Chapter 10: Crazy Farm

What is life like as a farmer in the United States? Blue skies, snow-capped mountains, turquoise fields, and endless verdant meadows?

Something to drive a huge agricultural machine to tending to the crops, and it is not effortless at all? Nothing to do hunting, horseback riding, and a barbecue? Laid back and at ease?

No longer have to worry about commuting traffic jams and clocking in to work, no longer have to look at the stinky face of the boss, and no longer have to care about the intrigues between colleagues for promotion, enjoy the fresh air and warm sunshine every day. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAfternoon is up, and then take a nap on the warm grass?

Well! Maybe you can wander around and find a way to soak up a wild western cowgirl with wheat-colored skin and a toned body?

Comrade Chen Ping, a former Chinese-American soldier who moved to Texas, or a visitor from another world, solemnly says that you are all too naïve!

His career as a Texas farmer in the Marvel world is no different from that in Afghanistan! Facing sandstorms and flying bullets all day long!

Well? How so? It seems that opening a farm in Afghanistan or Somalia is nothing more than that, right?

Well, that's a long story. About a year ago, when Chen Ping finally survived his military career and returned from the Middle East battlefield, due to the foolishness of some "local novels" before the time travel, and the bewitchment of a salesman of an intermediary company, he actually poured out his savings and bought a 3,000-acre farm in Texas at an ultra-low price, thinking that he had picked up a big bargain.

However, when Chen Ping took the title deed and took a look over there, he realized that "cheap and no good goods" is an eternal universal truth.

First, he bought the farm, which is located in the far west of Texas, on the border on the north bank of the Rio Grande. Nestled in Mexico's Chihuahua Desert, the cacti grow far more vigorously than the crops, with poor soils, a dry climate, and difficult access to water for irrigation...... Of course, the modern world is far from being comparable to the ancients in terms of agricultural technology, and growing crops in semi-arid climates is not too difficult.

But the real trouble is that Chen Ping's farm is right next to the border, opposite Mexico's famous crime capital, Ciudad Juarez!

When you think of Mexico as a country, what are the basics that come to mind?

Well, probably desert, cacti, big broad-brimmed straw hats, chili sauce and tequila......

This is true in Mexico, but it has also been home to thieves and violent actors of all kinds. Zorro, the legendary thief who likes to scar his enemies with a "Z", can also be said to be one of the representatives. In the modern world, Mexico has become a crazy country where terrorists have been encircling and suppressing government forces, sweeping government offices, and criminals have targeted police chiefs......

Please note that the above sentences are definitely not written backwards.

No way, who told this country of sorrow to be too far from heaven and too close to the United States?

First, the United States is the world's largest consumer of drugs, with more than 35 million addicts, and 70 percent of the drugs in the U.S. market come from Mexico. So it can bring tens of billions of dollars in net profits to Mexican drug traffickers every year. Second, Mexico is also an important transit point for Latin American people to illegally smuggle into the United States, and it is also a major distribution center for American traffickers to collect goods...... With the huge sums of money earned through these illegal channels, Mexican gangsters can buy all kinds of advanced munitions from the United States, from pistols to individual missiles to armored vehicles to helicopter gunships to miniature submarines, to enrich their armed forces -- under the lure of money and drugs, quite a number of US officers and soldiers and managers of arsenals are secretly guarding and stealing from themselves. So, in Mexico, the gangsters with deep pockets and murderous people are generally better equipped than the regular army. Ever since the birth of the gangster, violence has never been inseparable. Not only did they have to fight against the government's encirclement and suppression, but they also had to compete with each other for territory and money, and bloody clashes often broke out.

In northern Mexico, near the border with the United States, there is a city of 1.5 million people called Juarez. It is not a city in the ordinary sense of the word, but a "ghost town" that has been infamous for its bad luck, and has been dubbed countless gruesome and terrifying titles by the media and the public at large around the world - "ghost town", "savage city", "violent city", "death city", "murder capital", "most violent city in the world", "most dangerous city in the world", "murder capital of the world...... This is because the city is located on the border between Mexico and Texas, across the river from El Paso, Texas. Due to the peculiarity of the geographical location, traffickers and big drug lords have taken advantage of this place, and have moved their gang headquarters to Juarez, using this place as a base camp for smuggling drugs, buying weapons and ammunition, and organizing smuggling to the United States.

These gangs often fight each other for turf. The underground wars that led to Juárez lasted for decades, with gangs fighting each other, police and gangsters, and it was impossible to tell who was fighting with whom...... The CIA and FBI of the United States also intervened, resulting in Juarez becoming a "paradise for adventurers", just like the old Shanghai before the liberation of China!

Locals have become accustomed to walking and reading newspapers when they come across nameless corpses lying in the streets, mass graves dug out by wild dogs, or scalp cut by a stray bullet from nowhere. In Juárez, dozens, hundreds of people are killed every day, and it has long been commonplace, and it is not news; If one day is calm and there is not a single homicide, it will be a major piece of news that will make headlines.

Chen Ping's farm, on the other hand, is close to the border, less than 20 kilometers from Juarez...... Therefore, in three days, the two ends were affected by the flames of war.

What's even worse is that in the Marvel world, there are not only all kinds of superheroes with extraordinary strength, but the power of many supervillains is far from being comparable to the real world. This was true not only in New York, but also in Juarez, and as a result, the intensity of the gang war was at an all-time high.

If it is said that on the earth on Wang Qiu's side, Juarez's gangsters are still just shooting in the streets with submachine guns and machine guns, and at most a few RPGs (individual bazookas) will be fired. So in Juarez in the Marvel world, the local gangsters are already driving the most advanced armored vehicles, armed robots and vertical lift fighters, bombarding around with all kinds of missiles and rockets, throwing gas bombs or bacteriological bombs from time to time, and even "dirty bombs" that scatter nuclear waste, in addition to all kinds of strange things such as voodoo curses, it is normal for tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people to die every month.

More seriously, these bloodthirsty gangsters 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 often unreliable, and often do Brownian sports in the sky, so that the farmers on both sides of the border are deeply affected, and it is not too much to describe their daily life as "licking blood on the tip of a knife", and they will be blown up or killed if they are not careful.

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In short, when Wang Qiu, Political Commissar Guo and the one-legged female man Tang Mary set off from New York, and finally found Chen Ping's farm all the way, they saw this guy wearing a steel helmet, body armor, and a double-barreled shotgun, lying nervously in the grass, paying attention to the gunfire from afar, and looking like he was having a nervous breakdown. When Tang Mary went up to say hello with a big grin, she almost took a shot from Chen Ping.

So, Wang Qiu had to stop again, and then tied up Chen Ping, so that he could start normal communication.

Then, after some questioning, quarrels and proofs, this Comrade Chen Ping, who had a scruffy beard and swollen eyes, finally accepted the rhetoric of Wang Qiu and others, and initially figured out what was going on.

After all, unlike other young people, Uncle Chen Ping, who is over forty years old, has a wife and children in the real world.

Unfortunately, in the next moment, the middle-aged uncle in his forties was depressed to learn that he could not leave this seemingly prosperous but dangerous Marvel world before he collected the 50,000 reward points for "redemption", and the excitement on his face couldn't help but collapse again.

Next, Uncle Chen Ping began to pour bitter water on the three visitors.

“…… Let's be honest, I really regret that I listened to that bastard's fool and bought the farm for $50,000. After living in this hellish place for more than a year, I feel as if I'm still on the front lines in Afghanistan...... No, this place is even more dangerous than Afghanistan! ”

Chen Ping said with a dejected expression, "...... In Afghanistan, I still have at least a fortified fortress of reinforced concrete, personnel carriers with reactive armor, and people on duty at night so that my comrades can sleep peacefully. But here, I have to figure it all out on my own......"

-- To be honest, although he knew that he had been cheated as soon as he arrived at this place, Chen Ping still did his best to run the farm well in order to prevent his investment from being wasted. Not only did he fill this dry and water-scarce border farm with drought-tolerant dragon fruit as much as possible, but he also set up a greenhouse with his own hands, planning to grow some high-value organic vegetables. In order to ensure the minimum safety, Chen Ping installed an electric grid around the farm, installed surveillance cameras, raised a wolf dog to protect the yard, and equipped himself with guns and ammunition, for which he spent his last little savings.

But even so, Uncle Chen Ping still failed to successfully take root in this crazy land.

“…… Across the border, in the city of Juarez, there is a non-stop ping-pong game all year round, firing all kinds of missiles and rockets at both ends for three days, as well as armed robots scurrying around, although they can't reach the civil airliner, but they choke our side. 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 was not responsible for the claim!

It would be fine if you just fired rockets indiscriminately across the border, after all, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there are not too many stray bullets in the hands of the gangsters, and they are bombed once or twice a year. However, there are still so many smugglers who have to come from Mexico, digging tunnels, taking fake passports, riding gliders, bribing customs, killing all the way through, and coming in from all kinds of sources, leaving the border areas in chaos -- illegal immigrants smuggled into the United States from other places, at least at the beginning, are basically cheap laborers who work honestly as black workers. But the Mexican smugglers in this place in Juarez are extraordinarily tough, and they came to the United States to kill people and set fires to be thieves!

One day I heard a noise at night, and I saw a teenage girl stealing fruit from the farm through the window, and I looked at her thin and small appearance, and felt very pitiful, and wanted to give her a little milk and bread or something. As soon as I opened the door and said hello, the little girl took out a pistol and fired six bullets at me, but fortunately I missed a single bullet. Then I shot in the dark for a while, and finally, this little slut stole my car......

In short, you should be very careful when going out in this area. Going out at night is absolutely taboo, because the roads and wilderness are full of wolf-like smugglers. Don't think of them as the gangs of thieves who haunt the train stations in China, and the two are not on the same level at all. There are very few thieves and pickpockets in Texas - not because they are of high quality, but because they don't care about doing things secretly at all, and they always come directly with murder weapons to rob them openly! If you really can't do it, just take your life first and then take the things!

Anyway, the United States rarely sentences prisoners to death, and even if they are caught for murder, it is a big deal to spend a few more years in prison. Over time, the prisons in the southern states are not enough, and if nothing serious happens, the police will not bother to arrest anyone again, anyway, even if they are arrested, the prisons will refuse to accept them on the grounds of overcrowding, and in the end they will have to let them go in a big circle. ”

Uncle Chen Ping said with a sad face and babbling while leading the three of them into a dilapidated tin house that seemed to have just survived the bombing of Tokyo in World War II, the walls were full of bullet holes and fire marks, and the roof of the second floor was blown away by the explosion, and a thick layer of sand had accumulated on the floor of the house, "...... The wolfdog I bought to watch the house was stolen in just a week. On average, two or more groups would fight directly near the farm every month, and the sound of gunfire and explosions would make me suffer from a nervous breakdown. Usually you have to wear body armor when you live and sleep at home, because the local gang recruits new recruits for the ceremony, which is to take the newcomers along the road in a car at night, and fire a shot at every house they encounter...... As a result, the walls became a hornet's nest, and I was afraid that I would be shot dead in my home......

When I was a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, although I listened to cold guns every day, I had food, drink, clothing, housing, a car, and free medical care and military pay. And here, everything has to be scraped from the soil by ourselves! On the other side, there is said to be a wizard in a gang in Mexico who can cast a spell to set off a super sandstorm and cover the passage of stowaways - those stowaways are relaxed, and we farmers are miserable......"

“…… It's all done like this, don't the police still want to think about it? Does this still look like the home of the world hegemon? ”

Wang Qiu couldn't help but say, "...... Lawlessness on the Mexican side, but also the police on the American side? ”

“…… The police in Texas? Come on! In their eyes, we yellows are probably more annoying than the Mexican gangsters! Those bastard cops never protected me even once, but they often come here to blackmail! These bad embryos who specialize in bullying honest people! ”

Uncle Chen Ping shrugged his shoulders helplessly, "...... Last month, I found a corpse pit half a mile away from here, and there were two or three hundred skeletons piled up in it, and the local police detained a suspect hat on me, arrested me and threatened the bureau, and didn't talk about any laws, just asked me for money! I had to endure it for a week, and in the end, I had to break the bank. When I came back yesterday, half of the fruit in the field had been ruined, a dead man was hanging next to the plastic greenhouse, and there were two niggers squatting in the house, and I fought them with a gun to get 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's houses were largely in ruins, and gunfire was constant every night, everyone had to lay out sleeping bags in the basement that night, making do with the night. Who knew that even this night could not sleep well:

First, a glider crossed the border wall and landed on the edge of Chen Ping's farm, then an armed vertical jet chased after it, slammed the newly landed glider with the Vulcan cannon, and finally dropped napalm incendiary bombs!

By the time the gunfire subsided, Wang Qiu and the others cautiously touched over to look, and they were almost burned to ashes.

Then, when everyone returned to the basement and still fell asleep, suddenly there was another shaking of the mountain, and the masonry and dust shook off, as if a ten-magnitude earthquake had erupted. Immediately afterwards, a digging machine that looked similar to a giant cannonball, and in the stunned eyes of Wang Qiu and the others, with a huge roar, crashed into the basement wall and broke in...... Chen Ping, who reacted the fastest, immediately screamed, turned around and ran to the ground, while the others followed, finally dodging the bullets that whizzed from behind and successfully burrowed into the dark field.

“…… I said Lao Chen! I'm really convinced of this place! Why is it that the basement is not stable? Wang Qiu gasped breathlessly.

“…… There is no way, the smuggling and drug trafficking organizations use strange machines to dig tunnels twice in three days, and this underground is about to be dug into a rabbit's nest! ”

After listening to Chen Ping's explanation, Political Commissar Guo had no choice but to shake his head helplessly, then pulled Wang Qiu to the side and said in a low voice, "...... What should I do? Originally, he planned to use Comrade Chen Ping's farm to establish a hidden recuperation base in the Marvel world, so that those future medical equipment from the Doraemon plane could be put to use. But seeing that this place is as chaotic as the battlefield of Stalingrad, how dare you let people come to recuperate? Looking at the thing digging tunnels just now, even if we use the [Explosive Basement] to build an underground base, I'm afraid it won't work! ”

“…… Alas, who made the Marvel world so violent? Even Harry. Osborne, Tony. The world's top big capitalists like Stark also had to inject themselves with viruses or put on battle suits, and personally went into battle to fight and kill, and they were often almost blown to ashes......"

Wang Qiu was also embarrassed by this, "...... There's really no way, such a crazy Texas farm is really not something that normal people can stay. And looking at the degree of racial discrimination in this place, it is really for terminally ill patients in China to be treated here, and I don't know what moths will come out? ”

“…… So what do you think should be done? That place in New York has just been hit by a nuclear bomb, and the radiation has not been eliminated! It's not a good time to go back, right? ”

“…… How about letting Comrade Chen Ping file for bankruptcy and then move to the Pacific coast of the western United States, where there is better security and more Chinese, so that we look less conspicuous, and at the same time, it is better to settle in a sparsely populated place? There is no better idea for the time being...... "The jet pursues it, slamming the Vulcan cannon at the newly landed glider, and finally drops napalm incendiary bombs!"

By the time the gunfire subsided, Wang Qiu and the others cautiously touched over to look, and they were almost burned to ashes.

Then, when everyone returned to the basement and still fell asleep, suddenly there was another shaking of the mountain, and the masonry and dust shook off, as if a ten-magnitude earthquake had erupted. Immediately afterwards, a digging machine that looked similar to a giant cannonball, and in the stunned eyes of Wang Qiu and the others, with a huge roar, crashed into the basement wall and broke in...... Chen Ping, who reacted the fastest, immediately screamed, turned around and ran to the ground, while the others followed, finally dodging the bullets that whizzed from behind and successfully burrowed into the dark field.

“…… I said Lao Chen! I'm really convinced of this place! Why is it that the basement is not stable? Wang Qiu gasped breathlessly.

“…… There is no way, the smuggling and drug trafficking organizations use strange machines to dig tunnels twice in three days, and this underground is about to be dug into a rabbit's nest! ”

After listening to Chen Ping's explanation, Political Commissar Guo had no choice but to shake his head helplessly, then pulled Wang Qiu to the side and said in a low voice, "...... What should I do? Originally, he planned to use Comrade Chen Ping's farm to establish a hidden recuperation base in the Marvel world, so that those future medical equipment from the Doraemon plane could be put to use. But seeing that this place is as chaotic as the battlefield of Stalingrad, how dare you let people come to recuperate? Looking at the thing digging tunnels just now, even if we use the [Explosive Basement] to build an underground base, I'm afraid it won't work! ”

“…… Alas, who made the Marvel world so violent? Even Harry. Osborne, Tony. The world's top big capitalists like Stark also had to inject themselves with viruses or put on battle suits, and personally went into battle to fight and kill, and they were often almost blown to ashes......"

Wang Qiu was also embarrassed by this, "...... There's really no way, such a crazy Texas farm is really not something that normal people can stay. And looking at the degree of racial discrimination in this place, it is really for terminally ill patients in China to be treated here, and I don't know what moths will come out? ”

“…… So what do you think should be done? That place in New York has just been hit by a nuclear bomb, and the radiation has not been eliminated! It's not a good time to go back, right? ”

“…… How about letting Comrade Chen Ping file for bankruptcy and then move to the Pacific coast of the western United States, where there is better security and more Chinese, so that we look less conspicuous, and at the same time, it is better to settle in a sparsely populated place? There's nothing better to think about just yet......"