Chapter 864: Signal

Che Haicheng took the communicator and involuntarily swallowed his saliva, his hands still trembling.

But time was pressing, so he hurriedly entered the prepared message.

The last step was to click send.

Because he was too nervous, his finger shifted several times on the screen.

In the end, Xie Yunfan couldn't bear it anymore and helped him press the send button.

“Gulp—”

Several people swallowed at the same time, the heavy weight in their hearts finally eased a little.

But the good moment didn’t last long; they noticed the screen started spinning the loading circle.

Che Haicheng panicked and quickly asked Eisenmann, “Mr. Eisenmann, what’s going on?”

Eisenmann glanced at it and said helplessly, “We’re at sea, and this is just an ordinary personal communicator. Slow signal transmission is normal.”

Che Haicheng nervously asked, “Could the sending fail?”

Eisenmann was silent for a moment, then shook his head.

The group relaxed, thinking everything was absolutely safe now.

Eisenmann didn’t want to discourage them, but he couldn’t hide the truth.

“I mean, I don’t know either.”

Che Haicheng and the others erupted into chaos again.

Every minute and second, they were terrified.

Fortunately, in the end, that loading circle finally finished spinning under their wide-eyed stare.

The green check mark indicated the message had been successfully sent.

Eisenmann exhaled deeply, “Now it depends if it works! If they believe what we said, they might send a ship to get us.”

He looked out the window.

“As long as we don’t enter Huaxu Kingdom’s internal waters, the Colombian fleet will definitely find us and bring us back.”

As a Colombian citizen, he was extremely confident about this.

The others didn’t have time to listen to his sighs and thoughts.

“Quickly clear all the information, don’t leave any trace!”

Che Haicheng hurriedly told him.

Eisenmann picked up the phone and carried out a series of clearing operations.

Meanwhile, Kim Kimee in the bathroom was barely holding on.

It wasn’t that she wasn’t trying hard; it was just that Old Xie’s ability was somewhat lacking.

Eisenmann erased the operation traces on the communicator, then handed it over to Rudolf.

Rudolf cautiously pocketed the communicator and came outside, then coughed loudly twice.

After receiving his signal, Kim Kimee felt a huge relief.

Two minutes later, Xie Changming, still putting on his clothes and wiping his mouth with a handkerchief, walked out of the bathroom with Kim Kimee.

Rudolf pretended to need the bathroom, clutching his stomach as he hurried past.

Then, silently, he slipped the communicator back onto Xie Changming.

As a professional pickpocket, their skill in stealing was shockingly proficient.

Xie Changming’s communicator was tucked into his pants pocket. His pants weren’t loose, so usually someone taking the communicator would be noticed.

But Rudolf naturally had his methods to do it completely undetected.

Xie Changming was very satisfied with Kim Kimee’s service today and left the middle cabin happily.

He was completely unaware of everything Che Haicheng and the others had done today.

Zhang Yi, who had just finished a night of stakeout, was sound asleep in his room.

That message was quickly transmitted via satellite to the Colombian Ocean Fleet stationed at Ropefly Island.

The Reconnaissance Department.

The soldier who received the communication signal casually glanced at it as usual.

Recently, intelligence they could receive had been decreasing.

Seeing it was this kind of privately sent message, they didn’t even bother to look.

Because there was no doubt, it was a 100% distress signal.

But now, survivors were fewer and fewer, or maybe they had lost hope and no longer sought help from the navy.

Maybe by coincidence, the soldier on duty today glanced a little closer at the content.

That glance made him notice something different.

“A magical stone that can give people incredible power. Huaxu Kingdom even sent a large number of soldiers out to sea for it.”

This distress signal was different.

Past messages were either pleas, curses out of despair, or offers to surrender all their wealth.

Very few had such a description—about superhumans.

As a professional soldier, although he found the claim ridiculous, he still thought it was unusual and carefully reread it.

Out of professional sensitivity, even though he didn’t know if it was true, he reported this intelligence to his superior.

As a soldier, he naturally didn’t know about the existence of the Divine Source.

Well, at their higher levels, this substance was first translated as the Sacred Origin Material or Human Completion Plan Source Matter.

After the message was passed to his superior, it quickly caught the attention of Reconnaissance Commander Bamte Helisen.

As head of intelligence, he of course knew about the existence of this sacred material.

One of his main tasks was to search for intelligence about this substance.

“A magical yellow stone, Huaxu Kingdom sent a large number of soldiers to obtain it. Very suspicious, extremely suspicious!”

Suddenly, Helisen thought of something.

About three months ago, a Huaxu Kingdom icebreaker ship had sailed into the southeastern ocean.

At the time, they thought it was strange, but after judging, it was just a civilian icebreaker, so they didn’t pay special attention.

But combined with this distress signal, it gave a very unusual feeling.

Helisen didn’t dare delay and, out of caution, immediately reported it to Douglas, commander of the Ocean Fleet.

The message from Reconnaissance Department was of very high priority, and soon this intelligence was on Douglas’s desk.

After reading the intelligence, Douglas took two puffs from his pipe and immediately summoned Helisen to his office.

“Helisen, where did this intelligence come from?”

As soon as they met, Douglas asked bluntly.

Helisen answered, “From the sea. The message was sent by an ordinary private communicator.”

Douglas frowned slightly.

He had encountered this situation before.

Because of the importance of the sacred origin material, the navy had issued orders that any discovery of it would be highly rewarded.

So various departments often sent back all kinds of reports to obtain the reward.

But after verification, most were useless intelligence.

Some people in small places who had never seen superhumans would even mistake someone mutated as the effect of the sacred origin material.

“Alright, I understand. You can go.”

After sending Helisen away, Douglas thought for a moment and casually handed the intelligence to his assistant.

“Give it to Major Klean Connor on the Copernicus. His ship patrols that sea area. Have him check it out.”

Author's Note