On this ordinary morning, Jasper arrived at the construction site with Julian in tow.
He had not informed anyone of his arrival and came to look around by himself.
The skyscraper had already taken its initial shape and the concrete foundation of the main construction sight had been complete. With that, one-third of the 666-meter skyscraper was already constructed.
The scorching sun shone over the construction site and countless workers were busying themselves in all corners of the site. The quiet rumble of machinery could also be heard.
Construction materials laid about everywhere and there were six tower cranes as tall as buildings operating on the site.
“All of this is money,” Jasper sighed as he looked up at the tower cranes suspended in mid-air.
These tower cranes were rented on a weekly lease. Installation was 200 thousand each and rental was another 100 thousand regardless of whether it was put to use or not. Jasper also had to pay the operators of these tower cranes, and each skilled operator cost him at least 30 thousand a month.
It was currently the year 2000 too.
Jasper had spent 3 million per month on this expense alone.
The man found his heart aching at the thought of these expenses during such a time where money was tight.
However, the costs now were nothing in comparison to the profits he would earn once he succeeded.
“Hey, hey, hey! Who are you people? This is a construction site, all you unrelated people need to leave.”
Jasper heard a shout from behind as he observed the construction. He turned to see a worker in charge of overseeing the site walk over and speak unkindly.
However, Jasper was not angry even though he had been shooed away impolitely, especially considering the man was only doing his job. Instead, Jasper replied with a crescent-eyed smile, “I was just taking a look when I walked by. I’ll be going now.”
The worker waved him off and said, “Get to it then, we can’t take responsibility if anything happens to you. I don’t understand you people. What’s there to watch anyway? Even so, you guys just appear every other day to look around.”
Jasper’s heart skipped a beat when he heard this, and the man passed the worker a cigarette from his breast pocket with a smile, “Do a lot of people come to look around, Sir?”
Seeing that it was a CW cigarette, the worker’s attitude immediately brightened and he replied.
“Exactly! It was still fine in the beginning when it was just curious people coming in out of curiosity, but it changed as a group of people soon started sneaking in to take pictures. They don’t say or do anything but take pictures. Who knows what those people are doing?
“Look at how dangerous the construction site is. Rebar, concrete, and structures are all being lifted by cranes. What if something happens and we accidentally hurt someone? Who’s going to take responsibility for that?
“A lot of people are already saying that there’s something wrong with the vibes here and that something bad’s going to happen. We’d be screwed if something did actually happen.”
“A lot of people are already saying that there’s something wrong with the vibes here and that something bad’s going to happen?” Jasper narrowed his eyes and repeated the phrase.
At this moment, even Julian realized that someone was trying to secretly sabotage the skyscraper or attack Jasper himself.
When it came to construction within the country, be it for commercial or residential use, or even housing that farmers built for themselves, there was one thing that was universally feared.
A haunted location!
Countrymen would rather play it safe than be sorry later, so the moment any construction was suspected to be haunted, people would surely begin avoiding it. If such an issue were to arise, the best case scenario would just be that people would comment about and slander it while the worse case scenarios would spell an early end to the construction project.
The mastermind behind this was truly ruthless.
However, the worker seemed to have realized that he had misspoken. His expression changed slightly and he was about to clarify himself when they heard a sudden shout sounded from the other end of the construction site.
“Oh no! Someone’s falling from up there! I think he’s going to die!”
