There were quite a few people leaving after finishing their odd jobs—at least a hundred.
They had sensed that tonight was highly likely to bring together favorable timing, terrain, and people, offering a chance to get rich overnight.
Jiang Yong forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart and dared not show anything unusual. He kept his head down and quickly left the construction site at the back of the crowd, heading toward his lodgings.
In Bao Yu County, he was an undocumented resident and could not rent a decent place at all.
After searching everywhere, he could only settle in a half-abandoned development in New City District, where even the water and electricity had not been connected.
But precisely because of that, after walking roughly half a kilometer, only a few people remained beside him.
After slightly quickening his pace, he was alone on the pitch-black road.
"I have to hurry and prepare the tools. Hopefully there'll be fewer border patrols tonight. Otherwise, staying one more day could bring disaster!"
After opening the Game Panel and checking the time, Jiang Yong simply broke into a sprint.
Before long, he arrived near a relatively large construction ruin.
Faint lights still flickered inside. After a brief look around, Jiang Yong found his lodgings.
However, just as he reached the gate, his expression turned ugly.
The lock hanging on the iron gate had vanished. The latch swayed back and forth in the night breeze.
When he pushed open the door, the roughly ten-square-meter room was already a complete mess.
Not only had the two grain sacks in the corner been taken, but even the secondhand bedding on the plank bed had not been spared.
And that was far from all. On the cement wall opposite the plank bed, the "visitor" had left two