Chen Si's right hand touched the handle of the knife again.
"What, is there something shady?"
Ran Zhu naturally noticed the movements of Chen Si's hands, his expression dropped, and he put on a flattering smile again.
"Hey, look at what you said, little brother, our village is all good and law-abiding people, how can there be anything shady? I'll take you to the temple later and put two sticks of incense on it, maybe Gods can also bless you by the way."
After saying that, he continued to lead the way obediently.
After walking for more than an hour, it was now close to noon. The outline of the sun could be seen in the sky, but the sunlight still could not illuminate the dense fog around us.
Chen Si walked through the heavy fog. After walking for a long time, he felt like he was suffocating. It seemed that the fog was like substance, which he breathed into his lungs and could not be expelled for a long time.
There are always hidden sounds in the bamboo forest, as if someone is whispering in the distance, and it is impossible to tell whether it is the wind or a person.
Clatter. Clatter.
The rustling of bamboo leaves finally gradually weakened, and the endless green bamboos on the roadside became sparse. After walking forward for a while, traces of human construction appeared.
A bare hill appeared in front of us. There were many large and small mines on it. Due to the long-term construction, there was no vegetation on this mountain wall.
Not far away, seven or eight excavators and transport trucks were parked haphazardly in the open space. Some transport trucks were carrying some black ore, but there was no trace of the driver in the driver's seat. There were also some green ore growing in the pile. The grass sprouts had obviously been left idle for a long time.
"Brother, the factory is over here! This factory in our village is very impressive. I will take you in to visit it.
Don’t worry, I am considered the number one person in the factory, they dare not deny me face! "
Chen Si nodded and continued walking forward with him.
The two walked along the wheel marks on the road for half an hour, and finally saw the outline of the factory.
The factory is surrounded by a wall made of old black bricks. The bricks are covered with green moss, and it seems that no one has taken care of them for a long time.
Ran Zhu walked to the door with his head held high and walked straight in through the tattered and rusty iron door.
He glanced at the empty security room and said proudly to Chen Si: "Brother, just come in, I'm covering you, he doesn't dare to stop you."
Chen Si looked at it and found that the tables and chairs in the security room were covered with dust. He didn't know who he was talking to.
However, Chen Si did not expose him, and asked cooperatively: "It seems that your status here is not low?"
This sentence finally scratched the itch in Ran Zhu's heart. He put his hands on his hips and said, "No, sir, I am the supporter of the factory. Do you understand, a core technical worker? The factory cannot move without me. It is the factory." You have to be polite to me now that you have grown up! My wife is the factory director’s daughter!”
After saying that, he opened the door and took Chen Si into one of the production workshops.
The workshop is equipped with all kinds of metal smelting equipment. It can be seen that the original factory facilities are relatively advanced.
It's just that the paint on the surfaces of these devices has peeled off, and there are spider webs everywhere.
As soon as the door opened, a damp musty smell hit my face.
Chen Si covered his nose and looked around.
There were no living people inside, not even a corpse. Other than that, there was nothing unusual.
Then he followed Ran Zhu and walked in.
However, as soon as Ran Zhu entered, he greeted a ball of air.
He extended his arms enthusiastically in a shoulder-slapping gesture.
"Lao Li, you have been working hard at your job recently. How are you doing at work? Do you need my help?"
Ran Zhu paused, as if waiting for the air's answer.
After a moment, he responded with a smile: "Not bad, good, work hard. When you finish the job, I will give the factory director a few words to see if I can give you a salary increase."
"We're all brothers, so why thank you? Of course, remember to treat me to dinner another day. You won't be without the wine money."
"..."
Ran Zhu walked around the processing workshop and greeted the "worker friends" present one by one, looking very happy.
But this scene seemed extremely weird in Chen Si's eyes.
A long-dead corpse without a pulse or breathing was greeting people everywhere in the deserted factory.
It seems that in his eyes, the workers here are working enthusiastically and everyone is very familiar with them.
Chen Si had a strange idea in his mind.
Is it possible to really see the soul in the eyes of the dead? Could it be that the people he was greeting were the dead souls of the villagers?
With a skeptical attitude, he continued to follow Ran Zhu and accompanied him to visit several production workshops one after another.
Ran Zhu knew everyone in the factory and could chat for a long time every time he went to a workshop. He also enjoyed it and enjoyed the compliments of these "workmates".
After spending a lot of time shopping around, Chen Si still couldn't find any clues in the end.
Seeing that it was getting dark, Ran Zhu smiled slyly at Shen Shen.
"Brother, look, it's going to be dark soon. Do you want to come to my house and sit down? Our house is very big, a three-story bungalow with many rooms. There are quilts and mattresses. You can live in wherever you like."
Chen Si couldn't help but hesitate in his heart.
To be honest, he actually didn't want to follow a dead man home.
But in the entire village, there is only one villager named Ran Zhu who can still speak. The others have gone to unknown places.
Chen Si didn’t want to miss this important clue.
After thinking for a moment, he nodded and agreed.
Ran Zhu immediately beamed with joy, with a slightly lewd look in his brows, and made a gesture of rubbing his fingers with his index finger.
"Brother, of course it's okay if you want to live there, that's it, ahem..."
Chen Si didn't expect to be blackmailed by a dead man, so he took out a few more red bills from his wallet and handed them to him.
"Is it enough?"
Ran Zhu counted and nodded repeatedly.
"That's enough, that's enough! Go back and get some more dishes for you to eat, little brother! The farm food is so authentic!"
So he took Chen Si back to the village.
In order to make it easier for the villagers to commute to and from get off work, the factory was built not far from Huangkou Village. The shadow of the village can be seen after walking more than a kilometer away.
Through the heavy fog, you can see a few dim lights in the night.
This light is bright and dark, flickering and infiltrating.
As I got closer, I realized that the light turned out to be a street lamp on the street.
Because it was in disrepair and had poor contact, the light was not very bright and could only illuminate a small area nearby.
And further away, a long street was dark and dark, without a trace of light.
It was like an abyss, and a pair of eyes were watching him silently at the end of the long street.
"The street lights have been broken for years, don't mind."
Fortunately, Ran Zhu's house is at the end of the village, so there is no need to go further into the village.
But his home was not as spacious as he said. It was a yellow adobe house with some tiles and thatch put up to protect it from the rain. The entire wall had several large cracks and was crumbling, as if it might collapse at any time.
