Chapter 1200 Riverdale (2/2)

”How about watching the race?” said Li Du.

Driver hesitated a little and said, ”Oh, I can do that.”

Li Du said, ”Good, then. We will be in the audience when the race starts. Whirlwind wants to try this time.”

Whirlwind Charles Bradley had been in the G9 frontier force. Brother Wolf said that when he was a soldier, he was best at street assault with a submachine gun, and earned the nickname because he was so cool at close combat.

In addition, he was a good driver. Whirlwind used to drive when their team went on duty.

His quick temper and penchant for fast driving made his nickname stick.

Riverdale was a common location name in the United States, with several small towns having such a name. One of them was the setting of a comic that had been made into a TV series.

Produced by the CW, this TV series was first broadcasted 20 years ago. It was a crime and suspense drama, and had caused quite a stir at the time.

Because there was something weird about Riverdale as shown on TV, it attracted so many people to explore the real place that the station had to explain that their TV show was based on a comic book and had no basis in reality.

Riverdale, Arizona, was famous before the show. It was an old town that has been around for over 150 years, and it was one of the best locations in the state.

Phoenix was surrounded by desert with dry and hot climate and serious water shortage problems and was not suitable for mass habitation before modern times.

Riverdale, on the other hand, was located in a large oasis and named after the key to its formation: the valley of a large ancient river.

The town was on the northwest border of Arizona. Li Du and the others rented a mansion near a small river flowing into Riverdale.

Riverdale Town did not look like Phoenix. It was located next to a river that had several tributaries and eventually joined the mighty Colorado River.

The truck spent a good five and a half hours on the road, then turned onto a rough dirt road. There was no convenient road into Riverdale.

Since Riverdale had a lot of groundwater, it was not easy to build roads, and no established roads led to the town.

This was relatively rare in the United States, where the road network was so well-developed that even in rural areas, there were flat and straight roads leading directly to every destination.

Residents of Riverdale protested to the government, and actually took the radical step of tearing down government buildings with guns.

At that time, there was a big uproar. The state and city governments were angry and even more unwilling to pay for road construction.

Because there were no roads, fewer people visited Riverdale in the early days, and the damage to the environment was minimal. As a result, Riverdale was relatively undeveloped and remained the same as it was more than half a century ago.

This, however, was the beauty of Riverdale, which later attracted a large number of nostalgic tourists and contributed to the town's economic prosperity.

When the government and residents of the river valley realized this, they stopped building roads. They kept repairing the dirt roads and adding cinders to make the roads into special attractions as they had been during the great western development.

As the truck bumped along the cinder road, the landscape began to change.

As they drove through the desert, they saw no green plants except cacti.

However, down the cinder road, everything changed.