Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 1441 - 697: A Bit Far_2

Chapter 1441: Chapter 697: A Bit Far_2

The reason his wife had started school and he hadn’t left Provincial City yet was because last night Chen He called him, saying that Dong Qiushi would report to the leaders early this morning, and if possible, both parties might need to meet to discuss.

When he saw the time was about right, he tidied up, went into the room to change his clothes, and then headed into the kitchen to wash a few cucumbers. He checked the fungus and soybean strips he had soaked that morning before preparing to pick up his wife. Before leaving, he didn’t forget to turn off the stove where the pork ribs were stewing to prevent any accidents while no one was at home.

Now, to pick up his wife, he didn’t need to go to the school; Yan Fei simply walked along the road for a bit. He hadn’t gone far when he saw Miss Xu Xiaoyan riding an electric bicycle, speeding towards him like lightning.

Electric bicycles were still a curious novelty in Provincial City, with the first store selling them appearing just last year. Since everyone was unfamiliar with these things, if a motorcycle ran out of fuel, you could just refuel it; if a bicycle broke down, repairs were readily available. How far could you ride an electric bicycle if it was fully charged? What if it ran out of electricity? What would you do if it broke down on the road?

Amidst all these uncertainties, the general consensus was that, instead of buying an electric bicycle, it made more sense to spend a little extra on a motorcycle!

Whether others bought one or not didn’t matter to Yan Fei; ever since he saw them, he had planned to buy one for his wife. He didn’t want to get a car; motorcycles had a low safety factor, but electric bicycles were just right—not requiring your own effort to pedal and more portable than motorcycles, with not too fast of a speed—they were simply perfect.

Yan Fei himself would ride a motorcycle fast like the wind, but he absolutely didn’t want his wife to ride a motorcycle.

Ever since motorcycles appeared in Sancha River town, nearly every year there had been accidents involving them. Yan Fei had heard of several such incidents at meal times alone.

There were people who rode motorcycles under trucks, crashed into walls, trees, flew into ditches. And there was an even more bizarre case where three young men were riding a motorcycle at night, trying to overtake a tractor because their light wasn’t bright enough. The young man leading on the motorcycle got caught up...

No one wants to contemplate a tragedy, but when one happens, there are always various factors in play. For those three young men, they hadn’t been drinking, nor were they speeding; they simply wanted to overtake a tractor.

Because the motorcycle’s light was dim, no one saw that the tractor’s trailer was carrying several long steel pipes, protruding several meters beyond the trailer itself.

Then the one driving the motorcycle was suddenly pierced through the chest by a steel pipe, while the second young man also suffered a heavy blow to his chest. Fortunately, as the strength drained from the leading motorcyclist’s hands after being impaled by the steel pipe, he could no longer accelerate, and the motorcycle’s speed slowed down.

Hearing about such incidents frequently had convinced Yan Fei that although he found riding motorcycles to be fine for himself, for the average person, it was quite a dangerous affair.

Xu Xiaoyan was quite satisfied with the electric bicycle, too—aside from the fact that hardly anyone else at school had one, so it drew a lot of attention. Her experience had been positive otherwise.

But today, when she rode up to Yan Fei on her electric bike, her face was devoid of any smile, "Do you know? A big incident happened this morning. Our embassy in the South Alliance got bombed!"

"Who did it?" Yan Fei hadn’t quite grasped the situation yet.

"Who else but America?" Xu Xiaoyan expressed her discontent with Yan Fei’s cluelessness. "The embassy is our territory, it represents us, and it’s so infuriating! They’re bullying us to our face! It might even lead to war..."

Times were different, and pople’s perceptions have changed. When this incident occurred, indeed quite a few people believed that war was a possibility. Given that the last war had happened just a decade ago, people didn’t feel it was such a distant thing.

After Yan Fei realized what had happened, he immediately shared Xu Xiaoyan’s anger. He used to think that America bullying the South Alliance had nothing to do with him, but not anymore.

It was like having two neighbors; it was one thing to argue and squabble over minor conflicts out in the open, but today was different. One of them had started throwing fists, throwing a brick directly into your yard, injuring someone—that’s completely different from before.

Today it’s bombs thrown on an overseas territory, tomorrow they might be dropped directly on your mainland. The South Alliance was a warning; before the bombing, did America discuss it with anyone? Did they notify anyone?

That attitude was clearly telling the whole world, "I am the big shot. If anyone gets in the way of my interests, I don’t need to say anything first, just pull them out and beat them up."

Yan Fei was even more agitated than Xu Xiaoyan, "They’re looking to start a war, aren’t they? If war breaks out and I can’t make it to the battlefield, I’ll donate however much money I’ve made this year, all of it for ammunition to blast back at them..."

There is no love without a reason, nor hate without cause.

Yan Fei was so riled up not only because he was furious about his country’s territory being bombarded but also because he had always been dissatisfied with certain Barbarian nations.

Why? Because the beef from his own farm could only sell for eighty yuan a catty!

There are grades for beef, but these grades aren’t established by us; they are set by those Barbarians. In Yan Fei’s view, his beef was in no way inferior to theirs, and in some aspects, it was even better.

But what about the price? Those that passed the Barbarians’ grading standards could sell for a high price all over the world. His own, not having gone through their grading, could only be sold for such a low price. Was that reasonable? Wasn’t it infuriating?

The two of them vented their frustration for a while before Yan Fei got on his electric bike with Xu Xiaoyan and headed back. They didn’t even bother with the soaked vegetables; they simply dressed the fungus and cucumber and didn’t bother frying the prepared gan. They each just had a bowl of rib soup and half a Bun.

After eating, they washed the dishes, and Xu Xiaoyan said, "I’m going to school now. With something this big happening, there might be a protest organized at the school."

"Protests, what’s the use?" Yan Fei was somewhat skeptical. "Protesting here isn’t the same as taking it to their doorstep..."

"Yan Xiaofei, I’m angry!" Xu Xiaoyan immediately stiffened her face and said. "At least we have to express our views. If a war really breaks out, us university students won’t be afraid to go to the battlefield. Youth Day has just passed, think about what those precursors did when they were young, eighty years ago..."

"All right, I was wrong," Yan Fei quickly admitted his mistake when he saw the girl truly upset. "If there’s a protest, remember to call me. I’ll join in, okay?"

"That’s more like it," the girl said as she was already pushing the electric bike, ready to leave. "Remember! If there really is a protest, you’d better be there."

"Don’t worry!" Yan Fei assured her confidently.

After seeing the girl off on the road, riding away on her bike, Yan Fei returned to lock the gate, shooing away two wagging wolves, lying down on the bench in the yard. After a while, a world map appeared in his hands.

Ever since he had taken several flights to Japan, becoming familiar with the surrounding geography, he hadn’t looked at this map, now left in a cave for ages.

He spread out the map, grabbed a ruler, and started ’studying’ on the ground. The tool for his study was a tape measure that hadn’t been used for so long, now somewhat awkward to handle.

After pulling out the tape to measure the distance and then calculating mentally with the scale, he couldn’t help but mutter, "This really is quite far, almost twenty thousand kilometers."

After saying that, he realized, "Am I getting confused? Why even measure? One’s on this side of the Earth, the other on that side, the sun travels eighty thousand li a day, and the Earth is forty thousand kilometers in circumference, from here to there... no, that doesn’t seem right... Off you go, you two, stay away from me, don’t dirty my map..."

Because the two dogs had disturbed him for a moment, Yan Fei couldn’t remember the fleeting thought he had realized was incorrect just moments ago. He looked at the map, so worried he felt his hair could turn white.

It really was a bit far!