A few days later, the second batch of "reinforcements" from K City arrived. This batch consisted of Ya Ya, Bai Cai, Xiao Qing, Xu Ershao, and Fatty, and also brought along two "outside helpers": Tang Ying and Takeuchi Yako. These two sisters were picked up by Xu Ershao from the hotel.
The poor Japanese sisters were left in a hotel after Chen Xiao brought them back from Japan. Then Lin Kunlun's kidnapping incident happened, and things have been going on ever since. The two female swordsmen from the Shangchen family were bored in the hotel for many days and were almost going crazy. Chen Xiao didn't come to find them. Finally, they saw the news about the eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan on TV and couldn't hold back any longer. They went to the abandoned street to find Chen Xiao, but they ran into Xu Ershao and his group who were about to leave. Xu Ershao recognized them as the two sisters Chen Xiao had brought back from Japan and decided to bring them along.
The number of reinforcements is quite large, but... these little guys are far too weak and can't be of any use at all.
In fact, Shi Gaofei was quite blunt in his assessment of this group of "reinforcements": they were all just there to cause trouble!
In Shi Gaofei's eyes, the most useful person among this group of men and women was actually the fat guy who had always been ignored by everyone!
The chubby guy, skilled at operating all kinds of electronic instruments, was quickly recruited by Shi Gaofei to work as an assistant in his laboratory. With the chubby guy's help, Shi Gaofei's efficiency in manufacturing and assembling electronic instruments greatly improved.
After resting for several days in Shanghai, Lao Tian finally ran out of patience. He forced himself to rush into Shi Gaofei's laboratory: "You old madman! What are we waiting for here?! Even if we can't bring Chen Xiao back for now, we should at least find a way to locate him!!"
Shi Gaofei wasn't angry that Lao Tian had grabbed his neck. He just chuckled contemptuously, staring coldly into Lao Tian's eyes. Only after Lao Tian, feeling embarrassed by his gaze, finally released Shi Gaofei did this mad scientist casually straighten his clothes: "Almost done, basically finished!"
"Complete what?"
"Search equipment." Shi Gaofei turned to the side and showed Lao Tian the results of his work over the past few days.
Inside the room, a strange-looking thing, assembled from several high-end computers and a bunch of electronic components salvaged from various home appliances, was piled on the floor.
This thing is more than a person tall, and it has several large satellite signal receivers that look like umbrellas on it. Some parts of it are not covered by a shell, and the components are exposed.
"What...is this?"
“I said, search equipment.” Shi Gaofei turned around and tapped a modified keyboard on the table—this keyboard was obviously assembled from the keyboards of several computers, with more than a hundred keys.
Then, an image quickly appeared on a screen made up of several LCD screens: a three-dimensional outline of the Earth, with latitude and longitude lines marked on it.
"This is the only good news I can give you," Shi Gaofei sighed. "I wasn't completely unhelpful on your trip to Mount Fuji. While you were fighting fiercely on the mountain, I was at the foot of the mountain, using a detector mounted on the car to collect as many energy reaction signals as possible from your battle. I stored all of these energy fluctuation signals, analyzed them, and then sorted out the part belonging to Chen Xiao, finally synthesizing a special signal. This signal represents the energy fluctuations and energy reactions on Chen Xiao, including various forms of energy diffusion... Well, you wouldn't understand even if I explained it to you. In short, you can think of it as me taking the opportunity to leave a mark on Chen Xiao! And then I stored this mark on this specially made search device."
This is different from the detectors I've made before; it's an oversized detector, and its operating principle is different as well. To be precise, it's an instrument specifically designed to search for Chen Xiao alone! And…”
At this point, Shi Gaofei smiled with satisfaction: "For the global search, I used the network to directly hack into several US military satellites and two EU commercial satellites, basically achieving global synchronous monitoring and networking."
"Through the intruding satellites, we're conducting a signal search across the entire Earth from outer space! In other words, the entire Earth is now within the effective search range of this instrument! As long as I input the signal into the instrument, several satellites will simultaneously search the globe for the same signal… Once they find the same signal, that's Chen Xiao!"
Old Tian was completely dumbfounded.
Shi Gaofei stroked his chin smugly, then looked at the fat man next to him with a smile: "This chubby kid has been a huge help to me! It would have been a bit troublesome to hack into American satellites, but this chubby kid's special ability is to control all electronic devices. Haha, he's practically a 'human hacking program'!"
"Then what are you standing there for! Hurry up and search!" Old Tian was extremely anxious and almost reached out to strangle Shi Gaofei again.
Shi Gaofei smiled, then slowly walked to the back and turned on the huge search device.
Then there was a loud hum, a huge roar from the machine, almost as loud as a car engine.
Shi Gaofei looked somewhat awkward and said with a wry smile, "This is assembled using various components. Due to the material, the power consumption cannot be precisely measured beforehand. Cough cough, there's also the issue of heat dissipation... I could only install several built-in fans."
Old Tian didn't care about any of that; he was just staring intently at the screen.
Shi Gaofei sat down and typed away on the keyboard with more than a hundred keys for a while. Finally, the words "Start Search..." appeared on the screen.
On the screen, the three-dimensional Earth image slowly rotates, showing that the search coverage area has been expanded to the entire Earth through several satellites.
"This will probably take about ten minutes," Shi Gaofei announced confidently.
Old Tian clenched his fists, waiting anxiously.
but……
...
More than ten minutes have passed.
Then……
Several "ten-minute intervals" have passed.
And then...
More "ten or twenty minutes" have passed.
The screen still displays the message "Searching..."
Seeing the furious look in Lao Tian's eyes, Shi Gaofei finally started sweating. He muttered to himself, "Impossible... How could something I made be like this?"
He fiddled with it for a long time, but to no avail.
He didn't know that Chen Xiao had lost all his energy... so where could there still be any energy signal fluctuations?
Chapter 252 [Chen Xiao Returns]
In the sky, several US warplanes had already flown away, leaving only the cloud trails behind them.
Chen Xiao stood on the deck, head raised, eyes squinting at the sky, as if pondering something. Several smugglers on the deck were so frightened that they knelt on the ground, unable to stand up for a long time; some of the less capable ones had even wet their pants again.
Chen Xiao touched his nose—although he had lost his memory, many of his instinctive habits seemed to remain unchanged. At least, the habitual action of touching his nose had returned to him.
Hmm, those planes had already adopted a dive attack posture, so why did they suddenly climb up and fly away?
Chen Xiao had no doubt that if those planes had attacked, then at least for now, there would be no way to defend this ship, including himself; the only outcome would be that the ship would sink and everyone would perish.
I can't believe it, I almost died again.
Chen Xiao thought for a long time, and when the smugglers behind him were almost going crazy, he finally turned around and announced some good news.
"Alright, you can leave now."