The mining machinery was working in full capacity, while trucks loaded with hundreds of tons of raw phosphate were moving back and forth across the mines and the refinery, kicking up a cloud of white dust across the barren lands of the mines.

Even Charlie couldn't help feeling a tinge of sadness watching the trucks that were as tall as three-floor buildings. If he had had them in Syria to help with construction and logistics at Ten Thousand Armies' base, they might have been twice as effective, even moving mountains.

Still, he could only make a mental note to buy a few since each of those trucks was going to be torched, and he was not taking anything away.

Beside him, Penny looked like she had lost all her will to live.

She wasn't just afraid to flee from Charlie, just as she hated the idea of leaving with him.

If the Qing Eliminating Society presumed that she had turned, that she had been abducted or murdered, her family would lose their greatest hope and wouldn't have another ch