Engineering Survey: The Persistence of a Water Conservancy Technician

Lin Jie, a senior signing engineer with an MBA and deep expertise in water conservancy surveys, discovers on the eve of the ten-billion-yuan Dongjiang Bridge bid sealing that group executives have falsified fundamental geotechnical data to deliberately conceal fatal risks involving soft rock layers and confined water. Refusing to compromise his integrity or sign a fraudulent geological report, he is banished to the group’s underground archive vault, cut off from the network, stripped of his salary, and subjected to comprehensive workplace persecution. Amidst decades of sealed original project files in this cold storage, Lin Jie leverages his exceptional memory and mastery of water conservancy standards to uncover the classified Case 041 dossier left over from the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. With covert assistance from discarded archives, obsolete equipment, and marginalized staff, he exposes a complete black industry chain in which the group uses shell geotechnical companies to manipulate geological data, cover up major engineering hazards, and exploit grassroots employees. Armed with current survey standards, rare legacy regulations, and original geological evidence, Lin Jie wages a non-violent counteroffensive using technical proof, financial records, and intranet data trails against a coalition of vested interests ranging from the HR director and project managers to the group vice president. Mobilizing frontline construction workers, entry-level IT staff, scrap recyclers, and retired engineers, he conducts a dual-track investigation while facing site collapse crises, digital tracking, physical confinement, and threats against his family. Ultimately, he produces an irrefutable chain of evidence exposing the fatal foundation defects of the multi-billion-yuan bridge, upholding the professional ethics of an engineer and achieving a decisive intellectual victory for grassroots technicians against corporate corruption.