章 477: Open, sesame

"Nice job in here," Daniel announced his presence with simple praise. 

"Thank you, sir," the supervisor of the engineering team turned his head away from the huge drilling machine and stood at attention, performing a lousy salute only the civil crowd could bother to perform. 

"Any problems with the drill?" Daniel then asked, throwing a curious look at the piece of equipment most of the engineers in the drilled-out cave were focusing all of their attention on. 

"Not exactly, sir," the supervisor replied, his face souring when the topic of the drill turned out to be the main one right off the bat. "We managed to clear out this entire cave with ease… But the doors to the warehouse…" he cut his sentence short. 

Yet, for anyone with eyes, it was pretty much clear what kind of message he wanted to convey.