Hidden moth

Chapter 176: The Cup of Goods Guarding the Lonely Garden

Ye Liangcheng was drinking again.

This is his temporary office. It is very large, occupying an entire floor. There is a large suite that has been renovated and has water, electricity and internet access.

You can also order takeout and have it delivered to the message room at the main entrance of the park and placed on the windowsill.

From his "office building," he was only a few steps away from the message room. Supposedly, the message room was his current job, and he had to keep a close eye on the gate to the park, preventing anyone, especially the waste collectors, from entering.

But the door was closed, and the walls here looked shabby and mottled. In fact, even those bloggers who like adventure can't climb in. There was nothing to convey on weekdays, so he preferred to stay in the comfortable temporary office.

Although only half of the floor was renovated, the entire building was empty. He could stay wherever he wanted and do whatever he wanted.

He built a large hall upstairs that served as a kitchen and dining room, put an oval conference table as a dining table, built a stove next to it, used a gas tank to cook, and placed several large refrigerators side by side... Whose kitchen is so spacious?

He was too lazy to cook today, so he ordered four dishes and a soup from takeout and placed them on the table in the office. It looked like he was taking time out from working overtime to eat something, and he also opened a bottle of Wuliangye.

He loves drinking this kind of wine, which is rich, sweet and not intoxicating. He has many boxes of it stored in the room next door.

At this time, a big wolf dog pushed the door open. This dog was very smart and had learned to stand up and use its paws to open the door. It ran to the table, sticking out its tongue and wagging its tail.

Ye Liangcheng said with a smile: "Second brother, it's not time for your meal yet, go out and guard the gate first!"

He raised five wolfhounds, named the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth. As for the eldest... that was of course himself.

These five wolfhounds are the patrol security guards he hired for this entrepreneurial park. They have formal letters of appointment with the official seal stamped by him personally, and they also have monthly salaries, which he, as the boss, is responsible for collecting.

This behavior may seem absurd to others, but life always has to have a sense of ritual.

The office building where he is located is, of course, an unfinished building, and the entire CBD business center around it is also an unfinished project.

The reason why he was guarding here alone with only five dogs by his side dates back more than ten years ago.

There is a hill not far from here. In the old days, it was a mass grave and firewood mountain in the far north suburbs of Nanhua City. The hill has been cut bare by villagers who came to collect firewood, with only some weeds and shrubs left.

That mountain had no name since ancient times, and was later named Luanhua Mountain. It is said that it was named after the poetic line "the flowers are so numerous that they dazzle the eyes."

Decades ago, Luanhua Mountain ceased to be a mass grave and began to undergo afforestation. Many of the trees planted then have grown tall and majestic, largely due to the region's warm climate and abundant rainfall.

About a decade ago, Luanhua Mountain was transformed into a forest park, with trails and landscape leisure facilities built. The investor is a large real estate group in Nanhua, whose asset scale ranks among the top in the country.

A large plot of land near Luanhuashan Forest Park was also acquired by the real estate group at the same time. The real estate project developed was called "Jinxiu Tianheng", which coincided with another wave of boom in the national real estate industry at that time.

The Jinxiu Tianheng residential project is developing rapidly, divided into five phases. This rolling development approach is primarily designed to improve capital efficiency, and all five phases have been completed and delivered.

In fact, on the eve of the delivery of the fifth phase of residential buildings, the developer's capital chain had major problems. Fortunately, the project was nearing completion and was finally delivered.

According to the developer's original plan, there will not only be a large residential area, but also a consumption and leisure and entertainment area, and a supporting CBD business center to attract companies to settle in.

This CBD business center is called Jinxiu Entrepreneurship Park.

By then, the Jinxiu Tianheng project will integrate residence, employment, consumption and entertainment, and be built into a satellite city in the remote suburbs of Nanhua City.

If everything goes well, this project may actually be successful, but it requires several prerequisites - huge investment, continuous increase in population, stable economic growth and industry environment.

Unfortunately, a few years later, problems arose in both the overall environment of the real estate industry and the specific environment for developers, and when the construction of Jinxiu Entrepreneurship Park was nearing completion, it was suddenly abandoned.

In fact, as far as the independent project of Jinxiu Tianheng is concerned, the five phases of residential projects have been completed and delivered, and the proceeds can be used to build the CBD center, but the relevant funds have been moved by the developer to other projects in other places to fill the holes.

Moreover, even if the CBD project is built, it will not be able to attract start-up companies and businesses to settle in as originally planned. The more investment, the greater the loss.

Ye Liangcheng's temporary office has been in use for five years. At that time, his father brought his company's engineering team to the construction site and used a supporting service building as a temporary office space...but the project fell through halfway through.

It was at that time that Ye Liangcheng took over his father's company. His company was engaged in decoration projects, not the interior decoration that ordinary people are familiar with, but high and low-voltage projects.

When the project reaches this stage, it means that the main structure of the building has been completed.

The sub-projects in more than a dozen blocks of the entire entrepreneurial park, including the central Jinxiu Entrepreneurship Building, have all been topped out. A small half of the buildings even have windows installed. My father never thought that it could be abandoned!

This was a big project, and my father had secured it through connections. At that time, his family's construction team had already taken over the construction site and started renovating an office building in the southeast corner.

According to the developer, in order to improve the capital turnover rate, all buildings will not be renovated at the same time. Instead, one building will be completed and delivered before renovating the other building. Anyway, the entire project belongs to Ye's company.

However, just as the power and communication lines of the first building were completed and they started installing the second building and needed to settle the payment for the first building, the developer staff who were in contact with them disappeared, and even the settlement of the project payment became a mess.

The developer owes more than just Ye Liangcheng's family. The debt situation of this entrepreneurial park is extremely complicated. Not only does it owe a large amount of bank loans, but it also owes project funds to many units. Many of the creditors are large state-owned units.

The Ye family company was just a small, insignificant player. Leaving aside the complex disputes, Ye Liangcheng had simply taken over the abandoned construction site. Because his company was right there, and he hadn't received his pay yet, he couldn't leave.

He occupied the place for five years, but no one came to drive him away, and of course no one came to settle the bill with him.

If the entrepreneurial park can be sold or rented out after completion, there may be people willing to take over the construction process, but this is obviously unlikely, and there are also complex debt and property rights disputes.

So everyone was trying to collect the debt from the developer, but no one was willing to take on this project that was still under construction. I heard that several banks had tried to jointly organize an auction, but were unsuccessful.

This construction site was occupied by Ye Liangcheng, but it was useless because the property rights were not his, and it was unclear who owned it now. He had become a free gatekeeper.

The original group of technical workers who worked on the power and weak current systems had left long ago as there was no work to do, so Ye Liangcheng only hired a few patrol security guards to watch over the construction site.

There are still many things here that can be dismantled and sold as scrap, mainly to prevent people from coming to "buy goods".

A few years ago, taking advantage of the epidemic, Ye Liangcheng rebuilt and reinforced the wall and installed barbed wire on the top of the wall, making it almost impossible for outsiders to climb in.

But he couldn't just sit there and eat up all his money, so he secretly rented out the two buildings in the southeast corner as warehouses. The rent he received was enough for him to hire a few security guards, pay for utilities, and have a few drinks...

But this leisurely life began to change half a year ago. He found out that several security guards he hired were stealing from the company and dismantling things to sell as scrap, so he fired them all.

There were two guys who seemed not too happy, and they were holding steel bars as if they wanted to show off their muscles to him. As a result, Ye Liangcheng made them realize what it meant to be full of martial virtues!
So in the past six months, Ye Liangcheng has only five big wolfhounds left by his side, guarding this abandoned building. There are also rumors in the surrounding area that this place is haunted.

Ye Liangcheng knew that the rumor was false because he was the one who released the news. This damn place - even ghosts don't come here!
He chatted with the second brother for a few words. Although the second brother was reluctant, he took the initiative to go out for patrol under his persuasion. Ye Liangcheng sat at his desk and drank by himself, unknowingly drinking about half a catty.

This is a standard way of drinking alone. Ye Liangcheng holds the cup with a confused look in his eyes. He is only 28 years old this year, but he looks a bit old, as if he has really become an old night watchman.

He was drunk and had wild thoughts again. If the end of the world suddenly came, such as a zombie outbreak, would the park he was guarding become a doomsday survival base?

There are many fruit trees in the park. In recent years, he has been free and has also planted several vegetable plots in the planned green belt. When the time comes, he will rescue a few beauties and live a shameless life behind closed doors.

Life must have some ideals, or some aspirations. We can't always be so depressed and decadent...

At this moment, he suddenly heard a faint dripping sound, and the drunkenness in his eyes immediately disappeared. He felt a little confused and a little surprised, and immediately turned on the computer on the desk.

There are several surveillance cameras installed outside this abandoned business center, but they don't have infrared functions, and nothing can be seen clearly in the darkness at night.

However, there are infrared alarm devices in two places, and Ye Liangcheng will receive an alarm as long as someone enters there.

Someone sneaked into the park and entered the most secret underground base.

The matching infrared lens could only capture the entrance. Now that the person had already entered, he couldn't see what was going on inside. He was still sitting in front of the computer screen waiting. He subconsciously picked up the bottle of wine and took a big gulp. He seemed a little nervous and expectant.

It’s been a full six months, and finally someone has returned to this secret base!

After a while, a figure came out from the underground secret base and disappeared from the surveillance range. Not long after, the figure appeared in Jinxiu Entrepreneurship Building again.

The man first went up to the third floor, then entered the lobby on the first floor through a hidden fire escape, and turned on the light, appearing to be very familiar with the place.

They must be one of us. Outsiders wouldn't enter the hall this way! Ye Liangcheng left the office and rushed to the Jinxiu Entrepreneurship Building in the center of the park, following the same path into the first-floor lobby.

This area is a lofted hall connecting the first and second floors. It is very large and has a high ceiling. It is surrounded by hollow bricks, so no light can get through. The inner walls are also covered with sound-absorbing materials, so it is difficult for sound to be transmitted.

There are tables and chairs for resting around the interior, as well as racks with many instruments. The ground is covered with a thick layer of compacted cement, making it look like a martial arts hall.

When Ye Liangcheng entered the hall, he happened to see the man pulling out a four-meter-long pole from the rack. He didn't look surprised at seeing Ye Liangcheng come in. Instead, he nodded and gestured for him to come over and compete.

Under the light, the outline of the person should be a man, but his face was covered with a scarf... His spiritual sense seemed to be disturbed. Not only was he unable to detect the person's face, even his figure seemed a little hazy.

Ye Liangcheng was not too surprised, he was even a little excited, because he had seen a mask that could also block spiritual detection... Although this kind of face mask was the first time he saw it, it must have a similar function.

Ye Liangcheng was not good at using a spear, so he took out the long-handled Miao Dao that he practiced with most often and walked to the center of the hall to set up his weapon.

The man held a long pole and stabbed forward with a spear. Ye Liangcheng brandished his sword to block it, and a series of dense noises were heard in the hall... Ye Liangcheng kept changing positions, waving his Miao Dao around the man, but in fact he was only defending and not attacking.

The man stood there and waved his spear continuously, but the sharp Miao Dao could not cut through the long wooden pole. The tip of the pole touched Ye Liangcheng several times, but he withdrew it immediately and did not cause any harm. His control was extremely exquisite.

This brief fight only lasted about two minutes. When the swords collided again, a force came along the long pole and passed through the blade, causing Ye Liangcheng's arm to go numb, and the Miao Dao slipped out of his hand.

The man finally spoke up, "Ye Wuniang, you've been quite slack lately, and your skills have clearly fallen behind."

Ye Liangcheng asked excitedly, "Master Kucha, is that you?"

The man was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "It seems you don't know what happened. Kucha is no longer here. You can call me Huoqing."

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(End of this chapter)