After being separated from my family, I became a darling of the military region thanks to my medical

Li Yunlong waved his hand and issued a ruthless order that terrified Zhou Defa.

"Where are the engineering team members? Get the hell out of here and do the quality inspection!"

"I'll smash every single stone carefully. Let's see if it's hard enough!"

"yes!"

A thunderous roar echoed across the field. At Li Yunlong's command, dozens of burly engineering soldiers jumped from the trucks and lined up. They weren't carrying guns, but rather heavy, thirty-pound steel sledgehammers.

These towering men strode up to the piles of granite. Without a word, they swung their arms and smashed the sledgehammers down.

"Bang! Boom!"

With a deafening roar, dozens of sledgehammers slammed down simultaneously, the heavy steel bearing immense force crashing onto the granite, sending sparks flying everywhere.

The neatly cut stone slabs, intended for the construction of the main hospital building's foundation, were instantly broken into several pieces by the relentless hammer blows of the engineering corps, with fragments scattered everywhere.

"Bang bang bang!"

The dull thuds, like hammering iron, shook the ground. Dozens of sledgehammers rose and fell tirelessly, instantly engulfing the entire quarry in white stone dust and billowing yellow earth.

The sound of the stone shattering was more painful to Zhou Defa than having his flesh cut by a dull knife!

His heart was breaking; that was his life savings of more than half a year! At this moment, Zhou Defa couldn't even be afraid anymore. His eyes were bloodshot, and he let out a wail as he tried to rush forward to stop him.

"Click."

Without batting an eye, the two guards stepped forward and, without hesitation, slammed the butts of their Type 63 automatic rifles into Zhou Defa's chest.

The force of the blow sent Zhou Defa sprawling onto the muddy ground. He clutched his chest, wincing in pain, tears streaming down his face.

"Commander! Stop smashing it! Please, you can't smash it anymore!" Zhou Defa collapsed to the ground, slapping his thigh and crying out in despair, "Even if this stone were made of iron, it couldn't withstand our soldiers doing this! I give up, I admit defeat, I'll never dare to steal the contract again!"

Li Yunlong rubbed his ear, which was itchy from the flying ash, and shook his hand away with a look of disgust. Then he raised his thick military boot and kicked a piece of gravel at his feet.

The stone fragment was extremely accurate, grazing Zhou Defa's chin and leaving a bloody mark.

Li Yunlong looked down at him with a condescending sneer.

"You dare send this piece of junk, which would crumble to dust in just a few hammer blows, to the North City Military Region General Hospital? Are you trying to fool me, or are you trying to undermine the country?"

In less than five minutes, the sledgehammer stopped.

The smoke and dust gradually dissipated. Zhou Defa's painstakingly collected more than two hundred cubic meters of stone over a month was smashed into a pile of broken bricks, tiles, and powdery waste by these soldiers, leaving not a single usable whole stone.

Gu Zheng leaned against the Jeep, raising an eyebrow with interest. Old Li's rigorous quality inspection was indeed a perfect match for his expertise, and he was very pleased with it.

Just when Zhou Defa thought the nightmare was finally over and he had at least saved his life.

Company Commander Wang Tiezhu strode up to Li Yunlong, slung his rifle over his shoulder with one hand, and pointed at the shoulder of a soldier next to him with the other.

The soldier steadily carried a completely black Type 40 anti-tank rocket launcher on his shoulder!

Wang Tiezhu, in a loud and serious tone, loudly requested instructions.

"Commander, we're swinging this sledgehammer too slowly; the men haven't even warmed up their arms and legs!"

"How do you think this new thing we were issued is? Should we go straight for the large caliber and use it to test the hardness of that rocky mountain over there?"

Li Yunlong's eyes widened, and his rough, calloused hand pointed straight to the deepest part of the quarry. There stood a newly mined granite mountain, over ten meters high.

Li Yunlong's voice was booming, and he roared with such righteous indignation.

"Why don't you use it?"

"How the hell am I supposed to know if there's enough rock on this mountain to build a house if I don't blast it with a real cannon?"

He suddenly waved his hand, and a chilling killing intent instantly sealed off the entire area.

"Load the rocket launcher! Bombard that mountain!"

"Yes, sir!" The soldier deftly squatted into a horse stance, firmly securing the rocket launcher to his shoulder.

"Click!" That was the sound of a mechanical lock that sent chills down your spine.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Defa felt a loud buzzing in his mind, and his vision went completely black.

If this shot really goes off, I'll be begging for the rest of my life!

His knees buckled immediately, and he fell heavily to his knees amidst the sharp rubble with a thud. He was completely unaware that his knees were bleeding.

A warm liquid instantly soaked through the crotch of his gray polyester trousers, trickling down his thick thighs and into the yellow soil. This once-prosperous Zhou, the town's most successful businessman, was utterly terrified.

Zhou Defa kowtowed frantically, his forehead slamming against the gravel. Blood mixed with mud and water smeared his face, and tears and snot were all mixed together. He was no longer the arrogant man he had been when he threatened Ye Cheng in Heishan Village yesterday.

"Don't bombard me! Ancestor! Living Grandpa!"

"Sir, please don't fire! I was wrong, I'll confess everything! It was Lin Weiguo! It was Section Chief Sun from the city who taught me how to set up Ye Cheng! I'll tell you everything, please don't fire!"

Faced with absolute gunfire and the dark, gaping cannon barrels, all calculations become a joke.

There were no business maneuverings, no hypocritical buck-passing. The field army's unreasonable and iron-fisted suppression completely cut off Fangzhuang Quarry's future in this industry.

Section Chief Sun, who was eavesdropping behind the door frame, rolled his eyes and collapsed to the ground without uttering a sound. His head almost hit the half-eaten plate of braised pig's head, and he fainted on the spot.

Zhou Defa knelt on the ground, crying like a 150-pound ball of flesh, his lips trembling as he revealed everything about the person behind him.

"Lin Weiguo guaranteed that as long as I could go to the countryside and scare that country bumpkin surnamed Ye into withdrawing the contract, the sale of the Intermediary Center building would be entirely mine."

"To get in touch, I sent Lin Weiguo two whole cases of Moutai liquor, plus ten cartons of Zhonghua cigarettes! Even this braised pig's head on the table today was a meal arranged by Section Chief Sun, who came over to discuss with me how to divide the profits!"

Upon hearing this, Li Yunlong turned to look at Gu Zheng, who had been standing by with a cold expression.

Gu Zheng nodded very slightly to him. Without his prompting, the section chief who had been pretending to be dead and unconscious was already picked up by two guards like a chick and thrown next to Zhou Defa with a "thud".

"You should know what to do about the quarry."

Li Yunlong let out a cold snort, turned around, and strode into the jeep.

"Tiezhu, back to base."

The military green convoy sped away amidst a cloud of yellow dust and Zhou Defa's desperate, limp groan.