Chapter Twenty-Six: Tracing the Wharf (3) Gambling Machine
Under the cover of the machinery parked around and the scattered piles of goods, it was not gradually approaching the rows of workshops, and after a few walks, it was not easy to lock on to the control room that commanded the operation of the docks, but these obviously clean and spacious rooms, together with a few pieces of modern office equipment on the tables in the room and the operation plans marked on the whiteboards hanging on the walls, allowed Yifei to determine the function of these rooms.
There are two officers on duty in the house, just from the relatively neat clothes on their bodies, it can be judged that these two people are not loading and unloading personnel working in the open air, although it is not often here that dock workers come in and out to get the operation plan, but it is not easy to get closer to the control room, as long as they are exposed to the light, they will not be exposed, and they cannot get closer for a while, nor do they change the direction to move closer to the operation area of the dock.
"No, be careful, the staff who enter the operation area will be checked by the guards, don't get too close."
Da Lei's warning came in time, and he was reminding him not to pay attention.
"Understood!"
The narrow area of operation on the wharf was indeed much more vigilant than in other places, and not only were there armed vehicles guarding the passage in front of the ship, but also many armed men were checking the workers entering and leaving.
The gradually strengthening sea breeze made the dock even colder, and it was nearly midnight, except for a few stevedores in the operation area, there were almost no idle workers on the wharf, and the armed men who could be seen everywhere just now were hard to find, and the strong wind made the insufficient lighting on the wharf even more confusing.
"No, hurry back."
Da Lei once again warned Yi Fei that there were fewer and fewer idle people stranded on the dock, and they were not wandering in that area for a long time, which was very easy to arouse suspicion.
"I know."
It was not a simple response, he unwillingly turned his head and looked at the control room not far away, at this time there was only one officer on duty in the room, and the other person had just gone out, and it was not that he didn't know where the person was going.
Another strong wind blew, and the work lights not far away flickered again, and Yifei, who was hiding in the dark, looked up and observed for a while, and he seemed to have an idea.
In an open-air garbage heap, he didn't find what he needed, it was a large mass of tin foil tape that he didn't know what it was used to wrap it, or he couldn't see the direction of the traction cable of the overhead lamp, and then groped his way into the dark depths in the distance.
'Bang! ’
There was a muffled sound in the darkness behind the dock, followed by a fireball rising into the air, followed by flames and smoke rising from beneath the fireball, and the lights in the dock work area were extinguished.
The workers who were loading and unloading goods in the operation area stopped their work one after another, straightened up and looked at the place of the incident, pointed out, shouted loudly, and some people ran directly there.
The watchman in the control room didn't know what was going on at first, he just stood at the window and looked aimlessly into the distance, and when he saw what was going on in the distance, the watchman quickly came out of the house, raised his hands and shouted at the people running past him, and one of the workers he caught turned and ran towards the warehouse on the other side of the dock after hearing his roar.
Seeing that the fire was in danger of spreading, the attendant turned around and went back to the house with a curse in his mouth, grabbed a cotton coat and draped it over his body and walked quickly towards the incident point, and as soon as he turned the corner of the workshop, he slipped lightly from the roof opposite and fell to the ground, and in an instant he slipped into the duty room and began to rummage through the desk and a few logbooks hanging on the wall.
Da Lei, who was secretly monitoring and guarding, hated to grit his teeth at this time, and the originally quiet port area was brought back into chaos by the fire caused by the overload of the circuit that was not manufactured, not only the armed personnel who had escaped the cold ran to the dock again, but many workers who had been rested were also called up to put out the fire, and a modified fire extinguishing truck was also driving towards the place of the incident.
"No, get out of here, you'll be in big trouble if you don't find a chance to get out, those armed men have already begun to block the entrances and exits of the port area."
"Yes, I'll come out right away and get me a safe passage."
"It's safe outside the door now, go out and turn right."
"OK, thank you."
I don't know the direction that Da Lei is pointing to, he passed by there when he came in, where there are many scattered goods and some small machinery piled up randomly, and from that position, you can go back to the workshop where you are not secretly changing your loading and unloading uniforms.
"You thank me, when you come back, Lao Tzu will settle accounts with you, this is not a problem that can be solved by one or two meals, you are of a bad nature."
"You're not finished, why are you talking so much, won't I get out right away."
Although he was anxious, he didn't dare to run away, there were dozens of tankers waiting to enter the operation area to unload the oil in this large open field, which could provide enough shelter space for Yifei, but there were still stevedores suddenly running out from a certain position from time to time, and some curious drivers also leaned out of the cab, standing on the pedals to watch the fire location, and it was not the same direction as most firefighters running at this time, but it was to two different locations, It wasn't that he didn't want to move too hastily to attract the attention of others, and he needed a moment to move into the bulk cargo area.
"There are three armed men at the first eleven o'clock on the left, thirty meters away from you, and one armed man at the first two points on the right, fifty meters away from you, pay attention to avoidance, there are five workers in the bulk cargo area."
Through the gap between the tankers, and not seeing the two threat points indicated by Da Lei, he had already walked through most of the parking area and began to adjust his travel route, he gradually broke away from most of the crowd and approached the bulk cargo area, the fire in the distance seemed to have been controlled, the crowd no longer gathered there, and some people had begun to return, and at this time they had not passed through the tank fleet parking area.
"Don't notice, there's a convoy in front of you, and armed men are gathering towards you."
The sudden change made Da Lei's tone become urgent, and he also saw that some armed men greeted each other through the walkie-talkie and ran quickly here, but if he looked closely, he found that the demeanor of these armed men was not particularly nervous, they were just dispersing those idle people who were walking in and out of the dock, not for themselves.