47: Chapter 47 Foreigner Stuck in Heavy Industry? Old Farmer Picks Up Luoyang Shovel, Makes Way, This Mountain Has Some Tender Potential

Southwestern frontier, Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon.

The torrential rain, like countless whips, lashed fiercely against this rugged mountain range.

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This is the construction site for the supporting tunnel of the Motuo Hydropower Station—a forbidden zone with the most complex geological structure and the highest construction difficulty on Blue Star.

Mud churned, and the roar of machinery was intermittent, suppressed by the sound of the rain.

Inside the temporarily erected rain shelter, the air was suffocatingly oppressive.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

A blonde, blue-eyed German engineer slammed his safety helmet onto the table, spraying saliva all over the face of the Chinese chief engineer opposite him.

"Hans Heavy Industry's Earth Dragon is the most advanced tunnel boring machine in the world! It's stuck now! Three cutter heads have shattered! Ahead is a high-pressure fracture zone and an underground river! This is a forbidden zone set by God; humans simply cannot get through!"

The Chinese chief engineer's face turned livid. He clutched the blueprints so tightly his knuckles turned white, but he couldn't say a word in rebuttal.

It was indeed stuck.

It had been stuck for a full half-month.

The daily financial loss was calculated in the hundreds of millions, not to mention the overwhelming ridicule from Western media—"Waterloo of Chinese Infrastructure," "The Dragon Slapped by Mother Nature."

Lei Keming stood in the corner, watching this scene, his brows knitted together in a knot.

He turned his head to look at Jiang Chen beside him and lowered his voice: "Xiao Jiang, can this... can our international student handle this? This is rock, not cutting tofu."

"Don't worry, Leader."

Jiang Chen was squatting on the ground, helping an old man wearing grey cloth clothes with his pant legs rolled up to his knees adjust his shoelaces.

This old man looked just like a farmer who had just returned from the fields; his skin was dark, and he held a shovel that looked exactly like a Luoyang shovel.

He was none other than the Supreme Elder of the Moving Mountain Sect of Taichu Holy Land—Shi Gandang.

In the Taichu Realm, this gentleman's specialty was moving mountains and filling seas.

Although his cultivation had been suppressed to the Foundation Establishment Stage, and he couldn't use the divine ability to pick up a mountain and run, dealing with a few rocks...

"Old Shi, how is it? Do you understand it?"

Jiang Chen stood up and handed him a bottle of mineral water.

Shi Gandang took a sip of water, then spat it out in disgust, pointing at the stalled giant tunnel boring machine in the distance with a look of disdain.

"That's it?"

Shi Gandang curled his lip, his expression like someone watching a child play with mud: "Using a big iron earthworm to burrow in the dirt? It eats slowly and poops slowly. Is this what you call a top-tier magical artifact? I think it's not even as good as the burrowing mouse refined by my unworthy disciple's disciple."

"Yes, yes, yes, these are just toys for mortals."

Jiang Chen quickly smoothed things over: "That's why we invited you out. See that mountain ahead? Break through it, make it fast, make it round, and make these foreign devils shut up."

"It's just digging a hole, what's the big deal."

Shi Gandang crushed the empty bottle and stuffed it into his pocket (he had heard that these plastic bottles could be sold for money).

"Do you need any other tools?" Jiang Chen asked.

"No need, this shovel of yours is enough."

Jiang Chen pointed to the special shovel in his hand, made of profound iron and covered with miniature vibration arrays, and smiled:

"Alright, let's get to work!"

Shi Gandang shouldered the shovel and walked straight toward the tunnel entrance with an arrogant, swaggering gait.

"Hey! Who is that? What are you doing!"

The German engineer Hans saw an old man trying to rush into the danger zone and immediately got anxious, rushing over to stop him: "This is a restricted construction area! There is a risk of collapse ahead! Unauthorized personnel, get out!"

"Move aside!" Lei Keming stepped out, blocking Hans, and coldly displayed his credentials: "National Security Bureau special operation. From now on, command of the site is transferred. Just watch, don't speak."

Hans was stunned, and before he could react, Shi Gandang had already reached the end of the tunnel.

There was a hard granite rock wall, mixed with extremely unstable fault mud, and the seeping groundwater was spurting out like a high-pressure water gun.

Shi Gandang reached out and touched the rock wall, feeling the vibrations coming from his fingertips.

"Hmm, the soil is a bit hard, but... it's okay, it's a bit chewy."

He turned back and grinned at Jiang Chen, revealing a mouthful of big teeth. "Son-in-law, start the timer. If I can't finish it before dinner, I'll eat two fewer pieces of braised pork tonight."

"You got it!" Jiang Chen glanced at his watch, "It's two o'clock in the afternoon. The live broadcast is now on, please begin your performance."

Just then, the red lights on several high-definition cameras set up in the tunnel lit up.

Not only domestically, but several major foreign video websites also simultaneously received the signal.

The title was sensational—[China Restarts Motuo Project, Mysterious Expert Teaches on Site].

In front of the screens, countless eyes were fixed on this seemingly ordinary old man.

"What is he doing? Manual excavation?"

"Are you kidding me! That's granite! Even with explosives, it would take half a day to blast!"

"Who is this old man? Is he here to perform a ritual?"

Amidst the chorus of doubts, Shi Gandang moved.

He did not swing the shovel to dig as everyone imagined.

He took a deep breath, his muscles bulging slightly as if inflated, and an earthy yellow halo (explained by Jiang Chen as a biological force field) flowed across his skin surface.

"Escape!" With a low shout, the profound iron shovel in Shi Gandang's hand slammed into the rock wall.

"Szz—" There were no sparks, no sound of impact. The shovel cut into the rock as if it were melting butter, instantly sinking into the stone.

At the same time, the vibration array on the shovel activated at full power, and the high-frequency vibration of 30,000 times per second directly shattered the molecular structure of the rock at the contact surface.

Immediately after, a scene that made everyone's eyes pop out occurred. Shi Gandang dived straight in.

He was like a fish swimming in water, diving straight into the hard rock layer. Wherever he passed, the hard granite, the broken fault mud, and even the high-pressure water automatically separated around his body, and were then compressed and compacted by a strange force.

"What the f*ck?!" The workers on site were all stunned.

The German engineer Hans opened his mouth wide, his jaw almost hitting his feet. "This... what kind of technology is this? Quantum tunneling? Or molecular recombination? This is unscientific! This violates the law of conservation of matter!"

"This is very scientific." Jiang Chen had appeared in front of the camera at some point, holding a microphone, and explained with a calm face.

"What you are seeing is our China's latest developed individual geological operation system. This expert is using the principle of high-frequency acoustic resonance to instantly liquefy the rock, and then rapidly solidify it after passing through, forming a high-strength tunnel wall. Simply put, it's turning stone into playdough, molding a hole, and then changing it back."

The comments section exploded instantly.

"What the hell with turning stone into playdough!"

"This is the Earth Escape technique! It must be the Earth Escape technique!"

"Newton's coffin lid is about to be unable to be held down!"

"Don't talk nonsense upstairs, we must believe in science! This must be some kind of black technology!"

Just as the outside world was in an uproar, Shi Gandang was swimming happily in the rock layer.

This feeling of "Earth Escape" made him feel a long-lost sense of intimacy.

Although his cultivation was suppressed by the spirit locking ring, his affinity for merging with the earth remained.

He swam in front, and the rock behind him automatically squeezed to both sides, forming a perfect circular tunnel with a diameter of five meters and walls as smooth as a mirror.

Moreover, because of the reinforcement of spiritual power (biological force field), the hardness of this tunnel wall was comparable to diamond, so there was no need for support, and there was no problem of collapse at all.

"Too slow, too slow." Shi Gandang muttered in disgust: "Where are we even? Need to speed up!"

He kicked his legs hard, like an athlete pushing off the wall in a swimming pool.

"Boom!" The whole mountain trembled slightly.

In the live broadcast screen, the number representing the excavation depth began to jump crazily.

100 meters... 500 meters... 1000 meters...

The original German tunnel boring machine could only advance a few meters a day, but now this old man advanced hundreds of meters in one minute!

This is the terrifying efficiency of a "human tunnel boring machine"!