"Understood." Commander Lin nodded seriously. "We'll strengthen our defenses in this regard as well."
Jiang Yan Hai nodded. He knew that unless he told them directly, they probably would never think of it.
Of course, Jiang Yan Hai did not know whether the Taotie were really digging tunnels. At least for now, even his Data Analysis System could not detect them, and the Active Warning System could not possibly penetrate the ground at such depths.
Meanwhile, Taotie had always been active one or two thousand meters—or even just several hundred meters—away from the Great Wall, ranging from dozens to hundreds at a time.
On the following night, Jiang Yan Hai received a message from the base. Commander Shao had escaped mortal danger and awakened. However, he could not be in Qin at the moment, since he could not get there. He was currently in a ward set up at the temporary base.
Jiang Yan Hai did not inform Commander Lin of the news for the time being, because the message from the base stated that Commander Shao had ordered them not to notify her.
Jiang Yan Hai did not particularly care. It was probably meant to test Commander Lin or something along those lines.
Just after midnight that night, a piercing alarm suddenly rang out from the city wall. Jiang Yan Hai's heart skipped a beat. He knew it—the Taotie had probably really dug a tunnel. He had to admit that these Taotie were damn impressive. The ground beneath the Great Wall was all rock, and the wall had been built upon mountains. Yet they had managed to tunnel through all that stone in only seven or eight days.
Of course, no one knew whether the Taotie had appeared earlier and started digging in advance.
The tunnel they had dug