The night was shrouded in a silvery gray quiet mist. The warehouse looked like a bloated whale, its outline looming in the night.
A little closer, you can see the black iron fence decorated with spikes, warning those with unnecessary curiosity not to get close to this place.
"Something's wrong, Bai Ya. The patrol routes in the warehouse are denser than I thought, and they are generally equipped with repeating firearms. However, there are no hunting dogs, which is good news." Ed patted Bai Ya on the shoulder from behind and I showed him the overhead sketch I had drawn. It marked several known patrol routes, covering almost all access roads.
"It's interesting." Bai Ya looked down at the sketch, pinched his chin and said with a half-smile,
"It's just a warehouse guarding. A few mallets and a broken pistol are almost enough. Why do you have to mobilize so many troops? Can you tell where these people come from?"
"At least it's not visible on the surface. These people are dressed in ordinary clothes. Maybe you can see some clues through the details, but the fog is too heavy and you have to get very close. This is too risky," Ed said.
"Forget it. It doesn't matter. If you dare to come for real, kill them. Then you will know what the other side is about." Bai Ya said confidently,
"Let's go in first. Although this place is heavily guarded, we can still find a few blind spots." As he said that, he took the pencil and scribbled a circle on it: "Well, let's go in from here first. The cargo box here The pile is a blind spot, so we squat here until the patrolman walks over, goes around to the other side, and then goes directly to the side door to pick the lock and enter."
"Well... I have a question." Angelica raised her hand.
"Although the pile of cargo containers here is a good visual cover, it is not high enough. If we climb over the fence and enter, we will probably be exposed to the sight of multiple patrollers at the same time. Even with thick fog as cover, I think It’s still too risky.”
"Well..." Ed and Bai Ya looked at each other and smiled.
"We have a way, we don't have to climb over the iron fence."
"Did you bring a thermite welding torch? But the noise caused by cutting..." Angelica worried.
"I brought this." Ed took out a towel from his backpack.
"A towel?" Angelica asked confused.
"You will always encounter all kinds of troubles in action. If you deal with them more, you will naturally learn some tips." Ed explained while taking out a water bottle to wet the towel, and quietly moved towards the planned location. past.
Then, he tied the towel tightly to the iron fence, turned his cane slowly and steadily like a captain turning the rudder of a ship, and twisted the bars of the black iron fence to create a gap through which his head and torso could squeeze.
"Cha--, Chi--" Bai Ya whistled in the distance, and the chirping of birds turned the noise caused by the deformation of the fence into a discordant murmur.
No one noticed the sound in the corner, maybe it was just the sound of the rusty iron door being blown by the wind.
After confirming that no one was in the one-eyed spider's surveillance field of view, Ed waved to the nearby area. He threw his backpack in first, then squeezed sideways.
The two quickly followed and hid behind the pile of cargo boxes.
"Oh my god..." Angelica covered her mouth and exclaimed in a low voice,
"I never thought there was such a way."
"What's all this fuss about? I've learned the principle of friction plus leverage," Byakuya said disdainfully.
"To be honest, if Quinn or Anvil were here, we might not even have to do the towel procedure." Ed made a silencing gesture.
"Hush, people are coming close." A two-person patrol team. The two people holding the lantern had no intention of searching everywhere, and quickly left the place after walking around.
After confirming that there was no one else around, Ed wanted to get up and continue sneaking, but Bai Ya gently grabbed his wrist: "There is something wrong with the sound, a carriage is coming." Bai Ya reminded in a low voice.
carriage? After being reminded, Ed also noticed the weak amplitude and the faint sound of four hooves coming from the ground.
He had previously focused all his attention on the visual aspects of multiple fields of view, so he naturally missed this piece of auditory information that was easily missed.
"Sorry, I was negligent." He frankly admitted his negligence. It seems that I still have a lot to learn.
"Okay, okay, if you have three heads and six arms, what do you need us to do? Just get three salaries by yourself." Bai Ya loosened the hand that clasped his wrist and patted Ed on the shoulder. whispered,
"Don't worry, let's check the situation. We'll wait until the car gets in before we move." Soon, the two men holding lanterns also noticed the approaching carriage and went to meet it.
Ed also mobilized the one-eyed spider. The people on the carriage whispered to the two men for a while. In order to hear clearly the content of their conversation, Ed had to use the one-eyed spider's sound transmission module to eavesdrop, but the quality of the audio received in the open air was still very poor: " Sorry, (*indistinct noise) temporary changes, (*noise) will not accept the goods."
"It's so late, even if (*noise)... not to mention this is the manager (*noise)..." Although he didn't hear the specific content clearly, Ed could see that after these words, the two patrolling people He stopped asking, nodded and waved to let him go.
In the thick fog, the carriage slowly approached the direction of the one-eyed spider, and Ed could just use the one-eyed spider's perspective to see the appearance of the carriage clearly.
The outline in the thick fog gradually became clear. It was a freight carriage. The driver was wearing a black leather jacket, and his face... seemed a bit familiar.
Marvin Sinclair, oh my god…
