Chapter 498
We are very likely exposed.
Chapter 498 We are very likely exposed.
"Where is Xianju Mountain?" Su Miaoyi asked.
The old man smiled and said, "It's just east of the mountain you were thinking of when you were building the road. We used to call it Xianju Mountain."
"That place is called Xianju Mountain?" Zhuang Yanzheng was also a little excited.
The old man smiled, somewhat bewildered: "Yes. When I was a child, my grandfather told me that there was actually a large area to the east that was part of Xianju Mountain. The area we should have been worshipping was further east."
The old man rubbed his cane: "But the mountains over there are too steep. When my grandfather was young, people had accidents every year when he went to worship there. So after that, we only worshiped on the low mountains here and stopped going to the mountains over there."
"After that, no one mentioned Xianju Mountain anymore. Young people nowadays don't even know that this 'sacred mountain' has a name. Let alone young people, even among us older folks, I'm afraid very few of us know it."
Su Miaoyi and Zhuang Yanzheng exchanged another glance.
Zhuang Yanzheng said, "Were you about to go out?"
"I'm old and useless now, I can't cook anymore. I was thinking of going to the convenience store to buy some steamed buns, but before I even left the house, I tripped and fell," the old man said.
"Does your body hurt anywhere? Your arms, legs, and waist?" Su Miaoyi asked.
"It's okay, it's okay. I'm fine, I'm used to falling."
"I'll go buy it for you, you don't need to go out," Zhuang Yanzheng said.
"No, no, no, that won't do. It's no trouble at all. I can go by myself."
Su Miaoyi looked around the old man's house; it was almost empty.
She touched her pockets and found only a cell phone; she didn't have the habit of carrying cash.
"No trouble at all, it'll be over in a minute." Zhuang Yanzheng said, taking out his wallet, taking out more than two thousand yuan from it, and gently placing it in the old man's pocket. Then he patted the old man's hand, "Wait here, I'll be back in a bit."
"Thank you."
The two left.
After leaving the house and walking a short distance, Su Miaoyi whispered, "I think there might be a drug manufacturing plant in the mountains."
Zhuang Yanzheng looked at her in surprise.
"I'm not telling you that when I saw the scene of Huang Qi killing people, I always felt like something was missing."
"What is it?"
“The smell,” Su Miaoyi said. “There’s a faint, almost imperceptible, pungent chemical smell in the air. It’s so faint that you can hardly notice it unless you’re sniffing carefully.”
So she overlooked that point as well.
Because the smell was so faint, and she was still seeing things from Huang Qi's second uncle's perspective, all her hearing and smell were obtained through Huang Qi's second uncle, so it was too difficult to notice.
After listening to her, Zhuang Yanzheng's mind immediately wandered to many things.
“Yashanhou Village has so many wells, which can provide a large water source. As for electricity, they must have a way to do that too,” Zhuang Yanzheng said. “Also, the stones they quarried from the foot of the mountain when they started building houses a few years ago. We went for a walk yesterday afternoon, and there were so many stones piled up at the foot of the mountain. They used them for building houses, but there are still so many left over. That’s not normal. Could it be that they dug a tunnel?” “Possibly,” Su Miaoyi said. “Yashanhou Village looks like it’s inaccessible from the mountains, and because of their beliefs, Yashan Village doesn’t allow people to enter the mountains casually. It’s a natural barrier for the people inside Xianju Mountain. The drugs must be transported out. Yashanhou Village has direct access to the town, so no one from other villages would know. If that’s the case, Yashanhou Village must know something, and the whole village is a suspect.”
After Su Miaoyi finished speaking, she was silent for a while and then said, "But the factory emits a lot of smoke and produces a lot of irritating gases. It also discharges wastewater and waste. Why hasn't anyone reported this?"
“Could it be?” Zhuang Yanzheng looked towards the east end of the village. “Is it too far from the village? There are only these two villages in this area. Looking at the map, further east is a mountain range that seems to stretch endlessly, and there’s no one there. According to the two villages, the area further east of the mountain is too steep, and few people go there. And further east, it gets farther and farther from the village, so even fewer people would go there.”
“If it’s far enough, even if there’s a little wind, the village probably won’t smell anything. And they probably have special methods to deal with it so that the smell is very faint, generally undetectable,” Zhuang Yanzheng said. “If it’s far enough, the waste can be dumped directly in the mountains. That far away, no one will go there, and no one will notice.”
Su Miaoyi nodded, paused, and then said, "There's another very important question."
Zhuang Yanzheng suddenly clenched his fingers: "Our whereabouts have been exposed."
His first thought was that Xie Zhiyan would kill Su Miaoyi.
Su Miaoyi thought for a moment and said, "Xie Zhiyan shouldn't have arrived yet, otherwise we would have run into him already. If Huang Qi knows us, the message he sent out should be that we left here and went back."
After all, they encountered Huang Qi when they were fighting in Yai Shan Village. At that time, they were planning to leave, but they came back halfway.
On the way into the city, I encountered a few cars, but when I came back, I didn't encounter any cars at night.
There shouldn't have been anyone watching them, and at the time, no one should have known they had returned.
There was only Duan Wenrui.
Su Miaoyi and Zhuang Yanzheng still trusted Duan Wenrui.
Huang Qi was later placed under surveillance.
“Even if Huang Qi sent the message out through other means, it was the day after we returned, which was yesterday,” Su Miaoyi said. “If Xie Zhiyan were here, he would have taken action yesterday.”
“Huang Qi is under surveillance. All signal fluctuations around him are being monitored. It’s unlikely that he’ll send messages out unless there are other people in the village,” Zhuang Yanzheng said. “My main suspect right now is the man from Yashanhou Village yesterday afternoon.”
“The suspect in Yai Shan Hou Village is too high; the entire village could be involved. Our whereabouts were most likely relayed by the man yesterday afternoon,” Su Miaoyi said.
“If Xie Zhiyan isn’t here, he’s probably on his way now,” Zhuang Yanzheng said.
“We can’t be 100% sure that this is the place we’re looking for that’s related to ‘immortals’ and Xie Zhiyan,” Su Miaoyi said. “What if it’s all just a coincidence?”
"Just in case," Zhuang Yanzheng said. "There's definitely something in the mountains, and you smelled a pungent odor in the footage. Something's not right here. We need to bring more people over, and we also need to ensure the safety of the villagers. The people that Team Leader Duan brought aren't enough."
Su Miaoyi nodded: "The safety of the villagers is paramount, but no matter what we do, their first thought will be that we need to cut through the mountains to build a road, which will require a lot of manpower from the villagers. Also, if there's a problem in this mountain, who's covering it up? How many people can we trust and rely on?"
Zhuang Yanzheng said, "Contact Jinghai."
"I'll tell my dad," Su Miaoyi said.
"it is good."
I'll post one chapter first. Goodnight.