"This is the ranch you bought?" Standing on the guardrail, Gan Jing looked at everything around with some curiosity, nearly 200 acres of land is really not small, green grass is wafting in the breeze, and there is no end in sight.

"Hmm!" Ling Xiao hugged Gan Jing from behind and said softly: "In this way, in addition to the Matador Beach Villa, we can also have one more vacation place, and I can also grow some herbs in large quantities here, unlike Los Angeles, where every inch of land is expensive, and many things have to be imported from the other side of the Pacific Ocean, which is time-consuming and laborious, and costs a lot of money." ”

Ling Xiao planned to open up a medicine garden by the stream near the main house, which would be used to grow some ordinary Chinese medicinal herbs, which could be regarded as a cover.

In the whole ranch, there are two main houses for the ranch owners to live in, a main house near the road to the west, four bedrooms, two living rooms, mainly used to entertain guests, and a small two-story building near the east, relatively close to the creek, which is used by Ling Xiao as his own lounge.

A row of huts at the entrance of the farm, with six rooms, is where the cowboys of the ranch are on duty, and there are also livestock sheds, forage houses, tool rooms, and tall water storage towers, which are basically all the buildings inside the ranch.

This is to be able to sell at this price in a place like the Central Valley, where every inch of land is expensive, if it is changed to other states, the price will be at least twice as cheap, of course, Ling Xiao bought this ranch, naturally there is a way to increase his value, at least, drought has never been a problem for him.

Buying this ranch, the funds used by Ling Xiao on the surface are the funds that S.H.I.E.L.D. bought in exchange for Taiyin Renshui, and he still has to pay taxes anyway, so it is better to let him invest directly.

As the sun sets, the breeze blows exceptionally cool, sitting in the living room, drinking red wine, looking at the beauty, if there are no troubles from the outside world, everything would be fine. However, Ling Xiao knew that there were some things that he couldn't avoid after all, so this was also the reason why he secretly bought the private park opposite.

On the opposite side of the private park, Ling Xiao walked the accounts of a company based in the Cayman Islands, and the person who came forward to buy the private park was a woman named Katie Holmes, who if you look closely at her identity, you will find that she was a former American soldier who was later discharged from the army due to injuries.

Yes, Katie Holmes is one of the members of the Desperate Warriors, but she hasn't become a Desperate Warrior when Killian is still alive. Katie's ascension to the Desperate Warrior came after Maya Hansen mastered the complete Desperate Virus.

In the battle of Miami, Ling Xiao quietly saved Maya Hansen and handed her the complete equation of the desperate virus he had obtained, in addition, on Air Force One, Ling Xiao also won Savin.

Of course, Maya Hansen and Saven were all made into Dao soldiers under his complete control by Ling Xiao, but unlike the previous Misty Shadow Thousand Illusion Dao Soldiers of Yuriko Koyama and others, all the desperate warriors were trained into Heavenly Wind Flame Dao Soldiers.

With Saven presiding, in the battle of Miami Port, Ling Xiao quietly gathered a large number of desperate soldiers, and emptied a large number of experimenters, experimental equipment, and even a large number of funds that originally belonged to Killian were quietly embezzled by Ling Xiao.

After that, although S.H.I.E.L.D. was still chasing the clues of these desperate warriors, with Ling Xiao making a move, Mina Don De covered up, and they didn't have to worry about being discovered by others when they were hiding in Los Angeles.

However, staying in Los Angeles for a long time is not a good thing for them, and hiding their whereabouts all the time will always damage their morale, so after Ling Xiao chose a place to practice, he asked Maya Hansen to send someone to buy Anderson's private park, and 5,000 acres of land was enough for them to hide.

And in order not to attract the attention of others, after the change of ownership, Ling Xiao not only did not change the name of the park, but even did not fire any of the park's employees, but only transferred their work to the pasture below the mountain, and did not contact the desperate soldiers.

In the private park, the desperate warriors themselves moved, rows of houses were established at the foot of the mountain, but these are their resting places, the real laboratory, is built in the mountain, with the ability of the desperate warriors, there is no need to use large instruments and equipment, a super large cave is established without outsiders knowing.

Although Tony Stark has perfected the equation of the Desperate Virus, this is just the beginning of the exploration of the Desperate Virus, and it is the pursuit of these researchers to create a Desperate Virus with more powerful power, more stable nature, and more easy to manipulate, and it is Maya Hansen who is responsible for all this.

Most of the scientific researchers who are willing to serve Killian are some homebody hostages, and for the sake of scientific research, these people are willing to give up most of their material comforts and stay in a powerful base converted from a port container, and they have completed the initial development of the desperate virus.

Lingxiao's ranch has a better environment, and it doesn't treat them badly in terms of eating, drinking, and enjoyment, the only thing that has restrictions is that they can't easily contact the outside world, and they can't leak their research to the outside world.

The scientific researchers who experienced the first battle of the port of Miami certainly knew the seriousness of the matter, and they couldn't be clearer about the abilities of the desperate warriors created by them, no matter where they were hiding, as long as the news leaked, the desperate warriors could kill them wherever they were.

In order to prevent the news from leaking, although Ling Xiao did not make these researchers into loyal Dao soldiers, they also made certain tricks and feet in their minds to ensure that things would not leak out in the slightest.

Compared to Killian, in the hands of Ling Xiao, there has never been a shortage of research funds in the hands of these researchers.

Killian's path was simply wrong, he was still thinking of the older generation of researchers, researching the results, and then selling them to the government or big capitalists, and finally although he went to the extreme, he committed terrorism in the name of "Manchu people", and joined forces with the vice president to try to rebel, but in fact he still took this road.

Ling Xiao is completely different, his eyes are fixed on the Middle East and North Africa, the desperate soldiers who act as mercenaries or arms dealers are most suitable for that environment, and when they make a name for themselves, the heads of countries in the Middle East or North Africa will be truly interested in the desperate virus.

Compared with the U.S. government, or the big capitalists who eat people and don't spit out bones, the heads of state in the Middle East or North Africa are the ones who are really willing to pay a lot of money, diamonds, gold, oil, these things can withstand hard currency when they are taken internationally.

Of course, in order to launder these funds, Ling Xiao opened one short company after another in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and other tax havens.

The funds were eventually transferred to the accounts of a company called Hoffmann Mountain and Forest Fire Prevention Company, and yes, the shell that Ling Xiao used as a cover for the experimental base was this fire prevention company whose work was to prevent forest fires and fight fires.

Every year, the U.S. government suffers tens of billions of dollars in losses due to wildfires, and California alone invests billions of dollars in forest fire prevention and fire extinguishing every year, and private fire prevention companies account for a large proportion of this.

Compared with the government's work in disaster relief and fire fighting, private fire prevention companies are much more flexible, especially in terms of casualties, the government needs to consider more, while private fire prevention wages are different, as long as you pay enough money, even big things can be solved.

Moreover, in this world, is there anyone more suitable to be a firefighter than a desperate soldier?

(End of chapter)