Chapter 1285: Cashing Out of a Dead House?

The Buick was driving on the highway in Eagle Country, and patches of cedar flew past outside the window.

Mike and Raymond, the two remaining survivors of Base X, have made up their minds but deserted. They are not going to report to any military or government agency.

But they are always paying attention to the news, through the radio station in the car. They all believed that the X-base demons would come out.

And the direction they are driving now is Mike's hometown.

People from the middle part of Max Eagle Country, the middle part of Eagle Country is vast and sparsely populated. Compared with the people of Eagle Country on the east and west coasts, the people in the middle part of Eagle Country are more conservative and stubborn, but at the same time they are also much more hospitable. But at the same time, the folk customs here are also more sturdy. If it is an analogy, part of the personality of the people in the middle of the Eagle Country is very similar to the Northwest or Northeast people.

Be hospitable and do what you say. If you say what you want, the people in the central region can shoot people.

Because there are few people in the central area, but there are many wild animals, every household is equipped with guns and ammunition. It is used to drive away dangerous wild animals such as bears or crocodiles that may appear.

Moreover, the urban composition of the Eagle Country is different from that of China. In China, a city with a population of less than one million is ashamed to call itself a city. Can a city with a population of only 300,000 to 500,000 people be called a city? It can only be called the county seat!

But it's different in Eagle Country. There are only a dozen cities in Eagle Country with a population of more than one million. Although there are metropolises with a population of more than 20 million, the world's top metropolises. However, the largest cities in the Eagle Country are those small cities with a population of only 100,000 to 200,000 people.

Eagle Country does not have the administrative level of townships and counties, and the lowest administrative level is the city. So they divide cities into megacities, large cities, mid-sized cities, small cities, and microcities.

In addition, many Eagle Country people actually like to live in the countryside. So their urban population is even smaller.

But there is no so-called village-to-village project in Eagle Country. That is, the so-called energization path through the network. In China, this infrastructure has covered more than 95% of the natural villages in the country.

But in Eagle Country, maybe there are roads in the country. But electricity and internet? Pay for it yourself.

Because the signal company and energy company in Eagle Country are private companies, they would not invest money in building transmission substations and signal base stations in rural areas. Because there are too few people, too much money has been invested in infrastructure construction, and it is impossible to rely on fees.

Therefore, in some villages that are not populated areas, if you want to use electricity and the Internet, you need to pay a large amount of pre-transfer fees. Signal networks in particular are extremely expensive.

In some rural areas, it costs 2,000 Eagles to install a TV signal for a TV, and it may even be as high as 5,000 Eagles to install broadband. This is a big expense.

Therefore, many Eagle Country people living in rural areas will choose not to install broadband. At the same time, the cost of surfing the Internet with mobile phones in Eagle Country is also extremely high. Because the base station does not really cover the whole country, it is normal for mobile phones to have no signal in rural areas.

Therefore, many farmers in the central region are lagging behind in understanding the information of the world, which is why many young people in Eagle Country yearn for big cities. The countryside is too boring, not to mention that there are few people and no entertainment activities, and the Internet is stuck. It's so easy to flirt with a girl on the Internet. If you send a [hello], it may take an hour for others to receive it. Can this be tolerated? No matter what, you have to stay in a city with a fast Internet speed.

Housing may be cheap in rural Eagle Country, but other living costs aren't necessarily cheap.

But even so, many people choose to live in the countryside. Because the environment in the countryside is better, with mountains, water, and cute big bears.

It's okay to spend more than ten yuan to buy a license, and it would be nice to shoot two deer with a shotgun and come back to improve food.

Of course, there are also people who simply don't believe in the Eagle Country government, not because they want to get close to nature.

Like Mike's dad Frank. This is a veteran. It is said that he served in the special service team and participated in many missions. Joined the army at the age of eighteen and retired at the age of twenty-eight. After retiring, he rejected the generous job arranged by the state, left the city, and ran to live in the central countryside. And married a wife and had a son here, and gave birth to Little Mike.

Frank owns three hundred acres of land seeded with soybeans and corn. In his spare time, he is planning his own affairs.

It's not that rural people like to do handicrafts and carpentry. Frank is building a post-apocalyptic base. Because he firmly believed that sooner or later the mainland of Eagle Country would fall into a war that could never be redeemed.

Maybe it was a nuclear war, maybe it was the mutation of zombies caused by the leakage of biotechnology, etc., or maybe it was something else.

So as early as twenty years ago, he began to plan the doomsday shelter. And still preaching in his village.

Eagle Country is a country with religious freedom, and it can even be said that it is too free. If you go deep into the middle of the Eagle Country, you will know how complicated the religious beliefs in this country are. Various Christian variant sects and even cults prevailed.

And Frank used the village where he lived as a base to preach. He established a religion of salvation by himself. He declared that everything that human beings do to this world will eventually suffer the backlash of the world, just as God once destroyed human beings with a great flood.

And I am a person like Noah. God asked him to build the ark of the new age. As long as you join this sect, you will have a chance of salvation when the end comes.

Not to mention, this kind of sect propaganda has really fooled many people. Because the theory of doom was already very popular in Eagle Country. In addition, Frank is a person who has seen the world, so it is still very difficult for him to fool those farmers who have little knowledge. Not to mention farmers, even many rich people in the city were fooled by him, not only joined the religion, but also donated money.

Just yesterday, Frank held a rally in the village to preach. More than a thousand people came to participate. To attend a meeting to hear his teachings, each person needs to pay thirty-five yuan.

The food expenses of eight yuan per person, as well as the venue rental fee, etc. were deducted. Frank can have an income of 20,000 yuan.

He didn't use the money for his own personal expenses, but used it to build his doomsday base, or to buy various weapons and ammunition.

Mike drove Raymond for a long time, passing through a steep mountain road and through a forest, and finally brought Raymond to the village where he said he lived.

This is a village with a population of only one thousand people. The busiest place is the shopping street in the middle of the village. There are about 20 shops, including bars, clothing stores, gas stations (and convenience stores) and several small restaurants.

Raymond was surprised to find that everyone here seemed to know Mike.

When the two of them were filling up at the gas station, someone recognized Mike. It was a very beautiful girl with brown hair and wheat-colored skin. With big and energetic eyes, she stared at Mike for a long time, then suddenly yelled: "Mike! You're back?!"

The girl stopped to cheer while she was talking, then ran over quickly and hugged Mike, and kissed him several times on the face.

She didn't stop until Mike pushed her away. And this girl's cry attracted more people's attention.

"Is it really Mike? He's back?!"

"Oh, where is he?!"

"Ahh! My Mike!"

"Little bitch, when did Mike become yours!"

More and more people gathered around, and Raymond saw with his own eyes several girls fighting for Mike.

Wait, did you agree that they were all dead otaku? When did you become a cashier? !