Chapter 283 - Factory Infiltration.

'Do you think they are strong enough to detect us?' Blake asked. For a gang this strong, Blake was sure that they had knowledge about the darkness element and maybe how to counter it.

[You don't need to worry, the darkness element is the 2nd strongest element for a reason. Even though they know about it, the darkness element can't be countered so easily.] The system said. [For them to be able to detect you guys a high-level cultivator has to be present or they have to make use of very expensive arrays and devices to detect you.]

'I wonder how costly they are.' Brian was curious, but he forgot that he was in the mind link.

[From what I know, it is so costly that only the top noble families can purchase for their main buildings. The only thing saving many is the fact that darkbringers are very few.] The system explained.

'Since we have nothing to worry about, let's get this over with.' Blake signaled for the team to continue moving forward.

After close to 10 minutes, the trio arrived at the end of the light trail, but the problem was that it went into the floor.

"Is it what I think it is?" Blake couldn't help but ask.

[It sure is what you think. A hideout 2 layers below the ground and some of the crates are directly below us.] The system stated.

"At least we have figured out where the crates are, lets check the other trails and check if one of them is an entrance." With that, the trio went to the end of the other grey light trails.

They were all the same thing as the first, this led to Blake taking a different approach and that was to locate the entrance.

He took out the same map from his dimensional pocket and began activating the locator skill. 'Where is the entrance to the hideout below us?'

With his focus on the map, a grey dot representing their current location appeared before moving a few centimeters and stopping at the textile factory not far from them.

"That is surprising but makes a lot of sense." Blake said in realization.

"How?" Castiel was confused by Blake's reaction.

"POV of a gang leader. When your gang has become so successful the next thought on my mind will be to establish a legal business. So what would be the best legal business that can make a lot of money and also act as a cover for the gang?" Blake asked, but went on to answer it. "A factory business."

"So a way for me to acquire one will be to buy it out rightly or threaten to kill the owner's family. When I finally become the owner, I will either employ my gang members and teach them how to work or I hire some workers and fill the other positions with gang members to control the flow of info."

"The factory will be a perfect place to have our entrance. Also, we could label the goods we robbed as materials for production and take them through the entrance down to the hideout.

In case some workers found out about the entrance to the hideout, they will be eliminated and claimed to be sacked. Since no one care much about commoners no one will notice and we go ahead to employ one from the long list of job searchers." Blake explained.

"I don't know how you can think about things like these in such a short period." Brian and Castiel were shocked by Blake's ability to piece things together so quickly.

"I too don't know. Once I start everything falls into place in my head, but first let's go confirm that this is true." Blake said with a sheepish smile on his face.

[What is your infiltration plan?] The system couldn't help but ask because so far they knew nothing about the gang, except for where they kept the stolen goods. So going that deep into their territory could spell death if they aren't careful.

Blake took some time to think before answering the question. "This isn't a gang wipe out, so we have to move in and out silently without leaving any signs of our presence because we don't want a situation where they know what's coming and move out.

Our goal is just locating the entrance to the hideout, so having 3 of us infiltrating won't be a wise decision. So Brian you would have to stay outside with a void dagger so that we would be able to easily escape if anything goes wrong." Blake explained the plan.

The plan was very simple which made the system worry, but they really didn't have any info about the textile factory layout, to even plan about.

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Once they were done planning Blake and Castiel left Brian in the sewers as they went into stealth mode.

The factory was a few blocks away, but the system continuously detected surveillance devices on the buildings as they kept getting closer.

"With so many surveillance devices watching all the streets that lead to the factory, I wonder how big the hideout will be." With the alerts coming from the system, Blake realized that he might have been underestimating the size and power level of the gang.

When they walked into the environment of the textile factory Blake realized the factory was bigger than the standard size of that of Earth.

The textile factory spanned 90 meters in length and 60 meters in width. It was made of red bricks and had 3 long chimneys that purified the carbon emissions before it was released into the environment.

'Seems like they are hiring today. This should make things easier.' Blake signaled to Castiel when he saw a line of commoners seeking employment outside the factory.

'Do you think the previous worker is dead?' Seeing the line Castiel couldn't help but think about Blake's hypothesis.

'It's only a hypothesis, it could be something else like not paying the worker..' Blake said through the mind link.