is located in The border between Mexico and Texas, across the river from El Paso, Texas.Due to the special geographical location, traffickers and big drug lords all fell in love with this place, and moved their gang headquarters to Juárez one after another, using it as a base camp for smuggling drugs to the United States, buying weapons and ammunition, and organizing smuggling.
In order to compete for territory, these gangs often start fighting with each other.The underground wars that have led to Juarez have lasted for decades. Some gangs fight each other, some are wars between the police and gangs, and some can't tell who is fighting with whom... There are also the CIA and the CIA in the United States. The FBI also intervened, causing Juarez to become an "adventurer's paradise" just like the old Shanghai before China's liberation!
Local residents have become accustomed to encountering unnamed corpses lying on the street and mass graves dug out by wild dogs when they are walking and reading newspapers, or being scalped by a stray bullet from nowhere.In Juárez, dozens or hundreds of people are killed every day, which is already commonplace and not really news; if there is no homicide on a calm day, it will be a major news that can hit the headlines.
And Chen Ping's farm is close to the border, less than [-] kilometers away from Juarez...so it was affected by the flames of war every two days.
What's more terrible is that in the Marvel world, there are not only all kinds of superheroes with extraordinary powers, but also the power of many super villains is far from comparable to the real world.This is true not only in New York, but also in Juarez, resulting in an unprecedented increase in the intensity of gang wars.
If we say that on Wang Qiu's side of the earth, the Juárez gangs are just shooting in the streets with submachine guns and machine guns, and at most a few RPGs (individual rocket launchers) will be fired.Then in Juarez in the Marvel world, the local gangsters are already driving the most advanced armored vehicles, armed robots and vertical lift fighter jets, bombarding them with various missiles and rockets, throwing gas bombs or bacterial bombs from time to time, There are even "dirty bombs" that spread nuclear waste, in addition to various strange things such as voodoo curses. It is normal for tens of thousands to 10,000+ people to die every month.
The more serious problem is that these bloodthirsty gangs not only often fight from the south to the north of the border, but their various long-range weapons, such as missiles, rockets and suicide bombers, are also usually unreliable. Brownian motion is often performed in the sky, so farmers on both sides of the border have suffered greatly. It is not too much to describe daily life as "licking blood on the tip of a knife", and they will be killed or killed if they are not careful.
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In short, when Wang Qiu, Political Commissar Guo and the one-legged woman Tang Marie set off from New York and finally found Chen Ping's farm after traveling all the way, they saw this guy wearing a steel helmet and bulletproof vest, holding a A double-barreled shotgun, lying nervously in the grass, watching the gunshots from afar, with a mental breakdown on his face.When Tang Marie went up to say hello carelessly, she was almost shot by Chen Ping.
Therefore, Wang Qiu had to stop time again, and then tied Chen Ping up, so that he could start communicating normally.
Then, after a lot of doubts, quarrels and proofs, Comrade Chen Ping, with a scumbag beard and swollen eyes, finally accepted the arguments of Wang Qiu and others, and preliminarily figured out what was going on. Time couldn't help but tears filled my eyes, feeling inexplicable.
After all, unlike those other young people, Uncle Chen Ping, who is over forty years old, has a wife and children in the real world.
Regrettably, at the next moment, this middle-aged man in his 40s learned with frustration that he would not be able to leave this seemingly prosperous but perilous Marvel world until he collected the [-] reward points for "redemption" , the excitement that filled his face couldn't help but collapsed again.
Next, Uncle Chen Ping began to pour out bitterness to the three visitors.
"...To be honest, I really regret that I listened to that bastard's flicker and bought this farm for $[-]. After living in this ghost place for more than a year, I feel like I still have to wait On the Afghan front... no, this place is even more dangerous than Afghanistan!"
Chen Ping said with a look of frustration, "...in Afghanistan, at least I still have a strong reinforced concrete fortress, a personnel carrier equipped with reactive armor, and there are people on duty at night, so that comrades can sleep peacefully. But here, But everything has to be figured out by myself..."
——To be honest, although he knew that he was cheated as soon as he arrived at this place, in order to prevent the investment from being in vain, Chen Ping still put in his best efforts to run the farm well.Not only did he try his best to plant drought-resistant dragon fruits in this dry and water-scarce frontier farm, but he also built a greenhouse with his own hands and planned to grow some high-value organic vegetables.In order to ensure the minimum safety, Chen Ping installed power grids around the farm, installed surveillance cameras, raised wolf dogs to guard the yard, and equipped himself with guns and ammunition. He spent his last savings on this.
But even so, Uncle Chen Ping still failed to take root in this crazy land.
"...The urban area of Juárez, across the border, is constantly playing ping-pong-pong all year round. All kinds of messy missiles and rockets are fired at both ends of the three days, as well as armed robots scurrying around, although they cannot reach civil aviation airliners. , but it made our side miserable. The plastic greenhouse that was finally built was burned by a rocket in the middle of the night. And the insurance company also said that it was a loss caused by the war, and it was not responsible for the claim!
If it's just shooting rockets randomly across the border, that's fine. After all, the land here is sparsely populated, and there are not many stray bombs that can be fired by gangsters by mistake. It's okay to be bombed once or twice a year. At most.But there are still so many smugglers coming from Mexico, those who dig tunnels, those who take fake passports, those who take hang gliders, those who bribe the customs, and those who come directly all the way. There was a lot of chaos——Illegal immigrants who smuggled into the United States from other places, at least at the beginning, were basically cheap labor who worked honestly and illegally.But the Mexican smugglers in Juarez are unusually tough. They came to the United States to kill and set fire to become robbers!
Those illegal refugees who smuggled in basically started to rob their homes as soon as they crossed the border. One day I heard a noise at night, and saw a teenage girl stealing fruits in the field of the farm through the window. At that time, I saw Looking at her thin and small appearance, I felt very pitiful, and wanted to give her some milk, bread or something.Unexpectedly, just as I opened the door to say hello, the little girl took out a pistol and fired six bullets at me, but luckily none of the bullets hit.Then they shot each other in the dark for a while, and in the end, this little bastard even stole my car...
In short, be very, very careful when going out in this area.It is absolutely taboo to go out at night, because the roads and wilderness are full of smuggled immigrants like wild wolves.Don't think of them as those gangs of thieves who haunt train stations in China, they are not at the same level at all.There are quite a few thieves and pickpockets here in Texas - not because of their high quality, but because they don't bother to do things secretly, and they always take the murder weapon directly to rob!If it doesn't work, just take your life first and then take away the things!
Anyway, in the United States, prisoners are rarely sentenced to death. Even if they are caught for murder, they will spend a few more years in prison at most.Over time, the prisons in the southern states are not enough. If there is no major incident, the police are too lazy to arrest people. Anyway, even if they are arrested, the prisons will refuse to accept them on the grounds of overcrowding. let go. "
Uncle Chen Ping frowned and chattered, and led the three of them into a dilapidated iron house that seemed to have just survived the Tokyo bombing of World War II. The walls were full of bullet holes and burn marks, and the roof on the second floor was still damaged The explosion blew away, and a thick layer of sand accumulated on the floor of the house, "...the wolfdog I bought to watch the house was stolen within a week. On average, every month at most, there will be Two groups or several groups fought directly near the farm. The noise of gunshots and explosions made me mentally weak. I usually have to wear body armor when I live and sleep at home, because the initiation ceremony for local gangsters to recruit newcomers is at night Take the newcomer and drive along the road, shooting random shots at every house you encounter, which is probably a vote of honor... The result is that the wall becomes a hornet's nest, which makes me worry every day that I will be shot at home kill...
When I was in the U.S. military in Afghanistan, although I listened to sneering every day, I had food, drink, clothing, housing, cars, free medical care and military pay.But here, everything has to be scraped from the soil by ourselves!But there is a sorcerer in a certain gang in Mexico who can cast spells and set off a super sandstorm to cover stowaways crossing the border—those stowaways are relieved, but we peasants are miserable..."
"...It's all done like this, don't the police think of a way? Does this still look like the homeland of the world's overlord?"
Wang Qiu couldn't help but said suddenly, "...it's nothing more than lawlessness in Mexico, but is it the same for the police in the United States?"
"...The police in Texas? Come on! In their eyes, we yellow people are probably more annoying than the gangsters in Mexico! Those bastard policemen have never protected me even once, but they often come here to blackmail me! Bad embryos who bully honest people!"
Uncle Chen Ping shrugged his shoulders helplessly, "...Last month, a corpse pit was found half a mile away from here, with two to three hundred skeletons piled in it, and the local police detained me as a suspect People's hats, when I caught the police, they threatened me, didn't say anything about the law, and asked me for money! I insisted on it for a week, but in the end I had to spend money to eliminate the disaster. But when I came back yesterday, I saw that the fruits in the field were ruined Halfway through, there was a dead man hanging beside the plastic shed, and there were two niggers squatting in the house. I fought them with a gun, and then drove these bastards out..."
——Well, well, in addition to the extremely bad law and order, Chinese Americans have to worry about racial discrimination here.
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Since the farm house was basically in ruins, and there were always gunshots every night, everyone could only spread sleeping bags in the basement that night, making do with the night.Who knows that even this night I can't sleep well:
First, a hang glider crossed the border wall and landed leisurely on the edge of Chen Ping's farm, and then an armed vertical jet chased after it, hitting the hang glider that had just landed with a Vulcan cannon. , and finally dropped the napalm incendiary bomb!
When the sound of gunfire subsided, Wang Qiu and the others carefully moved over to look at it, and it was almost burnt to ashes.
After that, everyone went back to the basement before falling asleep, when suddenly the mountains shook again, and the bricks and stones were shaken off with dust, like a magnitude [-] earthquake erupting.Immediately afterwards, while Wang Qiu and the others were stunned, a ground excavator that looked like a giant shell crashed through the wall of the basement and broke in with a huge roar... Chen Ping, who reacted the fastest, Immediately there was a scream, turned around and ran to the ground, and the others followed closely behind, finally dodged the bullets swishing from behind, and successfully got into the dark field.
"...I said, Old Chen! I really admire your place! Why is the basement not even safe?" Wang Qiushang panted out of breath.
"...No way, the smuggling and drug trafficking organizations use strange machines to dig tunnels every three days. This underground is almost being dug into a rabbit's nest!"
After hearing Chen Ping's explanation, Commissar Guo had no choice but to shake his head, then pulled Wang Qiu aside, and said in a low voice, "...What should we do now? Originally, we planned to use Comrade Chen Ping's farm, Marvel World has established a hidden recuperation base, allowing those future medical equipment from the plane of Doraemon to be used. But seeing that this place is as chaotic as the Stalingrad battlefield, how dare people come to recuperate? Looking at the tunnel-digging thing just now, even if we build an underground base with [explosive basement], I'm afraid it won't work!"
"...Hey, who made the Marvel world so violent? Even the world's top big capitalists like Harry Osborn and Tony Stark had to inject themselves with viruses or put on battle suits, and personally Going into battle to fight and kill, often almost being blown to ashes..."
Wang Qiu also sighed at this, "...There is really no other way, such a crazy Texas farm is really not something normal people can live in. And looking at the level of racial discrimination in this place, it really makes terminally ill patients in China treat here, Don't know what will happen?"
"...Then what do you think should be done? New York has just been hit by a nuclear bomb, and the radiation has not been eliminated! It's not suitable to go back, right?"
"... Let Comrade Chen Ping file for bankruptcy, and then move to the Pacific coast of the western United States. Find a place with better security and more Chinese Americans, so that we don't look so conspicuous. At the same time, it is best to settle in a place with a large land and few people. How about? I don't have any better ideas for now..."