Before the taxi even got off the highway, a strong metallic reflection caught Dong Qiangqiang's attention. After careful analysis, he discovered that behind the flash was a tall silver metal building complex with various winding pipes and several towering pipes. The silver chimney was spewing white smoke into the air, like a giant dragon swallowing clouds of smoke. He guessed that it might be water vapor.
Not far from the metal building complex, there are several unusually tall silver-white cylindrical buildings, which look like some kind of storage tanks. Next to them are some small blue-gray domed buildings with no apparent purpose.
Grab, grab, grab. Circular pools of varying sizes are scattered around the dome building, and further away there are scattered red metal buildings as tall as chimneys, but there is no smoke. They seem to be observation towers or the like.
A blue-green lake can be seen near the factory. The lake reflects the beautiful shadows of the surrounding mountains and rivers, just like a paradise. If Dong Qiangqiang had not known in advance, he would never have guessed that this was where wastewater treatment was done.
"We'll be there soon." The driver muttered, pointing in the direction of the chimney. "My nephew was there before. He worked very leisurely but earned much more than me. It's really unfair. Oh..."
The car slowly drove onto the asphalt road outside the factory. Dong Qiangqiang clearly saw that the factory door was closed. Having just been rejected at the headquarters, he asked the driver to stop on the side of the road and walked up directly. There are two white probes standing on high places on both sides of the door. The door post is set inside the door. There is a bronze metal plate on the granite wall outside the door with the words "Vivendi Environmental Company" written on it.
"Is there anyone here?" Dong Qiangqiang banged the iron door, and the doorman would definitely be able to hear it as long as he was not deaf.
But there was no answer at the door.
Dong Qiangqiang walked slowly along the high wall surrounding the factory. It was visually estimated that the high wall was about 2.5 meters high. There was a curled barbed wire fence on the top. From time to time, cameras could be seen in the barbed wire.
There were no people or parking lot outside the factory. Dong Qiangqiang could only put his ear to the wall, but even so, he couldn't hear anyone talking or dogs barking in the factory area. What came into his ears was the sound of machines operating regularly and intermittent noises. "Whoosh" sound of water flowing.
"Look over there." The driver stood outside the car, holding the door with one hand and pointing in the other direction.
Following the direction pointed by the driver, Dong Qiangqiang saw what seemed to be a small community a few hundred meters northwest of the water treatment plant, with about a few dozen houses. He vaguely saw a cafe sign somewhere on the corner of the street, so he directed the driver to drive over, paid the fare and walked into the cafe.
What surprised him was that this inconspicuous French cafe actually provided free wireless WLAN Internet access. After ordering a latte, Dong Qiangqiang found the best angle to observe the gate of the water treatment plant, drank coffee and surfed the Internet.
QQ and MSN were quickly connected, but Duanmu's profile picture on both social software was gray. It was already morning in the United States, and he was presumably on the run.
The information given by Duanmu shows that the French Vivendi Group was founded in 1853 and has a history of nearly 150 years. It was formerly known as the French General Water Company and is mainly engaged in the public sector. In 1998, it was officially renamed Vivendi Group. In 1999, Vivendi acquired USFilter, an American peer company that had made great achievements in industrial water and wastewater treatment, and became a leader in the global water treatment field. In 2000, Vivendi separated water and garbage treatment and other public services from its original business and established Vivendi Environmental Company. Because Vivendi Environment has inherited the excellent technology and service capabilities of Vivendi Water Treatment, its global reputation has The business expanded rapidly. The ever-growing Vivendi Environment moved its office location from the Vivendi Group to the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Its main business is still in the four major sectors of water treatment, waste treatment, new energy and public transportation. There are reports on Wall Street that Vivendi Environment is likely to be independently listed in a few years, and the listing place will most likely be Euronext Paris.
While reading the materials, he looked up from time to time to look at the factory door, but the door was still closed, and no vehicles were seen coming in or out. It was said to be a factory, but it seemed quieter than a temple. Dong Qiangqiang even doubted whether there was anyone inside.
According to what Duanmu gave him, if Dong Qiangqiang was unable to successfully enter the company for due diligence, he must observe and record everything he saw outside the factory.
A few hours passed quickly, and still no car came out of the factory, no one walked in, and no one came out.
Using this time, Dong Qiangqiang checked the electricity consumption situation of the water plant. At that time, France's power system was gradually opening up, and private companies involved in public utilities would make appropriate disclosures to the outside world and accept supervision. Fortunately, although the water plant's electricity usage is included in Vivendi Enviro's total electricity usage, Vivendi Environnement somehow separates the electricity usage of the different businesses. Through comparison, Dong Qiangqiang found that except for a few months when no data was disclosed, the monthly electricity consumption of the water treatment plant in the past year was still very stable.
There were still 15 minutes before the cafe closed, and Duanmu’s profile picture finally lit up on MSN.
After a quick exchange of what happened during the day with Duanmu, Duanmu accepted Dong Qiangqiang's proposal: he would stop investigating the water plant and start visiting the garbage factory tomorrow. In addition, in line with the idea of keeping everything simple, Dong Qiangqiang completed the design and execution of the business card and fund website as soon as possible.
Just as the two were communicating, the factory door suddenly opened a crack, and a black car without headlights quietly drove out from inside and slowly disappeared into the darkness.
After asking the cafe owner about the location of a nearby small hotel, Dong Qiangqiang walked out of the cafe in the night. The streets were unusually deserted, with no one around, not even a few lighted windows. The dim street lights stretched his lonely shadow thin and long.
After a tiring day, Dong Qiangqiang didn't even take a shower. After brushing his teeth, he hurriedly fell on the hard bed and quickly fell asleep. When he woke up in the morning, he realized that he had missed the call from Du Lan last night. He wanted to call back, but was worried about waking up Du Lan too early, so he hurriedly washed up and had breakfast.
He originally thought that France was a country that pays attention to gourmet food, and the breakfast would be sumptuous. However, when he arrived at the restaurant, he discovered that in addition to milk, there was only a small plate of sausages and two croissants, and the only jam was strawberry, which was better than what he had in Germany. The food is very different.
昘戅书库网戅. But Dong Qiangqiang didn't care much. After devouring his food, he hurriedly completed the formalities and rushed out the door to the garbage treatment plant.
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