The underground excavation site was still brightly lit. The powerful lights of the construction site made every area they could reach as bright as day, while making the places they could not penetrate seem even darker.
Where the light reached, engineers and machinery continued working, but compared with the noise and bustle of the afternoon, it was a completely different scene.
Mountain Lord, who had been stationed in the core area all this time, had finally moved elsewhere. Yet he was still near the site, standing at the boundary between light and shadow formed by a searchlight and a damaged piece of large equipment. From afar, he stared thoughtfully at that peculiar "collapse point."
Since the afternoon, his presence had been especially imposing. The crew from Characters Live, severely short on viral material these past two days, had begun itching to dig up some footage from him. Unfortunately, even the boldest among them could not last two seconds beneath his icy gaze.
Combined with the construction workers he had seriously disrupted during the day, word spread by word of mouth. Mountain Lord's formerly bold and uninhibited image from the past few days was showing signs of collapse, developing instead toward that of "someone not to be approached." For a time, everyone kept their distance; within a thirty-meter radius of where he stood, even rats would detour around him.
Of course, that description was certainly exaggerated and one-sided.
In fact, Mountain Lord had been constantly communicating and socializing from the afternoon until now. The text messages in the encrypted channels alone could fill a full-length novel. Even here at the site, he had just seen off an honored guest and watched that fully armed figure lead Li Taisheng and the others into the deeper levels of the underground cavern for an