Chapter 4

A thumping sound came from the distant sky!

Fang Yang looked up.

Several helicopters were flying toward them in the sky.

Before long, they stopped hovering over the construction site.

The huge propellers spun rapidly, whipping up gusts of wind that blew the soil below into a dust storm.

It took a full minute before everything finally fell silent.

When the dust cleared, five military helicopters came into view.

The cameraman's last shred of hope was shattered.

Even a fool would know troops had arrived.

It had only been about five minutes since the fiber-optic cable was discovered; that speed was truly terrifying.

Soon, a squad of fully armed soldiers descended from the helicopters and surrounded Fang Yang and the cameraman.

Right behind them, a middle-aged man with a square face strode forward, accompanied by soldiers.

If one looked closely, the badge on his shoulder was visible.

Two bars and three stars!

[Popularity] +1+1+1+1....

[Popularity] +1+1+1+1....

—[Two bars and three stars! That's a Colonel's rank, at least a regiment commander level in the army. This absolutely means they hit a primary trunk line; otherwise, such a massive deployment wouldn't happen.]

—[The line was dug during the day, and the people went in this afternoon. Police: Even if you robbed a gold store, I could at least take a breather.]

—[They say the most profitable crimes are in the Criminal Code, yet you picked the least profitable one in the Criminal Code [laughing-crying].]

—[Even our scrap collectors would call the police immediately upon seeing a fiber-optic cable. When asked why, it seems someone in their industry once got locked up for three years for mistakenly taking one.]

—[Life is already short, yet you insist on taking shortcuts!]

—[Scrap collectors: Heroes don't ask where they come from; cables don't ask where they came from.]

—[Prison will feed you, support you, and see you to the end!]

—[It's hard to imagine this is truly a live broadcast. Where are the organizers? If they don't show up soon, the contestants will be dragged away.]

The live stream's popularity had exploded in that moment.

It surged from two thousand viewers to over twenty thousand, and it kept climbing nonstop.

Everyone who opened the live stream was shocked at the first sight of the scene on screen.

Some even suspected they had clicked the wrong stream and ended up on a military channel.

When they learned the streamer had dug up a national defense fiber-optic cable with an excavator, they were all stunned.

They had long heard that troops near a national defense cable arrive very quickly.

But online, there were only similar news reports; videos were impossible to find, and even pictures were rare.

Seeing such a live broadcast was like winning the lottery.

Many people didn't just watch it themselves.

They took screenshots to brag on their social media feeds and messaging groups; others, quick-witted and quick-handed, recorded short videos and posted them on major short-video platforms.

But no matter where they posted, the comments were almost uniformly asking for the live stream link.

This caused many people who weren't watching the program "Ace Workplace Expert" to flock to the live stream.

In an instant, the entire program's traffic skyrocketed.

And Fang Yang's live stream was packed to capacity.

Meanwhile, inside the production company's office building.

A person wearing a team leader badge quickly removed his headset and rushed toward the supervisor's office.

His face was tense, his heart pounding as if it would leap from his throat, as he pounded hard on the office door.

Knock, knock, knock~~~

"Supervisor, something huge has happened!"

The supervisor inside the office, who was watching a beauty live stream, took a sip of goji berry tea and said leisurely, "Come in!"

The team leader panted heavily, but he had only run for a short while; he was simply too nervous to speak.

The supervisor was somewhat displeased. "What's got you so frantic? You're a manager, after all; can't you be more composed?"

"Supervisor... Supervisor... Quick!! Open stream number 26... then you'll know!"

"What the heck? Just say it directly if there's something wrong!"

However, seeing the team leader gasping for breath, he shook his head and chose to open stream number 26 anyway.

The moment he opened it, his entire body snapped rigid, and his eyes nearly popped out of his head!

He immediately put on his headset, read the comments in the comment section, and was completely dumbfounded!

Two minutes later!

"Damn! Something this huge happened, and you didn't tell me sooner!"

Before the team leader could answer.

The supervisor bolted out the door, running and stumbling.

Bang~~

He even forgot to take off his headset, which fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.

The team leader stood there, stunned.

Where's the composure you promised? Did you eat it?

The supervisor rushed out the door and sprinted up the stairs toward the manager's office.

To save time waiting for the elevator, he chose to take the stairs.

He knew very well how urgent the situation was.

He even took three steps at a time while climbing, rushing up without stopping once.

When he reached the manager's office, he burst in without knocking.

"Manager!! Hah~~ Hah~~ Hah~~"

The manager, who looked to be under forty, stared blankly at the panting supervisor.

"What are you doing? Don't you know to knock before entering? You have no dignity as a supervisor!"

The supervisor's expression was pained, almost on the verge of tears; he seemed to have just heard similar words himself.

Too exhausted and nervous to speak clearly, he shoved the manager aside and opened the live stream of room 26 on his computer.

The manager was about to scold him, but upon seeing the live feed, his expression turned as if he had just eaten excrement.

Two minutes later.

Every supervisor and above in the production team received a message.

"Report to the conference room within two minutes. Anyone late is fired!"

Everyone was stunned; some were eating, some working, and others even defecating.

Yet without exception, they all immediately dropped what they were doing and rushed to the manager's office at top speed.

Taking the elevator would take too long; they had to run up the stairs.

In an instant, the stairwells of the entire production building were filled with the sound of running.

Having never seen such a message before, their first reaction was that something major had happened!

As everyone filed into the conference room, they saw the manager sitting in the head seat, his face pale.

Directly in front of him on the screen was the live stream of Fang Yang.

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5. The reason for the fiber optic cable cut, a miracle revival!

The manager looked at everyone below and spoke with a serious expression.

"Is everyone here? No nonsense; the difficulties we face could shut down the show at any moment!"

"The large screen shows the live interface of contestant number 26. He previously dug through a national defense cable with an excavator. The military has arrived, and judging by the scale, this could be a major incident."

"If we cannot navigate this crisis well, everyone here will lose their jobs. Now, everyone share your ideas on how to handle this crisis!"

The supervisors below looked up at the live stream on the large screen.