By the newly-constructed wooden hut outside the chicken farm.
Wang Ba stood silently, hands behind his back, attentively watching the middle-aged laborer busy working in front of him.
At that moment, the middle-aged laborer, Li Qi, was meticulously removing every bit of roughness from the wooden planks of the hut, completely oblivious to his surroundings.
In fact, in his sight, there was indeed no one else around.
In this 'empty' state, a person's true nature and real thoughts naturally reveal themselves.
Wang Ba watched silently for a long time, from daybreak to nightfall, then daybreak again, and another nightfall...
He monitored Li Qi's initial surprise and fear when he arrived, followed by restlessness when he wasn't summoned, then disappointment when there were no news, until desperation.
A person's mood changes incessantly with the shift in thoughts, and one's thoughts change persistently with changes in the external environment.
