The heart behind the giant gear-shaped part is beating steadily, showing that it belongs to the owner and is not nervous at all.
Li Liang glanced at him calmly and then looked away.
Lao Zhao walked around from the cockpit and said with a solemn expression, "Just now, there was something wrong with the temporary checkpoint."
"Have you never seen those people before?" K still looked lazy.
Lao Zhao shook his head, "It's definitely not true. Case is a human being."
At this time.
Li Liang said softly, "There is a person behind the gear behind me at two o'clock."
K and Mizuno's expressions changed at the same time. They couldn't see in that direction, but they were very calm and didn't look back.
Only Lao Zhao happened to be facing the gears, his unblinking expression remained unchanged for a moment, and he wiped the corners of his mouth as if talking to K, "I saw it."
"Can you catch me?" Li Liang smiled.
Lao Zhao pretended to turn his head and look in another direction and whispered, "There are many hidden passages in the pile of parts that are difficult to catch."
"Then don't move him first," Li Liang said slowly and logically, holding the suit jacket in his hand and putting it on, "Let's move first."
"good."
Lao Zhao turned around and whistled.
Everyone sped up their movements, pushed the neutral vehicle from the pontoon, pushed it onto another large anti-gravity trolley, and quickly transferred boxes of weapons and equipment. The whole process was silent.
This large pallet truck is obviously used to transport huge parts in the warehouse. It looks like a piece of metal suspended on the ground and has a silvery luster. Each pallet truck has a cargo platform with an area of more than eight meters. At more than 100 square meters, it is larger than the two basketball courts combined.
Lao Zhao fully arranged for Shizi to wait here.
Twenty minutes later.
Nearly a hundred boxes from more than a dozen cars and dozens of four-wheel motorcycles were loaded onto the pallets, and 1,200 heavily armed gunmen were also crouching between the vehicles and boxes.
Next, Lao Zhao's men pulled the ropes and dragged huge tarpaulins covering each pallet. They moved skillfully. These were obviously standard procedures for transporting illegal goods.
Lao Zhao whistled again, and people jumped on the cart one after another, waving their hands to signal that they were ready to go.
"Here" Lao Zhao took Li Liang's K Shuiye and boarded the front truck and walked to the front of the truck, which was the operation console.
The operating platform is about the size of a single-person podium and has only one universal rod on it. The operation is very simple.
Boom.
The giant trolley vibrated and floated smoothly for a short distance, then slid forward.
Li Liang looked back.
A pallet truck started one after another. From this angle, it looked like a train loaded with goods and covered with a large canopy.
Li Liang, who inadvertently closed his eyes and "looked" at where the man was hiding before, was a little surprised.
That heart was motionless and still stopped in place, but it didn't follow.
Li Liang immediately turned around and glanced around, noticing that there were large reflectors installed on the left and right corners of the scooter, presumably to observe the edge when turning.
Pretending to observe the environment, he walked slowly to the mirror, his face facing forward, but he glanced to the right to see the mirror.
The cart began to accelerate, and the distance between it and the gear-like part was getting farther and farther.
suddenly.
A slender figure stepped out from behind the gear, covered in a black poncho, and stood motionless.
At this time, the cart began to turn to the left and the scene disappeared behind it.
Li Liang frowned as he looked away.
Fixed surveillance points and cross tracking?
Could it be that the Fourth Princess or Li Chengshu noticed that he had left Zhongjing and set up spies in the western mines?
If so, why was it so easy when I came in just now? When the situation has reached this point, there is absolutely no need to play loose on the outside and tight on the inside.
With confused thoughts, he had a vague feeling that the situation would develop more complicated than expected.
The two sides of the fleet of pallet trucks sliding rapidly are piled with discarded parts. The huge metal structures are often overturned in the middle of the passage, causing the passage to be wide and narrow at times.
Lao Zhao expertly moved the universal rod to avoid obstacles without slowing down at all.
Li Liang held onto the guardrail next to the trolley console and tightened his coat, feeling the cold wind blowing against his face.
After passing the two intersections, the passage gradually widened. On both sides, there were piles of parts with less rust, but the size became larger and larger. Not long ago, the pallet truck seemed to be shrunk again and entered the world of giants.
The giant gear's frame is filled with pits, broken teeth from drill bits, metal claws, and a large number of complex mechanical parts with no discernible purpose. They are piled up in a continuous pile of high walls, sometimes dozens of meters high, blocking the light coming from the warehouse dome. Shadows dim the passage.
The only hum in the wind was the anti-gravity engine and the distant rumble.
As Li Liang continued to move forward, he didn't find anyone spying on him. Not only that, but it was rare for workers to see that every time he passed an intersection, he could see a horizontal passage with no end in sight, and many trucks of the same type lined up with no one. Some autonomous taxis are loaded with parts, while others are completely empty.
Not long after, the cart turned again and turned onto the main road, and the view suddenly broadened.
In an instant, Li Liang realized that the warehouse was much larger than he imagined.
The main road they came out of was an area nearly a hundred meters wide, and on the other side was the discarded parts area, with unopened brand-new parts neatly stacked tens of meters high and countless pallets on the shelves like ants. Sometimes you can see manned vehicles moving around mostly unmanned. The bulging trucks are often covered with tarpaulins and filled with goods that are escorted.
The warehouse we are currently looking at is more than ten kilometers long and immeasurably wide.
Lao Zhao didn't seem to be worried about being monitored or seen by others as he calmly controlled the universal rod.
Li Liang glanced at the "reversing mirror" on the right and saw the nine pallet trucks following closely behind.
He turned back and asked, "How big is this warehouse?"
"Seventeen kilometers long and twenty-three kilometers wide," Old Zhao said casually. "There used to be two warehouses in the western mine, but in recent years only this one is still in use."
"It feels like the management is really lax." Li Liang was a little confused.
After staying in Zhongjing for three years, he has never left Tianmu. Naturally, he has never been to the western mines. He heard that there are many outsourcing companies here, more workers, and the environment is very complicated.
It was time to make a specific plan on the Defiant before. When he proposed the plan to enter Zhongjing from the Western Mine, K and Mizuno both said that it was completely feasible. At that time, he actually still had some doubts in his mind. At this moment, he finally understood the mere cross board. There are thousands of people and dozens of cars hidden in the car, which is completely inconspicuous.
However, it is puzzling that the supervision has become so lax.
"It is said that the mines in the west were very lively a few hundred years ago. Maybe there was a big demand for rare earth elements in Shangcheng District in the early days. Digging from the ground was more efficient and then it became impossible." Old Zhao shook his head. "Anyway, I am more than ten years old. When I first came to the Western Mine, many old people said that the mining task indicators set by Xi'an had not been improved for many years and were far lower than the actual mining capacity."
Speaking of this, Lao Zhao smiled and said, "I think the purpose of this place's existence is to find a class for people. SoftBank only focuses on a few specific rare earth elements, such as neodymium, dysprosium, lanthanum, and the rest are divided into businesses." The concentrate mined by the outsourcing company is decomposed into rare earth compounds on-site in Zhongjing. A small part is digested, and most of it is sold to Denali and Mexico City at a modest profit. In recent years, many outsourcing companies have withdrawn their investment from workers. There is almost no work left to do, why not go to Xin'ao City and plant trees instead of mining."
K nodded, "Well, the Putnam Crop Conservation Center has set up a tree farm outside the Xin'ao City Skyline, and many workers have gone to plant trees."
At this time, a group of pallet trucks chased up from behind. The person controlling the pallet truck shouted at Old Zhao, "Hey, where is the goods from Old Zhao?"
Lao Zhao waved his hand, "Old Maozi from Xin'ao."
"Damn it, when did you get connected with Tomahawk? Do you have a chance to introduce me?" The man shouted as he controlled the trolley to get closer.
Lao Zhao casually gave a thumbs up.
"I'll buy you a drink later!" The man turned the control panel of the universal lever and turned the car to the right channel.
Li Liang noticed that there were more than thirty trucks in the front and rear of the longer train, all covered with tarpaulins, and there was something bulging underneath.
"Sanhe is owned by humans," K sneered. "They mainly sell alcoholic fruits and some banned chemicals. I contacted their boss the day before yesterday and he didn't even dare to fart when he heard that he was going to go against Zhuos."
Old Zhao grinned, "I've already said that the Sanhe Club is like a gang, just fuck it, and deliver groceries quickly."
The trolley in the chat room has approached a huge concrete wall at the end of the main road.
You can vaguely see the two logos printed on the wall. A line of sharp edges is the artistic word "Hyanth".
Below, SoftBank's logo is red and white with a spindle shape.
There are many trucks in this area, and they are all moving together to form a dense "traffic flow".
From time to time, Lao Zhao waved in a certain direction to greet the operators of other trucks in the queue. Except for these trucks that were pulling goods, most of the trucks in the fleet were automatically driven by the system and were empty or pulling huge parts.
More than ten minutes later.
When the pallet truck reaches the end of the main road, it follows the "traffic flow" and turns right, continuing along the giant concrete wall.
At this time, Li Liang noticed that there were areas on the concrete wall at regular intervals in front of him that were filled with dim light that spread to the end.
Soon he saw the source of the light.
That, embedded in the concrete walls are floor-to-ceiling windows the same height as the dome.
Li Liang, who was passing by for a moment, saw the real western mine through the glass.
It's like a miraculous sinkhole. It's like terraces descending layer by layer. Each level has a drop of several hundred meters. Because it's so large, you can't see the bottom of the pit from the location of the warehouse. You can only vaguely see the distance. In the center stands the "mechanical giant", a roulette-shaped structure that is looming in the sandstorm.
The spectacle is fleeting and a few minutes later the floor-to-ceiling windows reappear on the wall.
Li Liang didn't recover from the shock until the cart broke away from the "traffic" and turned to the right.
As expected, huge things can give people an inexplicable sense of sublimity, which can be considered a manifestation of macrophobia.
The next team of scooters entered a zigzag tunnel that was slightly sloping downwards. Each turn had an electronic screen marking the depth.
At the same time, a small pop-up holographic image followed the cart throughout the entire journey, like a navigation system, showing the fork in the road ahead and the area leading to it.
Lao Zhao basically didn't look at the navigation on the side and drove entirely from memory.
The final cart stopped in a space two thousand meters underground.
The lights here are dim, the air is filled with pungent chemical smells, and it is a fortress that seems to occupy most of the area. It should be some kind of fully automatic concentrate decomposition equipment.
Dozens of Lao Zhao's men were waiting here. When the truck convoy arrived, they swarmed up and rolled up the tarpaulin to help people unload the truck.
"This way" Lao Zhao jumped off the cart and led the way.
Li Liang and K, who left Mizuno in charge of loading and unloading, followed Lao Zhao through the gap between the two equipments and entered a simple board house built behind the shadows.
There is also a set of equipment against the wall of the board house similar to that of the Western Pier.
K sat down in front of the device and started contacting Tu Ran by flipping the switch.
Li Liang wiped the sweat from his forehead and said softly, "Old Zhao, let's go check the reason for the temporary change of guards at the mine and how many people have come to the mine from Zhongjing in the past few days."
"Okay," Lao Zhao nodded and left quickly.
Li Liang took a moment to look at the room. Not only was it quite simple, but it also looked old. However, the air conditioner in the corner was still running normally.
He casually took off his suit jacket and sat next to K. He waited quietly.
A few minutes later.
K whispered, "It's clear."
Li Liang took the receiver and said, "I am Li Liang."
Tu Ran's voice was hoarse, "House is on the line, wait a moment."
The receiver was quiet for a moment, and House's tired voice came out, "Li Liang, I thought you wouldn't come back."
Li Liang said calmly, "I also thought that you might not help me."
"I said that no matter who the murderer is, no matter who he is, he must be buried with my brother," House said in a low voice, "Just tell me what you need me to do."
Li Liang thought for a while and said, "I want to know which side of the Nirvana Building the Order Bureau is on now, or the Supervision and Enforcement Bureau."
"Neither,."
The next moment another voice came through the receiver "We're on your side."
Li Liang was stunned and asked subconsciously, "Who are you?"
"Wang Shan," the man said with a smile, "Deputy Director of the Order Bureau."
Li Liang and K looked at each other and finally understood where the power behind House came from, the Bureau of Order.
At this time.
Wang Shan's voice became serious, "Li Liang, I appointed you as the acting director of the Order Bureau.
d. The lead detective's investigation into psychic activity is illegal and criminal and authorizes you to act independently without reporting to
d Director Li Yiyuan reported. From now on, the 432 agents belonging to the Beijing Order Bureau are three strengthened semi-android assault brigades, directly commanded by you and House. Anyone who violently resists arrest will be shot on the spot. All consequences will be dealt with by our king. The mountain is responsible. "
