Upon hearing Jiang Chen's inquiry, the old man immediately said with a smile.

"That's the wrong time for you to come. In fact, there are still many people living in the town, but they have all gone out to work."

Having said this, the old man seemed to suddenly think of something. Before Jiang Chen could continue to ask, he quickly stood up and said.

"Is there still water in the kettle? If it's not enough, I'll get you some more water."

Jiang Chenruo glanced at the old man thoughtfully, but did not continue to ask "uninterestedly", but followed the old man's topic.

"Uncle, no need."

"There is still water in the kettle, enough for us to drink."

"Oh, that's enough, that's enough!"

The old man muttered softly and quickly sat down again.

Jiang Chen and the others looked at each other, and then began to chat with the old man one after another. After a while, Li Wen suddenly asked.

"Old man, we originally wanted to go for a walk on the mountain behind, but we found that there was suddenly an extra building on the mountain."

When Li Wen mentioned "an extra building on the mountain," Jiang Chen and others suddenly noticed that an unnatural look appeared on the old man's face.

"Building? What building?"

Li Wen stole a glance at Jiang Chen, and after seeing him nodding, he immediately continued.

"It's the building on the hill behind. It looks like it should be a factory!"

"Sigh~ I don't know what that boss thought, but he built the factory halfway up the mountain?"

"Not to mention that it is inconvenient to build a factory here, but it is also bad to damage the environment!"

"Old man, do you know what's going on in that factory?"

at this time.

The old man was obviously a little absent-minded. It wasn't until Li Wen asked again and again that he suddenly came to his senses.

"Ah? I don't know what factory you are talking about..."

At this point, the old man felt that his words were wrong and quickly changed his words.

"no."

"I mean, I don't know what that factory is about."

"I'm old and don't go out much. I don't know when that factory was built."

Seeing the old man's reaction, Jiang Chen stopped Li Wen who wanted to ask more questions with his eyes, and at the same time signaled Chen Juxing to put away the banknotes he secretly took out of his pocket.

"I see, it's a pity that the beautiful scenery has been ruined by a factory."

Jiang Chen pretended to be helpless and shook his head, then picked up the water glass and drank it all in one gulp, then burped loudly before putting the water glass back on the table.

"I'm full, how about you?"

Li Wen and others also drank the water in their own cups, nodded and said.

"We can do it too!"

"In that case, let's go!" Jiang Chen replied, then turned to look at the old man, "Uncle, thank you for the water, we should leave now."

"ah?"

The old man was still a little uneasy just now. When he heard that Jiang Chen and others were about to leave, he didn't react for a while.

"Are you leaving?"

"Yes!" Jiang Chen nodded and said, "Finally, I have to thank you uncle, I will leave now!"

at this time.

The old man has slowly come to his senses.

"How about I find a container to put some water in for you to take with you? This will save you from being thirsty again later."

Jiang Chen smiled and waved his hand, then patted his belly and refused.

"Uncle, we appreciate your kindness. There is no need to bring water!"

"We've all filled our stomachs with water now, enough to last us until we go back!"

"Okay then!" the old man responded without saying anything more.

Jiang Chen and others stood up from the bamboo chairs, greeted the old man one after another, then declined the old man's kindness and quickly left the old man's house.

...

After coming out of the old man's house, Jiang Chen led the other three people directly towards the car.

"Um?"

Seeing Jiang Chen's choice, Chen Jiuxing asked in surprise.

"Jiang Chen, didn't you say before that there are still people in a few houses? Let's not go to other houses to have a look?"

Jiang Chen kept walking and said softly.

"There's no need to go. If I guessed correctly, the situation of several other households is similar to this one."

After Jiang Chen finished speaking, Li Wen asked urgently before Chen Jiuxing could continue to ask.

"Fourth, I can understand what you are saying."

"but......"

"You can also see that the old man should know some information about that factory, but why don't you let me continue to ask?"

Before Jiang Chen could reply, Chen Juxing also asked the doubts in his heart.

"One more thing, why didn't you let me pay just now?"

"Based on the reality here, I believe that as long as I slap a wad of bills on the table, the old man will definitely tell me everything!"

While they were talking, several of them had returned to the car, and Jiang Chen stopped and turned to look at the three people around him.

"I said before that based on my experience in looking at people, that old man is not the kind of person who is blind to money."

"But I also said, if ten thousand doesn't work, I will pay one hundred thousand. If that doesn't work, then one million..."

Before Chen Juxing could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Jiang Chen waving his hand.

"I know you are willing to pay, but we are already at the foot of the mountain now. Spending that money to get information will be taken advantage of."

"Since we can't find out, we can go and search the scene ourselves."

"actually......"

"Originally, I thought it would be easy to ask questions about the factory, but I didn't expect that I actually encountered difficulties. However, we have gained nothing. At least we know that there must be a problem with that factory."

After listening to Jiang Chen's explanation, Chen Juxing nodded gently and said nothing more.

Here, Jiang Chen glanced at the three of them and continued.

"Of course, there is another reason why I stopped you from continuing to ask questions."

"When Third Brother asked just now, I saw a strange look in the old man's eyes."

"Obviously, he must have some unspeakable difficulties in his heart."

"Since he doesn't want to say anything, let's stop asking further and just investigate on our own!"

Li and Wen nodded slightly and fell silent for a moment.

After a while, Yichen suddenly asked.

"Jiang Chen, are you suspecting that the "small town suddenly turned into an empty city" is related to that factory?"

"Yes!" Jiang Chen replied without hesitation, "This factory is definitely not that simple. I have a hunch that the root of all these things is here."

"Perhaps this factory has something to do with the [Thunder Fire Sect]!"

As soon as Jiang Chen said this, the other three people were slightly startled, but then they quickly reacted.

This incident has been confirmed to be a trap set by the [Thunder Fire Sect] for Lijia. If, as Jiang Chen said, the root of all problems lies here, then it must be inseparable from the [Thunder Fire Sect].

"Fourth, what should we do next?" Li Wen asked.

"do what?"

Jiang Chen looked up at several large chimneys halfway up the mountain and said softly.
Chapter completed!