Chapter Forty-Nine: The Iron Jungle

In the past 30 years, the former cement buildings have been hidden deep in the earth, and the thousand-meter-high buildings still have to be stacked with steel.

As a forest ranger, his least favorite thing is the gasoline-smelling city, but his home is here, and he spends one day a week coming home to spend time with his family, bringing them fruits and vegetables that are unique to the woods.

In this era, the underdevelopment of a city is not based on how many people the city has, how many high-rise buildings, and how high the tallest building is, but how large the area of forests around the city is.

Now that the world's population has exceeded the 60 billion mark, the housing shortage can no longer be solved by building houses alone. With the continuous deterioration of the environment, the average life expectancy of human beings has dropped sharply from 121 years ago to 57 years today, mainly due to air pollution, water pollution and food pollution. The number of deformed babies in human society is increasing year after year, and people urgently need a good environment to survive.

Those who are wealthy will spend a lot of money to build a small house in the woods outside the city in order to make it longer. The reason why I built a small house is because the forest is so important now, every square meter is worth a thousand gold, and only some local tyrants are willing to spend money to build a small house of four or five square meters in a forest.

The ranger was sneaky every time he came home, because every time he appeared, he was surrounded by people, and some went even further, kidnapping him and searching him for fruits and vegetables brought from the woods. For this, he also suffered a lot of beatings. His family was also affected and had to move to a lower level of concrete building.

The cement building layer is located in the range of 500 meters above the ground, the air here is turbid and smelly, and there is smog all year round, and all kinds of sewage will fall from the sky from time to time, I don't know if it is raining.

But one of the good things about this is that no one or very few people come back, and it's relatively hidden, which has also become a haven for many factories and criminals who exceed the standards. Because life here is extremely difficult, people live together peacefully based on the principle that no one will offend me and no one will offend, which is one of the reasons why the rangers bring their families here.

On this day, the ranger was cleaning the room with his mother when suddenly an explosion was heard outside the window. The yellowish smoke burned out at once, creating a vacuum for a short time, causing a hurricane to erupt in the center of the explosion, and a wave of heat spread out like a wave. The ranger's home was not very far from the center of the explosion, just over 200 meters, and the shock wave still affected the ranger's home.

With a bang, all the windows shattered, the glass shards shattered to the ground, and the yellowish smoke poured into the room through the windows like toothpaste.

This yellowish smoke is poisonous, and people will be dizzy after a few seconds in it, and they will be poisoned after more than ten seconds, and they will suffocate to death due to respiratory failure in the lungs.

Seeing the yellowish smoke running into the house, the ranger hurriedly beckoned his mother to find a cloth to seal the window. Together with the mother, the rangers sealed the windows with sheets so that more yellowish smoke did not run into the house.

There were people shouting and people screaming on the road outside.

It looks like someone is hurt.

The ranger looked out through the gap in the window.

Do you want to go out and save people?

The ranger's mother sat on the couch next to her, looking at the ranger.

Where? I'm not going out! Let a sleeping dog lie.

The ranger looked back at his mother and quickly shook his head.

Okay, you know it. We are not policemen, nor are we righteous people, just ordinary people who are powerless, and if they want to make trouble, let them make trouble, let's not worry about that.

The ranger's mother's words strengthened the ranger's reluctance to go out.

One man's shouting stopped abruptly after a gunshot.

The next morning, the rangers leave home and go back to work. Before dawn in the wee hours of the morning, the ranger sneaked out of the house, along a path that no one had walked, to a public parking lot, found his car, gently opened the door, got in, and was about to start, through the rearview mirror, he saw three people in black suits sneakily walking in his direction. He quickly climbed down and hid in the car to prevent being discovered by the three men in black.

After the three men in black walked away, the ranger dared to sneak up and look outside. After making sure that no one was around, the rangers quickly activated and set off. As soon as the engine of the ranger's car went off, the three men in black turned and ran. The ranger's driving skills were still good, and he suddenly turned the head of the car and accelerated, widening the distance between him and the three men in black. Seeing that they couldn't catch up, the three men in black whispered a few words in their ears and left. In a short time, three black luxury commercial sedans chased after them.

The ranger looked behind him, shouted badly, quickly shifted gears, and accelerated.

Breaking out of the pale yellow fog, the rangers were sweating profusely and nervous, and three black cars were chasing after him more than 20 meters away.

Fortunately, it was early in the morning, there were not many people on the street, and I didn't care about the traffic lights or anything, so it would be nice to be able to escape. The ranger drove the car to turn left and right, but he couldn't shake off the mouse behind him, to be precise, the black cat, and he was the frightened mouse.

The rangers are also not familiar with the direction of the streets, and they will turn into every intersection they see, and they don't know if there is a road inside. Sure enough, the ranger had to listen, because there was no road ahead, and it was a dead end. The three black cats behind him didn't have time to brake because of inertia, and walked through the intersection one after another, without seeing the little mouse in the alley.

However, within a few seconds, the black cats returned, stopped at the only exit of the cul-de-sac, and three men in black stepped out of the car, each holding a black pistol.

Boom!

When the gunshots rang out, the rangers saw that the glass behind their car was shattering. The ranger thought for a moment, he couldn't stay here any longer, and he had to get out of here quickly.

Looking up at the wall in front of him, the ranger made up his mind and prepared to crash into it. Then, the ranger restarted and crashed into it with a single step.

Boom!

The car crashed, but the wall didn't fall.

The ranger reversed, and the three men in black followed suit, and then accelerated.

After repeated impacts, a crack finally appeared in the solid wall.

Seeing that the car was about to crash over, it was likely to knock the wall down, and the three men in black could not continue to look any longer, and shot at the ranger's car one after another.

The rear window of the ranger's car was bare, and the ranger crashed through the wall and fled.

After escaping for a long time, the ranger looked behind him to make sure that no one was following him anymore, so he slowed down and walked onto the highway before he was really safe.

Seeing that the fog outside the window had turned pale yellow to pure white, and the pungent smell in the air had gradually disappeared, the ranger took a deep breath of satisfaction.

The place where the ranger works is a dense wooded area with various trees, as well as fruit trees growing in it, and he himself has a small vegetable garden dedicated to growing vegetables. He is responsible for an area of 10,000 square meters, and three colleagues live and work with him.

When he returned to the makeshift break room, he saw another ranger sitting on the couch early in the morning reading the newspaper.

Later, he learned that another ranger was robbed by robbers on the way home, and was stabbed more than ten times while resisting, and died on the spot, and the ten bottles of pure water, ten catties of apples and some vegetables carried in the car were missing.

For this matter, he can only sigh, there is a huge price to pay if there is a reward.

Being a ranger can be life-threatening, but once you have worked for 10 years, you can take your family over and live in the woods forever.

Finish.