Chapter 1 1 A Foreign Land

Chapter 1 1. A foreign land

As the saying goes, if you think about something during the day, you will dream about it at night.

Perhaps he was homesick, and Lu Li entered the familiar dream again...

In the waiting hall, his father held two plane tickets and shouted excitedly:

"Son~ Dad will take you to a paradise-like country! Even the air there is particularly sweet, you will receive the best education and live the best life..."

The father's mouth kept opening and closing, narrating the imagined beautiful future.

Lu Li was confused and terrified, and did not want to leave the hometown where he grew up.

But a 12-year-old child had no consciousness and no courage to resist his father's arrangement.

He boarded the plane in a daze and flew to a distance of 30,000 feet. His hometown became farther and farther away, gradually turning into a vague black dot.

Lu Li suddenly realized that he could never go back!

Reluctance and panic filled his chest, and the discomfort was about to tear him apart...

Just then, the "buzzing" vibration of the mobile phone interrupted the dream.

In the dim rental house converted from the basement, Lu Li suddenly opened his eyes and slowly sat up.

The young man had sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, and was quite handsome, but he looked slightly stunned, as if he had not yet escaped from the dream.

"It's been five years in a blink of an eye..."

This dream was more like a memory, a memory that Lu Li didn't want to recall.

In that era, countless people believed that the moon was particularly round abroad, and they tried their best to immigrate, but after they came out, they found that the world was not so beautiful.

The past was unbearable to look back on, Lu Li shook his head to regain consciousness, took out his mobile phone and unlocked it.

On the broken external screen, there was a notice from the school:

[In view of the current tense situation, Tijuana High School will be closed from now on...]

Seeing this news, Lu Li was not surprised.

"Sure enough, the class was suspended. In this country, no one dares to ignore the threat of drug lords."

The country he lives in is called "Mexico", which is one of the most unsafe countries in the world, full of drugs, crime and violence, and drug lords are rampant.

After the current president came to power, he listed the fight against drug crimes as a top priority and launched a massive anti-drug operation.

The drug lords were not to be outdone, and issued death threats to government departments, including the police and schools.

Facing an armed drug trafficking group with guns, school suspension is inevitable, but it is a good thing for Lu Li.

"I have learned the high school textbooks of Xiaguo by myself. It doesn't matter if I don't learn the happy education here. It's just time to go to the hospital to take care of my father."

With the weak light of the mobile phone, Lu Li quickly put on his clothes and took out a strange object from the pillow.

The receiving cavity, metal joints, connecting tubes... It turned out to be a "prosthesis"! A crudely made calf prosthesis!

Lu Li rolled up his empty right trouser leg, which had disappeared at the knee.

He tied the prosthesis skillfully, stood up with his hands, and walked out.

Except for a slightly staggering step, it was almost the same as an ordinary person, and he had obviously adapted to the artificial limb.

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In contrast to the gloom in the basement, the sun was shining outside.

Lu Li raised his hand to cover his eyes to adapt to the light, and then a picture of exotic scenery came into view.

Low and messy residential huts, tall palm trees, people walking around wearing cheap clothes, most of them have amber eyes and brown skin.

Several neighbors greeted in French: "Hola" (hello)

Lu Li also responded in French, while avoiding several disheveled children playing football.

This backward appearance is far from the "paradise" described by his father, and is even worse than the county town in his hometown.

Lu Li knew that this was not the country his father longed for.

His father's target was actually the country's northern neighbor - the Star Alliance.

This is the most powerful country on the blue planet, known as the beacon of democracy, and people who want to immigrate are like crucian carp crossing the river.

Many "black intermediaries" seized on this mentality and claimed that: the two countries are neighbors, and it would be extremely simple to immigrate to "Mexico" first and then to "Star Alliance".

Many people were deceived into giving up their original nationality, losing their homes and property to come to this poor and chaotic ghost place to fend for themselves.

Lu Li's father was such an unlucky guy. He was depressed and suffered from stomach cancer due to years of resentment.

The cancer cells have spread, and all Lu Li can do is to accompany him as much as possible in his last days.

He sighed and walked towards the "Tijuana General Hospital".

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Living in a country with the highest murder rate in the world, Lu Li always takes the main road when he goes out, at least his safety is guaranteed.

But today the road is not peaceful, and military vehicles are passing by one after another, full of soldiers with live ammunition.

Among them is a "Bull" armored vehicle, a steel behemoth weighing more than ten tons rumbles past, quite imposing.

Lu Li quickly retreated to a snack bar on the side of the road, and just heard the diners talking:

"The new mayor is a staunch drug-busting faction. He arrested Benjamin's son as soon as he took office!"

"The only son! Benjamin will definitely go crazy..."

Benjamin is a local drug lord, and it seems that there will be a big scene next.

Lu Li had no interest in this. He was just an ant struggling to survive, so how could he care about these things?

At this moment, he was drooling at the aroma of the chicken roll.

He hadn't had breakfast yet, but he was short of money, so Lu Li decided to save the money for this meal.

"It doesn't matter if I skip a meal anyway."

He was about to leave this tempting place, but a weak voice sounded behind him:

"Brother, buy a bunch of flowers~"

Looking back, it was a little girl about fourteen or fifteen years old, carrying a flower basket, with a pleading face.

Lu Li frowned. These worthless wild flowers are sold to tourists. He lives nearby and has seen the little girl several times every day.

She came to him... It can only mean that she is desperate.

Selling flowers also has performance. Recently, the government has cracked down on drug tourists. If you fail to complete the task, you will definitely starve or even be beaten.

Lu Li sighed, took out a few banknotes and said: "3 pesos, sell it?"

This is equivalent to one dollar in Xia Country, just enough to buy a chicken roll, and it is also the limit of Lu Li's kindness.

The little girl's eyes lit up and nodded repeatedly: "Sell, sell, thank you!"

She picked the largest and most colorful "dahlia" and handed it over. The Mexicans regard this flower as a symbol of generosity and wealth.

Lu Li took it in his hand and thought: It would be nice to put it in front of his father's bed to change his mood.

The boy put the flowers in front of his nose and sniffed them. Before he could smell the scent, there was a commotion in the distance!

All the government soldiers who had just passed by fled back, throwing away their weapons and equipment as they ran.

Even the majestic "Bull" armored vehicle was in a panic. It didn't even have time to turn around, so it could only reverse and escape, knocking over countless stalls.

Then, Lu Li saw the culprit of all this - an "M1A1" main battle tank, slowly appearing on the corner of the street!

This is the same tank as the Star Alliance Army, but the body is painted with a creepy logo consisting of "vipers passing through the eye sockets of a skull".

Lu Li's pupils shrank - this is the symbol of the drug lord! It's the drug lord's tank!

At this moment, the tank adjusted the muzzle and aimed at the "Bull" armored vehicle.

Coincidentally, the armored vehicle had already run in front of Lu Li, less than 20 meters away!

Seeing the black hole of the tank gun barrel aiming at him, Lu Li's back was immediately covered with goosebumps! Heart pounding!

When people experience a life-or-death crisis, their brains run at an accelerated speed, their thoughts speed up, and they feel that time slows down.

At this moment, Lu Li suddenly felt that everything around him slowed down, even the screams of the crowd were lengthened.

Without saying a word, he jumped up and pressed the flower girl to the ground together.

The next second, there was a loud bang, and the tank blew up the armored vehicle with one shot!

The armored vehicle turned into a ball of fire that soared into the air, and the shock wave carried all kinds of debris in all directions.

Even small stones have the power to penetrate the human body, and countless passers-by suddenly turned into blood gourds and flew out.

Although Lu Li lay down in time, the explosion was too close, and he was still shocked to lose his hearing and vision.

He lay on the ground, his ears fell into a strange silence, and there was only a blur in front of his eyes.

In a trance, it seemed that he had returned to his hometown, sitting in a classroom with only the sound of flipping books...

Unfortunately, the warm illusion was soon shattered.

Hearing was the first to recover, and tinnitus came like a wave. Lu Li heard the sound of his own heavy breathing and the crowd's screams and cries.

His vision was a step slower to recover, and the burning and smoking armored vehicles came into view, and there were scarlet limbs and broken arms all over the ground.

Lu Li coughed out a mouthful of petals mixed with gunpowder, dragged the frightened little girl, and crawled into the snack bar.

As soon as he hid, he heard the vibration of the tank tracks rolling over the ground.

Huddled behind the thick wall, giving people a false sense of security.

His head was still buzzing, and Lu Li's thoughts were scattered. Suddenly, he thought of his hometown classmates who he hadn't seen for a long time.

"They are about to take the college entrance examination..."

The tank roared past, followed by the sound of uniform footsteps, and the drug lord's guards pressed up.

Sorry, I kept everyone waiting for a long time.

Friends who are interested can also go and take a look at my old books first, all of which have been completed.