By the time they reached the northern end of the strait, the place had become extremely lively. From the very beginning, the focus of the bridge's construction had been on this side of the mainland.
After all, the mainland had far richer resources. There were plenty of mountains and rocks that could be quarried. To pour the reinforced-concrete bridge, two peaks along the northern mainland shore had already been blasted flat. Now, all that stone had been mixed into concrete and become part of the bridge.
Gu Ji and Tian Hong felt something completely different when they arrived at the bridge's northern shore.
If the southern side of the bridge could be described as quiet and deserted, then the northern end was bustling.
Nearly the entire Engineering Team was concentrated on the northern landmass. There was a huge worker Residential Area here, so large that it was practically comparable to a county seat—and even somewhat larger.
There was more than just a Residential Area here. The various machines at the worksite roared as well. Two massive Stone Crushers, each as tall as a small building, were constantly swallowing the huge chunks of stone quarried from the mountain, then mercilessly crushing them between their rollers into stones the size of dates.
The tractors here also formed long lines, constantly hauling crushed stone, sand, and cement to the unfinished end of the bridge ahead.
On the quarrying mountain beside them, two tracked excavators that had been modified into Rock Drills were also hard at work.
Their excavator buckets had been replaced with Air Hammers, which were used specifically to drill Blast Holes into the mountainside. Workers would then load them with explosives, clear the crowds away, issue warnings, and finally detonate the explosives with fuses.
With a thunderous boom, part of the