In the darkness of the night, another truck with a heavy load drove up to the factory gate.

The uniformed security guard walked out sleepy-eyed. After a few brief words with the driver, he opened the door and let him go. The car drove all the way to the warehouse with its high beams on, and it was already brightly lit. A small but lean and well-equipped loading and unloading team was already waiting there. You can see the car stop in front of the warehouse, and the stevedores, forklifts, etc., are tightly surrounding the big truck, like rats surrounding cheese.

Everything was fine, so he grumbled a few times and got back to his place. Night shifts can be hard work, especially the kind of night shifts that don't take a break. In the past, I could sit in the security room and take a nap, but now I can't. Every once in a while, cars come in and out.

The reason for this is entirely because Director Gao rented out the warehouse that was idle there.

As mentioned earlier, the former steel mill was a thriving state-owned enterprise. Although it is a medium-sized company, the so-called "medium-sized" is also relatively speaking. The entire factory has multiple production lines, thousands of employees, and maybe even more. Such a business will naturally have its own warehouse. Raw materials, equipment, products - there are so many large and small totals. But when the whole business is in trouble, these warehouses have to be vacant or rented. What's worse is that due to the overall economic environment in recent years, coupled with geographical restrictions, it is impossible to rent out.

Although I have recently resumed work, even if I work in three shifts, it is only a matter of one production line after all. And it is said that it is only said that the quality of the products in the factory has improved a lot, so there is basically zero inventory (for these words, the security guards will be suspicious, but except for the raw material warehouse, most of the warehouses are vacant). So in the end, in order to make the most of the available resources, these warehouses were leased out.

Nominally it is leased, but in fact it is said to be another company owned by the owner. So it's the left hand to the right hand. However, the other company is not in the metallurgical industry, but in foreign trade. So of course, there are all kinds of things in several warehouses.

This part of the factory, originally because of the shutdown, did not even have a duty at night, it was like being abandoned. Now the security guards have been rearranged and a loading and unloading team has been reorganized.

The business of the foreign trade company is obviously very good, because let alone during the day, the cars that come at night are still one after another.

Tonight, if the security guard remembers correctly, a total of twelve full truckloads of goods came, but when they went out, only two or three cars had things. The rest left empty.

Of course, there is nothing surprising about this. In a certain period of time, there is always a difference between inbound and outbound warehousing, either more outbound or more inbound. But in general, the entry and exit are always balanced, isn't it? Anyway, the work of the security guard has always been three shifts because of the night shift (and maybe the director Gao is very considerate of the people on the night shift, and has specially arranged four shifts). What's so strange about the more goods coming in during your duty hours? If you really go into and out of the warehouse too much, sooner or later the warehouse will be burst, right?

So as long as the warehouse doesn't burst, that's normal — or rather, no one has such a ridiculous idea in their head at all.

Not only that, but the loading and unloading team also worked in three shifts. Everyone worked hard to load and unload the goods, and went back to rest after work. No one has any idea of how many goods have been imported and how many goods have been shipped.

If anyone knows clearly, there is probably only Director Gao. The back and forth accounts are in his hands.

The truck quickly finished unloading and returned to the entrance. The driver got out of the car and handed the security guard a ticket to get out.

"Oh, it's you. The security guard casually looked at the exit slip. Although he didn't know the name of the driver, he remembered the other party's face and the other party's car because he had seen it a lot recently. "What did you ship here today?"

"High quality wheat flour. The driver grinned. "Recently, thanks to your boss taking care of the business, I can pull it almost once a day. If only I could come during the day. ”

Due to the pressure of road traffic in the city of W, this type of heavy truck can only enter the city at night. So during the day, it's the smaller cars that pull the deliveries.

This kind of mixing of means of transportation also makes the inflow and outflow of materials into a mess that outsiders can't judge at all. It is necessary to grasp the internal clear inbound and outbound accounts in order to grasp the specific situation of the warehouse. Even the stevedores were confused and completely confused.

"It's wheat flour again...... It was wheat flour last time, right?"

"Yes, the trading company, I guess it's profitable to do the grain business. But last time it was soybean oil......"

They chatted casually, and the security guard slowly pulled out the remote control of the gate from his pocket. When pressed, the thick and sturdy bar is raised. The big truck drove out in a puff of smoke.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, several more cars came, bringing a cart full of unknown things, and then left empty. It turns out that the business of the trading company is not ordinary boom - although the name is international trade, it is obviously not missed by domestic traders.

At six o'clock in the morning, the shift change came (as mentioned earlier, the night shift was four shifts). First, the loading and unloading team, which had been busy for a night, left on time, and a group of people greeted each other and left. After they were gone, the security guards who had changed shifts also came.

Tonight was also uneventful, so after a simple handover, the security booth was replaced by a young man.

This period of time is the so-called "nothing" period. Although the sky is bright, the loading and unloading workers in the previous day have not yet come to work, and the night shift workers have already gone home from work, so this part of the factory area (or the warehouse area) is now completely silent, and there is not even a ghost.

Of course, the warehouse door in the distance is locked, completely enclosed, and very secure. But in fact, it doesn't matter if the door is open, everyone knows that it is a large cargo inside, and it is not something that petty theft can move.

The new security guard was bored playing with his mobile phone in the security booth, but at this time he faintly heard something.

Not a mechanical sound such as a car, but a distinct crash.

It made him wonder if the goods piled up in the warehouse had collapsed for some reason. You know, although this kind of thing is not common, but at least there is a high possibility.

The door key of the warehouse was on his side, but because of the division of responsibilities and the fear of getting into trouble, he didn't dare to open the door directly. Fortunately, the workers in the factory all have WeChat groups, and he quickly put the things he heard about the collapse in the group.

This was immediately met with the cynicism of the night shift stevedores who had not yet rested. The leader of the team said that he had lived so long that he had never seen a pyramid-shaped cargo that could collapse. Especially tonight, most of the wheat flour is in bags. If this kind of thing can still collapse, there must be only one explanation: an earthquake. And it's not an ordinary earthquake, it has to reach the level of six or seven magnitudes.

But the security guard was sure he heard the sound of the cargo collapsing.

One worker said that he counted 34 layers in total, and each layer was carried out in accordance with the relevant operating rules. To prove his words, he showed a sheet of goods stacked inside the warehouse in the shape of a pyramid, neatly organized. The pyramid itself is a thick, safe shape with a hard to collapse (and it should be, heavy wheat flour piles are too high to collapse and crush people to death).

With this photo as evidence, the reminder from the security guard became a joke. Everyone thought he was hallucinating. The stevedores are also a professional team, and they don't just come to make up the numbers. You know, it's impossible for a professional team to make the mistake of letting the cargo collapse and damage.

In fact, when the loading and unloading shift during the day came to work, the security guard himself went over to open the warehouse to take a look, and everything was neat. But at this time, Director Gao called and ordered them to close the warehouse, which was actually only half of the space. Instead, another warehouse load is enabled.

Very inexplicable order. Isn't it right that this warehouse should be filled? But after all, this is the order of the factory director, and who would have enough to eat and have nothing to argue with the factory director about such a pointless matter? So everything was carried out according to the order. The volume of goods that day was less than usual, and everyone giggled and laughed for a day.

However, at the end of the day, the young security guard was exposed by Director Gao when he was playing with his mobile phone in the security booth during work hours. Although you may think that playing with your phone at that time is not a big deal. However, he was still criticized by the director of the factory, and he was also replaced.

The stevedores were also given a new ban. It is said that in order to protect trade secrets and ensure work safety, it is strictly forbidden to use electronic products during loading and unloading work, focusing on mobile phones, digital cameras, video cameras, etc. According to the latest system, all stevedores must store their mobile phones together when they go to work. If there is a violation, the punishment is severe, such as demotion, fines and even expulsion.

At the same time, reports are encouraged, and if anyone finds those guys who dare to take photos in the warehouse, they will immediately make a big contribution, or even directly promote and raise their salary.

People don't think that taking photos will affect any security, but "trade secrets" or something is a reasonable excuse. However, the pay of stevedores here is actually quite high and low in W City, and everyone takes this job very seriously. All the systems promulgated by Director Gao have been implemented to the letter.

Except for the workers in the same class, almost no one noticed that the worker who had counted the thirty-four layers of wheat flour bags was quietly transferred, and it was said that he had done a good job and was promoted to a better position - although it was not a "promotion" in the usual sense, but everyone knew that changing to a position with an easier job, or a position with a higher wage subsidy, could be understood as a kind of promotion.

About 20 days later, as the sun rose and set, cars went in and out, and WeChat groups spoke layer by layer, everyone had long forgotten about the "auditory hallucination" (after all, it was just a trivial matter). During this period, Director Gao may have felt that there was money to be made in leasing the warehouse, and he got another warehouse outside (it is not clear whether it was rented or bought). In order to ensure the operation, some people were also transferred from the loading and unloading team here, and some new people were recruited to come in. In short, the original team was completely disrupted.

The warehouse that had previously been filled with wheat was reopened. At the request of Director Gao, part of the wheat was transported and new goods were piled up.

No one remembers how many times the wheat was transported away, but many times anyway, and no one counted how many layers of wheat flour had been piled up. All you remember is that when the last batch was shipped away, there wasn't a lot of wheat flour left, and it barely filled a cart. In addition, the photos in the original group disappeared at some point.

Even if some people think that the quantity is not right, but after all, because of the "three shifts", who can say whether there is a group in the middle that was temporarily ordered by Director Gao to transport part of the wheat flour inside?

And so the whole thing ended. A month later, Director Gao ordered the gate to be renovated, turning the common security booth guarding the gate into the kind of intelligent system that automatically distinguishes license plates, and no longer has to be on night duty for security guards.