41: Chapter 41: Qian Bo'an, You've Got the Wrong Person

Chief Engineer Wang Heshan and Chief Engineer Wang Jianguo stood like that at the entrance of the command headquarters, their necks nearly snapping from looking up for so long, their mouths hanging open for a good while.

Not just the two of them; everyone still breathing in the base—whether soldiers on guard or workers who had just crawled out of their bunks—was rooted to the spot, staring unblinkingly at the sky.

The sky has collapsed.

This was the only thought in everyone's mind.

Above that Black Tower, where the night sky should have been pitch black, there was now a massive hole. A gigantic, multicolored vortex hung there, slowly rotating.

That thing was so huge it felt like it filled the entire sky over the desert. Red, blue, purple, gold—all sorts of colors swirled together. It didn't turn fast, but there was a force that made people feel a tightness in their chests, making it hard to breathe.

The strangest thing was that the base, which had just been a chaotic mess due to burst water pipes and sinking ground, suddenly fell silent the moment this thing appeared.

It wasn't just that people stopped making noise; the entire world had gone quiet.

The wind stopped.

The sand that had been howling and blowing just a moment ago suddenly died down; not a trace of wind could be felt.

Those several water pillars shooting into the sky in the distance were still spraying water, but the sound was much quieter, no longer so terrifying.

The sandy ground that had been softened by water and was constantly sinking also seemed to be held down by something, the speed of collapse visibly slowing.

"Old... Old Wang..." Chief Engineer Wang Jianguo's throat was dry. He swallowed hard, wanting to say something to Chief Engineer Wang Heshan, but as soon as he spoke, he realized his voice was hoarse and trembling.

Chief Engineer Wang Heshan ignored him, his old eyes fixed intently on the massive vortex in the sky. In his life, he had built cross-sea bridges and dammed the Yangtze River and other major rivers; what kind of spectacle had he not seen? But the scene before him had completely exceeded his understanding.

Is this something a human can do?

Forget humans; even if a deity descended to earth, it would probably be just like this, wouldn't it?

"It's... it's the Chief Consultant..." Chief Engineer Wang Jianguo squeezed out another sentence, finally managing to speak clearly this time. "It must be the Chief Consultant! She's breaking through!"

He remembered Jiang Ning's words before her seclusion, and the despair in his heart suddenly flickered with a spark of hope.

Right! They still had a Chief Consultant who was like a deity!

Chief Engineer Wang Heshan also realized it. He thought of that young woman who always looked calm, as if the sky falling had nothing to do with her. He remembered her pointing at a piece of granite in the desert and saying there was water underneath. He remembered her stepping on air and repairing the nearly ruined Water Diversion Array with her bare hands.

Scenes flashed through his mind, finally freezing on that massive, gorgeous multicolored vortex in the sky that exuded supreme majesty.

He had believed in science and that man could conquer nature his entire life; at this moment, that belief was completely shaken.

"What... what kind of breakthrough is this?" he couldn't help but ask, his voice carrying an awe he hadn't even noticed himself.

"I don't know!" Chief Engineer Wang Jianguo shouted as well. He wasn't afraid; he was excited. "But I know that we... we won't die!"

Even as they spoke, the vortex in the sky changed again.

Its rotation speed began to accelerate, and the colors in the center grew brighter and brighter. Finally, a pillar of light more dazzling than the sun shot straight down from the center of the vortex!

The target of the light pillar wasn't the high tower, nor was it them, but those areas in the distance that had turned into muddy bogs due to the burst water pipes!

The light pillar hit the ground without a sound or an explosion.

But everyone saw that in the places touched by the light, those huge fissures still spraying water and the sinking sandy ground all instantly froze.

Then, an even more terrifying scene appeared.

The sand and soil that had been churned into a mess by the water actually began to move on their own under the illumination of the light pillar! They tumbled and crawled, actively surging toward those massive fissures!

The sand and mud filled the cracks on their own, blocking the gushing water!

Those several pillars of water shooting into the sky dwindled bit by bit right before everyone's eyes, weakening until finally... they were completely gone!

The ground that had been hollowed out and collapsed by the water was also refilled and compacted by that "living" sand and soil at a visible speed.

The entire process took only a few minutes.

A disaster that could have finished off the entire base was just... smoothed over like that?

Chief Engineer Wang Heshan and Chief Engineer Wang Jianguo were both completely dumbstruck. They stood with their mouths agape, staring blankly at the flattened land in the distance, their heads buzzing.

They had spent their lives in engineering and knew best how difficult such underground piping was to handle. Forget repairing it; it was hard for people even to get close. But now, someone had shone a light from the sky, and the ground had fixed itself?

Is this... still called engineering?

"A deity... a deity..." A young soldier could no longer remain standing. The gun in his hand dropped to the ground, and he himself fell to his knees with a "thud," bowing frantically toward the high tower.

With his kneel, the surrounding soldiers and workers all followed suit, one by one. In their eyes, everything happening before them could not be explained by anything other than the word "miracle."

Inside the command headquarters, Director Zhao Lixin, who was watching all this through surveillance, could no longer stand either. He slumped in his chair, clutching the encrypted phone so tightly that the veins on the back of his hand bulged.

On the other end of the phone, the Director of the General Bureau in the Capital, along with a group of the nation's top leaders, were simultaneously watching this scene—enough to turn anyone's brain to mush—through his signal.

There was dead silence on the phone.

Director Zhao Lixin knew that from today on—no, from this moment on—the nature of the "Pangu Project" had completely changed.

This was no longer a technical development project.

This was a... God-Welcoming Project.

Just then, the multicolored vortex above the high tower did not disappear after repairing the ground. Instead, it spun even faster, its colors becoming even deeper.

A pressure a hundred times more intense than before descended from the sky!

Everyone felt as if their hearts were being squeezed by a hand, making even breathing difficult.

Within the base, several figures hidden in corners, who had just been secretly gloating over their "masterpiece," suddenly let out screams under this pressure. They collapsed to the ground clutching their heads, their bodies convulsing and foaming at the mouth.

It was exactly A-Biao and the other moles planted by Huanyu Group!

Their meager mental strength was as fragile as paper before such celestial might and was instantly crushed!

Before Chief Engineer Wang Heshan and Chief Engineer Wang Jianguo could figure out what was happening, they saw those figures collapsing.

"Quick! Arrest them!" Chief Engineer Wang Heshan was, after all, an experienced veteran; he was the first to react, shouting as he pointed at those people.

A disaster, both natural and man-made, was thus forcibly overturned. And the instigator of all this, Chairman Qian Boan, was at this moment still comfortably sitting in his office in the Capital, holding a glass of red wine, waiting for what he thought would be good news.

How could he have known that the black hand he had extended had not touched an engineering project at all?

What he had provoked was a... Being who was undergoing a complete transformation and was about to step into another level of life.