Mojing, the city that never sleeps
The older worker's words made Xia Jialian almost immediately confirm that the hibiscus slices were stored in this so-called small warehouse.
Otherwise, Zhang Gusheng would not be so cautious and send so many people to guard it.
And it seems that they are all martial artists. I'm afraid that as soon as they get close, they will immediately attract their attention.
Shi Yan looked around and said, "It looks like this is the only entrance and exit to the small warehouse."
The door had been closed again, and it was completely impossible for them to open the door and go in under the guards' noses.
Ding Can thought of the items he exchanged in the previous copy, and his heart faded.
The horns can only mask the voice and influence of the holder. If she uses them, she can indeed push open the iron door and go in.
But if the iron gate opened in front of the guards for no reason, it might cause even greater panic.
"And above." Xia Jialian was referring to the ventilation passage under the square roof.
Gao Wenwen was stunned for a moment: "It's too narrow, we can't get in at all?"
Although the passage is very long, its width is only about ten centimeters. Only extremely thin people or children can pass through it.
"We can take a look at the situation inside first."
Fortunately, although there were more guards, there was only one entrance and exit, so they were all concentrated at the main gate, and there was no one guarding the other sides.
They went around to the back of the small warehouse. Xia Jialian looked up at the height of the ventilation vent, which was about five or six meters. Without a climbing fulcrum, it would be difficult to climb up.
He had good hearing and listened for a while, but did not hear any conversation coming from inside.
Including the girl who entered earlier, there should be at least three people inside, but there was no sound at all, which itself was strange.
He had a bold guess in his mind that there was not only a warehouse here, but also other secret rooms and secret passages.
The vent was separated by a simple steel frame, with ordinary bricks at the top and bottom.
If they could pry off some of the bricks, they could get in quietly.
After Xia Jialian expressed his speculation, Shi Yan immediately decided to give it a try. Time waits for no one, and they have no better idea.
These bricks are connected by a mixture of straw and soil, and can be quickly removed using relatively sharp and hard tools.
She noticed a few wooden boxes stacked against the wall next to her and sent two men to fetch them.
"Is it OK?" Seeing Shi Yan about to climb up, Gao Wenwen raised his hand to lend her some strength.
"It's okay, but it's not high enough. Come up with me."
Shi Yan had already stood on the top box and urged Gao Wenwen to stand with her so that stepping on his shoulders would be just enough.
Ding Can and the other man held the box on the ground to prevent it from shaking.
Thanks to Zhang Gusheng's order not to let the workers get close to the small warehouse, they were able to tinker here for a long time without worrying about being discovered.
Gao Wenwen first squatted down, let Shi Yan sit on his shoulders, and then slowly stood up while holding the wall.
"Is it okay?" It was really high now, and he was worried that he would accidentally drop someone.
Shi Yan was very carefree and didn't worry about these things at all.
She bit a dagger in her mouth in advance, grabbed the wall with both hands, and quickly reached the vent.
Raising her head, she first looked into the warehouse.
There was light shining in at an angle, and the air was filled with tiny dust particles. There was no light inside, so the vision was not clear.
All you can see are a few rows of shelves arranged in order, on which are indeed porcelain of different shapes.
However, it can be confirmed that there is currently no one in the warehouse.
Shi Yan held the wall with one hand, and with the other hand, she quickly used the sharp blade of the dagger to cut through the gap between the adjacent bricks.
The dagger had been coated with a slightly shiny coating in advance, which could cut iron like mud, let alone this ordinary mud mixture.
She cut off a brick very quickly, just like cutting a cake. There was only a rustling sound in the process, and broken bricks and dust fell down.
The cut bricks were placed a little further away and stacked on top of each other.
The rustling sounds all fell on Gao Wenwen's head, and some even floated into his nostrils.
He suppressed the physiological reaction of wanting to sneeze and urged, "Sister Yanzi, hurry up, it's a bit too choking."
"Got it." Shi Yan's hands moved faster, but the knife still fell steadily.
After taking away three rows of bricks, she felt the height was about right and bit the dagger again.
She supported herself with her arms on the cross section of the ventilation area, and with her feet firmly on Gao Ding's shoulders, she suddenly lifted her body upwards and successfully extended her upper body into the small warehouse.
Gao Wenwen didn't dare to speak loudly, so he whispered, "What's going on? Is it okay to go in there?"
Shi Yan exerted force on her waist and abdomen, and looked at what was currently within her sight. There was only a flat piece of ground.
However, she saw a ball of rope nearby. As long as she could go over first and then throw the rope to them, the three people outside would be able to get over a little more easily.
As for the current situation, at a height of about five meters, she was rubbing against the wall to reduce the impact force, and should only suffer some minor injuries.
"I'll go down first and throw you a rope later."
After Shi Yan finished speaking, she didn't hesitate any longer. She crossed her legs and her body was completely hanging on the wall inside the warehouse, with only her arms supporting her.
After taking a few deep breaths, she loosened her hands, covered her face with one hand, and fell down along the wall.
He adjusted his posture in advance, and when he landed on the ground, the left half of his body hit the cold stone surface, and a dull numbness spread throughout his body.
Shi Yan just took a few breaths and didn't give herself time to recover. She staggered a few steps to the rope, tried twice, and finally tied a knot and threw it out.
She looked around and tied the other end of the rope to a pillar nearby.
As soon as I saw the rope was completely taut, I knew that the person outside had got it.
Only after she had done all this did she have time to check the wounds on her body.
Thanks to the wide robe covering her, there were only some scratches on the back of her hand, with some blood oozing out. The skin injuries were not a big deal. It was mainly the last impact that made her feel a little uncomfortable.
I walked a few steps on the spot again and was able to walk normally. However, my left arm was temporarily unable to lift up.
She gently turned her shoulders a few times to relieve the pain. At this time, Gao Wenwen had already come down the rope. Seeing that the place was empty, he also knew how she came down.
"No, you jumped straight down. Where are you hurt?"
"There's something wrong with my arm, but it won't affect my movement." Shi Yan has some knowledge of Chinese medicine massage and knows what degree is more suitable for the moment.
Gao Wenwen's whole face wrinkled up. Just by imagining it in his mind, he felt very painful.
"Is there anything I can do?"
Shi Yan slowly raised her arm: "Then help me support my wrist. I need to stretch my tendons later."
In fact, she could do all of this by herself, but he felt that if Gao Wenwen did something at this time, he would feel more at ease.
Gao Wenwen did feel a bit guilty: "If I had known this would happen, I should have let me get down first. I'm tough, so a couple of falls won't be a big deal."
"You're too heavy, and there's a greater risk of you falling. I'm more suitable. Don't be modest at a time like this."
Shi Yan hissed, because she had pulled on a painful spot, which frightened Gao Wenwen so much that he moved his hands even more gently.
Ding Can and Xia Jialian also arrived at the warehouse at this time, and they began to search it quickly.
The heavy iron door blocked a lot of sound, so the few people were not discovered by the guards at the door. The next step was to find out where Zhang Gusheng had gone.
The first thing to do was to imitate the route he took in. Ding Can stood at the gate and looked forward.
The entrance is located in the center of the warehouse. Based on this, if only shelves are placed on the left and right, the principle of symmetry should be followed.
Judging from the front few rows of shelves, it was indeed the case. She walked to the side and when she came to a certain shelf, she found that the middle position of the adjacent shelves was slightly wider than the others.
Xia Jialian squatted down, bent a few fingers, and tapped the ground a few times. It was not a dull sound, but there was indeed another space underneath.
The stone slab is smooth and there is no place that can be opened with bare hands, so you need to find the mechanism first.
The location was not too far away. He looked at the shelves on both sides, but did not find anything particularly strange. Instead, he noticed the so-called porcelain prepared for distinguished guests.
The shelves were several layers high and indeed contained porcelain of different shapes.
Judging from the shape alone, there is nothing outstanding about it, and there are even many similar styles. If we say that it was made according to the specifications of a distinguished guest, it would be too far-fetched and the aesthetics are too poor.
Xia Jialian touched one of the upright-handled vases with his fingers. The texture on the surface even had a rough feel. It was obviously not carefully made. Its production process was not as good as those ordinary daily-use porcelains they had seen in the factory they passed by just now.
It's more like covering up something.
The thickness of the porcelain bottle is thicker than the common ones.
"There might be hibiscus flake powder hidden in this."
Only in this way, every time the hibiscus slices are transported out, they will not attract attention, and no one will think that the hibiscus slices are right under their noses.
Shi Yan lowered her head and smelled it. Perhaps because of the clay coating on the outside, she could not smell any special smell.
"If the Hibiscus tablets were placed here, there must be a drug factory underneath."
In this way, a complete industrial chain emerged. After the hibiscus slices were produced, the pottery factory only needed one smelting furnace to store the daily quota of hibiscus slices in porcelain using a special method.
The so-called regular delivery of customers' designs is to facilitate the transportation of hibiscus slices to various places in the city or to sell them to other places.
As long as the underground drug manufacturing site is confirmed, Zhang Gusheng can be convicted.
Ding Can tried to move every item on the two rows of shelves, and several items were able to be moved easily, until one of them was a short-legged mother-and-child vase with a peony pattern.
The mother-and-child bottle is composed of two porcelain bottles of different sizes. The child bottle can just be stuck in the middle position of the mother bottle. If pushed, the whole bottle should move together.
The porcelain was hollowed out, but when the mother bottle in front of her was moving, through the gap, she saw that the child bottle was firmly fixed in place, indicating that they were not connected in the middle.
It is not a mother-and-child bottle in the traditional sense.
"Found it." Ding Can placed his wrist down on the mouth of the bottle, touched the sub-bottle inside, and tried again. It really couldn't move horizontally, but it could rotate in a clockwise direction.
"Then I'll turn around?" They were not sure if there was anyone guarding the secret passage. Perhaps once the entrance to the secret passage was opened, they, as intruders, would immediately become the target of public criticism.
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