I turned on my mobile phone and searched online for news about the mining area. There was very little information. Even if there was some official statements about the planning and development of the mine, there was very little gossip about the mining area.

The mine has undergone several changes since the 1990s. It can be said that things have changed and people have changed.

After the iron ore was dug out, only the remaining empty shell of the mountain remained. For safety reasons, the city government filled up the mine around 2000, and then built a mountain park on the old mine site.

After 2010, with the initial recovery of the mining environment, the city government planned several new residential areas there.

Around 2015, new policies were introduced, and environmental protection and green development became the mainstream. The last witness of the mine was that the Jishui City Steel Plant began to close and move to other places. At this point, the development plan for the mine came to an abrupt end.

Subsequently, Jishui City vigorously developed emerging industries such as the Internet, and everyone's attention was immediately focused on the Eastern High-tech Industrial Park, leaving the mines completely deserted.

From the 1950s and 1960s to 2010, too many stories could have happened in the intervening half century.

As Yan Zheng read about the historical development of the mines, his heart was gradually shrouded in gloom. The mines had been filled up and the history had been buried.

At least two to three generations of people have lived there. Can the information about the mission target still be traced?

I hope I am mistaken. If I really speculate on this mission, I will be in trouble.

What troubles Yan Zheng is not the task itself but the time. The company did not give a time limit for this task. From the side, it seems to be beneficial to Yan Zheng. From another perspective, the unlimited time also reveals the mission.

The difficulty of solving the puzzle. The company is not optimistic that Yan Zheng can solve the puzzle of task branch one in a short time. There seems to be no time limit, but there is a hidden time limit.

That will be related to the final competition between Yan Zheng and the company.

Thinking of this, Yan Zheng's eyes narrowed with sharpness, and he took out the execution record and started a new round of speculation.

It seems that the task has no time limit, but in fact there is not much time left for Yan Zheng.

The company knows more about it than Yan Zheng. The company may have determined what it is, but it is hidden deep enough for the company to find. The time when the company decided to intervene was the time of Yan Zheng's hidden mission.

Then the company's attitude was questionable, and Yan Zheng began to hypothesize and reason.

Assume that the company has the idea of ​​​​unlocking the task branch and taking action as soon as it gets the news about it. Once its task unlocking progress reaches a deadlock and wastes a lot of time, Baobuqi Company will bypass itself and directly take action against it.

The company has the strength and manpower. As long as it sends out large-scale manpower to investigate the mining areas one by one, it can always find what is hidden!

The reason why the company didn't do this at the beginning was obviously due to some concerns. A large number of monsters from the underworld integrating into the area of ​​​​the yang world may cause adverse consequences. This kind of taboo should not be allowed by the underworld, otherwise there would be no such thing as our company in the yang world.

It's an agency.

When the company has concerns and is inconvenient to take action directly, it comes to me. There are at least two reasons for the company to choose me.

First, I have the ability. I successfully cracked two difficult tasks despite the company's obstruction. My ability is self-evident.

Secondly, I have a geographical advantage. I am a native of Jishui, so it is much easier to find people than outsiders.

Based on the above reasons, it can be seen that the company has no choice but to find itself.

There is no benefit in seeking skin from a tiger.

Use yourself while guarding yourself.

In this case, the company will be paranoid and extremely anxious at the same time, because as time goes by, the possibility of it being exposed to itself will become greater and greater.

Although side task one and side task two are related, they are two independent tasks. While interpreting side task one by yourself, it does not prevent you from interpreting side task two.

Delaying time will not do the company any good. Every extra day increases the chance that it will be discovered by itself.

As long as the risk exceeds the company's estimate, the company will definitely not be able to help but send out manpower to conduct a large-scale investigation. Maybe it will directly close the second branch of the mission, issue new tasks to limit its actions, and transfer its action power to other places.

The task situation will change according to the progress of the task. Employees are asked to pay attention to the manual task correction at any time.

Yan Zheng stared at the words at the end of the mission introduction and touched his chin thoughtfully. At first, Yan Zheng didn't understand the hidden meaning of this sentence. Only now did he discover the company's sinister intentions. In an emergency, the company can change the mission to block it.

Get the upper hand yourself.

Thinking of this, Yan Zheng suddenly laughed out loud, and it was a seemingly watertight calculation. He had to admit that the other party was indeed a group of people turned into ghosts, and the calculation was really impeccable.

But is there really an impeccable conspiracy in the world? Has the company forgotten how it was slapped in the face in the first two missions?

Do you still dare to plot against me? What if you can solve the task and obtain information before the company’s expected time?

After finding the target of task branch one, don't rush to complete the task. Instead, after getting the news about it, go directly to complete task branch two, and then go back and finish after task two is completed!

In this way, you can squeeze out time to intervene in the second branch of the mission. The company will not send anyone to follow you, so the company can only speculate on your actions based on the completion of the mission.

If your guess is accurate, it is feasible to put aside task 1 to confuse the company into acting secretly.

As a result, Yan Zheng faced the same problem as the company - time.

The company can't afford to wait, and neither can Yan Zheng. Only by cracking the mission and finding the legendary "it" Yan Zheng before the company is ready can we gain maximum benefits and disrupt the company's conspiracy.

At the same time, the initiative can be held in Yan Zheng's hands. What the company wants is not it, but the thing behind it. Only by mastering it can Yan Zheng have the right to speak in the next series of tasks.

This is a war without smoke and a race against time.

Since it was a race against time, every minute and every second became precious. Originally, Yan Zheng thought that there was no time limit for the task. He would go home tonight and go to bed early tomorrow morning before triggering the task.

It seemed that it was urgent to trigger the task now. Yan Zheng looked at the time on his phone, which read 7:30 pm.

Regardless of dinner, Yan Zheng called Liu Jinding and went straight to the mission location, South Steel Factory Road.

Sitting in the car, Yan Zheng still kept his hands on the execution record, still thinking about the hidden information that had not yet been discovered in the mission.

Suddenly, the car began to tilt. Yan Zheng's thoughts were interrupted and he looked up. He saw a straight road leading diagonally from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. The houses on both sides were scattered layer by layer, giving a unique and unique feel.

Seeing Yan Zheng's surprise, Liu Jinding couldn't help but explain: "Boss, is this your first time here? I didn't expect the scenery here to be so good. You don't know that in the early years, the sky was filled with soot and there were exposed rock pits everywhere. I can’t look at it. I was just as surprised as you when I came here for the first time, and there’s something even more surprising for you above.”

The car climbed to the top of the former mine, and what came into view was a lush forest park. An environmentally friendly road was built around the woods. Although it was late autumn, there were still many people from nearby communities walking up the mountain for exercise, in twos and threes. People add a bit of popularity to the top of the mountain.

The steel plant is built in Nanli, a mine on the side far away from the urban area. You need to go around the environmental protection road to the south side of the mine and then go down the mountain along the environmental protection road.

The mining community is close to the mountain range extending from the mine. Regardless of the pollution caused by steel plants in previous years, the location of this community is very good. It is close to mountains and rivers and is suitable for retirement.

As the car turns over the top of the mountain, you can have a clear view of the mining community and steel plant from the top of the mountain.

The steel factory was demolished and only a skeleton was left. It lost all its former charm and looked even more lonely in the darkness.

The community is an old-fashioned community with a strong atmosphere of the times, with exposed red brick walls covered with ivy.

At first glance, I thought I was back in the 1990s. As I drove down the long downhill road, the newly built environmental protection road suddenly stopped at the bend at the foot of the mountain. After turning around the mountain, my vision became bright again, and I could see a crouching dragon in the distance. crisscrossed by railway bridges.

Yan Zheng could imagine the grand occasion here. Trains transporting steel were constantly coming and going, and trains loaded with steel were sent from here to all over the country. Now only the rusty railway remains.

Seeing this scene, Yan Zheng was filled with tears in his heart. Before Yan Zheng could finish his emotion, a railway culvert appeared in front of him.

Yan Zheng suddenly stopped and asked, "Old Liu, you are familiar with taking taxis all the time. What is the name of this road?"

Liu Jinding parked the car in confusion and leaned on the side of the road, frowning and thinking for a while before slowly speaking: "Is this road South Steel Factory Road or Mining South Road? The road here is old and in disrepair and there is no street sign." , I haven’t been here a few times, so I really can’t remember.”

Yan Zheng nodded thoughtfully and said to Liu Jinding: "Pass the lantern ghost to me!"

Lifting the lantern ghost in front of his eyes, Yan Zheng used the lantern ghost's light to look at the dark bridge ahead.

The bridge in front is close to the mine and is low-lying. When it rains heavily, rainwater from the mountains will accumulate here. Could it be the bridge that accumulates water all year round as mentioned in the mission?

Yan Zheng looked at the lantern ghost's light for a long time, but he didn't find any ghosts.

Yan Zheng got back into the car and told Liu Jinding to continue driving forward. The road through the bridge hole became bumpy. After the mine declined, the road that originally led to the mountain became useless. It was almost abandoned and the city government would not repair it.

The large crater created by the heavy truck was as rugged as the hill, and driving on it gave the feeling of being on a boat.

After passing several abandoned factories along the bumpy road, the original appearance of the road has long been obscured by thick cinders. The edges and corners of the red bricks of the factory buildings that have been eroded by time have become unclear. The place was splattered with black smudges.

Everything here has a strong atmosphere of heavy industry, and black has become the main theme here. In the absence of street lights, the black road against the dark night reflects the black flash.

Along this road, we pass by a steel factory. The gate of the steel factory is locked, and the mottled and exposed paint on the factory sign seems to be crying out about the sadness of being forgotten.

A few hundred meters past the gate, I saw another culvert. The terrain of this culvert was even weirder than the previous culvert. It was high on both sides and low in the middle. It was difficult to prevent water from accumulating in the rain. The roads here were designed like this. It was not easy to accumulate water.

culvert?

Yan Zheng couldn't help but blame the original designer for how he could troubleshoot so many water-filled culverts.
Chapter completed!