Cāng Hán watched, eyes unblinking, as Zhào Liè operated the colossal machine. The thousand new recruits had all ceased their martial arts drills, crowding around the mechanical beast, pointing and chattering in amazement.
Zhào Liè picked up the pace. In just one hour, he flattened the small hill, merging it with the original threshing floor to create a space half again as large as the former. Cāng Hán and the thousand recruits stood stunned; what kind of sorcery was this? Next, Zhào Liè used the excavator’s bucket to tamp down the ground, simultaneously activating the vibration mode to roll and compress the earth. From the start of the excavation to the final leveling, it took less than two hours. The new training ground was now three times its original size, more than enough to accommodate two thousand men.
Zhào Liè turned to Cāng Hán. "Is this thing fast enough?"
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