But once a few years ago, James felt very strange here, and both people and buildings have changed a lot.
The town disappeared and was replaced by a "mountain"
A moving sightseeing bus stopped at James’s side and a local asked in broken English, "Hello! Sir, madam! Do you need a car? It takes 1 meter to show you around. "
James took out two five-meter green bills from his pocket and handed them to the bullet train driver. "You’ve changed a lot here. I didn’t come here like this a few years ago."
"Thank you." The driver showed his big white teeth and then moved the luggage of James’s family into the trunk. "banana (as the locals call Christmas Island) was bought. These things were brought by that company."
"Was it bought?" James was very surprised
As far as he knows, Christmas Island covers an area of 3 square kilometers, and the rare big island in gilbert islands has been sold to a private company.
The bullet train started driving along the roundabout road to banana Town on the west side of the airport.
As the vehicle approached the town of banana, James discovered that the "mountain" he had just seen turned out to be a city motor train passing through the slope and came to the town of New Banana with an average elevation of 15 meters.
Maybe it’s no big deal for many people to be 15 meters above sea level. What’s the fuss about?
However, the average elevation of Christmas Island is only three or four meters. At any time, the threat of sea level rise or a tsunami can completely drown the island.
This is also the South Pacific island region, where many areas have been flooded by seawater and the land has been rapidly salinized, so people have to emigrate, but other areas are reluctant to accept them.
The condition of helping these island residents immigrate to Mobei area for their own benefit is that the resettlement will gain Ellis Islands, gilbert islands control and jurisprudence.
That is to say, at present, the actual controllers in these two regions are actually embarrassing companies.
But behind this, it’s not just a company, it’s a kind of corporate skin, but it can get the flavor of the main bank’s backdoor market
In fact, this is the choice of Suirennai. The development base of Suirenguo has reached its limit, and it is very dangerous to expand it.
As a last resort, Huang Xiuyuan can choose the backdoor market plan to buy Ellis Islands and gilbert islands Curve to gain profits.
According to the outline of the Ministry’s development, the future blue star situation will definitely move towards partial reunification, and several large camp models will be gradually formed.
It is only a matter of time before the Greater China Federation appears.
Huang Xiuyuan’s purchase of these two archipelagos is to break away from corporate restrictions and join the Greater China Federation in the name of the region.
Looking back to banana Town, after the foundation was raised, it assisted in the construction of Feipeng Group Mining Super Highway. A large amount of salt filling materials were refined from seawater to build a huge wall up to 5 meters.
Even if there is a tsunami wall in the surrounding waters, it can protect the safety of residents.
With an area of 45 square kilometers, banana Town is the largest city on Christmas Island and the second most populous island in gilbert islands with 270,000 people.
The economy of Christmas Island mainly includes tourism, aquaculture, fishing, gambling, and sea and port suppliers.
Some people are reluctant to leave the local people, and there are also a large number of individuals who come from Lingnan and Minnan to seek gold.
These people have traveled across the ocean. Barbershops, restaurants and travel companies here.
In the gambling industry, it’s a unique business for the people themselves, but ordinary people can’t get a license.
After the time hotel moved in, James and his wife, Lena, and their son, James, wandered around the street.
"Honey, it smells good!" Lina said, pointing to a small shop selling rice rolls.
James glanced at the menu on the wall. Fortunately, he had an English name. He said to the boss, "Give me a shrimp egg and a minced egg."
The boss is a bald man with a Bluetooth translator and speaks "OK for ten minutes" in bulk English.
Rice rolls was ready in less than ten minutes.
After taking a bite of rice rolls, Lina couldn’t stop her hands and mouth.
There are a lot of tourists from America, Australia and China who come here, which has greatly promoted the economy here.
After eating rice rolls, James took his family to the beach, where coral reef debris piled up and the sun shone.
Countless warship birds hover in the middle, not far from a reclamation pier, where many fishing boats, yachts or scientific research boats and seaplanes can be seen.
Many tourists on the beach are basking in the sun, applying sunscreen, playing in the water and playing with a special fishing platform. More than a dozen fishermen are joking with fishing rods or picking up beer.
After renting three recliners and umbrellas and a barbecue, James bought some sausages, mushrooms, corn and seafood.
A dozen meters away, tourists from six or seven countries also barbecue and chat.
A young man pried a sea urchin, then knocked on an egg and put it aside in a steamer. Then he vomited, "I went to Sanya Taikeng for the second time. I ordered three sea urchin steamed eggs and didn’t see any yellow."
Cut a blue abalone, and another young man also looks nai. "The national scenic spot is really bad in cheat people, and the environment is just so-so."
"I heard that this is a private territory of the monks. I don’t know if it is true or not?" A girl is divining.
"It should be that you didn’t see that airport security is all about the security company, and the patrolmen in the city are all exoskeleton armor."
Talking and laughing, abalone and sea urchin roasted with charcoal fire give off a unique aroma.
Chapter four hundred and twenty-one South Pacific region
To the west of Christmas Island is the main archipelago area of gilbert islands, which is also a series of coral reef islands.
Taradawa is the capital of gilbert islands and the residence of Suiren South Pacific Branch.
Similarly, the high-foundation besieged city wall is surrounded by a ring balcony every 10 meters outside, and there is a greenhouse with a wide area inside.
There are a lot of vegetables and fruits planted in the greenhouse. All kinds of online encyclopedias introduce that local people don’t like to eat fruits and vegetables, but in fact this is definitely an arrogant prejudice.