After Chen Jue achieved Shatter the Vacuum and broke through to the Void Level, the influence of his perfected [Five Senses and Six Perceptions Skill] expanded his senses' range of perception of the outside world several hundredfold.
By the time maintenance workers from the nuclear power plant approached the hill he was in, he had already left the underground hollow and slipped away at a speed barely visible to the naked eye.
Before leaving, however, Chen Jue had left a rather mischievous little gift behind.
It was a metal kitchen knife, reshaped from the metal of the cables he had previously broken down, using his ability to alter the form of matter.
The appearance of this kitchen knife gave the maintenance workers something to ponder, telling them that this power outage had not been an accident, but had been caused by human intervention.
As for why the owner of this kitchen knife had cut through the nuclear power plant's transmission cables, the large crowd of South Korean police officers cordoning off the scene could make neither head nor tail of it.
Electricity theft, you say!
Stealing 5.76 million kilowatt-hours in just two hours would have been impossible without specialized electricity storage equipment.
After all, electricity was not as easy to store and transport as oil.
If this had been an oil pipeline in the Middle East, encountering a few oil thieves drilling holes in the pipeline to siphon off oil would at least have made sense.
Oil had a mature trading system, after all. It was tied to the US dollar, and as long as you had some, someone would buy it.
But electricity? Even if someone stole it, who would they sell it to?
Humanity's current electricity storage technologies all involved very high losses. Only direct transmission through power