Ledney Water Company

“Mr. Anthony.”

In the spacious and bright office, Robert Ledney, the president of Ledney Water, looked at the expressionless, tall, white muscular man in front of him and asked, “You just said you wanted to drain all the water from Crystal Lake, is that correct?”

“Yes.”

Li Hai nodded calmly, “So, how many water pumps does your company currently have? I’m talking about the ones with sufficient power.”

“350 units, each capable of pumping 800 cubic meters of water per hour.”

Robert replied without hesitation, “If you think the number of water pumps isn’t enough, we can also borrow from other companies.”

“Alright, then start borrowing now.”

Li Hai said indifferently, “Borrow another six hundred and fifty units, to make it exactly one thousand.”

“That many?” Robert was stunned, “In that case… the cost will be very high.”

“Money is not a problem, I just love spending money.”

Li Hai smiled slightly, “Just go borrow them, don’t worry.”

“OK.”

Robert shrugged, then took out several documents from his desk and handed them to Li Hai, “Mr. Anthony, since the project has been decided, you will need to sign all these contracts. Oh, and there’s also a liability waiver to sign, because it was you, Mr. Anthony, who decided to drain the lake water. We are just the construction party. If any relevant government departments raise objections to this project afterward, you will have to handle it yourself. We will then send people to survey the site, assess the situation at Crystal Lake, and take measurements. Finally, you will need to pay a deposit. If you agree to all of these, we can officially begin.”

“Alright.” Li Hai nodded, “By the way, how much will this project cost me approximately?”

“Hmm, although we haven’t accurately measured and estimated Crystal Lake yet.”

Robert pondered, “But I estimate it should be between four and a half million to six million US dollars.”

“OK.” Li Hai grinned, “Then let’s start the project.”

When Li Hai drove the truck, laden with US dollars, back to the Crystal Lake campsite, he discovered a police car parked there.

Around the police car stood two white police officers, constantly questioning the white men and women in the camp.

And as soon as these white men and women saw Li Hai, they immediately shouted and called for him to come over.

At the same time, the two police officers looked at Li Hai with scrutinizing gazes.

“Anthony Williams.”

The two police officers stood in front of Li Hai and asked in a deep voice, “Your classmates said that a strange person, wearing a baseball mask and holding a machete, suddenly emerged from Crystal Lake just now. Then this strange person’s head suddenly detached, but he stood upright on the water, and then you flew like Superman to the strange person’s body and chopped the body into pieces with a knife, is that right?”

“Heh heh.”

Li Hai smiled inexplicably, and seemingly casually raised his hand to snap his fingers, snapping them repeatedly in a strange rhythm, while also speaking slowly in a peculiar rhythm: “You two must be very tired from driving all the way here, and you must want to rest, right? Then sleep, let your brains rest, let your consciousness drift into slumber—”

As Li Hai’s gentle and low voice, and the continuous snapping of fingers, continued, the two police officers were quickly hypnotized on the spot, standing there motionless and bewildered.

“What those young men and women saw were all illusions, illusions they got from smoking marijuana. You can find the marijuana in their cars. There was never any masked wack, and I never flew to the center of Crystal Lake. Everything was an illusion caused by marijuana damaging their nerves.”

After finishing this statement, Li Hai suddenly clapped his hands loudly, waking the two police officers with the sound.

Afterward, the two police officers looked at each other, whispered a few words, and then one walked towards the cars parked at the edge of the camp, while the other walked with a serious expression towards the group of idiotic white men and women.

Over the following week, Ledney Water Company went to great lengths to borrow a total of six hundred and fifty high-power water pumps from various companies in other locations.

Then, along with their own company’s three hundred and fifty units, a total of one thousand water pumps were transported by large trucks to the vicinity of Crystal Lake.

During this period, Jason revived several times from the lake water, but each time Li Hai, who was guarding nearby, used several strands of Suoyuan Sword Qi to cut him into pieces, causing him to helplessly sink back to the bottom of the lake.

By the fifth day, Ledney Water Company, having completed all surveying and measurement work, dispatched a large number of personnel to Crystal Lake to set up pipes, operate machinery, and begin the official pumping work.

Thus, for a time, the dull, vibrating roar of machinery and the gurgling sound of flowing water enveloped the entire area around Crystal Lake.

“Hum hum hum~”

Li Hai stood by the lake, looking at the center of the lake several hundred meters away, and coldly sneered, “Jason, when all the water in Crystal Lake is drained by me, how will you be able to revive then?”

In reality, this idea of completely eliminating him was not something he came up with out of thin air by just thinking about it.

After Li Hai had learned all the skills from Jason, he suddenly realized a fact.

That is, this Jason was essentially a ‘Geomancer’ deeply bound to Crystal Lake.

So, as long as Crystal Lake no longer existed in the future, even if Jason, this Crystal Lake Geomancer, did not die, he would lose more than half his life and be close to death.

Splash, splash, splash—Just as Li Hai on the lakeshore was lost in thought, a sturdy figure suddenly emerged from the center of Crystal Lake, where the water level had already dropped a little, amidst violently churning water.

It turned out that Jason had revived again.

And after this revival, Jason seemed to have become smarter.

He actually chose not to attack Li Hai on the lakeshore, but instead fiercely threw the machete in his hand towards a worker standing next to a water pump on the shore, several hundred meters away.

Because of its extreme speed, before Li Hai could even make a move, the worker was instantly decapitated by the spinning machete.

“You motherf*cker!”

With an angry shout, Li Hai immediately acted, continuously pointing his fingers and shooting out ten invisible Sword Qi.

He instantly chopped Jason, who was trying to escape across the lake, into a pile of severed limbs and shattered remains from a distance, sending him sinking to the bottom of the lake.

And after this bloody murder occurred at Crystal Lake, it naturally immediately caused panic among the hundreds of construction workers. They then successively demanded a halt to work, demanded to report the case, and demanded compensation for mental distress.

Including Robert, the president of the water company, who rushed to the scene immediately after learning of the incident. After seeing the horrific state of the worker’s death, he expressed his desire to stop the construction to Li Hai due to his fear.

But how could Li Hai agree to this?