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Chapter 614 Nanyang City

"Sir, wake up, sir?"

As the flight attendants pushed and shouted, Yang Xingguo slowly opened his eyes.

"Sir, are you sure you don't need me to call an ambulance? I think you'd better see a doctor."

The flight attendants looked at Yang Xingguo with concern, fearing that something might happen to him on the plane.

Yang Xingguo, who had just regained consciousness, stared blankly around his surroundings, his gaze finally settling on the time displayed on the electronic screen.

"Are you here already?"

"Yes, sir, would you like me to call an ambulance for you? You look very unwell."

The flight attendants again indicated their intention to call an ambulance.

"No, no need, I'm fine."

Yang Xingguo stood up, helped himself to his seat, declined the flight attendant's offer, and went to the passenger waiting area to get his suitcase.

Yang Xingguo was not lying; he felt that his health was indeed better than ever before.

After getting off the plane, Yang Xingguo looked into the distance. This feeling of being reborn made him feel as if he were standing on a cloud.

It's like being suddenly stripped off a heavy-duty suit filled with steel plates that you've worn for years, and your whole being is transformed.

This kind of change, which originates at the level of life itself, is incomparable to any kind of pleasure.

Yang Xingguo was, after all, an adult with a high degree of self-control. He shook his head, forcibly suppressing the novelty brought about by the transformation.

Yang Xingguo did not forget why he came here.

This power was meant to save his own child, not something Yue Chongshan gave him to play with.

After leaving the airport, Yang Xingguo took a bus to his booked hotel.

This was his first time visiting a city outside the Eastern Continent.

Nevada is thousands of kilometers away from Nanyang City, and there is practically no business interaction between them.

Even when Yang Xingguo travels on business, he usually goes to the northern or southeastern coastal areas, and rarely goes to the southern region of Asia Union.

Because of the vast differences in cultural customs across regions, you might not even be able to understand the local dialect when you arrive, so how can you communicate?

Only businessmen engaged in global trade frequently come into contact with other cities.

Under normal circumstances, public officials rarely go to these places.

The Asian Union's territory covers the entirety of Asia, and even includes some exclaves in Europe.

With such a large land area, management becomes extremely difficult.

As the saying goes, "the emperor is far away and the sky is high," so it's impossible to know how many layers of deterrence remain when orders from above reach the local level.

Members of parliament are well aware of this, so cities within the Asian Union whose land area is comparable to that of a state or province generally have their own set of laws and customs.

There are not many differences between cities in East Asia, but the further west you go and the closer you are to the border, the greater the changes in local customs and laws.

The general direction follows the Asian Union Parliament, but local governance is entirely decided by the local authorities.

However, East Asia, as the main body of the Asian Union, generally looks down on these 'peripheral' regions.

Because no matter how powerful a local force may be, when it comes to matters of principle or important geographical locations, local laws can be rendered meaningless.

Yang Xingguo's destination, Nanyang City, is one of the cities that suffers from severe discrimination and is also a rare city controlled by the Asian Union Parliament.

This place boasts the world's largest arable land area and is known as the granary of the Asian Union. However, this title has not brought any glory to Nanyang City; instead, it has subjected it to discrimination.

It is precisely because of this vast area of ​​arable land and agricultural belt that the future of this city has been completely locked up.

Food has always been a strategic resource, no matter the era.

Since it has been designated as a granary, then there's no point in thinking about vigorously developing industry; ensuring that the arable land area supplies grain to the entire Asian Union is the primary task.

Therefore, the Asian Union Parliament has extremely high requirements for Nanyang City.

Almost every year, officials who wanted to acquire large amounts of land for industrial development or to build school districts were dismissed by the Asian Union Parliament.

This directly led to Nanyang City lagging behind other cities in all aspects of economy, culture, education, and industry.

The quality of life for people living in this city is even worse than that of people living in remote mountain villages in border areas.

People in border areas not only have abundant resources but also a sparse population. With the advancement of technology, on average, everyone can enjoy a very high quality of life.

Can you believe that a fully furnished apartment of over 100 square meters can be had for less than 300,000 yuan?
In contrast, Nanyang City has a large population but limited resources per capita. Its desire to transform its economy is blocked by higher authorities, leaving it with no choice but to develop agriculture to provide food for the Pan-Asian Union.

How wealthy can you expect a place that primarily develops agriculture?

People laugh at poverty but not prostitution, and judge wealth but not robbery; discrimination is inevitable.

Nanyang City is one of the very few cities that has not been able to enjoy the high social welfare benefits of the Asian Union.

Yang Xingguo sat in the taxi, looking around at the city streets.

He was not in the city center, but in an ordinary county.

To get the most direct feel for a city's development, don't look at its central building layout.

Only the living standards of the lower classes can truly reflect everything.

The streets are predominantly tan, with rusty security bars on windows, puddles on the curb, black mud in the cracks between paving stones, and crowds of people riding electric bikes and tricycles to and fro...

Even though there wasn't any obvious trash on the street, it still gave people a dirty, messy, and chaotic feeling.

Even the infrastructure in rural Nevada used to be much better than here.

Nanyang City's development has been slow due to the policy classification imposed by the authorities.

Nevada also descended into chaos due to the same new policy...

Yang Xingguo shook off the distracting thoughts in his mind and took out the materials prepared by Yue Chongshan from his briefcase to study them.

Before leaving with her two children, Yue Yangyan revealed that she planned to travel to the Maldives.

That is one of the few areas in Nanyang City where the level of development has caught up with other cities.

However, according to the experimental report brought by Yue Chongshan, the base is not located in the Maldives, but in a region further up.

Yang Xingguo couldn't understand the experimental data, but he could still figure out the latitude and longitude values.

Yang Xingguo opened a world map and located and listed all the islands in that sea area based on their latitude and longitude.

The latitude and longitude of the experimental data can only guarantee that the experiment was conducted near the base.

However, Yang Xingguo still needed to investigate the exact location of the base step by step.

Interestingly, all of these islands were under military control, making it impossible for Yang Xingguo to identify which one was the laboratory he was looking for.

However, Yang Xingguo had anticipated this situation.

"Friend, do you know which islands near the Maldives are good for sightseeing?" Yang Xingguo knocked on the back seat of the car and asked the driver.

The driver glanced at Yang Xingguo through the rearview mirror: "Is this your first time visiting here?"

"Yes." Yang Xingguo nodded.

I'm so desperate! I finally managed to update more frequently, and now my computer is acting up again, constantly crashing and restarting...

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