Inside the cave, the lights were bright. A middle-aged man with a goatee was checking the progress of the workers with his hands behind his back.
At that moment, the middle-aged man spoke to a man in a black suit beside him: "Tell the people outside that the construction up top shouldn't stop. Continue building as planned; we don't want Li Xiaobao to get suspicious!"
"Yes, Elder Xue." The man in the black suit responded with a nod and then hurried out.
Just then, someone came rushing in from outside the cave, panic-stricken, shouting, "Elder, something's wrong, something's terribly wrong!"
The workers digging in the cave immediately turned their heads, drawn by the flustered voice.
But Elder Xue immediately darkened his face and reprimanded, "What are you looking at? We must dig through tonight!"
With this shout, the workers quickly turned around and sped up their shoveling.
Luckily, the soil here was loose; otherwise, manual labor alone would not suffice.
