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Underground, ten feet deep.
In the long tunnel, Wang Chen was energetically digging forward.
Large chunks of mud and stones, excavated with a specially made tool, disappeared without a trace.
Once the mud filled a storage bag measuring a cubic zhang, Wang Chen would stop, apply the Mudstone Technique to solidify the newly dug tunnel walls into firm, thick rock.
Then he would return to the surface to empty the storage bag.
In this repeated cycle, the tunnel grew longer and longer.
The passage connected to a previously constructed underground chamber and, according to Wang Chen's plan, its exit would be in a forest some six to seven hundred meters from his home.
But it wasn't meant to be a real escape route.
The sudden appearance of Lv Defang that day had caused Wang Chen to suffer from severe "persecutory delusions."
He felt that the "Doomsday Bunker" he had envisioned was no longer as safe as he had thought.
So, Wang Chen altered the blueprint.
