Interstate 40 is an important part of the vast interstate highway system in the United States, stretching 4,112 kilometers from Barstow, California in the west to Wilmington, North Carolina in the east.

In 1947, the road construction plan was officially announced, and in 1957 it was approved to start construction, and the last section of the road was completed and put into use in 1990.

It took 43 years, or 40 years, to complete the project, because in 1963-1966, the federal government had stopped work to consider replacing the traditional method of building roads with manual and ordinary explosives by constantly detonating atomic bombs to open mountains.

The California section of Interstate 40 is located almost entirely in the Mojave Desert, and on both sides of the road, there are only Gobi and yellow sand, bare giant rocky mountains, scale-like saline land, and trees with twisted branches that are still trying to survive.

The last refueling stop before leaving California is the small town of Barstow, which was bustling more than a hundred years ago, with mining companies from all over the United States flocking in with countless miners to make final preparations at Barstow before heading to the rich mines of the Mojave Desert, which at its peak were home to hundreds of thousands of immigrants.

Now that it's long gone, there's only a huge train station, like a spider in the center of a spider's web, and countless railroads spread around it into the distance, and the whole town is now less than 20,000 people, even if the state allows the city to open casinos to boost the economy, it is still one of the poorest cities in California, with fewer than 20,000 residents, 80% of whom survive on federal grants or handouts.

The seemingly barren American West scenes in "Kill Bill" were shot in Barstow.

Tommy refueled at the gas station and then walked to a nearby fast-food restaurant for a light lunch, and according to the plan, his dinner would be served 600 kilometers away in Flagpole, Arizona, where Eric Bell, a former college fraternity who was dedicated to studying geological change and earthquakes, and now serves as the chief scientist at the National Geological Survey Center in Flagpole, Arizona, will accompany Tommy for dinner.

Outside the fast-food restaurant, the occasional locals look curiously at Tommy's Dangerous Road 4 parked on the side of the road, trying to figure out which guy is willing to drive this kind of luxury car to the desert and be polished with gravel.

Tommy walked out of the fast food restaurant with a Coke, put on his sunglasses and continued on the road, a sharp and long whistle accompanied by the roar of the motorcycle sounded, and soon, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle caught up behind, it was a pair of young white men and women, dressed fancy and shabby, the young man driving the motorcycle exaggeratedly lifted his clothes, revealing the pistol stuck in his waist, and greeted Tommy with a wicked grin:

"Look at this charming and dangerous 4, sir, I don't mean to offend, but I feel compelled to teach you a lesson, that is, in a sparsely populated place, it is not wise to drive such a car out for a ride, pull over."

Tommy looked at the red dot that had quietly appeared on their chests and laughed, "It's a pleasure." ”

Then he slowed down and parked the car on the side of the road, walked out of the car with his hands and Coke with a relaxed expression, stood next to him, biting the straw and watching the two jump off the motorcycle and get close to his car.

"What are you going to do, I'm ......" The girl obviously didn't expect her companion to be so mobile, and suddenly snatched a luxury car directly, and asked him in shock.

"Shut up!" The young man stroked the body of the Dangerous Journey 4 with his hand, like a treasure, and then turned his head to look at the female companion in the back seat of the motorcycle wearing smoky makeup and hot pants in a corset: "I need this car, you should do business with this gentleman, sir, I am a director, yes, you are honored to get my audition, next, listen to my arrangement, first, throw away your damn Coke, and then baby, come down and stand up, with some panic on your face, you said you have learned professional acting, quick, give him some hot pictures." ”

The young man moved his ass to the driver's seat, eagerly slid his fingers over the solid wood instrument panel, then held the gun in his right hand, took out his mobile phone with his left hand and opened the shooting, aiming at Tommy and the girl on the motorcycle who slowly put the Coke on the side of the road.

"I don't want to ......" The girl wanted to express her dissatisfaction, but the man raised his pistol and said in an accentuated tone: "Do as I say!" Slut! ”

With a coerced expression on her face, the young woman slowly lifted her corset, revealing the two lumps on her chest.

"Touch her, sir." The young man patted him and said, "If you don't want to consider personal accident insurance in addition to theft insurance." ”

"You're so good at acting, girl." Tommy obediently put his hand on the young woman's breast, and the girl turned her head away with an ugly face, muttering no, as if she had been forced by Tommy.

Tommy was very involved in the performance, focusing on cooperating with the director's requirements, doing his homework seriously on the girl's chest, and his face was full of expressions of enjoyment.

"The transaction is complete, you old guy is suspected of molesting a girl, in order to avoid the victim girl from calling the police and being troubled by the police, so I gave this car to her as compensation, I have now uploaded the video to the short video software, but it is set to be visible only to me, but if you don't want to give her this small gift, I will make the video public and send it to the account of the police station." After the young man took a video, he looked at Tommy triumphantly:

"Now, go back to the side of the road and continue drinking your Coke."

The young man and woman drove one and the other drove a motorcycle, leaving Tommy on the side of the road and driving away, but as soon as they drove a few tens of meters, the dangerous road 4 turned off directly and could no longer start, and the two Chevrolet Cyberban off-road vehicles that had been accompanying Tommy's car suddenly accelerated to overtake them, and formed a roadblock in front of them, blocking the way of the man and woman.

"Don't scratch my car, and use as much waste as possible, the fuel and meals on this trip will cost a lot of money, and I will earn it back from them." Tommy picked up the Coke he had just placed on the ground, took a big sip, and then said to the watch on his wrist:

"For example, let them voluntarily borrow all the amount of money on the KeyBank on their mobile phone for a three-year term, and then choose to repay the loan immediately after defaulting, so that they can immediately pay me back the three-year interest, as if they experienced the cost of my car, if there is not enough money to repay my interest, I recommend them to voluntarily go to the second-hand car chain in Pam and sell his broken Harley at a scrapped price."

"What if it's not enough to pay the bills, sir? Do you want him to go to the hospital for a check-up first, I mean, they might be willing to volunteer some parts of their body for the great cause of medical research. Tommy's bodyguard, John Page, had the voice ringing in the watch.

John is the second grandson of Paige Sr., Tony, the head of the Hawke family, is John's godfather, and personally planned his life, went to military school, served, joined the Naval Intelligence Agency as a field officer, and was later arranged to work in Washington's Secret Service in charge of presidential security for a period of time, learning how to protect key officers, and only returned to Tommy's side a few years ago as the head of the bodyguard, and is definitely the most loyal servant knight of the Hawke family.

Tommy spat out a puff of smoke and corrected him very dissatisfied with Page's words: "Peppa, they are white, not black gui, don't treat him with those methods that treat black gui who has no legal identity, give them some respect, if it is not enough to pay the money owed to me, let your brother's security company sign a deed of sale with the man and send him to Eastern Europe as cannon fodder." ”

(End of chapter)