Chapter 483 - Chapter 483: Chapter 483 Birds and Insects (1/2)

Chapter 483: Chapter 483 Birds and Insects

Early in the morning, Zhou Rui and his squadmates split into two teams to investigate the mountains.

Fang Pingfang, Mijoe, and Gao Shu took equipment and headed to Wushu Mountain, while Zhou Rui went to Chongyun Mountain with Li Shibao and Ye Chong.

However, when passing through Chongyun Village, since the road in the village had just been repaired, their car did not drive straight to the foot of the mountain as before. At Zhou Rui’s suggestion, they took a few laps in the village along the newly repaired road.

Feeling a significant change in the village, Zhou Rui even asked Li Shibao to stop the car and asked Ye Chong to launch the drone they brought with them to shoot the overall situation of Chongyun Village from a high altitude.

“It seems that it has been more than half a month since we last went into the mountains, right? The changes are too dramatic.” Zhou Rui wondered.

Li Shibao, however, calmly said while watching the footage from the drone, “As long as there’s enough money, this speed is nothing at all. Last time we went into the mountains, the road into Chongyun Village was almost finished. Extending it into the village wouldn’t take much work. And installing those street lights and such is even simpler.”

Zhou Rui frowned and said, “The question is… what is this small village planning to do with such a large-scale construction?”

According to the footage from the drone, Chongyun Village had not only repaired the roads inside and outside the village in a short period of time, but there were also construction sites in many places, and their scale was not small.

“Does this have anything to do with what we’re investigating?” Li Shibao wondered, “It’s obvious that Jianzhou City is increasing its investment in the Tongshi Town area. Haven’t you noticed that when we went to Tongshi Town for dinner a few days ago, there were noticeably more cars and people on the road, and many stores were being renovated, becoming busier?”

Zhou Rui nodded and did not refute. He just held his tablet showing the drone’s footage and asked Ye Chong in the distance, “Chong, do you know what these construction sites are for?”

Ye Chong came over, looked at the places Zhou Rui pointed at, said, “Wait a moment,” and then checked on his tablet. He said, “The ones on the outskirts of the village are all breeding bases and farms under construction. The one near the village here should be a research base under construction, and it’s related to breeding and the Internet.”

Then, as if Ye Chong remembered something, he looked up at Zhou Rui, “If you call me ‘Chong’ again, believe it or not, I’ll shave your eyebrows off while you’re sleeping.”

Zhou Rui laughed and said, “Okay, I won’t call you ‘Chong’. I’ll learn from Hua Hua. I’ll call you Xiao Ye!”

If it had been a few months ago when they had just met, Ye Chong would certainly have seriously told Zhou Rui not to give him nicknames. But now… he just rolled his eyes and didn’t bother to say more.

Because they had spent a lot of time together during this period, they were very familiar with each other’s personality. Zhou Rui knew that he wouldn’t really get mad at a joke, and Ye Chong knew… if he didn’t let Zhou Rui call him “Xiao Ye”, this guy would definitely come up with other nicknames and certainly wouldn’t just call him by his name.

Next, they didn’t go directly into the mountains, but at Zhou Rui’s request, they went to the construction site of the so-called Internet and breeding-related research base.

As Fang Pingfang had instructed, their trip to Chongyun Mountain was Zhou Rui’s responsibility and he made all the decisions. So even though Li Shibao and Ye Chong felt that Chongyun Village was irrelevant to their investigation, they followed him around anyway.

As the off-road vehicle slowed down near the construction site, a tall and thin young man came over, waving, “You can’t park here, please park over there.”

Li Shibao still parked the car at a suitable place outside the construction site. As Zhou Rui descended from the car, he said, “We are just here to have a look and then leave; we won’t stay for long.”

The tall, skinny young man who had just taken over his brother, Liu Gaoshang, as the technician at the construction site, was staring blankly at Li Shibao and Ye Chong, who had just alighted the vehicle. He watched as they directly bypassed him and headed into the construction site, feeling somewhat helpless.

“Hey… this is a construction site, there’s really nothing to see!” Recalling his brother’s instructions, Liu Gaoshang quickly caught up and tried to stop the three of them.

Zhou Rui smiled and showed an identification card to him saying, “I heard that this place is going to have a research base. We are ‘researchers’ from Taiyu Biological Laboratory in Citong City. We are also doing scientific research and would like to take a look inside… ”

His identification card was authentic. The Taiyu Laboratory was backed by “Divine Technology”. Although neither of the six of them had ever been to the Taiyu Laboratory, it had always been their shield when they were investigating various incidents in Haixi Province. Many of their investigations were directly applied to the locals, which brought them many conveniences.

Upon hearing that they were scientists, Liu Gaoshang froze for a second, he was undecided. Although he and his brother had terrible grades growing up, under his brother’s influence, he held a high respect for those with high education and scientific researchers. The “Dr. Xia” who was always with Mr. Xiang and seemed to understand everything, reinforced their thinking that biologists are indeed very impressive.

“Are you part of the construction team? Do you know who is responsible for this research base?” As Zhou Rui spoke, he signaled Ye Chong to take some pictures, and also to bring over the drone to take a birds-eye view.

Just as Liu Gaoshang was dumbfounded and didn’t know how to respond, his brother, Liu Zhengyi, who had been on duty at the construction site all night and just changed shifts after eating breakfast, saw strangers on the site, he came over and asked his brother, “Who are these people?”

Zhou Rui and Ye Chong both dressed and looked scholarly. Liu Zhengyi treated them well, thinking that they might be friends of Mr. Xiang.

“They came from some Thailand Laboratory…” Liu Gaoshang quickly came over and quietly updated his brother. Of course, he did not clearly hear a lot of details and could only provide a rough idea.

However, as soon as Liu Zhengyi heard, he immediately judged that these three people were not there to see Mr. Xiang. They were not clear about the actual use of the construction site or who was behind it.

“I apologize, we are in charge of security here and outsiders are not allowed to enter. You can see that none of you are wearing hard hats; it violates the rules of safe production. Please kindly step away.” Liu Zhengyi said politely, but firmly. He stood in front of the three of them, gently gesturing with his both hands for them to leave.

Although Liu Zhengyi was not tall, he had a strong and sturdy physique. He had an unruly spirit that made Zhou Rui and Ye Chong subconsciously move out of the construction site’s gates. As for Li Shibao, he initially did not see the need to come here and check out the construction site, so naturally, he would not want to have any conflict with the Liu brothers.

Although Zhou Rui found the construction site to be quite strange and felt it did not seem like an agricultural research facility, he didn’t find the need to insist on entering.

If they really want to investigate something, they could send a drone to scout or directly apply for a permit from the sponsors. There was no need to argue with the construction site staff.

“Brother, we are conducting a study on ants. Being a local, can you please tell us, have you seen this sort of ant while living here?” Zhou Rui said while displaying a clear image of an ant on his tablet to Liu Zhengyi.

You see, it’s a flying ant, a male reproductive one. It’s a bit larger, shorter wings, and these veins on its wings…and these antennae…”