After spending a peaceful night at the Merauke Hotel, after having breakfast the next day, Gao Fei and his party followed Tang Ning to the parking lot.
Tangning's car is a modified Land Rover SUV, which can fit all seven people in the team.
When they got on the bus, everyone discovered that there was a layer of steel mesh installed on the outside of the car window, which looked very strange.
"Xiao Tang, did you modify your car yourself?" Wang Daqing patted the steel wire mesh and couldn't help laughing, "It's a good Land Rover, but it's modified like a prison car to escort prisoners. Is it necessary?"
"Brother Daqing, I don't want to make the car look like this! But I can't help it. It's not easy to go out in a ghost place like this. In order to save your own life, you can't be too careful!"
Tangning raised the hood and skillfully inspected the car while complaining to his teammates about the appalling local security situation.
"The security situation in the country of Batavia is bad enough, and the Irian Jaya region where we are now is the province with the worst security in the country!"
"This place was historically a colony of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It fought for independence after World War II. It briefly established an independent country in the 1960s, but was soon invaded by the armed forces of the Batavia Republic. In a very dishonorable way, it forcibly
Annexed this territory."
"The residents of Irian Island are different in race and cultural tradition from the main ethnic group in Batavia. During the colonial period, they were influenced by missionaries from Europe. Most of the elites of the native residents converted to Christianity. Now they are forcibly forced by a green religious country.
Annexation, of course, refuses to give in, and the call for independence has never died down."
“The grievances and grievances between the Batavia government and the indigenous people of Irian Island for many years are difficult to describe in detail!”
"The local anti-government forces have been surrounded and suppressed by government forces countless times. Every time the government forces unilaterally declared victory in the suppression of bandits, the anti-government forces would resurrect and fight guerrillas all over the island, causing the Batavia authorities to be overwhelmed."
"Under such an environment, think about it, how can the public security situation in society get better?"
"The police station here is useless. The rich and big companies can rely on hiring guards to ensure safety, while the poor can only hope for themselves."
"In this dangerous country, any minor malfunction of a vehicle may lead to death."
"For example, if the tires of the vehicle were not checked and replaced before driving, the vehicle would have a puncture in the middle of the journey. The driver would have to get out of the car and change the tires before he could get back on the road. As long as the driver got out of the car, he might be killed by robbers ambushing him on the roadside."
Tangning sat on the driver's seat, started the engine, and continued:
"Anti-riot steel mesh is installed on the car windows because not only are there robbers on the road, but there are also perverts who often throw stones at passing vehicles for fun. I have encountered such unfortunate things!"
Gao Fei was sitting in the passenger seat, feeling quite uncomfortable listening to Tangning's complaints.
In the final analysis, it is still the same sentence. The biggest gap between people does not lie in acquired things such as wealth and status. It is often determined at the moment of birth.
Whether a person is born in a peaceful and stable country, or in a country where order has collapsed and public security is poor, is the difference between "simple mode" and "hell mode".
As Tang Ning has always emphasized, people who are accustomed to living peacefully often have the illusion that a good public security environment is free and everyone deserves it.
There are so many countries in the world that are truly peaceful and wealthy, but only a handful of developed countries, mainly in the Western world, have yet to escape the threats of war and poverty in most areas.
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. This is because the poor do not deserve attention, and few people can even point out the location of these underdeveloped areas on a map.
Only when you go out for a walk and see the dark and chaotic corners with your own eyes will you know how rare peace and stability are. What some people take for granted is a longing but unattainable dream 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 the road close to the city has flat asphalt roads.
The car drove for half an hour and left the city of Meraoqi, and the dangerous journey officially began.
The road ahead is full of potholes, pits and rocks, making the car stumbling while running.
Tang Ning was used to this kind of road conditions. She wore sunglasses and focused on driving without squinting.
Gao Fei, Jiang Feng, Ma Yun, Ma Tao, Qi Tian and Wang Daqing had never suffered such a crime, and they felt very tortured in the car.
Every time the car passes through a pothole, the passengers in the car feel like they are bouncing on a trampoline.
Wang Daqing, the biggest man, accidentally hit his head on the car roof. His forehead swelled up and he screamed in pain.
"Grandma, what a bear! When I was a soldier in southern Xinjiang, I never encountered such broken roads. It would cost me my own life!"
Seeing Comrade Lao Wang's miserable appearance, everyone learned a lesson and quickly tightened their seat belts and fastened themselves firmly to the seats.
However, the seat belt is too tight and presses the chest and abdomen, making it uncomfortable.
As time went by, I became short of breath, coupled with severe bumps and motion sickness, and it was like a rising tide.
Xiao Ma, the weakest among the passengers, was the first to retching uncontrollably.
Tang Ning had no choice but to slow down and drive as smoothly as possible.
Ma Tao searched his pockets but couldn't find the plastic bag, so he took off his baseball cap and handed it to his sister sitting in the back row.
"If you can't help it anymore, just vomit in the hat."
"Forget it, this hat seems quite expensive..."
"At a time like this, you don't care whether it's expensive or not! I advised you not to come at the beginning, but you disobeyed, are you going to suffer now?"
"Hey! I'm just a little motion sick, I can hold on!" Ma Yun retorted stubbornly.
She put her brother's hat upside down on her head, closed her eyes, opened her mouth, and took a deep breath to minimize the impact on the vestibule of her ears.
As a quasi-medical doctor, Xiao Ma knows that this can theoretically effectively alleviate the symptoms of motion sickness.
However, from a practical perspective, it doesn't seem to work very well.
Tangning took out a bottle of motion sickness medicine from the astrolabe and handed it to Gao Fei beside her.
Gao Fei swallowed two pills, passed the pill 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 maritime climate. In this hot and humid season, it rains at least one day out of three days.
A cloud covered the sun, and with a rumble, a thunderstorm came suddenly.
Raindrops fell on the hot ground, splashing into clouds of mist.
