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"Will the capitalists on Wall Street continue to invest astronomical amounts of manpower and resources to transform the desert?"

Yang Sheng understood and laughed too.

"But I've seen some articles about the necessity of deserts for the ecological environment, saying that they can regulate the climate or something. I don't know if it's true or an attack on desert transformation projects."

"Isn't this kind of thing easy to judge?"

“It’s hard to judge, as it involves political factors.”

Emily: “?” This time it was her turn to be confused. Although she had lived in several mysterious countries for a long time, she still didn’t understand many things.

"From the perspective of the environment and ecology, this statement has some basis, but you know that we don't regard interests as the highest value goal. For example, expressions like "rationalists" also account for a large proportion, and sometimes they are even more serious than issues such as interests, values, and national and ethnic positions..."

Having said that, Yang Sheng shrugged.

Emily understood that some things did seem inexplicable to her and there was absolutely no reason why they would cause such a public debate.

Chatting, the two returned home.

Amy got out of the car first and went back to check on little Shirley's swaddling clothes and to test whether she was hungry.

Yang Sheng went around to the garage and parked his car.

……

Early in the morning, Yang Sheng cooked himself, prepared a lot of food, packed it up and stored it in the storage space of his "mobile phone".

The girls at home played rock-paper-scissors, and Luo Ruier, who didn't have to go to work today, lost.

Go down to guard the house.

The whole family went out together in a van, traveling and getting familiar with the environment at the same time.

When the car passed a place in the town, it found that the police had set up a cordon, so it slowed down and passed by. After moving the old wooden house, it found the body of an old man with snow-white hair lying in a pile of garbage.

Everyone in the car had extremely sensitive eyes and ears. Just by observing and listening to the conversations of the workers outside who were wearing several kinds of uniforms, they knew that there was a murder here and not a natural death.

The deceased old man was beaten and suffered a cerebral infarction, and died without rescue.

There were also reporters from local or state television stations reporting on the scene.

The one who volunteered to drive was Lina, while Yang Sheng and a few girls sat in the back chatting.

“The security here doesn’t look very good”

“It’s relatively good, at least much better than most neighborhoods in big cities.”

"Pick the tallest one among the short ones"

Except for Xiaoling, most of the girls in the family are American, and they are accustomed to such things. However, even Xiaoling's original world was not peaceful. The public security was about the same as that of the United States, and there were a lot of alien monsters in the underground world.

The family took turns looking after little Shirley, eating snacks and chatting, observing the environment on both sides of the road in their own ways.

Driving along Highway 98, the Indian reservation is just a few dozen kilometers away.

At the border between the reservation and the outside world, you can see a construction site. I heard that it is a casino entertainment project developed by Indians in cooperation with real estate developers and investors.

Gambling is also prohibited in the United States. Except for Las Vegas, most casinos are underground and illegal according to different state laws. Only Indians have the legal right to open casinos, but they can only open them on reservations.

Just looking at the prosperity of Las Vegas, we can see how motivated gamblers are, and distance is definitely not an obstacle to stopping them from going to the casino.

If we put ourselves in the American perspective, casinos can bring a large portion of entertainment and service industry income to the reservation. The vast majority of reservations are desolate and barren places with no resources or minerals. Even farming requires a lot of infrastructure investment and condition transformation. Casinos may be one of the very few projects that can be invested in and operated on the reservation.

If we use a perspective other than Europe, America and Anza, building casinos is extremely harmful. Not only can it corrupt the spirits of the local people, it can also easily breed other types of crimes. After all, Tsunade can only be called the "Three Ninjas" together with Orochimaru and Jiraiya, and the three have a strong symbiotic dependence.

However, reservations have always been high-crime areas, with frequent murders and disappearances. There are also criminals who come to the reservations specifically to conduct illegal transactions or use the reservations as crime scenes, so it may make no difference whether there are casinos or not.

Ordinary residents of the reservation are not able to open a casino. Only local figures like chiefs have the financial resources to build a venue and purchase all the necessary equipment. This will also widen the gap between the rich and the poor in the reservation and create class confrontation.

But Master Ansa doesn't care about these things, and neither do most of the "chiefs" of the reservations. The latter are originally tribal, and blood and violence are the means by which they rule the tribe. Although there are some differences in the specific methods, the essence is still similar to the Black Snake Society.

I have heard that the chief of the reservation here invested in building a casino in the name of the entire reservation, and the profits from the casino will be used to invest in the infrastructure, welfare and other aspects of the entire reservation.

0044

After passing the casino construction site, the town on the reservation is not far away.

The size and architecture of the town cannot be compared with the town of Bryky outside. Bryky is a medium-sized city, and the town on the reservation is really just a town. However, there may be some festivals in the local area recently, and you can see many colorful banners, balloons, and many foreign vehicles.

I stopped to buy a handmade blanket at a roadside craft store and asked the owner. I learned that the indigenous people here had held a cultural festival and invited many people to participate, as well as some tourists who came here after hearing the news.

The shop owner also enthusiastically introduced that there would be singing and dancing performances at the main venue of the cultural festival today.

When they arrived at the main venue, Yang Sheng and his family found it quite lively, with many tourists. There were T-shirts with many slogans printed on them, free snacks and handicrafts, and many stalls and goods with cultural characteristics, such as feather headdresses, bone carvings, gold and silver objects and other handicrafts.

Yang Sheng was not very interested in these things, but the girls in his family were having a lot of fun. They bought feather headdresses to wear on their heads, as well as hand-woven ornaments, bone carvings, and gold and silver utensils.

I followed the crowd to an indoor venue where live performances were taking place. I heard some exciting music coming from inside. After entering, I found that an Indian rapper was singing in the English language. Well... Indian rappers performing rap music in the English language can be considered a kind of buff superposition.

From the perspective of the people in the mysterious country, this is a bit like the meaning of "singing the song of the back garden across the river".

Yang Sheng didn't want to spoil the fun, so he didn't say anything. And from a purely musical perspective, the Indian singer on the stage performed really well.

At this moment, little Shirley was hanging on his chest, wearing a feather headdress on her head and noise-cancelling headphones. Her calves were shaking, as if she was shaking her legs to the beat. With Yang Sheng's hearing ability, he could even hear the child's happy laughter.

After watching for a while, Yang Sheng found that they were all modern and popular songs and dances, without much traditional Indian culture. But when he thought about it, it would be great if some traditional Indian culture came.

The united front dance or hunting culture or something. I am afraid that it will re-invigorate the blood of the people in the reservation?

He had seen many comments online saying that the indigenous peoples had been domesticated by the United States for more than a hundred years and their culture and traditions had long been dismembered. Yang Sheng felt that this was both right and wrong.

The indigenous people of the American continent, because of God's gift and other reasons, a few tribes showed a talent for planting, but generally speaking, they never even entered an agricultural society. Until they were invaded and ruled by colonists, they were mainly hunting-based societies or tribal forms.

Their living customs and culture also correspond to the nomadic way of survival, such as their tribal system, sacrificial culture, adult trials, etc. The ultimate goal of these things is to cultivate a qualified hunter or tribal war warrior.

Once we are passively pulled into industrial civilization and become a part of it, all of this is useless.

The production activities of industrial civilization do not require tribal lifestyles and hunters, and the wars of industrial civilization do not require primitive cold weapon warriors. Compared with primitive hunting sacrifices and totem sacrifices, Christianity, which was born and improved in a strong commercial atmosphere, is obviously more adaptable to industrial civilization.

So rather than saying that the United States has dismembered the indigenous culture, it is better to say that the hunting tribal culture has become obsolete just like the freeloaders (tsundere attribute).

……

We spent a few hours wandering around town and had lunch.

In the afternoon, the family drove deeper into the reservation.

On the one hand, the natural scenery of Montigny is indeed very beautiful, and on the other hand, the true appearance of the indigenous people of the reservation is also fully revealed.

First of all, the abuse problem of American flour and other similar drugs is really serious.

Yang Sheng felt that he had wrongly blamed the indigenous chiefs. If it weren't for the casinos they opened, Orochimaru would have already infiltrated the indigenous people long ago.

There is a circle of streets on the edge of the town that resemble the shanty towns in a mysterious country. Not only are they dirty and messy, but some of the seemingly abandoned houses are the dens of indigenous hooligans and drug addicts, and there are many () gentlemen who are drugged and unconscious.

Yang Sheng and Lina both have many means of investigation. They are only a few hundred meters around them, and if they want, they can "see" the situation in such a house in great detail.

Then share it with the team so that other people in the family can see it too.

“This is too blatant.”

"If it were Bleki, there would at least be a drug den outside the town."

“Don’t the police on the reservation do anything about it?”

"It may be difficult to manage them, since they are all from the same tribe..."

Outside the town, there is infrastructure such as electricity and gas stations along the highway. Perhaps because there is no property tax, many indigenous people's homes are located on both sides of the highway.

When doing large-scale magic detection, there are also indigenous people's homes far away from the highway. However, in terms of living conditions, even along the highway, many indigenous people's homes do not have electricity, and the conditions in those remote residences are even worse.

The vast majority of these indigenous people's houses are trailers or very thin wooden houses, with sundries and firewood piled up in front and behind the houses. A few families raise some poultry and livestock, and the sundries and poultry and livestock sheds are covered with plastic sheets. If you ignore the shape of the houses and add some corn fields or vegetable plots behind the houses, it feels no different from the rural areas in remote areas of the mysterious country in the 1990s.

Like normal residents outside the reservation, the indigenous people here can enjoy food stamp benefits and even have a sufficient supply of alcoholic beverages, but it is hard to say whether this is a good thing or not.

The types of food that can be exchanged for food stamps are limited. From a nutritional point of view, these foods, which are mainly industrial products, may not be nutritionally sufficient and contain excess protein, fat and calories. This can be seen from the obesity rate and the rate of three high diseases in the United States, which are the highest in the world.

Yang Sheng thinks that if food stamp benefits are accompanied by general basic education instead of high quality, it would still be a very good governance policy. Unfortunately, the latter does not happen, but instead increases the supply of alcoholic beverages.

This results in the Aboriginal people in the reservation, who are already in a relatively closed living state and have enough food to eat, being more likely to be idle and waste their time than ordinary people outside, and having more time to pursue spiritual and material things. However, this spiritual gap is filled by the free supply of alcohol.

Not to mention the crime rate, the incidence of the three high diseases and the alcoholism rate in the reservation are also very high, and most of the medical resources are not distributed in the reservation. If you want to treat an illness, you usually have to go outside the reservation. Once it is an emergency, not to mention the cost of the ambulance, it will take 1 to 2 hours to arrive.

Not to mention the reservation, take Desmond's old John outside the reservation for example. If he had an emergency, he would have to be transported directly by helicopter to ensure that he could receive timely medical treatment.

These conditions have not changed much since the establishment of the reservation and the implementation of the food stamp system. In terms of self-reliance, plans like those of local chiefs to use casino revenues to change the lives of local indigenous people are rare exceptions, while the vast majority are only concerned with making money. Even casinos are run by white people who have changed their indigenous identities and are not even qualified to make money.

……

Many vehicles can be seen on the roadside, and there are also isolation belts set up by the police.

This area is pure wilderness, and ferocious beasts such as wolves, cougars, and brown bears often appear in sight. I don't know what kind of accident has happened.

Yang Sheng and his family stopped the car and left Dasha in the car to take care of Shirley, while the others came forward to watch.

seemingly

It was another murder scene. A construction team was building something and the excavator accidentally dug up a pile of bones that still smelled burnt.

human bones.

Including the one I saw in the town this morning, this is the second murder case.

There are only a few Aboriginal police officers in the entire reservation, and the local police have no right to investigate such murderous cases. The case must be handed over to the state police, federal police or some other competent agency.

This is a reserved area and does not receive much attention, or it is deliberately ignored, so there are no reporters or broadcast vehicles on the scene.

An aboriginal man who looked quite strong, had slightly dark skin and was dressed in a suit and tie was arguing with a few white people.

The white people seemed unwilling to stop the work and kept the scene intact until the investigation agency arrived. They said that the human bones were old bones and insisted that no murder had occurred here.

During the argument, Yang Sheng's family found out that the aboriginal man in a suit and tie was the chief of the reservation. He was so angry at the white manager's statement that he picked up a human leg bone on the ground and broke it in two with his knee. The sparks that flew out of the broken piece left the white manager speechless.

The outcome was now undisputed; the construction site was sealed and the project was suspended until the arrival of the investigating agency.

When leaving, the chief glanced at Yang Sheng's family and said a few words to the middle-aged man next to him who had traditional aboriginal braids.

Yang Sheng felt itchy, because he wanted to perform [Corpse Resurrection] or [Summon Skeletons] on the corpses in the pit... However, this is the ordinary world, and apart from creating panic or supernatural events, it does not help the people on the scene to get the truth.

Moreover, even in the magical world, the natural preservation conditions for souls are very harsh, not to mention obtaining information about the dead before their death from the dead that have been burned to charred bones.

……

The reservation is a microcosm of the United States, a partial part, and cannot represent the overall appearance of the United States.

It is just like when we evaluate an ancient dynasty, we should comment on its historical achievements and the level of civilization it has achieved, rather than focusing on its slums and scandals based on historical materials.

The main reason why Yang Sheng chose this ordinary world without any magical elements was to create an environment for his children to grow up healthily.

But given their family's ability, they can guarantee extremely good material conditions even in a chaotic place like Somalia. The difference lies in what kind of child he wants to raise, a wolf cub or a naive naivete, a healthy and safe ordinary person or a brilliant "other people's child", and the role of the humanistic environment in this process.

……

Early in the morning, Lily got up and fed Huniu meat, then hid in the forest behind the pasture and ran wildly.

Since coming to this world, Big Cat has been in an invisible state. Considering her IQ, there is nothing to adapt to. In the original "magic dinosaur world", their clan was originally a lurking hunting type of hunter. This daily invisible state is in line with her primitive habits.

The invisible state makes Big Cat difficult to observe, and [Light Feather Technique] makes it difficult for her to leave footprints accidentally. The remaining traces are even more difficult to be noticed or captured by ordinary people.

The vacant barn happened to be her shelter, and Big Cat had been living quietly on the ranch.

After taking the big cat for a walk or being taken for a walk by the big cat, it is time for family morning exercises when we come back.

Yang Sheng's married life was a bit lazy. He originally liked to sleep in, but the girls in his family were energetic and lively, so he usually ended up being dug out of bed and made to exercise with them.

While exercising, Amy received a phone call. The eldest grandson of the ranch owner next door was missing, and they asked their family to help check their ranch to see if there were any clues.

Judging from the map, although the distance is more than ten kilometers, the closest to Desmond's main house is Yang Sheng's family. The other hundreds of kilometers in other directions are all Desmond's own land.

At this time, Yang Sheng's family also knew that they were the ranchers with the largest land in the local area and even in the state.

I heard that their third generation family has only one grandson, who is the child of Keith, who drove his car into the gate of Yang Sheng’s ranch that day. He is very precious to him. He probably called because he was desperate.

Regardless of which side's customs they followed, Yang Sheng's family was happy to help. Except for Loriel who was on duty daily and Marina who stayed at home to take care of the children, the rest of the people took several off-road and terrain vehicles to patrol the "Dolphin Bay" ranch. Yang Sheng drove Xiaoling to the back of the ranch and whistled a few times to call the brown bear he had subdued. Then he went straight to Desmond Ranch and asked them for the clothes of the missing grandson. After leaving the house, he pretended to let the brown bear sniff it, but in fact he wanted Hu Niu who was in invisible state to smell it.

This scene surprised many people.

The brown bear circled the house and sniffed the ground. During the process, Yang Sheng saw a blonde woman with scars all over her face sitting on the porch smoking.

Yang Sheng's family seldom went to the town, and they didn't try to get any information, so they didn't know who this woman was. However, judging from her appearance, she didn't look like a victim of domestic violence, so she must have had some other accident.

Considering that only the eldest grandson was missing at Desmond Ranch, all the men were armed... there must be a big hidden story here.