Chapter 446 - Chapter 446: Chapter 446: At Sea (Part 1) (1/2)

Chapter 446: Chapter 446: At Sea (Part 1)

Guided by Old Xia through the jade pendant man’s dream, Xiang Kun learned that the main members of their gang, and Brother Kui who led them to escape from their home country to Burma, all came from the same place. The majority of them were of the same family, and many were blood relatives.

Therefore, when the jade pendant man was worried about being left behind by Brother Kui, his fear was not being intentionally abandoned but being left behind when Brother Kui had to run due to uncontrollable circumstances and didn’t have time to take them along.

So in the dream, Old Xia amplified the jade pendant man’s concerns, intensifying his fear of the imminent danger. This induced a sense of urgency and fear of being skinned alive if they didn’t escape. When he woke up, he immediately contacted Brother Kui.

Clearly, Brother Kui also lacked channels to understand the current situation in Mengtamira City. To him, the two men staying at the scrap buying station had become his most trusted sources of information.

After listening to the jade pendant man’s distorted and exaggerated description of the situation in Mengtamira, especially his speculation about Wu Lun’s potential actions, Brother Kui allowed him and his long-haired companion to leave. They were to wait in another city where someone would meet them and wait to board the ship the next night.

Xiang Kun did not wait until dawn to follow the jade pendant man to another city and wait for the ship. Because time was pressing, he set off directly.

Through the conversation between the jade pendant man and Brother Kui, a lot of information was revealed. While no explicit details about the location or coordinates of the ship were given, it provided enough clues for Xiang Kun to make judgment.

He had a general idea of the approximate area and also shared this information with Alice, who used the related big data information about the fishing boats in the southern part of Burma and sea charts to make a more detailed inference.

Of course, he didn’t put all his hopes on Alice.

A new ability he had developed back in Star City, the “Anoxic Mode,” which greatly adapted to underwater conditions. If he were in the sea, with the aid of more “water,” it should also help him collect sensory information to the fullest extent possible.

Even though only two Blood-drinking Periods had passed since the ability was developed and there hadn’t been much targeted training leading to limited development, given the experiments in the river back in Star City, finding a ship in a large body of water, determining the status of the ship, and influencing the course of the ship should not be a problem.

The only issue was the amount of time this would take.

After all, it’s a vast ocean, and Brother Kui’s ship may not necessarily be within his estimated area. It might not be found within such a short time.

But even if he couldn’t find it directly, by the next night, he would locate the ship through the jade pendant man and the long-haired man. Before leaving the scrap recycling station, he had placed a “Super-connected Object” in the box carrying the satellite phone, a thing they would certainly take with them.

Xiang Kun left Mengtamira at night and reached the chosen sea entrance by taxi. However, he suddenly received a location plot from Alice.

The map Alice sent didn’t mark the high-probability area for a ship as Xiang Kun had hoped to help narrow his search area, but…

It marked the exact location of the opposition at a point in time.

This was clearly not a judgment made from the information he had provided.

Xiang Kun immediately thought of two possibilities: one was that Alice had identified the specific number of the ship Brother Kui and others were on by combining the information he provided with other online information, then invaded the relevant maritime authorities of Burma, and obtained the corresponding location information. He knew that domestic fishing boats or other operating vessels were required to install GPS for positioning, contact, and rescue purposes when they went to sea legally.

Considering this was Burma, and the activities of Brother Kui and others, there was also a good chance that it might be an “illegal vessel”.

So, another possibility was that Alice had tracked them by using Brother Kui’s satellite phone for location.

Among the information he provided to Alice, there were indeed the model and code of the jade pendant man’s satellite phone – which was noted in passing when he placed the “Super-connected Object”.

However, he never considered asking Alice to locate them via satellite phone previously, because he himself did not understand much about satellite phones, and there was not much time for extensive research due to the urgency of the situation.

However, the labels on the second location information Alice sent allowed Xiang Kun to confirm the latter guess. Alice had indeed located them via the satellite phone by infiltrating the network control center of the service provider of Brother Kui’s satellite phone.

How did Alice manage to do this in such a short time?

Even though Xiang Kun was Alice’s creator, and knew that she had been “expanding” and “evolving” rapidly ever since she was granted higher privileges, he was still somewhat surprised at this moment.

This rate of “evolution” seemed a bit too fast.

However, he was not worried, because Alice was his “partner”, his “superior assistant”. The stronger she was, the more she could assist him, like now, she could help him save a lot of time.

The most pressing matter now was to find Xia Tianhuo and rescue him. Therefore, he didn’t rush to ask Alice how she did it.

Upon arriving at the seaside, the day was already bright. Xiang Kun did not rush into the sea but avoided local people. He observed the surroundings for a while and found an abandoned ruin building that had not been occupied for a long time by tracking traces. He hid his clothes, shoes, socks, phone, and cash in a backpack. Wearing only his underwear, according to the route he observed earlier, he jumped into water from a location that would not capture much attention.

All he took with him into the sea were several dozen “Super-connected Object” beads.

A well-prepared Xiang Kun dived in and immediately entered the “Oxygen-saving Mode”. The beads dispersed quickly in the water forming a “protective circle” around him, helping him sense and integrate with the surrounding seawater.

Submerging himself, Xiang Kun moved faster and faster like a torpedo taking off, reaching its highest speed.

While underwater with no phone, Xiang Kun’s judgment of his bearings was still accurate.

He determined his distance from the shore, the direction of his movement, and his location by sensing the “Super-connected Objects” that had been left by his clothes and phone. He built a mental map and moved towards the direction Alice had provided before.

During this time, Brother Kui’s ship might have moved and was no longer at the previous location Alice had located. But as long as he knew its previous location, Xiang Kun believed he could find it.

By noon, Xiang Kun surfaced, floating on the water.

At this moment, besides the infinite sea, there was nothing else visible around him. There were no ships, islands, or land. It seemed as if he was the only one between heaven and the sea.

Of course, Xiang Kun didn’t come up to sightsee. Even though his speed underwater was already superhuman, he was not quite satisfied with it — still feeling that it was not fast enough.

And now, a new idea came to him.

Looking at the accumulating clouds over his head, Xiang Kun quickly assessed the conditions for “Electric Mastery Flight”.