Chapter 771: Chapter 771: Black Hole
"Don’t panic," Sun Hao said, his voice hurried and breathless, "Anyway, just hurry back!"
After that, he hung up, leaving Ling Feng with a face full of confusion.
Looking at the darkened screen, Ling Feng shook his head helplessly: "All thumbs!"
Then he turned the car around, heading back toward Shiliu Village.
"What happened to your village?"
Hearing the urgency in the call, Zhang He asked curiously.
"Didn’t say, just told
to hurry back!"
Ling Feng said while shaking his head helplessly as he drove.
"Why don’t you ask soone else? It’ll take at least twenty minutes to get back!" Zhang He said.
Ling Feng glanced at him: "Everyone’s in the city for the ceremony. Who else would be in the village?"
"The villagers went too? You have no one else in the village?" Zhang He gave him a disdainful look.
Ling Feng thought about it and pulled over, rummaging for Old Sun’s number and calling him.
After a few rings, the other side picked up breathlessly, "Hello, is this Ling Feng?"
"It’s , Uncle Sun, what’s happened in the village?" Ling Feng asked.
"The mountain’s split open, big trouble, hurry back!" Old Sun said.
Ling Feng’s brow furrowed. A mountain fissure? What was that about?
He wanted to ask for more details but could only hear Old Sun panting as if running, with a cacophony of noise in the background—people seed to be running and shouting in a frenzy.
Hearing this, Ling Feng realized the matter was serious and didn’t bother asking further; he hung up and pressed the accelerator, speeding up the car.
After a frenzied drive, fifteen minutes later, they reached the entrance to Shiliu Village.
From a distance, they saw a towering cloud of black and yellow smoke shooting into the sky, emanating from the mountains west of Shiliu Village. Ling Feng was shocked and Zhang He was dumbfounded, muttering to himself, "Damn, has there been a missile strike?"
"How could that be?"
Ling Feng scoffed and drove into the village, not even stopping at his own house but heading straight for the mountains.
When they arrived near the Chu Family estate, they could already see a lot of people standing at the entrance, all looking toward the mountains.
Among these people were those from the estate, residents of Shiliu Village, and the workers from the Luo Family’s Mo Stone Mine.
It seed the earlier disturbance in the mountains must have been significant to alarm everyone nearby.
With no further road leading into the mountains, Ling Feng had to park his car at the entrance of the estate and then rushed on foot toward the mountains.
On the way, he encountered so brave young people; from a distance, they saw a crowd on the hillside—Sun Hao and Yu Nan were there, and Ling Feng imdiately rushed up to join them.
"Boss, you’re finally here!"
Sun Hao exclaid, then turned and pointed ahead: "Look there!"
Ling Feng had already seen it. In the valley opposite, a huge crater was spewing out black and yellow smoke.
The opening was enormous. Even from their standing position, over a thousand ters away, it looked like a vast bowl.
If you were to stand at the edge of the hole, it was likely to span dozens of ters in diater.
"How long has that appeared?"
Ling Feng stared at the smoking area and asked solemnly.
"When I called you, I thought it was an earthquake at first, everything was shaking like crazy. Then I heard a huge explosion, and without thinking, I just called you," Sun Hao said.
Ling Feng responded with an "Oh" and looked back at the crowd. Basically, none of the people from Shiliu Village were here anymore; they were all elites from the Chu Family who had co from outside, or the mine workers.
After glancing at them, Ling Feng said in a deep voice, "Everyone, stay here and don’t move around; just watch from a distance. I’ll go over and see what’s going on!"
"Boss, can I co with you?" Sun Hao asked.
"Sure!"
Ling Feng nodded. Sun Hao was tough-skinned and thick-fleshed; he wouldn’t run into any serious trouble even in danger.
As for Lin Xue, Ling Feng took one look at her and said, "You shouldn’t go. Stay here on guard and be ready to report to the bureau at any ti."
"Alright, then you be careful," she said.
Lin Xue pursed her lips, feeling that the black and yellow smoke didn’t seem like anything good. It looked poisonous just by looking at it.
At this mont, Zhang He said, "I’m coming with you!"
"You better stay here. If anything happens, I can’t explain it to Bai Qian!" Ling Feng said.
Zhang He glared, "Crap, you need to explain to ? Step aside; I have the highest rank here. Since when is it your turn to give orders?"
"Err..."
Speechless, Ling Feng glared back at him and said while descending the hill, "Just you wait, I’ll get myself a deputy director position too, then see how you try to pull rank on !"
Zhang He chuckled, "Even if you beco a deputy director, you’ll still have to listen to , because I’m the chief!"
"Pfft, we’re not even in the sa bureau; why should I listen to you?" Ling Feng snapped back irritably.
Suddenly, after walking a few steps, Ling Feng saw soone following and turned around to see it was Yu Nan. So he asked, "Why are you here too?"
"Boss, there’s sothing fishy about that place. I’ve encountered sothing similar before; let
go with you to take a look!" Yu Nan said.
"Oh?"
Ling Feng was taken aback and then, putting an arm around his shoulder, walked and asked, "What happened? Where have you encountered a similar situation before?"
Yu Nan chuckled awkwardly, "Didn’t I used to ss with antiques? I’ve gone tomb raiding with others before. Once, we encountered a very strange tomb, and when we opened it, a stream of black and yellow smoke gushed out!"
"Really? What happened after that?"
Ling Feng was genuinely interested and kept walking, allowing Yu Nan to follow him.
Yu Nan grinned, "Then we tried using the geese we brought for hole exploration. As soon as they slled that air, they honked and dropped dead on the spot!"
Ling Feng was startled, "Damn, that’s deadly poison!"
"Yes, I suspect that smoke is sothing similar, so I wanted to go with you to take a look, to prevent everyone from being caught off guard," Yu Nan said.
Ling Feng looked at him seriously and said, "Old Yu, you’ve got guts, not afraid of dying, huh?"
"Boss, what are you talking about? I’ve already said I’m sticking with you. My life is yours. For you, anything is worth it!" Yu Nan said with a smile.
The words were a bit too intimate, making Ling Feng shiver and give him a disapproving look.
Zhang He smirked to himself, about to make a sarcastic remark, but Ling Feng gave him a fierce look, "Don’t talk nonsense, you don’t have this kind of brotherhood!"
"I..."
Zhang He was at a loss for words, unable to say anything else.
The group quickly made it down to the valley and headed straight for the small hollow. A few minutes later, they arrived next to the huge opening.
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