Stop it, the country really can't fit any more bans on the domestic entertainment industry.

call--

The hoe whistled through the air as it was raised high above the head.

Without any hesitation, Li Mo'an tightened his waist and abdomen, exerted force with both arms, and swung his fist hard at the protrusion that looked like a deeply buried stone slab, slightly to the side.

Boom!

He shoveled the hoe into the ground, and then he gave it a hard tug.

He stopped what he was doing, and his eyebrows twitched very slightly.

This feel...it's kind of familiar.

Back in the army, he had dealt with this kind of hard, stiff texture quite often.

But he didn't think much of it. After all, this was just a proper rural dirt road, not some old battlefield ruin. Where would all this random stuff come from? At most, some heartless person might have buried someone's scrap iron pot or broken farm tools in the ground.

"It's buried quite deep."

Such a thought came to his mind.

Li Mo'an put down the hoe, switched to a more nimble little shovel, and squatted down.

Instead of rushing to pry it open, he patiently dug away the soil around the object little by little, like an archaeologist.

As the soil was peeled away layer by layer, the true nature of that hard thing gradually began to be revealed.

It is neither a flat stone slab nor a round pebble.

Instead, it is a spindle-shaped metal object with a surface covered in reddish-brown rust.

It looks like a giant sweet potato, or a mutated winter melon.

The moment Li Mo'an's fingers touched that rough rust.

A familiar, emotionless, mechanical synthesized voice suddenly rang out from the depths of his mind.

"Ding!"

"Host detected engaging in road construction and earthwork excavation work..."

"System triggered: 'Do one job, do another job'!"

"Congratulations, host, you have acquired the [Top-Tier Mine Clearance and Explosives Disposal Skill (Master Level)]!"

This series of notification sounds caused Li Mo'an to pause slightly in his digging.

However, the notification sound did not end.

The system seemed to be performing some kind of data comparison, followed by another crisp sound.

"Ding!"

"Host has been detected to have activated a similar skill before..."

"Skill fusion in progress..."

"Fusion successful! Congratulations, host! Your original skill has been upgraded to [Top-Tier Mine Clearance and Explosives Disposal Skill (Master Plus Version)]!"

Listening to the voice in his mind, Li Mo'an squatted on the ground, his face calm, but the corner of his mouth twitched involuntarily.

"This again?"

He was speechless.

I thought that after retiring from the military and entering the entertainment industry, this system would become somewhat more humane.

Even if you give him top-notch acting skills, superstar-level singing ability, or even top-notch cooking skills, that would be fine.

He even wondered if the "xíng" in "doing one job after another" was a very serious crime.

Li Mo'an shook his head and sighed helplessly.

He felt that his system was somewhat unorthodox, or rather, a bit too unreliable.

At the very moment the skill fusion was completed, a flood of knowledge about explosives, fuse structures, gunpowder components, and bomb disposal techniques poured into his mind.

When his eyes returned to the rusty lump of iron in the pit, his vision seemed to undergo some strange change.

It was originally just a piece of scrap metal covered in mud.

But now, lines of incredibly detailed data popped up and appeared on his retina.

【Item Name: Japanese Type 97 Land-based Bomb (Unexploded)】

Weight: 60 kg

[Quantity of explosives: 23 kg of bitter acid explosive]

[Status: The fuse mechanism is still intact, the safety pin has rusted and fallen off, the internal explosive structure is intact, and its properties are slightly unstable.]

[Risk Level: Medium to High]

[Disposal Recommendation: Handle with care, avoid violent impacts or high temperatures. Controlled disposal is recommended.]

Li Mo'an remained calm as he looked at the long list of analysis reports.

"Is this what they call the Plus version?"

He was speechless.

How is this different from the original skill he awakened in the military?

It's just that it's more detailed.

But what's the use of that?

"System, this is way too perfunctory. All you did was update a skin, right?"

Li Mo'an silently gave the system the middle finger in his mind.

In his view, this upgrade was completely unnecessary.

As for the prominent warning message in the system notification that the danger level was medium to high and that there was still a risk of explosion, his unique brain simply filtered it out.

After all, what's the danger if the bomb doesn't explode? It's the explosion that's dangerous.

To put it bluntly, it's no different from digging up a slightly larger potato from the ground.

It's just that this potato has a slightly high iron content, so it's not safe to eat.

Li Mo'an patted the dirt off his hands and continued wielding the shovel, quickly clearing away all the dirt around the large object.

A few minutes later.

A black metallic object, about one meter long, covered in rust, and top-heavy, was completely exposed to the air.

It lay quietly in the mud pit, carrying a sense of the vicissitudes of time, and an indescribable sense of oppression.

Of course, this sense of oppression only applies to ordinary people.

For Li Mo'an, this was a piece of construction waste that needed to be moved.

At that moment, the miniature microphone that had been hanging on his collar faithfully recorded the sounds he had made while digging.

Although the popularity of the live stream has plummeted, with most people going to watch Teacher Huang's stir-fried green beans, there are still a few hundred stubborn viewers who are staying here.

They were either dozing off or scrolling through short videos.

But the crisp "clang" still woke some people up.

A few lines of text floated sparsely across the screen.

"What was that sound? Did you just knock on something?"

"It sounds like the sound of metal."

"After digging for so long, has the streamer finally unearthed something different?"

"Looking at that shape... something feels off."

"What treasure did the streamer find? Is it an antique?"

"The person upstairs is overthinking it. What kind of antiques could this run-down village have? They're probably just discarded farm tools from that era."

"Hey streamer, stop digging and say something! What is it?"

After clearing away the last bit of loose soil, Li Mo'an straightened up and stretched his slightly sore shoulders.

He glanced at the phone screen next to him and saw these comments.

He reached out and lifted the heavy thing out of the pit.

The weight of 60 kilograms is not too strenuous for someone with his top-notch physical abilities.

He held the iron lump in one hand and supported its tail with the other, as if he were holding a large, freshly harvested winter melon.

He looked calmly at the camera.

Sunlight shone on his profile, outlining his handsome nose and serene eyes.

There was not a trace of tension in his eyes, nor any reverence for what he held.

It was as calm as a stagnant pool.

Faced with the audience's curiosity, he felt it necessary to explain.

Since Yang Mi told him to be more diligent and do more work, then interacting with the audience can be considered part of doing the work.

So, facing the camera, in a calm tone, as if he were saying he had dug up a big potato, he said casually:

"Oh, it's nothing."

"It's like digging up a bomb."

His voice was soft, and his tone was completely calm, as if he were stating the most insignificant fact.

That's right, that's the assessment given by that high-ranking military official—he inherently lacks sufficient perception of danger.

In his view, it was really just a noun, an object, nothing more. Like he said, even if it's a bomb, it hasn't exploded yet, right? If it hasn't exploded, doesn't that mean there's no danger?

After saying that, he even took two steps forward and held up the mud-covered, rusty iron lump in front of the camera, wanting to show the audience the details.

"Look, the quality is alright, although it's a bit rusty, but it's quite big."

In the shot, the rusty, grotesque metal object instantly filled the entire screen.

In the live stream, the chat messages that were slowly scrolling disappeared instantly.