The waters of the Wenshui River poured into it without end...
And the underground black hole seemed to be an infinite space. Even after taking in so much water, it continued its tireless, frenzied devouring...
This state of affairs continued...
Someone discovered in astonishment that the former site of the Ning Clan Ancestral Tombs had now become a full-fledged lake! The water level was gradually rising...
Ripples shimmered across the water, its depth unknown!
Meanwhile, the Ning Family Artificial Lake and the Meng Family Artificial Lake had both returned to their original state.
But anyone could see that the influx from the Wenshui River had saturated the groundwater. In other words, these three places had become interconnected at some unknown depth underground!
Then... taking that thought one step further-the very bottom of this entire area was hollow!
Below them was practically an ocean!
And the buildings above were like structures built on blocks of ice floating on that ocean, unsafe in the extreme, liable to topple, collapse, and be destroyed in an instant!
Once they realized this, everyone living in the area panicked and fled.
The Governor's Residence had no choice but to issue an Evacuation Order.
In essence, all the residents, companies, and such in the area were to be evacuated.
After this series of actions, everyone discovered to their astonishment that, although the area was quite large, there were actually very few outsiders there, since it had always been controlled by the Meng Group and the Ning Lineage. Excluding those two, it was practically an empty, uninhabited expanse.
Almost every building aboveground belonged to those two.
Only two or three small residential complexes on the outskirts fell outside their spheres of influence.
The rest were mostly employee housing complexes, employee dormitories, or the two families' staff housing, warehouse