Before the taxi could get off the highway, a strong metal reflection attracted Dong Qiangqiang's attention. After careful identification, he found that behind the flash was a tall silver metal building complex, with various pipes winding around, and several tall silver chimneys were spraying white smoke into the air, like giant dragons that were swallowing clouds and fog. He guessed that those might be water vapor.

Not far from the metal complex are several unusually tall silver-white cylindrical buildings, like some kind of storage tank, and there are also some small blue-gray dome buildings next to it that are invisible for use.

Around the dome building are circular pools of varying sizes, and further away, there are red metal buildings as tall as chimneys, but there is no smoke, as if they are buildings such as observation decks.

You can see a blue and green lake near the factory. The lake reflects the beautiful shadows of the surrounding mountains and rivers, as if it were paradise. If you hadn't known in advance, Dong Qiangqiang would never have thought that this place was the wastewater treatment.

"We'll be there soon." The driver muttered, pointing his finger to the direction of the chimney, "My nephew was there before. He worked very leisurely but earned much more than me. It's really unfair to be naive. Alas..."

The car slowly drove onto the asphalt road outside the factory area. Dong Qiangqiang clearly saw that the factory gate was closed. He had just been turned away at the headquarters and asked the driver to stop on the side of the road and walked directly to the front. There were two white probes on the high ground on both sides of the gate. The gate was set in the door. There was a bronze metal sign on the granite wall outside the door, with lines of words "Presentative Di Environmental Company".

"Is there anyone here?" The iron gate was slapped by Dong Qiangqiang, and the guard could definitely hear it as long as he was not a deaf person.

But no one answered in the door.

Dong Qiangqiang walked slowly along the high wall around the factory area. The height was estimated to be about 2.5 meters high, and there was a curled barbed wire mesh on the top. From time to time, you could see the camera in the barbed wire mesh.

There were no figures or parking lots outside the factory, and Dong Qiangqiang could only press his ears to the wall, but even so, he could not hear anyone talking or barking in the factory. All the only sounds of machines in regular operation and intermittent "waving" water flow were heard.

"Look at that." The driver stood outside the car, yelling at him with one hand, pointing in the other direction.

Following the direction pointed by the driver, Dong Qiangqiang saw that there seemed to be a small community a few hundred meters northwest of the water treatment factory, and there were dozens of houses. He vaguely saw the coffee shop sign somewhere in the corner of the street, so he directed the driver to drive over, paid the fare and walked into the coffee shop.

What surprised him was that this inconspicuous French cafe actually provided free wireless WLAN access (of course after consumption). After ordering a latte, Dong Qiangqiang found the best angle to observe the water treatment factory gate, and surfed the Internet while drinking coffee.

QQ and MSN were connected soon, but the avatars of Duanmu on both social software were gray. It was already morning in the United States, and I think he was also running around.

Data from Duanmu shows that the French Victory Group was founded in 1853 and has a history of nearly 150 years. It was formerly known as the French General Water Company, which mainly engaged in public utilities. It was officially renamed the Victory Group in 1998. In 1999, Victory acquired the USFilter company, an American counterpart who has made great achievements in industrial water and wastewater treatment, and became a leader in the global water treatment field. In 2000, Victory Group transferred water, garbage disposal and other public services from the original

The business was divested and the establishment of Victory Environmental Company. Since Victory Environmental adheres to Victory Water Treatment's excellent technology and service capabilities, its global business has expanded rapidly. The growing Victory Environmental moved its office location from Victory Group and moved to the 16th district of Paris. Its main business is still water treatment, garbage treatment, new energy and public transportation. Wall Street reported that Victory Environmental is likely to be listed independently in a few years, and the listing location is probably still the Paris Euromarket Exchange.

While reading the materials, he looked up at the factory door from time to time, but the door was still closed and no vehicles were seen entering and leaving. He said it was a factory, but it seemed to be more quiet than a temple. Dong Qiangqiang even doubted whether there was anyone inside.

According to the "Special Due Diligence Instructions" given to him by Duanmu, if Dong Qiangqiang cannot enter the company to conduct due diligence smoothly, he must observe and record all the situations seen outside the factory.

The hours passed quickly, but there was still no car coming out of the factory, no one walked in, and no one came out.

Taking advantage of this period, Dong Qiangqiang reviewed the electricity consumption of the water factory (this was told by Duanmu). At that time, France's power system was gradually opening up, and the electricity consumption of private enterprises involving public utilities would be properly disclosed to the outside world and subject to supervision. Fortunately, although the electricity consumption of the water factory is included in the total electricity consumption of the Weiwangdi Environmental Company, Weiwangdi Environmental somehow split the electricity consumption of different businesses. Through comparison, Dong Qiangqiang found that except for the fact that no data was disclosed in a few months, the monthly electricity consumption of the water factory in the past year was still very stable.

When the cafe was closed, Duanmu's avatar finally lit up on MSN.

After quickly communicating with Duanmu during the day, Duanmu accepted Dong Qiangqiang's proposal: he stopped investigating the water factory and began visiting the garbage factory tomorrow. In addition, 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 gate suddenly opened a crack, and a dark car without turning on the lights quietly drove out from inside, slowly sank into the darkness.

After inquiring about the location of the nearby hotel with the cafe owner, Dong Qiangqiang walked out of the cafe in the night. The streets were extremely deserted, with no one, and there were not even many windows with lights on. The dim street lights pulled his lonely shadow thin and long.

Dong Qiangqiang, who had been tired for a day, didn't even take a shower. After brushing his teeth, he hurriedly fell on the hard bed. He soon fell asleep. When he woke up in the morning, he realized that he had missed the call Du Lan called last night. He was worried that he would wake up Du Lan too early, so he rushed to wash and have breakfast.

He thought France was a country that paid attention to food and would have a lot of breakfast, but when he arrived at the restaurant, he found that in addition to milk, there was only a small plate of sausage and two croissants, and only a type of jam, which was far from what he ate in Germany.

But Dong Qiangqiang didn't care much about it. After eating it, he hurriedly completed the procedures and rushed out to the garbage disposal factory.

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Chapter completed!