Super Invincible Battleship-Chapter 288 - 161: Safe Return

Chapter 288: Chapter 161: Safe Return

Yan Fei looked at the tiny point marked on Old Man Gu’s map and, comparing it with his current location, a sense of inexplicable awe rose in his heart. Old Man Gu was truly a mystic, having foresight about this place so long ago and even leaving clues for Yan Fei, which were unfortunately overlooked. If it hadn’t been for his urgent need to urinate, he might have flown over this spot for a lifetime without ever landing here, forever oblivious to the hidden clues within the map.

These islands were very small, and their location in the sparsely islanded North Pacific meant that they appeared on no country’s published maps. Even if these islands were discovered by fishermen venturing out to sea, the fishermen would not take notice, for the islands offered no supplies or shelter from the weather. Had Yan Fei not come here personally, he wouldn’t have known about this peculiar archipelago.

After realizing this location was a development opportunity foreseen by Old Man Gu, Yan Fei began to regard it with great importance. So he sent the drone to ascend to a higher altitude to collect imaging data of the islands while he activated the Quantum Radar to scan the surrounding territorial waters extensively. In no time, the data was compiled by the Auxiliary Brain, and Yan Fei instantly understood the layout of the archipelago.

Firstly, the archipelago consisted of as many as 108 islands, but they were all very small. The largest island had an area of only fifty square meters, and the smallest was a mere two square meters. The highest island rose only five meters above sea level, and the lowest sometimes submerged at high tide.

While these islands were part of the archipelago, the distances between them were quite vast, with the shortest distance being over one kilometer. Scattered about, they formed an irregular circular pattern, covering a sea area of as much as ten thousand square kilometers. However, the islands did share one thing in common: they were narrow, and their surfaces were entirely rocky without any water sources, life, or even sand.

Beneath the sea surface around these islands, the deepest area was merely over ten meters, and the shallowest was only a meter or two. Overall, the seabed of the entire archipelago, including the extensions, was not very deep. However, beyond its territorial waters, and outside the radius of ten thousand square kilometers, the seabed dropped like a cliff face, with an average depth exceeding one thousand meters. It was as if the archipelago was a Sky Platform rising from the ocean floor—quite amazing.

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Upon understanding the data of the sea area from the Auxiliary Brain and familiarizing himself with its geographic features, Yan Fei pondered continuously. If Old Man Gu’s vision of opportunity was indeed here, how could Yan Fei develop it? The area only offered a shallow sea of less than five meters deep and spanned ten thousand square kilometers, topped with 108 tiny islands. Although he possessed a Universal Space for storage, he couldn’t possibly rely on the small space of 1000 cubic meters to transport enough materials to turn this sea area into land. If he were to use Universal Space for this task, who knows how many years it would take to complete such a monumental project.

Beyond that, the islands were all made up of solid rock, with no freshwater, no life, and no resources. Not just on the islands—the seafloor below was also solid rock with scarce sand. Without sand, even with China’s most advanced island-building Sacred Artifacts, the Tian Kun, he would not be able to reclaim even a single island here.

The closest country to this sea area was Japan, but even Honshu Island of Japan was a thousand kilometers away from this sea area, with Shanghai in China even farther—three thousand kilometers away. So, even with Yan Fei’s wealth, bringing materials from these two locations to the sea area wouldn’t facilitate development here.

Yan Fei racked his brain but couldn’t figure out how to develop this area. Nevertheless, he wasn’t in a rush; past experiences had proven Old Man Gu’s Predictive Ability to be flawless. Since Old Man Gu had indicated that Yan Fei could develop here, there must be a way for him to prevail. Although Yan Fei hadn’t found the method yet, he was convinced that with time, the approach would become apparent.

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After creating a complete data model of the sea area in the Auxiliary Brain’s Database, Yan Fei did not linger and boarded the drone once more, speeding towards Shanghai. Another hour passed, and the drone, having traversed the islands of Japan, finally arrived off the coast of Shanghai.

Thus, the drone had traversed the entire North Pacific in one night, showcasing a terrifying Flight Ability. Moreover, due to time zone differences, the drone began its journey near the uninhabited island off the US West Coast at midnight, committed the murder at Bina Manor in San Francisco, crossed the North Pacific, found the archipelago, and reached the waters near Shanghai, where it was still just past eleven in the evening— not yet midnight. With the high Speed of the drone, Yan Fei personally experienced the wonders of different time zones.