Striding up onto the mountaintop platform, Chen Jue pulled away the camouflage cloth covering the two supply crates. First, he rummaged out a custom inflatable tent, but he did not set it up right away.
Instead, he picked up the entrenching shovel made of a special alloy, found a suitable spot on the mountainside, and began digging.
Chen Jue had once watched a rather unusual kind of video online, in which two young foreign men dressed like wild men used natural resources to dig holes and build all sorts of rustic underground villas.
However, building such underground villas took so much time that the videos they released were all edited with fast-forward footage.
Chen Jue did not need to go to that much trouble. With his agility now over five and his strength nearing six, applying those attributes to digging earth and rock was like an ordinary person watching a video sped up four or five times.
On top of that, the entrenching shovel in his hands was hard and sharp. A single thrust into the mountain rock, which he suspected was petrified Jianmu, was as easy as digging into tofu.
He dug downward according to his plan, starting with an entrance wide enough for one person, then steps, and finally a space inside the mountain. After digging for over three hours straight, he had carved out a square basement covering just over sixty square meters, with a height of three meters.
"Now this feels a bit like an Immortal Cultivation Cave Abode!"
"It's about the same size as the ground floor of my old home in Chen Village, too. It'll do for now. It's just a little short on light." Chen Jue wiped the sweat from his forehead. He had spent three hours as a human excavator, his hands