The courage of the low-level Transcendents was no less than that of the Turan Orcs, and it moved Meng Chao deeply.
Yet the more deeply he was shaken by the spirit and will displayed by these compatriots fighting on the Front Line,
the more furious he became at the recklessness, greed, and stupidity of the decision-makers.
"Who exactly decided to build so many Crystals Mines in a swarm at the bottoms of rifts near the tributaries of Tiger's Fury River, without carrying out large-scale modifications to the surrounding environment or establishing a complete defense and evacuation system?
"Yes, building Crystals Mines deep within the rifts can indeed minimize the distance between surface facilities and the Crystal Veins, saving enormous costs and generating staggering profits.
"But once natural disasters such as earthquakes, torrential rain, mudslides, floods, or volcanic eruptions occur, the frontline workers toiling day and night inside the Crystals Mines will be left in an extremely vulnerable position!
"The decision-makers should have known perfectly well how powerful the spatial ripples caused by Dragon City's crossing into the Otherworld were. Even if the mist truly dispersed, that would not mean the entire space had become absolutely stable!
"Especially at the seam between Dragon City and the Otherworld—it is like the boundary between two tectonic plates on Earth, an 'earthquake-active zone.' Any kind of extreme weather occurring here would be nothing strange!
"Even setting natural disasters aside, what about man-made disasters?
"Dragon City's decision-makers should have known long ago that the Otherworld contained all kinds of natives. And since these natives had a way to seal even the vicious monsters inside the Monster Mountain Range, they surely possessed combat strength no weaker than the monsters'!
"Even without today's flood and torrential rain, if this Mining Area continued to be developed so savagely