Chapter 663: Chapter 453 Departure_2
This method could maximize the extraction of all value from Kyoto, but because it involved skimming the surface for collection, it caused great spiritual exhaustion for Dong Tianyu. To decompose all the buildings in Kyoto at that moment would require a considerable amount of time.
Under normal circumstances, it didn’t take much effort to bring uncontrolled items into the Cave, but if one were to collect in the manner of scraping the land, even if the expenditure of each operation was low, the energy consumed would add up over time to no small amount.
The other method relied on Divine Sense to search for valuable materials in the vicinity and then specifically collect these materials.
The advantage was that one could categorize the materials being collected, pick out some that could be reused, keep them in the Storage Space, and decompose the rest.
Although this method seemed to reduce the energy expended during material collection, using Divine Sense to search for valuable materials still consumed energy.
So overall, the energy consumption of both scavenging methods wasn’t actually much different.
In summary, the first method was more straightforward, simply disintegrating buildings directly into the Cave, while the second method saved time, since it only collected valuable materials.
After some deliberation, Dong Tianyu decided to employ the second option; after all, Kyoto was so vast that even just collecting all the structures in the inner city would take a long time.
Although there was nothing for him to do outside at the moment, Dong Tianyu didn’t want to stay underwater forever.
Time flew by, and Dong Tianyu was busy underwater for more than a month, finally clearing out most of the valuable materials left by others.
Not to mention the amount of food and materials collected, what truly excited Dong Tianyu was that, through Divine Sense, he discovered many buried and well-sealed weapons and ammunition.
These weapons and ammunition were of a rich variety, from small handgun bullets to large nuclear messengers, and Dong Tianyu didn’t miss any, storing all of them in the Storage Space.
It was only when Dong Tianyu controlled the Black Car to surface that he was surprised to find that Kyoto was no longer describable as a marshland but had truly become an ocean.
When the Black Car broke the water’s surface, the sky finally cleared, but looking as far as the eye could see, there were no traces of artificial structures, nor the surrounding mountains of Kyoto, all had vanished without a trace.
At this point, Dong Tianyu took out a communicator from the Storage Space, found no signal on it, and subsequently tossed the device back into the Storage Space.
He took out a satellite phone instead and immediately dialed Madeline’s number. As soon as the call connected, before Dong Tianyu could even speak, he heard Madeline’s excited voice on the other end, "Zachary, are you alright?"
Although they were speaking on the phone, the question from Madeline still caused Dong Tianyu to roll his eyes involuntarily and feign anger, "What, are you surprised to know I’m alive?"
Hearing Dong Tianyu’s slightly annoyed voice, Madeline hurriedly replied, "How could that be? I’m just excited. After the rain stopped, I called you so many times, but there was always no signal from your side. I thought something happened to you."
"Me, in trouble? You’re overthinking it. If there were only 100 people left in the whole world, I can tell you without any humility that I would definitely be one of them."
"Alright, alright, quit boasting. Just tell me honestly, where are you now? And didn’t you say your superiors were arranging for someone to pick you up? What’s the situation now? If you have nowhere to go, come find me, I’ve kept a spot for you on my boat."
Hearing Madeline say this at the moment touched Dong Tianyu somewhat, but he didn’t soften his tone and replied directly, "I’m doing well here; I was a bit occupied for a while because I was in a closed environment. I won’t tell you what happened exactly.
Now that’s done over there, isn’t the first thing I did to call you? Where are you now?"
"The rain just stopped not long ago, and I was on my way to pick someone up from my hometown. The rain was too heavy earlier, so I didn’t dare to set the boat sailing. Now that the rain has stopped, and after confirming the depth of the water, only then did I dare to navigate the boat."
"I just left Kyoto not long ago; if you’re still around Kyoto, I can arrange a speedboat to pick you up."
Upon hearing Ye Liuyun say this, Dong Tianyu immediately declined, "That won’t be necessary. I have a faster means of transportation. I’ll come to you instead. Do you have specific coordinates right now? I’ll come directly to you."
When Ye Liuyun heard that Dong Tianyu said he had a faster means of transportation, Ye Liuyun guessed that Dong Tianyu must have gotten himself an airplane.
However, Ye Liuyun did not feel envious after hearing that Dong Tianyu had an airplane since he had also secured a functional helicopter for his boat. Without a large ship, aside from seaplanes, other aircraft simply had nowhere to land.
Despite seaplanes being capable of stopping on the water’s surface, their resistance to storms was nearly nonexistent. Even a slightly fierce storm could sink a seaplane, so they were rarely seen in such weather.
As Ye Liuyun blurted out a long string of latitude and longitude coordinates, Dong Tianyu’s face revealed a stupefied expression. He seemed to have forgotten that after he had transformed the small transport plane into a magic artifact, all kinds of instruments originally on the plane had become merely decorative.
The newly transformed small transport plane only retained the characteristics of flying and hovering; the functions brought by other electronic instruments had all disappeared.
After Ye Liuyun finished reporting the coordinates, Dong Tianyu slowly asked, "Didn’t you just leave Kyoto? Are you heading straight to Pengcheng, or did you change your route along the way?"
No sooner had Dong Tianyu finished his sentence than a voice of disdain came from Ye Liuyun’s end, "No way, no way. Someone got an airplane but there’s no GPS on it? I don’t even know if he can navigate the skies without getting lost."
In response to Ye Liuyun’s teasing, Dong Tianyu did not retort angrily, but instead calmly continued to ask, "Are you going to tell me or not?"
If Dong Tianyu had shown signs of frustration, Ye Liuyun would have continued to tease him. But when he heard Dong Tianyu’s calm voice, Ye Liuyun lost interest and reluctantly said:
"Alright, I’m scared of you. I took a straight line, just set off two or three days ago; if you fly to me, it should take no more than half a day to catch up. I will arrange for the number 6 to be displayed on the deck.
If you see a ship on the water, pay attention to the position on the deck and see if there’s the special sign I mentioned."
Only after Ye Liuyun became serious did Dong Tianyu grunt in acknowledgment and then he hung up the call.
Hearing the ’beep! beep! beep!’ from the other end of the phone, Ye Liuyun couldn’t help but complain, "Really, what a use-and-discard attitude."
He then instructed his men to paint a large number 6 on the deck.
Although the plane lacked an electronic map, for Dong Tianyu, determining directions was still an easy feat. After all, when using Sword Flight, there was no navigation system to rely on, so any swordsman who had mastered Sword Flight wouldn’t usually have a poor sense of direction.
You see, like flying a plane, Sword Flight takes place at very high altitudes. Without a sense of direction, it would be quite easy to get lost.
He took out the small transport plane from the space, boarded it, and then stored the black car that was floating on the water into the Storage Space.
As the small transport plane rose to a certain altitude, it sped forward like a bullet freshly fired from the muzzle.
Dong Tianyu, sitting in the cockpit, immediately experienced the sensation of being pushed back in his seat as the plane accelerated.
