Chapter 799 Road Trip
After a peaceful night at the Merauke Hotel, Gao Fei and his team followed Tang Ning to the parking lot after breakfast the next day.
Tang Ning's car was a modified Land Rover SUV, which could just fit all seven members of the team.
When they were about to get in the car, they found that a layer of wire mesh was installed on the outside of the car window, which looked very strange.
"Xiao Tang, did you modify your car yourself?" Wang Daqing patted the wire mesh and couldn't help laughing, "A good Land Rover, modified to look like a prisoner's van, is it necessary?"
"Brother Daqing, I don't want to make the car look so ugly! But there is no way, in this kind of ghost place, it's not easy to go out. In order to save your life, no matter how careful you are, it's not too much!"
Tang Ning lifted the hood and skillfully checked the car, while complaining to his teammates about the outrageous local security situation.
"The security situation in Batavia is bad enough, and the Irian Jaya region where we are now is the worst province in the country!"
"This place was a colony of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in history. It became independent after World War II and briefly established an independent country in the 1960s. It was soon invaded by the armed forces of the Batavia Republic and forcibly annexed in a very dishonorable way."
"The residents of Irian Island have different ethnic and cultural traditions from the main ethnic groups in Batavia. During the colonial period, they were influenced by missionaries from Europe. Most of the elites of the local residents converted to Christianity. Now that they are forcibly annexed by a Christian country, they are of course unwilling to submit. The calls for independence have never subsided."
"The grievances and entanglements between the Batavia government and the indigenous people of Irian Island over the years are hard to describe in detail!"
"The local anti-government forces have been besieged and suppressed by the government army countless times. Every time the government army unilaterally announced the victory of the suppression of bandits, , the anti-government armed forces will revive and fight guerrilla warfare all over the island, making the Batavia authorities anxious. "
"In this environment, think about it, how can the public security situation in society be good?"
"The police station here is in name only. The rich and big companies can rely on hiring guards to ensure their safety, but the poor can only rely on themselves."
"In this dangerous country, any small fault of the vehicle may lead to fatal disaster."
"For example, the tire was not checked and replaced before driving, resulting in a flat tire in the middle of the journey. The driver must get off the car to change the tire before getting back on the road. As soon as the driver gets off the car, he may be killed by robbers ambushing on the roadside."
Tang Ning sat in the driver's seat, started the engine, and then said:
"The window is equipped with anti-riot wire mesh because there are not only robbers on the road, but also perverts who often throw stones at passing vehicles for fun. I have encountered such unfortunate things!"
Gao Fei sat in the co-pilot seat, listening to Tang Ning's complaints, and felt very uncomfortable.
In the final analysis, the biggest gap between people is not acquired things like wealth and status, but is often determined at the moment of birth.
Whether a person is born in a peaceful and stable country or a country with a breakdown of order and poor public security is the difference between "simple mode" and "hell mode".
As Tang Ning has always emphasized, people who are used to a peaceful life often have an illusion that a good public security environment is free and everyone deserves it.
Among so many countries in the world, only a very small number of developed countries, mainly in the Western world, are truly peaceful and wealthy, and most regions have not yet escaped the threat of war and poverty.
In terms of probability, the probability of a person being born in a poor and backward area is much greater than that of being born in a developed country, simply because the poor do not deserve attention, and even few people can point out the location of these underdeveloped areas on the map.
Only by going out and seeing the dark and chaotic corners with your own eyes can you know how rare peace and stability are. What some people take for granted is a dream that is longed for but unattainable for another group of people in this world.
The public facilities in the southern part of Irian Island are backward and outdated, and only this section of road near the city has a flat asphalt road.
The car drove for half an hour and left the city of Merauke, and the dangerous journey officially began.
The road ahead was bumpy, with potholes and stones everywhere, and the car stumbled when running.
Tang Ning was already accustomed to this kind of road condition. Wearing sunglasses, he focused on driving without looking away.
Gao Fei, Jiang Feng, Ma Yun, Ma Tao, Qi Tian and Wang Daqing had never suffered such a crime and felt very tortured in the car.
Every time the car passed a bumpy section, the passengers in the car bounced like on a trampoline.
Wang Daqing, the biggest one, accidentally hit his head on the roof of the car, and his forehead swelled up and he screamed in pain.
"Damn it! When I was a soldier in southern Xinjiang, I never encountered such a broken road. It almost killed me!"
Seeing the miserable appearance of Comrade Lao Wang, everyone learned a lesson and hurriedly tightened their seat belts to fix themselves firmly in the seats.
However, the seat belt was too tight, pressing on the chest and abdomen, which was also uncomfortable.
After a long time, breathing became difficult, and coupled with the violent bumps, the feeling of motion sickness came like a rising tide.
Xiao Ma, the weakest passenger, was the first to vomit.
Tang Ning had no choice but to slow down the car and drive as steadily as possible.
Ma Tao searched all his pockets but couldn't find a plastic bag, so he took off his baseball cap and turned around to hand it to his sister sitting in the back seat.
"If you really can't help it, vomit in the hat."
"Forget it, this hat seems to be quite expensive..."
"Why do you care about the price at this time! I advised you not to come at the beginning, but you didn't listen. Now you are suffering, right?"
"Tsk! I just feel a little carsick. I can hold on!" Ma Yun said stubbornly.
She put her brother's hat on her head upside down, closed her eyes, opened her mouth, and took a deep breath to minimize the impact on the vestibule.
As a prospective doctor of medicine, Xiao Ma knew that this could effectively relieve the symptoms of motion sickness in theory.
However, from the practical effect, it seems to be not very effective.
Tang Ning took out a bottle of motion sickness medicine from the astrolabe and handed it to Gao Fei beside him.
Gao Fei swallowed two pills, passed the bottle to Qi Tian behind him, and then passed it to Ma Yun and Jiang Feng.
After taking the medicine, everyone's motion sickness symptoms were relieved, but new troubles came again.
Irian Island has a typical tropical marine climate. In this hot and humid season, it rains at least one day out of three days.
A dark cloud blocked the sun, and a thunderstorm came suddenly with a rumble.
Raindrops fell on the hot ground, splashing clouds of mist.
