Anchorage is the largest city in Alaska, with a population of about 300,000, accounting for over 40% of the total population of Alaska.
Moreover, due to its vast and abundant resources, the people here generally do not like to crowd together, so Anchorage has developed over the past hundred years like a pancake, from a coastal town to a large, loosely formed town consisting of one community after another, covering an area of nearly 5,000 square kilometers.
The law enforcement here is quite weak, as the whole state of Alaska has only 1,300 police officers, though Anchorage does have 270 detectives handling criminal cases.
The most elite special response team, SETR, even consists of volunteers from among the state police.
Here, the per capita civilian gun ownership is the highest in the world, making the local customs very tough...
However, it’s strange that once you leave Anchorage, life is quite peaceful in other regions of Alaska.
Perhaps due to the large per capita resources and the very low population in the region, combined with a harsh living situation, people tend to lend a hand when necessary.
There is no deceit in the wilderness, because in all remote areas here, the hardest currencies are gasoline and bullets.
Because gasoline determines the range you can hunt in, and bullets determine which animals you can challenge.
Alaskans admire the self-reliant tough type, and most tough guys here disdain gangs that parasitize the dark corners of cities.
Old Qiao epitomizes the tough guy!
Hunters and fishermen who make a living in remote places have a completely different view of life than city dwellers.
Old Qiao used to avoid trouble and even felt he was not afraid of death.
But when he drove his beat-up pickup following Mountain Eagle’s car for a few streets, he realized his definition of causing trouble had gone askew.
Who drives on a road without streetlights with gold worth a million dollars?
Seeing more and more suspicious vehicles around and those street hooligans standing by the roadside with ill intentions, Old Qiao rolled down the window and spat out his tobacco, cursing: "This madman..."
Sitting in the passenger seat, Quida holding a Remington helplessly said, "He’s not mad, after coming out of the hospital for 5 kilometers, he has been circling one area.
We just passed this place, and there weren’t this many people by the road...
This guy has made himself the bait, aiming to lure out the biggest brown bear in the area and kill it!
Sheriff Redick must be particularly regretting right now; I bet he can’t sit still..."
Get in the car, the madman is driving circles in Horned Demon Billy’s territory...
FUCK, he never planned to follow the plan!"
Sheriff Redick loudly called his subordinates and a team of SETR he had invited with a few cases of beer to get in the car, hoping to rescue the reckless tycoon before matters got out of hand.
Just then, the mayor of Anchorage had called his cell phone...
A cowboy lawyer had visited his office showing a check for a million dollars, indicating that his boss intended to invest in a trading company in Anchorage...
At the same time, he expressed his willingness to allocate $500,000 from it to improve the facilities and living conditions of the medical staff at the bottom of Anchorage Hospital.
It is hard for ordinary people to imagine, as a state of the United States, Alaska’s state government has an annual fiscal revenue of only about 14 million dollars...
About 3 million dollars of that is non-tax revenue, that is, public assets income such as schools, hospitals, airports, parking lots, and house rentals.
Moreover, because Alaska’s pillar industries, oil and gas, and minerals, are affected by the prices of international commodities, this 14 million is not always guaranteed every year.
Anchorage has only two comprehensive hospitals, their doctors’ salaries are decent, but the salaries of the middle and lower medical staff are very low, leading to a long-term shortage of staff.
Now, a tycoon wants to $500,000 to the medical community, which is a significant boon and achievement for Anchorage.
Although it is unclear what this person is after, any politician with a sound mind knows that if they ignore this tycoon, the grassroots staff of the hospital will condemn them in the local newspapers.
As for whether this benefactor is aiming to gain something through the donation, the Mayor of Anchorage simply doesn’t care...
My whole state has only over two thousand kilometers of highways, and towns with populations lower than 3000 don’t even deserve to have asphalt roads, if you can manage to transport something valuable out and sell it, the state government will award you.
Compared to those parasitic gangs, this tycoon who spends millions in a day must not be allowed into trouble!
Now, Sheriff Redick is full of regret, hating that he had to involve such a madman while trying to take down the gang for his brother’s revenge.
The moment he got into the car, he turned off his phone, then took the radio and kept urging...
"Quick quick quick..."
"Slow down, no rush..."
Mountain Eagle leisurely put on his bulletproof Vest, then pulled open the backseat and yanked a few gun bags from the trunk...
From the gun bags, he took out two UMP45s equipped with silencers, along with two pouches filled with magazines and handed them respectively to Butcher and Daria.