Ever since the deadly snowstorm on Haitan Island's "King of Hell Slope" in 1972, stonemason Lin Kaishan and his chisel vowed to "carve out a mountain passage." Three generations spent seventy years pushing the island from a desperate situation of "walking on legs" to a new chapter of high-speed rail, global connectivity, and space tunnel exploration.
There are hard-core iterations from chisels to intelligent shield machines, there are mutual friendships across mountains and seas, and there is also the code of the times that China "builds roads first if you want to get rich" - every inch of tunnel extension is the resonance of small people and the big era, and every sound of rock drilling is the legend of the stone language written by the "Land of Tunnels" to the world.
