Chapter 3235: Infiltration Plan

At this time, in the port railway freight yard, most of the staff had already left work, except for the workers still working in the loading and unloading yard, and there were basically no people to be seen elsewhere.

In the night, Ye Chen and Li Yalin came to a section of railway track not far from the unloading station under the guidance of the person in charge, and after the train from Duke Mining arrived and was uncoupled later, the locomotive would stop nearby for the night.

Ye Chen planned to wait until the driver parked the train here, then control the driver, and then board the train to check the driving recorder.

Soon, the sound of a train whistle came from afar, and a few minutes later, a freight train fully loaded with phosphates slowly entered the station.

The dispatch command came from the handheld radio carried by the person in charge, and then the track automatically completed the switch, guiding the train to the target platform.

Railway workers and dozens of loading and unloading staff had already been waiting here; when the train just came to a stop, the railway workers were responsible for uncoupling the locomotive, and the loading and unloading workers had already begun to transport the phosphates out of the carriages.

Immediately afterwards, under the guidance of the dispatcher, the locomotive drove to the designated parking spot.

Ye Chen had already used spiritual sense to probe, and found that there was only one driver on the locomotive, and this person had no cultivation and was not a martial artist, so he probably was not a member of the Po Qing Hui.

After the train stopped and the engine was turned off, the driver opened the cab door, held onto the high steps of the cab ladder, and carefully climbed down backward.

Seeing that he had already stepped onto the last step, and only needed to jump sideways to get down, at this moment he suddenly felt someone pat his trouser leg from behind, he jumped in fright, turned his head, and saw an Asian man looking at him.

He felt angry, thinking the other was playing a prank, and was about to speak, when suddenly his mind went blank, and then he saw the Asian man gesture to him to climb up, and his whole body uncontrollably crawled upward.

Li Yalin shouted in French from behind, and the other immediately reopened the cab door and entered the locomotive's driving cabin.

Ye Chen and Li Yalin followed closely and also entered the driving cabin, after which Li Yalin used French to order him to open today's driving record.

The man immediately repowered the locomotive, tapped on a square liquid crystal screen on the side, and opened all of today's driving record videos.

Li Yalin asked for a moment, then said to Ye Chen: "Mr. Ye, he made four trips today, the last one to Duke Mining; Morocco National Railway provided Duke Mining with a batch of freight car carriages, generally after Duke Mining loads the goods, they pull the empty cars over, then pull away the loaded cars, so the driver doesn't have to wait for loading; he arrived at Duke Mining three hours ago, hooked up the cars, confirmed the number of carriages and seals, and then left."

Speaking, he let the other open a segment of video on the screen; after the other dragged the progress bar, he stepped aside and made a respectful inviting gesture to Li Yalin.

In the picture, it was exactly the scene of the train about to enter the loading yard of Duke Mining.

Looking into the distance, Duke Mining was located in a vast yellowish-white plain; along the route the train passed, both sides were Duke Mining's phosphate mining areas, with a large number of engineering machines operating at high speed in the mining zones.

Somewhat strangely, on the large phosphate mining area in the picture, quite a few workers were building welded iron towers at least twenty to thirty meters high; the overall structure of the iron towers resembled high-voltage power line towers, except that a platform for people to stand on had been welded at a position slightly above the middle; from the size of the workers in the video, it could be inferred that this platform could at least bear seven or eight people standing simultaneously; towers of this kind, at least a dozen had already been built in the mining area, with several more under construction.

Li Yalin paused the picture, pointed to these iron towers, and said to Ye Chen: "Mr. Ye, these iron towers should be used for vigilance; it seems they are indeed strengthening their security now."

Ye Chen nodded and said: "Their terrain there is very flat, and it's all phosphate mining area, with no high-rise buildings around; the height of these iron towers is sufficient to observe far away; if combined with professional security equipment, it would indeed be difficult to break in; moreover, from the video, the mining area is still some distance from the core position of Duke Mining."

"Yes." Li Yalin said: "I checked the data on Skyline; according to the scale, their mining range has advanced outward by at least six kilometers over these years; because the mining area is getting farther, they have also built several conveyor belts to transport the raw ore from the mining area to the refinery; if it is really infiltrating from the outside, this long distance would probably be very difficult."

Ye Chen nodded slightly, let Li Yalin continue playing; in the video, the train got closer and closer to the refinery; the whole refinery looked like a prison, completely surrounded by high concrete walls, with iron caltrops and high-voltage wires hung on top of the walls; although the railway tracks led directly into the refinery interior, the track entrance also had a thick iron fence gate.

From the video, it could be seen that this iron gate had several people standing guard outside; when the train slowly approached, several people did not open the iron gate, but instead someone climbed onto the locomotive, chatted a few words with the driver, and only then did they let the people below open the gate and, together with the driver, board the train to enter the factory area.

The entire factory interior was like a large T-shape; the upper part was the factory's production area, the lower part consisted of three railway tracks and two semi-enclosed platforms used for loading and unloading.

Among the three tracks, the main line passed through the middle between the two platforms, while the other side of each side platform was a departure and arrival line.

In the picture, a freight car carriage had already stopped on the left departure and arrival line; the vehicle in the video passed through the switch and stopped on the right departure and arrival line.

At this time, the right platform had multiple staff members, who were continuously transporting the produced phosphates to the platform; these goods were waiting for empty freight car carriages to be transported by train; as soon as the train arrived, they would have to start loading the empty carriages first.

However, Ye Chen and Li Yalin both saw the purpose of their doing this; these loading and unloading workers were all strong and robust, looking like trained martial artists; they were busy on the platform when the train arrived, and their real purpose was probably to constantly watch the incoming trains, lest enemies come.

After the train in the video stopped and was uncoupled to change direction, it then pulled the already loaded train from the other departure and arrival line; the whole process did not take too long; and on both side platforms of Duke Mining, there were always nearly a hundred various staff members,

Afterwards, the locomotive completed the turn via the main line, and after waiting about ten minutes, it drove off the factory area.

After watching the video, Ye Chen couldn't help but sigh: "This Duke Mining is now as solid as gold and soup, especially the core factory area, built like a prison, with such a vast buffer zone outside; wanting to enter silently, the difficulty is great; the only opportunity might be the train."

Li Yalin nodded, asked the driver a few questions, then said to Ye Chen: "The driver said Duke Mining made security as tight as a prison mainly because in recent years they had many vicious incidents there; once someone infiltrated the factory area, killed two of their financial staff, stole several million US dollars; also someone infiltrated the factory area and stole precision equipment worth millions of US dollars; phosphates are often stolen; these cases later became headless unsolved cases; Duke Mining is very dissatisfied with the local police's investigative level, so they did the reinforcement themselves."

Ye Chen smiled and said: "This sounds like a self-directed self-acted bitter meat plan; blind reinforcement would raise suspicion, but if they artificially fabricated a few vicious cases in advance, they could then proceed with it and make the reinforcement of defense reasonable and legal."

"Yes." Li Yalin nodded: "I also think this is all their own making."

Speaking, he also said: "Mr. Ye, this place is already as solid as gold and soup; now they are extending the defense to the outskirts, and soon they will also install high-tech equipment; once these things are all in place, I'm afraid it will truly be difficult to enter even with wings."

Ye Chen rubbed his chin, pondered: "Time is urgent; we must infiltrate before their new equipment is put into use."

After saying that, he pointed to the Duke Mining staff on the platform and said: "Inspector Li, I need a set of work clothes exactly the same as theirs; is there a way to get them? Also, we need to delay the shipment of this batch of goods until tomorrow; best to wait until night to depart, so I can follow the freight train in."

Li Yalin heard Ye Chen wanted to wear the same work clothes as them, and hurriedly asked: "Mr. Ye, are you planning to hide in the freight car carriage to mix in?"

"Yes." Ye Chen said: "I will follow the loaded train in; even if they have thermal imaging or life detection devices, they cannot penetrate the metal carriage and the cargo inside; in this way, as long as the door is not opened and no one enters, they will not discover my presence; even if they do, it doesn't matter; they have dozens of people on the platform, tomorrow's train has twenty carriages, and at that time each carriage will only have three or four people coming to unload; then I can find the right moment to control them, and then mix in among them, becoming one of them; by then everyone will be wearing the same clothes, busy with their own tasks, and since it's still night, adding me one more on the platform should not be noticed."

Li Yalin felt Ye Chen's method was feasible, but the risk factor was not low either, so he hurriedly asked him: "Mr. Ye, if you are discovered inside, will there be danger?"

Ye Chen said: "As long as they don't have close-in defense cannons like that, no one can stop me; I hide on the train to enter not because I fear them, but because I don't want to be discovered by them in advance; if I enter and they discover me, I can at any time immediately cut my losses and carve a bloody path out."

Li Yalin heard this and put his mind at ease, saying: "Since Mr. Ye has confidence, I will fully cooperate."

After saying that, he carefully identified the workers' clothing in the video, and said: "These should be ordinary anti-static labor protection clothing; they should be available on the market; however, their clothing should be custom-made, with Duke Mining's logo on both front and back; this might not be easy to solve."

"Don't worry." Ye Chen said: "Just find me a set of the same clothing and shoes; I will find someone to change into a set at the first opportunity."