Super Invincible Battleship
Chapter 444

Chapter 444: Chapter 217 Upgrade Site_2 Chapter 444: Chapter 217 Upgrade Site_2 As soon as he entered the Pacific Ocean, Yan Fei cast aside all his concerns and went full throttle, letting the Drone surface and fly towards the west-northwest at triple the speed of sound. Three and a half hours later, the Drone had flown 12,000 kilometers over the Pacific Ocean. By now, the Drone was far from the American Continent and nearing the Asian Continent. However, Yan Fei did not immediately return to China but instead landed on a small archipelago ahead. This small archipelago, Misty Island, was precisely what Yan Fei had purchased from the Japanese man.

Ever since Yan Fei bought Misty Island from Haruji Harada at Charles de Gaulle Airport in France, he had been quietly pushing the narrative and began to broadly promote the purchase of Misty Island around the world. To achieve the best promotional effect, he even turned the event into a scandal involving himself. This scandal of Yan Fei's was quickly exploited by his competitors who, with their additional contributions, made the purchase of Misty Island known to almost everyone. Consequently, Yan Fei slowly morphed into the very definition of a vulgar nouveau riche.

Taking advantage of this situation, Yan Fei hired the most professional lawyers to submit proof of his purchase of Misty Island to major international organizations and alliances. With an attitude of enjoying the spectacle, these international organizations and alliances issued various certifications to Yan Fei, legally notarizing his purchase of Misty Island and affirming that Misty Island and its surrounding 10,000 square kilometers of territorial waters now belonged to Yan Fei personally. However, this area belonged to Yan Fei as an individual; it was not part of any country. Even Japan, the sovereignty nation of the waters before, did not respond to the transaction, enabling Yan Fei to smoothly process his confirmation of sovereignty over Misty Island.

In the half year since, Yan Fei had quietly traveled back and forth between Shanghai and Misty Island multiple times using the Drone. With the powerful scanning ability of the Drone Quantum Radar, Yan Fei had established a 3D map of Misty Island and its surrounding waters in the Auxiliary Brain's database. He was now very familiar with Misty Island, including all the islands and nearby waters, as well as the local weather and resource situation.

True to its name, this large area was enveloped in fog all year round, seldom revealing its true face to the world. It was difficult not only for fishing boats on the sea surface to see the entirety but also for satellites in outer space, who would see nothing but a vast expanse of whiteness. Each time Yan Fei traveled here on the Drone, he would penetrate through layers of dense fog, and if it weren't for the Drone's miraculous Quantum Radar detection equipment, it would have crashed in the fog long ago.

The seabed in this area was very shallow, with the deepest points only reaching a dozen meters. The entire sea floor consisted of hard rock with no mineral resources below. And for some reason, this area lacked even a single fish, rendering it devoid of any fishing resources.

During his repeated trips to Misty Island, Yan Fei discovered a worrying issue: Misty Island was truly sinking, and the sinking trend was accelerating. Over the past month, the islands in this area had sunk by as much as 10 centimeters, and the island he first stopped at to urinate had halved in size since his previous visit.

When Yan Fei first discovered this area, there were 108 islands. However, due to the continuous sinking, there were now only 105 islands left. The other three islands had been completely submerged under the sea surface. If this sinking trend continued, the entire archipelago of Misty Island would sink beneath the sea surface within five years.

After observing the sinking trend of Misty Island, Yan Fei was somewhat uneasy. If Misty Island were not specially marked by Old Man Gu, who possessed predictive ability, Yan Fei would have already abandoned the islands. Having witnessed Old Man Gu's predictive abilities firsthand, he could only choose to continue trusting him. Subconsciously, Yan Fei felt there must be a turning point for Misty Island, that it would not keep sinking like this. However, from his current perspective, Misty Island was simply a nuisance, which explains why nobody opposed his acquisition of the area.

The reason Yan Fei had the Drone make a detour to Misty Island this time was not due to sheer boredom but because Misty Island was his envisioned location for the Drone Upgrade. The last time the Drone underwent an upgrade in Japan, it caused quite a commotion, nearly exposing him to the military forces of The United States of America and Japan. So when he came to own an island with no human presence within thousands of kilometers, it immediately became the perfect site for the Drone Upgrade. Even if the upgrade process here caused a great disturbance, it would go unnoticed by outsiders.

The Drone Upgrade required 1,000 tons of gold, 10,000 tons of Special Alloy, 10,000 tons of Bio-materials, and three Upgrade Essential Items. Yan Fei already had acquired the 1,000 tons of gold and the three Upgrade Essential Items, with only the 10,000 tons of Special Alloy and 10,000 tons of Bio-materials remaining. Having designated Misty Island as the site for the Drone Upgrade, Yan Fei now needed to figure out how to transport the additional 20,000 tons of Upgrade Materials to Misty Island.

The Drone Upgrade was Yan Fei's ultimate secret, not to be known by anyone. Hence, when he planned to transport the additional 20,000 tons to Misty Island, he absolutely could not allow cargo ships to carry out the job; he had to transport them himself. And to move such vast quantities of Materials without a trace to Misty Island, Yan Fei could only make use of his Universal Space.