"Santa Cruz" is the capital of the province of Santa Cruz in eastern Bolivia and the second largest city in Bolivia. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Like Yanjing in China, the city is also divided into rings, with the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth rings being the center. But unlike Yanjing, Santa Cruz is not a suburb outside these rings, but a slum.

Compared to the two world-class slums of Rocinha and Mangla in Brazil, this "las'tals" slum is not as large, but it is just as long. After exiting the Fifth Ring Road, it can be extended for more than 100 kilometers to the east, until the Pelas River ends.

Looking at the winding mountain roads on both sides of the road and the slum houses like matchboxes, Fang Yuanshan in the car said strangely: "Are these people local residents?"

Sitting in the back seat of the off-road vehicle with Fang Yuanshan was the commander of the Bolivian branch of the Ministry of South Security.

He has a hideous scar on the left side of his face from his eye socket to his chin, which, according to Andreevich "Little Bear", was left to him by his former commander. As for the simple reason, Oliver's military achievements and the soldiers loved him very much, which made his commander very jealous, and in an ambush battle, he even shot him in the back, although he did not die, but left this ugly scar.

I don't know if it's because of the height and fitness, these big men always give Fang Yuanshan a little sluggish feeling, this Oliver speaks the same, and after glancing at the houses of different heights outside, he said slowly: "Yes, they are all real poor people, they have no jobs, no savings, and even food needs to be collected on demand. ”

Bolivia was defeated in the Pacific War and ceded large saltpeter mining areas and the coastal province of Antofagasta to Chile, becoming a landlocked country, losing its coastal areas and saltpeter producing areas, cutting off most of Bolivia's economic resources. ”

"Only agricultural products are limited by transportation conditions, compared to Brazil, Argentina and Chile, which have the advantage of sea transportation. With few markets, little trade with foreign countries, little foreign capital, and slow development, they are slowly lagging behind other South American countries and becoming poorer and poorer. ”

Oliver knows a little bit about these Fang Yuanshan, but this is like watching a TV movie, if you don't really see it with your own eyes, you won't have that kind of "skin pain", and the shock brought by the eyeball effect makes Fang Yuanshan unable to come back to his senses for a long time.

"Now it haunts Bolivia ... ”

"Bang~"

Just as Oliver was about to say something, there was a thud from the hood of their car, and the driver slammed on the brakes.

"Squeak~~"

"Click~"

The soldier in the passenger seat immediately pulled the bolt in his hand, jumped out of the car with a nervous face, and shouted loudly in Spanish.

"Woo woo ... ”

Just when Fang Yuanshan, who was in the back seat, was about to open the four-dimensional image to watch, a miserable cry came in, and he opened the car door and walked down. The five or six off-road vehicles that were driving the road in front of them all stopped, looking nervously alert.

"What's going on?"

The heavily armed soldier walked quickly with his gun in his hand and said loudly: "This woman has just deliberately rushed to the middle of the road when our car was passing by, and the driver pressed her little leg before he had time to brake. ”

It was a high-powered off-road vehicle, weighing 3.5 tons, which was very terrifying, so as soon as he heard the soldier's words, he immediately walked to the front of the car, where a woman was sitting next to the left wheel, and her right leg was now pressed under the wheel.

For fear of causing secondary damage, the driver didn't dare to pour it out and was looking for a jack in the back. Fang Yuanshan walked over and bent down, holding the bumper in both hands, and forcibly lifted the car, and the subordinates on the side immediately dragged the woman out.

He didn't have time to look at the injured woman until he got out of the car. The black woman looked about thirty years old, her face was weathered, and she was wearing a minority costume, but it was dirty, and it seemed that she had not washed it for a few days. At this time, he was still holding his little leg and wailing.

"Whew~"

He took a deep breath, softened the look on his face and asked, "Let me see where you hurt?"

The woman apparently didn't understand him, and the soldier next to her, after translating it, began to get into the car to look for a first-aid kit. After lifting the long skirt on her lap and seeing the red and swollen injury, Oliver said, "It's a good thing that it's swollen, it shouldn't break." ”

Fang Yuanshan opened the four-dimensional image and took a look, the muscles on Xiao's leg had many tear marks, but the leg bone was just like Oliver said, there was no break, which was a blessing in misfortune.

"Where is the hospital here?"

The woman on the ground didn't know if she knew what he meant, and waved her hand at him, and said something in her mouth, and Oliver said helplessly: "She said she was fine, and wanted us to give her some bread." ”

"Oh yes, damn the country~"

I don't know why, when this woman said that she wanted bread, Fang Yuanshan's heart ached, and his mouth unconsciously cursed.

It may be that seeing that his face is not good, the woman on the ground said something again, and at the same time her fingers stood up, indicating that she only needed one.

Shaking his head to drive away the irritability in his heart for a while, he turned back and asked, "Did you bring food?"

"No~"

He thought for a moment and took out a large pile of reals and handed it over, and the woman on the ground was so shocked that her face was pale, her hands swayed again and again, and her body kept retreating, as if he had handed over not money, but a poisonous snake.

Oliver seemed to be well aware of the situation, explaining, "Boss, it is very dangerous to carry a large amount of money in the slums, and you can be killed by the gangsters at any time. ”

"F.Uck, those heads and brains in Bolivia are all a ****. ”

She didn't have enough to eat, and she didn't dare to ask for money, because it seemed that it was still far from town. In the end, Oliver took a dozen cents from his pocket and handed them over, and the woman on the ground was overjoyed, borrowed the coin, struggled to her feet, and limped towards the bushes by the roadside.

"Oh~"

Seeing that his boss was not in a good mood, Oliver explained: "They are a group of people who have been forgotten by the world, and no one cares what they are thinking or where they will go tomorrow." Probably thinking of his past, Oliver's eyes wandered when he said these words.

Looking at the gathering place in the direction where the women left, I was going to go over to have a look, but I thought that there were still things to deal with at the base, so I finally turned around and got into the car.

In the middle of the road, the four off-road vehicles in front of them set up their machine guns, and pointed their thick guns at both sides of the road.

Oliver explained: "It's under the control of local gangs, who set up checkpoints in the middle of the road and rob passing cars. Except for military vehicles, there is nothing they dare not rob. Last year, they seized the vehicle of a diplomatic envoy and only released it after paying a "fine" of $2,000. ”

", so arrogant?"

"Hmm. These gangsters themselves are slum people, and they can fight to the death in the face of the threat of starvation, even by the elite fighters of the American Delta Force. ”

Hearing this, Fang Yuanshan's whole body was cold. He can understand that when a person is hungry to the limit, let alone killing, even human flesh is still devoured, how can he care about the delta and not the delta?

"Are there many slums in Bolivia?"

He only asked one sentence, and Oliver understood what he meant, and said: "At present, there are 17 slums in Bolivia, the largest of which is in Sucre, with a population of 1.2 million, and the second is las'tals, which according to incomplete statistics, there are about 600,000-700,000, and La Paz, which is a little less, about 300,000. Bolivia as a whole is home to 3 million poor people, or one third of the country's total population. ”

"Hiss~"

Hearing Oliver's words, Fang Yuanshan gasped, he couldn't believe his ears. Although he knew that Bolivia was poor, he never had an intuitive impression, and always thought that the situation here was similar to that of Brazil, but he didn't expect the gap to be so big.

"This is what happens when the country is closed to the outside world. ”

"Hmm~" nodded heavily, and he didn't say anything more.

The car continued to drive forward, perhaps because of the overhead machine gun, and there were no ghosts and snakes jumping out along the way, but slowly some scantily clad women appeared, standing on the side of the road and scratching their heads at the soldiers on the off-road vehicle, and the movements were also very exaggerated, so that the private parts were frequently exposed to everyone's eyes.

"It's very close to the port of Pyras, and the passing merchant ships and the people who come out looking for excitement are their customers. ”

What shocked Fang Yuanshan was the age of these women, from the age of fifty or sixty years old women with wrinkled faces, to the eleven or twelve years old girls who had not yet developed, and most of them were mainly minors, and there was an older woman standing next to them.

As the car continued to drive forward, a German-made SUV stopped on the side of the road, unfazed by their arrival, and two European and American men in the car were talking to the women on the side of the road, occasionally reaching out to pinch them.

It may have been about the end of the conversation, and the man in the co-pilot opened the car door and pulled a young girl in. When Fang Yuanshan's cart was parallel to them, the man inside was so thick that the man was picking up the pants of the girl's lower body.

", park~"

"Give the gun to labor and management~"

"The boss... ”

Oliver wanted to say something, but he didn't say it after all, and handed the gun to Fang Yuanshan from his arms, and he took the gun casually, pushed the car door and walked down.

"Ping~~"

After a gunshot, he scolded angrily: "Grass, mud, horses, get off the labor~"

The two men in the car reacted very quickly, and had already pulled out their pistols when he just got out of the car, but when they saw the muzzles of the black holes in the front and back, they immediately wisely pointed the pistols and raised their hands at the same time...

(To be continued.) )