Xu Yun was very familiar with the black man's attitude. The memory once again brought him back to the time when he was in Detroit.
When Xu Yun first arrived in the city, he wanted to familiarize himself with the city's environment. He walked around the streets and drank two bottles of mineral water along the way. He wanted to find a bathroom, but the public bathrooms in the city were like a "shop."
Many people were there to solve all kinds of problems, many of which were inconceivable.
The public washrooms in the slums were definitely not a good place to relieve one's bladder. This was because when one was in the middle of peeing, someone might break in, point a knife at the area below the waistband, and then rob them clean.
The first time Xu Yun went to the public bathrooms in the slums, he had to wait for a long time. The people who came here would lock the door from the inside.
While waiting, Xu Yun met a few people. An old man with white hair and tattered clothes, like a sack, walked past him and said a lot of things to him that Xu Yun could not understand.
It seemed like he was talking to Xu Yun, but also seemed like he was talking to himself. So Xu Yun ignored him, and he left.
After a while, a black man walked over to Xu Yun. Because the place was very narrow, the black man almost bumped into Xu Yun. Then, he raised his head and said the same thing to Xu Yun.
Believe it or not, I'll kill you right now!
Even the threatening tone of these people was exactly the same.
Xu Yun still remembered that day when he wanted to solve his peeing problem, he had to wait for more than half an hour. Later, a police officer walked up to Xu Yun and told Xu Yun not to wait there, and that he could follow him to the police station to borrow the bathroom.
As he said that, a crazy middle-aged woman leaning against the corner of the wall waved at Xu Yun, and then said something to Xu Yun that confused Xu Yun.
The police officer told Xu Yun to stay away from the woman. He said that the woman might be some messy believer and would say something very inauspicious to Xu Yun.
Xu Yun did not think much at the time. After all, he needed to pee, so he followed the police to the police station to borrow the bathroom.
When Xu Yun solved his personal problem and was ready to leave the police station, he also saw how busy the Detroit police station was … It was far beyond Xu Yun's imagination. This was simply unimaginable in Hua Xia.
In many places with good public security in Hua Xia, one report a day was almost enough. Some even had no report a day.
But the police station here was different. There were many people lining up to report! Yes, just like the hall of the Hua Xia Department of Motor Vehicles, it was always crowded with people lining up to check cars or go through some procedures.
At this time, the crazy woman that Xu Yun had met before hurried in and said that she had encountered an emergency. She wanted to go to the front and cut the line, but no one was prepared to let her. She had a piece of yellow transparent tape on her face. She removed the transparent tape and the flesh inside was badly mutilated … She told the people around her that she had just been shot and the bullet was still in her face!
The scene was chaotic.
Xu Yun also saw a wall in the police station, which was full of photos. Xu Yun thought that these were photos of all the police officers in the police station. After taking a closer look, he found that these photos were all of the police officers who had died in the line of duty.
Even if it was Xu Yun, if he lived in such a city, he would probably always be in a state of fear. He was a human, and he would also feel fear. However, he had enough courage to face his fear, so many times, people would think that he never felt fear at all.
Courage was not to be afraid, but to face the fear head-on.
On the streets of the slums, on the bus, there would always be people who would suddenly say a bunch of strange things to him, as if they were talking to themselves.
Under such circumstances, Xu Yun could not understand what they were saying.
Although these people did not have guns, were dressed very shabbily, and did not have any malicious intentions when they spoke, they always gave people the feeling that they did not want people to come into contact with them.
Moreover, they had no support, no mobile phone, nothing. Of course, there were some people like these people in front of him, who looked very fierce. But Xu Yun felt that most of the poor people were relatively kind-hearted. It was just that their lives were extremely bad, so occasionally they would do something just as bad.
The scars of any country would not be easily shown to others. The poor of the American Empire had always been struggling in the mud, unable to break free.
At that time, Xu Yun knew that it was not only Hua Xia that had poor areas, it was not only Hua Xia that had places where people could not afford to eat, and it was not only Hua Xia that had people who could not afford to live in a house.
Xu Yun had always thought that the poverty of many people in Hua Xia was a problem of the country.
But now, in comparison, Hua Xia had one billion more people than the American Empire! If the population of Hua Xia was the same as the American Empire, there would definitely be no poor people in Hua Xia!
People in Hua Xia would definitely be able to afford to live in a house, to buy a car, to have enough education, and to have better medical conditions …
Now that Hua Xia had one billion more people than the American Empire, it was very, very difficult for them to reach this point! Perhaps there were still many bastards who neglected their duties in Hua Xia, and perhaps there were many greedy officials in Hua Xia, but the country's leaders had always made the right decisions!
Hua Xia was also walking the right path.
It was already very good for a country with such a large population to reach this point! Whether it was a big villa or a small apartment, whether it was a three-bedroom house or a duplex house, whether it was 50 square meters or 500 square meters, the number of people who could afford to buy a house in Hua Xia was really higher than the total population of the American Empire.
Of course, the rich people in the American Empire lived very luxuriously. Their houses were dozens or even hundreds of acres!
But the problem was that not all of them could afford to live in luxurious houses. The American Empire only had a population of about 300 million people!
But how many people in the American Empire could not afford to buy a house?
Xu Yun looked at the few black men in front of him. To be honest, he really pitied the poor people in the American Empire. This was a heaven for the rich, but at the same time, it was also a hell for the poor. Not to mention the poor people in the slums, even the ordinary people in the American Empire did not have an easy life.
The biggest difference between the architecture of the American Empire and Hua Xia was the building materials. Hua Xia's buildings were reinforced concrete, but in the American Empire, many ordinary people lived in wooden houses. There were definitely people who wondered why the Americans liked to use wood to build their houses instead of bricks.
Some people said that wood was good, that wood was environmentally friendly, and that wood was tall.
But that was pure bullshit! In the American Empire, the rich people lived in reinforced concrete buildings. Only the rich people would live in wooden houses!
Because wooden houses were cheap! The American Empire had a lot of land and forests, so there was a lot of wood!
Of course, it was not that the American Empire did not use bricks or cement to build houses. Concrete houses were also very common. They could be found in big cities like New York and Los Angeles. But to the Americans, bricks were the standard for luxurious houses.
Because brick walls and cement were too expensive, many luxurious houses that looked like brick walls were actually decorated with the texture of the brick walls on the outside! Simply put, they were used to show off.
The proportion of wooden houses in the American Empire was relatively high. These houses were very old and were built a long time ago. At that time, wood was a light material that was easy to obtain. It was easier to transport wood to the construction site than stone and brick.
Compared to steel, concrete, and brick, the American Empire's wood was much cheaper. Imagine if there were no large-scale natural disasters, a small house could save a lot of money.
Of course, there were other reasons. In some areas with frequent earthquakes, such as Southern California, the structure of wooden houses was relatively loose and the weight of the buildings was lighter. In the event of a strong earthquake destroying the houses, the probability of survival in a lighter wooden house was much higher than in a brick house. This was because most of the deaths caused by earthquakes were from being crushed to death.
But it was not difficult to see that the American Empire's population was so small and the people were still so "poor". They were obviously taking the wrong path.
And this kind of situation would only get worse and worse!
There would only be more and more people in the slums who relied on robbery and relief to survive! This was because the children of these people were born in such a chaotic environment. They did not even know who their parents were …
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