The bottom of the pit was far darker than he had imagined.
Even the dazzling searchlights above could not penetrate this darkness. As Li Wei looked around, all he could make out were vague shapes, like shadows.
Fortunately, Li Wei had come prepared. He reached down and switched on the Gas Lamp at his waist. Its dim yellow light soon drove back the darkness around him. He did not know whether he was imagining it, but the instant the light came on, the darkness before him seemed to retreat, rippling away from him.
Was that my imagination?
Forget it. Let's just say it was.
What else could I do? Draw my gun and shoot at it?
Li Wei gathered his thoughts and carefully examined his surroundings.
Compared with the areas littered with corpses above, this place was much cleaner. Aside from the Zombies that had fallen down earlier, there were no bodies around. That made sense, though. This was the original source of the infection, so anyone who had fallen ill would surely have gone back to rest. All that remained were piles of excavated earth and some equipment used for digging and transport.
How should I put it... this looks so ordinary.
Honestly, standing at the very bottom, looking at the heaps of earth, the iron shovels and other tools stacked nearby, and the machinery a short distance away, he felt as though he were at a perfectly ordinary construction site, with nothing strange about it at all.
But when he thought about how tens of thousands of people had spent decades digging this three-thousand-meter pit...
It was a real-life case of the old man moving mountains.
Though he had not been born and raised in the Empire, Li Wei had to admit that the Empire was seriously impressive!