The three of them talked all the way, and the car gradually drove out of Lijiang City.

On their way out of the city, they passed by a toll booth. There was not a single nonsense in the convoy, and all of them obediently paid the money.

Nowadays, such toll booths are everywhere in the country.

Initially, there were marches, protests, and opposition. But soon, this kind of behavior of standing and talking without backache was all stopped. Even the people themselves believe that toll booths are necessary.

Of course, there are always people who think that the world revolves around them. As long as there is a conflict of interest with them, they cannot accept it, and there are still troublemakers.

It's a pity that you have to accept it if you don't accept it.

If there are no toll booths, then there are no roads.

Without roads, towns and villages would become small islands in a sea of plants, isolated and helpless.

And the isolated town, that is the dead city!

Modern people are self-interested and selfish, but as long as they explain the truth thoroughly, they are really not stupid! Most people know what's right.

Therefore, it is inevitable to collect money to maintain the toll booth of the road.

Since the ecological explosion, the overgrowth of plants and animals has become a worldwide problem, and there is almost no possibility of overcoming it.

Wild roads are under serious threat from frighteningly widespread plants that can be overwhelmed if you are not careful, and the trend is almost unstoppable.

A standard two-way two-lane road in the wilderness, without the maintenance of a special road protection team, can be flooded with vegetation in just over a month, making it completely impassable for vehicles.

If it's three months, the plants will definitely turn the road into a part of the wilderness, and it's hard to believe that there was once a standard road.

Plants are so rampant that roads are rapidly decreasing all over the world.

When people realized the seriousness of the problem, many villages and towns were already isolated by plants in the wild. Add to that the threat of increasingly aggressive animals. The villages and towns were almost isolated.

As a last resort, the road escort became a characteristic product of that time period. Road convoys are being formed all over the world to protect the bloodlines of their respective countries.

And the toll booths that raised funds for the road guards were born.

The cost of road protection is a huge burden even in more developed towns, let alone economically underdeveloped towns.

But. Because of the existence of toll booths and the risks that may be encountered in transportation itself, prices have increased to varying degrees in various places.

Now, life in towns, especially big towns, is becoming more and more difficult.

As soon as they left the city, the changes in the road and environment gradually became apparent, and the tall and dense vegetation on both sides of the road began to obscure their view.

Not long after they drove again, they saw construction trucks working there on the side of the road.

There are big flywheels on the construction trucks. On the outside of the flywheel is a sharp blade. Passing by the flywheel, the plants on the side of the road fell one by one.

The construction truck did not stop and continued to move along the road.

The engineering truck that followed it used a robotic arm to load the plants on the ground onto the truck behind it. Soon a truck was loaded with plants and quickly drove away.

As more and more technologies in the dream science fiction world are brought to reality, some practical technologies have also begun to penetrate into the people.

The plants that are taken away will be put to good use.

or as fuel, or as a material. Or make feed, and even hear that it can be processed into food.

Pang Shiyuan once inquired about this situation. But after hearing about the food, I don't want to hear it anymore. He only hoped that the food did not enter people's mouths!

These construction trucks and trucks belong to the road protection team, and they are now carrying out road protection work. And their so-called road protection is obviously to cut down the grass and trees on both sides of the road with impunity.

But even with such recklessness as they fell, there were still huge roads flooded with vegetation – plants growing much faster than they were cutting. It's hard to cut.

Think about it more than half a year ago, human beings were still worried that the earth's vegetation coverage was not enough, there would be a greenhouse effect, which would weaken the earth's automatic purification ability, and would cause disasters for all generations. Now that I think about it, it's really amazing how easy the world is!

The work of the road escort team is not simple, but it is actually quite risky.

It's good to work on the edge of the city. But once the road extends into the wilderness, danger will follow.

When animals see humans, their first reaction is no longer to be on guard or to run away, but to test whether they can attack. If I could, I would definitely not hesitate to do so.

The staff of the road guard who work outside are often attacked by animals, and deaths and injuries occur all the time.

To this end, every town has to improve the welfare of the road escort team and make disability compensation. At the same time, it has also repeatedly strengthened the field operation ability of the road protection team.

And this is why many towns can only rely on toll booths to maintain road teams.

Soon, they left the road escort behind.

The destinations of their convoys are not the same.

Lin Jiachen wants to take the people of the Wumeng back to Xiangxi City, Jingxiang Province, and they are the closest. Hu Maddao and they were going to Hanyuan City, Qinxi Province.

Pang Shiyuan and they had to cross half of China and go through more than a dozen cities in five provinces before they could return to Xiangyun.

According to the normal itinerary, Hu Maddao and Lin Jiachen and Pang Shiyuan are on different paths.

However, Hu Maddao didn't care about wasting more time on the road. Therefore, I decided to take a detour and walk with everyone first. After deciding to arrive in Zunyi, they will be separated.

With today's traffic, this will not be an easy trip.

The only consolation is that they had experienced it once when they came. Therefore, they all know how to go most conveniently and safely.

They will try to take national highways and highways, even if they take more detours for them.

Only national highways and highways maintained by road guards can barely ensure the smooth flow of roads. There is no guarantee that the roads in those small places still exist.

What was once a well-connected highway has become fragmented in just a few months.

And it looks like it will continue to corrupt.

The convoy passed through Dali, Kunming and Qujing, and entered Liupanshui City in Shanshui Province in the afternoon. Everyone has agreed to rest for one night after arriving in Zunyi, and then they will part ways.

Hu Maddao and they went all the way north, while Pang Shiyuan and Lin Jiachen were going east.

"Shi Yuan, if I want to run a comprehensive martial arts hall like the Daishan Martial Arts Hall in Hanyuan City, what do you think?"

In the car, the most crowd is free time.

Unfortunately, this free time is not suitable for practice. After all, there's no guarantee that there won't be accidents on the road.

So small talk has become the best way to pass the time. (To be continued......)

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