Sitting in the car driving out of Mountain Base, Lin Chen propped his chin on one hand and gazed at the mountain forest outside the window, his expression unreadable.
Logically, as one of the military bases, even if it appeared green on the surface, its roads and facilities should have been fully developed.
Why did people always say that if you wanted to get rich, you had to build roads first? Because broad roads ensured transportation, convenient transportation sped up the transfer of resources, and faster resource transfers accelerated overall development.
Thus, even though the southwest region of Tianhai City was covered in mountainous terrain, with the full strength of the great nation of East Hua poured into it, it should have been enough to build mountain roads large and small stretching in all directions, ensuring an unceasing flow of resources and supporting Mountain Base's operations.
Yet from his perspective now, even the highway they were traveling on had wild grass bursting through the asphalt concrete, leaving crack after crack behind.
Not to mention the small mountain paths used for patrols, which were overgrown everywhere with weeds and thorns, making them especially difficult to traverse.
The trees on both sides had suddenly become dense, every one of them exceptionally tall. Trees thick enough for several people to wrap their arms around were everywhere, and their spreading branches covered half the sky above the entire road, like the sliver of light overhead in the Three Gorges.
There were even clear traces of pruning on the branches by the roadside. At this moment, people in military uniforms could still be seen driving specially modified vehicles to trim them.
It was as though these incomparably dense branches, like ancient trees reaching into the azure heavens, had grown overnight.
"Although I know our country