Chapter 287: Chapter 160: Development Opportunity_3
The drone sped across the North Pacific at full throttle, covering a distance of 9,000 kilometers in less than three hours. By the time Yan Fei reached this point, he was already very far from the US West Coast. Not far ahead of him was Japan, and he was only about 3,000 kilometers away in a straight line from Shanghai. Even if The United States of America had detected the drone, they wouldn’t have been able to catch up with it.
It was at this time that Yan Fei finally relaxed, and then he discovered an embarrassing problem—he needed to pee. After his harrowing experiences with Sun Yi and Huo Shan, Yan Fei had been on edge, overly cautious when dealing with Green Pine Capital. It never occurred to him that this operation would be so straightforward, accomplished without any trouble. So, when he was finally out of danger and let his guard down, an urgent need to urinate hit him.
If he were in any other place, it would be fine; Yan Fei could simply find a spot to relieve himself. But here, in the cockpit of his drone, there was no toilet, and he was also over the open ocean, facing the problem of nowhere to pee. Yan Fei could have controlled his urge by manipulating his body organs and muscles for the time being, but that would have been uncomfortable. So he began to use the Quantum Radar to scan the nearby territorial waters to see if there were any islands below where he could relieve himself, and indeed, he found an island ahead in the sea.
The drone flew swiftly, soon reaching the island ahead, and then hovered above it. Yan Fei jumped out of the cockpit, landed on the island, and began to pee. After a moment of relief, Yan Fei zipped up his pants and started to inspect the island.
Upon examination, Yan Fei found the island to be very small, totaling an area of about thirty square meters. The island was covered in hard rock, not a speck of sand in sight, and the highest point of rock was only two to three meters above the sea surface. There was no fresh water here, no other terrestrial life; it was nothing like the scenic uninhabited island where he had rested before.
Then Yan Fei noticed that farther out at sea there were a few more islands of varying sizes, yet similar to the one under his feet. None of the islands were large; the biggest covered just over a hundred square meters, while the smallest had only a few square meters. They were all full of hard rocks, without fresh water, life, or sand.
Yan Fei felt a pang of regret thinking that, aside from the area near the Bering Strait, the North Pacific hosted hardly any large islands. It was with great difficulty that he had seen a few scattered islands here, and yet, they were all small islands where life could not thrive. This was unlike the South Pacific Ocean, which was dotted with islands conducive to human habitation everywhere you looked.
Yan Fei then activated the map function from the Database of the Auxiliary Brain to take a look at the distribution of islands in the North Pacific and to understand why there were so few islands in the North Pacific, while the South Pacific had so many. The map displayed by the Auxiliary Brain clearly showed the territorial waters around Yan Fei, with a blue dot in the center representing Yan Fei’s location.
As he studied the map, a sense of familiarity washed over him; he felt as though he had seen this map somewhere before. His physical attributes, including memory, had improved when the drone underwent an Upgrade, so he quickly recalled where he had seen this map before.
Yan Fei rummaged through Universal Space and found an envelope, which he opened to pull out a map. He had obtained this map in Africa when he encountered Wen Rou. It was the first time Yan Fei had met Old Man Gu, who could foresee the future. Back then Yan Fei asked Old Man Gu his second question, “Where lies my future development?”
The answer Old Man Gu gave was this map from the envelope, which was in Yan Fei’s hands now. On the map, Old Man Gu had drawn a large circle and written inside, “Development opportunity lies within this sea area!”
Indeed, Yan Fei had achieved great development in this area, elevating his drone to Level 4. However, at the time, Yan Fei had overlooked one thing: Old Man Gu had marked a small dot on the map with a pencil, which was at the end of the circle he had drawn. Yan Fei initially thought Old Man Gu had simply put a dot there by habit after finishing the circle, to indicate completion. Since he did the same himself, he had not paid it much mind.
But now, having reached this sea area and comparing the map from the Auxiliary Brain Database with Old Man Gu’s map, Yan Fei instantly realized the small dot wasn’t just a random mark. His current position perfectly overlapped with that dot on the map.
In other words, that dot had been deliberately placed by Old Man Gu, who had hinted to Yan Fei that the true opportunity for development lay at this exact spot, while the surrounding circle was just his area of activity.
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