Are You Crazy? You Asked Me to Build a Bridge, and I Pinned Someone Down with a Rebar

"Engineer Su, we've got a problem! The Dragon King at the bottom of the river is thrashing around. We can't drive the piles for Pier Four, and the Taoist priest says we need to sacrifice a virgin boy and girl to the river!"

Facing the terrified foreman, Su Cheng adjusted his glasses and calmly pulled out a structural mechanics calculation sheet.

"There is no Dragon King. It's just biological tissue with non-Newtonian fluid properties, vibrating at high frequency under crustal stress."

"Then... what do we do?"

"Easy."

Su Cheng directed the crane to lift a specially made titanium alloy rebar scored with channels for guiding the flow. He built up its gravitational potential energy, then drove it through in a single strike.

"That's physical resonance energy dissipation, commonly known as pile driving."

As myths return and the uncanny descends,

Kunlun's Thunder Pool goes berserk? Su Cheng: "It's a natural high-energy particle collider. Hook it up to superconducting coils, and the national power grid will be in for a treat."

Corpse-driving in western Hunan? Su Cheng: "An inefficient form of bioelectric propulsion. I recommend fitting them with powered exoskeletons."

The Bermuda Triangle? Su Cheng: "The rate of spatial folding is abnormal. It's perfect for a fast route across the sea for a bridge."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.