In fact, it wasn't just Jiang Yuan who was anxious; the officers working on the garbage mountain were even more so.
The stench—it could drive anyone mad.
Forget any nonsense about "getting used to smells over time." That only applies to places like a seafood shop, where you're dealing with a single, uniform odor that your nose can learn to tolerate.
One thing you quickly learn after setting foot on a garbage mountain is that stench intensity actually has national standards, divided into six levels. Among these, only areas that have been covered with soil are slightly better. Operational sites tend to reach level six, and landfill zones are undoubtedly the king of stench: peak level six. Or to use a more vulgar expression—it's not that landfill zones are merely at level six; it's that their stench is limited to no less than level six.
